1
00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,440
Speaker 1: Welcome to All the Smoke, a production of The Black

2
00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:28,960
Speaker 1: Effect and our Heart Radio and partnership with Showtime. Welcome

3
00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,240
Speaker 1: back season three, All the Smoke. We're back man, another

4
00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,640
Speaker 1: one third season. Man, We're in this bitch getting a

5
00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,280
Speaker 1: good break the championships and walking streets and all that.

6
00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:43,320
Speaker 1: Kind of coach champion as a coach now. But I

7
00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,559
Speaker 1: had a little time off to just chill. We had

8
00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,640
Speaker 1: as much time off in the Minnesota. But ready to

9
00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,160
Speaker 1: get back to it. I see you put some pounds

10
00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,720
Speaker 1: on in the off season. Yeah, man, who are you

11
00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,840
Speaker 1: telling I'm game about thirty pounds for you to get

12
00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,880
Speaker 1: back slim? Yeah, I know, I'm back on it. Come

13
00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,920
Speaker 1: work out with me and this dude's training. No, absolutely,

14
00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:03,920
Speaker 1: not absolutely, it was animal. I ain't got time for that.

15
00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,479
Speaker 1: Hey man, It's an honor of pleasure to kick off

16
00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,199
Speaker 1: season three with the one and only man Kevin Hart.

17
00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:15,160
Speaker 1: How are you saying? Appreciate man, I appreciate you. Having

18
00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,640
Speaker 1: me has kind of been. There's a lot of stuff

19
00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,959
Speaker 1: in here, and I wanna talk to you guys about

20
00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,880
Speaker 1: it's not size friendly in here. Microphone is the size

21
00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,959
Speaker 1: of my goddamn scalp. I don't I don't like that.

22
00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,360
Speaker 1: The couch actually is not bad. I didn't know how

23
00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,480
Speaker 1: big the couch situation was going to be, but I

24
00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,479
Speaker 1: feel comfortable with my feet are I have a strong base.

25
00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:38,280
Speaker 1: You know. You can still hear the hit a tone

26
00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,320
Speaker 1: in my voice. I'm ready. I'm ready to talk. But

27
00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,119
Speaker 1: before I get into that, Flowers Man season three. That's

28
00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,199
Speaker 1: a big deal. Man. You guys do an amazing job.

29
00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:48,680
Speaker 1: That's why I'm here. I'm here because of the platform,

30
00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:50,760
Speaker 1: because of what the platform provide. You guys got a

31
00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:52,600
Speaker 1: hell of an audience and it's because of the job

32
00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,160
Speaker 1: that you're doing. So I'll get that out the way.

33
00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:56,840
Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Thank me, comfort you. Snoop took a nap

34
00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,760
Speaker 1: on that corriage doing the show. Though I smell it,

35
00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,000
Speaker 1: it's I smell it. I smell it. I wasn't gonna

36
00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,800
Speaker 1: say nothing that was y'all business. I was gonna keep

37
00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,720
Speaker 1: it there. But I smell something that they right. Somebody

38
00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,840
Speaker 1: wasn't right, and I was gonna let it flywer. I

39
00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,880
Speaker 1: don't know the living situation of you guys are here

40
00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,600
Speaker 1: overnight or not, but something ay right, Like you know,

41
00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,960
Speaker 1: when you sit down on couches with this material, come up. Yeah,

42
00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:23,959
Speaker 1: it's in here a little bit of a breeze and

43
00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,160
Speaker 1: knock it out. You guys to figure it out, just

44
00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,160
Speaker 1: keep keep on swinging for the fences, swinging for the fences.

45
00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,600
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Well we're talking about that. Do you remember

46
00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,800
Speaker 1: when when you first met where the first meeting where uh,

47
00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,320
Speaker 1: we're coming out of some restaurant out here in l A.

48
00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,720
Speaker 1: And uh, terms just wanted to wrestle with you that

49
00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,200
Speaker 1: night while you get into your trouble. Yeah, the same

50
00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,880
Speaker 1: weight class. Though for some reason, I don't know what

51
00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,040
Speaker 1: it is. Man, there's this unannounced code between like smaller men.

52
00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,560
Speaker 1: At when you see another smaller man, you go, I'm

53
00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:07,799
Speaker 1: knocking the a. It's a real thing. It's a real thing,

54
00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,240
Speaker 1: like and it says it's it's in your head and

55
00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,720
Speaker 1: the other the other little guy know you're thinking it too.

56
00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,880
Speaker 1: You look at term is that guy, Term is the

57
00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,520
Speaker 1: wrestle term is the tussle guy. And you know the

58
00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,160
Speaker 1: younger days of me in l A. We used to

59
00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,120
Speaker 1: play ball all the time. And that's that's literally that

60
00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:31,440
Speaker 1: was terms. That was this think when you come on time,

61
00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to play, man, Come on, let me

62
00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,840
Speaker 1: see to in the morning. We got liquor in our system.

63
00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,240
Speaker 1: He trying to put me in a full nelson, So

64
00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,440
Speaker 1: now I gotta shoulder. I got some other body strength

65
00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,040
Speaker 1: so people don't actually respect my size. So once I

66
00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, once you get the push right there, they

67
00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:53,720
Speaker 1: can feel it. It's our first time really hanging out

68
00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:55,640
Speaker 1: for the day was on the set of I Think

69
00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,440
Speaker 1: like a Man. I think that was what two thousand

70
00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:02,160
Speaker 1: and eleven, that was ten leven. Yeah, and I tell

71
00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,840
Speaker 1: you we just shot a basketball scene, but we're in

72
00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,400
Speaker 1: there three four hours. But this dude's energy from the jump,

73
00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,200
Speaker 1: like he just made it just a non stop. We

74
00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,680
Speaker 1: had like, Kevi, stop being funny so we can film

75
00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:16,159
Speaker 1: like our face heard our stomach herd. He was on

76
00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:23,960
Speaker 1: our test test Lisa Leslie Butler Brown. Yes, yes, very

77
00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:29,440
Speaker 1: funny scene. Thought it was a loose a loose idea,

78
00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:31,680
Speaker 1: but you know, the words and stuff was there, so

79
00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:33,400
Speaker 1: they just let me free. Stop. But you were funny

80
00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:34,880
Speaker 1: and ship. But then you also it surprised me because

81
00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:37,119
Speaker 1: you have some game, and then we started talking about

82
00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,760
Speaker 1: that you could play, and then I saw but then

83
00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:41,480
Speaker 1: I saw one of your high school edits where you

84
00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,599
Speaker 1: were in there for not too long. It just had

85
00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,279
Speaker 1: a lot of turnovers. You punched the wall, look like

86
00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,440
Speaker 1: you might have broke your hands. One of these days

87
00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:50,920
Speaker 1: situations where you feel like you're a lot better than

88
00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,719
Speaker 1: what you were at the time. You know, if I

89
00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,800
Speaker 1: didn't see that tape until this day, you couldn't tell

90
00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,480
Speaker 1: me ship you crazy? That hoopton on school. LETNA tell

91
00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:01,640
Speaker 1: you something. This take surface I may have had. I

92
00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,640
Speaker 1: think I had eight turnovers in twenty seconds and I

93
00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:09,279
Speaker 1: only ran it one speed. It was everything was fast.

94
00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:13,080
Speaker 1: It was the fastest that you've ever seen fastest. I

95
00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,680
Speaker 1: got good. I actually I got good after high school.

96
00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,479
Speaker 1: Where's the good film? Though? That's the thing I'm telling you.

97
00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:22,560
Speaker 1: After high school, like I played, I played varsity nine

98
00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,440
Speaker 1: through twelve. My senior year, I had our year. I

99
00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,400
Speaker 1: could play, but there was nothing to really brag about.

100
00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:31,799
Speaker 1: I think I was honorable mention in the public league.

101
00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:34,000
Speaker 1: It wasn't like our league was that great. Grants was

102
00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,440
Speaker 1: the team they got all the attention. Strawberry Mansion had

103
00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,680
Speaker 1: started to to get some Ronald Flip Murray he got

104
00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,760
Speaker 1: he got nasty the late stages of his basketball career.

105
00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:47,719
Speaker 1: So you know, if he wasn't if you was in

106
00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,039
Speaker 1: that conversation, Lynn Greer. That was about it. So we

107
00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:57,240
Speaker 1: didn't get any attention. He was a bad boy. Let's

108
00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,400
Speaker 1: get to your upbringing, born Philadelphia, single parent home. Your

109
00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:04,120
Speaker 1: your story has some similarities to mine from a standpoint

110
00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:08,200
Speaker 1: of my father too dealt with addiction, cocaine addiction, and

111
00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:10,680
Speaker 1: my dad was a drug other as well. But then

112
00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,320
Speaker 1: devil dep on both. He's burning on both sides. But

113
00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,040
Speaker 1: then also lost my mom to cancer as well. No. Seven.

114
00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,279
Speaker 1: So tell me about your upbringing, how instrumental your mom

115
00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,720
Speaker 1: was in your upbringing, but then also you being able

116
00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,320
Speaker 1: to mend your relationship with your father once he What

117
00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,240
Speaker 1: is a question for you? How did y'all did y'all

118
00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,640
Speaker 1: ask your dad? Where's the common sense? Did y'all have

119
00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,560
Speaker 1: that talk? Like we have those We have those talks now,

120
00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,520
Speaker 1: but I don't know back back then. Yeah, that's tough. Uh,

121
00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,200
Speaker 1: you know, I think the toughest thing for me, probably

122
00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,599
Speaker 1: the biggest, the biggest smack in the face is when

123
00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:44,760
Speaker 1: you find out your your parents or parents on drugs.

124
00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,039
Speaker 1: And my dad's thing was a discover. Everybody else knew

125
00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,360
Speaker 1: but me. You know, I was the only niggaive didn't

126
00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,600
Speaker 1: know my brother, and then they all was your dad

127
00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:56,120
Speaker 1: on drugs? No? Not, yeah he is he on drugs.

128
00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,960
Speaker 1: And I saw my dad buying drugs from my friend,

129
00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,600
Speaker 1: and that's when it was like, oh, yeah, that's when

130
00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,760
Speaker 1: it was real. That's when it got real. Uh. And

131
00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,240
Speaker 1: then after that, when my dad had the awareness that

132
00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:11,160
Speaker 1: we knew, my dad disappeared, you know, he he left

133
00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,920
Speaker 1: because I don't. I don't think, well, I don't think

134
00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,640
Speaker 1: I know now. He couldn't stomach the fact that we

135
00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:21,640
Speaker 1: saw and knew what his reality was, so disappeared. Then

136
00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,800
Speaker 1: I saw my dad years later on the train true story,

137
00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,120
Speaker 1: on the train. I'm going to school. I went to George, Washington,

138
00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,600
Speaker 1: and public transportation was the only way to get to school.

139
00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,720
Speaker 1: So I'm literally on the train coming from school and

140
00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,800
Speaker 1: I'm getting off at Broadinery and I saw my dad

141
00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,800
Speaker 1: on the train and I'm like, oh, ship Dad. And

142
00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,120
Speaker 1: my dad couldn't stomach that he was still in the

143
00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,160
Speaker 1: same place left, So that's when it was like, oh,

144
00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:55,200
Speaker 1: this is bad. And you know my brother. I think

145
00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:57,880
Speaker 1: my brother took it upon himself after a certain period

146
00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,840
Speaker 1: of time to kind of lead to chall and my

147
00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,600
Speaker 1: dad getting helped my brother's older. So from my dad's

148
00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,840
Speaker 1: role the recovery, it was enforced I can say, by

149
00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,480
Speaker 1: my brother, by the there about because I'm even though

150
00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:15,760
Speaker 1: I knew, I'm still oblivious. That's still Dad. You know

151
00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,760
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's that hit me. It's not hitting

152
00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,640
Speaker 1: me crazy hard. Dad is Dad. So I don't see

153
00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,200
Speaker 1: the things falling apart. I don't see the true damage

154
00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,360
Speaker 1: that my mom and my brother are witnessing. Still Dad,

155
00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:30,200
Speaker 1: you know, Okay, I know he's on drugs. Were he here,

156
00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:33,280
Speaker 1: He's doing something else where. He probably getting better. I'm

157
00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,280
Speaker 1: I'm all in the world of denial and crazy assumption.

158
00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,760
Speaker 1: So my dad's return was one of sobriety. So you know,

159
00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,600
Speaker 1: I've never been the grudge holder. Um my mom was

160
00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:48,880
Speaker 1: more of the grudge holder. Then my mom got you know,

161
00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:53,440
Speaker 1: she got heavily in the God religion, found ways to

162
00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,760
Speaker 1: uh release that aggression. Allowed me and my dad to

163
00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:03,559
Speaker 1: build a relationship late stages of my teens going into twenties.

164
00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,600
Speaker 1: You know, he was up and down with it, But

165
00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,240
Speaker 1: I never judged. I never I never really held a grudge.

166
00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,840
Speaker 1: So when my dad finally was good, we were good.

167
00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:15,959
Speaker 1: When he wasn't good, we were still good. Uh. My

168
00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,880
Speaker 1: brothers was different. My brother and my dad. You know,

169
00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,480
Speaker 1: there's still a little different. They're good, but there you know,

170
00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,360
Speaker 1: there's still some ship there. But I don't have it

171
00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,920
Speaker 1: in me to to hold that. I don't. I don't.

