1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: You could do your intro. You want to just keep 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: taining talking. It's fine. I don't know what's up everybody. 3 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: It is ripped Michaels into the Wild now and a 4 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: whole bunch of other stuff because I'm successful now. But 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: it's not about that. It's about eating while broke with 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: my host over here, Colleen, and we're doing something real broke. 7 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: I'm talking about broke broke. I'm talking about south side 8 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,319 Speaker 1: of Chicago. Bro We're doing spam tacos, and a a lot 9 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: of people don't even know what spam is. It's actually 10 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: something that you can get at the store. It's nine 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: store meat olicious. I'm actually, well, welcome to the spam club. 12 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: I don't even know how to get out of the 13 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: can everybody. So I'm really meat. It's a go to 14 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 1: because it's stage. You can seep in your bag, you 15 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: can do a lot with me. It is real meat. 16 00:00:43,440 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: Like So my green isn't super simple because uh, I 17 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 1: come from a little diverse struggle. So don't let the 18 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: little even she sweat the fool you in a little 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: a little change. But this is back in the day, 20 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: because you know why I don't paint her Nick pay 21 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: us in um Rock Kerry CDs and you know that 22 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: you were, so my gredients are super simple. I got 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: spam right here, cann of spam. Look at that. That's 24 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 1: enough meat for a week, and that only costs a 25 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: dollar nighting. Now that last your week, last your week. 26 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: But the way I cook it, unless you want to 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: splur and have guests because you know, maybe like two days. 28 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: I got tomatoes. Of course, tomatoes the cheap. I use 29 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: regular letters. We're not gonna see no no rollman, no mixed. 30 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: I'm talking about regular letters you can get for eighty nine. 31 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: Sense In here, we got mixed cheese, which I normally 32 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: don't do mixed cheese. I normally do, like uh like 33 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: sometimes I just take the Cheetos and I just scrub 34 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: the Cheetos cheese and put it in the thing and 35 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: then eat the Cheetos later. That's how you have two 36 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: meals and one I'm not stupid cheese. Got protein and 37 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: then we got onion, red onion, so it's gonna be 38 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: absolutely good. And all you need, of course, is your 39 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: mccormicks or Laurie's Tacos easing, which nor only like six 40 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: not sens. I got my water a little little oil 41 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: from my pant in my little season, in my little 42 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: ground pepper and stuff like that. Did you need oil 43 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: for your pans? I did? But it's sam. Spam is 44 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: like bacon. It kind of makes its own grease. If 45 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: you can see the gelatin, it'll definitely come. You know what, 46 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: if I was ever wondering based on like how you 47 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: look today and how successful you are, I would never 48 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: guess that you could creatively make or have eaten a 49 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: dish like this. So it's because look, you know, you're 50 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: very successful, and you're very successful, and I think it's 51 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: so important for people to see, you know, someone of 52 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: your stature, someone that's accomplished so much, see that you 53 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 1: legit ate like this. So go ahead, start us off 54 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: with the how do how do we get this meal started? Okay, 55 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: let's get this spam all cut up. It's get this 56 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: cut board over here. Yes, normally I wouldn't even have 57 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 1: a knife when you broke. You just literally just cut 58 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: it up. And you can see that the meat actually 59 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: lasts for a long time because you can see how 60 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: blacky it is and how they say falls apart just 61 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: like that. Now, do you when it comes to spam, 62 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: do you have to cook it all. Once you open 63 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: the can or can you like aluminum foil. Some of it, 64 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: actually spam can be eaten right out the can. A 65 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: lot of people don't know what. It's already pre cooked. 66 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 1: It's already actually ready to go. All you gotta do 67 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: is all we're really doing is warming it up a 68 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: little bit, because it's actually actually ready to go. I 69 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:23,920 Speaker 1: actually on rush days just eat it just like this, 70 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: probably warming up in the microwave, and that's good to go. 71 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: A part of me wants to just try a little 72 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: slither of it. You think I'm trying to know why, No, 73 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: we don't have any I'm going to try a piece 74 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: of this, guys, just for one for the team, also 75 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: for doing on your plane. Okay, interesting, it's already go already, 76 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: I know you food or whatever. I'm not knocking spam. 77 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: By the way, it's actually pre cooked. Um, it's really salty, Yes, 78 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: it's it's definitely salty. That's why it's like you don't 79 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: really need oil, but you can use oils. It's definitely 80 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 1: a little salty. Um. Yeah for me, because you know, 81 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 1: I just recently lost a lot of weight. So because 82 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: I'm going back look great, look amazing. Thank you man, 83 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: you're gonna speaking to babies. That's what they spared my 84 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: weight loss. I actually went to Six Flags with my 85 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: daughter and I was three hundred thirty pounds and I 86 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: was too fat to get on the roller coaster. And 87 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: we went there and I was actually my daughter's first 88 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: time actually going to um uh to uh six Flags, 89 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 1: and she was so excited to ride two different roller 90 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: coasters and them and things like that. Yeah, so when 91 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: we got to the roller coaster, they don't tell you 92 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: don't have like a weight requirement, so they don't tell 93 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 1: you that you know you're too big, So there's no 94 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: way you'll know until you get on the road coaster. 95 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 1: So I'm sitting on the road coast and I'm uh, 96 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: they're trying to push the harness down and then pushing 97 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,479 Speaker 1: the harness down there like sir, it won't it has 98 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: to close, and like four the little kids and it's 99 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,719 Speaker 1: like roller coasters back up and it's hot, and everybody's 100 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:42,760 Speaker 1: looking like why would this fat ass dude? No, he 101 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: is too big for this thing in roller coaster, and 102 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: so they're pushing it down. The management come and they 103 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: don't call you a fat ass. They just look at 104 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,280 Speaker 1: you and they give you that white face and they go, sir, 105 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,920 Speaker 1: it has to close, and the right then and there. 