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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in Steve j Envy, Jesseliri, Charlamagne

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Speaker 2: the Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Justice on maternity leave.

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Speaker 2: So long a Rosa is feeling in and we got

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Speaker 2: a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 3: About to mess up. So many people had because they're

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Speaker 3: gonna be in their call. Like am I listening to

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Speaker 3: the right station?

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Speaker 4: You got the brother Ricky Smiley here.

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Speaker 1: Welcome brother man, Thank you for having me. Man.

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Speaker 5: How you feeling man, I'm feeling good man. It's a

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Speaker 5: dream to be here stopping Broad lay in the bed

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Speaker 5: and I sit here and I just scroll and watch

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Speaker 5: all y'all videos.

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Speaker 1: I've been a fan for years.

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Speaker 3: I want to say something before we get started with

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Speaker 3: the conversation. I saw Ricky a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: I saw him in New Orleans at the Inspired Noa event,

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Speaker 3: and I went up to him and I said something

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Speaker 3: that I'm gonna say now. I want to I want

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Speaker 3: to publicly apologize. I'm just about to ask to Ricky

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Speaker 3: Smiley because several years ago I gave Ricky Smiley Donkey

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Speaker 3: of Today because of a radio executive asked me to.

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Speaker 6: And you didn't deserve that, brother.

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Speaker 3: So I told when I saw you, I told you that,

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Speaker 3: you know, And I wanted to say that again publicly

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Speaker 3: because I feel like if you if you do something

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Speaker 3: to somebody publicly that you don't agree with, you should

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Speaker 3: publicly apologize for it.

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Speaker 6: So I want to. I want to say that to everybody,

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Speaker 6: all our listeners. I want to.

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Speaker 3: I want them to hear me say that you didn't

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Speaker 3: deserve that. Now I want to apologize to you.

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Speaker 5: But I appreciate that man the first time when when

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Speaker 5: you walked up on me. Man, your energy, man, the

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Speaker 5: love and the respect it takes a you know, a

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Speaker 5: big person. I know that it was all part of

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Speaker 5: the game because we have a mutual Uh. One of

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Speaker 5: your employees is one of my mentees, big Man Mac.

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Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, Max as an intern.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeahs as an intern. And yeah, got to he is.

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Speaker 5: Well, I put him on stage. I'm the first one

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Speaker 5: to put him on stage. We'll talk about that, uh,

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Speaker 5: because I put a lot of them on stage. I

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Speaker 5: have a lot of comics their start or whatever. I've

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Speaker 5: been in the game thirty five years. But I really

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Speaker 5: appreciate that, man, and and don't feel no kind of

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Speaker 5: way about it. I didn't take it personally, but you know,

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Speaker 5: it takes a special kind of person to apologize and

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Speaker 5: stuff like that. I thought nothing because if I thought

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Speaker 5: anything bad, I wouldn't even be here.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. But I love you.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you, man. I think you're doing a factorous job.

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Speaker 5: I met you at the White House. I was excited

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Speaker 5: about that, and I hear you in Florida all the time.

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Speaker 4: We see each other on the road every once in

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Speaker 7: A pleasure me you.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna start that, but now we got to

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Speaker 2: go there because I was gonna ask it. One time

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Speaker 2: everybody was stolen shots and I was like, I'm just glad.

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Speaker 6: I don't know everybody it was shot back to.

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Speaker 1: From the South. We can go outside and just wrestle.

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Speaker 7: At this big age.

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Speaker 6: Might have called wrest somebody might.

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Speaker 7: Not get up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I might pull on something at my age. Yeah

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Speaker 1: I got up there.

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Speaker 4: He might have called you short ball headed.

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Speaker 3: So many mutual people, you know what I'm saying, whether

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Speaker 3: mister Harvey, whether it's a little du ball's back.

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Speaker 6: So it's just like what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're getting older. We don't have time.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 2: Well, you got a new book out right now. Side

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Speaker 2: show Sideshow talk about? What's what's what? Side show about?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 5: You know the song that your parents, uh everybody parents,

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Speaker 5: Let the side show begin.

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Speaker 1: Harry Herds about a sad clown. Right.

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Speaker 5: My job as a professional comedians to go on stage

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Speaker 5: and make people laugh. And I lost my son about

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Speaker 1: I'm still a performer.

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Speaker 5: I still have to go on stage, and I had

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Speaker 5: Because if I worked at you know, Amazon, lifting boxes

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Speaker 5: inside with the trauma that I experienced, uh, that's what

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Speaker 5: the song sideshow talk about.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: See the man with the broken heart. You can see

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Speaker 5: girl who collect broken hearts? Assuming it it's all about

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Speaker 5: a clown in a circus, performing but dealing with stuff

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Speaker 3: I've watched you grieve out loud online and The only

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Speaker 3: reason I don't like that have nothing to do with

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Speaker 3: how you feel. Yeah, I know how people react. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And when you're already dealing with something, when you're already

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Speaker 6: Online, then they come at you. How did that? How

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Speaker 6: do you deal with that?

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Speaker 1: Oh? No, it didn't bother me, Charlemagne.

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Speaker 5: My job was I had to help other people because

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Speaker 5: the reason I was opening with it is a lot

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Speaker 5: of mothers out there that lost their eighteen year old,

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Speaker 5: seventeen year old, sixteen year old, fifteen.

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Speaker 1: My son was thirty two.

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Speaker 5: When we were in New Orleans. Your books, your book

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Speaker 5: signing was right after mine, and I had a couple

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Speaker 5: that had lost their two year old, right, And these

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Speaker 5: are that's some of the things that I talk about

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Speaker 1: It gave me it.

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Speaker 5: It gives you glimmers of hope and the glimmers of

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Speaker 5: So my son was thirty two, but this couple sitting

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Speaker 5: out here crying at my book sign and their son

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Speaker 5: was only two.

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Speaker 1: Wow. And I could have lost my son at two.

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Speaker 5: But God allowed me to have, you know, thirty years,

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Speaker 5: thirty two years. So you get a little gratitude from that.

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Speaker 5: And it's crazy that you can get gratitude from something

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Speaker 5: a helpful to The book is a helpful too for

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Speaker 5: people that's going through the grief process because it's a

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Speaker 5: been packed with people that have lost their kids.

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Speaker 1: How do you still believe?

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Speaker 6: New Orleans?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you still believe? Right?

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Speaker 2: You talk about losing your father at the age of six, right,

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Speaker 2: and then you lose your son. How do you just

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Speaker 2: How do you still remain focused and still have believe

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Speaker 5: You know, I grew up in Birmingham, Man, so you know,

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Speaker 1: So I just have some.

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Speaker 5: Strong beliefs in a close relationship with God. Because it

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Speaker 1: You know, it didn't really hit me until a year later, right,

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Speaker 5: That time, my son has a mother and a wonderful stepfather,

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Speaker 1: Had to protect them.

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Speaker 5: I had to protect my mother, who was really close

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Speaker 1: My mother, you know, recovering.

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Speaker 5: Adding my mother had thirty five years clean. Had to

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Speaker 5: my other kids. I had two kids in college getting

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Speaker 1: Ready to graduate Bailor.

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Speaker 5: And then I had my son graduate in Alabama State

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Speaker 5: I'm comforting them because it reminded them of my dad's death, right,

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Speaker 5: to handle this situation because that's how my grandfather handled

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Speaker 8: Did you ever, because losing somebody, especially someone so closeer son,

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Speaker 8: can it changes you? Did you ever at first when

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Speaker 8: I guess I get through it.

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Speaker 7: I don't know if you ever get through it?

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Speaker 1: Fit?

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Speaker 7: Were you?