172
00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,640
Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's a lot to carry the burdens

173
00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:35,360
Speaker 1: with you, you know, for the duration of your young adulthood, uh,

174
00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,720
Speaker 1: going into your thirties, you know, thirties, thirty five. And

175
00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:41,760
Speaker 1: I know some people deal with it. I'm blessed enough

176
00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:44,480
Speaker 1: to say that I don't have that. I don't. I

177
00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,560
Speaker 1: don't have that ability. So uh, me moving forward was

178
00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,360
Speaker 1: all about, hey, man, when you're good, we're good. And

179
00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:54,040
Speaker 1: he got good. Here's a house, here's a truck, you know,

180
00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,319
Speaker 1: here go these grand babies. Here you go, man for

181
00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,200
Speaker 1: a couple of days too. By the way, hold him. Yeah,

182
00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,640
Speaker 1: I'm literally like, you know, I don't. I don't. I

183
00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:06,719
Speaker 1: don't have that, uh that problem. So I think for

184
00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,199
Speaker 1: for my dad, I think the happiness from him comes

185
00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:15,720
Speaker 1: from the ability to standing these mistakes, living them, but

186
00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:20,000
Speaker 1: know that there is no judgment. And I'm great because

187
00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,600
Speaker 1: of the ship that you did, especially in this monster

188
00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,920
Speaker 1: in l A. You know, you don't do drugs. You know,

189
00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,360
Speaker 1: you don't go down that road. I'm a I'm a

190
00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,319
Speaker 1: completely different animal problem. You know, who knows what I'm trying,

191
00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,880
Speaker 1: who knows what I'm dabbling in. So I credit I

192
00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,720
Speaker 1: credit a lot of my you know, reasons to stay

193
00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,200
Speaker 1: away and no, that's not for me to my dad.

194
00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,079
Speaker 1: So I find I find the positives and those negatives.

195
00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:45,360
Speaker 1: So when you talk about the upbringing rough, it may

196
00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,400
Speaker 1: have been um, but both managed. You know, I'm a

197
00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm a mama's boy at heart. She did a great

198
00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,280
Speaker 1: job while my dad was going through a ship of

199
00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,640
Speaker 1: holding down the fort and me and my brother were

200
00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,000
Speaker 1: raises to amazing men because of her and her devotion,

201
00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,720
Speaker 1: And my dad came in and cleaned up what he

202
00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:08,880
Speaker 1: could when he could. You found a safe spot through humor.

203
00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,000
Speaker 1: I think in your comedy act you're someone who can

204
00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:16,839
Speaker 1: laugh at yourself, pokefund yourself, and kind of really be transparent.

205
00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,960
Speaker 1: How early did that come? Because I know my coping

206
00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,800
Speaker 1: mechanism at a young age was staying with friends. I

207
00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,079
Speaker 1: started smoking weed. That was kind of my getaway. What

208
00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,200
Speaker 1: was your kind of let me get away from? Just

209
00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,880
Speaker 1: although I learned from it, the clouds at a young age. Well,

210
00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:32,400
Speaker 1: I mean one thing we share, we all you know,

211
00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:37,560
Speaker 1: we all thugs. So you know as uh, you know,

212
00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,960
Speaker 1: as a young a young killer that had to you know,

213
00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,160
Speaker 1: get it together because when I was younger, all I

214
00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,560
Speaker 1: had was the right, So I had to put these up. Yeah,

215
00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even get in details about that

216
00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,160
Speaker 1: with y'all. Uh No, man, humor. Humor was my way

217
00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:57,240
Speaker 1: to avoid the bullshit. So I knew everybody that was

218
00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,560
Speaker 1: about that life. I knew everybody that was real. You know,

219
00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:06,400
Speaker 1: we're talking Erie, You're talking yeah, yeah, yeah, you you.

220
00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:08,800
Speaker 1: I'm in the heart of it, not not down the

221
00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:12,480
Speaker 1: street from it, not three blocks away, not fift No,

222
00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm in the heart of it. I'm in the ship. Uh.

223
00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:20,040
Speaker 1: And at this time, this is when erie AV probably

224
00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,880
Speaker 1: had the most attention that it's ever had. This is

225
00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:28,200
Speaker 1: when major figures and the world of rap uh you know,

226
00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,360
Speaker 1: shouts out to Guilly. At this time, you know, we

227
00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,480
Speaker 1: we were being put on because of the individuals. So

228
00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,760
Speaker 1: the attention that came with that in the the want

229
00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:43,040
Speaker 1: to prove who and what people were was was high

230
00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:45,960
Speaker 1: at that time. So, um, the only way to be

231
00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,319
Speaker 1: accepted was through That's the funny boy. That's that's a

232
00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:52,640
Speaker 1: little that's a little hard. My brother used to sell drugs.

233
00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,880
Speaker 1: My brother was into the ship, so that's a little

234
00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,160
Speaker 1: rob Hart brother. That's forty brother. And people just let

235
00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,000
Speaker 1: me be around. But I never overstayed my welcome and

236
00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,559
Speaker 1: out be funny. But I was home before the lights came. More.

237
00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:07,600
Speaker 1: My mom was very strict, very very strict, very strict.

238
00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:10,760
Speaker 1: So because I had all these extra correct activities, I

239
00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,120
Speaker 1: didn't have the same outlets. You know, I didn't have

240
00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,679
Speaker 1: the luxury of staying out all night just being on

241
00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,839
Speaker 1: the corner talking ship joking. I could do it during

242
00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,679
Speaker 1: the daytime, but then to night, I'm I'm either that

243
00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:26,120
Speaker 1: practice swim practice the only black nay that was down

244
00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,920
Speaker 1: there swimming. But you can swim though swims because not

245
00:13:29,960 --> 00:13:33,000
Speaker 1: everyone has a microphone from cause swim, No they listen.

246
00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,320
Speaker 1: The crazy thing is are you say you say you

247
00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,880
Speaker 1: can say can you swim? I'm just like you, honestly,

248
00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,680
Speaker 1: you knew. I couldn't for you to say that. You say,

249
00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:49,920
Speaker 1: you do the shirt and swim as long as when

250
00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:53,560
Speaker 1: I get tired, I can stand up. What that would

251
00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:55,720
Speaker 1: you have to swim? If you can stand up six eight.

252
00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,920
Speaker 1: I can swim in anything. So you can walk. You

253
00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,480
Speaker 1: can walk in water. No, I can swim. It's swimming.

254
00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,000
Speaker 1: I can swim until I get tired. I can't just

255
00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,960
Speaker 1: what I came master, Okay, I came after the dog pedal,

256
00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,920
Speaker 1: floating in one place. The floating in one place, a

257
00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,040
Speaker 1: little dog you call it was called the dog pedal?

258
00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,720
Speaker 1: What it called the dog doggy paddle? What is it called?

259
00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,320
Speaker 1: The dog? Said the dog pedal? Yeah, what is it

260
00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,640
Speaker 1: not that it's not the dog pedal? You ain't setting

261
00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:24,600
Speaker 1: us back right now? Place got damn Well, it's a

262
00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,320
Speaker 1: group of white people going told you right now. They

263
00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,640
Speaker 1: told you you know what I'm saying. And we don't

264
00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:35,720
Speaker 1: skate because we've been skating with the nice old life.

265
00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,720
Speaker 1: I had a bunch of extra correctly activities. Man, swimming

266
00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:44,120
Speaker 1: was definitely one of them. But I've never not been

267
00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,760
Speaker 1: the funny guy. I've never not been entertainment. I've never

268
00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,120
Speaker 1: not been the reason for a laugh. So the world

269
00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,560
Speaker 1: of comedy was it was always in me. But um,

270
00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,880
Speaker 1: as far as a job in the title for you

271
00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,880
Speaker 1: know that I that I saw success in That was

272
00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:04,520
Speaker 1: a discovery that came later on when the options were

273
00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,240
Speaker 1: brought up to me, but naturally that was always the

274
00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,160
Speaker 1: reason to be left alone. Nobody really fussed with me

275
00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,080
Speaker 1: because Kevin's the cool guy. Leave Kevin Longi's a little

276
00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:15,040
Speaker 1: rob part buddy funny and ship let cat come around.

277
00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,360
Speaker 1: It was always funny. Dudes are always welcome, always always

278
00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,600
Speaker 1: no problem. Plus I was a thug. It was a

279
00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:24,120
Speaker 1: funny combo with the phone combo. What were some of

280
00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,360
Speaker 1: the people that inspired you growing up? Like shows or comedians?

281
00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that I know the answer is

282
00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,520
Speaker 1: always you know you want to go to the biggest comedians,

283
00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,000
Speaker 1: But the biggest inspiration is my mom before you can

284
00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:39,040
Speaker 1: even get the comedy. Because you gotta understand drive when

285
00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:42,680
Speaker 1: you're talking about entertainment, right, any any level of entertainment,

286
00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,240
Speaker 1: any level of accomplishment in life, there's a high level

287
00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:50,560
Speaker 1: of drive that you need to have venue to attached to,

288
00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,120
Speaker 1: set goal to try to accomplish whatever, right are you

289
00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:58,040
Speaker 1: willing to stay true to it, work on it, and

290
00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:00,600
Speaker 1: go through the ups and downs to get to whatever

291
00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,840
Speaker 1: the end is. So my mom the reason to say

292
00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:09,680
Speaker 1: she was the inspiration because without the constant, repetitive conversation

293
00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,640
Speaker 1: of start what you finish or finish what you start

294
00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:17,880
Speaker 1: um or you know, we don't quit. You know what

295
00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,800
Speaker 1: we don't do is leave stories untold. I got a

296
00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,160
Speaker 1: bunch of these things in my head from my mom.

297
00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,680
Speaker 1: You know, you don't leave room for people to complete

298
00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:31,400
Speaker 1: the sentences that you left incomplete. Finish your sentences, Finish

299
00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,920
Speaker 1: the things that you put your mind to. It's always

300
00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:38,440
Speaker 1: stuck with me. So I'm now able to look at

301
00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,440
Speaker 1: the people that acted as like, oh my god, I

302
00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:46,040
Speaker 1: wish you know, Eddie Murphy's the obvious answer. But at

303
00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,680
Speaker 1: that point I don't have access to Eddie Murphy. You

304
00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:51,160
Speaker 1: see what he's doing, but that's not in my reality.

305
00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,680
Speaker 1: I don't think that's that don't exist, man, that's crazy.

306
00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,640
Speaker 1: But these comedians that I do see on a day

307
00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:02,120
Speaker 1: to day that are living life comfortably. Man, These guys

308
00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:04,840
Speaker 1: are working every weekend. These guys are getting on stage.

309
00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000
Speaker 1: That's what I want. That's how do I get that?

310
00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:14,800
Speaker 1: So my my individuals it progressed over time to Ray Gordon,

311
00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,720
Speaker 1: Keith Robinson. You know these are names that summer most

312
00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:22,000
Speaker 1: may or may not know, but this was my reality

313
00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:24,720
Speaker 1: of consistency to Ray Gordon, and he was at the

314
00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,760
Speaker 1: laugh house every weekend. He was a host, he was

315
00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,240
Speaker 1: on stage. This guy was funny as hell. Man. I wish,

316
00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,080
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell a joke like that. Keith

317
00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:37,320
Speaker 1: Robinson going back and forth from Philippine, New York on

318
00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:40,960
Speaker 1: stage every weekend in New York. Every comedy club loved him,

319
00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,240
Speaker 1: Every owner knew him, every comedian showed him, loved damn.

320
00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,439
Speaker 1: I wish, how do I get that? Then when you

321
00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,240
Speaker 1: get in that, it's like, oh, ship, I'm here. I

322
00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:56,280
Speaker 1: got that. Man. Guess who came to the comedy club today.

323
00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:01,040
Speaker 1: Damian Williams was in here today. Oh my god, man,

324
00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:06,120
Speaker 1: George Wallace, Colin Quinn, Holy shit, Ray Romano, Seinfeld, Oh

325
00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,119
Speaker 1: my god, I'm starting to see bigger and bigger to me.

326
00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:14,040
Speaker 1: I wish then you get there. Well, now that the

327
00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:18,040
Speaker 1: conversations are changing, now the rocks, the Chappell's of the world,

328
00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,280
Speaker 1: you know, it starts to change. So now when things

329
00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:25,919
Speaker 1: are closer in arms reach your your inspiration changes. But I,

330
00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,919
Speaker 1: you know, just giving information. I don't start with the

331
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,879
Speaker 1: biggest where I didn't start with the biggest. JB. Smooth,

332
00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,480
Speaker 1: who does real husband's Hollywood? With me? I joke with JB.

333
00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,480
Speaker 1: All the time coming up, JBS laughed that he would

334
00:18:39,480 --> 00:18:44,040
Speaker 1: get with different I wish I could get those laughs. Goddamn,

335
00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:48,000
Speaker 1: how do I get that? You know? Cat Williams. I

336
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,919
Speaker 1: remember it was a point where I was touring with Cat. Damn.

337
00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:55,280
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish I could get that. Go down

338
00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:57,399
Speaker 1: the list, Mike Gaps, all these people there was. I

339
00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,680
Speaker 1: was a guy that saw the opportunity of these from

340
00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,520
Speaker 1: watching simply what was going on in front of me.

341
00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,239
Speaker 1: But I baby stepped it. I didn't. I didn't. It

342
00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,960
Speaker 1: wasn't the thing that I wasn't believable at first. It

343
00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,560
Speaker 1: was the It was the chopping of it. And and

344
00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,080
Speaker 1: as I got closer, the different people served as inspiration

345
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,040
Speaker 1: at different times. You know, you gotta I think you

346
00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,680
Speaker 1: gotta keep doing that. Like right now, Dave Chappelle acts

347
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,680
Speaker 1: as an inspiration. I mean, motherfucker just keeps turning them out.

348
00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,000
Speaker 1: I don't know where the fund he's getting from. He

349
00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:27,960
Speaker 1: just keep doing it. Another special another of this ane

350
00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,199
Speaker 1: of that because not like I don't work hard, What

351
00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:33,800
Speaker 1: the fund is they doing? God damn, Dave, what are

352
00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:39,640
Speaker 1: you doing? Man? My jello man, I love it. Inspiration

353
00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:46,399
Speaker 1: rock inspiration. So I love to find drive, um and

354
00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:51,520
Speaker 1: and reason for self input from watching you know, other

355
00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 1: people grind, other people get after it. It's no, it's

356
00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:59,440
Speaker 1: no no, no hate that exists from from Okay Hart.

357
00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:11,080
Speaker 1: It's only envy and love, and I find fire within that. Obviously,

358
00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,440
Speaker 1: today being one of the biggest comedians in the world,

359
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,280
Speaker 1: one of the biggest movie stars in the world, your grind,

360
00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,920
Speaker 1: your struggle, obviously, what's tough. Talk to us about your

361
00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,280
Speaker 1: first gig, because I know that didn't start off too well.

362
00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:27,160
Speaker 1: Ship first stand of gig, first standing, the first bad one.