106 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: It was so embarrassing. I had to get off the thing. 107 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: They had to let everybody else's harness up. And then 108 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: my daughter wrote the rollercoaster by herself. And then with 109 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: my daughter so resilient, um, she was on the roller 110 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: coast and I'm like, sweetie, did you have a good time? 111 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 1: She was like it was okay, we can go home now. 112 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 1: And that's just showing how much my daughter actually and 113 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: she actually was like let's go home because she was 114 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: embarrassed for me. So God is so good. They have 115 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: this thing in six lags when you go down these 116 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: steps and it's like this little thing or it's like 117 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: a picture both where they take pictures of me and 118 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: they show how much fun you have. And so when 119 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: I look at the picture, but it was like yeah, 120 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: I was just why did you lie to me? You 121 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 1: have fun? And she was like, damn, I did it 122 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: so much fun as everything I thought it was. But 123 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: you're such fat and I no one told you to 124 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 1: eat twinkies late at night, and I'm so embarrassed. So 125 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 1: I spent the entire time at the music part, just 126 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 1: pretty much getting in the cotton candy line and stuff 127 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 1: like that. So that inspired my That inspired me so much, 128 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: and I promised my daughter that before the season and 129 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,160 Speaker 1: we go back, and that happened in June. And in 130 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: all this I went back, I lost sixties seven pounds 131 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 1: and I got on every single roller coast and I 132 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: just kept my journey going from from there. Own. That's amazing. 133 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: So it sounds like you're an amazing dad. But let's 134 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: talk about how you got your start. Um. I actually 135 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 1: started doing comedy when I was a little kid around Chicago. 136 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: So you used to have this thing called the Comedy Click, 137 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: and we used to have this thing at Bernie Mac 138 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: used to host called the Cotton Club. I was actually 139 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: thirteen years old when I first started doing comedy. And 140 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: where were your parents during this whole thing? Just my dad. 141 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: My parents are still together, so they be married for 142 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 1: I want to say, forty three years and they be 143 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: cheating on each other forty two years. So my dad's 144 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: girlfriend is the actually person that got me in the comedy. 145 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, telling you truth, my dad's girlfriend, I had 146 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 1: an I didn't know behind cameras, this is the truth. 147 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: I didn't even know she wasn't my auntie. I didn't 148 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: know that. My dad used to make me call his 149 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: girlfriend Auntie. I didn't know that married. Yeah they're still married. 150 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: I didn't know that wasn't my auntie. I thought that 151 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: was literally my Auntie Jockey. I had no idea to 152 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: One day I came home and I was like, Mama, look, 153 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: Auntie Jockey bought me a suit. And I was so happy. 154 00:06:58,279 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: I came and I was saying, Mamma, look what did 155 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: you Jockey? She bought me a suit. My mom was 156 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: like that, ain't you damn Auntie? That's your daddy girlfriend. 157 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: And go outside. Your uncle Craig gonna help you. Go 158 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 1: talk you to the zoo. So I had an Auntie 159 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:12,119 Speaker 1: Jocket and Uncle Craig my whole life. It's a true story. 160 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: I have more questions though. That's the questions. Did your 161 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: did your was your mom? Were they cool? Was this 162 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: like an open marriage? They were just my mom would 163 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: just do, my dad doing, like okay, let's be doing, 164 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: let's go do it. And they're they're married still they 165 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: still look. Don't judge my parents. They know you don't 166 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: go to church, you don't know what they freak. They 167 00:07:30,080 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: still together. Yeah, that's amazing. I love that. I mean 168 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: very toxic now that you you know, look at it 169 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 1: coming on the outside going in. That's not how Mary. Yeah, 170 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: I didn't know if they were like best friends and 171 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: they're just like sharing their trade secrets. Oh no, they 172 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 1: were know J D. Pet Will Smith Augustustina in Templements, 173 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: straight up cheating. And my mom was smart because and 174 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: my dad would go out and come here like one 175 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. My mom would come on the 176 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: tour from teen Ac like she would sleep all day. 177 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: I was keeping both day secrets. All right. Now, that's 178 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: what a good allowance, I tell you that. Yeah, but 179 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: they wow, but wow, you know that, no wonder come in. No. 180 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: So she's to take me around to the comedy clubs 181 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 1: because she was, you know, frequent him, and she would 182 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,000 Speaker 1: take me around and she would be like, okay, cool. 183 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 1: And then my mom found out I was going to 184 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: comedy club and put a stop to it. Um So 185 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: then once my mom put a stop to it, I 186 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,559 Speaker 1: stopped doing comedy altogether, and I couldn't go out anymore 187 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: because she was actually my connect for the whole thing. 188 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: So once that stopped, um, I wouldn't finished up high 189 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: school and everything. And I remember because I was going 190 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: back into it. Now that I'm out of high school. 191 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: I just graduated. I got a job doing construction, and 192 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: then my mom was like, you gotta I came home 193 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: and my mom was like, you gotta leave. You gotta 194 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: kick me out. Literally, I've just been working a week 195 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: and she's like, you can't stay here because you're not 196 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: going to college. And I was like, well, at least 197 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,240 Speaker 1: let me get my paycheck so I can't find a 198 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: place to go and do. She's like no, all my 199 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: stuff was sitting on the porch and she's like, you 200 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:53,359 Speaker 1: gotta go my mama. My MoMA is a Popeye Ladys 201 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 1: from Free Boil. We're like so. Um. Then I end 202 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: up going to college graduating because I have no other choice. 