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Speaker 8: Were you afraid that when you got back on stage

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Speaker 8: that first time that like you just it wouldn't be

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Speaker 8: the same, Like your ability to kind of push through

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Speaker 1: Be the same.

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Speaker 5: You know, Charlemagne one thing about funny, It don't change

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Speaker 6: Something to laugh at, especially in the trauma.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when your ass hit that stage. Man. Them jokes,

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Speaker 1: come them jokes, like when you get somebody on the

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Speaker 1: front row laughing. I cried all the way up.

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Speaker 5: My first show was in Cleveland at the Horrors Casino,

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Speaker 5: and I cried from the hotel all the way to

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Speaker 5: the venue, all the way backstage, blew my nose did

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Speaker 5: like that, made sure my nose was clean, and walked

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Speaker 5: on stage and got them jokes and cried after I

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Speaker 5: got off stage. And you know I was coming, but

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Speaker 5: I've been in therapy. I was getting therapy twice a week,

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Speaker 5: so I was prepared to go.

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Speaker 1: On stage again. My son died on a.

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Speaker 5: That Wednesday, I was back on the radio, and they said,

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Speaker 5: take as much time as you need.

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Speaker 1: Well, either you lay in the bed and think.

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Speaker 5: About all of that, or you get your ass up

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Speaker 5: and go do your morning show and go do your

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Speaker 5: radio show.

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Speaker 1: Because all the mothers in.

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Speaker 5: Chicago and in Columbia, and in Charleston and in Atlanta,

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Speaker 5: all over the country, their kids died too much.

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Speaker 1: As given much as required, you can't cancel the show.

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Speaker 5: You have to do it everything, all of this stuff,

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Speaker 5: God is watching you through your struggles, through your trials

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Speaker 5: Oh, man, I probably would have been dead. I had

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Speaker 5: I was mad as hell, you know, because I like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you get on stage, you come home and

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Speaker 5: That's some funny stuff that I that I always enjoyed

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Speaker 3: You know, because when you write these books, you put

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Speaker 3: how's that been for you? I've gotten used to it, okay.

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Speaker 5: You know, once you know how it is, Once you

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Speaker 5: You just get accustomed to talking about it, and then

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Speaker 5: you developed some really good talking points. That's going to

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Speaker 5: is the feedback that I've been getting this Hey bruh,

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Speaker 1: You know how many people walk.

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Speaker 5: You on the radio every morning, now they're coming out

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Speaker 5: Almost ninety percent of the people that come out of

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Speaker 5: don't pull out a Bible, you go to the doctor.

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Speaker 5: The doctors absolutely the muscle. The brain is a muscle

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Speaker 5: just like your ankle. Why is it that we black

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Speaker 1: That we won't go get help. That don't mean that

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Speaker 5: You have to get somebody and talk to somebody that's

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Speaker 1: Some people don't.

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Speaker 5: Make it from their loss they got You know.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times people, you know, we've been taught

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Speaker 2: Like you said, that winds up killing you. Absolutely, Depression,

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Speaker 5: Every time you cry in do you know that's like

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Speaker 6: You're releasing I cried this morning. Yeah, man, I sat

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Speaker 1: Bro, I just let it out. I just cried. I

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Speaker 5: I felt it building up yesterday and I just started crying.

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Speaker 5: And the changing of the season, you know that that

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Speaker 3: I've been dealing with anxiety and depression for my whole life,

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Speaker 6: And when I wrote a book about it in twenty eighteen, my.

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Speaker 6: And I remember I asked my mom.

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Speaker 3: I said, Mom, you know Dad was going through all this,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my granddad never talked about it. My dad died.

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Speaker 5: My granddaddy didn't talk about it until it was like

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Speaker 5: what happened?

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Speaker 1: My dad died?

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Speaker 5: Here?

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Speaker 5: You know, my dad died of a drug overdose here

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Speaker 1: I stood there like a man.

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Speaker 5: Stuff you cried in the cardles, it hadn't really really

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Speaker 1: Maybe this morning was some of it. And I didn't

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Speaker 5: My granddaughter was looking at me the whole time, was

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Speaker 2: Ricky, have you dealt with it because it doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a process. Brou Do you have a.

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Speaker 5: Man, we got to say people, man, my listen, some

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Speaker 1: We have to go through what we have to go through,

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Speaker 5: And I'm sure just trying to break the generational curse

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Speaker 5: I had a niece, a son, a nephew all died

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Speaker 5: The only thing I regret I didn't have a good

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Speaker 5: That was cool and colme and respectful, but it didn't

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm driving around looking for you to fight

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Speaker 5: So I just didn't have a clear understanding of that.

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Speaker 5: But I did everything I could to save to save

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Speaker 4: Did you ever blame yourself at all?

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Speaker 5: No, that's one thing I never felt. I never felt guilt. Now,

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Speaker 5: was not one of them. I did everything I could

451
00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:46,879
Speaker 5: as a father to save his life, you know, rehab

452
00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,760
Speaker 5: the seventy grand off the back boom, like like, you know,

453
00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,840
Speaker 5: we did that twice, and you know my mom was

454
00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,400
Speaker 5: trying to help him. I just couldn't. I just couldn't

455
00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,479
Speaker 5: get him. I just couldn't get him.

456
00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,399
Speaker 1: To get him. Well, would you.

457
00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,520
Speaker 4: Do anything different as a dad during any of those times?

458
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:09,400
Speaker 1: And you have six, so I like to that's that's

459
00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:10,480
Speaker 1: a good question. Uh.

460
00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,320
Speaker 5: I wasn't tough on him. He was the one that

461
00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:16,960
Speaker 5: I caught him. I was tough on my other kids,

462
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,399
Speaker 5: like like the other kids. Was like I was just

463
00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,800
Speaker 5: really really really really tough on them, and he was

464
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,960
Speaker 5: the one that I just kind of caught on and

465
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,520
Speaker 5: did everything for and took it because that's my first

466
00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:29,320
Speaker 5: born or whatever. I just wish that I was tougher.

467
00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:31,919
Speaker 5: I know that sounds strange because it sounds like I

468
00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,919
Speaker 5: should say I should have been easier on him. I

469
00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,760
Speaker 5: was easy on him. I should have been tougher on

470
00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,480
Speaker 5: him like I was the other kids.

471
00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,159
Speaker 3: What do we call tougher? Though, because you know, we

472
00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,560
Speaker 3: come from the era. I was getting beat with extension

473
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:47,280
Speaker 3: cards and my daddy made me take a bath.

474
00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:47,760
Speaker 1: I gotta go.

475
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,080
Speaker 6: I don't beat my kids. I don't even touch my

476
00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:52,360
Speaker 6: kids at all, right, So what do you call tough?

477
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:59,560
Speaker 1: I just wouldn't give him. You know, I don't think

478
00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,160
Speaker 1: I popped Brandon. I hit him.

479
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,480
Speaker 5: I popped him a couple of times when he was

480
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,199
Speaker 5: about fourteen, made him go stand in the corner and

481
00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:06,680
Speaker 5: go do that.

482
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:11,200
Speaker 1: Little right there. I would to make sure those legs

483
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:16,040
Speaker 1: and those cames, you know what I'm saying. I didn't.

484
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,000
Speaker 5: By the time I started getting tough on him, it

485
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,840
Speaker 5: was time for him to go off to college, you know.

486
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,600
Speaker 5: But the other kids like Malik, went to military school.

487
00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,920
Speaker 5: Then he went to IMG Academy. I would say he

488
00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:29,720
Speaker 5: had a military mindset. I think this, But I tried

489
00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 5: to do that for Brandon because I sent him to

490
00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 5: the National Guard, you know what I'm saying.

491
00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:36,159
Speaker 1: So my son served. He had a flag drake over

492
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 1: his because he served our country.

