Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Wherever you are, you
Speaker 1: are tuned and the Vitamin D Podcast what's your host
Speaker 1: Dawn Day, and we're here to get you excited about
Speaker 1: your life. We want you to feel good, live life
Speaker 1: on purpose and for a purpose. But as life goes,
Speaker 1: there are ups and downs. So what happens when life
Speaker 1: hits you hard? You know, sometimes it's like that continuous
Speaker 1: flow and then you get that one hit that just
Speaker 1: feels like it just knocks the wind out of you. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about losing your keys, your phone, you
Speaker 1: can't find your parking spot. I'm talking about those big
Speaker 1: losses like a loss of a loved one, a friend,
Speaker 1: a career, a bad health diagnosis, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: And it seems as though we've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: loss on the Vitamin D Podcast the past few weeks,
Speaker 1: But I think it's because we're living in a series
Speaker 1: of a crisis worldwide. It's causing us to open our
Speaker 1: eyes and to see what's going on around us. So
Speaker 1: today I want to focus on the positive that can
Speaker 1: come out of pain, because of all, pain is inevitable,
Speaker 1: suffering isn't. While we will be hurt by major losses
Speaker 1: in our lives. It doesn't have to rule us out.
Speaker 1: While we may be hurt by the major losses in
Speaker 1: our lives, we don't have to be ruled by them.
Speaker 1: You know, I came across this broat and it goes.
Speaker 1: If you feel like you're losing everything, remember that trees
Speaker 1: lose their leaves every year, and yet they stand tall
Speaker 1: and wait for better days to come. Let me say
Speaker 1: that again. If you feel like you're losing everything, remember
Speaker 1: that trees lose their leaves every year, and yet they
Speaker 1: stand tall and wait for better days to come. You
Speaker 1: are going to have to stand tall for better days
Speaker 1: to come. To that end. I'm talking to a friend,
Speaker 1: a mentor, a colleague, and too many known as your
Speaker 1: favorite play cousin from the Steve Harvey Morning Show and
Speaker 1: Mr Kid Junior Space. We don't know. I've almost died
Speaker 1: seven times. I'm almost We're gonna talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about his life. Kier has been in the comedy world
Speaker 1: for over twenty years. He's traveled with the likes that
Speaker 1: will read the Franklin Key Sweat and even Steve Harvey.
Speaker 1: I mean, the list truly goes on and on. But
Speaker 1: what you may not know from Kiras that in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen he found his best friend dead in an hotel room.
Speaker 1: Kid talks about how he overcame that. He also talks
Speaker 1: about how Steve Harvey invested in his acorn. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this conversation is riveting. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of inside six on pull at your heart strings, but
Speaker 1: guess what you are going to walk out feeling excited
Speaker 1: about your life. So, without further ado, it's time for
Speaker 1: your dogs vitamin dam right with me and get excited
Speaker 1: about what's happening. How you doing? Come? I heard my
Speaker 1: best life. I can tell you your future so bright.
Speaker 1: They're starn as shames on boys. Stall not just walking
Speaker 1: in the house. I've just got I've been at all
Speaker 1: day like I've been been in the ive. Just walked
Speaker 1: in the house, got all my laptop, look done, date
Speaker 1: doing Thank god? I know, girl, how many studios day
Speaker 1: are seeing you in all kinds of shapes and forms.
Speaker 1: You've seen it from a yet into right. The first
Speaker 1: person I saw with it what contra tattoo in your mouth?
Speaker 1: I was like, get out of here now, black panther go,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, can't you believe that about to do.
Speaker 1: It is in there, and you know what it says
Speaker 1: life because I speak life. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: speaking life forever? What kind of baby? Yeah, what kind
Speaker 1: of ever? We just you know, this goes right in
Speaker 1: topic because talking about Chadwick Boseman and rest in peace
Speaker 1: to him. But this going signs with that of why
Speaker 1: you gotta live your best life. So let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Vitamin D is a pun off my name. You get
Speaker 1: vitamin D from the sun. So I shed light into
Speaker 1: your Life podcast. Uh huh huh. So what we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about today is just everyday life of what you've
Speaker 1: been through. And I want people that here, you on
Speaker 1: the radio, watch you on TV, go to your comedy specials,
Speaker 1: to know a little bit about your of like oh
Speaker 1: kill did it? So can? I absolutely absolutely all of
Speaker 1: that is feasible for people. Um, I mean look at that,
Speaker 1: Look at that. I mean, look at that leader, look
Speaker 1: at that mentor you know the confortence of me and
Speaker 1: Mrs Harvey had or the reason why you think about
Speaker 1: your entire existence not just your life, Beturen, types isn't
Speaker 1: because to me one person who can project you to
Speaker 1: another disition. What I mean, my whole life that I
Speaker 1: have been living before him was just to meet this
Speaker 1: one person. We could change the projection of my entire existence.
Speaker 1: That's what Harvey is. That's what you have to acknowledge,
Speaker 1: because not only did he jam my lifetime, but but
Speaker 1: whatever situations I've been going through, and we talk about
Speaker 1: these things, this is a public part. This is this
Speaker 1: is about this is the private part. This is things
Speaker 1: we talk about that I know I've said to him,
Speaker 1: and trying to move through so many different things in life.
Speaker 1: And see, I didn't have a father like that, I
Speaker 1: didn't have a friend like that. You know, you know
Speaker 1: you was there when when my my friend died, the
Speaker 1: one I had, Brian died and then I had Harvey,
Speaker 1: and Harvey what people know. When I was at the
Speaker 1: lowest at that point in time, Mr Harvey called me
Speaker 1: every day and he just kept saying words of encouragement, like, man,
Speaker 1: we need you. Then it's showing the same without you
Speaker 1: on it. Man, I'm trying to move past the situation
Speaker 1: that I was not prepared for. Nobody's prepared to lose
Speaker 1: their best friend. You ain't prepared for that part. And
Speaker 1: and as much as you try to think about it,
Speaker 1: what it could have felt like. It knocked the win
Speaker 1: out of you. You know it's gonna it's gonna take everything, man,
Speaker 1: because I had never been to a situation like that.
Speaker 1: You're not prepared for. But Brian had gave me. And
Speaker 1: I was talking to somebody earlier about Brian today actually,
Speaker 1: but when he when he had gave me was a
Speaker 1: sense of you belong where you don't get that all
Speaker 1: the time. And just because when I first started telling
Speaker 1: Joe's Brian was to do that over there since day one,
Speaker 1: and then God snatched him. Are you trying to figure
Speaker 1: out how do you make it pass right like this?
Speaker 1: With everything else you got going on? I just wish
Speaker 1: I had him back, man, because he was a sense
Speaker 1: of base. He gave me a base. He gave me
Speaker 1: a base about everything. We talked, talked about some different
Speaker 1: things about how I handled this whole startom how do
Speaker 1: you handle this and that? And he say, man, you
Speaker 1: just gotta continue to be in you. But the way
Speaker 1: he was saying it different days, and we would laugh
Speaker 1: at all these different things, and then that's gone. And
Speaker 1: you're not gonna attest to that because because you met
Speaker 1: him ntil you know, it was around when I first started.
Speaker 1: He always talked so highly of you, and he said,
Speaker 1: how y'all went way back and started in the business,
Speaker 1: and how he said he was like, that's my boy.
Speaker 1: He was like, I believe in my boy. I'm a
Speaker 1: stand by my boy no matter what. The first fan
Speaker 1: I ever had. So when your first fan you ever
Speaker 1: had get slashed away from you, it's very difficult. Because
Speaker 1: when I couldn't see he had the vision, I couldn't
Speaker 1: see that far because I was like, yo, dude, I'm
Speaker 1: tired of this. He's like, hey, man, you can be tired.
Speaker 1: You can't stop you, but you can't unt stop. But
Speaker 1: he would saying, you can be tired talking. I'm here
Speaker 1: for I'm here to hold you up. And he would
Speaker 1: do that, and we and and in the places we
Speaker 1: had been, and the and the the the when we
Speaker 1: were doing the things we were doing and I was
Speaker 1: trying to make a name for myself. He was there
Speaker 1: at every stage, at every point, Like when I would
Speaker 1: come off from open up from Frankie Beverly and Maids.
Speaker 1: He he was right there when I opened up for
Speaker 1: Keith Sweat, he was right there on the side when
Speaker 1: I came off for BB King. He was on the
Speaker 1: side when I opened for Bretha Franklin, he was on
Speaker 1: the side Anita Baker. He was right on the side
Speaker 1: that was the dude that would turn to. But he
Speaker 1: taught me so much about encouragement, which led me to
Speaker 1: keep going on the mission. And then when we got
Speaker 1: to the morning show, when I got the news that
Speaker 1: Steve was gonna hiring me, He's the first person I
Speaker 1: called and he was the happiest. He was like, what
Speaker 1: did I tell you? You had a real chill nas
Speaker 1: somebody that was down for you. But he was like,
Speaker 1: what did I tell you? And then I appreciated more
Speaker 1: on that day because there was the day we were
Speaker 1: talking about. See how I'm saying. We drove everywhere we
Speaker 1: were flying. He was driving across to from from Houston,
Speaker 1: from Texas to Birmingham, to Virginia to uh North Dakota,
Speaker 1: too Arizona to New Mexico. We was driving all of
Speaker 1: these places. So he used you mentioned. So just for
Speaker 1: those who are unaware what happened with Brian, how did
Speaker 1: Brian pass in Atlanta? UM? We had went to uh
Speaker 1: Segar City Club six one seven that night, I went
Speaker 1: to dinner you know, just you know, because we was
Speaker 1: living in California and just just places and I was
Speaker 1: living here before. We just free with these spots. We
Speaker 1: go there. We had a couple of cigars. You know,
Speaker 1: Brian never drank, but we just from the cigar. He
Speaker 1: just enjoyed cigars. Ain't we're gonna go here, we gonna
Speaker 1: smoke here. They were dreaming in at that. So we're
Speaker 1: at six one seven. He was about eleven o'clock and
Speaker 1: I was asking was he good? I said, man, you're good.
Speaker 1: And for some reason, Brian was moving to slow motion.
Speaker 1: Like everything else was at regular speed, but his head
Speaker 1: and on was so slow. He was like. I was like,
Speaker 1: this ain't normally what's going on because I'm looking at
Speaker 1: everything else. But I was like, why is this? People
Speaker 1: moving in slow motion? This dude is what is he doing?
Speaker 1: And so we get back to hotel about twelve something,
Speaker 1: about twelve fifteen. He on the sixth floor. I'm on
Speaker 1: the third floor of the w here in Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, man, see the morning. His last
Speaker 1: words was, hey man, don't be late. Twelve o'clock. Car
Speaker 1: be here to pick us up. Go back to the airport.
