WEBVTT - KOUNTRY WAYNE - Vegan Dogs With Baked Beans 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.199 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:09.120 I'm your host, Coleen with here with special guest Country 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:17.640 Wayne actor, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, comedian, best selling author, father. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.600 I'm hoping I didn't forget anything, but I'm sure if 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.439 you google anything in entertainment, this man has worked it. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:24.360 Husband. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.479 Husband, Okay, I'm just gonna say that. You see that 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.159 facial expression is because technically he's not married. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.600 Yet married to the Holy Spirit. 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.559 He's married to the Holy Spirit. Are you celibate? 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:44.280 Oh? Yeah, I've been celebrating. The last I said, I 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.920 was about fifteen fifteen hours, for. 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.600 Shit, fifteen hours. So you're not you're not. 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:54.080 Married at this moment. Oh, you can't say that's that's 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.720 oh so oh, just because i've you're not. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.440 You're not celibate, you get to be like, so you 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.480 got married to the Holy Spirit, but I'm not married 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:04.120 and I'm out here. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:05.360 You said fifteen hours. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:07.520 The Holy Spirit don't come to you when you perfect, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.080 It's come to you when you inper. 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.000 But now that I have you in the building for 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.320 the second time, which I do appreciate you taking time 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.440 out of your schedule, I know I give you a 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.800 hard time, even though we've only met like twice. 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:43.760 But I truly appreciate your time. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.480 I really appreciate you too, and I like, I don't 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.200 like every time I come here. It's good energy, man. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.240 I like you set up. This is genius to be 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.080 eating wild broke and reminiscent. The way you tell the stories, 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:53.400 it's amazing. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:53.560 Man. 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.200 Yeah, well, your story is going to be really inspiring 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.920 for people because your story is unique and you've been 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.760 through a lot. So I'm excited for everyone else to 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:03.320 know what. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.080 I've learned about you outside of the jokes and the 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:08.919 diva ways you have. But go ahead and tell us 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.000 what you're gonna have us eating today. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.400 Oh well, it's porking means and hot dogs for the second. 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:17.120 Time, will be almost the third time. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.799 The third time I don't already started and stopped a lot, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.239 but they used to happen in the hood a lot. 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.840 So because you know, my mama would be outside, she 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.720 hear a noise and she got to stop slide the pot. 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.960 So it's the pork and beans and hot dogs. As 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:29.880 you can see, we are. 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.079 The vegan version, the vegan version. Well, the the hot 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:37.079 dogs are definitely vegan. The beans in. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.320 Question, I got a vegetarian baked beans because honestly, I 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.200 looked everywhere for vegan baked beans and. 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:44.160 I couldn't find it. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.760 If you guys see this or you hear about it 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.360 on social media, reach out if you can't find the 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:58.520 vegan baked beans that don't exist, yeah you got. You 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.959 do realize that everyone googled and it did not say 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:01.480 it was in jail. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.360 Everyone they google but not I. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.640 Okay, well, after this episode, we will google it and 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.280 we'll know. But take me back to what was going 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.799 on during the era of baked beans and hot dogs. 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.480 It was going on store that relates to a lot 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.320 of people's stores. Grew up, No money stayed in the 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:22.440 projects Butler Home I mean Boston homes like Butlert homes 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.080 later in life, but Butler Home I mean Boston homes 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:31.320 projects in Mariotta, then being in Miller in Georgia, poking 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.920 beans and hot dogs was a main dish deal that 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.280 my mom used to cook all week. 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.360 Now, when people eat the same dish consistently, like ramen 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.400 or baked beans, they usually switch it up a bit. 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.600 But you kept yours pretty generic? Is that because that 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:49.520 was the best You guys could do as far as 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:50.160 switching it up. 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:51.960 Yeah, she used to try to switch it up, like 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.440 got hot dogs today, guys hot dogs and state of 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.600 tops and then next. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.760 Knew meal poking beans and hot dogs. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:06.600 All right, yay, next day, cut up, o, mama, it's 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.360 enough hot dogs, hot dogs and porker bees. 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:09.360 She used to miss it up a lot. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:10.200 Now. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.040 Is that because of the budget or was it your 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.400 mom wasn't that much into cooking. 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.600 You know she cooked when we've got our stamps, food stamps, 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:20.120 after food stamps there. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.440 First nine days, oh my god, you thought we were rich. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.600 But the rest of them twenty two let me tell 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.720 you now, twenty two days and twenty two nights in 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:28.239 the witness. 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.160 Now when your mom would buy stuff with food stamps. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.440 Were you one of those kids that got embarrassed when 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.760 she got to the register or were you the type 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.440 that was like, everybody's doing it. 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:38.000 So who cares? 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.400 I used to be at first embarrassed. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.840 Yeah, after so long, I kind of like stunting with it, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.960 Like I was like, we got it because you know, 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:49.840 most of the neighborhood had them, Like you say, so 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:50.560 it ain't feel man. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:51.640 We got used to it after that. 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.880 Yeah, but I noticed, like eve been growing up in 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.520 poor neighborhoods, you always had like the kids that had the. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.960 Nice new kicks or whatever, we're more popular. 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.120 And so I remember just knowing that if we were 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.000 known as poor, even though the whole geography of that 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.680 area was poor, you just knew that there was some 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.719 shame with those food standards. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.640 That's real though, but it's. 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.160 Good to know that you you grew out of that 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.880 and turned it into uh something. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.400 Yeah, because for some reason, and you made you just 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.080 made me think about this when you said that we 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.240 was always the most popular family, even when we didn't 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:24.200 have money. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.360 So why why do you think that was? 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:26.760 Oh? 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.960 My mama was you know, she was cool like shell. 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.120 We always was like our family was like the entertainers. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.040 So people used to all the kids wanted to come 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.680 to our house. My mama was very entertaining. She knew 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.080 how to put parties together, so we were like to 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.680 fund people. So we was we was always popular, Okay, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.480 me and me and all my whole family. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.120 Okay, so when you went to school, they weren't worried 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:50.800 about if you. 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:51.920 Were wearing the right thing. 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.159 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they were worried, but I was 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.839 so good at talking back and joning people they left 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:57.440 me alone. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.359 I get personal meetings. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.600 You don't ever hear nobody online really say my name 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:04.880 because they kind of know that about. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.599 So like if they were making fun of you being poor, 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:07.520 you would just hit them. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:08.680 Back with I'm gonna hit them back with. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.000 God gave me little stuff that i'd be thankful for, 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:13.240 like straight teeth. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.159 So there's a lot of it's a lot of bullet 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.039 children around. That's all. I don't do it. I ain't 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.360 got no money, but my fingernails are clean. 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:24.560 That's good that you had that confidence. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.400 I know when I got made fun of, I definitely 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.080 it was just kind of I just didn't like being. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.320 In score with the bullying. But but yeah, that's good. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:31.839 That's good. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.040 I like to I ain't playing no game. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:34.880 But I didn't know I was a comedian then, but 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.720 my words was used to cut people hard man to 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:39.120 this day. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.320 That's why I do not Jon don't go online talk 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.000 about other celebrities because I'm so good at it and 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:45.719 it get personal. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:46.719 Really. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.720 Oh yeah, even people who met the celebrity who met 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.680 me by closed doors, they kind of tell people like, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.520 you know, like. 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.440 Well, speaking of talking crap, can I just say that 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.159 I've noticed that you're holding that hot dog over that pain. 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:01.080 With no oil in it. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.480 Oh yeah, because I figured out even when sometime when 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.280 the hot dog is the slick, the oil is option 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:06.760 because I. 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.320 Don't want the hot dog to be sliding out of 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:08.840 your hand. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:10.880 But wait, there's no fat in there. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.200 There's no fat, but it's still got It's still got 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.000 an old base. You got to know how to cook 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:16.440 to do this. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.160 Usually when I get feedback, gets spurn their dish. But 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.720 I'm trying to not give too much feedback. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:22.360 Learning. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.400 Yeah, I've got to learn. You got to watch, learn, listen. 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.840 That's that's a strength. That's a strength from a woman. 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.040 A woman is the best listening. We can't listen like y'all, 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.840 so you got to do your strength. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.160 I heard guys listen to solve problems, and women we 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:38.000 just want to be heard. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.920 Now people don't know, because if they knew, they would 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:43.680 do we wouldn't still be searching. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.240 So we don't know. 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.080 We just we just know what need to be and 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.920 what need to be is what it is. So women 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:55.280 are way better listeners than us because we have ego 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:58.480 a woman most of the time have to nurture a child, 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.320 so she can't have as much ego as her because 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.480 the child's with her no matter what. So ego had 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:03.680 to get out the way because she's like, hold on, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.400 let me see what the real problem is. Man, be 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.760 like nope, nope. So that's your gift and our gift. 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.680 This provided protecting and anytime we slack over our main thing, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.160 that's when our value started to Listen. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.840 Okay, I could see that. Taking notes, ladies, I'm charging 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.040 for that. Well, we're gonna get into the. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.280 Women thing because I know you have your comedy special, 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.960 A Woman's Prayer, which you guys should check out if 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.360 you haven't already on Netflix. 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:34.160 But before we get. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.320 Into your game and your knowledge, I don't want you 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.280 to still take me back to this time when your 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.240 mom was making this food and you and how many 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:43.120 siblings You said. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.600 It was two. It was three. It's me and two siblings. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.440 So me and my two older sisters. Yeah it was us. 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:53.680 Okay, you were the only guy. And then your mom 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.240 she passed while you were Yeah, she. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.160 Passed when I was eleven. I had just turned eleven. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.520 She transition on December the fourteenth, and my birthday was 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:03.040 Decemmer the. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.600 Night wait your birthday or hers? 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.280 And she got sick on my birthday. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.640 I'm just curious, like, how did you handle that as 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.080 a child, Like what was your head thinking? 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.719 Oh man, it felt like the world had ended when 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.920 she left. I couldn't believe it. And every song that 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:24.000 came on the radio felt like it was singing about her. 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.880 It was a difficult song. How did you get here? 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.880 I was thinking that the angels was like heaven, like 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:33.559 you weren't supposed to be here yet. So I took 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:39.040 everything personal. But the day of her funeral, I remember 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.160 a strength came over me. I looked at everybody and 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.839 I started to make myself laugh like I used to 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.760 do her. So that's how I handled it. I always 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.720 handled it through comedy. I always I made myself laugh, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.160 and I used to make her laugh, even when we 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.720 used to go through stuff. I said, my mama laughed 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.040 so much without even trying. So I started to find comedy, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.240 enjoying everything. So that's how I handled it. And I 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:04.800 didn't cry. That's my last time ever crying. I was 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:08.079 at her funeral and I was crying because this is 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.000 when I learned that a man can't cry. I don't 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.400 care what they say, because once a woman to see 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.160 a man cry, I don't care what they say. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:14.480 In the back of their mind, they think they're weak. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.040 I was crying and the girl that was in the 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.120 same grade as me, fifth grade, and they actually will 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.040 I was in the front row crying at the funeral. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.120 She was looking at me because she couldn't believe mister 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:24.960 talking jump on the playground crying. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.320 I was crying and I looked at her. I sucked 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.560 my tears up, and I ain't cried since that day. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.439 So I handled it. I handled it through comedy. 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.000 Well, sometimes you could also say that maybe, like that 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.719 moment was so much trauma that it like there was 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.760 a protection, because I find it hard to believe you 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:42.760 haven't cried since then. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:43.960 I only cried good things. 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:49.240 I cried when Dione Sanders hug his son really like yeah, 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:50.560 I cried by positive things. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.360 But nothing sad, nothing said. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.319 I ain't cry about nothing since nothing came made me cry. 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:58.680 Okay, that's good to know. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:03.200 So all right, So your mom passes, What what happens 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:04.600 to you and your siblings? 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:05.800 Oh, my grandma came. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:10.640 My grandma came for sure from Florida and she she 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:13.040 took she took my sister's here. She wanted me to stay, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.240 but I moved with my dad and his girlfriend. Yeah, 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.600 I moved my dad and his girlfriend, Wilhelmina. Shout out 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.840 to Wilhelmina, who took very good care of me. But 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.040 my daddy messed around and shed off for a girl 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:31.160 that couldn't cook noodles and Willamna used to cook all 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.240 kinds of meals and everything. But she took me in. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.760 What did your what was your dad's feelings about your 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.040 mom passing? And put a little all here because if 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.000 you don't mind me asking my dad, like what was 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.360 his feeling? Like what was that talk like between you 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.679 and him with your mom passing? 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:47.920 Like? 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:49.720 Who was that talk? 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.439 Oh? 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.520 Oh that talk? He the one came in there and 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:55.600 told me he didn't want to tell me. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.600 He was like, be he didn't want to tell me. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.640 He was like son, he came in there and he 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.439 was like, I was like, Daddy, you talk to mama today? 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.000 You heard anything about Mama said, yeah, I talked to 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.240 mister John Wish is my mom my grandma husband? At 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.200 the time, I said, what do the doctor say so 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.680 my mama had already passed all day, but I didn't know. 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:23.040 And he was like, they say, they say, they say, 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.520 she ain't make it, son, and then they bust out. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.240 He bust out crying. I bust out crying. So I 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:30.880 think he felt a lot of goold after that. You know, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.680 you started thinking about what he could have did different 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.800 and all that, because, uh, when. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.480 She said she was sick, he could have took her 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:38.440 to a gusta. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.920 She went to the because she went to the hospital 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.000 the days before the stroke. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:44.439 She told him she had a nerve. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:46.559 She told him her head was hurt, and she went 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.600 to our hometown with small home time three three thousand people. 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:54.520 They told her that, uh, that's a nerve of your nick. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.440 She came home and took that. She said, it ain't 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.800 no nerve, something on my head. But he left when 0:12:58.840 --> 0:12:59.400 she was sick. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:01.640 Oh, like he saw her that day. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.760 Yeah, he was at the house the first day she 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:08.680 was sick. But you know kindsight, Yeah, he like, man, 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.720 she's sick. You know sometimes people sick, you know you 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.600 don't want to be around. But she was sicker than 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.319 what she was what she was putting on. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.160 So he cried, and you cried. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:23.680 He cried, and I cried, but we cried, okay. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.600 And then he took you to live with him. 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.040 Yeah, I stayed there. I stayed there. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.400 So how long were you with them for? 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.680 That was December. I stayed all the way to the 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.520 end of the year. But when I came back that summer, 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:39.200 he was gone. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:40.360 What do you mean gone? 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.400 I couldn't find them. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.400 Wait, so you went to December? And then where'd you 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:45.079 go for that year? 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.360 After that summer? I went to my cousin's house in Atlanta. Okay, 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:48.600 I went. 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.440 You know what I'm saying, where's your sisters? You're not 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:51.199 meeting up with them? 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.800 Or they was up there too. We used to go every. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.319 Summer, okay, but they were still also staying with your grandma. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.599 Yep in Atlanta to no, in Milan. We used to 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.080 go to Atlanta for We're back in Milan at this point. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.000 My mom died when we was in Milan. 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:15.880 Yeah, okay, So then what happens you come back? He's gone. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.760 You don't know where he is. You can't pick up 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:18.400 the phone to find him. 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.200 That was fifth grade. I ain't see him again into 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:20.680 a grade. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.240 What were you weren't wondering what happened to him? 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.760 Shoot, he was running? Is that? 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:28.880 Was that like normal in your town? Or like, how 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:29.200 are you. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:33.200 Dealing with his name? Oh? So he always skipped town 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:33.400 on you. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.800 Okay, so you were at this point you're used to 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:37.040 your dad being in and out. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:39.560 Yeah, but he disappeared. He was good. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.360 He played the best hide and seek hide and seek player. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:43.320 He needed a trophy. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.520 Okay, So who is like taking care of you full time? 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:46.600 Like? 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.120 Who do you have to look up to back? 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:49.760 I'm back. I'm back with my grandma at this point, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:50.920 I moved back with her and. 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.320 My sister's okay, so she's mentoring you, Like who's who's 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:56.440 who's looking out for you? 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.800 Mentoring? Oh? Man? At this point is me and the 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.720 holdest spirit. I had to raise myself. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.800 Okay, But then what age did you start having children? 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.280 I started having them as a team, like fifteen sixteen, but. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:16.080 They them kids ain't make it the first ones. Okay, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:17.560 bray mama had a miscarried. 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.480 Okay, so you start having kids, you're in high school, 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.920 At what point do you start thinking about entertainment or 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:41.760 comedy entertainment? 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.080 I kind of knew I was gonna be an entertainment early, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.640 but not as a job that I still want to thinking. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.000 I was trying every once in a while. I knew 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:51.480 I could rap. 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.640 According to your book, I think it showed that you 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.480 were starting in comedy and club promotions. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.640 Yeah, no, it was. It was coming it then starts 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.280 out of twenty seven. It was a club, it was 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:05.040 a club promotion. 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.960 So before that, you were doing what to make ends meet? 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.160 I was, I was selling them things. 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.120 He was a hustler, Yeah, okay, so okay, so you're 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:19.000 hustling now. I read your book, it seemed like you 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.640 were definitely destined to get out of hustling, Like as 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.920 much as you got in, you were focused on getting out. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.160 Of course I don't. I didn't like it. I ain't 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.240 one of the ones that wanted to do it. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.880 Okay, And you weren't flashy with it either. You just 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:33.760 wanted to get out. 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:35.800 I stayed fresh, you know what I'm saying. Everybody know 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.400 I had money, but I did that kind of to 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:42.520 promote my party. So I was really low key. I'm 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:43.960 lokey now, same person. 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.880 You're low key, but you you definitely got like a 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.800 diva in you think so, I mean, we don't check 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:52.560 with your whole team. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.200 I mean they being hello kind to you, but I mean, 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.120 you know, when things aren't being said, you could see 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.160 like what's being said. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.840 But say everybody on their peas and crew kings. I 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.080 just check on me, like everybody should check on themselves. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.000 I want to say you're diva. I would say that 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.199 you have standards, and I like that. I respect that. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.040 Yeah, when you don't, when you when you don't being low, 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:13.600 you get tired of being low. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:14.560 You just want to be high. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.600 Yeah, well I haven't experienced that the other side yet. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.320 I'm still on the this side. 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.320 So I'm like this all day now. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.399 I'm real detail because I had to become detailed because 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.719 my mom left me at a young age. So I 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.480 had to pick up because a woman is detailed. When 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.560 you got a mother, your mom gonna check the details 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.040 in your life. The father had the main things. But 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.520 with my mom being gone, I had to learn to 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:40.600