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I want to make conversation 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.520 interview provide relatable information to the listen about career and 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:06.520 financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, overcoming the arts, and how 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.799 to live a balanced life. It's time, this young man, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.359 it's time. My next guest is a stand up comic, 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.120 right there, let's start right there, A stand up comic. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.799 That's what I used to be. But I always it's 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.240 hard for him to say that, because I always feel 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.480 I'm ill always be a stand up comic. But I 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.280 gotta say that's what I used to be because of 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:29.320 the fact that that's what he does. That's what he 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.760 does for a living, and he's one of the best. Daddy, 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.320 He's an actor and a writer as comedian. As a comedian, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.880 he has performed all over the country and made various 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.160 TV appearances. A twenty years stand up veteran who has 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.280 made his living performing, acting, writing for TV and film, 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.560 and training other comedians. You hear me right there scraining 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.480 other comedians. David has performed on Comedy Central to BT. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:54.200 He has three stand up specials to his credit, and 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:59.040 released his fourth, Fat Ballerina, produced by my man Kevin 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.639 Hard Fat Ballerina, Who so Netflix? Right now? That's what 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.919 I saw. What I saw. I'm telling you, I was 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:12.040 landing big. I went, you know, because what happens is, hey, brother, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.480 we aren't hoo at the house. Okay, I'm going through 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.040 And really really I saw you before the whole pandemic 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.280 thing got going. So I saw you. So so I 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.880 go to Netflix. I got you know, netflick comes up. 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.000 Push my my little AVATARO because my wife got to Avatar. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.360 My daughter got avatar. You know, like like they're looking 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.640 at something different than I'm looking at. We all look 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.280 at the same Netflix program. So I go, okay, you know, 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:43.240 I see who's David David Fat looks like David right there. Man, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:47.840 I just my boy, So I click it. I sat 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.800 there the whole time laughing. Then my wife come in 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.000 the room. I said, I know him. That's what I said, David, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:04:02.040 I know it. I told my wife I know him, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.560 and she went, you know, everybody, okay whatever, when I 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:14.560 know him, man, I tell you absolutely the truth, man. 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.320 And then you get to the end, the very end. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:25.720 Producer Kim whitty Man one of the finest character comedian 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.360 actresses in the game today and a stand up I 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:34.560 immediately immediately text Kim Whitman said, I just saw and 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:38.120 you can she she she can screenshot at itself. I 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:42.440 just saw David Special Man. Was he good? I said, 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.359 I have to I have to get him on my show. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:51.440 One of the main conversations David. She went, wasn't he good? 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.119 Wasn't he good? I said, girl, he was more than good, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:59.280 he was fantastic. So David, congratulations, brother. I just had 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:04.080 to tell you how all went down. How how person 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:06.800 Some people say I got a lot of statue in 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.320 this business. I like to just say, I'm just a 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.840 hard working brother. But to see what you mean, you do, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.960 you've done you. I mean, come on, man, everybody you 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.080 know you you have, you have, you have helped guide 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.479 one of the people who have been who have become 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.280 you know, a staple in the commedy community. You know 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.520 what I'm saying. And it takes a lot to do that, man, 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.240 It takes a lot to because you know, we're not 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.000 easy people, and so it takes a lot to be 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:36.640 able to go on a journey with somebody. And also, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.360 like you said, you did stand up comedy too, So 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.920 to be able to you know, adjust your lens and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.599 start helping somebody else to do something is is an 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.480 incredible thing within itself. So when I when they called 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:52.880 me and they told me, like, let me give you 0:05:52.920 --> 0:06:00.440 our connection. You don't know before. So you you helped 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.360 inspire a guy who started me doing, who started me 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.800 writing and producing TV. His name is Anthony Hill. That's 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:14.640 my boy. Absolutely I know Anthony is Anthony. Me and 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.560 Anthony met doing Tony Rocks. TV showed that I was 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.800 I was brought in to do puncher pot. I was. 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.080 Actually I wasn't even asked to go. They asked Chris 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.120 Spencer to go. Chris Spencer asked if he could bring 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.359 his friend to do some punch up. Anthony was wearing 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:33.599 under the room. Long story short, Anthony got rid of 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:38.520 everybody and kept me and me and Anthony became good friends. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.720 Anthony went on to run House of Plain and Nic 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.800 the bronspitality period at Lant And the first thing he 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.960 did when they put him in charge, which he brought me, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.000 Anthony showed me how to write. Anthony told me that 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.760 you showed him and told him and you take this 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.159 little play that you wrote and turn it into this 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.560 and that is and he credits you for that. So 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.359 now when I got the call, you know, hey, you 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.080 want to chop it over? Saw I was like, yeah, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.080 because he has no idea that somebody who you helped 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:14.920 also added another another strength in my world, which is 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.560 now television writing and producing. So he came back around. 