Speaker 1: I was like, dog, what am I ever late? You know?
Speaker 1: Just being me? Well, I'm ever late, don't I ain't
Speaker 1: knowing late? Damn well, and be downstairs the twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1: He was like, hey man, I'm just telling you twelve o'clock.
Speaker 1: He said, I love you man. I was like, hey man,
Speaker 1: love you too. I didn't even know that want me
Speaker 1: the last time we spoke. And then I woke up
Speaker 1: that day's morning and I was downstairs and eating breakfast
Speaker 1: with a friend of mine about the business preposition. We're
Speaker 1: talking about this, and I just called him. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, come down breakfast. Let's to eat breakfast because
Speaker 1: we gotta leave. And he never showed up. And then
Speaker 1: about twelve something two months later, when they came to
Speaker 1: me and said, hey, you might want to come see this.
Speaker 1: I never ran so fast in my life. And I
Speaker 1: knew that I knew it was. I knew that he
Speaker 1: was having I knew he had problems with seizures and stuff.
Speaker 1: I knew because it was the one that so I
Speaker 1: ran to the womb. I rolled him over and it
Speaker 1: just was what it was, and it was like I
Speaker 1: was asking him to get up. I asked him coll Man,
Speaker 1: we gotta go. We gotta fight the catch, we gotta go.
Speaker 1: And it was like, when need you leave the room?
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not leaving room. I was my
Speaker 1: bed friend. Did y'all leave? I'm not leaving him. And
Speaker 1: that's when I realized that my first cheerleader, what's gone.
Speaker 1: Realized he was just he was just gone. You know,
Speaker 1: it was just one thing we realized, like, hey, for
Speaker 1: the first time in my life, I never felt so long.
Speaker 1: And then you know tim z videos and yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like I hated. I hated that part about my life.
Speaker 1: I hated because the hardest thing was to call his
Speaker 1: parents and say, hey, your son's gone. At the same time,
Speaker 1: I never gave them any details about what I saw
Speaker 1: in the room, and I knew somebody, you know, Joe,
Speaker 1: had sold the story, and I just couldn't believe people
Speaker 1: could be like that in a very private moment, extremely
Speaker 1: private moment. How much? How long did you stay in
Speaker 1: there with him? Oh? Man, there was the longest day
Speaker 1: of my life. Um, I'm probably only in the room
Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes because they they had to the four
Speaker 1: pace the room, and then I just remembered outside his
Speaker 1: room was on my knees, just bawling. But the process
Speaker 1: for that day, for the corner to come, all the
Speaker 1: types of it was a it was a whole day process.
Speaker 1: It was one of those things like you really are
Speaker 1: getting the fact that he was going. So Mr Harvey
Speaker 1: was in Atlanta to at that time. He didn't come
Speaker 1: to the hotel because it has been a new story.
Speaker 1: But we talked about it. He's like, man, I can't come,
Speaker 1: I said, Hard, I don't want you to come, he said,
Speaker 1: but I'll sit in Blue and Blue came on Harvey's
Speaker 1: want his friend. He came. Blue came and helped me
Speaker 1: through the whole situation because you don't know how to
Speaker 1: deal with somebody dying, Like I don't know how to
Speaker 1: find the body. I don't know, I know corner nothing
Speaker 1: about that. And Blue helped me and assisted me for
Speaker 1: that whole day because I had to worry about all
Speaker 1: those different things. You know, I just knew that I
Speaker 1: didn't even getting I didn't even I don't know how
Speaker 1: they got the better of that. I didn't have to
Speaker 1: see it. This just different thing was just you didn't
Speaker 1: want to see it because I alone, you don't even
Speaker 1: know if you're really there and seeing what you're saying.
Speaker 1: What are you hearing? What is everybody talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody was talking all these different things, you know, and
Speaker 1: they were saying all these different things and you can
Speaker 1: hear the conversations. I just was in a corner. There's
Speaker 1: one Atlanta police officers set with me for the whole
Speaker 1: day and I can't remember his name, but this officer
Speaker 1: sat with me for the entire that he came at twelve.
Speaker 1: He lead to ten something because they took about ten
Speaker 1: hours from all to be over. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: had to get Brian's parents. His dad came down and
Speaker 1: his sister came down because you didn't want her dad
Speaker 1: to be alarmed. So the way everybody got there, I
Speaker 1: make sure everybody had a hotel room. It's one of
Speaker 1: the day. It was just a long, long day. It's
Speaker 1: one of the hardest things. But I learned so much
Speaker 1: doing and that day about what your tolerance is. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to look at what's the stress level, Like
Speaker 1: everybody has a stress level. You've got one level you're at,
Speaker 1: and so you look at what Brian Sting was, like,
Speaker 1: what's the breaking point? You know, what is your breaking point?
Speaker 1: A lot of people don't know where the breaking point
Speaker 1: is because they have not put it that level. Well,
Speaker 1: that day, I learned that my my stress level is
Speaker 1: this far. My breaking point is this high on way
Speaker 1: above my stress level, because I had to experience something
Speaker 1: that showed me that how much you really can tolerate,
Speaker 1: even as other as it is, you know, as other
Speaker 1: as it is. You know, you know, I'm side day
Speaker 1: you go about it. I don't think about the first
Speaker 1: person that I had as a fan and a friend,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, spared from friends, you with sixteen,
Speaker 1: you're the end of that. So well, he said, that's
Speaker 1: my boy. He oh, he said, that's what he said.
Speaker 1: I always got his bad a lot of times when
Speaker 1: I was on stage, guys point, I was just performing
Speaker 1: for him because we was We would be riding in
Speaker 1: the car right and need jokes and like Dog Washington
Speaker 1: do this tonight, watch say it. I'm gonna say. We
Speaker 1: talked about on this little five hour ride of going
Speaker 1: to say it, and he like, say it, say it,
Speaker 1: and it would go just like we're playing, you know,
Speaker 1: it would go just like we're playing. And then I
Speaker 1: just learned so much from that one loss about who
Speaker 1: I was as a person. It's funny that you can
Speaker 1: lose something and discover something about yourself. What you say,
Speaker 1: say that again, I lost something that was important. But
Speaker 1: what I learned was in the process was how big
Speaker 1: of a person I was through the loss going wrong.
Speaker 1: The hurt is there still there. It's a daily hurt.
Speaker 1: What I found out was I can absolutely respect the
Speaker 1: fact that he meant that much. And he showed me
Speaker 1: exactly who I was by the loss, not by while
Speaker 1: he was here be c he was just my dude.
Speaker 1: We was running together. I went to other he was gone,
Speaker 1: that I realized how much he taught me and by
Speaker 1: how much I was of a person. If I never
Speaker 1: would have lost him, I never wouldn't realize with all.
Speaker 1: And so God has a way of giving you something
Speaker 1: to build up to and then you lose it, and
Speaker 1: even realizing that in that loss, oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: way much stronger than I am. Come on, but one person,
Speaker 1: it was the it was the one person that gave
Speaker 1: me the most. And then you lose that part. Well, well,
Speaker 1: well I want to have those experiences. That's just what
Speaker 1: life is. A blessed enough to have a relationship like yours.
Speaker 1: Whoever you love the most. Think about the day they're
Speaker 1: gonna be gone. It's not it's not they're gone. Can
Speaker 1: you be thinking about, like what, this is what I
Speaker 1: loved about this person, This is what I appreciated about
Speaker 1: this person. This is what this person actually showed me.
Speaker 1: And then I take everything I did from Brian. I
Speaker 1: take it and I get to invest it in a
Speaker 1: new person. See, now I found somebody else. The lessons
Speaker 1: that Brian taught me, I get to invest because I
Speaker 1: didn't look at everything the way Brian looked at everything
Speaker 1: some stuff, you know, just for just for I just
Speaker 1: I was just selfish by some things. For Brian, part
Speaker 1: was quit being self That was his response, quip, being selfish,
Speaker 1: don't this is what you do? This is it? This
Speaker 1: is it? Hey man, look at this. I was like,
Speaker 1: hey man, you're right, because when you start this journey out,
Speaker 1: you're selfish because you only had you and you started
Speaker 1: this journey over twenty years ago. Yeah, I started this
Speaker 1: journey out. We're just looking for how I can be
Speaker 1: one thing that don't go no different for for for actors,
Speaker 1: you don't little different for for for comedians, don't go
Speaker 1: to musicians. All of us started out as a selfish journey.
Speaker 1: That's how the journey starts. There ain't nobody to say,
Speaker 1: hey man, no matter what my family going through, I
Speaker 1: must do X, Y and Z. But then you got
Speaker 1: somebody on the journey with you and they show you that,
Speaker 1: hey dog, you have mission now that it ain't about
Speaker 1: you no more. Now it's about X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: And this is how you want to help other people.
Speaker 1: This is why you're gonna do this thing. This is
Speaker 1: why you're gonna do this. This is why you're gonna
Speaker 1: do that. And that was the constant thing, found a
Speaker 1: purpose why I became a better person because I lost
Speaker 1: something that told me that it ain't about you more.
Speaker 1: The first five years about me. I didn't get that
Speaker 1: how you feel. I'm like, get somewhere. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get out of poverty. That's that's gonna see. When Priorty
Speaker 1: being on your ways, I don't get damn what you're
Speaker 1: going through all out. I want out give me out now,
Speaker 1: he man, you need to do you need you need
Speaker 1: to do this that Hey hey hey, I want out.
Speaker 1: I don't have no time for nothing. Now I'm sick
Speaker 1: of it. Is I was sick of it I'm sick
Speaker 1: of sleeping at rest stops. I'm sitting driving four hundred
Speaker 1: miles for two hundred dollars. Then all this that, But
Speaker 1: what got you started and doing it? The dream? The vision?
Speaker 1: You just you already knew. If I'm a little kid,
Speaker 1: you said, I want to be a comedian, I want
Speaker 1: to be funny. Like, how did that happen? I probably
Speaker 1: have about fourteen, about fourteen years old, but I knew
Speaker 1: this is just what I was gonna be doing. But
Speaker 1: it's one thing to say, you know what you've ben
Speaker 1: be doing. We are you gonna do what it take
Speaker 1: to get there? It's a whole letther what you say.