363
00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,359
Speaker 1: The first bad one is a famous story. Sweet Cheeks.

364
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 1: It was a male strip club. I didn't even know

365
00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 1: at the time. It was called Seeks to take what

366
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:45,080
Speaker 1: you can get. You didn't know it was called Sweet Cheeks,

367
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,400
Speaker 1: called Sweet Cheeks very well. Could have been a place

368
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:52,720
Speaker 1: that serves apples, I mean sour patch kid, I don't

369
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,639
Speaker 1: know anything. Could have been a candy house. We all,

370
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. They said they want to have comedy show.

371
00:20:57,080 --> 00:20:58,600
Speaker 1: I was one of the comedians. I'm out, I'm going

372
00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 1: that Sweet Cheeks listen, man. I performed at a bowling

373
00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,199
Speaker 1: alle and they was throwing strikes while I was doing punchlines.

374
00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,440
Speaker 1: I can give you. I can give you bad stories

375
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,400
Speaker 1: that a crab shock. I performed at a crab shack

376
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 1: and I could hear niggas cracking crabs. Yes, man. So

377
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 1: the thing with me, oh you got that's a big

378
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 1: one man. That's a big one man. Yeah. Yeah, the

379
00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,320
Speaker 1: back y'all hear mate, alright, just checking to see people

380
00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 1: picking up crabs slam. I'd have been and some ship. Uh.

381
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 1: Sweet Cheeks was definitely the worst though. Sweet Cheeks. It

382
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:34,479
Speaker 1: was just raunchy. It was just it might have been

383
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 1: some of the worst just vulgar people, man. Uh. And

384
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,680
Speaker 1: they didn't want comedy. These people didn't want comedy like

385
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 1: it was just a mixture of people that came to

386
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:50,080
Speaker 1: drink and the comedy and the comedy show was the

387
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:53,240
Speaker 1: ship that they would give the comedians. That was the comedy.

388
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,439
Speaker 1: It wasn't the comedians. The comedy was was them fucking

389
00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 1: with the comedians, and it was what what can medians

390
00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:04,159
Speaker 1: are bold enough to go? So you know, I was

391
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 1: never a bit about it. I'm going, yeah, I'm like,

392
00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, it's gonna be what it's gonna be.

393
00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:14,160
Speaker 1: And I the first the first time was rough through

394
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: a through a chicken wing at me. It's a true story.

395
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: Through a buffalo wing at cone. I never get sauce

396
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 1: and everything. Pat pat connected, Flush, flush little sauce out

397
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,600
Speaker 1: of my eye a little bit, trying to man know

398
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,399
Speaker 1: who the fun through it? You know, at the end

399
00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,760
Speaker 1: of the day, I'm a man. Shut up. Bit you

400
00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 1: can hear in the back funk off the stage. All right,

401
00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 1: all right, y'all, yeah, all right, Plaly put the mic

402
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 1: back in the stand and I remember that was that

403
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 1: was the moment though, That was the That was the

404
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: moment where I sat my car. I sat in my

405
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: car with me and it's got named Big J. And

406
00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: you know we were the one his name. I know,

407
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,000
Speaker 1: I know it sounds. Make sure we stay on track.

408
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,919
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna run from it. You're not gonna You're

409
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: not gonna have me fucking go to an ultimate route

410
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: based off of his nonsense. I'm gonna stay with it. Uh.

411
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 1: We We're in the car and and you know this

412
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: is that was like one of the moments where it

413
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: was like this ship man people throwing chicken and ship

414
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,959
Speaker 1: I think I'm maybe nineteen nineteen years old, you know

415
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 1: this is this is this ain't it, and he's supposed

416
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,359
Speaker 1: to be this, this is where, this is what it's

417
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 1: gonna be. You know, twenty dollars traveling to Pare for

418
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: tars some food, and I was like, you know what,

419
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 1: I'm going back. I'm gonna go back. And I ended

420
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 1: up going back to Sweet Cheeks a couple of times

421
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: because they had a hard times booking comedians. Nobody wanted

422
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 1: to go, so they only took the people that would

423
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 1: come because the list was small, and I remember the

424
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,200
Speaker 1: numbers started to grow a little bit, like fifty dollars,

425
00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,280
Speaker 1: they start offering more money, fifty seventy five, and I went.

426
00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,639
Speaker 1: I started just handling the crowd differently, and it got

427
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: to the point where they started working with me, showed

428
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 1: me love. The host that was once there, he didn't

429
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: want to do it no more. I said, I'll do it,

430
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: I host, I'll bring the comedians. And I ended up

431
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: flipping the room. So the room that didn't like comedy

432
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 1: started the love comedy, and the comedians that didn't want

433
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,560
Speaker 1: to go I started to get to come, but I

434
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: was set the room up better, so comedians were having

435
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,239
Speaker 1: successful sets, and I was known as the guy that

436
00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:32,119
Speaker 1: was running Sweet Cheeks for a minute. But that was

437
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: the that was my moment of I'm I'm I'm gonna

438
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,640
Speaker 1: be okay. There's there's no there's no environment that I'm

439
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 1: not going to be comfortable in. If I found comfort

440
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: in this, and you know, for a while it was

441
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,119
Speaker 1: going back and forth and just doing that, but that

442
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: was like my workout room for a minute, and you

443
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,439
Speaker 1: couldn't tell me nothing. I was happy. I was happy.

444
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: But then when I started to go to New York,

445
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: and then I flipped it and I went mainstream. Now

446
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 1: you're getting the opposite, right. I'm used to being vulgar.

447
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm used to really being in your face, yelling, doing X,

448
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: Y and Z. While I saw that I didn't have to,

449
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 1: I could be more reserved. I had to learn how

450
00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,400
Speaker 1: to flip those rooms. And then I found the balance

451
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: and I would just do both. So when most were

452
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: staying true to one side, I was. I was doing

453
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,760
Speaker 1: it all. And that's how I ended up just saying, Okay,

454
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 1: no more Sweetcheets, I'm just going to New York. And

455
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: in New York, I found the rooms that were on

456
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,000
Speaker 1: the same line and Sweet Cheeks, and I would do

457
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: those and I would still do the mainstream rooms and

458
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 1: then I kind of figured out the balance in between

459
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,680
Speaker 1: so I didn't have to change from this person this person,

460
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: and then I could just be myself as how I

461
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: figured it out. But Sweet Cheeks was definitely the worst

462
00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: fucking environment I've ever been to. Hit me with a

463
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: buffalo wing not forget it, M sucking my face up.

464
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. How did you come up with your own style? Like? What?

465
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: Was it just natural? No? You You you go through

466
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,320
Speaker 1: that phase where you try to imitate what you think

467
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: is good. I was being a character of what I

468
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,360
Speaker 1: thought was funny and JB Smooth once again, shots out

469
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: of JB Smooth was a big part of that. Chris

470
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: Tucker early on the Chris Tucker's career, Chris Tucker, you know,

471
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 1: these people have such an impact that when you watched them,

472
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 1: you were like, that's what I gotta do. I gotta

473
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: do some of that. JB was so physical. I was like,

474
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: that's what I gotta do. I gotta be physical. And

475
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,080
Speaker 1: you're trying to do this stuff, but you're not being

476
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: yourself and self as a discovery right like when you

477
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: when you finally get comfortable enough to go, I'm I'm

478
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm funny me. All I gotta do is be me.

479
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: Let them know who I am. Talk about me. It's

480
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 1: gonna work. It didn't hit until I was doing longer shows.

481
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: I started doing these colleges and I was doing like

482
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,240
Speaker 1: thirty minutes, forty five minute shows, and I was running

483
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: out of material at no more material. All the jokes

484
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: that I wrote, they were, you know, they were falsified.

485
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: You ever you ever see somebody man, I can't stand

486
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:11,680
Speaker 1: when black people but white people. It was a bunch

487
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: of that ship and I had nothing. And it was

488
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,359
Speaker 1: like a fifteen minute stretch where I just started talking

489
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 1: about my day of getting to the school. All the

490
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: ship that I had to go through. I was in

491
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: like Bismarck, North Dakota. We had to do a rental

492
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,640
Speaker 1: car drive. I was in a Dodge Neon driving through

493
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: a storm and we barely made it to the show.

494
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: He was in the motel. I was just talking about

495
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: the day. People were rolling at my natural conversation, but

496
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: I was being myself. It wasn't an added voice on.

497
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: It was nothing. And I was like, this is what

498
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 1: I needed to tap into. This is the this is

499
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: the sweet spot. And once I figured that out, I

500
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: kind of hit the ground rolling and I was around

501
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: the time We're Growing Little Man. I started putting that

502
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: hour together for Growing Little Man, and that was that

503
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: was when I figured out, I don't have to be

504
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: a character of this version of funny that I think exists.

505
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 1: It should come from just being being myself. Once I

506
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: had that, the ball was out of the park. Look back,

507
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: coming up in an age that didn't have or wasn't

508
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 1: able to use social media and the internet the way

509
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: we did. How was promoting yourself back then? When you're

510
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:18,880
Speaker 1: first coming up comic named Dane Cook, Dane Cook, Dane Cook.

511
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: When my Space was big, right my Space, it just

512
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 1: hit and it was all about the page. It was

513
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: all about your MySpace page. It was all about you know,

514
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: comments and going back and forth. I don't even think

515
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: it was comments. I think it was your inbox. You

516
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: had like an inbox and people can message you, you

517
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: can message people. And he was just crushing, you know.

518
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: He was the biggest guy going at the time. And

519
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: I found out what he was doing was, you know,

520
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: he had email lists. He had he had like email lists,

521
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: and every time he went back to this place, he

522
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: was sending blast out I'm coming back. And he built

523
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: this relationship with these people the time of the time

524
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: and as I was coming up. You know, I believe

525
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: that people give you a blueprint for you to understand

526
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: and and grow from it. Information is free. You know,

527
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: you choose to use it. That's that's up to you.

528
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: That's your personal costs. If you don't see the value

529
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: and free information, well that's that you. I see the

530
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: value and information. So I I started going to comedy

531
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: clubs and I had little cards, information cards. I would

532
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: leave them on the tables and the end of my show,

533
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: I was like, fill out the information cards. Fill them out.

534
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: People do it. We would come around, I would pick

535
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: them all up, and I will put a little paper

536
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: clip on them, and I will put Cincinnati. And then

537
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: we'll go to my computer and we will put Cincinnati,

538
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: put all the emails in, and did that for every

539
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: city on the comedy club. Now, granted these are half

540
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 1: four rooms, they're not they're not big rooms. But then

541
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: I'm right back after I just left. So this comedy

542
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: club tour went like sixt eight months. I did them all.

543
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to go back out. Let's go

544
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,480
Speaker 1: the same route that we went last time Cincinnati, I'm

545
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: coming back. Holy ship. The room grew then we like

546
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,840
Speaker 1: three quarters four we almost sold out or they're selling out,

547
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: were like three quarters full. Damn. It's like this every

548
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: where we go and the people, the people are coming back.

549
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: All first things first, we gotta get new material. You can't.

550
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: You can't come back and recycle. They're coming back. Okay,

551
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 1: let's learning less number one. Let's write some jokes. Let's

552
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: get some ship. Alright, time to go back. Hit him

553
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: up again. And I'm selling out, selling multiple shows. More

554
00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: people are coming out with these people telling other people, Um,

555
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 1: I got a relationship. I have a relationship with my Oh,

556
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: this is a fan base. This is the definition of

557
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: a fan base. I got one. It's growing. I need

558
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: to be consistent with this. I didn't stop that until

559
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: social media got big. That was my way of connecting.

560
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: That's how I got to theaters. That's how I got

561
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: out of comedy clubs. It was from the constant connection

562
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: and interaction with my comedy fan base. And once social

563
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: media started to get bigger, well, you no longer needed

564
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: the email addresses because you had an act name, so

565
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: those people followed you. So now I'm just saying Cincinnati,

566
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,360
Speaker 1: I'm coming back, and everybody that follows me is looking.

567
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,719
Speaker 1: And the people from Cincinnati that follow me where they

568
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: all normal on social media because I I blasted all

569
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 1: my stuff out to them. So when I first joined,

570
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: I got my whole email list. I'm sending all of them,

571
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: here's my Twitter name. Follow me on Twitter. Well those

572
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: numbers started to shoot up. So now I'm just following

573
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: the same agenda. So social media just gave me access

574
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: to what I was already working hard to have access to.

575
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 1: I just never I never liked. I never went away

576
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: from it until this day. I don't. I don't go

577
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: away from it. So whether it's comedy movie, whether there's

578
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: something I'm producing, whether it's an event wherever, I have

579
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: a direct relationship with my fan base. And I think

580
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: that's a major key to success in today's time. You know,

581
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: your ability to market, promote, uh and not necessarily be available,

582
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: but just be present to those that want to see

583
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 1: your presence. It's extremely important. Starting at cheeks, well maybe

584
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: we just call it was my cheeks, sweet cheeks, to

585
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: just call it a comedy a comedy room, sweet Cheeks

586
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,959
Speaker 1: st club, but it was you know, but that's just

587
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: me being honest with you, guys. I feel always but

588
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: starting there and eventually, like you said, working away at

589
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: of comedy clubs, the theaters too. Now you're doing stadiums.

590
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: Tell us about that process, what you've learned about yourself,

591
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: and just do you ever have an aw moment? Because

592
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: both being retired athletes, we did a lot of great

593
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: things in our career, but you never got to appreciate

594
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: them until you've got a chance to sit back. Obviously

595
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: you're still in the mix, daily routine, grind. Do you

596
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: ever just sit back and like, motherfucker, I just sold

597
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,239
Speaker 1: out so and I'm chocolate dropped. No, you know what

598
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: he on social media like three weeks ago and layout

599
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: all this. I'll tell you the part that you have

600
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: to like, the part that you gotta really you gotta

601
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: take two steps back and just reframe from right, I

602
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: think the accomplishments are surreal. I can't believe that telling

603
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: jokes has taken me to this place that I now

604
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: and then in life in my career, right, there's no

605
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: real blueprint. You can see what other people have done,

606
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: but it's not guaranteed that that's gonna work for you, Right,

607
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's just information. So what people put

608
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: on display you can take in and go that's dope.

