WEBVTT - QLS Classic: Cedric The Entertainer

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<v Speaker 1>Quest Love Show is a production of iHeartRadio. Hey whateup, y'all.

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<v Speaker 2>This is Quest Love And in late twenty twenty three,

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<v Speaker 2>Quest Love Supreme had Cedric be entertainer on and this

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<v Speaker 2>was like the prime zoom days of Qlsson said was

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<v Speaker 2>chilling in his car waiting for his wife at the

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<v Speaker 2>Salon Classic setup, but he still gave us some jewels

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<v Speaker 2>about his journey into comedy, the lessons that he learned

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<v Speaker 2>and delving into his first novel, Flipping Box Cards. And

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<v Speaker 2>I always loved talking to comedians and Team Supreme and

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<v Speaker 2>I had a blast with this, so it became one

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<v Speaker 2>of our top performing episodes of that year. So I

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<v Speaker 2>want you to enjoy it.

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<v Speaker 3>Word word, What's up? Right? Up?

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<v Speaker 1>What's going on? What's going on?

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<v Speaker 3>Hey? Good good? And saw you guys the other night

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<v Speaker 3>that was lit You was there, Yeah, yeah, in l A.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that was our Okay. It was my first time

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<v Speaker 1>at the former and I enjoyed that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah, I did it. Uh, I did it in

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<v Speaker 3>May with the tour we was on. That was I

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<v Speaker 3>had been.

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<v Speaker 4>I had actually did it one other time with me

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<v Speaker 4>and Georgia and all that. But it's a great performance venue.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's ready to be in a venue which there's

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<v Speaker 2>not bouncing sounding on us.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, specific exactly.

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<v Speaker 5>We cann introduce ourselves to say, I'm like, yeah, how

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<v Speaker 5>you doing.

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<v Speaker 4>Like yeah, yeah, I was working worked them out.

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah there, get all of them. It's a live.

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<v Speaker 3>Man.

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<v Speaker 6>We met a few times. H.

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<v Speaker 7>I think I brought my family backstage and you guys

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<v Speaker 7>were in Raleigh. This was a couple of years ago

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<v Speaker 7>when you and Eddie and George I was doing your tour.

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<v Speaker 6>And youre telling I think you went food y'all played.

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<v Speaker 7>I think you and Pool was doing just do something

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<v Speaker 7>with sports together, something from the Pool had pool.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. We had one of.

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<v Speaker 4>Those football things together. We was all in yeah, like

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<v Speaker 4>ship and Steve just rolled the joint though, what.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, yeah, I just rolled ten joints.

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<v Speaker 5>It's his birthday.

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<v Speaker 3>Say let's go, Steve.

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<v Speaker 8>Let's got nice to me, yes, sir.

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<v Speaker 9>Congratulations on your book, man, It's nice to see all

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<v Speaker 9>these Saint Louis references in here.

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<v Speaker 5>I got a mama from there.

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<v Speaker 3>Our word okay, yeah yeah really yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>Really happy with the way it turned down and everything,

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<v Speaker 4>so super excited about it.

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<v Speaker 9>It looked like it's going to be on somebody's stage

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<v Speaker 9>or screen and it's a couple of years.

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<v Speaker 6>Maybe.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Yeah, it's got definitely got all the elements of

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<v Speaker 4>being a great story.

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<v Speaker 3>Actually that's kind of where I started it.

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<v Speaker 4>I started writing the writing a TV show idea, and

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<v Speaker 4>then it and then the book Opportunity came.

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<v Speaker 2>So, so all right, ladies and gentlemen, the summer is over.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope you guys thrived and uh and did well. Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>There is another episode of Quest Love Supreme from hers

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<v Speaker 2>Quest Love. We have our team Supreme's with us. Take

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<v Speaker 2>a little bro, what's uping a working man?

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<v Speaker 1>Working? How is your summer? My summer was?

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<v Speaker 3>It was hot?

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<v Speaker 7>I think I realized this summer. My favorite season really

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<v Speaker 7>is fall. I think I only like summer as a

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<v Speaker 7>kid because there was no school. Summer as an adult,

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<v Speaker 7>it's fucking hot. I had this ship cuzow over Fall

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<v Speaker 7>got But I mean, but the summer it was cool.

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<v Speaker 7>I didn't get the cook as much as I wanted

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<v Speaker 7>to be. It was just it was just that hot.

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<v Speaker 7>It was too crazy. But uh but noah, we had

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<v Speaker 7>a good time man and the family too.

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<v Speaker 1>You have an outdoor set up and you prip oh yeah, Oh.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, I got my got my the big green egg.

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<v Speaker 7>I do it on that and you know that's fumbly

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<v Speaker 7>where I do all my all my cooking outside my grilling.

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<v Speaker 6>But uh, you.

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<v Speaker 5>Ain't a real grilling. You ain't got that egg. I

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<v Speaker 5>heard that's like a thing.

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<v Speaker 3>No, I mean it's it's official.

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<v Speaker 7>But I mean, listen, I hadn't seen dudes get busy

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<v Speaker 7>in a file cabinet before, so you know what I mean, if.

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<v Speaker 6>You got the skill to do it, you know what

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<v Speaker 6>I mean. I wanted to talk barbecue.

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<v Speaker 7>We will get into I want to talk barbecue to

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<v Speaker 7>see because I know you and Anthony y'all got your

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<v Speaker 7>thing too.

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<v Speaker 6>So but yeah, man, yeah, someone was cool.

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<v Speaker 1>Someone was cool. Word up, that's right, Steve.

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<v Speaker 2>You remember we used to put out the deluxe George

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<v Speaker 2>Foreman grill on the patio.

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<v Speaker 8>No, we had a real barbecue, but Foreman was handy,

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<v Speaker 8>definitely andy.

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<v Speaker 1>I missed my former grill.

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<v Speaker 2>Man, it's probably still on that patio. I've left the

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<v Speaker 2>house like sixteen years ago. I bet you're still out there.

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<v Speaker 2>I was just talking to Steve. What's going on?

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<v Speaker 1>Bro Man?

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<v Speaker 8>Just like Fonta's a lot, a lot of work, a

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<v Speaker 8>lot of projects, got the record label NonStop or just

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<v Speaker 8>did our twenty third record on JMI and uh twenty

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<v Speaker 8>three records, twenty three records, Yeah, man six six label Realuz,

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<v Speaker 8>you guys remember when it started, right around the time

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<v Speaker 8>Quest of Supreme started.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, Ray, every one was the first one, wasn't it?

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<v Speaker 1>Was that a second second one?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 5>It's like ten really angry albums later.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 8>Well our he's our flagship artist for sure, Okay, and

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<v Speaker 8>a lot of good stuff coming out.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah cool. How goes it?

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<v Speaker 3>Uh?

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<v Speaker 5>It goes well? Much like Fante.

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<v Speaker 9>It was a hot summer, especially because it was my

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<v Speaker 9>first Parry summer, so that was an experience.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh fellas, So let me never tell you.

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<v Speaker 9>Perimenopause is the theft that happens before menopause.

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<v Speaker 5>It could pop off.

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<v Speaker 9>At like, you know, thirty five, starting the age of

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<v Speaker 9>thirty five. Mine happened a little later. And that's just

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<v Speaker 9>when you get all the heats from the menopause. All

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<v Speaker 9>your things are still rolling. You know, your body's still

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<v Speaker 9>doing things, maybe not as often, you know, I'd be

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<v Speaker 9>partying for fifty days without a situation.

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<v Speaker 5>But yeah, if you look at me now, there's a glow.

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<v Speaker 1>Saying every day summer for you, every day.

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<v Speaker 5>Summer, every day.

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<v Speaker 9>Shout out to your bandmate Kamal, who wanted to make

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<v Speaker 9>that known to everyone yesterday.

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<v Speaker 5>I'm still gonna kick his ass.

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<v Speaker 3>What did he do?

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<v Speaker 9>Oh no, he just didn't announce that I had my

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<v Speaker 9>menopause fan in my hand, and I was like, it is,

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<v Speaker 9>but let me tell my story.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no, no, no he only knews that because I

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<v Speaker 2>can attest that Kamal Tarique and maybe two other routes

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<v Speaker 2>also had their fans in there. There's a thing that

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<v Speaker 2>you plug into your iPhone and yeah it cools you off.

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<v Speaker 1>And yeah we're up there.

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<v Speaker 3>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>This this, this is the summer in which I felt

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<v Speaker 2>whatever the equivalent of preschool is to being a senior citizen.

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<v Speaker 1>That was the summer the force. No, this was not

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<v Speaker 1>a music tour.

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<v Speaker 2>This was this was camp cool j This is literally

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<v Speaker 2>g I Jane.

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<v Speaker 5>Oh, please tell us something to mir or just tell

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<v Speaker 5>us something.

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<v Speaker 2>No like Ella wasn't having it like we've been. I

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<v Speaker 2>probably lost an additional fifteen pounds like he has working

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<v Speaker 2>out lifting weights, like getting cupping every night and similar

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<v Speaker 2>to the spot to get yo. I need you all

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<v Speaker 2>relax man getting drips oxygen tinks like llo is I

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<v Speaker 2>mean not like major pain level of drill, sergeant, but

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<v Speaker 2>like you don't take that.

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<v Speaker 9>You he looks phenomenal, So you know that it's got

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<v Speaker 9>to be a lot to make that happen.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, yeah, it's it's definitely an osmosis effect that's been happening.

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<v Speaker 1>So you know, four more gigs left.

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<v Speaker 2>But I will say this is one of the hardest

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<v Speaker 2>summers of my life. Like and I had to do

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<v Speaker 2>no running, none of that stuff. Like, I mean, you've

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<v Speaker 2>seen this sh like the it's had the You've seen

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<v Speaker 2>us injured, like you saw fattyus jumping with one leg

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<v Speaker 2>and they.

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<v Speaker 9>And it was the wettest I ever seen you. You got

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<v Speaker 9>off stage, you was like soaked. I was like, that's

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<v Speaker 9>not like you. You do this like it's nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>Three and a half hours. Well you saw short Hill.

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<v Speaker 2>That was just like three hours on the news. But

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<v Speaker 2>normally it's like three and a half hours back where

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<v Speaker 2>I belong, sitting in the chair, talking and not moving

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<v Speaker 2>is where I'm the happiest. So again, I will say

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<v Speaker 2>that longtime listeners of the show should know how much

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<v Speaker 2>we love focusing on career pivots. All of us have

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<v Speaker 2>reached our pivot where we were one thing when the

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<v Speaker 2>show for started, now where you know, multi hyphenated doing

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<v Speaker 2>other things. And I will say that our guests this

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<v Speaker 2>week is absolutely all about that. You know as probably

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<v Speaker 2>one of the biggest stand ups in all of comedy,

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<v Speaker 2>and he has pivot to become a fixture on he's television, film,

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<v Speaker 2>actor stage. We know him first for comedy and then

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<v Speaker 2>you know, if you if you're fans with Comic View

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<v Speaker 2>and def Comedy Jam and even the Primetime Emmy Awards,

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<v Speaker 2>you know our guests, but you know he's also executive

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<v Speaker 2>produced shows and created opportunities for so many other comedians

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<v Speaker 2>and actors in his wake. But also I will say

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<v Speaker 2>that our guest tonight he's sort of expanding his palace

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit. And he is a novelist and his

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<v Speaker 2>first novel, Flipping Box Cars, is currently out and he's

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<v Speaker 2>joined us to talk about his life, his career and

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<v Speaker 2>his many pivots. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for

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<v Speaker 2>the one and only.

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<v Speaker 10>For your next Black people have.

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<v Speaker 3>Wait.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is what you don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Said Okay, So I without alienating my position with one

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<v Speaker 2>of my jobs with the Roots now fifteen years at

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<v Speaker 2>that job. We kind of have a short list of

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<v Speaker 2>the types of guests that get to the couch, but

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<v Speaker 2>we have a top five list of people who are

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<v Speaker 2>a snooze city, like like give it along, like when

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<v Speaker 2>you see it on television, it's perfectly edit it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's nice.

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<v Speaker 2>But these are like eighteen minute story like the equivalent

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<v Speaker 2>of me in real life on the show. It's to

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<v Speaker 2>the point now where all three of your ad libs,

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<v Speaker 2>like literally your ad libs are triggered on my computer

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<v Speaker 2>to the right. And that's what I used to sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>make fun of guests on the show. So you know,

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<v Speaker 2>if you happen to see us laughing from the couch,

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<v Speaker 2>you didn't say anything funny.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, fuck no.

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<v Speaker 1>That's one of my favorite bits.

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<v Speaker 3>Man.

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<v Speaker 1>I love that.

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<v Speaker 4>How are you doing, bro, I'm good, brother, I do it.

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<v Speaker 4>Everything is well, man, it's good.

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<v Speaker 1>Wait are you in the car right now?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Man, I was actually out with my wife.

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<v Speaker 2>What's up with every black guest that we have? Hey

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<v Speaker 2>do their interview portion in the car is where it's

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<v Speaker 2>uh soundproof and whatnot?

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<v Speaker 1>Where are you calling us from?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm in I'm actually at the nail shop.

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<v Speaker 4>So my wife wanted me to come to come to

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<v Speaker 4>the nail shop with her, and then I was like, oh,

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, our anniversary was Sunday, so I've been

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<v Speaker 4>like just anniversarying it up with her, like so each

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<v Speaker 4>day whatever she wants to do. And I, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I was like, babe, I got this interview and she

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<v Speaker 4>was like, come, it's gonna be fast.

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<v Speaker 3>And of course it's not.

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<v Speaker 4>She and they're getting jailed toes and dips they dipping it.

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<v Speaker 3>It's all kind. I say, I gotta go to the

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<v Speaker 3>car and do this interview.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's long enough for you to do a podcast.

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, if she getting jail on the toes and the hands, yes, yeah, no, wait.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah can I can I ask you guys for advice?

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<v Speaker 2>So, at what point in the relationship do you realize

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<v Speaker 2>that you shouldn't do too much at the beginning because

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<v Speaker 2>then you'll have to maintain that level of excellence throughout

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<v Speaker 2>the entire relationship, Like when February is looking around? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>do y'all feel like the pressure of God gotta Yeah.

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<v Speaker 4>You can easily put yourself in to your point, you

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<v Speaker 4>can put yourself in bad situations and it depending on

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<v Speaker 4>the person you you're dating.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, My wife is not really big on.

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<v Speaker 4>Her birthday, but her anniversary that means that means much

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<v Speaker 4>to her. So anniversaries are things that I gotta.

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<v Speaker 3>Go hard on.

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<v Speaker 4>Valentine's Day is something that she's as long as I

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<v Speaker 4>pay attention and don't forget.

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<v Speaker 3>Were good.

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<v Speaker 4>But like you know, but like Thanksgiving, Chris, anything to

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<v Speaker 4>do with the kids, Like the kids gotta be like

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<v Speaker 4>their birthdays and what we do to celebrate them or

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<v Speaker 4>I need to be very concerned about that as a man,

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<v Speaker 4>which is you know, in most cases I am not.

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<v Speaker 3>I'd be like, yo, when when was these little kids born?

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<v Speaker 7>Again?

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<v Speaker 4>Like I don't know, Okay, they're all old and stuff.

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<v Speaker 4>Now I'm looking at them like I don't know who

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<v Speaker 4>your birthday is?

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<v Speaker 3>Bro.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I was about to say, after after twenty three,

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<v Speaker 2>my dad stopped acknowledging my birthday.

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<v Speaker 3>So yeah, yeah it's right, bro, Like come on, man,

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<v Speaker 3>come on down like the slew Oh yeah, give me.

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<v Speaker 3>I'll be doing my son like that, my man every birthday. Bro,

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<v Speaker 3>Like that's it. You know, you're.

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<v Speaker 4>No longer a little dude where I got to get

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<v Speaker 4>the cake and throw the Lakers birthday party for you

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<v Speaker 4>and all that stuff, you.

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<v Speaker 6>Know, like, you know, how old are your kids now?

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<v Speaker 3>Man?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, my son's going to be twenty three in the

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<v Speaker 4>end of September, and my daughter will be twenty in November.

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<v Speaker 4>And I got an older daughter that's thirty four and

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<v Speaker 4>a granddaughter that's seven.

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<v Speaker 6>Wow. So yeah, and you and your wife y'all got

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<v Speaker 6>twenty years and is it's twenty fail?