Speaker 1: I was just talking to j about that. Okay, had
Speaker 1: a dream done? You can have the dream? Come on,
Speaker 1: you can have it. So can they have a dream.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I'm like nobody different. It's okay for
Speaker 1: God to tap you and show you exactly what you're
Speaker 1: gonna be doing. God tap me in fourteen just like this,
Speaker 1: Hey you, Oh God, that's what I'm doing because I
Speaker 1: love doing that. I love watching this. I'm watching depth
Speaker 1: coming jam. We're not gonna TV. He's like, you going
Speaker 1: to be doing I was like Oh god, that's great
Speaker 1: what it took to get there? Hey, goud, are you
Speaker 1: sure this mate? I don't you know? Um, can we backtrack?
Speaker 1: Because I think that being uh this person would be
Speaker 1: great for me. I think that would be uh. I go.
Speaker 1: You gotta continue, get continue to path, you gettat. You
Speaker 1: got to be on it. You gotta be on it.
Speaker 1: Why why I got to be on it? Because because
Speaker 1: you know what this ain't. I'm tired to sleep at
Speaker 1: risk stop. I'm tired of uh but I'm I'm wait
Speaker 1: a minute, I'm sick of all this stuff because this
Speaker 1: ain't what I had playing for my life. Lord, I'm
Speaker 1: only twenty six. I'm trying to Hey, hey, trust me,
Speaker 1: it's gonna pay out in the end. You gotta keep going, well, God,
Speaker 1: to keep going parties. But you keep going with I
Speaker 1: don't really carefully that you're going and keep going. It's
Speaker 1: tough because I don't have anything to show for it.
Speaker 1: All you got is that feeling in the vision to
Speaker 1: know that it's yours and nobody can identify with that
Speaker 1: feeling that you have. But then you're you're talking about,
Speaker 1: oh god, I'm I'm tired of doing this party, this
Speaker 1: party this is really uh gotta leave, man. I'm look, God,
Speaker 1: I'm on I twenty in the middle of uh Jas
Speaker 1: and Mississippi, or you're in you're the middle of nowhere,
Speaker 1: in the middle you have these conversations in the middle
Speaker 1: of nowhere. You sure because I can't see it, but
Speaker 1: that one little voice that just keep going, just keep going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I promise you. I probably you don't see it today,
Speaker 1: but hey, hey, hey, hold on, I'm going down here
Speaker 1: for sevi five dollars of them. I'm gonna get SENTI
Speaker 1: five dollars. I'm gonna drive this far. And it's the
Speaker 1: middle of the night, it's two in the morning. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna rest stop. I'm gonna driving this other far. And
Speaker 1: you're telling me it's all right, yeah, yeah, trust me,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be It's gonna be too yeah, trust me.
Speaker 1: You can't see it right now. I'm telling well, this
Speaker 1: is years of those conversations. God, I'm I'm gonna sixty
Speaker 1: five ninety five. I'm on, God, I'm just tying. I'm
Speaker 1: trying just see why I just go back and beat No, no,
Speaker 1: you have to go down because I guess what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: And then you start realizing the other part when you
Speaker 1: get there and likes it happen. You're gonna help so
Speaker 1: many people once I get you where you're going. But
Speaker 1: I need you to go through a lot of different
Speaker 1: things that you're not gonna be comfortable with, but the
Speaker 1: impact you're gonna have, and when you get there, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see that I had to have you go through
Speaker 1: all these different things so you're tough enough. And then
Speaker 1: when you get there, watch the thank yous. Yeah, watch
Speaker 1: the thank you You're gonna get watched, and so gets
Speaker 1: what I get experience today. All of the thank you
Speaker 1: is I get all the thank you is not just
Speaker 1: for being on the morning show, but the thank you
Speaker 1: of thank you for helping me tell the story about
Speaker 1: Signal Selle, thank you for being an authentic person, thank
Speaker 1: you for reaching out to me, thank you for helping
Speaker 1: me with this, thank you for donating to this. Thank
Speaker 1: you for that I didn't even know you was gonna
Speaker 1: help me with it. So all of the thank you, oh,
Speaker 1: I keep going on. I do it for all of them.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Like all the thank you was like getting
Speaker 1: now done. I wasn't getting twenty years ago. Twenty years ago,
Speaker 1: I was just actually having a kind of God, I'm
Speaker 1: so tired this this is come on now, I can't
Speaker 1: do another rest. I got twenty five dollars and side
Speaker 1: between food and gas. Well, um, I ain't got to
Speaker 1: be over here to this date and do this part. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if I get see that's why I think McDonald
Speaker 1: for the dollar menu, I had everything. Come on, no,
Speaker 1: people understand that dollar mean you mean a lot? Hello
Speaker 1: that I sent cheeseburger, N sent fries and then nath cent.
Speaker 1: So for three dollars, I'm gonna eat. Probably not the
Speaker 1: healthiest choice, but I'm gonna eat, and I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: it to the next destination. I'm gonna get the way
Speaker 1: I gotta go. I'm gonna do this the best way
Speaker 1: I can. I did that for years and then what happens?
Speaker 1: How did you and how did you me? Harvey? How
Speaker 1: in the world, How in the world this brother is
Speaker 1: out on the road sleeping the rest stops driving for
Speaker 1: seventy and maybe that was a good night. How do
Speaker 1: you get in the room with Mr Steve Harvey? Man
Speaker 1: Harvey for the first time? This is why I love
Speaker 1: by heart Harvard been the same dude, so eighteen years ago.
Speaker 1: I meant the same dude, He's been the same. I'm
Speaker 1: telling something. Harvey been the same cat Harvey been. I'm
Speaker 1: just laughing because hard Be the same dude that I
Speaker 1: met that we get to hear every more. But I
Speaker 1: met this dude. He was a Kingson comedy all that.
Speaker 1: He was a comedians like, you know, like he was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I started I started doing Coming nine and nine. So
Speaker 1: three years later I met Harrid so I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this dude is like, oh well. I
Speaker 1: was saying, Hey, what happened? Are you at the club?
Speaker 1: What are you at? I've seen the Mike Tyson I joke,
Speaker 1: I've seen the kings of Coming, you know. I seen
Speaker 1: out all that I said, and I'm a fan. I
Speaker 1: first meet Harder because Rushan McDonald all this stuff from
Speaker 1: Sean Salon Houston and he was managing Steve at the time,
Speaker 1: and Sean McDonald was having they were at Steve's company
Speaker 1: was having a showcase. But because I knew Sean McDonald,
Speaker 1: they called me like, yo, come down to l A.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do the showcase. This is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: We're showing off to NBC ABC, CBS, WB Talent, So
Speaker 1: that that was the showcase was bus back. It sounds
Speaker 1: like an up front or something like that. Yeah, something
Speaker 1: like that, you know, but I don't know all these terms.
Speaker 1: I'm just oh, I'm glad they asked. Now. I don't
Speaker 1: know gonna see Steve. I don't know that sand come
Speaker 1: down there because we were the only group. Uh that
Speaker 1: was me and Al Freeman was the only two people
Speaker 1: outside of Los Angeles. I was coming from music to
Speaker 1: come down there. So I was standing with Sean McDonald
Speaker 1: in his house in l A. And we go there
Speaker 1: to Sherman Oaks, to the theater where we were rehearsing
Speaker 1: it and stuff like that. Like I didn't even know.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen Steve. This is two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: I ain't seen Steve yet. One day Steve comes to
Speaker 1: the rehearsal. He was doing the um, he was just
Speaker 1: finishing up his business on his day job radio show,
Speaker 1: all this type stuff. I say that, Man, I going
Speaker 1: to rehearsal one day and Steve is sitting in there.
Speaker 1: So Steve was so fly then everybody knew who the
Speaker 1: hell that was. That's like, it's like, ain't no guessing
Speaker 1: That's why I'd be laughing because at hardor Hard, ain't
Speaker 1: no guessing. When you walk in the room, you'd be like,
Speaker 1: that's Steve her like it ain't know, um, that's song
Speaker 1: and so no, you say that's that's Steve Hard. You
Speaker 1: know he's sitting there cool. I'm talking about cool. He
Speaker 1: had on his blue silk suit, silk, but it was shiny.
Speaker 1: It was like's like, I'm just so now I'm a
Speaker 1: fan again, like little cheese at its fine. Oh, I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. He's actually watching the talent. He's got
Speaker 1: in there for nothing else. He's actually studying and seeing
Speaker 1: what the project is, what they're doing. See, he wasn't
Speaker 1: about him. He was in there trying to help us.
Speaker 1: So I watched this do us like, you know, I
Speaker 1: was so young then, you know what I I gotta saying.
Speaker 1: I was like twenty two, twenty years. I was like
Speaker 1: twenty years. I was like, but when I walk it,
Speaker 1: that's I was such a fan, Like, oh and Steve
Speaker 1: was so cool. That's all just like so good, hey man,
Speaker 1: just out man, you're good, na not good, it's you.
Speaker 1: Oh my guys. Then if you know I'm at lunch
Speaker 1: with Steve. Then you go to lunch, went to the
Speaker 1: Rainforest Cafe off of being through Bullevar. Exactly what I
Speaker 1: said over here having lunch with Steve her I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm calling. I'm on the phone calling my mom Mom.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not whispering. He's sitting across me. Mom, you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be home sitting and having luchpit Who Steve Harder?
Speaker 1: So hear his name all goddamn. Then two hours later
Speaker 1: he was getting ready. It was a Wednesday. We would
Speaker 1: getting ready for him to do go do the l
Speaker 1: Ray theater. He would do the l Ray on Wednesdays
Speaker 1: for like they're there showtime to deal paula night. So
Speaker 1: we go to his penthouse in Beverly Hills. So in
Speaker 1: one day with the lunch with Stay, I saw a
Speaker 1: rehearsal and now I'm at the penthouse in Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: overlooking the Pacific. Oh what? And one day I'm like,
Speaker 1: you got you got to stop? Said the beenhouse. He
Speaker 1: goes back in the back. He got the blue suit,
Speaker 1: put on this nice little gray suit with the white.
Speaker 1: He said, let's roll. So we go back downstairs on
Speaker 1: stage four. The penthouses but I had to note. That's
Speaker 1: how I started learning how to dream. There's only four
Speaker 1: apartments on top of his his building in Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: four apartments. They all look out over the over the Pacific.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is what, this is how you
Speaker 1: live and yokes, oh my god, like that. Don't even
Speaker 1: worry about that. Get back downstairs. Yes, this is pre
Speaker 1: talk show, Steve. This is pre l A Steve. This
Speaker 1: is pretty little big shot Steed is pretty Steve. Maybe
Speaker 1: a long long time, but I've been saying the dude
Speaker 1: since and so he was always his clut. So then
Speaker 1: he takes me to the l A Theater where it's
Speaker 1: sold out. We're going to the back of the l
Speaker 1: Ray Theater in l A. Steve wats out on stage
Speaker 1: and walking the back door, walking back on stage, and
Speaker 1: he does this show like the Apollo, but it was
Speaker 1: in l A. And he does his show and it
Speaker 1: shows like two and a half hours. Right, Steve out
Speaker 1: that killing him. I'm talking about I'm on sign stage
Speaker 1: walking now I'm saying I have no name, no man, nothing.