493
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,600
Speaker 5: But I just think I caught on him a little

494
00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,480
Speaker 5: too much, and he just loved on him.

495
00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:45,480
Speaker 1: And he was the one I loved on, hugged on,

496
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 1: you know, and just up under me all the time.

497
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:48,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't.

498
00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:51,160
Speaker 3: It's hard when you're a parent now did Like I said,

499
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:52,640
Speaker 3: who the air? We grew up and I be talking

500
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 3: to my nine year old like she a basketball player, like,

501
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 3: but you wouldn't survived in the nineties.

502
00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,879
Speaker 6: My grandma and my mom and daddy were going to

503
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:02,480
Speaker 6: be right.

504
00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 5: But the key is it's good that you talked to

505
00:21:05,520 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 5: her with that coach boys, because we have to give

506
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 5: kids more.

507
00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,760
Speaker 1: Of what we had as opposed to what we didn't have.

508
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, You.

509
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 5: Like who you are, You like how you turned out right,

510
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 5: get that same thing to your kids and the evol.

511
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 4: Version of you.

512
00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,239
Speaker 6: I'm sure in through therapy, I've learned the love of

513
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:23,040
Speaker 6: every version of me.

514
00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 3: That's what you got to do in life, you know,

515
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,399
Speaker 3: like every version of you served the purpose absolutely.

516
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 8: In chapter twelve year book, It's Let the Tears Fall,

517
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 8: you said that it took you a year for all

518
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 8: of this to really like hit you. Yeah, what was

519
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 8: that day like when you were like, I'm feeling it

520
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 8: like that first time?

521
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 5: That one year anniversary. A few days before that one

522
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 5: year anniversary, Man, it hit me like he had just

523
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,880
Speaker 5: died and I was sitting I had just got off

524
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 5: the air. I was down in South Florida because I

525
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 5: didn't want to be in the house. But that one

526
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:58,200
Speaker 5: year anniversary, I just wanted to go get away, and man,

527
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:01,720
Speaker 5: it hit me, man, and I was I did some crying,

528
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 5: and I I think I think it was a bad

529
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,679
Speaker 5: mistake for me to be there by myself. But I

530
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:08,879
Speaker 5: just kind of sat on the couch and just cried

531
00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 5: pretty much for a couple of days, like, like really

532
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 5: cried because the only difference was I didn't have a

533
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 5: casket and some flowers and some condolences, right, I had

534
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,199
Speaker 5: all of that to keep me distracted doing when it

535
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 5: actually happened, I had to protect everybody.

536
00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,880
Speaker 1: But that one year came in and uh, it was

537
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: like it was terrible.

538
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 3: What about the chapter when addiction chases the bloodline? Was

539
00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:35,600
Speaker 3: that difficult to write because you know, you got to

540
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,600
Speaker 3: go through your whole generational lineage with that. Was that

541
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:39,640
Speaker 3: a difficult chapter right now?

542
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 5: It wouldn't. It was just being being open and honest.

543
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:44,120
Speaker 5: My dad struggled, my mom struggled.

544
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,640
Speaker 1: I had wonderful grandparents.

545
00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 5: My granddad taught to me every day church, Sunday school.

546
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,199
Speaker 5: You know, hey, here's a trumpet, play that, here's some

547
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 5: PMO lesson, let's go do that. Little from little I

548
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 5: did trumpet, little football, did it all. My grandparents kept

549
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 5: me busy with the disc letting a destruction talk to

550
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,720
Speaker 5: me every day so I didn't have to. I didn't

551
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 5: have those issues. And then he always talked about how

552
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 5: my dad died, so don't do this.

553
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: So I just stuck with it, and to this day,

554
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 1: I don't drink or smoke.

555
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 3: I always wonder how grief impacts people who lost their

556
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 3: parents at a very, very very young age.

557
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 6: Does it hit you later in life?

558
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,159
Speaker 3: You see somebody out with their parents and it hits you, like,

559
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:23,880
Speaker 3: what is it?

560
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: It did when I was when I was a kid.

561
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 5: But what hurt me about my dad's death was watching

562
00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,920
Speaker 5: my grandparents cry like that on the front row.

563
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: I'm in therapy for that. That comes up in therapy.

564
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,800
Speaker 5: That wipes me out. Wow, that wipes me out more

565
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:42,959
Speaker 5: than my son's death. Why I'm a grandmama's baby, like

566
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,119
Speaker 5: you understand you from the South, Like watching my grandparents

567
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 5: cry like that on their front row. Man, I can't

568
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 5: get over it. Even when my grandparents died, the only

569
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 5: thing I could think about their caske was in the

570
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 5: same spot my dad's castle. Well, the only thing I

571
00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 5: could think about was them crying on that front row.

572
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 5: April the eleventh, nineteen seventy four. Wow, I will never

573
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,520
Speaker 5: forget it, man, It just it tears my soul out

574
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 5: of my body. I can deal with my son and death,

575
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,360
Speaker 5: but that's that's what I struggled with more than anything.

576
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 6: Wow.

577
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 5: And that's why I didn't cry my son, you know,

578
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 5: because my granddaughter was watching.

579
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,919
Speaker 6: Man, I don't even want to traumatize her like that.

580
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 6: Like man, dang boy. Yeah, life is a mother.

581
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: Living up there talking about it because about star crying.

582
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 6: But that's what I understand about that.

583
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 3: That's why that's why I noticed, like just putting this

584
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 3: out there to the world and having to relive all

585
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 3: these stories and retell these stories, is it therapeutic or

586
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 3: does it feel like you.

587
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:37,199
Speaker 6: Open it up?

588
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: Man?

589
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 5: This is therapy because if I go and get in

590
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,919
Speaker 5: that car and start crying, that is helpful. It is

591
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 5: helpful to cry. It was helpful for me your CRD

592
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:47,920
Speaker 5: this morning. You understand.

593
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm good.

594
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 2: But I also think what you're doing is helping people

595
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 2: that don't know how to deal with it and can't

596
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 2: talk about it because now they have a friend in

597
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,040
Speaker 2: you in this book and they're saying, well, let me

598
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 2: see how Ricky dealt with it, let me see what

599
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 2: the troubles he's going through is normal. I can feel

600
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 2: this way because a lot of times people feel like

601
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: they're on their own, yeah, and they don't have those feelings.

602
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 2: So that's that's one amazing thing about this this book.

603
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about something else for a saying.

604
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 3: You put on a lot of comedians, Ricky, and I

605
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 3: think that coming from the South, right, people don't.

606
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 6: I don't think people realize.

607
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 3: How big you are sometimes like this, you know what

608
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like, I don't think they realize how how

609
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 3: much money you got number one, but rich you are,

610
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 3: and just how big you are. And I think it's

611
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 3: it's it's almost a stigma with comedians from the South,

612
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,320
Speaker 3: like they don't get the respect that they deserve.

613
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 5: I think, yeah, I just do it for the love

614
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 5: of the art. Charlemagne Envy. I remember cussing d Ray

615
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:40,520
Speaker 5: Davis out snatching the drink out of his hand because

616
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 5: he was too young to be drinking.

617
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: Hey give me that. You know.

618
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 5: I had a little comedy club back in Birmingham, the Combersome,

619
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 5: So I would I would have, like d Ray Corey

620
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 5: holcom Cory Hoakman was like, hey, man, I ain't never

621
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 5: been outside of Chicago.

622
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, cool, let's go on the road. You know.

623
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 5: I would take those guys on the road. Corey hop them,

624
00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,879
Speaker 5: d Ray Davis, h.

625
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: A lot of them. Man, that Tyler.