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<v Speaker 3>I long, Yeah, twenty four, twenty four, twenty fourth. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>that's beautiful.

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<v Speaker 2>Congratulations. What's what's your seeing? And I'm always looking for advice?

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<v Speaker 2>What's what's the secret to keep me in the life?

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, I mean, I mean we really enjoy each other.

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<v Speaker 4>I think that was the main thing, is to really

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<v Speaker 4>kind of keep your wife your girlfriend, you know, try

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<v Speaker 4>to keep that part of it alive, you know, so

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<v Speaker 4>that you don't get into playing those kind of traditional

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<v Speaker 4>roles and get you know, everybody just kind of like

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<v Speaker 4>playing the game of marriage. So we still like date

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<v Speaker 4>a lot and have fun together and laugh a lot

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<v Speaker 4>and have our own inside stuff. And it's important even

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<v Speaker 4>when we was raising the kids, we still like, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>made it, you know, made our relationship about us, and

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<v Speaker 4>you know, the parenting part of it was again a

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<v Speaker 4>part of the overall system, but never was it all

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<v Speaker 4>about like, oh, you know, we just gonna be mama

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<v Speaker 4>and daddy and not you ain't gonna.

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<v Speaker 3>Be my girl. You know what I'm saying. You got

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<v Speaker 3>to be my girl too. So I think that's the key.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what's up.

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<v Speaker 2>I've never had an in depth conversation with any of

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<v Speaker 2>the kings of comedy. And you know, I've seen many,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like a documentary on like the comedy act

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<v Speaker 2>theory and all those things. But I know that a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of you've gotten your start out I'm assuming like

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<v Speaker 2>in the Midwest, then make that way out west. So

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<v Speaker 2>just in general, I want to know, like where does

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<v Speaker 2>your where does humor play in your life? Like were

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<v Speaker 2>you always the class clown? Were you always making people laugh?

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<v Speaker 2>Like how remember you at what point on the timeline

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<v Speaker 2>where you mark where your journey starts with comedy.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna say you know probably that you know that

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<v Speaker 4>that seventh seventh grade lunch room cafeterias area where we

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<v Speaker 4>all kind of start to identify ourselves as a you know,

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<v Speaker 4>like your own personality. But you know you also got

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<v Speaker 4>to stand up against you know, the uh, the larger group, right,

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<v Speaker 4>And I came from a small town at that time.

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<v Speaker 4>I used to live in a little small town called Ruthersville, Missouri,

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<v Speaker 4>and moved to Saint Louis. So I was like the

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<v Speaker 4>the kind of the new kid. But you know, I

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<v Speaker 4>lived in.

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<v Speaker 3>The household, my single parent household, me and my mom.

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<v Speaker 4>But like my uncle was and my cousins, they was funny,

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<v Speaker 4>Like I got like one uncle thats just was one

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<v Speaker 4>of these funny personalities just always say it funny things.

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<v Speaker 4>And I think that that was you know, that place

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<v Speaker 4>where you see it, you see it that environment where

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<v Speaker 4>you like, you know somebody that's always gonna walk in

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<v Speaker 4>the room and everybody can't wait till he get there

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<v Speaker 4>because he's gonna say something crazy.

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<v Speaker 3>And he had a hundred of them.

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<v Speaker 4>And so I think that even my style of comedy

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<v Speaker 4>is more like you know, somebody, you know, like somebody

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<v Speaker 4>like more conversational in in my delivery.

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<v Speaker 3>More like an uncle or a cousin.

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<v Speaker 4>And then I had to learn how to put it

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<v Speaker 4>on stage, you know, you know, you know, in a

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<v Speaker 4>formulated pattern way. But but I still still more or

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<v Speaker 4>less write jokes and come with my jokes from a

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<v Speaker 4>point of view of like slice of life, Like what

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<v Speaker 4>I would say in a circumstance at this point in

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<v Speaker 4>your career, how do you work stuff out?

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<v Speaker 7>I mean because you you know, you've done stadiums and stuff,

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<v Speaker 7>so yeah, you go to just kind of you know,

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<v Speaker 7>when you need to work your ideas out.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I got a couple of comedy clubs I like

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<v Speaker 4>to work out, usually up north, Like, uh, I'll go

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<v Speaker 4>up to you know, like Sacramento, you know that kind

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<v Speaker 4>of area, or it's a little club outside of Oakland.

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<v Speaker 4>That's one of my favorite clubs to go work out

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<v Speaker 4>is in Pleasanton, California. So I would go there and

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<v Speaker 4>just you know, do multiple shows. And that's usually where

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<v Speaker 4>I'm trying to like write jokes and try new things out.

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<v Speaker 3>But I'll also do it on the big stage. You know.

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<v Speaker 3>I've kind of gotten to the point to where if I.

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<v Speaker 4>Think I know what the joke is, I'll just do

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<v Speaker 4>it like right there in front of people, like just

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<v Speaker 4>try it.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, answer this question to me about or how they

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<v Speaker 2>would at least, so you're about maybe the sixth or

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<v Speaker 2>seventh comedian that I've heard that will mention a place

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<v Speaker 2>outside of Los Angeles is yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>So.

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<v Speaker 2>But the thing is is that when I'm on so

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<v Speaker 2>I'm currently right now in on Sunset Boulevard, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>the comedy store is always crowded, and all the comedy

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<v Speaker 2>clubs up here, who's working out there? If none of

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<v Speaker 2>the heavy hitters that I know are working out in

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<v Speaker 2>Los Angeles, like I always hear like, oh there's like

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<v Speaker 2>an out the way comedy club, like yeah, one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>miles away. Is it that there's a fear that a

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<v Speaker 2>writer or somebody's gonna take your joke or whatever, or.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's that. That's one thing in in La is

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<v Speaker 3>it's a lot of.

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<v Speaker 4>Comedians here trying to find themselves, get put on of course,

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<v Speaker 4>looking for discovery, and so that's where they kind of

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<v Speaker 4>work out, you know, all the kind of guys that's trying.

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<v Speaker 3>To make it happen.

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<v Speaker 4>And there's some people who you know, definitely have you know,

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<v Speaker 4>like their brands already, you know, say like a Dray

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<v Speaker 4>or somebody like that. They they work out here and

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<v Speaker 4>they have their own rooms and that works.

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<v Speaker 3>You know for them.

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<v Speaker 4>But you know, most comedians we try not to be

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<v Speaker 4>inside that one. I try not even hear other people's

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<v Speaker 4>material so that I don't even you know.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not get influenced by nothing.

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<v Speaker 4>So I'll try to go like you know, outside of

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<v Speaker 4>LA and it's usually just better. The audiences are, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>a little more regular people with jobs, you know, and

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<v Speaker 4>it's kind of like the to your point, is that

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<v Speaker 4>that middle of America audience that you're looking for.

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<v Speaker 3>But in California where.

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<v Speaker 4>It's close to go to work, when when you go

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<v Speaker 4>to Hollywood, you got you know, you got the people

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<v Speaker 4>that want to be seen trying to be seen, and

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<v Speaker 4>it's that vibe, you know. So it's it's like, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>you you gotta almost wear a full basachi outfit to

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<v Speaker 4>go and do shows there, like you know, you gotta

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<v Speaker 4>be just as shops everybody who's coming out, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>like it's a whole day look at this drill.

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<v Speaker 2>So how how is how is UH lost or Hollywood divided?

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<v Speaker 2>Like I know how New York is where a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of the alternative comedians are either Brooklyn only or maybe

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<v Speaker 2>part of the village. And then kind of the more

0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.719
<v Speaker 2>uh established ones, you know, they'll go to the comedy

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<v Speaker 2>seller in the West Village and kind of work there.

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<v Speaker 2>Way up in midtown Manhattan, and usually like the Vegas

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<v Speaker 2>level comedians or whatever are just like kind of midtown

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<v Speaker 2>to uptown.

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<v Speaker 1>And then I mean, at one point I knew that

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<v Speaker 1>there was a.

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<v Speaker 2>Place where black comedians to work out way uptown. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know if it's still that way now, but for

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<v Speaker 2>those that are of the comedy act theater set, like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>they work out because I'd never see you guys at like.

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<v Speaker 1>It's still kind of an apartheid in terms.

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<v Speaker 3>Of yeah, a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, you know, it's definitely you know, like Chocolate Sundays,

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<v Speaker 4>which is at you know, the laugh Factory, and that's

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<v Speaker 4>a Sunday night kind of thing. That's where the black

0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.720
<v Speaker 4>comics go to workout in Hollywood at the at the

0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.879
<v Speaker 4>Laugh Factory on Sunday nights. Comedy Store usually all have

0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:54.680
<v Speaker 4>a night or two where everybody kind of.

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<v Speaker 3>Goes up in there and pop. So almost all the.

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<v Speaker 4>Clubs got like a night where a black black night

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<v Speaker 4>night where you know, and if you want to work

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<v Speaker 4>out with your people, is that's where you go. And

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<v Speaker 4>then you know, and then it's a it's a few

0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:11.359
<v Speaker 4>like in La like it's you know, it used to

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<v Speaker 4>be one down like on Peco near that Rosco's down there.

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<v Speaker 3>I can't think of the name of it right now.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't even know.

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<v Speaker 4>It's hard for me to survive after COVID too, like

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<v Speaker 4>you know it was. You know, that's one of the

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<v Speaker 4>things because to your point, even the bigger comedians where

0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:29.120
<v Speaker 4>people can draw a name and you know, and and

0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:33.280
<v Speaker 4>these these these kind of locations can do well they

0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.399
<v Speaker 4>have them, they find themselves struggling just to keep it packed,

0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:38.720
<v Speaker 4>you know. But you know it's again, there's a lot

0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.080
<v Speaker 4>of comedians so and there's a lot of comedians that

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<v Speaker 4>you know, want to get on stage and work that

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<v Speaker 4>that are dope, you know. So I think that, you know,

0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.359
<v Speaker 4>those are the kind of those are the kind of

0:21:48.359 --> 0:21:49.680
<v Speaker 4>spots that still.

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<v Speaker 3>Need a lot of love and support, uh you know,

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<v Speaker 3>you know.

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<v Speaker 4>And usually I'll go by when somebody like like you know,

0:21:56.119 --> 0:21:58.040
<v Speaker 4>where a friend of mine want me to really come

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<v Speaker 4>through like it something like that. I might pop up,

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<v Speaker 4>say alright, cool marble stage for a few minutes. But

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<v Speaker 4>I don't really work out like that much that like

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<v Speaker 4>when I'm in LA because between the TV show and

0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:11.280
<v Speaker 4>being a family man, when I go I don't really

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<v Speaker 4>want to just hang out and be like, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>do it the old school way. I'll be wanting to

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<v Speaker 4>go in, do my business and break out.

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<v Speaker 3>You know.

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<v Speaker 5>So is j Effany Brown's place still open? I've been

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<v Speaker 5>meaning to check on that place.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I don't know, Like yeah again that was the

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<v Speaker 4>spot that was again had a lot of love, a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of residents. I would think so, but I hadn't heard.

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<v Speaker 4>I saw Jay not too long ago, and I didn't

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<v Speaker 4>even ask him.

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<v Speaker 3>About the club.

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<v Speaker 4>But but it seems as though it's still alive because

0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:41.800
<v Speaker 4>it's right near Soup Snoop Dogg's kind of big everybody

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<v Speaker 4>go and hang out.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So.

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<v Speaker 5>Can I go back real quick?

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<v Speaker 9>Because MEA talked about Saint Louis, But I just I

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<v Speaker 9>really want to get into Saint Louis a little bit

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<v Speaker 9>because you said you're from.

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<v Speaker 5>How do you pronounce it in Carthur? I couldn't say

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<v Speaker 5>it in the Brothersville?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Correct.

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<v Speaker 9>So can you break down what's the different what's the

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<v Speaker 9>distance between Carruthersville and Saint Louis And the difference is.

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<v Speaker 4>So Grutsville is like a super small town. It's like

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<v Speaker 4>and it's it's probably four hours, it's three and a

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<v Speaker 4>half hours from Saint Louis and probably an hour and

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<v Speaker 4>ten minutes from Memphis.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's like going south, like.

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<v Speaker 4>So we go, you go down south from Saint Louis

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<v Speaker 4>and you go towards Arkansas and Tennessee and it's right

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<v Speaker 4>in a boothill so and it's a small town, probably

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<v Speaker 4>three thousand people, three thirty Yeah, yeah, you're very different,

0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.600
<v Speaker 4>very segregated, you know, uh, you know, And but it's

0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:42.280
<v Speaker 4>on the river. It's on the Mississippi River. So where

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<v Speaker 4>you know where I prayed the when I framed the book.

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<v Speaker 4>In the forties, the river the riverboat cities were very

0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:50.600
<v Speaker 4>thriving because people traveled on the river a lot and

0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:51.360
<v Speaker 4>they were stopping.

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<v Speaker 3>They would eat and come and hang out.

0:23:53.359 --> 0:23:56.080
<v Speaker 4>And so these were like really kind of bustling little

0:23:56.119 --> 0:24:00.480
<v Speaker 4>small towns and so uh you know, with a thriving downtown.

0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:01.840
<v Speaker 3>Restaurants all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 4>So uh so that's where I kind of, you know,

0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:07.600
<v Speaker 4>tell that story around when my grandparents lived there, but

0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:09.000
<v Speaker 4>you know, I grew up there as well.

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<v Speaker 2>What was what was the impetus of starting or for

0:24:14.160 --> 0:24:18.119
<v Speaker 2>you to go into storytelling and writing your first novel?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, you know, for me, it really kind of stems

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<v Speaker 4>from the idea that I was I was trying to

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<v Speaker 4>I was first of all, I was trying to like

0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:29.040
<v Speaker 4>just kind of have this connection to my my family. Right,

0:24:29.160 --> 0:24:31.320
<v Speaker 4>Like I grew up. My mother was a single parent.

0:24:31.800 --> 0:24:34.520
<v Speaker 4>She raised me and my sister, and so I didn't

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<v Speaker 4>really have my male figures around. I knew my dad,

0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:40.119
<v Speaker 4>but he wasn't really in our life, and so oftentimes,

0:24:40.160 --> 0:24:42.600
<v Speaker 4>you know, my mom will say, you, you know, that's

0:24:42.680 --> 0:24:44.480
<v Speaker 4>like my daddy would do that. My daddy would have

0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.919
<v Speaker 4>done this, and he had passed before I was ever born, so,

0:24:48.600 --> 0:24:50.719
<v Speaker 4>you know, and listening to stories about him, I started

0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:54.600
<v Speaker 4>to wonder, like, like what was my connection to somebody

0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:55.760
<v Speaker 4>I never met before?

0:24:55.840 --> 0:24:57.520
<v Speaker 3>Like what was that DNA?

0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:01.479
<v Speaker 4>That kind of led to me being very entrepreneurial, uh,

0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:03.560
<v Speaker 4>kind of a person that didn't want to work inside

0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:06.119
<v Speaker 4>the lines like I even though I had my degree,

0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.120
<v Speaker 4>I never wanted to have a job. Like my mom

0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:10.600
<v Speaker 4>used to be like, why don't you just work at

0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:11.160
<v Speaker 4>that company?

0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:13.080
<v Speaker 3>I was like, I don't. I don't want to go

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<v Speaker 3>to work every day. That's not who I am.

0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:16.560
<v Speaker 4>She was like that my dad, that was like my dad,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, so you know, it was that kind of

0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:19.760
<v Speaker 4>thought process.

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<v Speaker 3>So I started to create the character based.

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<v Speaker 4>Off me having these machinations of who he was. And

0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:30.480
<v Speaker 4>then and then you know, I started to write a

0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:33.119
<v Speaker 4>TV story about it. Uh that kind of felt like

0:25:33.200 --> 0:25:36.800
<v Speaker 4>Boardwalk Empire. Always kind of loved that, uh, that character

0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.680
<v Speaker 4>Chalky White, because in a way, the way way yeah way,

0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:43.119
<v Speaker 4>my uh way my mom would describe it, he was

0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:46.439
<v Speaker 4>kind of the the the the de facto mayor of

0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.480
<v Speaker 4>the black side of town. He was the guy that

0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:51.520
<v Speaker 4>you call to get things done and all that stuff.

0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:53.800
<v Speaker 3>He was plugged in with the sheriff. And so I

0:25:53.840 --> 0:25:54.680
<v Speaker 3>basically put all.