Speaker 1: The question becomes at that moment, why aren't you here?
Speaker 1: Why are you getting to see this? What is what
Speaker 1: what what is your role in this whole plus test?
Speaker 1: And you know, I was just thinking, why did he
Speaker 1: take a liking to you? I don't know. It's not
Speaker 1: the fact that he took it like it. It's very
Speaker 1: fay when he showed me, come on, he just showed
Speaker 1: me something that I had no clue about. So in
Speaker 1: the middle of a claqueen and cheered all that, I said,
Speaker 1: what're you doing here? M hmm? All the people, everybody
Speaker 1: in this country? Why are you this close? Have you
Speaker 1: ever thought about that part? For your own life? Sometimes
Speaker 1: you'll be so up close to the fire that you
Speaker 1: can you forget the ass? Why ain't lit it? WHOA?
Speaker 1: First of all, you know what here? Don't be coming
Speaker 1: out here spending these gyms like that because in the
Speaker 1: minute I'm gonna have to bring out a pen and paper.
Speaker 1: Why are you hanging around with all these people to
Speaker 1: fire and you ain't met yea? Why you ain't let it? Oh?
Speaker 1: I just had enough sense to know. I enough sense
Speaker 1: to know why I was there. You can recognize I
Speaker 1: get it. And guess what favorite ain't fair? Come on,
Speaker 1: say a favorite ain't fair? Sometimes you're in positions in
Speaker 1: your life because they you need to get the lesson.
Speaker 1: Harvey showed me something. Now I was understand. I was
Speaker 1: twenty one years old. So then when people say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: where you come from. I've been here the whole time,
Speaker 1: that funt be saying, oh my god, you we look
Speaker 1: where you come from. I've been here the whole time.
Speaker 1: You ain't come out of nowhere, done you ain't come
Speaker 1: out nowhere. I ain't come out nowhere. He's been here
Speaker 1: the whole time. It's just the focus shifted. What's that's it?
Speaker 1: So now you're looking at me and he's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, oh my god, we love you, Junior. No,
Speaker 1: I've been here the whole time, though. What's the difference
Speaker 1: between here space and Junior? Nothing? Ain'tnohing. Same dude, same dude,
Speaker 1: same exact person, same exactly, everything, same exactly, And ain't
Speaker 1: nothing shifted. I've been here the whole time. People talking,
Speaker 1: how how did you Harvey find you? Don't nobody know
Speaker 1: that me? Harvey men two thousand two mm. Because you know,
Speaker 1: I was just listening on the show the other day.
Speaker 1: He said, you're the youngest on the show, and the
Speaker 1: youngest on the show by age, and how long you've
Speaker 1: been on the show. Yeah, exactly. I've been on the
Speaker 1: show nine years now, but I've been to Harvey. Harvey
Speaker 1: didn't hire me on the ratio two eleven. I've been
Speaker 1: to Harvest's to tell them too. So what happened in
Speaker 1: the nine years? What happened in those nine years? You
Speaker 1: tell me what did you have to get to deserve
Speaker 1: that seat? I went did comedy, I went and did
Speaker 1: plays on about my career. All of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: get a phone call, um and to Southern ten to
Speaker 1: open up for Harvey in Miami. Right, So Harvey calls me,
Speaker 1: his people called mean j T. Hit me up. Hey, Yo,
Speaker 1: Harvey want to know if you want to open up
Speaker 1: for him in Miami at the bis Can with the
Speaker 1: with the Marriott connects to it bis Can Theater in Miami.
Speaker 1: I get the phone call. I was like, Um, why
Speaker 1: is he asking me? Do I want one obvious answer? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But here's my question? Who all said no? Right? That
Speaker 1: even gotta be a question. Yeah, I asked who all
Speaker 1: said no? Because y'all reach your way down here to
Speaker 1: find a cat like me to open up for Harvey
Speaker 1: in Miami. He got said, d L Bernie, Matt, you
Speaker 1: think all these people he can call, so you can't come.
Speaker 1: What the hell are you reaching back to Houston, Texas
Speaker 1: but to sign me? But okay, yeah, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. So I get to Miami after
Speaker 1: Harvey and my Ami. I've seen him over the year,
Speaker 1: it being just talk, but I see him. You know
Speaker 1: who I am. I mean, we have a cordial relationship
Speaker 1: at this point. Hard Juliana Man, ain't the man? What's
Speaker 1: going on with Man? Now? I love you, man, lady.
Speaker 1: Two people breakfast, thelm we eat breakfast, lunch, and yet
Speaker 1: did we go to the show in the same hotels?
Speaker 1: Right about six thirty, I get my stuff together, I'll
Speaker 1: go over to the venue. Show started eight. I was
Speaker 1: this damn crown on fire Man just set five. Harvard
Speaker 1: were on the side of stage when I come on stay,
Speaker 1: He said, Man, what the fund is you saying? No,
Speaker 1: I don't come on montressing room for nobody? Wow? What
Speaker 1: is your ways out here? Saying? Heard all this noise?
Speaker 1: All had to come see. I'm like, man, we're just
Speaker 1: at telling Joe Hard That's all I'm doing. So when
Speaker 1: I live in Miami, Hey, man, you want to do
Speaker 1: Philly left Philly, hey man, you want to do Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1: Hert Oldhoma City, you wanna do duns Live, O'Dell, you
Speaker 1: want to street Port. Harvey was toured, so he was
Speaker 1: paying me bet all the show. So in five weeks
Speaker 1: I had made by some times. What bind you? This
Speaker 1: the same brother that was driving at two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning for seventy five dollars? What you say? And
Speaker 1: that's why for me and Harvey relationship and you've seen it,
Speaker 1: you know hard relationship is where it is. And I
Speaker 1: get a call one day in two thousand eleven, in
Speaker 1: August and two thousand eleven s enough, I say, this
Speaker 1: is per Steve Harvey. Uh, Steve Harvey would like to
Speaker 1: uh help you with your career. Wow, that's it wasn't
Speaker 1: a job, he said, it's with your career. And that's
Speaker 1: when I knew that I was gonna grow that into
Speaker 1: Dogard eleven. He gave you a job, and that's how
Speaker 1: Julior became to be. It's so interesting, and I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I just get worked up Tomes
Speaker 1: because I just think about how you just gotta live
Speaker 1: your life and pursue your dream. And to hear you
Speaker 1: say this, and this is you know, if you're listening,
Speaker 1: go check out this YouTube video were Harvey put up
Speaker 1: and he talked about how you gotta find somebody to
Speaker 1: invest in your acorn. Yeah he invested in your acorn.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, And I was actually that's acolutely true.
Speaker 1: That was um, that's actually I know it was with
Speaker 1: me him. This is why it's hard to pigeonhole this
Speaker 1: man in one way, because he does so many things
Speaker 1: because because he invested in me, then all things that
Speaker 1: he cared about, I invest in them too. Oh because
Speaker 1: he just just because he just took a chance. So
Speaker 1: I'm never not busy to go down there to the
Speaker 1: Mintering camp. I mean, man, we're gonna have fun anyway.
Speaker 1: So I go down to the Mettering camp and I
Speaker 1: hang out with those kids. I see them. You know,
Speaker 1: we don't publicize any of these things that we do.
Speaker 1: The thing about is that because he invested in me,
Speaker 1: and I invest in other people. So you might run
Speaker 1: across people you were like that. They may sundy like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, Junior invested in you. You shouldn't be
Speaker 1: shocked because you'd be like, it's some people are in
Speaker 1: this business because you're gonna un across the people like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I've been doing the same thing. I've
Speaker 1: been doing the exact same thing, John, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't do anything uh differently than what I'm doing now,
Speaker 1: you know. I just I mean, everybody focuses on the position.
Speaker 1: We just focused on the work. So Harvey said something
Speaker 1: to me one time. He was like, he asked me
Speaker 1: a question. This is when I first started working. I
Speaker 1: probably had been working for Hard Fame by six months,
Speaker 1: and we're sitting in the studio in Atlanta, and he says, hey, man,
Speaker 1: why are you doing this? I probably right remembers that.
Speaker 1: But he was generally asked me a question because he
Speaker 1: was trying to figure out what my intent was. A
Speaker 1: man look making people admount to the same man, that's
Speaker 1: all good what you're doing this the focus was, he
Speaker 1: was trying to get me to say, because I want
Speaker 1: to build a better life in my family. And I
Speaker 1: was just over here, just dedicated to the fact that
Speaker 1: you gave me a job to keep it up too.
Speaker 1: But no, no, no, that name of the folkus see,
Speaker 1: the folks ain't to be famous. The focus is to
Speaker 1: build a better life for your family, which spoke to
Speaker 1: why he does everything he does and why he does that,
Speaker 1: why he does it. I was so caught up on
Speaker 1: hey man, I was so glad to have a job.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, no, no no, no, you're missing the point.
Speaker 1: And he taught me that five months as I started working,
Speaker 1: that the focus is to build a better life for
Speaker 1: your family. And that's for any man, that's for anybody working.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you do. Don't get caught up
Speaker 1: in the fame of the position, which was a listen.
Speaker 1: He taught me within the first three months of working
Speaker 1: for him. We're not doing this for fame, though, We're
Speaker 1: doing this to build a bit of life. Five families.
Speaker 1: Any hard working man or woman wants to build a
Speaker 1: bit of life. And so I was young at that point.
Speaker 1: I didn't staying when he was saying I was thirty
Speaker 1: three years old, I had no clue. But now that
Speaker 1: I'm forty two, I can see there and say, I
Speaker 1: get it. I know why I do the work. I
Speaker 1: know why I get up in the mornings, I know
Speaker 1: what the y it is. It's a bit of a
Speaker 1: bit of life for my family. That's the enjoyment we
Speaker 1: get out of what we do you ain't doing this
Speaker 1: done on this podcast and talking to all the people
Speaker 1: just could have done one talk. You're build a bit
Speaker 1: of life for your family, That's what we're doing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was telling Carla that and she's like, you know, darn,
Speaker 1: you know taking easy. I do think there's a level
Speaker 1: of balance. But I was like, Carla, there's so much
Speaker 1: I want to see and just like that thing that
Speaker 1: you talked about, that voice, that saying there is more
Speaker 1: to travel the world to have these experiences. And the
Speaker 1: plus is that I get to inspire people like, come on,
Speaker 1: how how dope is your purpose when it gives to
Speaker 1: other people? Stop playing with me? No, I toltally get it.