626
00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 5: Some of them have passed away. You know, I would

627
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 5: just take him on the road to help him, because

628
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 5: that's what Steve did for me. You know, nobody have

629
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 5: to don't nobody have to fool you know what I'm saying.

630
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 5: Some people can just ignore you. Steve was one of

631
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 5: those guys man that was helping and training company.

632
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: Then I started November.

633
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 5: Thirteenth, nineteen eighty nine. Wow, that's the first time I

634
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 5: went on stage. I met Steve before he did show

635
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 5: Time to the Apollo and then tell you a story

636
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 5: I wrote about it in my first book and just

637
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 5: talk about the discipline and the structure of comedy. I

638
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 5: was dressed like a like flavor flave because I thought

639
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 5: that was the thing I'm doing the show with Steve.

640
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 5: And Steve was like, listen, he said, people pay money

641
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 5: to see us perform. Your outfit is nice, he said,

642
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,920
Speaker 5: but tomorrow I want you to come dress better.

643
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: I want you to.

644
00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 5: Dress he said, I want you to dress nice. So Bruce,

645
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 5: as the owner, was standing in the door watching, I

646
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 5: was embarrassed. I felt bad. I felt like my career

647
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 5: was over. You know, my feelings were hurt. I was like,

648
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,000
Speaker 5: oh shit, you know, I don't want to blow an

649
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 5: opportunity with Steve Harvey man. He said, you can go

650
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 5: ahead and introduce me, he said, but tomorrow, let's get

651
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,480
Speaker 5: it together. Say yes, sir, you know, because you can't

652
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 5: say nothing nowadays. You can't correct nowadays.

653
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: Because everybody says it. I said, y'all give it up

654
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: and show your love right now. But Steve Harvey, queen,

655
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: I'll never get a queen.

656
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 5: The teap to come home for the love of money

657
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 5: off that New Jack City soundtrash and he came up.

658
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. It was electric and I wanted to

659
00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: stay there and watch man.

660
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 5: I ran out that damn comedy club door. I jumped

661
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 5: in my nineteen seventy nine Toyota Corolla Force Speed.

662
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: I peeled out of that Company Club driving.

663
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 5: I drove all over across town, ran in my apartment,

664
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 5: put on a suit I had ma from Jeans West

665
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 5: because I used to work at Jeans West, you know.

666
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 5: Put my suit on boom time, and I'm running driving back.

667
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 5: I made it back to the Company Club just in time.

668
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 5: When I walked back in the day, he.

669
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 1: Was like, all right, y'all have been one for god

670
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 1: Man show. My name is Steve Harvey, pease when I

671
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: walked back up there and had that suit on. No, nigga,

672
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: not tomorrow tonight. That's what's up right now.

673
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 5: What Steve said to you when he saw so, he

674
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 5: damped me up and he you know how you do

675
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 5: talk about you? Let me up and down, and he said,

676
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 5: I'm gonna talk to you after the show. I said, yes, sir, And.

677
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 6: Steve's annoying man, Oh my god, don'tkay.

678
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 5: Well, nobody you know, after the show he said, follow

679
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,120
Speaker 5: he said, following this car right here. I followed him

680
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 5: back to the hotel room. I sat on the edge

681
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 5: of the bed and took a little notepad in the pencil,

682
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 5: and he lectured me for about two hours, and me

683
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 5: and another comedian sat on the edge of the bed

684
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 5: and wrote notes, how to do this? Why not do this?

685
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 5: You did this joke wrong? Why are you cussing on stage?

686
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 5: Why are you dressed like this? T A T and

687
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 5: T is in the audience?

688
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: You need to do this? Da da da. I took

689
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I took it serious because I wanted

690
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 1: to be great.

691
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 5: I wanted to be at or at at what I did,

692
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 5: and I ended up opening up for the Kings of Company.

693
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 5: I did some shows where I did a few dates

694
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 5: with the Kings of Company. You had to ride with Steve.

695
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 5: You don't get your own limousine. You have to ride

696
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 5: with him. So you have to be disciplined. Get in

697
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 5: the limousine, keep your mouth closed, slide all the way up,

698
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 5: put your back to the driver.

699
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: Speak when spoken to. Had to share a dressing room

700
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: to Steve. We frant brothers.

701
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 5: But I'm not ever comfortable enough just because you're a

702
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 5: que and I'm a cue.

703
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: I'm finna come in here like I'm entitled.

704
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 5: Be quiet and speak when spoken to. That's disc when

705
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 5: I got from my grandparents.

706
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 4: Who's the other comedian on the bed with you?

707
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: I was probably is Sir Walk.

708
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, a comedian that lives in Birmingham, Sir Walk, and

709
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 5: he was mentoring a lot of.

710
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: Us, but he was really into teaching.

711
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 5: Come on with him sitting down. I mean we're sitting there,

712
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 5: he's standing up, walking back and forth, and he's talking

713
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 5: to us. And I remember a couple of times I

714
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 5: was about to nod because I was so sleepy, because

715
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 5: I go to bed really and but that that that

716
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 5: was something that was life changing.

717
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 6: Well do you still like that. I changed the title

718
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 6: Little Book of Steve.

719
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Speaker 3: I was gonna name my book I Don't Give a

720
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 3: Fuck and neither should you a self help guide or

721
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 3: how not to give a fuck. And we was driving

722
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 3: around in a ranch in Georgia and I told him

723
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 3: that title. He looked at me and he said, I

724
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 3: gave you aenough no player, that ain't it. He said,

725
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 3: that's the problem with y'all. Y'all don't give a fuck.

726
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 3: We needed y'all need to give a fuck. Hed all

727
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 3: people need to give a fuck, say anything. Lecture me

728
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 3: for about an hour, and I'm like, all right, I

729
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 3: got it.

730
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, big brother Mentor.

731
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 5: I was supposed to be on his morning show and

732
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 5: we had a big argument sitting in this truck, and

733
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 5: then Rashaan got on the phone said, no, you need

734
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 5: to do your own thing. We're gonna use his nephew Tommy.

735
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,680
Speaker 5: He said, you go over here. If it don't work out,

736
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 5: you can come be on the show with us.

737
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 3: Aw So hold on, you're supposed to be a co

738
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 3: host on Steve Harvey show.

739
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 5: So Steve was gonna give me. When Steve left Radio one,

740
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 5: they said, who do you think? They said, he said,

741
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 5: Ricky Smiley.

742
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 1: So I went down.

743
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 5: There to do the morning show with Steve for two

744
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 5: weeks so he can gradually, Hey, turn the show on

745
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 5: the mixt Hey, I'm gonna be gone in two weeks,

746
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 5: but Ricky Smiley gonna be taken over.

747
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: The chemistry was so good and we were so fun.

748
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 5: I was just throwing them all kind of ally oops,

749
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 5: making him recycle jokes, and we were just so funny

750
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 5: on the air together. We're looking at each other like,

751
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 5: hey man, we need to we need to, you know,

752
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 5: and me and Steve had it.

753
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: We was like, Okay, we're gonna we're gonna stick together.

754
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go to New York with you. And we

755
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 5: got in the car. Rashan, our other friend brother who

756
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 5: was Steve managed that, you know. Shan said hell no,

757
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 5: He said no, you know, I just have this idea.

758
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: That you should go over here.

759
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 5: We're gonna bring in you tell me and if it

760
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 5: don't work out, you can always come back.

761
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: But let's give this a try. Let's see how you do.

762
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 8: Was that tough to hear that because you beculd think

763
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 8: about it, like you go to New York with Steve Harvey.

764
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 8: It's like you say, what do you think was it

765
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 8: hard to accept that?

766
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 7: And no you should It.

767
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 5: Wasn't because once Steve gave me that look when he

768
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 5: did the fun and he just kind of you know

769
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 5: that look, you know that look when you give you

770
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 5: that that big brother look like, Okay, we're gonna go ahead.