0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:56.280
<v Speaker 4>That kind of stuff in the book and then told

0:25:56.320 --> 0:25:59.040
<v Speaker 4>this fictional tale about who he is to.

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<v Speaker 1>The seat of the start for you in the Pandemic.

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<v Speaker 3>No, you know, actually it was a little bit before that.

0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:07.880
<v Speaker 4>It was so interesting that, you know, because it was

0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:11.520
<v Speaker 4>it was times when I was kind of transitioning from

0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:15.920
<v Speaker 4>you know, like you know, movies. I was doing a

0:26:15.960 --> 0:26:19.359
<v Speaker 4>lot of movies in the early two thousands, you know,

0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:22.480
<v Speaker 4>and then my kids started to get to get older

0:26:22.520 --> 0:26:24.199
<v Speaker 4>where they couldn't travel and they couldn't come with us

0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:27.040
<v Speaker 4>because most of the movies weren't doing them in La anymore.

0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:28.719
<v Speaker 3>And so they were younger, they could come with me. Well,

0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:29.960
<v Speaker 3>we would shooting movies.

0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:34.560
<v Speaker 4>In Toronto and you know, and in Vancouver and then Hireland,

0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:36.639
<v Speaker 4>and you know, when when they were younger, my family

0:26:36.680 --> 0:26:38.200
<v Speaker 4>could come with me. Then they started to get their

0:26:38.200 --> 0:26:40.800
<v Speaker 4>own schedules. And so I was trying to figure out how,

0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:43.240
<v Speaker 4>like how I could still be a part of the

0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:46.359
<v Speaker 4>family structure and be a part of lifely without giving

0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:49.080
<v Speaker 4>it up. So I decided to do television. And that

0:26:49.240 --> 0:26:51.840
<v Speaker 4>was when it was like, you know, it was kind

0:26:51.840 --> 0:26:54.879
<v Speaker 4>of like, you know, considered a fallback. If you do television,

0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:57.160
<v Speaker 4>you was you weren't as hot as a movie star.

0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:00.880
<v Speaker 4>So and it instantly with streaming this up that everybody

0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:03.600
<v Speaker 4>had change. You got Yellowstone, you got movie stars coming

0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:06.199
<v Speaker 4>to TV now, so you know, but but it's like

0:27:06.359 --> 0:27:08.800
<v Speaker 4>but at that time, it was like a real, you know,

0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:11.280
<v Speaker 4>real hard move. And I had to make that kind

0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.520
<v Speaker 4>of strategy. And I started to think about like stuff

0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:16.120
<v Speaker 4>that my will pop in my head, like what would

0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:18.760
<v Speaker 4>my grandfather do in this situation, And so I start

0:27:18.760 --> 0:27:21.840
<v Speaker 4>writing the ideas down back then, and then you know,

0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:25.480
<v Speaker 4>the book kind of came uh as I was trying

0:27:25.520 --> 0:27:27.800
<v Speaker 4>to you know, kind of shape the show. Then the

0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:31.040
<v Speaker 4>opportunity for me to do the book because you know,

0:27:32.320 --> 0:27:34.560
<v Speaker 4>you know, the neighborhood was doing well, and so then

0:27:34.640 --> 0:27:36.440
<v Speaker 4>everybody started offering you all kinds of stuff.

0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:38.200
<v Speaker 3>Then they're like, yea, you want to do a book.

0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:39.840
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, I was like, yeah, but not

0:27:40.000 --> 0:27:42.560
<v Speaker 4>no book about me being a stand up and telling

0:27:42.600 --> 0:27:43.679
<v Speaker 4>you my kind.

0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:44.560
<v Speaker 3>Of doctor doc story.

0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.040
<v Speaker 4>I got a whole another idea and when I pitched it,

0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:49.000
<v Speaker 4>they loved it, and that was it. So I was

0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:50.719
<v Speaker 4>glad that it took. It took it like a year

0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:52.919
<v Speaker 4>and a half to really kind of shape it up.

0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:53.160
<v Speaker 3>Though.

0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:57.480
<v Speaker 2>So let me ask, because you know, one, we had

0:27:57.520 --> 0:28:01.280
<v Speaker 2>a pandemic, but what we're kind of going through right

0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:04.720
<v Speaker 2>now as we speak is kind of pandemic two point

0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:10.800
<v Speaker 2>zero for anybody that's kind of a professional in the industry.

0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:16.320
<v Speaker 1>So let me ask you, is there ever okay? So

0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:21.360
<v Speaker 1>let me let me phrase it. America Ferrara.

0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:27.960
<v Speaker 2>When she started her Ugly Betty series, she told me

0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:30.080
<v Speaker 2>that she waited. You know, it was an instant hit

0:28:30.080 --> 0:28:33.399
<v Speaker 2>out the box, and she told me that she wanted

0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:37.560
<v Speaker 2>to wait till the third season before she felt safe

0:28:37.720 --> 0:28:41.880
<v Speaker 2>enough to like put down on that house and really,

0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:44.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, for there's a point where you go from

0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:46.920
<v Speaker 2>like living in that little apartment that you lived in

0:28:47.600 --> 0:28:49.800
<v Speaker 2>until you find that hit sitcom and then you really

0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:52.480
<v Speaker 2>want to make sure that you're contracting your money's writing

0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:54.360
<v Speaker 2>all that stuff. So she said, Okay, I'm gonna wait

0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:58.320
<v Speaker 2>until my third season, and you know, she nominated for Emmy.

0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:02.120
<v Speaker 2>So it just seemed like, okay, Plamo instant hit. And

0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:05.400
<v Speaker 2>then after season three they were like, all right, well

0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:08.600
<v Speaker 2>that's it. You're done knowing what you've been through, and

0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:11.640
<v Speaker 2>you know you're you're famous for the joke of you

0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:13.040
<v Speaker 2>guys not getting the cake.

0:29:13.360 --> 0:29:15.440
<v Speaker 1>You know, other shows you've been on that got canceled

0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:16.360
<v Speaker 1>without warning.

0:29:16.120 --> 0:29:19.560
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, no cake or anything.

0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:28.440
<v Speaker 2>So now that you're on like an established network comedy show, like,

0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:30.560
<v Speaker 2>do you always feel safer? Is there a part of

0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:33.240
<v Speaker 2>you that's always like, nope, let me have my plan

0:29:33.320 --> 0:29:34.480
<v Speaker 2>BC and D like.

0:29:36.200 --> 0:29:37.440
<v Speaker 1>Just in case you never know?

0:29:38.240 --> 0:29:40.840
<v Speaker 4>Definitely mean, I learned that a long time ago, because

0:29:41.000 --> 0:29:43.160
<v Speaker 4>it's such a fickle business, Like none of us really

0:29:43.160 --> 0:29:45.920
<v Speaker 4>saw like this strike coming, if you will, but you

0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:50.320
<v Speaker 4>do recognize that, you know, ratings or what's hot or

0:29:50.360 --> 0:29:55.240
<v Speaker 4>something new comes along this town. Just really fickle like that,

0:29:55.360 --> 0:29:58.800
<v Speaker 4>Like you know, so whatever the latest craze is, they'll

0:29:58.800 --> 0:30:01.640
<v Speaker 4>just figure out like, oh, we're gonna change to that now,

0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:03.320
<v Speaker 4>and you'll be like what happened?

0:30:03.360 --> 0:30:07.960
<v Speaker 3>You know? So I definitely I'm definitely far more cautious.

0:30:07.600 --> 0:30:12.160
<v Speaker 4>About you know, like just being you know, being super

0:30:12.200 --> 0:30:15.440
<v Speaker 4>confident that whatever I'm working, even though it is working,

0:30:15.800 --> 0:30:17.280
<v Speaker 4>that it's gonna always work.

0:30:17.400 --> 0:30:19.840
<v Speaker 3>You know. I mean, we we we We've.

0:30:19.680 --> 0:30:25.120
<v Speaker 4>Been ordered for the sixth season. So that's a real blessing. Theoretically, Yeah,

0:30:25.320 --> 0:30:27.600
<v Speaker 4>for the neighborhood. Theoretically, I like to go to eight,

0:30:27.720 --> 0:30:32.080
<v Speaker 4>you know. I like to go and be like yeah, yeah,

0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:34.600
<v Speaker 4>but you know, like shows like Blackish and you know,

0:30:34.720 --> 0:30:37.560
<v Speaker 4>other kind of black shows of that, I feel like

0:30:37.600 --> 0:30:41.200
<v Speaker 4>our hell competitivegree that's been on like major network should

0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:44.600
<v Speaker 4>have the opportunity to run all the way out, like

0:30:45.120 --> 0:30:48.840
<v Speaker 4>tell your full story, you know, and so you know,

0:30:48.960 --> 0:30:51.880
<v Speaker 4>and then you know, but also like now as a producer,

0:30:51.920 --> 0:30:56.000
<v Speaker 4>I'm creating uh, you know, spin offs and other versions,

0:30:56.000 --> 0:31:00.360
<v Speaker 4>so again that you have the show live beyond it's

0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:03.320
<v Speaker 4>it's it's years and so these are the things that

0:31:03.360 --> 0:31:07.720
<v Speaker 4>I try to like even negotiate for while I know

0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:11.200
<v Speaker 4>that my show is doing well, I'm like, hey, give

0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:13.760
<v Speaker 4>me the spin off so that I can turn my

0:31:13.840 --> 0:31:16.640
<v Speaker 4>show into another show that could run another you know,

0:31:17.160 --> 0:31:20.360
<v Speaker 4>you know five six years that you know I can

0:31:20.440 --> 0:31:22.840
<v Speaker 4>be eating off of and do something else too.

0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:25.880
<v Speaker 5>I should see that with your sons, the sons.

0:31:26.960 --> 0:31:29.800
<v Speaker 2>So for me, there's there's a myth in the music

0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:33.920
<v Speaker 2>business where they say, like all it takes is one

0:31:34.040 --> 0:31:39.320
<v Speaker 2>hit and your set for life, which is kind of

0:31:39.320 --> 0:31:40.360
<v Speaker 2>a truth and a lie.

0:31:40.480 --> 0:31:42.160
<v Speaker 1>I mean, in other words, like uh.

0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:46.680
<v Speaker 2>Eighty eight, it ain't true today, right, yeah, yeah, but

0:31:46.960 --> 0:31:51.400
<v Speaker 2>you know, I'll say hip hop has definitely changed everyone's

0:31:51.440 --> 0:31:56.800
<v Speaker 2>lifestyle goals. So in other words, if I were the writer, Okay,

0:31:56.800 --> 0:31:59.520
<v Speaker 2>so if I was one of the writers of Queen's

0:31:59.560 --> 0:32:02.760
<v Speaker 2>under Pressure at the time when Vanilla I sampled it

0:32:02.800 --> 0:32:08.280
<v Speaker 2>and you know, sold ten billion copies, you know, that's

0:32:08.280 --> 0:32:10.040
<v Speaker 2>a nice check that I'm gonna get every year. And

0:32:10.480 --> 0:32:13.160
<v Speaker 2>if I maintained my lifestyle. But if you know, if

0:32:13.200 --> 0:32:16.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm pursuing a five million dollar lifestyle and I'm only

0:32:16.760 --> 0:32:18.800
<v Speaker 2>getting a million dollar.

0:32:18.640 --> 0:32:20.280
<v Speaker 1>Check, then like you're asked out.

0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:25.600
<v Speaker 2>But the equivalent of that in the television world is

0:32:25.680 --> 0:32:30.280
<v Speaker 2>when your show gets syndicated, is that the goal, like

0:32:30.440 --> 0:32:33.520
<v Speaker 2>can one actually like for.

0:32:33.520 --> 0:32:36.280
<v Speaker 1>Now, like for any act or any.

0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:39.640
<v Speaker 2>Actor actress that is on a show that's syndicated and

0:32:39.680 --> 0:32:42.120
<v Speaker 2>currently running right now, I'm certain that those checks are

0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:46.240
<v Speaker 2>helping a lot. While your current shows not only but

0:32:46.400 --> 0:32:47.760
<v Speaker 2>is syndicated money.

0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:54.480
<v Speaker 3>Still good, No, not anymore. It's very much, very parallel

0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:56.720
<v Speaker 3>to like you said, the music business. I mean it

0:32:56.840 --> 0:33:00.000
<v Speaker 3>used to be and probably and to some degree.

0:33:00.120 --> 0:33:02.640
<v Speaker 4>One of the big reasons why we're striking too is

0:33:02.680 --> 0:33:06.480
<v Speaker 4>that you know, new forms of media streaming, all these

0:33:06.680 --> 0:33:10.120
<v Speaker 4>all these companies kind of being yeah, being mixed in together.

0:33:10.720 --> 0:33:14.680
<v Speaker 4>They they protect themselves, you know, like I mean, CBS

0:33:15.040 --> 0:33:15.600
<v Speaker 4>is a part of.

0:33:15.600 --> 0:33:17.960
<v Speaker 3>Param my Paramount plus uh.

0:33:18.040 --> 0:33:20.360
<v Speaker 4>And then of course the whole what used to be

0:33:20.560 --> 0:33:24.960
<v Speaker 4>Viacom all their channels, so they will syndicate to yeh,

0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:28.400
<v Speaker 4>they syndicate to themselves, and and of course that will

0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:31.440
<v Speaker 4>ruin the ruin the money that used to be available,

0:33:31.600 --> 0:33:38.120
<v Speaker 4>right And it's internal and it's internal business. And and

0:33:38.160 --> 0:33:41.560
<v Speaker 4>they basically tell you that these are these are internal numbers.

0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:43.880
<v Speaker 3>This is what we're doing to protect our assets.

0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:45.360
<v Speaker 5>So that's that's the scary part.

0:33:45.400 --> 0:33:47.040
<v Speaker 9>Said I had just listened about that, and I was

0:33:47.080 --> 0:33:48.440
<v Speaker 9>we were just talking about this before you came on,

0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:51.200
<v Speaker 9>and we were talking about how like so if you're

0:33:51.240 --> 0:33:53.120
<v Speaker 9>on TV and you do syndication, because I think a

0:33:53.120 --> 0:33:54.400
<v Speaker 9>lot of times we need to explain this to the

0:33:54.400 --> 0:33:55.400
<v Speaker 9>people who actually watch TV.

0:33:55.440 --> 0:33:57.240
<v Speaker 5>They don't know the intricacies of this language a lot

0:33:57.240 --> 0:33:57.800
<v Speaker 5>of times.

0:33:58.080 --> 0:34:01.400
<v Speaker 9>And so the TV verse says, I was just watching

0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:04.200
<v Speaker 9>the actor from Breaking Bad saying that, like he's on

0:34:04.280 --> 0:34:07.040
<v Speaker 9>Netflix and Breaking Bads on Netflix, and that is zero

0:34:07.120 --> 0:34:10.160
<v Speaker 9>money that he receives from that, versus maybe if it

0:34:10.239 --> 0:34:12.600
<v Speaker 9>was on an actual network on TV, it would.

0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:16.600
<v Speaker 4>Be a more yeah, yeah, Like I mean the opportunities,

0:34:17.000 --> 0:34:18.879
<v Speaker 4>you know, we used to have this thing like where

0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:21.200
<v Speaker 4>you go like and I say, most people would understand,

0:34:21.239 --> 0:34:24.960
<v Speaker 4>like the Channel nines or Channel thirteens in your local

0:34:25.080 --> 0:34:26.799
<v Speaker 4>city and you see something that.

0:34:26.840 --> 0:34:28.480
<v Speaker 3>Come on after the evening news.

0:34:28.520 --> 0:34:31.759
<v Speaker 4>You get to watch everybody Love Raymond or Friends or

0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:35.200
<v Speaker 4>all this. That's where the money is because you got

0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:38.480
<v Speaker 4>to think it's one of those in every little town

0:34:39.160 --> 0:34:41.080
<v Speaker 4>and they all got to buy it in a way

0:34:41.360 --> 0:34:43.680
<v Speaker 4>as a part of a group or individual. And so

0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:47.440
<v Speaker 4>it's being sold that many times, right every episode, and

0:34:47.560 --> 0:34:50.400
<v Speaker 4>so so that's when they're buying it. But like a

0:34:50.480 --> 0:34:54.839
<v Speaker 4>Netflix will just take it and then they they're a

0:34:54.960 --> 0:34:58.960
<v Speaker 4>technology company, so they're not a broadcast company, so they

0:34:59.000 --> 0:35:03.879
<v Speaker 4>don't have to even rea reveal what numbers they Yeah,

0:35:03.920 --> 0:35:06.480
<v Speaker 4>it's like it's technology. I don't know, Like I don't know,

0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:07.160
<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

0:35:07.440 --> 0:35:12.160
<v Speaker 2>It's one of the striking points to finally reveal that.