Speaker 1: I mean I can see him. It's say, man, sometimes
Speaker 1: they get the quiet moments when I wake up on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I said there. I was like, yo, for real, for real, real,
Speaker 1: let's just admit. Let's just all just admit you got
Speaker 1: a dope ass, Like dude, Wow, I was sitting back
Speaker 1: and stay, yeah, yeah, this is pretty dope. I mean,
Speaker 1: just to be honest, in those quiet moments, you have
Speaker 1: to take that in. But you guess what, though, at
Speaker 1: least recognize the journey that you've been on and how
Speaker 1: far you come at least recognize that every now, and
Speaker 1: it's okay to say, hey, godly, look how far we come.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are as a person. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you used to work on fries and
Speaker 1: own the McDonald's. Just look at the journey man. It's okay,
Speaker 1: a little best that. Man, Look how far we come.
Speaker 1: If used to be the mechanic and you own the dealership,
Speaker 1: let's just say, man, he used to be the janitor
Speaker 1: and now you own the bill. Man, it's okay to
Speaker 1: look back and say, Kyle Lee, I had a pretty
Speaker 1: dope life. Because the process, the process is what you
Speaker 1: look forward to. The process is what you are um
Speaker 1: um smiling about the process of you getting from point
Speaker 1: A to point B. And then you ain't even through.
Speaker 1: It ain't even through. Yeah, you're just looking at the
Speaker 1: process because one thing you do, the one thing you do,
Speaker 1: you do it. But guess what everything they got you
Speaker 1: from point where me keep replicating it and you'll be
Speaker 1: you would never never say it. Once you got to
Speaker 1: the phone for success, which is very simple, the form
Speaker 1: of success that keep doing the same thing you've been doing.
Speaker 1: You got to keep doing you have to keep see
Speaker 1: the success part. I'll tell you when I knew I
Speaker 1: was successful. This is when I knew I was successful.
Speaker 1: I was very successful way before I realized, before the
Speaker 1: morning show, I was already successful because I had done
Speaker 1: for the things I didn't realize give it to me
Speaker 1: what you do what I'm saying, it didn't. It didn't
Speaker 1: take me being on the Steve Harry Morning Show for
Speaker 1: me to be already a successful I hear you, I
Speaker 1: hear you. I was already succesful in my mind. I
Speaker 1: kept chasing something because guess what. I look back over
Speaker 1: a long period time, all of them driving in the
Speaker 1: rest stops for seving five, and you was already successful
Speaker 1: because you were producing something that most people cannot produce,
Speaker 1: a chet and sacrifice. At the same time, it didn't
Speaker 1: take me get into the CRD Morning Show to say
Speaker 1: you successful. I had to realize that I had already
Speaker 1: been successful in two thousand and six because my work
Speaker 1: ethic and my attitude was already in the successful position.
Speaker 1: Who now had manifested was the dollars? That was it.
Speaker 1: I already had the work ethic that with Steve came
Speaker 1: around of benefitt for me. Was the dollars. But I
Speaker 1: didn't own anybody. I don't owe anybody seat at the table.
Speaker 1: I had to come to table say shoot, I'm so
Speaker 1: glad I'm here, Steve. I want to show I'm successful. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I had already been successful because I sacrificed already to
Speaker 1: get to this position. And is that everything that you
Speaker 1: thought it would be? I had already done everything. What
Speaker 1: I learned from being on the morning show was you
Speaker 1: don't stop here. There's more, you know, you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny done and it's just fun of the state where
Speaker 1: you just sit back and laugh. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things just just in your grant. It's funny to land
Speaker 1: in Chicago and hear your voice on the radio. It's
Speaker 1: funny to go to New York and you and then
Speaker 1: you didn't card the year. It was like like like
Speaker 1: an to go to d C and hear your voice
Speaker 1: on the radio for a commercial, you know, and then
Speaker 1: like I'm here for real, Like I literally am across
Speaker 1: the country. Yes, all because the one dude, but all
Speaker 1: the commercials, I'll be gooding. It's funny to go to Birmingham,
Speaker 1: or to go to Sreeport, or to Montgomery or Detroit, Detroit,
Speaker 1: you get it mixing two point three all that, you
Speaker 1: get in the car closing out and then heyybody, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, that is me, that's that boy Jr. That
Speaker 1: all across It's just one of those highs. Like I'd
Speaker 1: be laughing. I'd be like, oh my gosh, to the
Speaker 1: content where I go to Atlanta, turn the radio. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter Savannah Charlotte Jackson, Nashville men fids Pele City.
Speaker 1: We ain't on here because just like then you get
Speaker 1: in the car, you got the airport and they're listening,
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, that's me. That's to me. Oh
Speaker 1: you get you get the car and you get the
Speaker 1: morning show, and it's just like one of the things
Speaker 1: like at one point in time that was not even possible.
Speaker 1: So now you get to enjoy it to the point
Speaker 1: where like you're know, you just be like, I just
Speaker 1: be laughing. I've been I've been in the back seat
Speaker 1: of ubers and I'd be like, I would be like,
Speaker 1: what's so funny, And he don't know that's me there.
Speaker 1: You ain't got no clue that's me. Yeah, they don't
Speaker 1: even know that part, you know, and you get to
Speaker 1: you get to experience. Uh, all of those euphori is
Speaker 1: just say hey man, hey man, No matter what happens
Speaker 1: at this point, Um, somebody after I'm long gone gonna stay.
Speaker 1: I remember when, and they're gonna say my name Hello.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing too. You've talked about your journey, You've
Speaker 1: talked about the successes, and even with the recent passing
Speaker 1: with Chadwick Boseman, you realize that this brother was battling
Speaker 1: stage three kids and for the past four years of
Speaker 1: his life. To highlight because I thought about Chadwick, because
Speaker 1: it's so crazy, I put them up on my pages.
Speaker 1: But even when he was battling those things, when he
Speaker 1: came on on Steve talk Show, I went down there
Speaker 1: and and met him and taught to him, and I
Speaker 1: went down there as a fan and really getting a friend.
Speaker 1: He was, you know, the creep from about Like it's
Speaker 1: so crazy, but like he enjoyed his craft, right, he
Speaker 1: enjoyed the acting part. You could see in his one
Speaker 1: But when you see the person and you meet him
Speaker 1: as a person, he was so humbly. I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: you black panthers, what did you bowing to me for?
Speaker 1: Like old dog what is you doing? But I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't not hit him meet you. And he was
Speaker 1: open up. He was like, man, he was glad to
Speaker 1: meet you. He was that open and he was that charing.
Speaker 1: And I just remember all the conversations we had, the
Speaker 1: three times we met, the conversation he was having, and
Speaker 1: just all I can remember is the laughing. But we
Speaker 1: laughed so hard. I was like, hey man, somebody come
Speaker 1: get Chad. Chad crazy. Chad was that ignorant, he was
Speaker 1: that funny as a person though, but he was there
Speaker 1: to promote a gift. He was giving the world the
Speaker 1: movie wherever was. But but you know, he sharing his
Speaker 1: art and you know, giving somebody a mode to escape.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's why it's so important the
Speaker 1: job that you do, because on any any given night,
Speaker 1: you could be saving countless of lies. Somebody that said,
Speaker 1: oh it's over, You didn't put a smile on their face,
Speaker 1: talking about your family, something that you've experienced, laughing at
Speaker 1: your pain. And it's something that I even think about
Speaker 1: because you look at you like you're saying, here, he
Speaker 1: is humble. You don't even know his brother is experiencing
Speaker 1: a fight. And I think about your talking about the
Speaker 1: fact that how you lost your best friend, how you
Speaker 1: on the road trying to make it work. My God,
Speaker 1: come into the realization that you are in the room
Speaker 1: and Steve Harvey is saying, I'm taking a liking to
Speaker 1: you dealing with those pressures on top of the fact
Speaker 1: that you battle with sickle cell. Yeah, tell us a
Speaker 1: little bit about that, because you have a foundation. And
Speaker 1: I don't know the first time I ever heard about
Speaker 1: sickle cell when I was a kid, was probably looking
Speaker 1: on listening to TELC and t BOS would always talk
Speaker 1: about her battle. But I'm not sure people really understand
Speaker 1: what it is because she had signle Celles as well.
Speaker 1: We weren't played together a long time ago. But the
Speaker 1: I focused more on and just this did not go
Speaker 1: for every single Seal warrior. This does not go for
Speaker 1: all of us. You know. It's it's just the way
Speaker 1: the carpets ruled out. It's just the cards you dealt Okay.
Speaker 1: So I was born in Sickle Sale and their parents
Speaker 1: didn't know what's wrong with me. I wasn't diagnosed till
Speaker 1: I was eight years old. Seven years old, and so
Speaker 1: they said, get your son had Sickle Sales and your
Speaker 1: parents don't understand. What's what was going on with you? Well,
Speaker 1: I was in the in the paying crisis, and you know,
Speaker 1: they thought it was olor to milk, oatmeal, all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff, so you couldn't walk. Your head was hurting walk.
Speaker 1: He was in pain. It's just couldn't touch me, none
Speaker 1: of that thing we're going on. You know, you got
Speaker 1: a kid that's been doing it since he was born.
Speaker 1: You know, five, coca cola, all types of stuff. It's
Speaker 1: all these different things that happened. And then and a
Speaker 1: doctor diagnoses you a seven years old. The reason why
Speaker 1: you don't don't understand because your son had signal stell.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot going on. And then the doctor
Speaker 1: to your parents said, hey, well prepare to die the
Speaker 1: letter WHOA stop it? Eleven? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Every kid was. It's funny because we all make fun
Speaker 1: of it, but every kid was sickle asked like hey,
Speaker 1: just like a running joke in the in the sick, like, hey,
Speaker 1: what was your death date? They say twelve nine three.
Speaker 1: Everybody got one. Mine was a letter. So my parents
Speaker 1: allowed me to go out and do everything I want
Speaker 1: to do, because at one point in time they ever
Speaker 1: believe that. I was going on be going to a
Speaker 1: living so I was trying to leaven and then it happened.
Speaker 1: So they're like twilve and like this here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the truth. Like they were really somber,
Speaker 1: like everybody tiptoeing around you, like we have to be
Speaker 1: nice because you believe him turned thirteen. Okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: my mother, mom, wa go to this the world. We're
Speaker 1: going the world something they're thinking. Ay man, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna be He made everybody tempting around you, right, But
Speaker 1: I'm sure you got a lot what you wanted. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was saying. I didn't know that they were doing
Speaker 1: it at the time. I just looked back. Only I
Speaker 1: know why they were doing it, because she was telling me, like,
Speaker 1: who'd think, because well, he say to you to die.