771
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 1: You're not gonna.

772
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 7: Argue with him, right, Who do you do that for that?

773
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 8: Because you talk a lot about people that you mentor

774
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 8: and you help, but like, who's somebody that you do

775
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 8: that for that? Like we might not know about that

776
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 8: might have started in your clubs or just unknown, And

777
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 8: now it's like taking over comedy wise.

778
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 5: Oh man, little duvall with somebody that I that I

779
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 5: have a real good relationship with that I was doing

780
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 5: some you know, mentorship because remember I was the host

781
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 5: of Company View in two thousand US.

782
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 6: A lot of people mentor just by being on that show,

783
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 6: right right, That's what That's.

784
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: What they told me.

785
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 5: So that I'm tripping like like Carlos Miller was like,

786
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 5: bru I met you when I was fourteen years old.

787
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 1: You was in a hotel. I got excited. I'm hearing

788
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: these stories and stuff.

789
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 5: Man, not realizing the impact on company because I'm on

790
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 5: bet Monday through Saturday. Like when when Comedy View really

791
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 5: blew up, it was in Atlanta. And then I hosted

792
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 5: again Charlotamane in two thousand and four, and then the

793
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 5: year after two thousand and two thousand and one, I

794
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 5: had my own little TV show, The Way We Do

795
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 5: It Time, you know, and I was doing all these

796
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 5: characters and all these voices and all this kind of stuff,

797
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 5: And so when comics needed help and needed mentorship, I

798
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 5: would always, you know, hey, dress nice, Hey, stop cursing.

799
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 5: Does that curse word make that joke funny? Are you

800
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 5: cursing just to be cursing? That's the real thing. I

801
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 5: just had that conversation with a coming. I say, hey man,

802
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 5: you curse too much. The cursing is not making the

803
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 5: joke funnier. But if the curse word is a part

804
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 5: of the punchline, then use it, I said. Because it's

805
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 5: like I give the onion example, Like, like you eat

806
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 5: an onion as nasty, but if you take it and

807
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 5: chop it up in sawteed and get some flour on it,

808
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 5: and you're still eat.

809
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: An onion, but you can't taste it.

810
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 5: It's just an analogy that I use with comics and

811
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 5: I make them redo the joke, and they said, damn,

812
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 5: you did the same joke and got the same laugh,

813
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 5: got a bigger laugh because people.

814
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: Are not offended. You know what I'm saying.

815
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 5: So you know it's no training and stand up anymore.

816
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 5: You know, back then in the eighties, late eighties, nineties,

817
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 5: comics wild pu you tell the signe Mark Curry them

818
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 5: they would put George Wallace got on my ass so

819
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 5: bad one night.

820
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 6: Why you was moming?

821
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 3: What?

822
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: No man?

823
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 5: I did some jokes behind him after he closed it,

824
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 5: after he headlined the show. I didn't know any better.

825
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 5: He said, you don't do them, damn jokes tumping me. God, damnit,

826
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 5: I make one phone call your career open.

827
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 6: Damn motherfucker.

828
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry.

829
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 5: He said, yeah, you You said good night, read the

830
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 5: announcement and bring your hands back to Maro. I said, yes, sir,

831
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 5: and I came on back. He was nice to me

832
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 5: the next night, and he won't admit it to this day.

833
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 5: I said, Joey, you remember me said I didn't do it,

834
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 5: shut up, but it was good.

835
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: I needed that shit.

836
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 5: If I got a booge in my nose, tell me

837
00:34:44,680 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 5: don't let me be out here bad.

838
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 1: Pull me to the side and help me.

839
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 6: But you can't even do it.

840
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,399
Speaker 3: You feel like you do that nowadays, and somebody will

841
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 3: be like, oh man, he threatened me, hurt my feeling.

842
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 6: He hate me, so to be offended me.

843
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 5: It's like what man, I tell comics man, because that's

844
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 5: the only with asked Corey Haakerman asked d Ray Davis.

845
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: I used to get at them all the time about

846
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: little stuff. Man.

847
00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 5: I'm like, hey, man, you I think d Ray was

848
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 5: nineteen or twenty when I bought him to Birmingham. I said,

849
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 5: you can't drink nothing, you can't have that. Give me

850
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 5: that fussing at him about little stuff, man, And now

851
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 5: he's great and we laugh about it all the time.

852
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 5: He's just gonna always be my little brother or whatever.

853
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 5: They all come to the house. If you ever come

854
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 5: to Birmingham, you know you're welcome. I cooked my ass

855
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 5: off or whatever. So I wish you're right, y'all always welcome.

856
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: Now, there was a rumor that in your contract it

857
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 2: said that you had to wear a dress.

858
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't pay that stuff.

859
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 6: God damn, honey, you put fly.

860
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 5: And so so I then I started doing comedy eighty nine. Man,

861
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 5: you think there's a contract somewhere. I'm just I know

862
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 5: that that didn't bother me or bothered me.

863
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 1: Was people believed it?

864
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 8: Oh yeah they did, because it's always been that thing

865
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 8: about the weard of the dress, to not wear the

866
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,320
Speaker 8: dress to It's comedy.

867
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 5: Listen, it's comedy. I grew up watching Flip Wilson. Flip

868
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 5: Wilson is the greatest.

869
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 6: Of all time.

870
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 5: And right when you laughing at Flip Wilson, he turned

871
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 5: around to do Geraldine Me and my.

872
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit down and watch that with my grandmother.

873
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: My characters came. Man.

874
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 5: I was doing prank phone calls on the radio. I

875
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 5: was doing Bernie Jenkins. And whoever would have thought a

876
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 5: character that you do on the radio calling funeral homes

877
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 5: and all this stuff turned into a character and somebody

878
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 5: asked you to play the character in a movie or whatever.

879
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,880
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny that all that stuff is tamboo.

880
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 6: Now they do that in Philly.

881
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 7: Mother knows they do you ever heard it?

882
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 8: And they do the calls. I just thought about that

883
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:48,440
Speaker 8: when you said that. I don't know they got it

884
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 8: from you, but mother knows they call people all the time.

885
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 6: But that's the thing radio everybody.

886
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:54,959
Speaker 1: I started.

887
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 5: I listened to the Jerky Boys and then Mercer, but

888
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 5: the characters developed.

889
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: I do.

890
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 5: I do a redneck character. I do Bubert, I do

891
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 5: Bernie Jingins, I do Joe Willie. I have a gospel quartet,

892
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 5: Joe Willie and the Duderoma Nairs. You know, I do

893
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 5: a little Darren Precious. I do a lot of characters.

894
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 5: I'm I'm I'm talented. I played the trump and I

895
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 5: play the French one. I played the bass guitar, I

896
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 5: played the tube. I'm an organist. I play the beat

897
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 5: three hammon at church on Sundays.

898
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I study music.

899
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 5: I'm just multi talented, and you can't make everybody like you.

900
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: I have never did anything, had any beat with any kind.

901
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 5: I had one beat with a coming and it was

902
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 5: a quir beet for twenty years, and that was Arnier's J.

903
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 5: Me and Arnire's j could not freaking stand each other.

904
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 5: We had because a show happened, and you know, comments

905
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 5: get there early and go on first. You know, Artie said,

906
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 5: got that and didn't do the order either. Something happened,

907
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 5: but we had beef. Nobody knew about it, right, and

908
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 5: I'm sure how God worked.

909
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: Nobody knew about it. COVID came. I'm sitting on Delta.

910
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 5: I'm in for a lot of the airport, getting ready

911
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 5: to fly to Atlanta where I could drive home, you know,

912
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 5: And I see a dude getting on a plane with

913
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 5: a mask on.