0:35:14.000 --> 0:35:16.560
<v Speaker 4>That's that's that's one of the real gets to put

0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:19.719
<v Speaker 4>to push towards it because really what happened is not

0:35:19.760 --> 0:35:21.640
<v Speaker 4>even that we didn't know, is that we need to

0:35:21.640 --> 0:35:25.480
<v Speaker 4>be able to have the kind of uh, you know,

0:35:25.719 --> 0:35:29.680
<v Speaker 4>transparency because what they did is now is they kind

0:35:29.680 --> 0:35:33.480
<v Speaker 4>of take your intellectual property by not revealing it because

0:35:33.560 --> 0:35:37.160
<v Speaker 4>they do do original programming, because they do have people

0:35:37.239 --> 0:35:39.520
<v Speaker 4>create things for them. And then you don't have to

0:35:39.520 --> 0:35:42.759
<v Speaker 4>basically tell me what it is, right I can I

0:35:42.760 --> 0:35:45.880
<v Speaker 4>can pay you one time and and you can have

0:35:45.920 --> 0:35:49.080
<v Speaker 4>a hot show and I don't have to really ever

0:35:49.160 --> 0:35:51.279
<v Speaker 4>reveal to you how hot that show was, Like I

0:35:51.280 --> 0:35:54.200
<v Speaker 4>don't have to ever say it was, but I paid you,

0:35:54.560 --> 0:35:56.680
<v Speaker 4>and you know, and their thing is that usually they

0:35:56.719 --> 0:35:59.319
<v Speaker 4>paid more than what people used to get paid. So

0:35:59.520 --> 0:36:02.560
<v Speaker 4>that's how one for so many years because they would

0:36:02.600 --> 0:36:05.280
<v Speaker 4>pay you a larger premium. So to be on Netflix

0:36:05.760 --> 0:36:08.040
<v Speaker 4>was that good bag, right, it was that fat bag

0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:09.480
<v Speaker 4>and nobody really cared.

0:36:09.600 --> 0:36:11.680
<v Speaker 3>Like, you know, if I would get thirty.

0:36:11.440 --> 0:36:13.680
<v Speaker 4>Thousand on a regular show, Netflix might give me one

0:36:13.760 --> 0:36:16.840
<v Speaker 4>hundred and fifty and you'd be like, give me that.

0:36:17.040 --> 0:36:20.600
<v Speaker 5>Right, but they might have made two million, and yeah.

0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:20.920
<v Speaker 3>You never know.

0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:23.520
<v Speaker 4>You never bothered the ass, and it didn't really get

0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:26.960
<v Speaker 4>you know, it didn't get important until shows got bigger

0:36:27.040 --> 0:36:30.000
<v Speaker 4>and bigger and you start to realize, like, oh, that's

0:36:30.080 --> 0:36:33.040
<v Speaker 4>really all we watching is Netflix a lot now, you know,

0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:35.440
<v Speaker 4>and and Prime and Hulu.

0:36:35.640 --> 0:36:38.120
<v Speaker 3>We only watching these shows. Now, where's the money.

0:36:38.600 --> 0:36:42.320
<v Speaker 9>So that's why I said, your pivot is more brilliant

0:36:42.360 --> 0:36:46.480
<v Speaker 9>than it looks, right, because not for nothing, do you

0:36:46.520 --> 0:36:49.080
<v Speaker 9>feel like your business is changing in a major way?

0:36:49.280 --> 0:36:50.920
<v Speaker 9>I tell them, I said to music people, I was like,

0:36:50.960 --> 0:36:52.560
<v Speaker 9>we used to be like, wait till I get to

0:36:52.640 --> 0:36:54.400
<v Speaker 9>TV and film. That's what the big money is.

0:36:55.200 --> 0:36:58.000
<v Speaker 3>Every day you've become in the music business. Now yeah,

0:36:58.080 --> 0:37:00.359
<v Speaker 3>the movie is No, it's so true.

0:37:00.640 --> 0:37:02.120
<v Speaker 7>I was gonna say, it looked like it's like every

0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:04.279
<v Speaker 7>business looked at the music industry and was like Yo,

0:37:04.360 --> 0:37:05.719
<v Speaker 7>they don't pay nobody watching we.

0:37:06.440 --> 0:37:09.680
<v Speaker 3>Exactly, and that's it. And you think it was the

0:37:09.719 --> 0:37:11.640
<v Speaker 3>digital the digital.

0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:15.120
<v Speaker 4>Platform that really changed the music business, when you know

0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:17.800
<v Speaker 4>when Sam came and the napster of it all and

0:37:17.880 --> 0:37:21.320
<v Speaker 4>people started to be and that changed the whole model

0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:24.440
<v Speaker 4>in that in that Netflix and Amazon basically changed the

0:37:24.480 --> 0:37:27.480
<v Speaker 4>model for us. Like once they got really hot and

0:37:27.520 --> 0:37:30.520
<v Speaker 4>locked in and then was able to create and become

0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:33.400
<v Speaker 4>the it, then everybody else wanted to be them. So

0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:38.160
<v Speaker 4>you think about it, Disney became Disney plus, Paramount became

0:37:38.320 --> 0:37:43.120
<v Speaker 4>Paramount plus the Peacock on NBC. Everybody took streamers so

0:37:43.160 --> 0:37:45.600
<v Speaker 4>that they can do their model. They don't want to

0:37:45.600 --> 0:37:47.279
<v Speaker 4>have to pay the individuals.

0:37:47.480 --> 0:37:48.680
<v Speaker 9>I was just gonna say, I just get really sad

0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:50.960
<v Speaker 9>about watching it because I come from a business that

0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:53.640
<v Speaker 9>used to be called black radio and nobody noticed when

0:37:53.840 --> 0:37:57.319
<v Speaker 9>we kind of got eaten up by a thing called podcast.

0:37:57.640 --> 0:37:59.640
<v Speaker 5>So I watched y'all.

0:37:59.400 --> 0:38:02.160
<v Speaker 9>Industry, and I'm like, oh, I mean, I watched hour

0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:04.200
<v Speaker 9>because this is something that I wanted to participate in

0:38:04.200 --> 0:38:04.600
<v Speaker 9>as well.

0:38:04.680 --> 0:38:07.239
<v Speaker 5>But it's scary. It's a little scary. I'm glad that

0:38:07.280 --> 0:38:08.760
<v Speaker 5>you have made this pivot to the novel.

0:38:08.800 --> 0:38:12.760
<v Speaker 2>That's literally yeah, because you are on a hit show

0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:16.600
<v Speaker 2>and I've seen a few people in the comedy world.

0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:20.279
<v Speaker 2>I'm bringing it back to clubbing and working out that

0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:21.759
<v Speaker 2>you know, you want to work out in the gym

0:38:21.760 --> 0:38:25.480
<v Speaker 2>and work out new material. But the more you're established

0:38:25.480 --> 0:38:27.440
<v Speaker 2>on your comedy show, it's like, the less that you

0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:31.719
<v Speaker 2>are working out your material on stage, does that worry

0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:34.680
<v Speaker 2>you a little bit? Like I mean, assuming that stand

0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:36.719
<v Speaker 2>up is your first love even though you're doing these

0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:39.880
<v Speaker 2>other things. But I mean, if it were all up

0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:42.480
<v Speaker 2>to you to choose one medium, would you just choose

0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:44.320
<v Speaker 2>acting or stand up or.

0:38:45.800 --> 0:38:48.799
<v Speaker 3>You know that's interesting. I mean, I think stand up

0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:49.480
<v Speaker 3>is the freest.

0:38:49.600 --> 0:38:51.440
<v Speaker 4>You know, I always say that, you know, I just

0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:53.160
<v Speaker 4>I did some shows this weekend.

0:38:53.200 --> 0:38:55.880
<v Speaker 3>I went and did a casino in Oklahoma.

0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:58.319
<v Speaker 4>And that's the really great thing about being a live

0:38:58.400 --> 0:39:01.799
<v Speaker 4>performer is that we have have so many like different space.

0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:04.640
<v Speaker 4>You've got comedy clubs, you got all these casinos across

0:39:04.640 --> 0:39:08.560
<v Speaker 4>the country. Now you know the whole Indian casino run.

0:39:09.000 --> 0:39:11.960
<v Speaker 4>You got the big casinos, you got you know, big venues.

0:39:12.080 --> 0:39:13.880
<v Speaker 4>You know, if we if I decided to do it

0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:16.400
<v Speaker 4>like a larger tour with some of our friends. Like

0:39:16.440 --> 0:39:19.320
<v Speaker 4>we did this summer with like uh straight jokes, no

0:39:19.520 --> 0:39:22.640
<v Speaker 4>chases with me and Mike Ebson, d L and DC

0:39:22.800 --> 0:39:25.000
<v Speaker 4>Young Fly. We was able to go and do arenas

0:39:25.120 --> 0:39:27.080
<v Speaker 4>and it was fun and we rocked that all the

0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:29.919
<v Speaker 4>way to May and then went on a break because music,

0:39:30.480 --> 0:39:33.160
<v Speaker 4>mainly the music acts, killed the summer. We you know,

0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:35.960
<v Speaker 4>we learned a long time if you stand up, don't

0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:40.920
<v Speaker 4>you go out there against me? You can't win against

0:39:41.320 --> 0:39:42.439
<v Speaker 4>and the festivals.

0:39:42.680 --> 0:39:44.080
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and you don't.

0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:46.879
<v Speaker 4>So we we stopped out tour in May and we'll

0:39:46.920 --> 0:39:50.520
<v Speaker 4>pick it back up in October, late October, November. So

0:39:51.160 --> 0:39:53.200
<v Speaker 4>I mean, but that's kind of what we've learned as

0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:55.480
<v Speaker 4>stand ups over the years, is like get out the

0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:59.879
<v Speaker 4>way of them, the big music acts. They're gonna murder

0:39:59.920 --> 0:40:02.440
<v Speaker 4>you and murder every ticket in the area and so

0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:03.279
<v Speaker 4>and so.

0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:05.040
<v Speaker 3>You so you're like all right.

0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:08.399
<v Speaker 4>Cool, but uh but you know again, I was able

0:40:08.400 --> 0:40:10.920
<v Speaker 4>to go and do a casino because it's kind of

0:40:10.960 --> 0:40:14.200
<v Speaker 4>an enclosed audience. You know, you can go and order

0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:17.640
<v Speaker 4>the casino gonna market to their people and they gonna say, hey,

0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:18.400
<v Speaker 4>said come in.

0:40:18.440 --> 0:40:19.520
<v Speaker 3>And I'm able to go and.

0:40:19.440 --> 0:40:22.919
<v Speaker 4>Do two thousand and three thousand seats, you know, two

0:40:23.000 --> 0:40:25.600
<v Speaker 4>nights in a row on my own. Like, so that's

0:40:25.840 --> 0:40:30.040
<v Speaker 4>that's a beautiful thing, right, So I respect to stand

0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:31.040
<v Speaker 4>up and I stay with it.

0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:33.399
<v Speaker 3>You know, I've been my whole career. I've never really

0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:34.279
<v Speaker 3>ever given it up.

0:40:34.600 --> 0:40:37.080
<v Speaker 4>You know, I've known I known comedians that you know,

0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:39.600
<v Speaker 4>you make it on television or you start making it

0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:41.680
<v Speaker 4>into movies and you kind of give up on it,

0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:43.640
<v Speaker 4>or you feel like you don't have to do it anymore.

0:40:43.680 --> 0:40:46.600
<v Speaker 4>But it is the it's the dojo. It's the place

0:40:46.640 --> 0:40:49.279
<v Speaker 4>where even if I'm gonna write a movie or be

0:40:49.480 --> 0:40:51.600
<v Speaker 4>in a movie, I like to go do stand up

0:40:51.640 --> 0:40:54.120
<v Speaker 4>before I just start the movie because it helps you.

0:40:54.600 --> 0:40:57.200
<v Speaker 4>It helps you kind of start your engine on your

0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:01.560
<v Speaker 4>comedy vibration. Like I got a character or something I'm

0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:04.000
<v Speaker 4>trying to do, I'd rather just go do some stand

0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:06.239
<v Speaker 4>up in a small place for a little bit just

0:41:06.239 --> 0:41:09.240
<v Speaker 4>to get my energy going. So like, all right, cool,

0:41:09.440 --> 0:41:11.279
<v Speaker 4>when I come to set, I'm gonna be funny as

0:41:11.320 --> 0:41:11.880
<v Speaker 4>this character.

0:41:12.560 --> 0:41:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Like I know, there's the hot ten and sometimes there's

0:41:16.040 --> 0:41:16.760
<v Speaker 2>the hot twenty.

0:41:17.160 --> 0:41:19.640
<v Speaker 1>If Chappelle asks you to do something or whatever.

0:41:20.280 --> 0:41:23.600
<v Speaker 2>But when you are like are you the type of

0:41:23.600 --> 0:41:28.520
<v Speaker 2>person that has to ramp your way up to you know,

0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:32.759
<v Speaker 2>seventy five ninety or whatever the time is for like

0:41:32.960 --> 0:41:36.960
<v Speaker 2>Netflix specials or HBO specials and whatnot.

0:41:37.160 --> 0:41:40.960
<v Speaker 1>Is it? Yeah, how hard is it ramping up to that?

0:41:41.160 --> 0:41:45.600
<v Speaker 2>Especially with I guess I'm asking you if are you

0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:48.120
<v Speaker 2>operating in the same way that an MC operates, like,

0:41:49.760 --> 0:41:53.720
<v Speaker 2>you know, like obviously you can take Fonte or even

0:41:54.080 --> 0:41:59.200
<v Speaker 2>Tariq from the roots, those both, you know, very.

0:41:58.520 --> 0:41:59.799
<v Speaker 1>Capable, excellent MC.

0:42:00.200 --> 0:42:04.480
<v Speaker 2>But this is kind of a new battleground if you will,

0:42:04.640 --> 0:42:09.160
<v Speaker 2>with new rules and MC's today don't relate to the

0:42:09.239 --> 0:42:12.360
<v Speaker 2>you know, or do that the same process as yesterday's

0:42:12.400 --> 0:42:15.319
<v Speaker 2>to see is it that way for the for the

0:42:15.320 --> 0:42:19.399
<v Speaker 2>comedy world or is it still about for you a punchline?

0:42:19.600 --> 0:42:21.279
<v Speaker 2>Chris Rock told me that he doesn't believe in a

0:42:21.280 --> 0:42:23.680
<v Speaker 2>punchline anymore, which kind of shocked me.

0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:26.880
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I mean, you know it is it is

0:42:26.880 --> 0:42:27.439
<v Speaker 3>a little different.

0:42:27.480 --> 0:42:29.880
<v Speaker 4>I definitely think that new comedy has kind of removed

0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:32.439
<v Speaker 4>the idea of punchlines, you know, like people are more

0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:36.479
<v Speaker 4>like into like trying to deliver, you know. I think

0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:39.080
<v Speaker 4>I think after Chappelle hit, everybody just want to be

0:42:39.160 --> 0:42:42.920
<v Speaker 4>prolific man, like everybody want to like try to deliver

0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:46.560
<v Speaker 4>like they you know, these brilliant sware people, and that's

0:42:46.600 --> 0:42:49.400
<v Speaker 4>just him, like he he got a totally different brand

0:42:49.480 --> 0:42:50.320
<v Speaker 4>than everybody.

0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:53.640
<v Speaker 3>Right, So you read, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:54.399
<v Speaker 3>a lot of people a.

0:42:54.320 --> 0:42:56.160
<v Speaker 4>Lot of people don't read, and then they want to

0:42:56.160 --> 0:42:58.120
<v Speaker 4>be out they talk about they saying smart stuff.

0:42:58.320 --> 0:43:00.360
<v Speaker 3>But you know, like you like, bro, where do you

0:43:00.360 --> 0:43:01.279
<v Speaker 3>get that from? So?