Speaker 1: The doctor said it the whole night. Everybody knows and
Speaker 1: it left. Then you're not going to be here because
Speaker 1: a doctor said it. That's the whole thing. A doctor said.
Speaker 1: It wasn't something I said. The doctor said, hey man,
Speaker 1: your son will not live past eleven. Well I may
Speaker 1: eleven my football number, my basketball number, wherever that got that.
Speaker 1: Right now, he is right now thirty one years behind. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know eleven is a special number. He said that
Speaker 1: it enabled everybody to act a certain way towards you
Speaker 1: because fifteen fifteen I'm talking about they speaking that. Are
Speaker 1: you okay, how are you feeling? Yeah, I'm good. What's
Speaker 1: what's going on? It's just expecting you. Now, did you
Speaker 1: ever catch any wind or know how sick you were? No? No, no,
Speaker 1: I mean I had the crisis that had anything. I
Speaker 1: had all that, all those problems issues, but nothing was
Speaker 1: to death. But then too at the same time sing.
Speaker 1: So it is a very hard disease that people have
Speaker 1: to deal with. It start a lot of information on it,
Speaker 1: but at the same time, it's very hard to deal
Speaker 1: with because there's no words to explain the type of
Speaker 1: pain that they go through. I can't tell you. So
Speaker 1: if you say, what's it like to be be in sickle
Speaker 1: set price, I can't give you that. But I have
Speaker 1: to take my sickle cell and give it to you.
Speaker 1: Then you get back and said, um, that's enough. Did
Speaker 1: you be like, okay, I have an idea. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how these people survive these things. But one
Speaker 1: thing about it is it builds the character. Uh. Little
Speaker 1: things that you may take in for for granted in
Speaker 1: your life and little things. We don't really even look
Speaker 1: at those as problems. Right, It's funny because it's just
Speaker 1: how it is, Like, you know, oh my god, they're
Speaker 1: gonna turn my lights off. Turn them off, because fighting
Speaker 1: for your life is way harder. What you say? Come on,
Speaker 1: you don't know. I've almost died seven times. What do
Speaker 1: you mean? I've always died seven times from secing, So
Speaker 1: I've almost seemed so killed me, almost killed me seven times.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? What I mean? You can't grasp
Speaker 1: that concept because you haven't been there. You're looking around
Speaker 1: so many What do you mean? No, I mean just
Speaker 1: what I said, I've almost died seven times. Well, you've
Speaker 1: never been to the point of death and to bring death,
Speaker 1: So what do you mean is a natural response for
Speaker 1: you because you've never been there? Why do you think done?
Speaker 1: I'm always happy all the time, Right, Ki're gonna come
Speaker 1: in with a smile and a joke. Nobody, What do
Speaker 1: you think? Why do you think? You think that's on accident?
Speaker 1: But I'm always throw it up. How do you see it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I've almost died seven times. For my appreciation for life,
Speaker 1: it's way more understandable than the man average person. So
Speaker 1: you come to me and you say, they cut your
Speaker 1: lights off. I said, what, what did you do it though? Tuesday? Well,
Speaker 1: damn it. I damned that too. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: You get me laugh at that, but said, that's just
Speaker 1: like it just there's nothing wrong with that done. It's
Speaker 1: just how it is. There is nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: That's the absolutely truth. So while you're talking about almost
Speaker 1: that they cut your lights off, that don't cut my
Speaker 1: life off, saying you gotta just and it just makes
Speaker 1: you look at things and a whole other perspective. And
Speaker 1: just like how you were talking talking about losing Brian,
Speaker 1: you you gained something the fact that you were just
Speaker 1: sitting there you didn't know if your lights were gonna
Speaker 1: be off on your life and press every moment. The
Speaker 1: thing that I'm doing all this with no life insurance, no,
Speaker 1: no no health insurance. So they're probably times on the
Speaker 1: world that you're aching in pain on stage and performance
Speaker 1: crisis gotta be all with no health insurance. So when
Speaker 1: I say ever, believe me, I mean nor everybody. I
Speaker 1: was doing all of that, not even I can't even
Speaker 1: forgot sick sale crisis didn't stop because I started telling
Speaker 1: jokes around the company. Stop. None of that. All of
Speaker 1: that happened the way it happened, my attitude towards that happened,
Speaker 1: do what happened. But in the end, see the other
Speaker 1: reason why I'm so grateful ris Her, It's because I
Speaker 1: gotta help in shurance playing. Come on, Oh, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get sick. I'm here, I'm be early. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll be there. I'll get merged from way for what
Speaker 1: happen there. I could be rotating. You're like, where'd you yet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got sick, don't worry about I'll be back there
Speaker 1: because they're gonna get bread by. I got health insurance. Oh,
Speaker 1: I want a good bed. I want to be picking up.
Speaker 1: I'll be in that bid shot and hot down the
Speaker 1: extra confidence. Can I please have my breakfast at its
Speaker 1: room three open? I'll want to get room three please.
Speaker 1: They got to ask some s Oh, I'll be Oh,
Speaker 1: I could have different, play different. So your foundation and
Speaker 1: curious hope is all about, you know, just spreading awareness
Speaker 1: from it, right, because I'm sure there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that you know may not have no where the
Speaker 1: resources are, no, no no, it is um. My foundation
Speaker 1: started back into down and fourteen. It was done out
Speaker 1: of a friend of mine pushing me and said, hey man,
Speaker 1: you have started foundation. You have to do this. You
Speaker 1: have to show other people how to live with sickle
Speaker 1: cell because as hard as it is, a lot of it,
Speaker 1: a lot of it is um mental mental game that
Speaker 1: you have to play with your own life, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean the hard part about it is that I
Speaker 1: know that I process things a lot differently than people
Speaker 1: with no health conditions. They just you know, to go
Speaker 1: around and take life for ran it. See my my weight.
Speaker 1: When I wake up in the morning, I do this.
Speaker 1: I go through the window. When I do this, my
Speaker 1: hand on the window. Because weather plays a big factor.
Speaker 1: So I checked temperatures, I watched I watched the weather channels,
Speaker 1: and what's a certainly where I'm going I'm traveling because
Speaker 1: cold weather it's not good for us with citizens. Oh
Speaker 1: you know, co worker, constrict your veins, the veins and
Speaker 1: the blood cells, whether it's shape, everything think gets getting blockage.
Speaker 1: I can have a siglet crooked crisis if it's third
Speaker 1: degrees outside, fifty degrees outside, sixty degrees, if it's hot,
Speaker 1: I'm good. See you go swimming in the avenue if
Speaker 1: you want to, you go just jump in the pool swimming.
Speaker 1: I ain't been swimming in the afternoons in years. I've
Speaker 1: never done. I ain't jumped in a pool at five o'clock,
Speaker 1: saince I was about twelve. Wow. Well if it's twelve
Speaker 1: o'clock hot noon, I'm in there because the water is hot. See,
Speaker 1: those are things that people don't even have to worry
Speaker 1: about going to the beach. Oh five o'clock and it
Speaker 1: you can gonna run off and just get in the ocean.
Speaker 1: People sire. Still, we ain't weren't going out to huh.
Speaker 1: So what's the minute that your temperature get you know,
Speaker 1: it hurts immediately. You asked me if I'm going to
Speaker 1: Chicago in February. You think I'm going? No, So I
Speaker 1: guess what. I don't book a show in February in Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's how much sickle Sale has a way all my life.
Speaker 1: I can't go to Chicago in Fairruary. I was Chicago
Speaker 1: in June July, but I ain't going in March. I
Speaker 1: ain't going in February. I ain't going in Janilary. See
Speaker 1: those things you don't even worr about See how you're
Speaker 1: looking at those things. You don't even have to work.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to consider these things. That's not
Speaker 1: something I said that single sale consider these things all
Speaker 1: the time. You know, my foundation, I do a great
Speaker 1: job of raising awareness and I put a lot of
Speaker 1: money into it, and we do all different things. But
Speaker 1: the families that meet, they understand that I I was saying.
Speaker 1: It's like, I know I helped these families in June,
Speaker 1: in December for Christmas than because most kids during the
Speaker 1: holidays with sickle sale or in the hospital. Oh, I
Speaker 1: give them a Christmas before they go into the hospital.
Speaker 1: So that's what the foundation does. I sit there, I
Speaker 1: talked to all these families. I take ten families every
Speaker 1: year around the holidays, not by the entire Christmas. Wow. Here,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. I'm doing it for the last six years.
Speaker 1: Tears whole foundation. Wow. I go to UM. I've done
Speaker 1: in Austin, I've done it in Memphis, I've done it
Speaker 1: in Dallas. I've done in Atlanta. I've done it in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: I've done the DC Jacksonville. I just don't matter, just go.
Speaker 1: So what's the plan for the foundation. This year, I
Speaker 1: am picked the city yet I haven't picked the city yet.
Speaker 1: Then in Chicago, I haven't picked the city yet this year. Um,
Speaker 1: normally my daughterkor my foundation rosally and she does the
Speaker 1: picking of the cities. Doesn't matter. It's not my job
Speaker 1: pick the city because I ain't get time to do it.
Speaker 1: She goes to researches all the needs, all the different things,
Speaker 1: and we do it. But I do that every year.
Speaker 1: And you think about where we are with the morning
Speaker 1: on the Hearty just told me to go. You can't
Speaker 1: get to the top of the mount and not reached
Speaker 1: back and showing how to get up there. So that's
Speaker 1: how I start the foundation. You know, my foundation is
Speaker 1: six years strong. I'm proud of it. My walk is
Speaker 1: on September nineteen, Yes, to run the five k run
Speaker 1: and Fun walk in Dallas. You know, check it out
Speaker 1: a register. Oh, it's cures Hope dot org. K I
Speaker 1: E R s Hope dot org. And this will be
Speaker 1: my third year. Um, black people don't know that in
Speaker 1: the state of Texas that every month of June it's
Speaker 1: a national holiday for my foundation. In the state of Texas,
Speaker 1: every gym Here's Hope Month. Here's hope um Cure's hope
Speaker 1: sign silabaratis month is every gym in the state of Texas. Wow, okay,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. To Orange Texas. Every month you got only
Speaker 1: I got all the awards on the wall everything. I'm
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny, man too, to see that type
Speaker 1: of thing. Royce West helped that make possible, to the
Speaker 1: Orschwest States, to the Royce West and make that possible.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, but could you believe one guy in Houston,
Speaker 1: Texas would do all these different things? But that was
Speaker 1: that one guy with a big dream. Man, it was
Speaker 1: one who had a y. I mean sometimes I just
Speaker 1: sit back and pitch myself because I'm still the same guy. Man.