203 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: So and then after I got to college, I pursued 204 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: my career fully. I met Dave Chappelle at a comedy 205 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: club in Ohio and yells with Dane Ohio and I 206 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: saw him. He's like, if you ever want to find 207 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,839 Speaker 1: out funny? And I go to New York. So I 208 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: literally got off the Greyhound bus maybe like two weeks 209 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: later after my friend Jermain got locked up and he said, 210 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: this is what you're supposed to do. And I never 211 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: looked back. I stayed on the streets of New York 212 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: homeless for about a year. He's not the trash kings 213 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And the hard part was I 214 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: had a daughter at the time. Well I didn't know 215 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: I had a daughter. My mama called me. She was like, 216 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: some girl called here with a picture of a baby 217 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:37,319 Speaker 1: to look just like yours. So she was like, that 218 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: ain't my baby. She was like, a baby got your eyes. 219 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: I was like, Mama, those ain't really my eyes. Those 220 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: are the eyes of niggas. That my baby, mama life. 221 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: So so it was such a weird thing to me, 222 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: my daughter, because she was already two years old. And 223 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 1: but how old were you that I was, So, you're 224 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: homeless in New York and get the phone, call your daddy. 225 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: I'm a daddy. Yes, I go home. I get in 226 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: the Greyhound bus. I go home. I see this little 227 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:02,600 Speaker 1: girl and I'm like, she's you know, because you don't 228 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: know if she also you don't want to pick up 229 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: first or you just like this. So I'm looking at 230 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: it like this I'm examine her, but yes, she's been 231 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: my daughter, and um, I am getting full custoing to 232 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: my daughter. And like maybe four months later, I took 233 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: it to New York and she was like, you know, 234 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: in the street phones with me and I would go 235 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: to different hotels and get her milk in the morning 236 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: and and we would like the pursuit of happiness. I 237 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:21,600 Speaker 1: want to call it that. It would just miss been 238 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,319 Speaker 1: my road dog ever since. Man, I think that, you know, 239 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: if I wouldn't have my daughter, my driving determination for 240 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: what I do wouldn't be as great because she's my 241 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: other half, like and I raised it by myself entirely, 242 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: So it's just been a struggle. I love her to death, 243 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,959 Speaker 1: like any time I'm there, Like I used to go 244 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: to comedy club and have her sitting right there in 245 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 1: a little car sin and then the car. And it's 246 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: been a journey every since everything I do. Wow, that's amazing. 247 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:46,559 Speaker 1: So you're sitting you were a single dad while pursuing 248 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: your dreams? Correct there was was there a part of 249 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 1: you that felt like you had to hold down a 250 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 1: nine to five or did you during while you're pursuing 251 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: your dreams and being a single Dad, Well, since I 252 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: you know I have. I did get my degree in college. 253 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: I mean I get my degree economics. Find that I 254 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: just needed to know because I wanted to be a 255 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: comedian my entire life. Um since I was a little 256 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: kid and I saw death comedy and I just knew 257 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: that this is what I was supposed to do. And 258 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: I told God, if this is my gift, then allow 259 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: me to be uh to prosper off. This allow me 260 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 1: because making people laugh and and and and and and 261 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,640 Speaker 1: being able to smile and bring them joy, because that's 262 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: what I do my comedy. My name is not actually 263 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 1: ripped Michaels. A lot of people don't know that's actually ripped. 264 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: If you look at this R I P M I 265 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: C H E L S, it's actually ripped Mike Heals. 266 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: So that's actually how you say my name, but everybody's 267 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 1: kept it risk Michael. So I don't really correct people, 268 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: but that's actually what it is because I like to 269 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: heal with my comedy. Most of my shows are urban, 270 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: and people come to urban shows with a lot of 271 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: different things, um and pressures, spending licenses where they don't 272 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: get an abortion and I hope bunch of stuff going 273 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: on You're the black show. That's why they go so 274 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: hard or ethnic show to UM. Actually, if they don't 275 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: like you, they booed because they didn't done a lot 276 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: to get to that little show, to pay to knowledge, 277 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: to get in. So I love for ten minutes to 278 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: the amount of what's going on in your life. If 279 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: I can take away some of that and make you 280 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 1: forget or make you laugh at some of your pain, 281 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: that's my whole job. Now. So you come to to 282 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: New York, you have your single dad, You're working. I'm 283 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: guessing a day job because you have a degree. No. 284 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: Never once, once I move to New York, I never 285 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 1: took a day job. I would do comedy on the streets. 286 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:15,599 Speaker 1: I would entertained on the train and go put a 287 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: little red onions and entertained on the train. UM. I 288 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: would do sell metro swipes, and I would do and 289 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: they gave me the ability to be doing a bit 290 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: of comedy for anything. I would do comedy somebody basement, 291 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,559 Speaker 1: I did gospel comedy. UM. And a lot of the 292 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 1: comedians in New York they have like the clickers thing. 293 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: So since I wasn't from there, they wouldn't allow you 294 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,560 Speaker 1: to get on stage. It would make you come week 295 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: and week after week and never give you stage time. 296 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: And I used to have to bark. So I got 297 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,439 Speaker 1: so good at barking. That means when you stand out 298 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: with a flyer and you try to get people to 299 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: come to the show. So I got so good at 300 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 1: barking that I would fill the entire rooms just off 301 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: me going outside speaking to people and getting into buy tickets, 302 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: to the point where I started doing my own rooms. 303 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: And and in my biggest break, I would say was 304 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: when I did a show because I was so skinny, 305 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 1: because I was like skinny, then I'm fat. I came 306 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: to a fact, but I was homeless, so is made 307 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: me so skinny because I didn't have anyone. When I 308 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: said I'm home, I'm talking about not sleeping the car home, 309 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: and it's not room the room. I'm talking about like 310 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: literally sleeping outside the Fifth Institute and Brian Park and stuff. 311 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: And then thank god I had a Value Membership um 312 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: from college and I would just take me and my 313 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: DA would go there and we shower and everything there. 