0:43:01.680 --> 0:43:04.960
<v Speaker 4>But I think that for you know, for me, like

0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:09.520
<v Speaker 4>the idea of like even thinking about delivering a special,

0:43:09.640 --> 0:43:12.000
<v Speaker 4>like I really I'm probably one of the one comics

0:43:12.000 --> 0:43:15.320
<v Speaker 4>that take a lot of time between my specials because

0:43:15.719 --> 0:43:18.320
<v Speaker 4>I have material that I feel like makes it special.

0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:22.040
<v Speaker 4>But you know, I'm also not a person that's very

0:43:22.080 --> 0:43:24.680
<v Speaker 4>interested in just kind of throwing stuff out there.

0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:26.919
<v Speaker 3>You know. I think people use it for a number

0:43:26.920 --> 0:43:27.800
<v Speaker 3>of different reasons.

0:43:27.840 --> 0:43:30.560
<v Speaker 4>One, you know, you might have the deal on the table, right,

0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:32.200
<v Speaker 4>they might say, all right, cool, were throwing a bag

0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:34.520
<v Speaker 4>at you put this special out, And you'll see people

0:43:34.560 --> 0:43:37.440
<v Speaker 4>go do it just just so they could get the money, right,

0:43:37.480 --> 0:43:39.680
<v Speaker 4>And then and then you have people that really feel

0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:41.440
<v Speaker 4>like they got something to say right now, and then

0:43:41.480 --> 0:43:43.640
<v Speaker 4>you know, and they'll put those specials out. But I

0:43:43.680 --> 0:43:46.000
<v Speaker 4>think in the last couple of years, you know, for me,

0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:51.960
<v Speaker 4>it's all about like just making sure that my my material,

0:43:52.239 --> 0:43:54.319
<v Speaker 4>my personality, what it is that I want to say

0:43:54.719 --> 0:43:57.319
<v Speaker 4>is all in tune with the brand I built over

0:43:57.400 --> 0:43:59.759
<v Speaker 4>thirty years. So I'm not gonna just go out there

0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:02.400
<v Speaker 4>and just take like little chance. I think y'all like

0:44:02.480 --> 0:44:04.120
<v Speaker 4>that too, as far as the roots go, as far

0:44:04.120 --> 0:44:07.560
<v Speaker 4>as my opinion, like y'all, y'all, y'all are curators of y'all,

0:44:07.640 --> 0:44:10.359
<v Speaker 4>of y'all brand, Like in a real way we were.

0:44:10.400 --> 0:44:12.160
<v Speaker 4>When we was watching on stage the other night, me

0:44:12.160 --> 0:44:14.720
<v Speaker 4>and my wife were saying the same things, like nobody

0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:15.279
<v Speaker 4>has the.

0:44:15.280 --> 0:44:17.359
<v Speaker 3>Abillity that to entertain like they do.

0:44:17.480 --> 0:44:20.239
<v Speaker 4>Like you know, you'll see the new people like that,

0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:22.520
<v Speaker 4>you know, kind of come out and maybe have a

0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:25.719
<v Speaker 4>band on stage with them. But it's like the combination

0:44:25.840 --> 0:44:30.880
<v Speaker 4>of musicality, real professionalism and uh and something you know

0:44:31.000 --> 0:44:33.719
<v Speaker 4>you gonna get when you spend your money, right, I

0:44:33.800 --> 0:44:34.920
<v Speaker 4>know it's gonna be lit.

0:44:35.040 --> 0:44:36.319
<v Speaker 3>I got it right now.

0:44:36.400 --> 0:44:40.200
<v Speaker 4>I know, like going to mastros or or a quality

0:44:40.280 --> 0:44:42.120
<v Speaker 4>restaurant where you know is gonna be good.

0:44:42.120 --> 0:44:43.719
<v Speaker 3>I don't have to worry about it like it's good.

0:44:44.160 --> 0:44:45.680
<v Speaker 3>So that's what I try to.

0:44:45.680 --> 0:44:47.440
<v Speaker 4>Deliver when I'm when i'm you know, and i'm doing

0:44:47.480 --> 0:44:48.520
<v Speaker 4>specials or anything.

0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:50.440
<v Speaker 3>So I've done. I'm never in a big hurry to

0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:51.560
<v Speaker 3>just throw out anything.

0:44:52.160 --> 0:44:54.680
<v Speaker 1>You're not putting any pressure on me whatsoever for my

0:44:54.719 --> 0:44:55.640
<v Speaker 1>future in music.

0:44:56.800 --> 0:44:58.920
<v Speaker 5>He's saying, do what you continue to do, Do what

0:44:58.960 --> 0:44:59.640
<v Speaker 5>you continue to do.

0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:08.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm really just shocked that no one's really done a

0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:13.960
<v Speaker 2>concentrated study on how you your whole clique and Walter

0:45:14.040 --> 0:45:18.840
<v Speaker 2>Lathan kind of, yeah, built the brand and built you

0:45:18.880 --> 0:45:19.319
<v Speaker 2>guys up.

0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:21.080
<v Speaker 1>So can you just talk about that that that.

0:45:21.040 --> 0:45:25.280
<v Speaker 2>Initial period of Yeah, matter of fact, is Walter still

0:45:25.480 --> 0:45:28.719
<v Speaker 2>active in terms of throwing shows or.

0:45:30.160 --> 0:45:32.200
<v Speaker 3>Not that I know of that. He tried to do

0:45:32.280 --> 0:45:34.960
<v Speaker 3>some stuff on the internet not.

0:45:35.000 --> 0:45:38.120
<v Speaker 4>Too long ago, or try to like create some brand

0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:41.439
<v Speaker 4>where he was like taking you know, using like young

0:45:41.480 --> 0:45:45.160
<v Speaker 4>comedians and kind of using his kings of comedy, uh,

0:45:45.600 --> 0:45:47.640
<v Speaker 4>you know, pedigree to do things for people.

0:45:47.640 --> 0:45:49.640
<v Speaker 3>But I think it all kind of burnt out, for

0:45:49.760 --> 0:45:50.320
<v Speaker 3>my opinion.

0:45:50.400 --> 0:45:52.279
<v Speaker 4>But you know, he was he was just he was

0:45:52.280 --> 0:45:56.239
<v Speaker 4>a he was a young creative uh you know, show

0:45:56.280 --> 0:45:58.400
<v Speaker 4>promoter at the time, and he was he was just

0:45:58.400 --> 0:46:00.160
<v Speaker 4>one of these guys that had, like, you know, he

0:46:00.239 --> 0:46:03.000
<v Speaker 4>was aggressive and young and had good ideas and a

0:46:03.000 --> 0:46:06.200
<v Speaker 4>lot of heart, and so he he he would do

0:46:06.520 --> 0:46:10.440
<v Speaker 4>all of us individually. He d Steve, you know, and

0:46:11.520 --> 0:46:14.719
<v Speaker 4>you know, these would be theater shows, you know, small theaters,

0:46:15.000 --> 0:46:17.560
<v Speaker 4>And he did Steve, and then he did Bernie. Then

0:46:17.600 --> 0:46:20.080
<v Speaker 4>he did Steven Bernie. One time he would do d

0:46:20.320 --> 0:46:22.399
<v Speaker 4>L and I together. He was the one when when

0:46:22.520 --> 0:46:25.440
<v Speaker 4>I became the host of Comic View, DL used to

0:46:25.440 --> 0:46:28.239
<v Speaker 4>be the host, and he put us together and called it,

0:46:28.280 --> 0:46:30.640
<v Speaker 4>you know, the host of the host of BT or

0:46:30.680 --> 0:46:32.839
<v Speaker 4>something like that, and put us together and we were

0:46:32.880 --> 0:46:34.200
<v Speaker 4>able to go out together and.

0:46:34.160 --> 0:46:34.920
<v Speaker 3>Do these tours.

0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:37.560
<v Speaker 4>So I think it's inside of that space where he

0:46:37.640 --> 0:46:40.480
<v Speaker 4>looked at his numbers and saw, like, all these guys

0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:44.640
<v Speaker 4>were doing these numbers in these individual situations. What if

0:46:44.640 --> 0:46:46.720
<v Speaker 4>I put them all together, I probably could.

0:46:46.560 --> 0:46:47.160
<v Speaker 3>Do an arena.

0:46:47.640 --> 0:46:51.400
<v Speaker 4>And so that's really how the Kings of Comedy came about.

0:46:51.480 --> 0:46:54.000
<v Speaker 4>He it was it was his idea. He kind of

0:46:54.000 --> 0:46:56.960
<v Speaker 4>called us, put us together, put the tour together. But

0:46:57.040 --> 0:46:59.360
<v Speaker 4>I do think that in the process of that, he

0:46:59.480 --> 0:47:01.680
<v Speaker 4>started to think he was the other king of comedy.

0:47:01.920 --> 0:47:05.560
<v Speaker 4>And so it's like his own hubrist kind of got

0:47:05.600 --> 0:47:07.759
<v Speaker 4>in the way. And then you know, it was it

0:47:07.840 --> 0:47:11.439
<v Speaker 4>was after the show and the movie came out that

0:47:11.520 --> 0:47:13.640
<v Speaker 4>you know, it was so many little things that he

0:47:13.840 --> 0:47:16.279
<v Speaker 4>just was. Nobody wanted to be in business with him,

0:47:16.320 --> 0:47:16.680
<v Speaker 4>no more.

0:47:16.800 --> 0:47:17.520
<v Speaker 3>So that was it.

0:47:17.600 --> 0:47:19.759
<v Speaker 5>But he you know, he didn't do the Queen, he

0:47:19.800 --> 0:47:20.759
<v Speaker 5>didn't do the Queens.

0:47:21.040 --> 0:47:25.160
<v Speaker 3>He didn't do the Queens. You know, the Kings, the Kings. Yeah,

0:47:25.239 --> 0:47:28.239
<v Speaker 3>the Kings and Queens. But he he had that Kings.

0:47:27.920 --> 0:47:30.799
<v Speaker 4>And Queen's title and uh, and then he did a

0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:33.000
<v Speaker 4>few other ones. He did a couple of tours after,

0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:35.720
<v Speaker 4>but nothing to the magnitude of the Kings of Comedy

0:47:35.719 --> 0:47:36.560
<v Speaker 4>and the Queens of Comedy.

0:47:36.640 --> 0:47:38.359
<v Speaker 5>Is that is that the original roster? I just wanted

0:47:38.360 --> 0:47:39.600
<v Speaker 5>to know. I always wanted to know, But the Kings

0:47:39.640 --> 0:47:40.080
<v Speaker 5>of Comedy?

0:47:40.120 --> 0:47:42.759
<v Speaker 9>Was there ever somebody that was wanted it originally or

0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:44.640
<v Speaker 9>that got dropped off of the list?

0:47:45.400 --> 0:47:48.160
<v Speaker 3>No, deal was in an addition, it started out just me,

0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:49.440
<v Speaker 3>Steven Bernie.

0:47:49.760 --> 0:47:53.360
<v Speaker 4>And then then they added d L and then that

0:47:53.360 --> 0:47:55.880
<v Speaker 4>that became the one that you know that really toured

0:47:55.880 --> 0:47:56.680
<v Speaker 4>around and got hot.

0:47:57.239 --> 0:47:59.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. So yeah, we started out just the three of us.

0:47:59.320 --> 0:48:01.719
<v Speaker 4>We got Tori got Toy with m C and uh

0:48:01.840 --> 0:48:04.040
<v Speaker 4>and and had a night popping got.

0:48:04.320 --> 0:48:10.000
<v Speaker 2>When you're doing that, like who's determining like the order

0:48:10.120 --> 0:48:13.400
<v Speaker 2>things and who's the the or at least the curation

0:48:13.480 --> 0:48:18.560
<v Speaker 2>of it all, it would be it's it's usually the comedians.

0:48:18.840 --> 0:48:22.279
<v Speaker 4>I mean on a tour like that, we decide and

0:48:22.320 --> 0:48:25.279
<v Speaker 4>it's and it's usually you know, usually an honor or

0:48:25.360 --> 0:48:28.279
<v Speaker 4>respect thing, you know, depending on you know, who's on

0:48:28.360 --> 0:48:30.799
<v Speaker 4>the tour. Like usually people just kind of you know,

0:48:30.920 --> 0:48:34.360
<v Speaker 4>give props to you know, whoever the og is and

0:48:34.520 --> 0:48:36.640
<v Speaker 4>be like, yo, you go last if you want to.

0:48:37.480 --> 0:48:40.200
<v Speaker 4>But on our tour, I remember like Bernie was the

0:48:40.280 --> 0:48:43.359
<v Speaker 4>it dude, Like Bernie was the dude. But Bernie wanted

0:48:43.440 --> 0:48:45.360
<v Speaker 4>he called it the hammock. He didn't want to he

0:48:45.400 --> 0:48:47.120
<v Speaker 4>didn't want to go first, and he didn't want to

0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:49.080
<v Speaker 4>go last. He wanted to lay in the hammy.

0:48:49.239 --> 0:48:49.479
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.

0:48:49.560 --> 0:48:54.760
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so last and first is the penultimate, right before last.

0:48:54.760 --> 0:48:55.720
<v Speaker 1>That's the sweet spot.

0:48:56.400 --> 0:48:57.120
<v Speaker 3>Yeah exactly.

0:48:57.280 --> 0:49:00.680
<v Speaker 4>So so you know, even on the special it looked

0:49:00.680 --> 0:49:03.000
<v Speaker 4>like Bernie go last, but when we actually shot it,

0:49:03.320 --> 0:49:03.759
<v Speaker 4>he was.

0:49:04.320 --> 0:49:06.640
<v Speaker 3>He was in the hammock. He did not go last night.

0:49:06.680 --> 0:49:10.239
<v Speaker 4>It was the I went last, and he would, but

0:49:10.680 --> 0:49:12.719
<v Speaker 4>on the special, the way the edit work, it was

0:49:12.760 --> 0:49:14.560
<v Speaker 4>better for him to go last for the movie of

0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:18.600
<v Speaker 4>it all. But he performed in his hammock. That's that's

0:49:18.640 --> 0:49:20.560
<v Speaker 4>what he liked. Was like, that's where I want to be.

0:49:21.000 --> 0:49:22.600
<v Speaker 4>And he had been out, you know, I got it.

0:49:22.680 --> 0:49:25.279
<v Speaker 4>He had been out like Bernie got Hot before the

0:49:25.320 --> 0:49:28.040
<v Speaker 4>rest of us, and he had did like big tours

0:49:28.040 --> 0:49:30.040
<v Speaker 4>on his own, and so when he decided to do

0:49:30.120 --> 0:49:32.680
<v Speaker 4>the Kings, he was just like, look, man, I already

0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:34.600
<v Speaker 4>been out like as a big star.

0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:35.400
<v Speaker 3>Already touring.

0:49:36.040 --> 0:49:38.120
<v Speaker 4>I like the idea of this, but you know again,

0:49:38.239 --> 0:49:40.719
<v Speaker 4>we're doing thirty forty minute sets.

0:49:41.400 --> 0:49:42.640
<v Speaker 3>Me let me ride easy.

0:49:42.760 --> 0:49:46.000
<v Speaker 4>So I got it. And so that became. That became

0:49:46.040 --> 0:49:48.319
<v Speaker 4>a thing that a lot of comics like to do

0:49:48.520 --> 0:49:50.799
<v Speaker 4>to this day. Like you said me, like we all

0:49:50.880 --> 0:49:54.399
<v Speaker 4>like to We like to go in that spot right

0:49:54.440 --> 0:49:57.880
<v Speaker 4>before last. It's just less pressure. You could kill it

0:49:58.120 --> 0:50:00.480
<v Speaker 4>and you could be gone, be like yo, dude somehow

0:50:00.680 --> 0:50:04.160
<v Speaker 4>like and and if and if you don't kill it,

0:50:04.400 --> 0:50:07.080
<v Speaker 4>then you know somebody else coming behind you, and everybody

0:50:07.080 --> 0:50:11.080
<v Speaker 4>can have a good time and they ain't gonna blame you. Yeah,

0:50:11.080 --> 0:50:14.239
<v Speaker 4>they're gonna blame you that the show was bomb ass

0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:17.760
<v Speaker 4>or whatever. But so you know you so but uh

0:50:17.800 --> 0:50:20.640
<v Speaker 4>but it's usually a respect things, usually the comics deciding

0:50:21.280 --> 0:50:24.160
<v Speaker 4>where everybody want to go according to who we feel,

0:50:24.640 --> 0:50:27.200
<v Speaker 4>you know deep deserves that that reverence or whatever.