609
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: They did it this way or it was done this way. Damn. Okay,

610
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: I want to follow this. I'm gonna try this, but

611
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: then I want to manipulate it to making my own

612
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: You can. You can kind of create your own lane

613
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: after following your lane, and then you break off into

614
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: whatever space and and maneuver however you very much feel

615
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: and and want to. It happened so fast. I told

616
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: you I was in the comedy clubs and I was

617
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,720
Speaker 1: working these these email addresses. That was it was work.

618
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: Then my team going to malls passing out flyers. I

619
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,320
Speaker 1: was really my man on the street. I did the work.

620
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: So when you look up and they go, oh, ship,

621
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: you sold out four shows at the comedy club, we're

622
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: gonna add to Okay, dope, Yo, we were adding you

623
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 1: had ten shows for the weekend. Huh, what do you

624
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: wanna do? You want to do three? Three, three and three?

625
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 1: I'm at twelve shows on a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Wait,

626
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: what does this happen? No? Yo, you this is crazy.

627
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,399
Speaker 1: You're coming back again next year? I think so keV,

628
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to you about theaters. Okay, should we

629
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: do it? Let's try it. Oh funck, we just sold

630
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: out two shows. This theater sold out three shows. Oh,

631
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: ship man, we're doing the theaters. Let's go to arenas. No,

632
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 1: not yet, I gotta understand this theater. Ship, I do

633
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: one of the theaters. What we're doing three and four shows? Kevin,

634
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: you gotta do arenas like we're missing out an opportunity. No,

635
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait. I do the theaters. I right then

636
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: I go to the arenas. Holy fuck, we're doing two

637
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: and three shows in Arenas. So now you you you

638
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,720
Speaker 1: look up in your averaging, you know, thirty forty thousand people.

639
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: This is going through laughing my pain. Let me explain

640
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: what now? Irresponsible? Those tours that's over an eight year period.

641
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: Put a two year gap in between. My numbers never dropped,

642
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: So you're looking at an eight year run. By the way,

643
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 1: it's still not over. I just don't have time to

644
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: go out right now. The pandemic also, I didn't have

645
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: time to go out. Then, don't sunk this up. That's special.

646
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: I didn't four weeks. I put together in four weeks.

647
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: I just put an hour together. I was like, yeah, pandemic,

648
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: people need some content. If I get like a little

649
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: place to work out, I'll put an hour together fast.

650
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: I didn't put it out. I still very much can

651
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: go out on the road. But it's like, now, fuck,

652
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,479
Speaker 1: I now get to look back and go, oh, ship,

653
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: look at the numbers, Kevin, look at the Look at

654
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: the fucking numbers. Look at the stadium. I was. I

655
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: had a microphone. I didn't have h like, there was

656
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,439
Speaker 1: no get it was. Had a microphone for an hour

657
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: and a half, I did a football stadium. Goddamn god.

658
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 1: That's that's that's a little insane. So I'll be honest,

659
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: the pandemic really had me sit down. And that's when

660
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: I got to look back because I've been running so fast,

661
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: I've been haul ass and I've yet to really sit

662
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: and look. So this, this run that was supposed to

663
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: be a moment of fame, well, I mean you you're

664
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: your fifteen sixteen years of it now. So for movies

665
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: to stand up and everything, it's a little crazy to go, wow,

666
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,760
Speaker 1: how do we get here? And now that you're here,

667
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 1: we're now the game changes because now it's not about

668
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: how you got here. It's about staying there or are

669
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: you trying to stay there? And it's about the constant

670
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: conversation attached to you and what you were and what

671
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: you used to be and what you did and not

672
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: what you are now, you know what I mean? Like,

673
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: it's like now you're in the conversation of growth and

674
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 1: maturity and life differences and well, I'm at a different

675
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: place creatively. But people want to you know, you're well,

676
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: we want where's where is this? Niked well and he

677
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: was twenty four, he was twenty eight, he was thirty

678
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: and forty two, forty two, like, you know, my environments changed.

679
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: So we we had a conversation before and you know,

680
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: they're like, what are you gonna call the next special?

681
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm gonna call it confused, Like

682
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: what what at this point? What do you? What else

683
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: do you do? So I now look at it from

684
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: a different lens, and I'm so envious of Chappelle and

685
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: where he is because he's found his second gear and creative,

686
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: He's found that second gear. He was already a star,

687
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 1: went away and then he he rebuilt his star. Will

688
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: Smith was already a star, went away, came back, rebranded

689
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: and built his star. That's what stars fucking do. Stars

690
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: gotta be stars. That's how I'm a star. Watch this.

691
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: So now it's like I'm gonna do stand up. But

692
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta find the thing. I gotta get

693
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: the the next bump of the thing, so I can

694
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: be excited about the thing. The movies are getting bigger,

695
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: but I'm also excited the fact that I'm I'm producing them,

696
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: I'm creating them. I'm excited that I got a company

697
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: that a partner to these motherfucking monsters. Now that's my excitement.

698
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: Radio talking understanding people, Well you that's my excitement. The

699
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: business side of the business, the business side of the business.

700
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: So you know, the beauty of fucking getting older is

701
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: the growth. So we talk about looking back. I look

702
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: back at it, but I can't duplicate none of that

703
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: ship no more. I'm not the same. I can't do

704
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 1: that ship no more. I I may not ever see

705
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: that that level of heat again. But I can find

706
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: the level of fun and the craft and and and

707
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: then find the level of balance that I want to

708
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 1: have with where I am in life now. But that ship,

709
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: it's unheard of. If you go look at those fucking numbers.

710
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,840
Speaker 1: People have no idea. There's number ones across the board

711
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: towards comedies, biggest, go look at it. It's unheard of.

712
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 1: When you go look at the list for stand up

713
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: specials in the top three, top ten, I'm in there

714
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: three times. That's stupid. I ain't getting back there. They're

715
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: gonna sit my stupid ass down on the stool and

716
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:49,200
Speaker 1: figure it out because I can't chase that. So the

717
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:54,080
Speaker 1: pandemic made me realize that. It made me just sit

718
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: in the moment of being blessed enough to have seen

719
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: that and now find new success and with this what

720
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: this stage presents, you know what I mean? That's that

721
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: for me is the is the most mind blowing thing

722
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: about looking back. And you know, for you guys are

723
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 1: quite sure it's the saying you said, you're both retired.

724
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: I watched the goddamned Malice in the Palace sh It

725
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: you forget. I watched it on TV. My appreciation for

726
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: the moment now was different looking back at it. You go,

727
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 1: that was history. That's a moment in history. Goddamn, I

728
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: remember that I was alive in witness history. That's excitement

729
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: for me being able to look back and reflect on

730
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: things like that and in life in my career. That's

731
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: why I'm at mentally and finding the new gear, the

732
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: new reason, that's the priority. But it's not until I

733
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: get that that I'm gonna do that. And I just

734
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: think about all that coming from paper soldiers. Paper soldiers,

735
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm tell you who's gonna let it? Shouts out to

736
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: damn Dash. Shouts out the dame Dash for paper soldiers

737
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: in a fucking brilliant accident, right place, right time. I'm

738
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: at a comedy club. Name just happens to be sitting

739
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: in the comedy club, sees me perform. You know that

740
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: do funnier ship? Yo, you want to do a movie.

741
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: They didn't have the movie fucking together at the time.

742
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: You just do telling me something I don't know what

743
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: to believe. Cool, Yeah, let me get your number. Follow

744
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: through the movie ends up happening. Paper soldiers. The reason

745
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 1: why I got tapes, audition tapes, pilots Classic's hood classic.

746
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: That's what classic classic, shouts out the smoky shots out

747
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: the beans. I mean, Charlie Murphy, r I P. That's

748
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 1: what early two US two ship. Yes, that's very maybe

749
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: two thousand, two thousand three two thousand four. I think

750
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: I got leave when that ship dropped two thousand four.

751
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 1: All of my all of my classes in the beginning,

752
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: we're successful, Uh, bootlegs and flops. So playing was supposed

753
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: to be the biggest move ever and ended up being

754
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: the biggest bootleg of all time. It's a classics. That's

755
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: what got me the Comedy Club. So you take that

756
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 1: movie away, and if it doesn't get bootleg the way

757
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: that it did, it's not going to have the box

758
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: office success that it had. The movie traveled because of

759
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: the bootleg marking. So my fame, my fame grew from

760
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: the bootlegs. It was lucky. I got lucky, right projects,

761
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,720
Speaker 1: right down. What was the transition for you, like coming

762
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: into acting early on from being a comedian another accident.

763
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: You don't You don't see it happening. I wish that

764
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: I could have the the best stories of This was

765
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: my plan and this is why I knew it would

766
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: happened all all right place, right time. Were you acting

767
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: for you weren't acting before the now? Yeah, it's the

768
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: first thing I've ever the first camera that was ever

769
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: put in my face, first came I ever put in

770
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: my face. First lines that somebody ever told me to

771
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: read back. No, no, fucking like real practice was ever

772
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: put into the craft. Nothing. I was thrown in there,

773
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: and I just so happened to do the job. After

774
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: doing that, it was, oh ship, this is what happens

775
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: after Because you hear about it, you see it. Remember

776
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: def jam comedians, that deaf jam and the ones that

777
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: really popped, they went on to be movie stars. Right

778
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,880
Speaker 1: you go, and you really look at the the trajectory

779
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: that's attached to comedy. Well, comedians were supposed to pop

780
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: on these on these big comedy shows, be a deaf

781
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: jam comic view at the time, and from that you

782
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: were supposed to get a TV show or a movie

783
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: if you were good enough, one of those opportunities would come.

784
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: So if you really go down the list, look at

785
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: Bernie Mac, the Bernie Mac Show, look at such a

786
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: the entertainer, Look at Steve Harvey, look at D. L. Hugley,

787
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: You look at Martin Lawrence, Um, you know, Chris Tucker,

788
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: Mike gaps Cat, you look at these things. They all

789
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: all of the big pop came from that first that

790
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: first bang. And if your first bang was correct and

791
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: if it was loud enough, this is what we're supposed

792
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: to come with. It didn't happen like that. I didn't.

793
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't get that. I saw other people

794
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: get that, but it wasn't didn't seem like it was

795
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: gonna be my reality. I was doing those I did

796
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: the deaf Jam later on, but by time I did it,

797
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't deaf Jam. The the the big bang behind

798
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: the name wasn't there. It was still death Jam. But

799
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: you said it like that death Jam. Back in the day,

800
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: it was deaf Jam. You gotta see death Jam. It

801
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 1: wasn't that BT Comic View. I did it. It wasn't

802
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: Comic View Ricky Smiley when they had it. When that,

803
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: when those big names were going through it, it was different.

804
00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: But by time I came along, it was, you know,

805
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: it was just wortered down a little bit. The opportunities

806
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 1: weren't the same, so I didn't know where that opportunity

807
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: was gonna come from. Minds came from Caroline's Comedy Club,

808
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: Dame Dash seeing me, I do payer Soldiers, I get

809
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: a tape. I end up getting other auditions. I somehow

810
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: auditioned my way into several pilots that failed. That's another

811
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: story of just failed fucking pilots. I go do Montreal

812
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: just for last comedy festival. When I do the festival,

813
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: I get a lot of heat from the industry. This

814
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: is Hollywood, mainstream Hollywood. Get a deal, this is supposed

815
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: to be it. Get a TV show. TV show gets

816
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 1: picked up. I'm about to be a star. I got

817
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: my show. Here it comes. Show fucking gets dropped. While

818
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm at the upfronts up front or where they announced

819
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: your new TV show. They're about to announce me. I'm

820
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: about to go up. Somebody put their hand on my chest.

821
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 1: Mr Hard Wait a minute, I'm sorry, you're not going up.

822
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: Somebody back to talk to you. My manager comes running back.

823
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: They're not picking up the show. What the funk? They

824
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: just said us? Wait, but I'm here. What do you

825
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: mean not picking it up? I'm in New York. I

826
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: flew the whole cast down. Use my money. There's the

827
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 1: biggest moment of my life. What do you mean? I'm

828
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:20,720
Speaker 1: ABC t G. I thank god it's Friday, the Big House. Kevin,

829
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: you gotta move what right hand one hand on this?

830
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 1: You gotta move you Kennedy's You're up. That moment's over

831
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: all right then, So plane comes, So planes it here,

832
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: it comes, so plane get bootleg. God damn, what's going on.

833
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: He's done. We're not giving no more chances. That was

834
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,240
Speaker 1: my starring movie. That was my starring TV show. Both flopped.

835
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: I went back to stand up, grinded, stayed true to

836
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: the road. My numbers got big. Will Packer saw me

837
00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: at the airport once again, fucking accidental success. I just

838
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: so happened to be coming while Will Packers going at

839
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: the time. Will Packer did stop the yard. I believe

840
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: that he did. Takers. I believe the Takers was was

841
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,399
Speaker 1: the movie with a dress Alba t I. I think

842
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,040
Speaker 1: that was the other one. Um, and he had another

843
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 1: one he had he had um, he had one more

844
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 1: that he had did with Clint Cole Pepper and screen Gems.

845
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: And he said, dude, I got a movie for you.

846
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: I heard about all the stuff that you're doing on

847
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,480
Speaker 1: the road in comedy. I got a movie called Think

848
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: Like a Man. Keep in mind, I've been doing all

849
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: these little guest spots in these movies, but nothing sticking.

850
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: Along came Polly Scary Movie three four. I mean, I'm

851
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: just I'm just in ship like it's funny, but I'm

852
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 1: just in it. I don't it's not like I'm I'm

853
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: an actor. I'm just in it. Like these are all

854
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: blurbs and moments. I'm like, well, this is what it's

855
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: gonna be. I'm going back to comedy because this ain't.

856
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 1: This don't look like it's gonna be it. Will Packard

857
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: thought he was just another producer talking. Calls me back,

858
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: I think like a man, and you want to do it.