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.080 So I just want to say on that thank you. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:26.360 And then we met one time. We met. We yeah, 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.720 we met one time when I was in I think 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.800 it was in North Carolina maybe South Carolina, I can't remember. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.480 But I opened up for Steve and I have been 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.520 doing stand up all of twenty minutes literally, and you 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.160 you know what I mean. It's always nice enough to 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.600 talk to me in the back and makes me feel 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.240 like I was, you know, a person, but it was 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.160 I never forget that that was the one encounter that 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.560 I had with Steve, which literally had to be twenty 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.600 twenty one year, twenty three years ago, because I was 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.680 brand new, you know, I mean, I've a stand up 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.320 twenty four years somebody. I know, I was within my 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.240 first two years of door stand up because I had 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.240 about twenty minutes of material. So it was dope then. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:14.640 So it's great to hear somebody who's um affected your 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:18.920 career indirectly to now see that, oh you saw something 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.320 that I did and you thought that it was funny 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.280 that makes me feel good. Man. First of all, the callbacks. See, 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.960 people don't do callbacks anymore. And a callback, just explain 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.400 people with a callback is in a in a funny 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.640 comedy routine, is that you're set up a statement and 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:40.160 then you you're indirectly bring it back it laid on 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.480 into your show again. He has like three callbacks in 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.040 his specially Okay, And I'm not gonna tell you because 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:48.560 if I tell you what the callback is, this won't 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.199 be funny when you hear the first time. So I'm 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.839 not gonna ruin a joke. But know that. Yeah, but everybody, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.000 But let me just tell it for everybody who's listening 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.400 to always tell people that you gotta put in David 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.000 a Arnold or you won't find me. If you do 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.559 David Arnold, you're gonna find the white guy that produces 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.680 all the soundtracks to James Barmer. But if you put 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:10.120 in David a Arnold, you'll find me. Because a lot 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.520 of people are searching Netflix and they're searching David Arnold 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.280 and sometimes that won't bring it. But if you put 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.240 in David a Arnor with stat Ballerina, that's how you 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.400 can find me. Especially they're and on social media. So yeah, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:26.680 but go ahead that that's absolutely the thing, and that 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.440 that's really an art form. It's a lost art form, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.240 especially with so many you know, scial media comedians and 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.000 YouTube comedians you know, who just just want to say 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.199 something for two or three minutes and all of a 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.160 sudden they walk off and say and take about But 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.720 that's not nothing negative them. They just take advantage of technology. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.920 If I had technology, I may have been a YouTube comedian. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.560 Who knows if I had that ability to chew it up. 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:51.280 The brilliance of Kevin harden Is said he figured out 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:56.559 social media before everybody figuring out as a comedian. That is, 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.000 let me tell you something. Was on the phone with 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.720 a friend of mine last yesterday and then Desi Banks 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.720 as he is a YouTube or a Instagram social media 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.840 influencer personality, got like four and a half million followers. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.600 He's now he's been doing stand up about two years, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.360 two or three years, and me and him were talking 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.640 about this. I realized about two years ago. With two 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.959 years ago, I had sixteen hundred followers, right because I'm 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.280 you know, I'm like what I look like yelling in 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.440 the camera all day, So I but I realized that 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.840 this is the way that the world is being reached now. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.320 So what I didn't want to do with to be 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:39.960 that old school comedian complaining about these young dudes who 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:44.760 are making moves in the way in which the world 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:49.120 is moving. So I started taking my point of view, 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.640 my comedy, my voice, and I started posting on Instagram 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.680 and Facebook. I got over six hundred thousand followers now 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.280 and in eighteen months. Because I've decided this is the 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.719 game they're playing, I'm gonna play that game too. I'm 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:04.800 gonna work on my stand up, but I'm gonna play 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.440 this social media game as well. So it's been incredible 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:13.920 that six hundred thousand Rashaan gave me the launching pad 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.760 when my Netflix special came out a few weeks ago. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.040 That gave me the launching pad to send it out 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.679 to six hundred thousand people and let them know it 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.080 was up, and that's what sparked it and got it 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.559 trending the second day it came out, right, And that's 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.880 what people to understand that I just telling my side 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.800 story with Steve Harvey is that in two thousand and seven, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.080 I started noticing on CNN and all the sports shows, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.800 Twitter feeds and Twitter. They had the Twitter handles and 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.320 I go, wow, what is this because Twitter handles. Twitter 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.760 handles Twitter handles And at the time, we had like 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:49.600 seven hundred, eight hundred thousand fan club members and I went, ways, 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.800 my time, we got eight hundred thousand fan club members. 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.120 And so we sit down, you know something, we don't 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.439 want to be left out and so so well Bro 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.319 at the time, he had like fifty house and at 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.800 that time, and so we brought in the young lady 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.480 to be his social media person and avatar, you know, 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.480 act like he's posting that he's not posting and so 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.319 and move right there. If we did not do that move, 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.959 we will not have been able to launch his talk 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.760 show in two twelve because I was able to compare 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.800 this social media follow with you know, doctor Dr Phil 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.480 with ln D General, with his competitors who are coming 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.720 along at the same time. And so what you also 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.920 tell the people is that if you don't have social 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.480 media followers, it can damage your opportunities because a lot 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.560 of companies look at you, now go what can you 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.840 do for us? We're gonna put your TV? What can 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.360 you do for us? That's so true you've got to 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.360 have us. I tell all the young comics that I 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.400 talked to now and even these older ones, like all 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.960 the young comics tell me, or the the young influencers, 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.840 They'll tell me you are the first, one of the 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:58.200 first um stand up comedians o g. As they called 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.840 me stand up comic to have figured out the social 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:04.199 media game. And I'm like, because I'm not gonna let 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.920 this pass me by, especially because I have not yet 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:10.600 gotten my just to do. I have not yet been seen, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.160 like I feel like I need to be seen. So 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.400 therefore I started building. Uh, I started building a following, 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.960 and I was like, listen, they posted up videos that 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.360 are two and a half sixty seconds to three minutes long, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.199 and most of them ain't funny. I'm funny. I know 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.599 I'm funny. So I'm like, I could be funny, I 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:42.160 say for the rest of my life. I d I 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.719 leave at your I leaned into it and like, I'm 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.960 not gonna complain about the game. I'm gonna get with 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:51.200 the game. And now I got these two worlds and 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.720 I got to be honest with you, man. I love 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.679 being able to talk to my fans on social media 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.000 and Facebook and Instagram, I love it. I went live 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:03.080 yesterday on Facebook. People was watching me. That's the most 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:08.960 people I've ever got a chance theater. It's amazing. It's amazing. 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.720 It's it's amazing when you realize you have that type 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.920 of marketing control. We're gonna be right back from in 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.079 this break, come back with my man, David A. Arnold. 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.800 He is an amazingly funny specially on Netflix. It's called 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:26.400 fat Ballerina. We will be right back with David. It's 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.160 finally here, the season of celebration, and no matter how 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.320 you celebrate with family and friends, whether you're preparing for 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.960 reys magos or Karamu lighting the Manura, are going to 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.000 midnight mass, Coals has just what you need to make 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.760 those traditions special. 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With that being said, 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:48.520 I look at Kevin Hart and I remember when I 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.360 was well, I remember wad watch him walk around in 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.480 the in the in the different clothes. He's always had 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.800 somebody walking with him with some camera who's always running 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.760 from club to club to club. That's why I remember 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.280 by yeah, and then and then then when I when 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.880 I when we cast him in the movie, UM thinking 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:09.160 like a man. The very first one UM he had 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.119 like about I wanted to say, he had like by 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:16.399 five million, talking about five million Facebook followers at the 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:20.679 time at the time, And I remember right right, you know, 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.800 I was just remember I was talking about Facebook because 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.719 he had all he had Twitter and Instagram. He had 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:28.000 everything okay, but and you said, Rashan, I picked up 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:34.880 twenty thousand followers on Sunday. Hmm right right, twenty thousands 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:39.600 followers in one day. That's what hard. Right then I 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.119 knew he was on to something to pick up twenty 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.920 followers in one day. And I say that it means 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.840 something and so and that's why he's a power broker 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.840 today because he controls his media. And so one of 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.359 the things that you know, I managed Steven A. Smith. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.520 When we sat down and Stephen A. Smith was not 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.920 on Instagram at all. He was just a Twitter and 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.480 a Facebook guy, and I said, hey, man, here we 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.840 talk about opening a Twitter Instagram account. He said, he 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.040 Isn't that for young people? You think that's my market share? 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.480 Were two point eight million Instagram followers later, Yes it is, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.360 Yes it is. And so now he is to following 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:22.600 in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and so now he controls 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.440 his market share. And so when I stopped managing Steve 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.800 Harvey in one of the first things that I wanted 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.960 to do was because how create my own voice? David? 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.840 I wonder the was my voice? And people people always 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.920 look at me, go, we'll you're you're successful now I'm 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.359 successful with Steve Harvard. That's not my voice. That's not 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:46.200 my voice. I said, what what would make people follow me? 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.400 What would make people well? I could bake real good. 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:51.119 So I started baking everything. And every time I post 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.919 a bag, I get thousands to thousand likes. I'll go 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:58.320 viral by baking post. But that wasn't me, and so 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.000 I had to sit back. That was just a gift 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.680 that God gave me. And so I can sit back 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.320 and go, you know what I'm saying, that was just 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:06.840 a gift. And so a lot of people understand that 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.240 that might not be your in goal. But I always 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:13.359 tell people, if God gives you a window, why it please, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.080 you know, look at it, Please open the please, And 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.880 that's what I did. I opened it and I started baking. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.000 So I swear to you, I could be walking at 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.040 the mall. I could be walking. I was walking in 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.600 the Beverly Hills walking. This lady pulled down her roll 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:32.320 down that window said are you the baking guy? I go, wow, 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:41.320 are you? Yeah? Right? Right right right right, So so 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:43.800 so I was in the deult allowed this lady came 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.680 in to me, almost in tears. She was she worked 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.800 and she's a worker in the deult allowed she said. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:51.680 She said, sir, I spoke to you when you when 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.439 you when you when you walk by, I go, uh, 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.600 I said hi back then she said, yes you did. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.760 But what you didn't know? Are you the to get 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:06.680 who bakes? I go? I follow you, I follow you. Man, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.320 this lady almost broke down the team to hug this lady. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:11.760 I said, uh, I had to get up out of 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.359 my chair. Man. It's all right, you know. She said, Wow, 0:20:15.200 --> 0:20:17.000 I can't believe a meeting you and I only bring 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.560 up these scenarios to show that that's the power of 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:22.520 controlling your own voice, and that's what you're talking about, 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.120 and the power of that translating to the person like me. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.600 Ras Sean McDonald contacting you, saying, hey, man, I can't 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:35.480 believe I'm a fan watching this guy. It's a fan 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.960 and I'm telling my wife I know him, and she's 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.679 looking at me blowing me off. David, they are you 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:48.600 know Aaron? I know him. You know You're like, like, 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.360 what it's so dope for me is to watch everybody 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:54.480 the two worlds meet now because a lot of like 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:56.320 I told you, a lot of my fan base and 0:20:56.560 --> 0:21:00.800 built lately dramatically in social media, Facebook and Instagram. So 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.840 now when I told them, hen, go watch my Netflix special, 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.360 they went watched it and then they were like, oh, 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:08.879 I didn't know you. I mean, I know you funny 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.119 on Instagram and Facebook, but I didn't know you're a 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.680 real stand up comedian. A lot of people don't know that. 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.040 I've been doing stand up for twenty four years and 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.199 this is not my first role. This is not my 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.600 first rodeo. This is the first national stage that I've 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.840 been on, and it's been dope, eat it eat like this. 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:28.720 This Netflix special idea I produced, I put I did 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:32.239 all of this myself. It's an independent project. It's not 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:36.280 a Netflix original. It is an independent project that they 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.760 licensed and they put up. And it's great for me 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.639 to go that thing on the second day started trending, 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.480 and it trended that number one first ten days that 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:47.800 it was out. It beat out the originals that they 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:54.800 are really and it makes me feel good finally get 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.920 something and get a moment where people go, this, dude 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.199 is good, and man, not only you good, but you 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:06.080 can never do another special in the comedy club. You 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.880 are Arenas and that brother, you are venues of three 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.000 thousand and more. That's where I need to see your 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:16.160 next special at because because you are, you are a star. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:20.920 Temptell about stars. Stars can never be seen, can never 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.560 be touchable. I can't look down and and being able 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.199 to touch on one of my fans. I'm not a 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:31.040 star because see people, that's what people perceive. Security. You know, 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:33.479