0:50:27.280 --> 0:50:30.600
<v Speaker 7>You know, how involved were you guys working with Spike

0:50:30.719 --> 0:50:32.560
<v Speaker 7>and filming that was he kind of hands on with

0:50:32.600 --> 0:50:35.120
<v Speaker 7>you guys, or he just let you no.

0:50:35.280 --> 0:50:36.680
<v Speaker 3>It was a it was a you know, it was

0:50:36.680 --> 0:50:37.000
<v Speaker 3>a one.

0:50:37.000 --> 0:50:39.120
<v Speaker 4>We all made a choice that you know, because we

0:50:39.160 --> 0:50:42.120
<v Speaker 4>were trying to find somebody to direct the movie we had.

0:50:42.239 --> 0:50:43.680
<v Speaker 3>It was it was our choice.

0:50:43.719 --> 0:50:47.080
<v Speaker 4>We were all partners on the movie, and Spike you know,

0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:50.600
<v Speaker 4>came up of course presented the idea that he wanted

0:50:50.640 --> 0:50:52.719
<v Speaker 4>to do it, and I mean he was the most

0:50:52.760 --> 0:50:56.200
<v Speaker 4>expensive one to make our partner, but we also knew

0:50:56.239 --> 0:50:59.120
<v Speaker 4>that it was the best move to get a movie.

0:50:59.239 --> 0:51:01.360
<v Speaker 4>It's you know, the kind of create the kind of

0:51:01.440 --> 0:51:04.160
<v Speaker 4>cred that we wanted. And and then you know, he

0:51:04.320 --> 0:51:07.680
<v Speaker 4>Spike Lee. He really loved comedy, He loved he loved

0:51:07.680 --> 0:51:10.000
<v Speaker 4>the idea of being He came, I think we did

0:51:10.120 --> 0:51:13.879
<v Speaker 4>Radio City Music Hall. He came and watched this, came backstage,

0:51:14.000 --> 0:51:16.879
<v Speaker 4>talked about it. He just super hyped, and we was like, yeah,

0:51:17.000 --> 0:51:19.759
<v Speaker 4>this will be crazy, this Spike does this movie, so

0:51:19.880 --> 0:51:21.480
<v Speaker 4>you know, and it just ended up being the right

0:51:21.560 --> 0:51:23.799
<v Speaker 4>move for us. And again, you know, we knew that

0:51:23.840 --> 0:51:26.440
<v Speaker 4>when you bring Spike on, you know, he gonna cut

0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:28.399
<v Speaker 4>into the money, like all the money that we could

0:51:28.440 --> 0:51:29.120
<v Speaker 4>have gotten.

0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:32.040
<v Speaker 3>For us it. You know, you could have used Billy

0:51:32.040 --> 0:51:33.399
<v Speaker 3>Woodrow for somebody, you know.

0:51:41.120 --> 0:51:44.640
<v Speaker 9>That guy, right, Hey, Wake, I gotta ask you because

0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:47.760
<v Speaker 9>from a fan perspective, for y'all, those fellas two questions.

0:51:47.840 --> 0:51:51.760
<v Speaker 5>Number one, I just got to know how you preserve Bernie.

0:51:51.360 --> 0:51:54.400
<v Speaker 9>In your heart and also like the relationship with you

0:51:54.480 --> 0:51:56.399
<v Speaker 9>and and these men, like how do y'all make sure

0:51:56.400 --> 0:51:57.960
<v Speaker 9>that y'all continue to nurture it?

0:51:58.800 --> 0:52:00.719
<v Speaker 3>Oh dah, Yeah, for sure.

0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:02.800
<v Speaker 4>I mean, you know, I just did my golf tournament,

0:52:02.840 --> 0:52:07.000
<v Speaker 4>my celebrity tournament, charity tournament last year. Both Steve and

0:52:07.120 --> 0:52:07.879
<v Speaker 4>d L came.

0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:10.400
<v Speaker 3>You know. Of course me and.

0:52:10.480 --> 0:52:13.279
<v Speaker 4>DL we probably we see each other most because our

0:52:13.320 --> 0:52:16.120
<v Speaker 4>wives are friends, like real friends, So we see each

0:52:16.120 --> 0:52:18.279
<v Speaker 4>other a lot, you know, go to dinner and hang out,

0:52:19.040 --> 0:52:20.959
<v Speaker 4>you know, and then we tour a lot of much

0:52:21.239 --> 0:52:24.080
<v Speaker 4>a lot too, like all the kind of big arena

0:52:24.160 --> 0:52:26.120
<v Speaker 4>tours I've been on DL been a part of them,

0:52:26.160 --> 0:52:29.799
<v Speaker 4>so you know, we got that kind of brotherhood and

0:52:29.840 --> 0:52:32.040
<v Speaker 4>then be back in just one of these guys man

0:52:32.080 --> 0:52:35.280
<v Speaker 4>that you know, whenever we you know, we always related

0:52:35.320 --> 0:52:37.960
<v Speaker 4>to the kings of comedy, and so you know almost

0:52:38.000 --> 0:52:41.680
<v Speaker 4>in any interview, every situation, he's gonna come he's gonna

0:52:41.680 --> 0:52:42.840
<v Speaker 4>come up and be a part of it.

0:52:42.920 --> 0:52:44.879
<v Speaker 3>But he you know, kind of like.

0:52:44.880 --> 0:52:47.879
<v Speaker 4>What Quest was saying about, like certain jokes or cert

0:52:48.000 --> 0:52:50.600
<v Speaker 4>he just got so many cash phrases that all of

0:52:50.680 --> 0:52:54.480
<v Speaker 4>us that that day I go to for regular regular life.

0:52:54.560 --> 0:52:57.759
<v Speaker 4>You know, if somebody say something off you know, off

0:52:57.840 --> 0:52:59.759
<v Speaker 4>kill too, then we you know, we're gonna pull out.

0:52:59.760 --> 0:53:02.840
<v Speaker 4>As you know, it's like they're just a part of

0:53:02.920 --> 0:53:05.240
<v Speaker 4>like the part of like how we made up, especially

0:53:05.280 --> 0:53:07.719
<v Speaker 4>by being with him so much on the tour. You know,

0:53:07.960 --> 0:53:09.960
<v Speaker 4>like he would he just have a hundred you don't

0:53:09.960 --> 0:53:11.839
<v Speaker 4>want to fifty yard line, but it's first and goal.

0:53:12.480 --> 0:53:14.920
<v Speaker 4>You know, you'd be like what, you know what I'm

0:53:14.920 --> 0:53:18.879
<v Speaker 4>so that means, that means that's wherever I am in life.

0:53:18.960 --> 0:53:21.040
<v Speaker 4>I'm out here trying to win, and I believe I

0:53:21.040 --> 0:53:23.600
<v Speaker 4>could win. At this point, I'm on the fifty yard

0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:26.360
<v Speaker 4>line for him. It's first in gold and I was like, Dicky,

0:53:26.520 --> 0:53:28.759
<v Speaker 4>I love that one right there, Like so you know,

0:53:29.000 --> 0:53:29.960
<v Speaker 4>let's let's be back.

0:53:30.080 --> 0:53:31.200
<v Speaker 3>That is kind of language.

0:53:31.360 --> 0:53:33.880
<v Speaker 7>I wanted to ask you about two of my most

0:53:33.880 --> 0:53:36.799
<v Speaker 7>favorite roles that you have done, Gus.

0:53:36.520 --> 0:53:38.000
<v Speaker 6>Pitch and Jazzy D.

0:53:40.360 --> 0:53:47.920
<v Speaker 11>Yeah, Gus Pitch was tor and uh, jazz D was

0:53:49.360 --> 0:53:52.359
<v Speaker 11>top five, top this rock movie.

0:53:52.640 --> 0:53:55.080
<v Speaker 3>Both of both of them was like these sleeper movies.

0:53:55.120 --> 0:53:57.960
<v Speaker 4>Man, that I was always really really good, you know,

0:53:58.160 --> 0:53:59.680
<v Speaker 4>really blessed to be a part of these.

0:53:59.760 --> 0:54:01.359
<v Speaker 3>Life was like one.

0:54:01.600 --> 0:54:04.840
<v Speaker 4>Gus Petch was like just a fun character because it

0:54:05.000 --> 0:54:06.359
<v Speaker 4>was like, yo, you get to be in a movie

0:54:06.400 --> 0:54:09.239
<v Speaker 4>with George Clooney and Kepta Zada Jones and uh, you

0:54:09.280 --> 0:54:09.640
<v Speaker 4>know just.

0:54:09.680 --> 0:54:12.279
<v Speaker 3>The character you did. You did Detective and it was

0:54:12.320 --> 0:54:13.560
<v Speaker 3>the Coen Brothers.

0:54:13.880 --> 0:54:18.000
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, yes, please, because that was really it was an

0:54:18.080 --> 0:54:22.160
<v Speaker 7>unconventional film for what they normally kind of do, you know, like.

0:54:22.880 --> 0:54:25.480
<v Speaker 4>They you know, they're you know, they're super artists, so

0:54:25.600 --> 0:54:28.480
<v Speaker 4>you know, and they're very eclectic and different. Of course,

0:54:28.600 --> 0:54:32.680
<v Speaker 4>you know, Joel is you know, probably a little bit

0:54:32.719 --> 0:54:35.400
<v Speaker 4>more talkative, and then Ethan is kind of like, you know,

0:54:35.560 --> 0:54:39.520
<v Speaker 4>laid back and so but they were both like they

0:54:39.640 --> 0:54:42.600
<v Speaker 4>both like really enjoyed what I was bringing to the character.

0:54:42.719 --> 0:54:45.279
<v Speaker 4>So like once they kind of recognized like what I

0:54:45.360 --> 0:54:47.600
<v Speaker 4>was gonna do and what I was doing as a character,

0:54:48.080 --> 0:54:50.000
<v Speaker 4>then it was like really fun. They just kind of

0:54:50.000 --> 0:54:53.239
<v Speaker 4>embraced so many things that like choices that I kind

0:54:53.239 --> 0:54:55.279
<v Speaker 4>of wanted to make as the guy. But I think

0:54:55.320 --> 0:54:56.920
<v Speaker 4>you had to kind of earn it with them, like,

0:54:57.040 --> 0:55:00.720
<v Speaker 4>you know, because they are very specific to their vision,

0:55:00.880 --> 0:55:01.080
<v Speaker 4>you know.

0:55:01.160 --> 0:55:02.680
<v Speaker 3>That was the one thing and I think that.

0:55:02.719 --> 0:55:05.279
<v Speaker 4>With that particular movie, to your point, it was a

0:55:05.280 --> 0:55:07.799
<v Speaker 4>little outside their normal thing of what they was, what

0:55:07.840 --> 0:55:10.400
<v Speaker 4>they kind of normally do, so they they kind of

0:55:10.440 --> 0:55:12.360
<v Speaker 4>trusted you know. I was thinking about even like what

0:55:12.440 --> 0:55:15.440
<v Speaker 4>Jeffrey Rush did in that movie and all those kind

0:55:15.480 --> 0:55:18.600
<v Speaker 4>of things and Billy Bob, Billy Bob, you.

0:55:18.520 --> 0:55:20.919
<v Speaker 3>Know, like all these kind of things. They people did

0:55:21.040 --> 0:55:24.640
<v Speaker 3>different little you know, character choices, and I think they

0:55:24.440 --> 0:55:25.320
<v Speaker 3>they kind.

0:55:25.120 --> 0:55:27.000
<v Speaker 4>Of opened up and like, yeah, you know what, all right,

0:55:27.120 --> 0:55:29.960
<v Speaker 4>try it, you know, so I think you and then uh,

0:55:30.239 --> 0:55:32.720
<v Speaker 4>and then with Top five, you know that was Chris

0:55:32.800 --> 0:55:36.040
<v Speaker 4>Rock he was directing, he had ridden the movie, he

0:55:36.160 --> 0:55:38.320
<v Speaker 4>was he had you know, he was directing the film

0:55:38.840 --> 0:55:41.480
<v Speaker 4>and he you know, he a brother, right, you know,

0:55:41.600 --> 0:55:44.319
<v Speaker 4>you know he my comedic brother. So we we've been

0:55:44.360 --> 0:55:47.320
<v Speaker 4>knowing each other many years and toured been on dates together.

0:55:47.760 --> 0:55:49.759
<v Speaker 4>And when he told me what the character was, I

0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:52.239
<v Speaker 4>was like, say less man Like he was like, you know,

0:55:52.320 --> 0:55:55.640
<v Speaker 4>it's the dude that you know that when we when

0:55:55.680 --> 0:55:57.880
<v Speaker 4>we start coming up, the dude that it promised you

0:55:58.000 --> 0:55:58.800
<v Speaker 4>all this stuff.

0:55:59.080 --> 0:56:01.399
<v Speaker 3>And you know I'm in the limo for you. Don't

0:56:01.440 --> 0:56:03.960
<v Speaker 3>worry about it. I got you in the dope hotel.

0:56:04.480 --> 0:56:07.640
<v Speaker 3>You could this, I do it. Trust me. I'm the

0:56:07.680 --> 0:56:08.440
<v Speaker 3>man in Houston.

0:56:08.680 --> 0:56:11.920
<v Speaker 4>And I was like, oh, say less if I if

0:56:11.920 --> 0:56:14.080
<v Speaker 4>I ain't met this dude one hundred and thirty times

0:56:14.960 --> 0:56:15.920
<v Speaker 4>exactly who he is.

0:56:16.680 --> 0:56:18.880
<v Speaker 9>That whole scene came back to me Cary Red and

0:56:18.920 --> 0:56:19.440
<v Speaker 9>all the stuff.

0:56:19.520 --> 0:56:21.600
<v Speaker 5>Yes, yes, so.

0:56:26.120 --> 0:56:28.200
<v Speaker 1>Now that person still beat me.

0:56:28.640 --> 0:56:28.879
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:56:28.960 --> 0:56:31.279
<v Speaker 4>Me getting them hangers, that was like, that's like the

0:56:31.320 --> 0:56:33.759
<v Speaker 4>real thing because you realize, like people always still in

0:56:33.760 --> 0:56:36.000
<v Speaker 4>the wooden angers from the hotels, and they got good

0:56:36.040 --> 0:56:36.760
<v Speaker 4>wooden angers.

0:56:37.040 --> 0:56:39.240
<v Speaker 3>You're like, oh man, they got the lock on them. Yeah,

0:56:39.360 --> 0:56:40.560
<v Speaker 3>they got the lock on me.

0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:43.799
<v Speaker 5>Are you the hangers are two piece?

0:56:43.840 --> 0:56:46.160
<v Speaker 1>Now a mire? Oh dog?

0:56:47.000 --> 0:56:49.439
<v Speaker 2>I thought it was the only person that that did that.

0:56:49.560 --> 0:56:53.640
<v Speaker 2>All my good hangers at home? Yeah, man, the world boy.

0:56:54.120 --> 0:56:56.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah man, yeah, the good the good Angers. You

0:56:56.840 --> 0:56:58.640
<v Speaker 3>go to the hotel, they got the good Angers. You're

0:56:58.680 --> 0:57:01.640
<v Speaker 3>like they got they about to get got.

0:57:01.800 --> 0:57:02.439
<v Speaker 1>That's a rap.

0:57:03.000 --> 0:57:04.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was gonna well, I'm gonna add it on

0:57:04.920 --> 0:57:07.840
<v Speaker 2>to what they said. You get character actor roles, but

0:57:08.000 --> 0:57:10.160
<v Speaker 2>you are not a character actor.

0:57:10.239 --> 0:57:11.480
<v Speaker 1>Like everyone knows who you are.

0:57:11.600 --> 0:57:13.920
<v Speaker 2>So how did you how did you nuance that in

0:57:15.160 --> 0:57:17.080
<v Speaker 2>starting Your first movie was Ride?

0:57:17.200 --> 0:57:17.560
<v Speaker 1>Was it not?

0:57:18.120 --> 0:57:19.880
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Yeah, first movie was Ride?