859
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: I'm in I think like a man. Becomes the biggest

860
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: success ever and I popped in the movie. I had

861
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: a great cast, and that cast set me up. They

862
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:20,759
Speaker 1: just kept giving me lives all day. I mean, well

863
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: this time, you know, this is probably when I was

864
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: in my hype prim Yeah I was. I was about

865
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: five four and a half. I was filming that movie. Uh,

866
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: but you know, we had a great cast to Ragi,

867
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: Gab Meghan, Michael Ely, Romney Malco, Jerry gar Gary, Gary O.

868
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:46,399
Speaker 1: And I mean, I hope I'm not leaving anybody out.

869
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: But Tim's story directed and this movie it blew. Movie

870
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 1: was twelve million dollars to make. We ended up doing

871
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: like ninety plus man in the box office. All of

872
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: a sudden, people think Kevin Hart's the guy. Well, I've

873
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: been around for a long time and then just come

874
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. But now will Packers say, I got

875
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: another movie for you? All right? What is it? Right along? Alright?

876
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: Me and Cube or the script been around for years.

877
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: They could never crack the code. Cube figures out that

878
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: I'm into it. Q put his hand on it. He's

879
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: a great producer, shape molded managed it correctly. This thing

880
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: I know right along happens. Movie calls twenty million dollars

881
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: to make. We do one fifty in the box office.

882
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: Oh ship people fucking with Okay hard they come back?

883
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: You want to do another ride along? I sure fucking do.

884
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:43,080
Speaker 1: When when will Packard? Before we do that? We're gonna

885
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: do a movie called About Last Night and Regina Hall.

886
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: We just keep on knocking out these movies and I

887
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: just keep on hitting. That's a celebrity crash much, Regina Hall,

888
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: get out of here. You're I'm working with it right now.

889
00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: We're doing a movie called Me Tom just holding me

890
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: to just change everything. Really weird over there. I'm very weird,

891
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you. Said. But Regina Hall pound of pound,

892
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: funniest female on camera nobody, And I say that confidently

893
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: nobody can hold a match to Regina. So now I'm

894
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: getting I'm getting these I'm getting these partners and everything

895
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 1: he's going correctly. Well, Domestic were crushing. How do I

896
00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: get international? Man, Will Ferrell? We go do get hard?

897
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: After that, man, DJ, we go do central Intelligence. So

898
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: it just kept just kept on growing and getting bigger.

899
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:42,240
Speaker 1: But I will give a shout out to my my partner,

900
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,959
Speaker 1: my brother, Will Packer, because when we knocked the first

901
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:50,960
Speaker 1: and out of the park, nobody taught me to produce

902
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: or what to do next. He saw that we did

903
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: an amazing job in this. He went and created and

904
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: found these opportunities, and he kept on bringing him. He

905
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: kept on bringing him. I did about six movies with

906
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: Will Packer, back to back to back to back, and

907
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: I didn't change it at all until this day. Man, Will.

908
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: We pride ourselves on still working together, still development projects, uh,

909
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: still producing together. But my all the knowledge and understanding

910
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,479
Speaker 1: that I have for that world they came from Will Packer.

911
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: Too many game inside of U. You name three big

912
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: names that I kind of want to touch on real quickly. First,

913
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: Will Farrell, what was it like the funniest guy. Please

914
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: tell me how how hard was it? Will Farrell. Will

915
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: Farrell is the funniest. He may be the funniest person

916
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: on two ft. I'm talking naturally, I'm talking. No, I'm talking.

917
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: I'm talking showing up from from showing up to work

918
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: to going home. The nicest guy in the world. But

919
00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: I'm talking. I'm talking to different gear, a different gear

920
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: with funny. There's nobody, nobody clothes, no nobody clothes. He

921
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,880
Speaker 1: will will show up like everything was a bit. So

922
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: you you gotta figure out that he's in a bit.

923
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: Like when you show up at work. He's like, morning,

924
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,600
Speaker 1: you eat breakfast? Right, I'm like, no, I ain't breakfast?

925
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: Why not? I don't. I don't I didn't want breakfast.

926
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: You gotta eat breakfast. I don't know. I don't. I

927
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: don't want to. Not if I want to, you gotta like,

928
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:35,439
Speaker 1: you know, I'm talking regular. He's in a bit, though,

929
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: He's just he's just gonna see how long I go

930
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 1: back and forth he went on this breakfast Conversation's like,

931
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,959
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna start to you get something. I'm like, what,

932
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 1: you gotta put something on your stomach. I'm not gonna

933
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: start working with you to you put something your stomach

934
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna be your best breakfast. He starts

935
00:53:51,680 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 1: Greg breadcasting Breaklet load him up, like load him upright,

936
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: bring this fucking plate and this guy like everything everything

937
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: on it, Pancakes, get in there. He's fucking funny man.

938
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 1: There's nobody, nobody closed, nobody close to first, Nobody close

939
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 1: the rock. I love you guys dynamic because it's just

940
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: such a big physical difference. But you guys playoff that

941
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: so well and everything you do. DJ DJ is a

942
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: a talented guy, and we we get along so well

943
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: because we find similarities and how we approach the craft, right,

944
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: like we have a mutual respect and understanding for where

945
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: we've come from, where we are now and when we

946
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: when we met, DJ was having crazy international success. I

947
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:51,359
Speaker 1: was having crazy domestic success, right, so his his his

948
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: role to becoming that international movie star. It was it

949
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: was clear like he was on his way, um one

950
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: the domestic side. I was crushing. So we we met.

951
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: I think we met it like, uh, there was an

952
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 1: MTV Movie Awards. We met backstage and we talked and

953
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: he was like, dude, we gotta figure it out. We

954
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: gotta do something together, and we were we we were

955
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: true to that. We try to figure it out. And

956
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: the reason why because we one of those two things

957
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: to combine. And that's what Central Intelligence was about. Central

958
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: Intelligence was about us coming together and trying to find

959
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: a comedy that could take us over the water internationally

960
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: while fulfilling the need for comedy domestically, because at the time,

961
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: you know, comedy was low key. It was low ki dying.

962
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,760
Speaker 1: Like you know, if you if you go look back

963
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 1: at that Tom frame and comedy there there weren't a

964
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 1: lot of successful comedies. Uh. You had um Wallburg's movies

965
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 1: with Ferrell Um that were crushing um. You know, you

966
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: had Me and Packers movies that we were doing um

967
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:58,840
Speaker 1: and you know the hangovers that came a couple of

968
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: times far a few and then between. We're question but

969
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: the attempt for comedy from so many others it was

970
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: it wasn't doing well so international. They didn't think that

971
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,879
Speaker 1: it could translate, especially if you had like you know,

972
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: people of color in it. So our reason for doing

973
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 1: that was to show that we're on the opposite side

974
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: of that conversation, that we could very much do it.

975
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: Central Intelligence ended up being now a reason for continuing

976
00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: a relationship. We had a great time filming it. Crazy

977
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: success that we went on, and and your weight room

978
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: sessions where you're getting fake blood and putting change right

979
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: in the right Let me carrying them everything. It's a

980
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:45,360
Speaker 1: secret weapon. My back hurts carrying that. You're anybody Obviously

981
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 1: you're coming up in your start in your own world,

982
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: but then you're crossing into this other world. Anybody you

983
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: were in awe working with four second until Uh, I'll say,

984
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: I'll go behind the uh, I'll go behind the lens

985
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: and I'll say Donna Langley from from Universal UM who

986
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 1: just a monster when it comes to business, and and

987
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:20,520
Speaker 1: the way that she worked her relationships with talent to

988
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: exect other studios, I was. I was very UM. I

989
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: was blown away by her approach to the business craft

990
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: right and what I learned from her without her probably

991
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: even knowing it was the true world of marketing, p

992
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: a uh, promotion development, her and Peter Kramer. I'm gonna

993
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: shoutut Peter Cramer too. UM that Universal Identity at that

994
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: point served as amazing partners for me um and and

995
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: really helped elevate my success. So for me, it was

996
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: It wasn't about the talent. It was about the understanding

997
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 1: of the business. Because my thing is, I don't want

998
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 1: to be a work for hire. How how do I

999
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: become a partner? So I was really trying to attach

1000
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: myself to the brains that could that could really help

1001
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: this partnership. And I would say, uh, Universal, Donna Laneley,

1002
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,919
Speaker 1: Peter Krame, and Ron Meyer, Jeff Shell, that whole group

1003
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: at the time, they allowed me to really generate that

1004
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: partner like relationship to the point where now moving forward,

1005
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: fast forward, where I am now company and everything built. Well,

1006
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 1: I'm a partner so now I'm with Netflix. But the

1007
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: knowledge and stuff that I have and the company and

1008
00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 1: foundation that we've built um at Heartbeat is is one

1009
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: that's put us in position to execute. So you know,

1010
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: the movies and stuff that we're doing with Netflix are amazing,

1011
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 1: But all that knowledge and stuff came from the information

1012
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: and and and I can say, like love that I

1013
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: got Universal. So that's who I was envious because that's

1014
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: who That's who showed me the business world Packer two

1015
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: because he was in that bubble. You touched on what

1016
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: I was heading to next outside of just being the talent.

1017
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: Now you're in the business of the business. So talk

1018
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: to me real quick about the three companies you found

1019
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: in Heartbeat Productions, Love Out Loud Network, and Heartbeat Ventures.

1020
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: Hove inspires me, Jay Brown inspires me. And it's because

1021
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: outside of the thing that they did, they they found

1022
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: new success in being in the rooms that we weren't

1023
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: supposed to be in, right, which is huge, massive. So

1024
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: you don't know about these rooms that exists, right, you don't,

1025
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: Bye bye, you don't. I'm talking about our culture. We're

1026
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: not We're not privy to certain environments because they don't

1027
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:55,400
Speaker 1: exist for us there they're far fueling in between. Um.

1028
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 1: But when it comes to that other side of revenue,

1029
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: when it comes to the other side of its relationships, well,

1030
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: the success that's over there, it is over there for

1031
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: a reason because it's all connected. And I was like,

1032
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: how do how do I get there? How do I

1033
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: get over there? What are the moves that that people

1034
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: are truly making? And what is it that I'm not

1035
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: seeing or that I'm not getting? What do other people

1036
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: not see or get and not on purpose? What wasn't

1037
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: given to them for for them to understand it? That existed?

1038
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 1: And I learned it was all about ownership. You know,

1039
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:34,919
Speaker 1: what what can you own versus not on how much

1040
01:00:34,920 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: can you actually control? What? What I p can you develop? What?

1041
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: What are your resources to control your world? Your brand?

1042
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: And I started to figure out ownership within myself and

1043
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: I used the ownership within myself to find ownership within

1044
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: my entity. And that entity became another entity because I

1045
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: figured out, well, here's film, here's production. But this can

1046
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: be distribut you should, this can be streaming. Holy sh it,

1047
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: this can be audio. Oh my god, this is another world,

1048
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: you know. Uh. Me and Charlottagne we just started a

1049
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: company with Audible where we created a company Audible acts

1050
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 1: as our partners, but we own this company. And we

1051
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 1: were like, well, in the world of audio, especially within books, Uh,

1052
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: there's a there's a a gap between our culture and

1053
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,439
Speaker 1: the rest of the world that's listening to books. And

1054
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 1: why is that? I don't think anybody is telling them

1055
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: right stories or giving the right material, the right opportunity

1056
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 1: for us to truly engage in the world of audio

1057
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: reading right, which is listening while you're working or doing whatever.

1058
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: So Charlottage and I came up with a great concept.

1059
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,959
Speaker 1: We executed it, but these all actors, entities, heart Beat Ventures. Well,

1060
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: investing is real. You know once again our culture, this

1061
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 1: information isn't given to us about money, about financial gain. Right, finance,

1062
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 1: Your literacy is real, but it's also because of void.

1063
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:07,760
Speaker 1: So I got great partnerships Chase, Chase bankers my real partners.

1064
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: All right, well, we can do our job and trying

1065
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: to figure out this financial literacy gap. Let's let's go

1066
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 1: to communities give the information at the same time or

1067
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:21,439
Speaker 1: within Heartbeat Ventures. I now have access into these other rooms. Well,

1068
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: we invest in the right things, we backed the right companies.

1069
01:02:25,960 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: Our growth becomes high level growth with awareness and understanding

1070
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 1: that allows other people to see what I've done, to

1071
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: see that it's not something that's impossible. It's about getting

1072
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: the information. As soon as I have it, I give it.

1073
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: So all of these things act as my ecosystem, my brand, literature, audio, movies,

1074
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: TV distribution. Right then that branches off into ambassador roles,

1075
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: UH and other companies that you can own. So what

1076
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: else do I want to do? All right, Well, I'm

1077
01:02:57,880 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: getting in the world of alcohol. If you have to

1078
01:02:59,680 --> 01:03:03,919
Speaker 1: do that, I'm gonna release the goddamn amazing brand. Um

1079
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 1: that's TVD that's coming out. What else can I do? Well?

1080
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:11,000
Speaker 1: What do I fucking like like watches? Okay, well I

1081
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:13,520
Speaker 1: need to figure out my watch relationship. Me and ap

1082
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: are going to launch something amazing, okay within Fragrance and

1083
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 1: the world of Fragrance lotions. Well, I'm a guid it.

1084
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: I like to be fucking clean, I like to smell good.

1085
01:03:23,120 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 1: I like products. Well, if these things exist and this

1086
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 1: is what I use, why can't I embed them in

1087
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 1: my ecosystem? So many people are afraid to not do

1088
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:33,200
Speaker 1: things because of the response, which you don't realize is

1089
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: that without no effort, there's no reward. I'm heavy on

1090
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,800
Speaker 1: the effort. So all those entities that exist all based

1091
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 1: off of effort. And you know, I've been blessing enough

1092
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:45,320
Speaker 1: to create a crazy ecosystem with a great team, and

1093
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 1: you know, until this day we seem to be right.

1094
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: But that's my priority now, growing and and having something

1095
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: that stands crazy, crazy, crazy high at the end of

1096
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: the day that my family, when it's all said and done,

1097
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: they take and they then do Yes, that's ours like this,

1098
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:04,000
Speaker 1: That's what doesn't doesn't happen, right, we we we don't

1099
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 1: know the world to grow and sell we know the

1100
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,080
Speaker 1: world of higher and get higher, but we should be

1101
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: a part of the grow and sell conversations as well.