314 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: And what's your family saying while you're doing all this? 315 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: Are they like questioning whether you're insane? Well, for me, 316 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: my mom and my dad have been like my dad 317 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: is kind of supportive and not really. They have been 318 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: my biggest um catalyst for me to be a commedie 319 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: because they always told me I would never be anything. 320 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 1: My mom al wasn't steal with me, that I wasn't attractive, 321 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: I wasn't good. No one's ever gonna laugh at your jokes, 322 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,679 Speaker 1: and whatever you do, you're gonna fail and succeed it 323 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: and you're never going to succeed at it. So I 324 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: used that energy to always live my life to prove 325 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: my mother wrong. And you guys get along fine now, Yeah, 326 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: because I forget. I mean, she you know, she's coming 327 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: around now. Because I think everybody when a mother become 328 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: a grandmother, that's not the same person to rage you. 329 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:01,679 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell that right now. Is it just me? 330 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,920 Speaker 1: I don't know yet? This my first grand mother to 331 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: trust me. That's not to say my mama used burned 332 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: me with a cigarette. I can't even yell at my 333 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: daughter from mama. She's a totally different person. To think 334 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: she's sick. She's trying to get in heaven. God seen 335 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: what you did. I'm gonna teach hbody how to read 336 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: with a cigarette. But yeah, we're super cool now and 337 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 1: now when I do TV shows and stuff. Um she 338 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: called me from time to time like, I'm very proud 339 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: of you. You said you would do it, and you 340 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 1: did regardless of how I made you feel. So you know, 341 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: that was a really defined moment when she apologized to me. 342 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 1: And we've been cool ever since. So when did you 343 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: realize like you had arrived? I still don't think I 344 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: high arrived. I think the entire time I've been to 345 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: a comedy because from that. My first television pearance was 346 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: U big shout out to Christina Milia and her mom. 347 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: They put me on the show. She had a show 348 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: at the time called um uh Wannabes and I was 349 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: so skinny, actually was the same size as y'all rule 350 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 1: And that was my first appearance and I was so 351 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: funny on that she allowed me to do warmer for 352 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,120 Speaker 1: her show and all the rest of her shows, and 353 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: then she offered me a round. And then after I 354 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: did the show, I wanted the contest. It was like 355 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: a show where you get to uh become the artist. 356 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: So three people compete to be an artist and at 357 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: the end you get to make a music video if 358 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: you're good enough to be the artist. Um, and we 359 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: did that and then that turned actually um into me 360 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: being warm up and then she put me in the 361 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: movie let and costs the thing. And that's why I'm 362 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: nick and UM, I should have moved out here. But 363 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 1: you know, being a dad, I couldn't participate when while 364 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: Out first came out, So you know, I couldn't do 365 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: the things that you know, most people could do because 366 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: you know, my whole career has been you know, being 367 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: a dad and making sure my daughter had everything she needed. 368 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: So it's a lot of opportunities I had to pass up. 369 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: So now while you're in New York doing this, you're 370 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: are you turning? Are you actually making money doing stand up? 371 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:45,480 Speaker 1: So what I started doing instantaneously when I realized I 372 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 1: was good at the bar, because I start producing my 373 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: own shows. Um to the point where I ran New 374 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: York and I could constantly. I can confidently say I ran. 375 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 1: I had more rooms than any comedian in New York. 376 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 1: So what I did was because the clubs wouldn't put 377 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: me on, I used that same negative energy as a catalyt. 378 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: So what I would do was go around to like 379 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: little bars and restaurants, and I would allow them to like, Hey, 380 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: let me do comedy here. You don't have to pay me. 381 00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: I'll bring an audience, I'll do the show. So you 382 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: would let them keep the money, or you would have 383 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: like that they like the bar and the liquor, and 384 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 1: I would just take off of what I brung in. 385 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: So Um I got so good at that I had, 386 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: I would do comedy. I had three different rooms tonight. 387 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: So I started from comedians not putting me onto employing 388 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: all pretty much all the comedians in New York. You 389 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: I had the largest run in New York. So people 390 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,240 Speaker 1: would have to call me, and in the week you 391 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: would make two thousand dollars off of me, just because 392 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 1: you would do every single room. It got to the 393 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 1: point where I was doing so many rooms. I would 394 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 1: bring up the feature and leave and go to another 395 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: room and host that one and come back and close 396 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: it and go to another one. And then when my 397 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 1: friend Um Rashid died, Um a great comedian. You played 398 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: Uncle Dope on Bad Boys, the comedy So Funny. When 399 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 1: he died, Um, he I end up his family, Um 400 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,560 Speaker 1: end up asking me to host his rooms. Because when 401 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: he died, he was really good. He had like maybe 402 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 1: I want to say, five rooms. And when he passed away, 403 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: they were trying to host it. And I remember one 404 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: night I was there and they were like, everyone's bombing. 405 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: No one's doing really well. If you can bring the 406 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: crowd back in and kill it, I'll give you an 407 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: extra hundred dollars. So I did that, and then I 408 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: did like a couple of other times that happened, and 409 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 1: the next thing I know, I had his room on 410 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 1: top of my room. So I end up having like 411 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,159 Speaker 1: twenty one rooms in a month to do comedy in 412 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: New York. And I would take the proceeds half the 413 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,119 Speaker 1: money I got and give it to his family. A 414 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 1: lot of communities don't know that because they were like, 415 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: we're ripping. So I was like, no, I make sure 416 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 1: this family kept half the money. I used to take 417 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,359 Speaker 1: half or whatever I got and give it to us, 418 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: this brother in law and his kids because he when 419 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,920 Speaker 1: he died, he left three kids. Wow. And so now 420 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: it makes sense to me because when I see on 421 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,400 Speaker 1: you know, on stage, talent like yourself, You're funny, you're charismatic. 