0:57:20.600 --> 0:57:22.640
<v Speaker 4>Uh you know, and I think you know that was

0:57:22.760 --> 0:57:24.480
<v Speaker 4>that was the one thing I think like even my

0:57:24.600 --> 0:57:27.000
<v Speaker 4>stand up early on, I used to I used to do.

0:57:27.240 --> 0:57:29.400
<v Speaker 3>A lot of characters on stage, like you know.

0:57:29.440 --> 0:57:32.960
<v Speaker 4>Like act out things fully. So in my mind I

0:57:33.080 --> 0:57:36.439
<v Speaker 4>just kind of transitioned the idea that, you know, where

0:57:36.480 --> 0:57:38.480
<v Speaker 4>I would write a joke, I would try to develop

0:57:38.480 --> 0:57:41.120
<v Speaker 4>a character, so you know, like he like the like

0:57:41.160 --> 0:57:44.280
<v Speaker 4>the old man in the barbershop. They was a choice,

0:57:44.480 --> 0:57:46.400
<v Speaker 4>like Eddie was a choice. Like they wanted me to

0:57:46.400 --> 0:57:48.960
<v Speaker 4>play a different role, and I was like, no, I

0:57:49.000 --> 0:57:50.920
<v Speaker 4>want to be the old man. And I remember everybody

0:57:50.960 --> 0:57:53.000
<v Speaker 4>was like, well, we want to cast a real old man,

0:57:53.240 --> 0:57:54.880
<v Speaker 4>and I was like, well, just let me, let me

0:57:55.000 --> 0:57:56.720
<v Speaker 4>read it, let me just show you what I'm gonna

0:57:56.720 --> 0:57:57.200
<v Speaker 4>do with it.

0:57:57.480 --> 0:57:59.480
<v Speaker 3>But I had this guy like that.

0:58:00.040 --> 0:58:02.480
<v Speaker 4>There was a combination of a dude at my mom's

0:58:02.560 --> 0:58:06.720
<v Speaker 4>church and somebody else, and it was this whole beat

0:58:06.920 --> 0:58:08.480
<v Speaker 4>of like who this dude was.

0:58:08.560 --> 0:58:09.880
<v Speaker 3>I knew exactly who he was.

0:58:09.960 --> 0:58:12.400
<v Speaker 4>And so I got to the point I could do Eddie.

0:58:12.720 --> 0:58:15.120
<v Speaker 4>I didn't even need dialogue, like you just give me

0:58:15.120 --> 0:58:18.520
<v Speaker 4>your circumstances and Eddie just gonna come out of me,

0:58:18.640 --> 0:58:20.880
<v Speaker 4>like I know the stuff people say, and it was

0:58:20.960 --> 0:58:23.160
<v Speaker 4>just that. And so the directors started seeing that and

0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:25.520
<v Speaker 4>they was like, all right, cool, No, that was before

0:58:25.560 --> 0:58:27.360
<v Speaker 4>we even shot. So when they gave me the character

0:58:27.440 --> 0:58:29.240
<v Speaker 4>that was, that was great for me. And that was

0:58:29.280 --> 0:58:33.760
<v Speaker 4>really one of those transitional spots because that kind of

0:58:33.800 --> 0:58:37.080
<v Speaker 4>like you know, really like changed me from being just

0:58:37.120 --> 0:58:39.479
<v Speaker 4>a character actor in the movie that people saying, all right, cool,

0:58:39.480 --> 0:58:41.440
<v Speaker 4>you can lead a movie. And so I started to

0:58:41.440 --> 0:58:44.680
<v Speaker 4>get other little movie rolls Johnson Family and Honeymooners and

0:58:45.160 --> 0:58:45.800
<v Speaker 4>little things.

0:58:45.800 --> 0:58:49.000
<v Speaker 3>But I loved doing to your question quests.

0:58:49.000 --> 0:58:52.760
<v Speaker 4>I loved like getting like just great little character roles

0:58:52.760 --> 0:58:55.280
<v Speaker 4>that like show up in the movie with the with

0:58:55.400 --> 0:58:58.240
<v Speaker 4>the right people and you know, and where you can

0:58:58.320 --> 0:58:59.960
<v Speaker 4>just come in and steal scenes and.

0:59:00.400 --> 0:59:03.439
<v Speaker 3>And and then and this burnout like those are fun

0:59:03.480 --> 0:59:03.680
<v Speaker 3>to me.

0:59:03.800 --> 0:59:07.720
<v Speaker 4>I think I always loved like like when Don Cheeto

0:59:07.800 --> 0:59:10.760
<v Speaker 4>did Devil in a Blue Dress, like you know, we

0:59:10.840 --> 0:59:13.560
<v Speaker 4>had Yeah, we loved, we loved to Zel, but Mouse

0:59:13.720 --> 0:59:16.800
<v Speaker 4>was our he was just he wasn't all through the movie,

0:59:16.840 --> 0:59:19.040
<v Speaker 4>but he was like where Mouse, ad give me more Mouse.

0:59:19.040 --> 0:59:20.240
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to say that character.

0:59:20.920 --> 0:59:22.800
<v Speaker 9>There has never been a moment said when you walked

0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:26.600
<v Speaker 9>on the set and felt intimidated in that way.

0:59:26.920 --> 0:59:29.240
<v Speaker 3>No, I mean you know, like uh you know, like

0:59:29.280 --> 0:59:34.000
<v Speaker 3>with that that that the first scene in Tarborough Cruelty.

0:59:34.040 --> 0:59:36.240
<v Speaker 4>I had to do a scene with George Clooney like

0:59:36.280 --> 0:59:39.840
<v Speaker 4>the first day I got there, and you know, it

0:59:39.920 --> 0:59:41.800
<v Speaker 4>was one of those things and knowing like he was

0:59:41.840 --> 0:59:44.480
<v Speaker 4>Cloney at the time, and you know, and you just

0:59:44.560 --> 0:59:46.400
<v Speaker 4>kind of want to do the right thing and you

0:59:46.560 --> 0:59:49.200
<v Speaker 4>just you know, so But I never I never really

0:59:49.320 --> 0:59:52.880
<v Speaker 4>got small. I just was very careful, right, like you're

0:59:52.920 --> 0:59:54.920
<v Speaker 4>kind of like more careful, like making sure you know,

0:59:55.520 --> 0:59:57.200
<v Speaker 4>you know, And I knew the Cohen Brothers was a

0:59:57.200 --> 0:59:59.560
<v Speaker 4>big deal and it's all these things where you just

0:59:59.600 --> 1:00:01.400
<v Speaker 4>want to be like, I don't want to be this

1:00:01.440 --> 1:00:03.520
<v Speaker 4>guy to come in and act like these people not

1:00:03.600 --> 1:00:06.080
<v Speaker 4>a big deal, and then you find out like, oh

1:00:06.160 --> 1:00:08.960
<v Speaker 4>that was offensive or whatever. So that's the that's the

1:00:09.000 --> 1:00:10.960
<v Speaker 4>young virgin. But you know, I always kind of was

1:00:11.000 --> 1:00:13.640
<v Speaker 4>confident in who I was and what I was coming

1:00:13.680 --> 1:00:16.120
<v Speaker 4>there to do, so I just leaned into that more

1:00:16.160 --> 1:00:16.760
<v Speaker 4>than anything.

1:00:17.040 --> 1:00:18.800
<v Speaker 5>Did they know who because as your fans, did they

1:00:18.880 --> 1:00:21.120
<v Speaker 5>know who you were? I just always been curious.

1:00:20.840 --> 1:00:22.360
<v Speaker 9>About that, like you step on that Coin Brothers that

1:00:22.440 --> 1:00:24.680
<v Speaker 9>George Clooney know like I'm a cane.

1:00:25.320 --> 1:00:28.520
<v Speaker 3>Clooney did, But the Cohen Brothers really knew. I think

1:00:28.560 --> 1:00:31.320
<v Speaker 3>they knew like after once they kind of got into.

1:00:31.560 --> 1:00:33.680
<v Speaker 4>Casting and I had to kind of go there a

1:00:33.720 --> 1:00:36.200
<v Speaker 4>couple of times, and then they you know, and a rehearsal,

1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:38.400
<v Speaker 4>then they kind of realized like, oh, oh you like

1:00:38.480 --> 1:00:40.640
<v Speaker 4>really that dude, but like people.

1:00:40.360 --> 1:00:42.360
<v Speaker 5>Will come see this movie for you like that?

1:00:42.880 --> 1:00:44.760
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, But I don't think they knew that

1:00:44.840 --> 1:00:45.280
<v Speaker 3>right away.

1:00:46.080 --> 1:00:51.920
<v Speaker 2>Are you still in the occasional audition phase or is

1:00:51.960 --> 1:00:55.160
<v Speaker 2>it I once set the entertainer and you don't here's

1:00:55.200 --> 1:00:57.000
<v Speaker 2>the script tell me or not?

1:00:57.800 --> 1:00:58.720
<v Speaker 3>No, I will.

1:00:58.800 --> 1:01:01.560
<v Speaker 4>I will always you know, I tell teens that sometimes

1:01:01.560 --> 1:01:04.240
<v Speaker 4>people don't they don't see me or you know, see

1:01:04.240 --> 1:01:07.000
<v Speaker 4>me in a certain role. So if I must audition,

1:01:07.120 --> 1:01:09.000
<v Speaker 4>if it's something I like and I want to do

1:01:09.080 --> 1:01:12.760
<v Speaker 4>and I must audition, I will. I definitely prefer to

1:01:12.800 --> 1:01:15.080
<v Speaker 4>be offered you know what I mean, you know, but

1:01:15.920 --> 1:01:18.800
<v Speaker 4>it's certain roles, Like it was a role that came up.

1:01:19.480 --> 1:01:21.560
<v Speaker 4>I don't even know if they ever shot this project,

1:01:21.640 --> 1:01:23.760
<v Speaker 4>but it was a role that came up, and it

1:01:23.840 --> 1:01:28.040
<v Speaker 4>was a cool like you know, Apple TV series, and

1:01:28.480 --> 1:01:30.480
<v Speaker 4>it was it was something that I wanted to do.

1:01:30.560 --> 1:01:33.440
<v Speaker 4>It's very liking it to the character in my book,

1:01:33.480 --> 1:01:35.439
<v Speaker 4>and I don't think anybody would have saw me as

1:01:35.440 --> 1:01:37.840
<v Speaker 4>this character. But I was already kind of on this

1:01:37.960 --> 1:01:40.480
<v Speaker 4>journey and when I saw the breakdown, I was like, YO,

1:01:40.560 --> 1:01:41.920
<v Speaker 4>give me an audition.

1:01:41.880 --> 1:01:43.400
<v Speaker 3>Like I want to go in. And I had a

1:01:43.480 --> 1:01:44.600
<v Speaker 3>long you know.

1:01:44.720 --> 1:01:46.800
<v Speaker 4>Because of that, I was able to go a long

1:01:46.840 --> 1:01:50.600
<v Speaker 4>way with the directors and the producers. But I'm not

1:01:50.640 --> 1:01:52.840
<v Speaker 4>sure what direction it would. I've never seen the project

1:01:52.880 --> 1:01:55.080
<v Speaker 4>come out, so but I know I ain't get the role,

1:01:55.200 --> 1:01:59.640
<v Speaker 4>but I did. I did open the conversation up once

1:01:59.640 --> 1:02:00.560
<v Speaker 4>they all like what.

1:02:00.560 --> 1:02:01.040
<v Speaker 3>I could do.

1:02:01.400 --> 1:02:03.640
<v Speaker 4>Then people started to be like it became a little

1:02:03.680 --> 1:02:05.800
<v Speaker 4>more real and you know, by doing.

1:02:05.600 --> 1:02:08.080
<v Speaker 3>The audition, So I wasn't afraid for that. Like those

1:02:08.160 --> 1:02:09.200
<v Speaker 3>kind of things make sense.

1:02:10.000 --> 1:02:14.800
<v Speaker 2>Was there a role that you passed up that you

1:02:14.880 --> 1:02:16.840
<v Speaker 2>later had a regret about doing?

1:02:17.000 --> 1:02:17.439
<v Speaker 3>I e.

1:02:18.240 --> 1:02:21.800
<v Speaker 1>Will Smith passing up on the Matrix Matrix.

1:02:23.440 --> 1:02:29.360
<v Speaker 4>Man, let me see, not necessarely. I know that I

1:02:29.480 --> 1:02:33.680
<v Speaker 4>had the opportunity to do like Mike, uh that movie

1:02:33.800 --> 1:02:36.240
<v Speaker 4>like Mike, But it was also at the same time

1:02:36.760 --> 1:02:38.960
<v Speaker 4>that I could do Barbershop and I felt like I

1:02:39.000 --> 1:02:47.600
<v Speaker 4>made the But I just remember one was a bigger

1:02:47.640 --> 1:02:50.800
<v Speaker 4>money play and you know, and my team was like, Yo,

1:02:50.920 --> 1:02:53.640
<v Speaker 4>you're gonna get paid over here. This's a big movie.

1:02:53.640 --> 1:02:55.360
<v Speaker 4>And then the other one was a small movie and

1:02:55.360 --> 1:02:55.880
<v Speaker 4>I was like.

1:02:56.440 --> 1:02:57.840
<v Speaker 5>That became a franchise.

1:02:58.160 --> 1:03:02.520
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly, exactly of move. So I was trying to

1:03:02.560 --> 1:03:04.960
<v Speaker 3>think of like ones where I didn't where I kind

1:03:05.000 --> 1:03:09.479
<v Speaker 3>of passed up that I didn't get. Uh, nothing really

1:03:09.480 --> 1:03:11.480
<v Speaker 3>comes to mind that. I was like, Yo, I'm you know,

1:03:11.520 --> 1:03:13.600
<v Speaker 3>I kind of regret I didn't get that one.

1:03:14.080 --> 1:03:18.760
<v Speaker 7>Man talk about threats the jay Z tract, like like, yeah.

1:03:18.720 --> 1:03:22.320
<v Speaker 2>You two have something in common, sort of uh yeah, yeah,

1:03:22.360 --> 1:03:24.680
<v Speaker 2>a six degree the separation way with the threats studio.

1:03:24.800 --> 1:03:27.479
<v Speaker 3>Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

1:03:27.520 --> 1:03:30.440
<v Speaker 4>So uh yeah, I was, uh, you know, I'd seen

1:03:30.520 --> 1:03:33.320
<v Speaker 4>Jay like, you know, throughout my careers many times, and

1:03:33.640 --> 1:03:34.760
<v Speaker 4>so I just told him one time.

1:03:34.800 --> 1:03:36.600
<v Speaker 3>I was like, yo, but everyone in New York I

1:03:36.600 --> 1:03:38.560
<v Speaker 3>want to see you work. And I come to the studio.

1:03:38.880 --> 1:03:41.120
<v Speaker 4>Everybody told me about, you know, the rain Man thing

1:03:41.160 --> 1:03:42.840
<v Speaker 4>he does and how he just kind of ride to

1:03:42.960 --> 1:03:45.240
<v Speaker 4>move and I just asked him could I come to

1:03:45.240 --> 1:03:46.720
<v Speaker 4>the studio and he was like, yeah, no doubt.

1:03:47.000 --> 1:03:48.600
<v Speaker 3>So I go. One time.

1:03:48.680 --> 1:03:51.840
<v Speaker 4>He's there, We in the studio and everybody just kind

1:03:51.840 --> 1:03:54.000
<v Speaker 4>of hanging out and he's like, I gotta leave. I

1:03:54.000 --> 1:03:56.400
<v Speaker 4>gotta go and run some Aaron, but I'm working on

1:03:56.440 --> 1:03:59.720
<v Speaker 4>this this threat situation. I'm working on this thing. And

1:03:59.720 --> 1:04:01.520
<v Speaker 4>he was like, it's on the it's on like some

1:04:01.600 --> 1:04:04.600
<v Speaker 4>Mad the Rapper type stuff. You can just throw something

1:04:04.640 --> 1:04:06.320
<v Speaker 4>out there, let me know, you know, And so he

1:04:06.440 --> 1:04:10.080
<v Speaker 4>literally left. I think it was ninth and uh it

1:04:10.120 --> 1:04:13.240
<v Speaker 4>was ninth and Guru was there and I just kind

1:04:13.240 --> 1:04:16.360
<v Speaker 4>of like went in and just started freestyling it and

1:04:16.400 --> 1:04:19.000
<v Speaker 4>then he called me maybe a few months later.