1102
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: And I'm starting to see them happen more and more.

1103
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:15,680
Speaker 1: But when I look at Tyler, when I look at Oprah,

1104
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 1: when I look at Hove, when I look at you know,

1105
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 1: Beyonce's doing amazing ship as well. Well, you know, these

1106
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: conversations are only attached to like five or six puff

1107
01:04:27,040 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 1: think about it. You gotta you gotta struggle to get

1108
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: to like eight names. For us, it's a struggle, and

1109
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: that's a problem. So the more that people kind of

1110
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: adapt this understanding and level of attempt within gaining information,

1111
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:45,280
Speaker 1: I think, the more we'll see doors just fly open.

1112
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: That's why I'm at with it. Now we've learned how

1113
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: precious life is. I think since this pandemic and and

1114
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: and friends and family we've lost, and celebrities lost. September one,

1115
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, you're in a bad car accident. Talk

1116
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: to us about that day and the experience, what you

1117
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:03,320
Speaker 1: learn from it. I mean, it's the day I almost died,

1118
01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: but then I woke up right Like, That's when the

1119
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 1: priorities changed, That's when life was different. You know, are

1120
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: you valuing the right things? Do you really value the

1121
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: correct things? And the correct things, of course are your

1122
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 1: loved ones, your your your family, And there's moments where

1123
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: you overlooked that because you're so caught up into the job,

1124
01:05:28,880 --> 01:05:34,240
Speaker 1: the money, the success, and you sometimes make your family

1125
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: secondary to all the moves that you got to make

1126
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 1: out here the accident slash pandemic so long as I've

1127
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: ever sat down in my life, but it's the best

1128
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:46,800
Speaker 1: time that I've ever had because I got to see

1129
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:51,800
Speaker 1: what matters the most and the value that came from

1130
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: that was prioritizing them in their needs in a way

1131
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: that I never have. And I think this is the

1132
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 1: beauty again old right, the beauty of getting older is

1133
01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a stepping a lot of ship, I'm

1134
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: a mess up a lot of shoes, and that's okay.

1135
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 1: I'm I'm okay with that. I don't I don't live

1136
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: in this world of false reality of perfection. And I

1137
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 1: think somewhere the lines I talked about this before, the

1138
01:06:17,080 --> 01:06:20,080
Speaker 1: lines have gotten blurred in today's time, Like you know,

1139
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: people are searching for that thing that don't exist. I'm

1140
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,479
Speaker 1: fine with my funk ups. I'm fine with with every

1141
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:30,600
Speaker 1: last one of them. And I love what comes from

1142
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: it because the person that you are in the conversations

1143
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,040
Speaker 1: and stories that I'm able to share with this group

1144
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:41,200
Speaker 1: of four, these fucking four people that look at me

1145
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: like yo, Dad, that's dad, Like I'm able to share

1146
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: some ship, good, bad, ugly that can hopefully put them

1147
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: in position to do the right thing in life. And

1148
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: even if they don't, they'll be fine because I know

1149
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: that I'm doing my job and owning ship when I

1150
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: do it, learning from ship, when I can educating myself

1151
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:09,960
Speaker 1: when it's free, being okay with being flawed, showing that

1152
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 1: it's okay to get better all of the things that

1153
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 1: we struggle with in life. If I can be a

1154
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 1: product of that and be a better displayed to them,

1155
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: I take that every day of the week. The accident

1156
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 1: that was the lightbulb of making sure that I'm doing

1157
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: that correctly. Because you want to go, you want to go,

1158
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: you come back in this movie night. You mistake that

1159
01:07:31,280 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 1: is parenting. Sometimes, Hey it's Tuesday, we can't dinner. Everybody

1160
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 1: at the table. You got two hours and everybody eight.

1161
01:07:38,560 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: You mistake that is parenting. The pandemic was you know,

1162
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,959
Speaker 1: you're you're in it kids sucking home every day every

1163
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 1: goddamned there was a conversation. So you know, I took

1164
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 1: a I took a lot of good out of it.

1165
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: And you know, it's unfortunate that had to come that way,

1166
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: but I take those messages from that big man upstairs.

1167
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:01,479
Speaker 1: However they come. That was a message that I needed

1168
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: to hear. Talk to us about your your your your

1169
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: health and fitness, your workout routine and uh, Boss ever Lely,

1170
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 1: someone who trains both of us to go to your coffee. Um,

1171
01:08:20,280 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 1: the relationship you have with him too, because I think

1172
01:08:21,880 --> 01:08:23,559
Speaker 1: that's such a special He's a great dude. I've been

1173
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: training with him for a few years now, but you

1174
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:27,280
Speaker 1: took it to another level and talk to us about that.

1175
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:31,160
Speaker 1: I can say with Boss, I've been trying to get

1176
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: Jack in there. He won't come funk with us. But well,

1177
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, my boss is Boss is a friend, a

1178
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:46,400
Speaker 1: brother who took an opportunity of training and and bought

1179
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: value to me in the space that I never saw

1180
01:08:50,240 --> 01:08:56,719
Speaker 1: value coming. All of my health and wellness success, all

1181
01:08:56,800 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 1: of the business that's come from that, the money that's

1182
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:06,639
Speaker 1: been made Ronald Boss Everline has led the charge and

1183
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: has been a major part of that. The idea of

1184
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 1: working out and getting in shape Boss, the consistency of

1185
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:19,799
Speaker 1: why and the conversations that come with it in the morning,

1186
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: and it being bigger than just the workout, it being

1187
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:30,680
Speaker 1: something for the mind too, Boss. The idea of financial

1188
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: health and financial fitness, combining the two. If we can

1189
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: get you in shape over here, we can get you

1190
01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: in shape over here, Boss Chase, Nike Boss Boss, Me fathletics,

1191
01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: the success from fathletics. The creative that comes with me

1192
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: now is fathletics. The face of men's and our growth

1193
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:54,919
Speaker 1: is insane. What we're doing Me and Boss. The idea

1194
01:09:55,160 --> 01:10:01,000
Speaker 1: of comfort mixed with as leisure. The ability to make

1195
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: the decision of just being better for yourself. Me and

1196
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: Boss Boss's idea. Man, Hey, we don't want to reach

1197
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 1: all these people don't want to be great, keV. You

1198
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: can reach these people right here that just don't know

1199
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: like that they can, that they should. That's why messaging

1200
01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: go to Boss. Boss is a valuable asset of creativity,

1201
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:25,479
Speaker 1: and he's turned into an amazing businessman. And that's my brother.

1202
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: We don't we don't been through it. We've done We're

1203
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: done through blows. We've done argue to the to the

1204
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:35,799
Speaker 1: to the to the top to the top level of arguing.

1205
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,760
Speaker 1: But I would not have it any other way. When

1206
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:42,599
Speaker 1: you talk about heart beat venturous Boss, I mean Boss

1207
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: now sits on boards that some of the biggest companies.

1208
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:48,599
Speaker 1: I won't put his business out there too much. Boss

1209
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:51,840
Speaker 1: sits on some of the biggest boards that you would

1210
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 1: not even imagine. I am a I am a hally.

1211
01:10:56,240 --> 01:11:01,240
Speaker 1: What's my position at Hydro? I'm a creative rector uh

1212
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 1: for Hydro? Right who amazing partners of mine. We have

1213
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:09,520
Speaker 1: a row machine and we're doing great business. These opportunities

1214
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: come and have Kane because the Boss, because the Boss

1215
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:19,840
Speaker 1: advisory boards health and wellness like it's insane. But because

1216
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:21,600
Speaker 1: of the knowledge that I've gained from that man and

1217
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 1: the partnership that we've created, he's become more than just

1218
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: a trainer. He's now a business partner. He is a

1219
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: He is a real asset to this ecosystem that I

1220
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: have and he's done a great job. You know, I

1221
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 1: can only I can only credit them for creating the

1222
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: opportunity that he now has because it wasn't given. I

1223
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 1: didn't know it existed. He found Lane, showed me what

1224
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,560
Speaker 1: we could do, and we started to do it and

1225
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 1: the awards came from it. So shout out to haul

1226
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 1: a k a record Ralph. You have to see record Ralph.

1227
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:58,799
Speaker 1: Look at record Ralph, then look at boss face tomorrow.

1228
01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:02,200
Speaker 1: This course story as a fan watching the game and

1229
01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 1: then the acting with the player. I got a lot.

1230
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: That's one I said when the backfired. Harden's is known

1231
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:15,760
Speaker 1: by the way, none of them will, none of the

1232
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 1: went in my faith hardened in Philly hard and gave

1233
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 1: me fifty. He didn't get a sixty. He gave me

1234
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 1: fifty and and and said to me, said to me directly,

1235
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:31,599
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna give him fifty because you won't shut up.

1236
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 1: Gave us fifty. Uh d wait, in the playoffs second half,

1237
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: gave us twenty seven. I did that. I'm responsible for that.

1238
01:12:42,439 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: Um responsible for that. No, I definitely am. The biggest

1239
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 1: one is uh we were in the playoffs against the Celtics.

1240
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 1: It's a road game, a fly to Boston. You know,

1241
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 1: it's the year we're supposed to get it done like this.

1242
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 1: This is the year where you know, I'm I'm I'm

1243
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: very hyped that we're gonna get it done. Just when

1244
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 1: Kauai and the Raptors they last second shot, we had

1245
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:15,679
Speaker 1: Jimmy on the team. Man, go to Boston Celtics blowing

1246
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 1: them out, killing I'm talking ship to Celtics fans, shut up,

1247
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:22,679
Speaker 1: everybody shut them on course. Now that's right. Boston sucks.

1248
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: I'm going at it. Don't they booing me boo? Fuck?

1249
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 1: Y'all going at it. It's second half game, just keep

1250
01:13:32,120 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 1: getting closer and closer. What's going on? Man? Come man,

1251
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:39,200
Speaker 1: come on man, y'all can do something. The crowd. The

1252
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 1: crowd starts saying fuck Kevin Hard Kevin. You know, they

1253
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: came back out the lead, and I'm like, that's enough, Like,

1254
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:55,640
Speaker 1: come on, man, seriously. At some point because of the

1255
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,200
Speaker 1: point where I was like, I don't feel safe walking

1256
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 1: out of here early, I go to get up. It's

1257
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: like six minutes left in the fourth quarter. I gotta

1258
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:11,719
Speaker 1: get up, walk out. Boom fuck came. Whole whole arena

1259
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,760
Speaker 1: was sham fu Hard. I was like, well, I'm gonna stop.

1260
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop going to the games for a minute.

1261
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:18,680
Speaker 1: Just let this cool off. I don't want this to

1262
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:21,960
Speaker 1: stick to me. Uh So you know that. I didn't

1263
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 1: go to the playoff game for a minute because I'm superstitious.

1264
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm I'm gonna stick out of it

1265
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 1: for a minute, and then I ended up going back

1266
01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:30,840
Speaker 1: then and I just can't help. I gotta talk shit.

1267
01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:33,160
Speaker 1: I have to talk ship, especially cause I know all

1268
01:14:33,200 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 1: the players. I gotta talk ship. I kill him too,

1269
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:40,759
Speaker 1: kill him, Carmelo. I've I've definitely hit Carmelo. Told Carmelo

1270
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 1: he had prosthetic legs. Uh, who else? Who else? Have

1271
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:53,360
Speaker 1: I hit? Hard? K Drake? Yeah? That was that's All

1272
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: Star game is fun. It's not malicious. Yeah, I'm not

1273
01:14:57,080 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 1: malicious at the All Star Game. It's a good time.

1274
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: It's a real good time at all Sorry. Regular season.

1275
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 1: If I'm there, Yeah, I'm I'm I'm coming at you,

1276
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:09,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying I'm saying everything I can. I feel like

1277
01:15:09,520 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 1: I'm out there on the court. These count, Yeah, these count.

1278
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm I'm hitting you with. Really, you're gonna laugh because

1279
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: you don't see him coming. I told a d his

1280
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:25,800
Speaker 1: eyebrows was ahead band um hardened? Uh? I said hard.

1281
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 1: I said, Harden is on hormone pills. Look at his chest.

1282
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 1: You know this is when he was a little bigger.

1283
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:37,600
Speaker 1: He's a little bigger checking now I just I just

1284
01:15:37,680 --> 01:15:40,120
Speaker 1: throw off the ship Draymond, Draymond. I'll go back and

1285
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: forth with Draymond and talks some ship back the Draymond's

1286
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:45,360
Speaker 1: Draymond's fun. How manch you're gonna talk this year with

1287
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 1: your team? Real quick thoughts on Ben Simmons and then

1288
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: in that situation, because you're a big Philly fan fan,

1289
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: I have great thoughts on Ben Simmons. I'll say this

1290
01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 1: on record, this Simmons is a fucking star. Philadelphia, man,

1291
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:02,920
Speaker 1: we're different, a different city. And yeah, man, we there's

1292
01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: I saw Philadelphia in front of mine. Guy I'm talking

1293
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: about Big James trying to talk out. His real name

1294
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:10,920
Speaker 1: is Jay Agerson. Uh, Big jameson have a joke about

1295
01:16:10,960 --> 01:16:18,640
Speaker 1: a dog and uh James had his joke where he

1296
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: was at a football game and halftime the guy got

1297
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: a frisbee. He's just throwing at the dog. Just supposed

1298
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 1: to be catching the frisbee. Dog dropped a couple of times.

1299
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:30,640
Speaker 1: They start bowing the fucking dog. It's the dog. Philadelphia

1300
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 1: is just a different city, man, And you know, look,

1301
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 1: you you gotta let players play like they play like

1302
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 1: like he got there by playing how he plays now.

1303
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: Granted this is a three shooting time in the NBA

1304
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:50,680
Speaker 1: that ain't been He's not that guy. He's not that

1305
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 1: guy now because of the media and how they you know,

1306
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: position things. Well, somehow we forgot about all the good

1307
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:02,200
Speaker 1: that he did. Wasn't an All star? Was he all

1308
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:07,240
Speaker 1: defensive teams? I mean, what are we talking about here?