422 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm always like, is the talent really the entrepreneur? 423 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:51,640 Speaker 1: The driving force. Now I'm familiar and I've heard that 424 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: you are the founder of the Walling Out Tour, and 425 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 1: that was like, what rips the founder of the tour 426 00:17:58,560 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: like creator, creator of it. I'm like, that's like more 427 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: of an entrepreneur, the skill set mixed with talent. So 428 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 1: tell me how did you do that? Again? I would, 429 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: I would give all my accomplishments to my daughter. Everything 430 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:17,680 Speaker 1: I never tried to. I'm just now trying to be 431 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: a star or I'm just now trying to actually get 432 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: my name out. So when you ask me the question 433 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: did I arrived, I've never put energy in that my 434 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: whole thought process being the funniest person I could possibly be, 435 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: um continuing to have if you can watch any of 436 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: my show, I keep that crowd laughing and running and 437 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 1: having a great time. That's the type of energy I've 438 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,360 Speaker 1: always run to it. So the catalyst for me doing 439 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: a while Now tour was I was I was working 440 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,159 Speaker 1: with Nick on his special stand up Don't Shoot, and 441 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,680 Speaker 1: we were going around opening up UM clubs. And I've 442 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,359 Speaker 1: written for a lot of comedians, wrote Anthony Anderson, special 443 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: I wrote brand T Jackson special Um I wrote with 444 00:18:54,119 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: Nick Okay, I tried. I tried to get You'll always 445 00:19:00,359 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: you know, Nigga always one. Because there's some of Nick 446 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 1: stand up that we're very in the last one stand 447 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: Up Don't Show, and I'm writing on this new talk show. 448 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 1: He has a daytime talk shows. Well, so when we're 449 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 1: doing this, we're actually funny story because it actually happened 450 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. We're in Los Angeles and we just 451 00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: leave the Ontario Improv and we're sitting at the Ontario 452 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: improb and we go. He's like, I'm gonna go and 453 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: see Cat. Do you want to go? So I happened 454 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: the car with Nick and he goes and he's watching 455 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: Cat and Nike it standing in with like look on it. 456 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,000 Speaker 1: And I'm like, Nick, what you just like, you know, 457 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: like saying someone's watching like Michael Jordan played. And then 458 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 1: Nick goes, I'm like, You'll always wish I could sell 459 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: at the Rings, Yeah, And I go what He was like, 460 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:41,119 Speaker 1: you Nick, canny, you put Cat what you're going? Of 461 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: course you could sell out of readings Like no, man, 462 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: that's never been I've never been able to do that. 463 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: He's like, that's my that's one of my dreams to 464 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,200 Speaker 1: be able to do that, and I was like, Nick, 465 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: you put me on your show, and you've done so 466 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: much for me and change my life. You kept me 467 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 1: on it. When I tell you, Nick keeps me on 468 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: the show because I do some wild stuff from pulling 469 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,640 Speaker 1: wigs off throwing powder every day. I'm almost fired. I've 470 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: been when I first threw powder of the whole cats 471 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 1: like fire. But Nick was like, that's the best thing ever. 472 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: Because I always looked at wild Out as being a character, 473 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: and I always wanted to be the wildest character because 474 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,320 Speaker 1: that's who I am, like the wild guy that you 475 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: never know what's gonna do it. Did I go too far? 476 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: And so when he said that, I was like Nick. 477 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: I turned to Nick and I go, I'll do that 478 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 1: for you because I'd already have following. I've already been 479 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,440 Speaker 1: doing my April Foods comedy gym, selling out arenas across 480 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: the country on my own. So then I was like, 481 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 1: I'll do that for you. So I took the wild 482 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: Out tour. And it's funny because Nick was like, how 483 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: are we gonna do this? How is it gonna go? 484 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: And everything like this until he thought I was joking. 485 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: So I was like, give me six months and we'll 486 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: be doing nothing but the ringing, And so I'll go 487 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 1: ahead and booked this little small show to get it off. 488 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: It's it was one of the hardest things I ever 489 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 1: promoted because people didn't know what it was. It wasn't 490 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: like it was a comedy. So people just like, it 491 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:43,800 Speaker 1: comes on TV, it's gonna be were tables with it. 492 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: How are we how you guys were gonna do it? Yeah, 493 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: so everybody when I when I used to promote, it 494 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: was so hard to promote because I couldn't get the 495 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: concept to people wanting to buy a ticket to see it. 496 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 1: So then I structured it where I was like, I'm 497 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 1: gonna put artists on it. I'm gonna do this. So 498 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: I took it to this place called Amazuri in New York. 499 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: It was a small, little fifteen hundred seater place, and 500 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: I tried it out there and I remember going to 501 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: Nick and said, man, give me a day. You know Nick, 502 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:10,800 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, whatever, sure, Sure. So then I was like, Nick, 503 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,600 Speaker 1: we have a show in three weeks and he's like, 504 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:14,639 Speaker 1: what in the three weeks I'm met Chicago. I was like, 505 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,199 Speaker 1: you told me we could do the one thing. And 506 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,359 Speaker 1: you know Nick of course, why would he believe that 507 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: I was during dates? And so then I was like, 508 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: Nick was like, listen, rip, I'm making X amount of 509 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 1: dollars in Chicago. And I was like, look, whatever you're 510 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 1: making in Chicago, I promise you, as a man, I 511 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: will give you that because you gave me the day. 512 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 1: And Nick goes. Nick goes, Okay, are you serious? And 513 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,520 Speaker 1: I was like, yes, whatever it is, I promise you 514 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,320 Speaker 1: will not leave. You will not walk in the building 515 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: with all your money. And so Nick goes and you know, 516 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 1: Nick give you that face was like you can't make 517 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: yourself or kill yourself. But now did you know you 518 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: were gonna be able to do that? For sure? No doubt. 