Speaker 1: I love it. But at the same time, like I'm
Speaker 1: looking at some stuff like, you know, like I have
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm an Emmy nominated producer. I didn't
Speaker 1: win the Emmy, I still was nominated for. People don't
Speaker 1: got the whole created I mean, just the invitation along
Speaker 1: to the Emmy's because you did. Steve, I'm the same
Speaker 1: dude that the Houston, Texas That the same that that
Speaker 1: same damn dude. Let's just be for real, like, come on, now, like, dude,
Speaker 1: you got to be tripping on so many stuff. Man,
Speaker 1: do you sit back and then you go out on
Speaker 1: the weekends and then you pull up to the comedy
Speaker 1: club and your name is on the marque and then
Speaker 1: you then you come on and say morning everybody. Then
Speaker 1: you talk about and it's so let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: when did okay? So you know how like singers are performer, right,
Speaker 1: and you know how like you said, oh that when
Speaker 1: I'm in the car and I hear myself on the radio,
Speaker 1: when was the first time, like where were you? Where
Speaker 1: were you at? Did you realize like, quote unquote I
Speaker 1: made it even though you were already successful in the mindset.
Speaker 1: But was it like you saw yourself at the Fox Theater?
Speaker 1: You did used to yourself, you know where was it?
Speaker 1: And it could be a small time, but you was like,
Speaker 1: damgn it was in Dallas, Texas. It was the first
Speaker 1: time I saw my name on the top of the
Speaker 1: marquee that I'm selling tickets. I'm people are paying. It's great,
Speaker 1: people paying twenty five dollars a ticket to hear me
Speaker 1: come tell jokes. And then I walked out that comedy
Speaker 1: club that weekend. What about I did Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Speaker 1: and I walked out of about seventeen five are you
Speaker 1: That's when I knew something, because my whole I was like,
Speaker 1: there's no way, you under saying I ain't never made it.
Speaker 1: Seventeen five hold on, wait a minute, how old are
Speaker 1: you right now? At this point? At that point, I
Speaker 1: was thirty five. God, but I'm telling you, that's what
Speaker 1: what I mean. That's when I know. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I had made it, but I knew.
Speaker 1: I said, we're definitely in the right neighborhood. I don't
Speaker 1: know my name. And then Harvey was talking about it,
Speaker 1: but he said, stop you you under. He was saying
Speaker 1: that you have no idea what you're about to go
Speaker 1: be doing. So in prib in Dallas called me and
Speaker 1: they said they want me to come head and on
Speaker 1: the club that weekend. I ain't had a manager and
Speaker 1: that they just say, hey, I'm gonna offer you, uh
Speaker 1: this much money and then if you sell this main tickets,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you this and the this and all
Speaker 1: the types of idn't heard of this. I'm just glad
Speaker 1: to go down and just do the show. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I hadn't no idea. You know I'm genius. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: I mean that's done everything ready whole night. But on
Speaker 1: that Sunday, when we still up at the club, they
Speaker 1: gave me they gave me ten thousand cash whom they
Speaker 1: gave me seven thousand five hunt in the check. I said, no, dumb,
Speaker 1: I got same time I got. I walked on my church,
Speaker 1: I said, and I was hoping I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: like we made a mistake, because I'm sitting here, y'at
Speaker 1: saying there's ten thousand cash here, then you gotta check,
Speaker 1: just not to be a mistake where there's got to
Speaker 1: be a mistake. I got ten k here, seven thollar
Speaker 1: in a check, so it's a seven teen dollars final off.
Speaker 1: Definitely me walk out here. If you never made that
Speaker 1: much money before, that's your natural reaction. I ain't never
Speaker 1: made no seven team five and no one weekend a
Speaker 1: weekend that's happened somebody's salary in the year. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. All I know was I didn't
Speaker 1: know if I'm walking out of here because this feels
Speaker 1: like I set up I until my time leaving done.
Speaker 1: I said, this gotta be see this is how they
Speaker 1: get set up on first for the eight sting operation
Speaker 1: going on. They want to wanna walk out of here something.
Speaker 1: I gotta get back on the plane back to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: But I'm getting on flame with ten k cash and
Speaker 1: you know you always thought you can't flying more than
Speaker 1: ten thound dollars and yours. All these things got check.
Speaker 1: I got the sick at hold not so I got
Speaker 1: a book bag. Talking about book back I got. I've
Speaker 1: never held my book bag tighter that I got. I
Speaker 1: got this hold back when I put it through that
Speaker 1: damn X right, we're saying, I wait for that bag
Speaker 1: to come out. I got ten kane here, man bag,
Speaker 1: maybe understand, I said, Oh, they're gonna stop me because
Speaker 1: they're gonna see that. They're gonna see the money on
Speaker 1: the xtrac man, that bag that t say. Agent was
Speaker 1: trying to tell me, I ain't here an there, give
Speaker 1: the bag, thank you, becoming I'm on the two o'clock
Speaker 1: I got back home and hardly tell you very chart
Speaker 1: to take. He said, Man, that was the fun thing.
Speaker 1: Whereas I called and I staid on I had made
Speaker 1: h and he was like, yeah, don't yeah that what
Speaker 1: you s forked to me, Yeah, and that's when I
Speaker 1: knew that my life was completely different. Oh, I had
Speaker 1: made a couple grand for a weekend, three grand I
Speaker 1: did that. I ain't never went from five grand to
Speaker 1: seventeen five my first weekend telling Joes as a headline.
Speaker 1: I ain't even know. And once I saw that, I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ride. I just know we're
Speaker 1: in the right neighborhood. I'm in the right neighborhood. And
Speaker 1: that's how it started from there. It was funny, Why
Speaker 1: saw now that that you accomplished all us? What's next? Movies?
Speaker 1: We got your movies. I wanna do movies. You're working
Speaker 1: on anything right now? In these scraps? Uh No, We
Speaker 1: in COVID and have sooner's over. We working on you know,
Speaker 1: we'll get there, and it just takes time. Mumm. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of plays and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but I really like to solidify myself on a film.
Speaker 1: Just see what I could do just just one of
Speaker 1: the things that I'm doing. I mean, it's just so
Speaker 1: I want to do. I want to do at the
Speaker 1: acting in plays. I done that, and people in all
Speaker 1: them plays and they courage Johnson plays and you know, um,
Speaker 1: I just want now on the next step. I want
Speaker 1: to gradually. I just want to do it. I just
Speaker 1: want just I just want to go through the process.
Speaker 1: So just because I gotta I gotta support my what
Speaker 1: kind of quote unquote tattooed that I got before Black
Speaker 1: Panther came out about speaking life. So that's all about
Speaker 1: the affirmation. So you will have this movie. Is it
Speaker 1: an action movie? Is a comedic movie? What is this
Speaker 1: movie that you're doing. I think the movie I was
Speaker 1: doing was I would like to play opposite someone and
Speaker 1: I want to be a regular day in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: type of film, like how even we act in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And I just want to just you know, bring up
Speaker 1: some of the events that we've done and the things
Speaker 1: I've done been a part of, and just put those
Speaker 1: on film and you know, just make that funny and
Speaker 1: it works with some of the greatest people that you
Speaker 1: can work with, who are great at these roles. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm saying I want to do I want to do that,
Speaker 1: but I really want to do that part because for one,
Speaker 1: I want to just see when you put your stuff
Speaker 1: on film, you're gonna live forever last, It's gonna last
Speaker 1: every so I want to do that part. That's the
Speaker 1: babies when I want to do it. But whatever film
Speaker 1: it comes, action, comedy, a movie like Friday or anything
Speaker 1: like that, I'm I'm gonna do all of them. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to do all of it because I just
Speaker 1: think that, you know, I ain't really mad, fact, but
Speaker 1: I says like, Okay, you're playing me short, play me short.
Speaker 1: Just open them the camera and let me don't hear,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure you're the big food I am. I'm not,
Speaker 1: and that's all. Let me be, let be understand. Let's
Speaker 1: just put this out here. All the movies I'm doing,
Speaker 1: I'm not going for oscars, just so we're clear, let's
Speaker 1: not get any expectations. This, all these movies I'm doing
Speaker 1: is going for this for a goddamned food. That's what
Speaker 1: the food, that's what that's what I'm my roles. I'm
Speaker 1: doing this for crazy, this for a damn fool. That's
Speaker 1: the rules I'm going for. I'm not going for father
Speaker 1: for I don't none the roles. I don't want Father,
Speaker 1: look at me, you give me Father. I'm not one
Speaker 1: to ask you. I want to be in the roles
Speaker 1: of just boy crazy, this boy got problem, Hey's something
Speaker 1: wrong with him? A bona five food. Yeah, that's all
Speaker 1: I want, all my roles, that's all I wanted them
Speaker 1: because I believe in the magic of storytelling. I just want.
Speaker 1: I just want. That's what you do that all day,
Speaker 1: every Joe, every script you right in these movies that
Speaker 1: I do, these jokes I tell terming the movies. You know,
Speaker 1: turm into two projects. I was dying laughing. You were
Speaker 1: on the stage. I don't know if you're just talking
Speaker 1: about when you're dating somebody that snores. I died. I
Speaker 1: would love to see that. You know, a snore was
Speaker 1: the thought of a piece of food that was though
Speaker 1: those type of moments, though moments, or the one who
Speaker 1: want to bring um to the to the best print.
Speaker 1: We we want to do those we wanted to little
Speaker 1: stories as crazy as they are, there are stories to
Speaker 1: be told behind all those things. I get it. So
Speaker 1: you appreciate it for that. That's for sure that you are.
Speaker 1: You know. I don't know what I expected from this conversation,
Speaker 1: but I'll say this that I came out a better person.
Speaker 1: Just I never knew your story like that. I didn't
Speaker 1: know the things that meant you. I didn't realize how
Speaker 1: Harvey invested in you like that of just giving the opportunity.
Speaker 1: And now it makes sense. And then this whole thing
Speaker 1: that you said, I think a lot of people gotta realize.
Speaker 1: It's the whole thing that the Birst father flock together.
Speaker 1: And when you kept you riding with people that own fire,
Speaker 1: it's only a matter of time when you're gonna get lit.