1309
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:09,760
Speaker 1: So you know, you get to this stage in the

1310
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 1: playoffs where the lights are on. I understand it. People

1311
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: don't want nothing but results, and the results should come

1312
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:17,640
Speaker 1: in and win. But I'm telling you, guys, as a

1313
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: point guard, that man stands at six ten, As a

1314
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 1: six ten point guard. If you're telling me that that's

1315
01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:27,200
Speaker 1: not a valuable asset, then I don't. I don't know basketball.

1316
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 1: I mean I know him. I think he's young. He's

1317
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: a great dude. He's got a great future and a

1318
01:17:32,439 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: great career ahead of him. And for him, this is

1319
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: nothing but a time to bear down and and each

1320
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,960
Speaker 1: year show progressing. But you can't not I don't like

1321
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:46,799
Speaker 1: that in this time today we forget. We forget so fast,

1322
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,879
Speaker 1: we forget so fast, like that's what this generation prized

1323
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: himselfs on, Oh what when? What do you mean when

1324
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:59,760
Speaker 1: he's do you know what all defensive team is? Do

1325
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,400
Speaker 1: you all that means? Do we know what in the

1326
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:04,760
Speaker 1: All Star what it takes to become a All Star?

1327
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 1: Do he do we understand that? Or do we just

1328
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:11,880
Speaker 1: throw it out the window. I don't think with him,

1329
01:18:11,960 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 1: you you do that? And I think you know, granted

1330
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:16,840
Speaker 1: they're saying that he wants out, I don't know. I've

1331
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: talked to him, so I'm not gonna put business out there.

1332
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: But wherever he goes, wherever he ends up, and Simmons

1333
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:26,440
Speaker 1: is a fucking star, and and whoever gets that goddamn

1334
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: that fucking potential and that beast of a man, Oh well,

1335
01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:34,519
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna see the bang for your buck. Uh.

1336
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 1: You know, for us, I think we still got we

1337
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: still got strength, We still got prim time fucking heat.

1338
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:44,320
Speaker 1: You know. Joel is Joel Embiat. He's the best big

1339
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 1: man in the league. I love to bias. I love

1340
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: the role of these came in and presenting it played.

1341
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:52,439
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see if Ben goes who we will

1342
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:55,600
Speaker 1: bring in and try to pick up. But you know,

1343
01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 1: DC Rivers as a coach. He's gonna get you to

1344
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 1: the places where you got an opportunity. Right, We're gonna

1345
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 1: have an opportunity. I think the question are what are

1346
01:19:04,120 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: the other pieces that we're gonna add to this particular puzzle.

1347
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,679
Speaker 1: But I'm a Sixest family regardless. I'm a Ben Simmons

1348
01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: family regardless. And I know the city of Philadelphia is

1349
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: very tough. Uh. We're hard on on all, not some,

1350
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:20,720
Speaker 1: but all. Uh. And it's not like anybody can say

1351
01:19:20,760 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 1: they're a stranger to it. You know, you can go

1352
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:25,280
Speaker 1: to the greatest that have come from my city. They've

1353
01:19:25,320 --> 01:19:28,719
Speaker 1: all heard the conversation of miles of Philadelphia fans. Iverson

1354
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: has heard the conversation of Philadelphia fans. I mean, it's

1355
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: what we are built and known for. Um. I just

1356
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 1: wish you the best, and I hope that wherever his

1357
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:40,680
Speaker 1: his next opportunity is is the right one for him.

1358
01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 1: I think he's talented, quick hitters. The last few questions.

1359
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 1: First thing to come to mind, let us no top

1360
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 1: five comedians of all time in your opinion? Top five

1361
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:57,120
Speaker 1: comedians of all time? Um, Eddie Murphy in no particular order,

1362
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:06,599
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, Uh, Dave Chappelle Chris rock Um, Jerry sein Felt.

1363
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to say my last one. Damn, I think

1364
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to give my last one too. I'm

1365
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 1: gonna say Bernie Mack. And the reason why I'm gonna

1366
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 1: say Bernie Mack is because Bernie Mac. It was. It

1367
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:30,360
Speaker 1: was a toss up between Bernie Mack and Martin Lawrence.

1368
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: Bernie Mac made vulgar, innocent as vulgar, as angry as

1369
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,920
Speaker 1: it came off, there was a level of innocence to it,

1370
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: right and in his prime would I would hope that

1371
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 1: people will remember most is the true subject of what

1372
01:20:47,360 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: he was talking about. He was talking about his love

1373
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 1: for these kids that he took in step sister on

1374
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: drugs and all of this ship. It all had a

1375
01:20:56,600 --> 01:21:00,200
Speaker 1: dark tone to it, but it all centered around his

1376
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:04,120
Speaker 1: love for these things. So I think it's a It's

1377
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: an unbelievable talent when you can mirror the two and

1378
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: pull a wall over a crowd's eyes to not see

1379
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: the true genius and what you're doing. And you know,

1380
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: subjects that he talked about, he he was just He's

1381
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:20,720
Speaker 1: the only one that I think could have pulled that off.

1382
01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:24,759
Speaker 1: And the reason why it's like Martin is right there. Martin.

1383
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: I talked to Martin Onna on my podcast and I

1384
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: made Martin aware of Martin is the reason for the

1385
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: comedic stars of yesterday and the day before and something

1386
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:42,000
Speaker 1: that are still able to be stars now. And what

1387
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 1: Martin and Russell Simmons did was create an environment where

1388
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:49,360
Speaker 1: a simple arm around the shoulder or a simple come

1389
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 1: back out here meant that you were the fucking guy.

1390
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 1: A simple na na na come here man, y'all give

1391
01:21:57,520 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: it up again for my boy Martin saying that you

1392
01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:06,680
Speaker 1: are his boy. It gave you all the credentials that

1393
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 1: you ever needed. So Martin Lawrence is alignment with comedy

1394
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: and these people that we all are so invested in.

1395
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: You know, it's surreal that it's one of the biggest

1396
01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:21,600
Speaker 1: things for me in my career. Is like, Damn, I

1397
01:22:21,760 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 1: love where I am, but the the comedy moments that

1398
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: I was around for in the beginning of my career,

1399
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: but I was never able to do because of where

1400
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: I was. It's like, Damn, if I got to if

1401
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: I got to see any of that, it would be

1402
01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 1: it would be ridiculous. And I'm just gonna I'll say

1403
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 1: one more because I gotta put the attachments to it

1404
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:45,400
Speaker 1: the way I think Chappelle is operating at a different

1405
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:49,120
Speaker 1: level right now. Chappelle is now operating at a different

1406
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:53,560
Speaker 1: frequency that we've never seen in comedic talent. He is

1407
01:22:54,960 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 1: becoming a freedom of speech advocate. Wow, still being funny, Wow,

1408
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:09,840
Speaker 1: being as controversial as you can be. Whow not doing

1409
01:23:09,960 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: TV and movies and only doing what he wants to do.

1410
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:22,320
Speaker 1: He only does what he wants to do, stand up

1411
01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:28,640
Speaker 1: on his terms, his fucking time, his place, his backyard.

1412
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:34,559
Speaker 1: Dave is now bringing the comedians of comedians to Ohio,

1413
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, into what he feels is the

1414
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 1: best and safest place for comedy. It's groundbreaking what he's doing.

1415
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 1: It will never be duplicated. You'll never see it again

1416
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:50,200
Speaker 1: because it's only one person that has the ability to

1417
01:23:50,240 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 1: be loved by every person in this fucking craft. To say,

1418
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 1: I gotta go funk with Dave. He's on a different frequency.

1419
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:04,639
Speaker 1: Chris Rock is up there because it's consistency. Once again,

1420
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:08,680
Speaker 1: people fucking forget you, overlooked. Can't be a stand up

1421
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:13,120
Speaker 1: comic without constantly recreating yourself. I'm talking about Chappelle because

1422
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:16,720
Speaker 1: he recreates himself. Right, look at this list. Well, when

1423
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 1: you talk about material on how much of people giving

1424
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:23,760
Speaker 1: you new versions of it? How many specials are you

1425
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:27,840
Speaker 1: really seeing from these comics? How many? How many are

1426
01:24:27,840 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 1: they putting out good, not good? Whatever? What's the attempt

1427
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: in recreation? That's what I envy, not doing what you

1428
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: know works. What's the fucking attempt and doing the thing

1429
01:24:40,120 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 1: that you think could work? Again? Chris Rock fucking Chappelle

1430
01:24:46,800 --> 01:24:51,720
Speaker 1: comes to New Hours, new content whatever, Well, we're gonna

1431
01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: get in there. May work, may not, but we're not

1432
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 1: afraid the box. That's why that go That's why my

1433
01:24:57,120 --> 01:25:01,200
Speaker 1: list goes there. It's a great answer, by the way,

1434
01:25:02,960 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: well explained. Well explain anyone to ever explain their answer

1435
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 1: as well as you just did. If you can sit

1436
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:11,600
Speaker 1: course side of any game in history, what would it be?

1437
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: Which one would it be? Any game in history? Um,

1438
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:18,519
Speaker 1: I would say when Kobe had eighty one against the Raptors,

1439
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: So I could just talk to Jail, right, I just

1440
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,000
Speaker 1: want to talk to Jail. And during that process, like

1441
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 1: when you when you're going into these time outs, like

1442
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: at what point, like when I would have wanted you

1443
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 1: to have the seat right next to the via. I

1444
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:34,639
Speaker 1: just want to know when, Like when did y'all stop

1445
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:37,240
Speaker 1: addressing it in one of the team at any point?

1446
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 1: Like like was it a was it a ten point checking?

1447
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:43,320
Speaker 1: Like at fifty, like come on, y'all, seriously, you know,

1448
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:47,560
Speaker 1: we gotta get bodies on them. And at sixty, what

1449
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,880
Speaker 1: then are we doing tonight? What are you doing at

1450
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:54,599
Speaker 1: this point? I would love to have been just there

1451
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:56,800
Speaker 1: because I just to hear. I would just want to

1452
01:25:57,120 --> 01:25:59,320
Speaker 1: want to hear the players because at that point, the

1453
01:25:59,439 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: confidence everybody around you, it just keeps going down. It

1454
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 1: just keeps going down. It just keeps going down. I

1455
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:08,400
Speaker 1: would say that the game where he gave eighty one

1456
01:26:08,880 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 1: to the Raptors, RP bean, what are you doing? What

1457
01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 1: are you doing? What are you doing when you come back?

1458
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:18,680
Speaker 1: What are you saying to your teammates at that The

1459
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,920
Speaker 1: yelling is over with that. You gotta help. That's done.

1460
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 1: That's done. That only lasts until you're not helping. He

1461
01:26:27,160 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: coming off the screens, He y'all gotta you gotta beat there,

1462
01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: all right? At you? That's very valid. It's valid at

1463
01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:39,680
Speaker 1: sixties seventy. Somebody not doing a job at sixty? Is

1464
01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: anybody guarding him? Like somebody not doing a job. It's

1465
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,400
Speaker 1: bad at that point. If you could be remembered for

1466
01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:47,760
Speaker 1: one of your own jokes, which one would it be?

1467
01:26:48,240 --> 01:26:50,800
Speaker 1: And why one of my own jokes? I'll say the

1468
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:55,560
Speaker 1: best in my in my opinion, the best joke that

1469
01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:59,760
Speaker 1: I that I think I'm told thinks about my uncle,

1470
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:04,720
Speaker 1: Uncle Richard Jr. Uh, the whole run of saying with

1471
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 1: your chest, the whole run of him getting out jail,

1472
01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:13,760
Speaker 1: Pillion muffin cat blue, all of that, all of those

1473
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: that just run of jail jargon. Uh, that he came

1474
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,519
Speaker 1: home with a It is a very true. It's a

1475
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:27,680
Speaker 1: very like what that was? Seriously funny? Say it with

1476
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:32,719
Speaker 1: your chest? Ship? Mine was my favorite thing. The battle

1477
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: rap battle up. Yeah, Yeah, everybody's gonna die. That's when

1478
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:50,760
Speaker 1: you know it's crazy, man. That's when like, that's when

1479
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:53,839
Speaker 1: you're end that ship. Like your your material is different

1480
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 1: because you're in it. You're around that ship. You're around

1481
01:27:58,479 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: that like that the off first and first off, anything

1482
01:28:03,760 --> 01:28:13,679
Speaker 1: I killed niggas don't love it, you're around that, Like, yeah,

1483
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: do you understand the comedy? That's why you know I

1484
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:21,200
Speaker 1: have such an appreciation for you know, the this this

1485
01:28:21,600 --> 01:28:26,479
Speaker 1: the this generation of comics, you know, Country Wayne, Desi Banks,

1486
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 1: like these guys that are doing comedy, but also the

1487
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: viral videos, the sketches, like you know, they they're creating

1488
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: this new wave of of funny plus funny. Right, It's

1489
01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:41,120
Speaker 1: like here here goes some jokes and stand up. But

1490
01:28:41,240 --> 01:28:44,240
Speaker 1: I'm engaging my audience by giving them these sketches and bits.

1491
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:46,560
Speaker 1: But they're in it, you know what I'm saying. Like

1492
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:49,200
Speaker 1: they they're they're in that energy and when you when

1493
01:28:49,240 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 1: you see it, dude, I love it. I love it

1494
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 1: because I remember it, like you, you had endless material

1495
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 1: when you're around when you're around that group, You're around

1496
01:28:59,240 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 1: those guys, you're around those girls. You you after the

1497
01:29:03,479 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: place you had the waffle wile you here you're traveling.

1498
01:29:06,479 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: You you got all that, you got all that. That's

1499
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 1: that's the best place for comedians to be. In the ship.

1500
01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:17,599
Speaker 1: If you in the ship, Oh my god, you're funniest,

1501
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:23,680
Speaker 1: your funniest ever dream actor or actress. You've yet to

1502
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:25,640
Speaker 1: work with it you hope to work with You have

1503
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:28,080
Speaker 1: to work with Denzel. You look like a little bit.

1504
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: I would I would love the Denzel opportunity. You know,

1505
01:29:32,040 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: I gotta I got something about true story coming out.

1506
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:36,280
Speaker 1: I got to work with Wesley Snipers that was that's

1507
01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:39,599
Speaker 1: no insane, it's a it's a thriller, some serious ship.