914
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: He got fishing rods Well, who fished? Arn SJ?

915
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:28,359
Speaker 5: Lavell Crawford and What's my Man? Shadik Houston. Those are

916
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 5: the three comics that really fish. They fish fish, they

917
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 5: go fishing. I said, it's RONJ.

918
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: I had spoken to IRONSJ in twenty years.

919
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 5: And so I got up and he was sitting right

920
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 5: next to me, and he sat right next to me.

921
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 5: I didn't say nothing. That's God I saw as I said,

922
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 5: I know that's ARNHJ. I hadn't talked to him in

923
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 5: twenty years like we had. It wouldn't so ugly be

924
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 5: like I'm gonna kill you, just like forget you, forget

925
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 5: you or whatever. And you know, I'm a Christian person.

926
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 5: I'm all about resolving and loving on people because that's

927
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 5: my heart. And I grabbed his arm and he did

928
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 5: it like that, and I looked. I grabbed it and.

929
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: He's like like what, And I pulled my mask down. Man.

930
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: He started laughing. He started laughing, So Charlemagne, give me

931
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: your hand, the other.

932
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 5: Hand, the whole, the whole, the whole flight me andre

933
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 5: Jay like this because when he started telling me that

934
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 5: the twenty years, all the people that passed away, everything

935
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 5: that happened to him, we cried the whole flight from

936
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 5: full lot of them to Atlanta. I said, now I apologize.

937
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: He said no.

938
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 5: He said, my wife been trying to get me to

939
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 5: call you for years, been on me about that.

940
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: I said, nah, you don't have to.

941
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 5: It was just love because because I had always said,

942
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,399
Speaker 5: if I see on the show again, I'm just gonna

943
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 5: tackle them.

944
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: I can't Cat. I saw Cat one time and he

945
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,280
Speaker 1: had said some stuff.

946
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 5: That's before the internet came out, and said some stuff,

947
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 5: some stuff years ago. He was roasting all the comedians

948
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 5: that wore a dress, that play a character. You know,

949
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 5: he was roasting I was talking about it on the

950
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 5: fox Hole one day and I'm driving down Fourteenth.

951
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: Street in Atlanta. I saw Cat walking across the street

952
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: and I had my granddad in the car.

953
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 5: Then my Ford f one pity and uh, you know,

954
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 5: I'm one of the type of dudes I'm gonna be carrying.

955
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, Cat was up. He was walking the Starbucks.

956
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: I never forget it. He said, come on, have a

957
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: coup of cough with me, a cup of coffee with me.

958
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 5: So I went over there, and before he went the Starbucks,

959
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 5: he came around. I said, hey, man, Cat Wave. I said,

960
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 5: this is my granddad or whatever. My granddad saw you

961
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 5: on TV before. My granddady said yeah.

962
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: And Cat stood in the door had a conversation with

963
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: my grandfather or whatever. And that was like one of

964
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: the last times I saw him.

965
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 5: And there was no issue because it's all love or whatever,

966
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 5: because you know, I don't know why I never did

967
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 5: anything to him if I did, you know, I'm always

968
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,760
Speaker 5: open man enough to apologize.

969
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 3: He felt like he was clearing the record on because

970
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 3: I think he or was it that he was supposed

971
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 3: to play a role?

972
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 6: You said, well.

973
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 5: What I did when I went out there auditioned for

974
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 5: that part, And uh, that's what I really auditioned for.

975
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,720
Speaker 5: I didn't audition for the Santa Claus. If I'm not mistaken.

976
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 5: The Santa Claus role was supposed to be for.

977
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: What's his name? He played in the First Friday, the

978
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: comedian that passed away? Oh man, that was that was

979
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: that was on drugs and stealing and breaking the people

980
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: house Johnson. I think A. J. Johnson was supposed to

981
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: play and this is what what I heard or whatever, and.

982
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 5: They put me in that role because at that time

983
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 5: I was on B E T and stuff like that.

984
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 5: But I did audition for it. That's what I went

985
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 5: out there and read for. My manager at the time,

986
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:48,879
Speaker 5: came on the air, cleared that up.

987
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 1: DAVIDY.

988
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,359
Speaker 5: Talbert came on on Instagram and cleared up the fact

989
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 5: that there's no country. He had hired me, uh to

990
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 5: play my role in the movie first Sunday before he

991
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 5: hired he cleared he cleared that part of.

992
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 6: But q Q clasified it too.

993
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 3: You said that you did audition for money, Mike, but

994
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 3: when they saw how you move, they thought you'd be

995
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 3: better for Santa Claus exactly.

996
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

997
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: And I don't have no have no beef. I love everybody.

998
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 5: If there is an opportunity to resolve, That's why I'm

999
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 5: the rap beef and stuff with the rappers get killed.

1000
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 5: I don't want comedy to ever come to that. You know,

1001
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,880
Speaker 5: that's not what I do. That's not how I was raised.

1002
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 5: You know, we're from the South and we just don't.

1003
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 5: We don't, we don't do that.

1004
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 3: I want to talk about some of the revolutionary stuff

1005
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 3: I feel like you've done in radio. I feel like

1006
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 3: this nation, you know what I'm saying, we had never

1007
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 3: seen that before. And I mean, you know, as a radiohead,

1008
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 3: to see radio personalities on TV in that era, that

1009
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 3: felt like watching Howard when Howard did it on E right,

1010
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 3: So that was that was a revolutionary thing. And also

1011
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 3: making the move to urban ac Yeah, like knowing when

1012
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 3: it was.

1013
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 6: I don't know if you knew it was time or

1014
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 6: like how that happened.

1015
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 5: It just happened perfectly. We you know, we was on

1016
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 5: hip hop stations and it was great. But we was

1017
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 5: getting older. You know, I'm in I'm almost fifty brat.

1018
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 5: You know, we all in our forties or whatever. We

1019
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 5: ain't got no business playing certain stuff because.

1020
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: We just gonna You're gonna naturally age. You just can't,

1021
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: you just can't can't be on the radio.

1022
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 5: We don't even know who some of the some of

1023
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 5: the we didn't know who some of the rappers are

1024
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 5: that were playing like who is this now? Rat Brat

1025
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 5: the first female rapper seller for me, and she's like,

1026
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 5: who you got? You got the backseller song this who

1027
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 5: We're looking over the top of our glasses.

1028
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 7: Making funny that I used to watch y'all.

1029
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but we just naturally got older.

1030
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 5: And then when Tom joined her retired, they just slid

1031
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 5: us over and and now we were playing R and

1032
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 5: B songs and now just relaxing in the morning.

1033
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: We just we chill.

1034
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 7: Whose idea was it to throw Porsche or to get

1035
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 7: Porsch on the show?

1036
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: On this Nation?

1037
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 7: Yeah? I think that was so good.

1038
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 5: Well Porsche she would fill in for Porsche. Kane did

1039
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 5: a great job, and she would fill in for Bratt.

1040
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 5: And then they said, hey, you want to do this Nation,

1041
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 5: So anybody came in and filled Then the producing and say, hey,

1042
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 5: we can get you some makeup right quick.

1043
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: Can you do dignation?

1044
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 5: Here's the script and it's nothing, just reading a teleprompt

1045
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 5: and he talk about what we have already talked about

1046
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 5: on the radio. Then we were doing Dignation while we

1047
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 5: was on the air, so doing commercial breaks, we would shoot.

1048
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: A scene from this Nation. Wow.

1049
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know why I thought that was the

1050
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 3: show man.

1051
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: We was doing. We were shoot when we first started.

1052
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 5: We was in that damn same room for six hours,

1053
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 5: were working out, asshole.

1054
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 2: And what did you what did you know you wanted

1055
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 2: to do radio? Because radio was not a job for everybody, right.