519 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: It was hard at first, but but you didn't did 520 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: You didn't have the money yet, know. So what I 521 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: did was I did because I had to pay for 522 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: the venue. I took all the money, max doll with 523 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,479 Speaker 1: my credit card. But what I did was you personally 524 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: financed this thing. And I got with my friend Compton. 525 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: We used to do little shows together, and so we 526 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: took all the credit cards and maxim all out. And 527 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: every time I was still one ticket, I would just 528 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,080 Speaker 1: run up with his tip, his tip Doe, so everything 529 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: I'll be putting money to say and he'd be like what. 530 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: And then um, it got to the point where not 531 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:22,480 Speaker 1: only did I do one show to night, I did 532 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: two shows and then I did another show in Long 533 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 1: Island and we end up doing three shows in two days, 534 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 1: um and to a sold out crowd. And then I 535 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 1: remember his agents from ic N was there and they 536 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: were like, these people don't matter. And I was like, 537 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: what do you mean they don't matter? He was, I 538 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: seem to say, said these people don't matter. I was like, 539 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: it's in the hood. It doesn't matter that this in 540 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: the hood. And I was like, but it's hard working 541 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 1: people paying money they see the show. He's like, no, 542 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 1: this is in the real arena. So once he said 543 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:48,919 Speaker 1: that to me, it made me go, okay, cool. And 544 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: I have one question. While all this is going on, 545 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 1: you're taking all the risks. Are you breaking even or 546 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: you making an actual dollars? Nick? In the beginning, I 547 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: was just paying people and me and I was just 548 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,159 Speaker 1: paying people to get on. And then Nick says, I'm 549 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,720 Speaker 1: saying we're gonna do it too. Because they said that, 550 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: it fuelled me to go and I booked like fifteen 551 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: or twenty arenas and just and it was hard to 552 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: get arend because it was like, you don't have arena 553 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: you know, you know you're doing this too. We never 554 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: heard of it. And so then I go to Nick 555 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: and I fly to Nick and I was like, Man, 556 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna do an arena too. Here. It's all the 557 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: money that you require upfront to do an arena tour 558 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 1: for every single day. And Nick didn't believe me. So 559 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: he's sitting the back and he's counting money. He's like, 560 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: you're really serious, and he goes, so what I have 561 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,239 Speaker 1: to do? I was like, to give me a draw 562 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:29,959 Speaker 1: for every city and just hostedt's it. So you're so dope. 563 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,280 Speaker 1: I just I was just blown away. Yeah, and we 564 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: know what it is. It's Nick and working with Nick. 565 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,880 Speaker 1: It's that Nick always allowed me to have the ability 566 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: to trust in me and fail or or succeed on 567 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,000 Speaker 1: my own. So he gave me that opportunity to prove 568 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: myself or disprove myself, and UM and the support behind it, 569 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 1: because I mean, he got so fleactive. I mean, MTV 570 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: was like, you got a two we don't know nothing about. 571 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 1: And when I tell you, I was selling out every 572 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,840 Speaker 1: single arena. I still in that year hold the number 573 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: two on post Star, which is like Billboard of Promoters, 574 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: and Take itself were number two in the country, right 575 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: behind Janet Jackson. At You, I sold out every single arena, 576 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: and then I broke another record in d C by 577 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,919 Speaker 1: setting out two arenas and one night in the same city. 578 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 1: So we did twelve tho the show Palatin, and we 579 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: came to do Capital One Arena and we did seventeen 580 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,479 Speaker 1: five and I promoted that in thirty days and then 581 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: Nick shook my hand. He was like, you did it. 582 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: You did exactly what you said, and he gave me 583 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: his look, and I was like, I felt like I 584 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: repaid you for the opportunity to take care of my daughter, 585 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: because being on Wild Now changed my entire life. And 586 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: I felt like that thank you, like the camaraderie with 587 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: each other. And then when we actually sold out the 588 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,600 Speaker 1: Staples Center, the actual producer of the Wild Now like 589 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,920 Speaker 1: now elevens and everyone, they were like, we never thought 590 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 1: something we created would sell out in l A. You 591 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: sold out the Staples Center. Yeah, I remember, I remember 592 00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: hearing about it, and they were like, we how no 593 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,239 Speaker 1: one sells out in l A. And we started this 594 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: thing and you helped us sell out. You sold it 595 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: out in l A. I was like, yeah, thank you 596 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 1: guys for making me a part of this, this this thing, 597 00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: because to me, while I was bigger than being on SNL, 598 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,880 Speaker 1: it was like the death comedy gym thing. So Nick 599 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 1: is all about cultivating talent, and I just I love 600 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 1: the fact that he gave me the opportunity and he 601 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: trusted me and believe me when he shook my hand 602 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:09,880 Speaker 1: and allowed me to do that and he actually showed 603 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 1: up at that date. Was everything. Yeah, and we've been 604 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 1: rocking around ever since. By the way, we gotta do 605 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: maybe I'll come out to your restaurant. We gotta do 606 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: a follow up on you just you know awesome. You 607 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 1: see my on my restaurant, on my show Alban needs 608 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: the treat to show on NBC, shot the NBC Peacock 609 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: and um, so many different things where you know, I 610 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 1: get to do the same thing. I pay back all 611 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: my friends, like I put all the people I've worked 612 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: with over the years and helped like Jack Queis and 613 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,120 Speaker 1: Cardi B and um, so many different people that I've 614 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: inspired and helped over the years, like I've known Cardi 615 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 1: since you're just the dancer and the clubs I used 616 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: to host and to see her do her thing. And 617 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: you know, I remember when I used try to get 618 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: Cardi on whild Out. They were like, no, we wouldn't 619 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:46,520 Speaker 1: like her brand, we don't like her image. And she 620 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: blew up and they was like, can you get Cardy 621 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: she was I was like, she said no. You gotta 622 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: understand how hard it was to meet a while. And 623 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: I did warm up for wild Out for three years, 624 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:57,639 Speaker 1: three years, killing the woman to the point where they 