1508
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:43,360
Speaker 1: But working just working with Wesley was kind of crazy,

1509
01:29:43,400 --> 01:29:50,599
Speaker 1: I would say, Denzel, uh. And you know the biggest

1510
01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:58,320
Speaker 1: opportunity for me, Comedians are so like it's probably the

1511
01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:04,559
Speaker 1: most ego driven fucking hub and entertainment because it's all

1512
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:08,080
Speaker 1: about who's who? I mean you, You wouldn't have send

1513
01:30:08,120 --> 01:30:11,479
Speaker 1: in music now, like with this whole the Drake and

1514
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 1: Kanye ship, right, Like, for some reason, people just can't

1515
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: coexist and be good like every Yeah, like the conversation

1516
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:26,639
Speaker 1: is always about but it's nobody just sees the vision

1517
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,720
Speaker 1: and understanding and how dope certain things would be if

1518
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 1: they did coexist, right if they? Oh my god, what

1519
01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:36,160
Speaker 1: would that join album? Oh my god? What would that song?

1520
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:39,040
Speaker 1: Oh ship? What would people don't think like that? I'm

1521
01:30:39,160 --> 01:30:44,200
Speaker 1: I'm I'm that guy. So Harm Knights, I've been talking

1522
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:47,160
Speaker 1: about this for a long time. You know, Harlem Knights,

1523
01:30:48,240 --> 01:30:55,480
Speaker 1: You're looking at a movie that is forever, for for forever,

1524
01:30:56,840 --> 01:31:00,360
Speaker 1: forever watchable, based off of the legendary talent in it,

1525
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:06,760
Speaker 1: We've yet to to truly see a full, a full

1526
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:10,960
Speaker 1: machine that embraces it. It was you had attempts that

1527
01:31:11,200 --> 01:31:14,759
Speaker 1: that were funny but not but not full within talent

1528
01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:18,760
Speaker 1: Um Roscoe Jenkins Family Union. I remember Martin had Monique. Yeah,

1529
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:21,920
Speaker 1: Mike Epps, I think it's like one more comedian and

1530
01:31:22,040 --> 01:31:26,040
Speaker 1: I'm dropping the ball, said said, you've had like Chris

1531
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:29,160
Speaker 1: Rock when he did Death at the Funeral at Tracy Morgan,

1532
01:31:29,920 --> 01:31:34,679
Speaker 1: it was him. I had a cameo, but you haven't

1533
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 1: seen the thing where like Friday Cube did a lot

1534
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:42,840
Speaker 1: of the comedians and you saw what that movie was.

1535
01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:45,720
Speaker 1: But that movie can't come together again because comedians can't

1536
01:31:45,720 --> 01:31:48,680
Speaker 1: get them the same page, right I should I need?

1537
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:53,360
Speaker 1: I like there is it's impossible if the world of

1538
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:59,599
Speaker 1: could get done ever presented itself, and you know people

1539
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 1: put the bullshit aside. That's the dream job, that's the

1540
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:08,840
Speaker 1: dream opportunity. You know, not Harlom Nights, but our version

1541
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:11,519
Speaker 1: of that. You can't redo Harlow Nights. You can't. You

1542
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:14,720
Speaker 1: can't make that movie again. UM, rest in peace to

1543
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 1: to Chadwick Boseman. You know, before um he passed away,

1544
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:22,560
Speaker 1: we were talking about redoing Uptown Saturday night, and we

1545
01:32:22,640 --> 01:32:24,680
Speaker 1: were talking about putting this like we were. We were

1546
01:32:24,720 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 1: on it. Chadwick, we were in it. You know, if

1547
01:32:27,320 --> 01:32:29,840
Speaker 1: you if you watched the documentary, don't sunk this up.

1548
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:32,719
Speaker 1: He was in it, but we were. This was happening

1549
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:36,280
Speaker 1: like we were engaged. But I was expressing to him like, dude,

1550
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:38,439
Speaker 1: this is this is what I want to do. To

1551
01:32:38,560 --> 01:32:41,000
Speaker 1: do what I need, I need a you help me

1552
01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:44,599
Speaker 1: pull it off. I need the credibility within the main character.

1553
01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:46,439
Speaker 1: And we were, we were in it. But the goal

1554
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 1: was to put all these black fucking legends in this

1555
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: thing and and do this thing so that this generation,

1556
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:58,599
Speaker 1: the generation before can have a thing after the thing.

1557
01:32:59,680 --> 01:33:01,840
Speaker 1: And it just doesn't seem like that colde is going

1558
01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:04,640
Speaker 1: to get cracked. And I've been trying to crack it.

1559
01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:08,080
Speaker 1: I've been I've been trying to crack it and finding

1560
01:33:08,080 --> 01:33:11,600
Speaker 1: the material, finding the right thing, but it just, you know,

1561
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:15,559
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem to happen. Egos. Egos are real.

1562
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:19,800
Speaker 1: And you know, when when I think everybody realizes that

1563
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:23,080
Speaker 1: we can all be fucking dope in our own way,

1564
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: it ain't about being doper than the next one or

1565
01:33:26,960 --> 01:33:30,639
Speaker 1: operating in the landy espect self and being the king

1566
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:35,519
Speaker 1: like you can. It's about success. That's what this is about.

1567
01:33:35,640 --> 01:33:37,400
Speaker 1: For me. At the end of the day, It's about

1568
01:33:37,400 --> 01:33:40,680
Speaker 1: the numbers. That's what I look at. What do the

1569
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:42,640
Speaker 1: numbers say at the end of the day. If we

1570
01:33:42,720 --> 01:33:45,040
Speaker 1: can generate great numbers and we all can happen to

1571
01:33:45,600 --> 01:33:50,120
Speaker 1: that's what are you talking about? Enough enough? So that

1572
01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:53,360
Speaker 1: would be my dream job. And for an actress working

1573
01:33:53,360 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 1: with Angelo Bassett, if you have to work with Angel Bassett,

1574
01:33:55,640 --> 01:34:00,400
Speaker 1: that would be dope. That's it. That's my If you

1575
01:34:00,439 --> 01:34:02,760
Speaker 1: can have one guest on All the Smoke, who would

1576
01:34:02,760 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: it be? But you have to help us with your

1577
01:34:04,400 --> 01:34:07,280
Speaker 1: guests with your answer? Will fare I gotta be here

1578
01:34:07,320 --> 01:34:11,599
Speaker 1: when y'all do it? Oh, you gotta help you guys.

1579
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:19,799
Speaker 1: Get somebody m j uh. I'm trying to think who

1580
01:34:19,800 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 1: would do it? Like, wouldn't bullshit y'all and like yeah, yeah, yeah,

1581
01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:28,639
Speaker 1: because it ain't. It ain't big time. He's like, who

1582
01:34:28,760 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 1: the people that really understand the truth value in the show?

1583
01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:33,840
Speaker 1: Like I'm not I'm not here as a favorite, Like

1584
01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:36,840
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a fan that the show was fucking great.

1585
01:34:36,960 --> 01:34:40,640
Speaker 1: You guys do an amazing job of of engaging with

1586
01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:43,000
Speaker 1: the guests, and I love the ship that comes out

1587
01:34:43,040 --> 01:34:45,120
Speaker 1: of the guests, especially when y'all get you know, the

1588
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:47,920
Speaker 1: people that have played basketball and that are retired and

1589
01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:51,160
Speaker 1: that are sharing stories. It's looking great. If you guys,

1590
01:34:51,280 --> 01:34:54,479
Speaker 1: if it was real help of who would actually come on?

1591
01:34:55,320 --> 01:34:58,839
Speaker 1: I think you guys need a lover of basketball. Adam Sandler,

1592
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:01,840
Speaker 1: that dope. And the reason why I say, because Adam

1593
01:35:01,880 --> 01:35:08,360
Speaker 1: really loves basketball. Playing a little movie. He's shooting Adam Adam.

1594
01:35:08,439 --> 01:35:10,720
Speaker 1: I think Adam would be a great guest. Loves a

1595
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 1: gets basketball, and I'm on the beat. He's more than

1596
01:35:13,280 --> 01:35:16,000
Speaker 1: aware of the of the podcast. I'm willing to bet

1597
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:20,080
Speaker 1: that's what I would saying. Well, that's a wrap, Kevin

1598
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:23,160
Speaker 1: Hart kick off season three. Man, we appreciate your time,

1599
01:35:23,200 --> 01:35:28,640
Speaker 1: best of luck and all year fatherhood business making us laugh. Yes, man,

1600
01:35:28,720 --> 01:35:31,320
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of ship. Appreciate you gots

1601
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:34,720
Speaker 1: true story. I will be announcing that date soon. Uh

1602
01:35:34,880 --> 01:35:37,880
Speaker 1: during a movie called Me Time Now with Mark Wahlberg

1603
01:35:38,479 --> 01:35:42,760
Speaker 1: for Netflix. Um also Heart to Heart, make sure you

1604
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:46,479
Speaker 1: check that out. That's on Peacock. Uh shouts out to Snoop,

1605
01:35:46,680 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 1: who we discover some gold with with an Olympic highlights,

1606
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 1: look for look for more things for me and Snoop

1607
01:35:52,120 --> 01:35:54,519
Speaker 1: because we figured that out now as well. I say,

1608
01:35:54,560 --> 01:35:58,320
Speaker 1: my my co host, my my broadcasting buddy, also celebrity

1609
01:35:58,360 --> 01:36:02,320
Speaker 1: game Face, another show that our host on e UM

1610
01:36:02,479 --> 01:36:05,760
Speaker 1: finding joy and and doing the things where I can

1611
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:12,080
Speaker 1: bring talent together. So you know form I got going on.

1612
01:36:12,960 --> 01:36:22,520
Speaker 1: He acts a little bit, he's been acting a little bit. Nice. Congratulations, Congratulations,

1613
01:36:26,479 --> 01:36:31,679
Speaker 1: that's dope. That's that's dope. Man's dope. But real ship.

1614
01:36:31,760 --> 01:36:33,280
Speaker 1: Before we get out of man, we we really just

1615
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:34,920
Speaker 1: want to thank you because I know we live in

1616
01:36:34,960 --> 01:36:37,360
Speaker 1: a generation where we don't really show too much appreciation

1617
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:40,840
Speaker 1: for stars and and and legends to be and uh,

1618
01:36:40,960 --> 01:36:42,800
Speaker 1: you know, I saw you have to check some people

1619
01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:44,720
Speaker 1: the other day on Instagram, and it's just I don't

1620
01:36:44,760 --> 01:36:47,240
Speaker 1: think we were so caught up in throwing negativity out.

1621
01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 1: We don't appreciate greatness when it's around us. So we

1622
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:51,559
Speaker 1: definitely want to show you your love and your flowers, man,

1623
01:36:51,600 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 1: because you've been great. You keep keep making the world

1624
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:56,600
Speaker 1: having keep being you man, because we need we need it.

1625
01:36:57,080 --> 01:37:01,040
Speaker 1: And listen, I appreciate you. I think, uh about the

1626
01:37:01,680 --> 01:37:04,240
Speaker 1: times are just different now and and I'm really big

1627
01:37:04,439 --> 01:37:09,000
Speaker 1: on creating those opportunities for you know, this this next wave,

1628
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:11,720
Speaker 1: the next generation. When I say that's a priority, it's

1629
01:37:11,720 --> 01:37:14,719
Speaker 1: a priority. That's the whole reason behind the production company,

1630
01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:18,920
Speaker 1: all the other entities. It's about understanding what good I

1631
01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:21,600
Speaker 1: p is and finding the right talent to be a

1632
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: part of it. You know, I'm I'm very happy with

1633
01:37:23,920 --> 01:37:26,559
Speaker 1: what I've done where I am. And you once again,

1634
01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:28,640
Speaker 1: you got to find the new, the new energy, and

1635
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:30,600
Speaker 1: I think that new energy is in the new. So

1636
01:37:31,080 --> 01:37:33,639
Speaker 1: you know, I still do things, and I still figure

1637
01:37:33,680 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 1: it out for myself when and where, from movies to TV.

1638
01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:40,040
Speaker 1: But those projects to be different and stand up I'll

1639
01:37:40,120 --> 01:37:41,880
Speaker 1: do when I figure out what it is and what

1640
01:37:41,960 --> 01:37:46,080
Speaker 1: I want. But I love the idea of new stars.

1641
01:37:46,360 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 1: I love the idea of fresh new talent. I love

1642
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:53,479
Speaker 1: the idea of supporting and if anything, if you take

1643
01:37:53,520 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 1: anything from me, and and when I talk how I talk,

1644
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:00,080
Speaker 1: what I talk about, dude, it's about It's about the

1645
01:38:00,240 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 1: fucking world of opportunity more importantly being there for so

1646
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:10,760
Speaker 1: many But information is all that sometimes needed so that

1647
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:15,040
Speaker 1: that freedom of support, that fucking open level of yo.

1648
01:38:15,200 --> 01:38:18,000
Speaker 1: I love this person, love this person. Hopefully that should

1649
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:20,840
Speaker 1: get contagious and people see that is real. That's that's

1650
01:38:20,840 --> 01:38:23,639
Speaker 1: what I'm about. So, you know, uh, as this business

1651
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:26,400
Speaker 1: and all these things grow, I hope that we're talking

1652
01:38:26,479 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: about the talent that launched from it, the opportunities that

1653
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:33,720
Speaker 1: came for so many from it that are opening up

1654
01:38:33,760 --> 01:38:37,040
Speaker 1: other doors and doing more things. Well, that's a wrap

1655
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:39,680
Speaker 1: the opening of season three with the one and only

1656
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:42,920
Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. You can catch us on Showtime Basketball YouTube

1657
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:46,880
Speaker 1: in the I Heart platform Black Effects, see y'all next week.

1658
01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:49,519
Speaker 1: Try out the plastic cup bars too. Shouts out to

1659
01:38:49,600 --> 01:38:54,120
Speaker 1: that batch of unattracted This is all a smoke. A

1660
01:38:54,200 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 1: production of The Black Effect and Our Heart Radio in

1661
01:38:57,080 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 1: partnership with Showtime