1056
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: People say they love radio right then when they got

1057
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,280
Speaker 2: to get there an hour before and two hours after

1058
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 2: and they can't move it, especially with comedians, because you

1059
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 2: guys are on the road. You might not be able

1060
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: to go on the road some days. So when did

1061
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 2: you know that I'm gonna stay with this man?

1062
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: I used to listen to these two white dudes named

1063
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,360
Speaker 1: Mark and Brian. You remember Mark and Brian Charlamagne.

1064
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 5: They big and Mark and Brian. They had this big

1065
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 5: ass morning show. But they came from Birmingham.

1066
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: These first dudes.

1067
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 5: I used to hear doing characters and they did some

1068
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 5: prank phone calls to So I used to listen to

1069
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 5: Mark and Brian in high school. They went to l

1070
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 5: A and became famous fame, but they came from Birmingham,

1071
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 5: And uh, I was.

1072
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: Like, y'all ever listening to white dudes on kicks one

1073
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: on six? You know? That's how I got in the

1074
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: soft rock.

1075
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 5: That's why I'm sitting up here listening to Fleetwood, Mac

1076
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 5: and the Eagles and Stilly Dan.

1077
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: You know, i'd be on some chill stuff. You have

1078
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: to listen to that stuff, you know. But I was

1079
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,400
Speaker 1: crazy about radio and I wanted to do it. And

1080
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell y'all something I drove.

1081
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:39,280
Speaker 5: When they put up the New State Hip Hop Stession

1082
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 5: in Birmingham ninety five seven.

1083
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: Jam, you know.

1084
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 5: Dashah, Yeah, THEYSA came from our radio station. Wow, Dasha

1085
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 5: came from our radio.

1086
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 4: She used to be she used to be up here.

1087
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:49,279
Speaker 4: She's on will List now right.

1088
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 6: No, you talk about another day?

1089
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 4: Another day?

1090
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 6: Think about.

1091
00:45:54,719 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's on with Kelly that TV show whatever.

1092
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 6: Kelly and he used to be Ryan and Kelly.

1093
00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:05,319
Speaker 5: Right, she's on that. And then Roy Wood Jr. Came

1094
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 5: from We All come from w b HJ ninety five seven.

1095
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: Jam.

1096
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 5: I drove sixty miles every morning just for the opportunity

1097
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 5: to be on the radio, and I got paid nothing.

1098
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 1: I was hungry and I wanted.

1099
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 5: Steve used to tell me, Hey, get on the radio.

1100
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 5: That keep your name out there, They keep your brand

1101
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 5: out there. So now Charlotte. Man, I do my comedy

1102
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 5: shows during the week I don't do comedy clubs on weekend,

1103
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 5: so I do a show. I just go do a

1104
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 5: seven o'clock show out of emprov. And I do the

1105
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 5: emprov Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. That's my four shows and get.

1106
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: It in like that. I'm in bed at nine o'clock.

1107
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: Show start at seven.

1108
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 5: I'm back at the hotel sleep and uh, and I

1109
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,880
Speaker 5: have my weekends off seven.

1110
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: No no, you said the show started, comedy show. I

1111
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: want to show start at five.

1112
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 3: When you said, David, I don't know why I thought

1113
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 3: of Egypt. But dajuah Wood she is. She used to

1114
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 3: be Earthquake co host on b LS.

1115
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: Yeah with the short haircut.

1116
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah yeah.

1117
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 3: She DJ on right Kelly and whatever. Kelly's Kelly and Ryan.

1118
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 3: I think Ryan left to do Wheel of Fortune.

1119
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, so yeah, man, we we had that was

1120
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 5: a great station. We won, took down the number one

1121
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 5: station and uh and just doing good radio morning show

1122
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 5: boot camp, learning about breaks and timing and all that stuff.

1123
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,240
Speaker 1: I take radio serious.

1124
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 5: Man, show to rep air checks, you know, listening to

1125
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 5: yourself playing it back like I take it serious.

1126
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: And if you're not serious about that's a lost art.

1127
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, that is a lost start.

1128
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 2: Doing radio the proper way, absolutely, airy checks, doing when

1129
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 2: to go into breaks, teasing, looking at clocks, that is

1130
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 2: a lost start.

1131
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, you better hit that fifty three better? You know

1132
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 1: about that fifty three?

1133
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 6: What do you love more? Standable radio?

1134
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: Oh?

1135
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 5: Oh god, damn, that's a good question. Radio don't give

1136
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 5: you butterflies. Radio is just sitting in here, like right now,

1137
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 5: I'm comfortable, it's cool or whatever. Stand up gives you

1138
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,480
Speaker 5: a little bit of anxiety. It because you got to perform.

1139
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 5: You got to go out there. People paid money to

1140
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 5: see you perform. But my stand up is being great.

1141
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 5: I'm I'm probably funnier than not ever being. I got

1142
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 5: a special coming out. We in negotiation with Kevin Hart

1143
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:14,720
Speaker 5: right now to release a comedy special.

1144
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I haven't done done a comedy.

1145
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 5: Special in like twelve years. But it's funny as hell.

1146
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 5: It's probably my David Talbert. He directed it, him and

1147
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 5: his wife Lynn. They directed it. It looked good.

1148
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:29,879
Speaker 1: It's gonna be funny, it's gonna be all over the place.

1149
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 7: Recently shot stuff.

1150
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just recently shot it. Yeah, I paid for it.

1151
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 5: Myself and I just went on stage and killed the ass.

1152
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 5: So I'm really excited about that.

1153
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 7: And what made you? I mean, Kevin Hart's Kevin Hart.

1154
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 8: But a lot of people go to Netflix too, Like,

1155
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 8: how did you decide where you were gonna who was

1156
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 8: gonna house it?

1157
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 5: Well, we're gonna, We're gonna see we in negotiation now

1158
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,120
Speaker 5: because I just did an interview with Kevin Hart and

1159
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 5: he asked me about.

1160
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: The special, like I just shot one. I said, you

1161
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,480
Speaker 1: want to you want to present it?

1162
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:53,799
Speaker 7: Okay?

1163
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: So I started started that.

1164
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 5: Gosh, yeah, yeah, he's a good friend of mine. I

1165
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 5: absolutely love him. Great dude, A great dude, Kevin Man,

1166
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 5: Jamie Fox, all of them have been good to me

1167
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 5: my whole career. I didn't I didn't know Eddie Murphy

1168
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 5: was a fan. I met Eddie Murphy at his house

1169
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 5: or whatever, went over there one day. I had a

1170
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 5: meeting with Tracy Edmonds, I think they were dating at

1171
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 5: the time, and she said, ed play your prank phone

1172
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 5: calls the line.

1173
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: I like you lying? Are you serious? And I ended

1174
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: up going over there and there's some comments over.

1175
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 5: There, and we had barbecue, chicken, collar greens, cornbread, macaroni

1176
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 5: and cheese. It was like we had some real soul.

1177
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 5: And that was my first time to meeting Eddie Murphy. Man,

1178
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 5: that was that was a pleasure. So that when you

1179
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 5: get to do stuff like that. And I'm on tour

1180
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 5: with Mark Lawrence right now, so that's my big brother.

1181
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 6: So the funny thing is you talk like you not

1182
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 6: wanted you not wanted them you in a conversation.

1183
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:52,799
Speaker 5: I'm just just humble, man. I'm still like I kind

1184
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 5: of still feel like I'm kind of like just still

1185
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 5: young and in the game because I feel young and

1186
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 5: in the game, and I know I'm a little older

1187
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 5: and stuff up and trying to coach younger comics and

1188
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,279
Speaker 5: I just kind of sit back and not try to

1189
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 5: do too much.