625 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: would turn the cameras and they would bank my audience 626 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 1: applause and laughter and put it on the television show 627 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 1: because I would do one so so strong and um, 628 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: because I would always use that as an audition tape 629 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: to me um, to to let them know how funny 630 00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: I was. UM. And I did all that just to 631 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,639 Speaker 1: get an audition. So it was it was a it 632 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: was a big It was a big deal to actually 633 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: finally get on the show. It was amazing and it's 634 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 1: changed my entire life. Like when you were three years 635 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: for that, yeah, three years. More advice do you give 636 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: to someone that's coming up knowing everything that you've done 637 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: to get to where you're at. Um. I want honestly 638 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: say God has been my biggest thing because everybody around 639 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: me was so you know, negative, and he sent me 640 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: his angels. So he sent me his angels to say 641 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: that you know you could do this. Don't listen to 642 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 1: this noise. Don't listen to your parents, don't listen to 643 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,560 Speaker 1: all this noise. Don't listen to noise. Go get a job. 644 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: Don't listen to a noise. You need to plan and B. 645 00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: Don't listen to the noise. You gotta go to college 646 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: because what if it fails, there is no plan. B. 647 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,400 Speaker 1: If there's only a plan, ain't and you don't fail 648 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: until you quit. So whatever your level of successes, don't 649 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 1: determine it by someone else's because your story is going 650 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: to be your story. It's not. I can't have the 651 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 1: Kevin Harns story. I don't have the Nick Candid story. 652 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: I don't have a brand of ty Jacson Storey. I 653 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: didn't step on stage when I'm sixteen, and someone says, 654 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 1: let's put him in every single movie. So I would 655 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:09,879 Speaker 1: tell people to stay resilient, and there's so many ways 656 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: to do it. So what I what I every no 657 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,479 Speaker 1: I got I turned into it. Yes, okay, you're not 658 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: great at doing satire. So I went to Barnes and 659 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,639 Speaker 1: Nobles and I stayed every day and the reading every 660 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: single book that was ever written on comedy. How to 661 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 1: write comedy scripts, how to write comedy writing secrets, and 662 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,640 Speaker 1: know how to put jokes together and right double entendres 663 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 1: versus and playing words, and do every single form of comedy. 664 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: So I can walk into a church and do comedy. 665 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 1: I could do a golf tournament. I did the Governor's 666 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: Ball in New York, Um, so I could. There's that stuff. 667 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,239 Speaker 1: Of course. I mean a lot of people don't look 668 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,120 Speaker 1: at comedy that you don't have to go and learn 669 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: about it. But I think that's probably the only few 670 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: people jump into that. Oh I'm silly, but if you 671 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,439 Speaker 1: actually do the research, you'll find it so much into it. 672 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 1: And I start reading all these other books at Barnes 673 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: and Nobles about being an entrepreneur and what it takes, 674 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: and reading uh Napoleon Hills, Uh I think and grow 675 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: rich and understanding that you know a lot of entrepreneurs 676 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 1: sell the same drive and determination and finding out how 677 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: to do those things and applying yourself, because there is 678 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 1: no such thing as no except for your mind. As 679 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 1: long as you believe in God, there's no such thing 680 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: as Notice that's there's nothing you cannot do. You only 681 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: limited about who you are. Wow, Wow, we haven't even 682 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 1: in You gotta feed us and we're gonna slice up 683 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: these tomatoes and we're gonna get this type of sausa. 684 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: But if you know, you know, without no sauce, it's 685 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 1: gonna be a little dry. It's okay, you know this 686 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: is eating all broke for real? So what are you 687 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: working on? UM? I just got my own show on 688 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: NBC show NBC called Urban Eason Treats, where I go 689 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: around showing there's great stuff to eat in urban neighborhoods. 690 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, with the whole Black Lives Matter, 691 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't understand the minority neighborhoods. We 692 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 1: have great stuff to eat. We have a insanely good dishes. 693 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: There's fusion, there's so much going on. So a lot 694 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: of my guests, like Nick Cannon was on the Russell 695 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: Peters Tamar Braxton Shack, they take us to these restaurants 696 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: that they used to eat it, that they still eat it. 697 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 1: To this day that are great and you see these 698 00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 1: great chefs and has a restaurant owner myself else it's 699 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: great to be able to share a lout on all 700 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: these minority owned businesses. It's not a black thing. It's 701 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: just minority owners. Like a lot of times people to 702 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,960 Speaker 1: go black and it's no weird minority. I think when 703 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: you think like minorities, it opens up for everyone. And 704 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: I think sometimes when people like black black black, you're 705 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: excluding people. So now they have to feel like they 706 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: have to start their own thing. But if we think 707 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: as minorities together, then we become to majority. And that's 708 00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 1: just my whole thought process. And I create Indian food, 709 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,080 Speaker 1: great Mexican restaurants. They get this this Israeli taco place 710 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: where it's like it's really food mixed with Mexican and 711 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: it's just it's great, great dishes. So you'll go around 712 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 1: on the show and you try, Yeah, we're going too 713 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 1: these restaurants. So if you could think of dinners, drives, 714 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: and dives mixed with comedians and cars. Because they have 715 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 1: these interviews and they go in depth about how they 716 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: started doing everything, it's just great. And then when their 717 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: jokes and the funny thing is all these rich people 718 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: leave me with the bill at the end of the episode. 