Speaker 1: But like you said, it's about the work and not
Speaker 1: the possession. It's not that I'm absolutely I believe that
Speaker 1: whole heart. You know, we don't get in this to
Speaker 1: be famous. We hinted the work. Um, I'll show you this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure this, this is what i'mnna show you. And
Speaker 1: if we can close it with this, but this is
Speaker 1: if you think this is perfect. I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: you if there is a quote or anything that you
Speaker 1: could leave people with, what would it be, Um, letna
Speaker 1: show you. Is it my life and health, my my
Speaker 1: gratitude for God, my life and health, my family, for
Speaker 1: my relationship. We went fast, grateful for the people. Thank
Speaker 1: you for the abundance. Oh amen, you praise them in
Speaker 1: advance this is it. Wow, Lord, I love you God.
Speaker 1: I will definitely. That's what I read every morning, and
Speaker 1: a lot of things on that list has come to pass.
Speaker 1: So whatever you, whatever your assumption is about me, I
Speaker 1: have no I take no part in that part. But
Speaker 1: he know exactly who his steward is. Well, He's given
Speaker 1: me how I do it. I can't take criticism from
Speaker 1: anybody who ain't doing nothing. I cannot take criticism. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: whatever your opinion is about me, But what are you doing?
Speaker 1: Let's see, I just showed you my entire gratitude list
Speaker 1: for God that I keep adding to my health, my life,
Speaker 1: my grandma, all the things that we sat here and
Speaker 1: talked about. Someone has passed. Some of the things have
Speaker 1: not passed, still greatful for him. Some things I'm just wishing.
Speaker 1: That's the difference. But what you think you know about me,
Speaker 1: But you don't know. I ain't here. I ain't here
Speaker 1: to impression you. Who are you? Who are you? Who
Speaker 1: are you thinking? I deserve you deserved my attention. I
Speaker 1: ain't here for you, So you weren't nowhere near when
Speaker 1: I was seeming in the wrist stops. See, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: you wouldn't nowhere around. And I was trying to get
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars, you wouldn't nowhere around. I'm not impressed
Speaker 1: with any of that. I've heard everything, But what do
Speaker 1: you think I ain't heard everything. I've heard everything. I've
Speaker 1: heard it all. I've heard everything, how they say about me,
Speaker 1: what they feel about me, from colleagues to family to friends.
Speaker 1: You can't disturb what I'm doing. I just showed you
Speaker 1: because my gratitude for God. And guess what, why why
Speaker 1: you keep talking on them? Can't you see publicly how
Speaker 1: He keep blessed me? And you know what I've realized.
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact Bible verse, but it gives
Speaker 1: me to the thing of how your enemies will be
Speaker 1: your footstool. Not because I'm gonna stump on you. It's
Speaker 1: because I am obedient. You will have no other choice
Speaker 1: but to uplift man. So I don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about raining down on you. It don't matter what you
Speaker 1: So let's get off to do you. It'll serve you better,
Speaker 1: serve you better to quit talking about me. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: already good about who I am at that they already
Speaker 1: now and and and as I say this, and they're
Speaker 1: probably gonna see it on social media. It's so then,
Speaker 1: But then no exactly what I'm talking to they they
Speaker 1: ain't got thought you. I don't know when y'all gonna
Speaker 1: realize that this dude ain't for y'all. I don't need
Speaker 1: your round the blows. I don't need I don't need
Speaker 1: a clap from you. I just need the people to
Speaker 1: clap for me. So I'm keep doing what I'm doing, right.
Speaker 1: I don't do this for you, dude. We're in the
Speaker 1: same business. One surgeon don't watch another surgeon do surgery
Speaker 1: because what you say, the focus, the focus, Well we
Speaker 1: act so yeah, so they you know, they probably look
Speaker 1: at said like, I don't know they say these things
Speaker 1: about me. I get it. So I'm cool. But you
Speaker 1: see the public blessing he keeps putting. Now you have
Speaker 1: never stopped to ask yourself how come that keep happening?
Speaker 1: And that's the magic of leadership. That's the magic of
Speaker 1: being the right place at the right time, and that's
Speaker 1: the magic of being focused on one mission. I never
Speaker 1: asked God to be famous. I just wanted to ask me,
Speaker 1: give me the gift that I have, let me keep
Speaker 1: it back. So you can bless it so I can
Speaker 1: change last through laughter. That's it. And and look what
Speaker 1: happened care junior spates, ladies and gentlemen, that's what happened
Speaker 1: to what I enjoyed. I enjoyed. Thank you. Let me
Speaker 1: thank you. I know you talked about I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: on mush, but thank you for pouring it to me
Speaker 1: because you spoke on so many ways of just the transition,
Speaker 1: just my grind, like I don't know what's about to happen.
Speaker 1: I'm just going because I know what I feel, and
Speaker 1: I'm just on a prayer that whatever happen, it's gonna
Speaker 1: work out. It has to write, come on. And that's
Speaker 1: what I try to tell me. There, don't care what
Speaker 1: they say, Stay doing done. Girl. Do you know you
Speaker 1: have no idea? You can't have ain't no way, It's
Speaker 1: not what I have you done, the way, the way
Speaker 1: you do things, the way you operate, the person you are,
Speaker 1: the lights you shine. Do you know how hard it
Speaker 1: is to be positive every day? Do you know how
Speaker 1: hard it is? Of course, I know you're positive every
Speaker 1: day and even when it's not well received, you gotta
Speaker 1: show up again and do it again the next day,
Speaker 1: and even when they're receiving that day, you show up
Speaker 1: a third day done, you have to continue doing that.
Speaker 1: Guess what, it ain't about what they're doing, so so
Speaker 1: what they don't see it? It's not for them. Come on,
Speaker 1: you're not doing all of this to impressing anybody. You're
Speaker 1: doing this to expose people about what do positive people
Speaker 1: have to say? Yes? And why it's important? Oh well,
Speaker 1: don got to stay this ain't your thing. That's where
Speaker 1: they lose at stop even about what you're doing. It's
Speaker 1: about what you're showcasing. And if you can't see what
Speaker 1: Donna is showcasing, you gotta add to And you're not
Speaker 1: gonna benefit from from the first place because your attitude
Speaker 1: in the wrong place. But for you and end, get
Speaker 1: all this stuff together that take word to take a schedule,
Speaker 1: coordinating people, but don't allow anybody to tell you what
Speaker 1: your mission is. That ain't for them to dictate. If
Speaker 1: I got time to sit up and judge done, what
Speaker 1: what's she doing? I must not have nothing to do, right,
Speaker 1: I clearly don't have him to do. You gotta be
Speaker 1: thinking that you gotta be doing something if you've got
Speaker 1: somebody else's attention, if you, if I had time to
Speaker 1: sit here talk about what's gone doing, I almost not
Speaker 1: be doing nothing. You just called me, said you're gonna
Speaker 1: do this for me. Yeah, do for phone talk about
Speaker 1: two minutes. M hmm, yeah, don't do that for you.
Speaker 1: It's it. Thank you. Oh my gosh. Care like, okay,
Speaker 1: So this is what happened. You called me. You said, Dawn,
Speaker 1: you met me. The first time I met you, you
Speaker 1: kept saying how it was wonderful and how it was amazing. Listen,
Speaker 1: I didn't take me three and a half almost four
Speaker 1: years to see that because look at us right now.
Speaker 1: You can't tell me because I knew. I knew, I
Speaker 1: felt it, and when you got somebody that's talking to Brian,
Speaker 1: I felt it and like you said, being humans. So care,
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for investing in yourself, thank you
Speaker 1: for feeling like you're worth it, and thank you for
Speaker 1: being a beacon. I like the inspiring other people. I
Speaker 1: see you and we'll see you, man. That's what vitamin
Speaker 1: D is about. That's it. How do people follow you?
Speaker 1: How can I get you? What's up? You know? You
Speaker 1: can find me on social media? Junior and Junior shr
Speaker 1: mess everything, j U mess find me? How you find me?
Speaker 1: Simme and messin say what's up? I say, what's up? Man?
Speaker 1: You know I ain't hard to get at. I ain't
Speaker 1: you know, just what keep going? You know? And you
Speaker 1: know what my cousin direct. She always tell me. Tell
Speaker 1: to hell, junior, I said, have remember we met her
Speaker 1: of sanding so last year. So yeah, how she doing.
Speaker 1: She's doing real good. She's doing good. She's gonna love
Speaker 1: to hear this. You don't care, I said, so she
Speaker 1: can still love me? Sorry, you know, you know I
Speaker 1: love me. This is gonna be going in saying something
Speaker 1: you love me. That's just love me. Take me and
Speaker 1: go ahead and see how you feel about me. I
Speaker 1: like that, so to sell and see what I'm doing. Listen,
Speaker 1: let me have I hold you wha but you can't
Speaker 1: being started. I'm writing indeed, I don't know. I love
Speaker 1: myself kid. Thank you so much for this opportunity. You
Speaker 1: will oh man, I don't know what I expected from Kier,
Speaker 1: but that was everything and more and it was right
Speaker 1: on time. And I'm just so grateful that I was
Speaker 1: here right to receive it and that I can offer
Speaker 1: it to you. And that's the one thing that's so
Speaker 1: amazing to me about vitamin D. When I created it,
Speaker 1: it was all about shedding light to others, and little
Speaker 1: did I know that I was going to receive that
Speaker 1: on the back end as well. And I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the amazing things about gifts and when you're
Speaker 1: giving and you're walking in your purpose, because your purpose
Speaker 1: not only feeds others, but in in turn feeds you.
Speaker 1: It's like a cycle. It's it's it's it's a never
Speaker 1: ending life cycle that continues to pour and fill up,
Speaker 1: poor and fill up. Now, if you enjoyed this conversation
Speaker 1: as much as I did with Kre and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to keep up with him, you gotta follow
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Speaker 1: M S. And if you want to learn more information
Speaker 1: about his foundation, Cares Hope, go ahead and check them
Speaker 1: out online at cares Hope dot org. Now, I want
Speaker 1: you to remember life is for the living. If you
Speaker 1: feel like you're losing everything, remember that trees lose their
Speaker 1: leaves every year, and yet they stand tall and wait
Speaker 1: for better days to come. Your better days is coming.
Speaker 1: Peace be still. You know in the Bible and the
Speaker 1: Scripture it says, see, I'm doing a new thing. Now
Speaker 1: it springs up. Do you not perceive it? Well, that's
Speaker 1: it for your dose to vitamin D. As always, you
Speaker 1: can catch us where you get your podcasts every Monday
Speaker 1: for more inspiring conversations and insights, and of course if
Speaker 1: you're looking to get even more vitamin D in your life.
Speaker 1: You can also follow me on all social media at
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Speaker 1: your greatest asset.