1190
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: But I just try to make sure.

1191
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 5: When I do do something that is special and that

1192
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 5: is awesome and that is funny.

1193
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: And my karaoke nights uh uh be sold out.

1194
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 5: My karaoke I see my karaoke nights sell out faster

1195
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 5: than my comedy shows.

1196
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: My co host has down syndrome.

1197
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 5: What my co host, Big Chris has down syndrome, And

1198
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 5: he is the funniest damn person.

1199
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 8: If you look at my huh, you can see you know,

1200
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 8: I was seeing her trying to laugh.

1201
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,040
Speaker 7: I was gonna like, don't kill me last night.

1202
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: All you have to do, all you have to do

1203
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,239
Speaker 1: is look up. I'm looking at Big Chris. And that

1204
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: was it was the he know all the song. He

1205
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: get up there and he's saying you can't get them all. Stay.

1206
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: I said, hey, Chris, you're not getting paid. You need

1207
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: to chill. Okay, I have to calm him down. I

1208
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: know how to that.

1209
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 6: I did come back like, how did that? How did

1210
00:50:59,040 --> 00:50:59,879
Speaker 6: that idea?

1211
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 7: Smiling Big Chris? You're so messy, Big Chris?

1212
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 6: Not even what's all he be doing? Man?

1213
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: What you made?

1214
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 6: Him saying you never didn't cut your grandma?

1215
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: Now I'm going you really really? I can't question go on.

1216
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 7: I haven't say this is big Chris.

1217
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, Big Chris, Chris doing his thing.

1218
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 3: Man, that's my call, Chris. Though you better pay double.

1219
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:36,760
Speaker 3: He only make down payments.

1220
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny as hell.

1221
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,160
Speaker 5: So so he like the bring ladies on stage and

1222
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 5: sit him in the chair and play a R.

1223
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: Kelly song and he serenate them like the Capitals.

1224
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 7: Got down on one stage.

1225
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:58,879
Speaker 1: You just got the ones out there.

1226
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 5: I got this white the audience out. I take him

1227
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 5: on the road with me. We do we do them

1228
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 5: proving for a lot of it.

1229
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 7: And Daniel Beach selling out has set.

1230
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 5: He just I bring him on stage in the middle

1231
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 5: of carry O and I have to keep have to

1232
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,879
Speaker 5: set boundaries for him, and he's going.

1233
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: He loved y'all. Oh, he loved y'all. He watch y'all

1234
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: all the time. He always he got his phone.

1235
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 6: I bought him Chris Man.

1236
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, he always showing me something that y'all. Hey, he

1237
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: wants to come on.

1238
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 6: When I come back, I would come on. You come

1239
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 6: for the special.

1240
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 4: Bring him up here.

1241
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, someone my special come out. I will come

1242
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 1: up here, promote. I bring big Chris.

1243
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 5: That'll be my gift to your ass because because see

1244
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 5: we have the same kind of human because we laugh

1245
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 5: at the same Chris took me to the cemetery. Have

1246
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 5: a cousin and died, and this particular cemetery. You go there,

1247
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:53,840
Speaker 5: you have to follow this red line.

1248
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: It's in Birmingham. We followed the red line. He was

1249
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: at the grave.

1250
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 5: Crying and I looked up at it till it was

1251
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,240
Speaker 5: Paul Bear Brown was a former head coach of Alabama

1252
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,839
Speaker 5: back in the seventy, I said, and I didn't tell

1253
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 5: him that.

1254
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: See, you ain't ship.

1255
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 8: What you said.

1256
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 1: He took you to the cemetery.

1257
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 5: Somebody had died and we was at the wrong grade.

1258
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 5: But I just let him let him. I adn't want

1259
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,160
Speaker 5: to tell him that we was at that Paul Briant Gray,

1260
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 5: so I had to get him back to the car,

1261
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 5: took him, we got, got him something to eat, and

1262
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 5: take him home.

1263
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 3: Smiling ladies, gentlemen, grief is grief, man, he got it

1264
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 3: out either.

1265
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 4: Side.

1266
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 2: Show is out right now. My god, I appreciate you

1267
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 2: for joining us. Bro be a stranger man. You could

1268
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 2: come up any time you would tell radio politics, and

1269
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:46,439
Speaker 2: we want you to come.

1270
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 5: Look if y'all ever in Miami. I have a boat.

1271
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 5: I'm a boat camping. I go to the Bahamas every

1272
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 5: fucking weekend in the summer. I dare you to take

1273
00:53:54,800 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 5: a weekend off.

1274
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: And we broadcast on the boat.

1275
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 5: Then you add anybody, asked Jeff Johnson as David Talbot,

1276
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 5: we go.

1277
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: I tell I drive all the way across the ocean

1278
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: to them and the Bahamas. It's only fifty.

1279
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 5: Five miles off the coast the fort out of there,

1280
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,600
Speaker 5: and I drive my boat. We go all the way

1281
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 5: to the Bahamas. I have a house that I rent.

1282
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:15,800
Speaker 5: You are more than what if you just get the

1283
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 5: foot out of that, you don't have to worry about ship.

1284
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 5: I got you be there too.

1285
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:24,439
Speaker 1: You set the boundaries on the boat'll don't.

1286
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 5: Don't you see what I had them to do on

1287
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 5: the front of the boat.

1288
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:33,719
Speaker 1: Hold on.

1289
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 6: I hope you ain't had them like a phantom emblem.

1290
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: You're finished, scream bro Let me, let me let me

1291
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 1: uh no pictures.

1292
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 7: This is Instagram or TikTok.

1293
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: Let me see.

1294
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 5: I can't hear it. It's just slow because I don't.

1295
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 5: I couldn't get figure out that wi fi. Here we go,

1296
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 5: Here we go. You've been a screen when you see

1297
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 5: christ these Okay, here we go, Here we go. When

1298
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:03,960
Speaker 5: I tell you you're gonna you're gonna follow down? You

1299
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 5: see this video? I canna get to it. Where is it?

1300
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a me on social media?

1301
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, because he's been saying, here we go, here we go.

1302
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,759
Speaker 1: You ready watching them?

1303
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:23,640
Speaker 6: Watch you gotta put this in the video. Man, cut

1304
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 6: it out.

1305
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 7: Man, I can't laugh that.

1306
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 6: Cut it out.

1307
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 7: I cannot last. Is somebody holding him?

1308
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 3: That is not funny, man, man, it's a little bit

1309
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 3: you got it like the Fantom even know when to

1310
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 3: think about the Fanto?

1311
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:44,879
Speaker 6: What's that called?

1312
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:45,200
Speaker 8: In you?

1313
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 6: The phantom one?

1314
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:47,040
Speaker 1: The Rose Array stuff?

1315
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 2: And he got a listen front man, man.

1316
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:53,239
Speaker 6: You stupid man.

1317
00:55:53,880 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 1: That's not just in the video.

1318
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 6: Laues and gentlemen.

1319
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 4: It's Ricky Smiley.

1320
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 6: Bring Chris and she's looking.

1321
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 8: You're surprised, right, Oh yeah, Mhan thirty two.

1322
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:15,720
Speaker 1: Yah that one had.

1323
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 8: Man, I still sitting you're right, Big Chris, Back to

1324
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 8: Big Chris.

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Speaker 5: I saw some video on somebody was trying to get

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Speaker 5: at you, was trying to get at you.

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Speaker 6: I watched that the baby was the baby? Wasn't it Halloween?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: The baby baby that didn't work out?

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Speaker 7: Work out. They didn't go past an interview. Where was

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Speaker 7: it going?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 5: Not?

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Speaker 7: You sit back down.

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Speaker 1: Right now.

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Speaker 6: And it's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club