719 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: They leave me at the bill, the bill with the 720 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: end of the end of the episode, Yeah, which is 721 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: hilarious because I'm sitting here with tone bill and I'm like, 722 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,560 Speaker 1: these dudes are rich and Genie, y'all sharing, and they're 723 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: leaving me with I would think that the restaurants would like, 724 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: let you no, and that's I would never want to 725 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 1: take advantage because I know they can, of course, and 726 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: I want them to showcase and the food is good. 727 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: And I'm always about I'm always about paying for things 728 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: and letting people know that I support them. I think 729 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: that sometimes when you get to a certain level that 730 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: people think, oh, you're supposed to get everything free because 731 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: I'm such and such a such a and I know 732 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: what that's like. So I don't ever want to be 733 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 1: that person for me personally. And then now did you 734 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: you created the show, so did you shop it to 735 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,719 Speaker 1: get NBC? I feel like you did everything to get it. 736 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: Big shout out to Kevin. That's actually Kevin Hart and 737 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: Jeff Clanigan. When I was actually doing the tour um 738 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: in my agent and they were like Jeff knows me 739 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: from the Shack all Star thinking, and when he saw it, 740 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:43,920 Speaker 1: he was always trying to, you know, pick some kind 741 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: of thing to to work on. When Kevin saw it, 742 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: he just automatically gravitated toward something. Kevin was like, Rip, 743 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: We're gonna definitely do something with this, and so big 744 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: shout at him because he wanted to do the whole 745 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: thing and in process to deal and I woke up 746 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:56,720 Speaker 1: one day and he was like, here you go, Rip, 747 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,480 Speaker 1: and I was like, look at God. Wow, look at God. 748 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: And that was right after, you know, the whole COVID 749 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 1: thing and the tour getting council. So I got two 750 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,480 Speaker 1: other projects that I'm doing currently UM. And I turned 751 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,320 Speaker 1: my restaurant into I've noticed that during COVID it wasn't 752 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities for comments and singers. So what 753 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,040 Speaker 1: I did is I turned my my restaurant actually into 754 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: a full service UM performance space, so now I can 755 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: have more artists performed. So I took the dance flowout 756 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: and much and now it's a performerformer space or now 757 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,479 Speaker 1: poets and everything can showcase they think and I can 758 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,520 Speaker 1: give them fair deals because a lot of people don't 759 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: understand it. When we do these comedy clubs, we don't 760 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,239 Speaker 1: get fair deals. We get seventy percent of the door, 761 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: we get no bar, we get no food, weeted, nothing. 762 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: So we walk away with a thirty thousand on the weekend. 763 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,840 Speaker 1: But you're not realizing the comedy club made a hundred 764 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: and so it's not even a fair thing. So when 765 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 1: when when artists come, I actually give them a fair check. 766 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:43,239 Speaker 1: I give them a portion of the ball, I give 767 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: them a portion of the I give them the entire door. 768 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: So it's just the opportunities that you know that we 769 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: need to start having for each other. Sorry about that. 770 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: And today I'm just impressed that you just totally freestyle 771 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: saw in front of names I've never I didn't even 772 00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: know you could do this. Um, I'm promised you. I'm 773 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 1: learning to cook because feeding won't broke right here. So 774 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 1: we want do take a little bit of your spam. 775 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: Awesome spam and onions, Yes, a little caramelized onions. Did 776 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 1: we go pieces? And then perfect? Awesome? Let's try to 777 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 1: line it up like a little fancy restaurant. Yeah, that's 778 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: that's good. Then I like to like me personally. I 779 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 1: like the cheese to kind of be on top of 780 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: these again, yeah, because it's like it melts right. A 781 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 1: lot of people like the cheese on top to give 782 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 1: you that cold effect. But I actually like my cheese 783 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: right on top of my meat. Weird like that, but 784 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: you know, can I put the cheese? Put your cheese 785 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: on top. I like to have the balance of co 786 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,560 Speaker 1: hot coal hot. Please never tell a strong woman no, 787 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: please put my cheese on. I promise you. We're gonna 788 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: be like best friends. So he totally freestyle the salsa. Everyone. 789 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,440 Speaker 1: I want to get some overhead camaman. Look at that. 790 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,560 Speaker 1: Look at that. So this is a spam taco. A 791 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: spam taco, A taco that actually cost probably about ninety cents, 792 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: and I think the most expensive partner taco is the bread. 793 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: And you can get quite a bit of tacos out 794 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: of this. Oh yeah, of course, I love it. And 795 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: you get all the ingredients pretty much at your local 796 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 1: Dollar Tree or Family Dollars. Nanny served milk and meat 797 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 1: and everything like that. Okay, now let's eat, let's try, 798 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: let's see, let's see what we're working with. Okay, that's 799 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: going to blue trucks. I don't have my own saucers. 800 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 1: But you know, like a real chef over here apologizing. 801 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 1: Let's see everybody. You're gonna take a watch first. Mmm. Good, oh, 802 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: thank you again. I don't have all my fix. I 803 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: didn't get the spam. I gotta get another bike. M 804 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: you know what that's also, it's not even dry. You're 805 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,640 Speaker 1: all worried. Yeah, it's actually really good. Thank you, and 806 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: you will help me. Good. You put the cheese on. 807 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,840 Speaker 1: We made it together. You know it's an US thing, 808 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 1: but you did your thing. I like how everyone. I 809 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,320 Speaker 1: definitely want to make sure you add the salts a 810 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: bit that you did in the end, because I can 811 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 1: see where it could have when driving a little bit 812 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: more peppers if I had peppers and chop up in it, 813 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,920 Speaker 1: make it more people out. You'd enjoy the taste a bit, 814 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 1: a little bit more spicy. You know this tastes great. 815 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,800 Speaker 1: Thank you great, all women in the peppers and more stuff. 816 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: But you know, bro, check out the book, shout out 817 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,879 Speaker 1: the recipe. You'll definitely survive while pursuing your here again, 818 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: this is yes, so thank you so much for coming 819 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:48,479 Speaker 1: out feeding me and they and the baby. I really 820 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: enjoyed your time today and I can't wait to link 821 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 1: back up with you here. I'm very proud of everything 822 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,160 Speaker 1: you're doing. And I know your daughters inside like proud, 823 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: jumping up for joy and she just beautiful. So that's 824 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 1: gonna be amazing. Thank you so much. I'm not hearting 825 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,360 Speaker 1: on because this to me too movie. I feel like 826 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,560 Speaker 1: every guy's afraid now ye like, yeah, you get a 827 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: little bit. So thank you guys. 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