1:04:19.040 --> 1:04:20.560
<v Speaker 3>It was like, hey, man, you made the album.

1:04:20.960 --> 1:04:23.360
<v Speaker 4>I was like what he was like, Yo, he made

1:04:23.360 --> 1:04:26.160
<v Speaker 4>the album. I was like, oh man, that was crazy.

1:04:26.480 --> 1:04:28.640
<v Speaker 4>It was the black album. So it made you feel like, yo,

1:04:29.200 --> 1:04:32.400
<v Speaker 4>it won you just a part of like, you know, superhistory,

1:04:32.560 --> 1:04:35.040
<v Speaker 4>and so I was I was really happy to be

1:04:35.080 --> 1:04:35.600
<v Speaker 4>a part of that.

1:04:35.720 --> 1:04:38.080
<v Speaker 3>You know. It's kind of the same thing on the.

1:04:38.120 --> 1:04:43.000
<v Speaker 4>Nellyville on Country Grammar that was d Ray doing Bernie.

1:04:43.240 --> 1:04:45.360
<v Speaker 1>Damn. I did not know that was d Ray.

1:04:45.760 --> 1:04:47.840
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, that is d Ray doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that wasn't Bernie mac all right?

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<v Speaker 5>Talented? I ain't know.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Seeing you at at this stage of your life, is

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<v Speaker 1>there any is there anything that you have yet to.

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<v Speaker 2>Achieve that you have like as a bucket list, do

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<v Speaker 2>you feel like now's the time for you to just

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<v Speaker 2>get your bucket list storing and and start greenlighting your

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<v Speaker 2>own projects or whatnot?

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<v Speaker 1>Like what do you.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's kind of really the space I'm in now,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, of course, like the strike really really teaches

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<v Speaker 4>you that too, Like you can't always kind of like

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<v Speaker 4>you know, expect that you will have time or that

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<v Speaker 4>everything that you want to do will just show up

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<v Speaker 4>when when you need to, and so, uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>I feel like, you know, I definitely want to get

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<v Speaker 4>back into the movie space like in the starring role Pards.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, like you're looking for those. So I started

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<v Speaker 4>to write movies that you know that I feel like

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<v Speaker 4>makes sense for me.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh And then yeah, exactly, I think that too.

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<v Speaker 4>More so to your question question, is that it is

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<v Speaker 4>dramas that I you know, like people hadn't necessarily seeing

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<v Speaker 4>really stick my foot in something, right, you know I did.

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<v Speaker 4>I did that first Reformed with Ethan Hogg that was

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<v Speaker 4>out last year, really you know, really moved with Paul Schrader,

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<v Speaker 4>great director, you know, and Ethan hagg A man. The

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<v Speaker 4>Safe Free a small kind of an artsy film, it was.

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<v Speaker 4>It was a dramatic role. We got some nominations, we

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<v Speaker 4>got some looks, you know, but again it wouldn't be

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<v Speaker 4>something that black people would go see, I don't think

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<v Speaker 4>right away.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh so and get certain times.

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<v Speaker 5>Of black people said they're not a mona.

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<v Speaker 3>Less exactly, it gets so true. I'm gonna throw that

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<v Speaker 3>out there.

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<v Speaker 4>Yes, that's our question goes maybe you know, yeah, yeah, no,

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<v Speaker 4>and it gives it it's a.

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<v Speaker 3>Great film because again, dynamic actors in there.

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<v Speaker 4>Uh and it's still, you know, kind of uniquely done,

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<v Speaker 4>very quiet movie.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, not a lot of you know, all about

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<v Speaker 3>the words, all about the emotion, uh the go. That's

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<v Speaker 3>a style.

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<v Speaker 4>It's called like transcendental or something like that. Some a

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<v Speaker 4>it's a style of movie shooting.

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<v Speaker 3>But you know, that's that. That's pretty much what I

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<v Speaker 3>would say bucket list.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm looking for a character or a series or something

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<v Speaker 4>I could stick my teeth into where people could see

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<v Speaker 4>me be a little.

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<v Speaker 3>More dramatic in in my in my play. You know, I.

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<v Speaker 2>Can't believe my very first question to you that I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't ask, and it looks like it is going to

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<v Speaker 2>be my last question to you. How did you come

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<v Speaker 2>up with your moniker? I do not know the story

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<v Speaker 2>of how you became Cedric the entertainer.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh oh wow, Oh yeah, that's a that's a that's

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<v Speaker 3>a crazy story that that story really kind of really

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<v Speaker 3>kind of came from.

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<v Speaker 4>I always say it was me trying to it's fairly

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<v Speaker 4>certain diputies. It was the idea that I didn't want

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<v Speaker 4>to be. I got very popular in Saint Louis, right,

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<v Speaker 4>A lot of people I was doing comedy, people knew me.

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<v Speaker 4>I would call into the radio. I would get booked,

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<v Speaker 4>but I didn't have a lot of jokes. I would,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, I had, you know, ten minutes work for jokes.

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<v Speaker 4>And then so to get really paid, you have to

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<v Speaker 4>do at least thirty minutes forty minutes on stage. So

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<v Speaker 4>I would sing, I sing a whole Luther song, I'd

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<v Speaker 4>do a poem, I'd.

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<v Speaker 3>Do a dance routine.

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<v Speaker 4>I do a whole bit about being on Soul Train,

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<v Speaker 4>and I play like nine songs so I could do

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<v Speaker 4>the different dances. I would fill up my time. And

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<v Speaker 4>so one night it was a guy, you know, just

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<v Speaker 4>kind of introducing everybody. He kept saying, this next comedian,

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<v Speaker 4>this next comedian. And I was like, don't call me

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<v Speaker 4>a comedian, because I don't have enough jokes to be

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<v Speaker 4>called a comedian. Call me an entertainer. And he called

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<v Speaker 4>me Cedric be entertainer. I went up, I rocked it,

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<v Speaker 4>and then and when I came off, I had a

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<v Speaker 4>standovation and he called me Cedric be entertainer again, and

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<v Speaker 4>I just kept it.

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<v Speaker 3>I was like, that's the name.

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<v Speaker 1>Nice as a comedian. I've seen you do CrowdWork before.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you like doing crowd work or is it too

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<v Speaker 2>much pressure to think that fast.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not that fast, man. I mean, I could do

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<v Speaker 3>it if it happens to be the situations, which yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>when you're hosting, you gotta you gotta be like yo,

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<v Speaker 3>like just kind of let the room like kind of

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<v Speaker 3>come to you.

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<v Speaker 4>But it's not a thing that I'm very comfortable with

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<v Speaker 4>because it promotes people talking back, you know, it promotes

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<v Speaker 4>and I am more of a I am more of

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<v Speaker 4>a stake.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have like five quips for a heckler just

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<v Speaker 1>in case they want.

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<v Speaker 3>To for sure, you know, I'm ready now, like I

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<v Speaker 3>keep I keep it locked.

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<v Speaker 4>But but the thing is is that you know, I

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<v Speaker 4>much rather when I'm on stage, I much rather come

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<v Speaker 4>there for the performance. So actually some of my opening

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<v Speaker 4>acts I would hire opening acts.

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<v Speaker 3>That are shooters.

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<v Speaker 4>I call them shooters because they go out and make

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<v Speaker 4>sure that audience is tightened up and in they place

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<v Speaker 4>and go on no.

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<v Speaker 2>Smoke yop yeah assassiny and he.

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<v Speaker 3>Would be man.

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<v Speaker 4>I got a dude named Malik asked from Florida. He

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<v Speaker 4>you know, you'll no smoke with this dude. He come

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<v Speaker 4>out there, he is, he fast, and he's funny and

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<v Speaker 4>he raw and he's gonna be.

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<v Speaker 3>People be like, yeah, I'm good man, never mind.

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<v Speaker 4>And so by the time I come on stage, everybody

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<v Speaker 4>is pretty much there to understand that I'm here to

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<v Speaker 4>tell you some jokes and perform for you like a

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<v Speaker 4>grown up, and you're gonna sit in your chair, you're

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<v Speaker 4>gonna be quiet.

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<v Speaker 5>That that's a flipping box cars question.

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<v Speaker 9>I just I wanted to know because it is a

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<v Speaker 9>fictional story, and you said it was interesting to listen

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<v Speaker 9>to you earlier in this conversation talk about the lack

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<v Speaker 9>of men in your life. So number one, I was

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<v Speaker 9>curious because even though it's fictional, it seems like it

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<v Speaker 9>is a lot of your grandfather and baby boys, right, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 9>And I was just curious how you got all of

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<v Speaker 9>that because you didn't know him, and it was it's

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<v Speaker 9>really from your mother. And then also since you and

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<v Speaker 9>answer this for me too, as a man who was

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<v Speaker 9>the man in your life, because said, when we look

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<v Speaker 9>at you when we talk to you, you sound like

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<v Speaker 9>such a well rounded man in so many ways.

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<v Speaker 5>To have so many women in your life, you.

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<v Speaker 3>Know, Yeah, yeah, you know, I think that that's really

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<v Speaker 3>the thing.

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<v Speaker 4>I kind of really feel it was a lot of

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<v Speaker 4>kind of osmosis in a number of ways. You know,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, because my my my mother and my uncle

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<v Speaker 4>would tell me the stories of my grandfather and then

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<v Speaker 4>you start to emulate I think, you know, other people's

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<v Speaker 4>fathers and the neighborhood.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, we were just kind of talking about that.

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<v Speaker 4>When you see these young folks out here that kind

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<v Speaker 4>of grow up and everybody kind of like you know,

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<v Speaker 4>on the Draco's and everybody got they passed down and

1:11:40.400 --> 1:11:42.840
<v Speaker 4>they want to be gangsters. You know, you kind of

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<v Speaker 4>see that when we grew up, our men in our

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<v Speaker 4>neighborhood was people that was fathers. They were the ones

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<v Speaker 4>that was there. They was like taking kids to the.

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<v Speaker 3>Baseball field and you had to say yes, sir to.

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<v Speaker 4>Him, and you know you didn't call you ain't call

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<v Speaker 4>your daddy by your daddy friend by his first name.

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<v Speaker 3>Like is they know people about Donell now you know

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<v Speaker 3>what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 4>They don't even they don't call it man mister Norton,

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<v Speaker 4>and they you know, you you literally believe in the

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<v Speaker 4>world where these kind of these kind of uh you know,

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<v Speaker 4>archaetypes don't really exist. So for me, I think that

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<v Speaker 4>that's really you know, one of the things that I

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<v Speaker 4>was kind of like, you know, kind of like spinning

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<v Speaker 4>the story from is like this idea that I like

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<v Speaker 4>to wear suits, this idea that I like to be

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<v Speaker 4>respected and treat people with respect, that I do think

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<v Speaker 4>that I got a responsibility to others, you know, like

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<v Speaker 4>I recognize that, and somehow, you know, my mother would say,

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<v Speaker 4>that's who my grandfather was, Like he would do all

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<v Speaker 4>these things. He makes sure that even though he was

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<v Speaker 4>you know, in the underworld and he was a gambler

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<v Speaker 4>and a hustler and a bootlegger, but he kind of

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<v Speaker 4>did all these things because that was really what was

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<v Speaker 4>available to him.

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<v Speaker 3>You know at the time, you know, it's not.

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<v Speaker 5>True, Like wait a minute, what's not true about baby boys,

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<v Speaker 5>because that's.

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<v Speaker 3>All us all that stuff is in there.

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<v Speaker 4>The restaurant owner, he had the restaurant, he'd go and

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<v Speaker 4>take care of the people out in the field.

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<v Speaker 3>I say he was the first dude with a food

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<v Speaker 3>truck that.

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<v Speaker 4>Would be in my mind, like because he would he

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<v Speaker 4>would take his restaurant, he'd make sandwiches and he'd go

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<v Speaker 4>out to the fields and then people would pay a

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<v Speaker 4>quarter for a sandwich and some water and he'd like

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<v Speaker 4>make sure he eat and he he burned back out.

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<v Speaker 4>That was that was all cash moves that he would do,

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<v Speaker 4>like his and you know those kind of things, and

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<v Speaker 4>so uh, you know, but he was also like a

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<v Speaker 4>you know, extreme risk taker, which you know in the

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<v Speaker 4>book you find out like he took big risks and

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<v Speaker 4>you know these sometimes they don't go your way, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>But that's that's the that's the life of any any

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<v Speaker 4>of us that you try to go out and you

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<v Speaker 4>stick stick your neck out for your own ideology, right,

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<v Speaker 4>you recognize that at some point in time he might

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<v Speaker 4>not go the way you think, and then you gotta

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<v Speaker 4>you gotta deal with that.

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<v Speaker 3>Those circumstances consequences.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>Uh.

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<v Speaker 7>I want to ask you mentioned in earlier some conversations

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<v Speaker 7>about your team and kind of deciding which projects to

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<v Speaker 7>pick the team that you have.

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<v Speaker 6>Now, how long did it take to assemble them?

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<v Speaker 7>I guess, and like who are who are like kind

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<v Speaker 7>of your core people, you know, your manager.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I been really blessed. I've been really blessed man.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean my core group of people with my guys

1:14:17.520 --> 1:14:20.720
<v Speaker 4>that I met in college, man, like my my my

1:14:20.800 --> 1:14:24.040
<v Speaker 4>manager and my partner, you know, my Command production company

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<v Speaker 4>is called A Bird and a Bear. That's me and

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<v Speaker 4>my partner, Eric Rohan. He's my manager and my business partner.

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<v Speaker 4>We called him Swanny Swan you know from the Warriors

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<v Speaker 4>from back into the La So yeah, we called him

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<v Speaker 4>Swan back in the day. And so and I'm SETI Bear.

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<v Speaker 4>So we're Bird and a Bear. So that's the name

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<v Speaker 4>of O production company. But we've been together since again

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<v Speaker 4>my college days. My tour manager and you know, creative

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<v Speaker 4>tour consultant he was, he was I went to junior

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<v Speaker 4>high school with him.

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<v Speaker 3>That's Kelvin Bland. So he a guy that been with.

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<v Speaker 4>Me my whole career like me, like kind of come

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<v Speaker 4>up and just you know, and he started to learn

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<v Speaker 4>how to do lighting and learn how to make my

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<v Speaker 4>shows more interesting and and you know, and those were

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<v Speaker 4>the kind of things he got interested in and booking

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<v Speaker 4>me and and so, uh that's it. And then I've

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<v Speaker 4>been you know with my agency and my lawyers were

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<v Speaker 4>probably a long time too, like from early on when

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<v Speaker 4>I got my first deals. Uh you know, so I'm

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<v Speaker 4>starting to make some changes there.

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<v Speaker 3>But well then you know, for the most part, my

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<v Speaker 3>team is.

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<v Speaker 4>Solid and I got a new publicist, not too maybe

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<v Speaker 4>about three years ago. So but they've been great too.

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<v Speaker 4>But I know they came through a great recommendation and

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<v Speaker 4>so it's the same the same guy that does Eddie Murphy.

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<v Speaker 3>He's my guy right now. So he's dope though.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, I was an avid watcher of your

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<v Speaker 2>your Millionaire days? Is game show hosting? Like is that

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<v Speaker 2>as fun as it seems? Or like do you have

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<v Speaker 2>any other future plans for you know, I actually enjoyed it.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, there was a thing about doing you know

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<v Speaker 4>a millionaire where you you are. You know that people

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<v Speaker 4>were coming on here and they they love these game

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<v Speaker 4>shows and they really want to win, and it's a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of fun to them.

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<v Speaker 3>It's very arduous.

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<v Speaker 4>Because you have to do you know, maybe you know,

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<v Speaker 4>five to six shows in a day, like you shoot

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<v Speaker 4>a lot, you know. We it's a very aggressive you

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<v Speaker 4>know because we and that was the biggest thing about it.

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<v Speaker 3>But for me, it allowed me to live in New.

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<v Speaker 4>York for like three months. So it was great because

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<v Speaker 4>it was a totally different experience. I you know, I

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<v Speaker 4>was able to come and live in the city and

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<v Speaker 4>be there. So the only reason I didn't come back

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<v Speaker 4>and do the second season is that they the next

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<v Speaker 4>season is that they moved it to Connecticut, way up

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<v Speaker 4>in Connecticut.

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<v Speaker 3>And I was like, that's that's not for me. Guys.

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<v Speaker 3>It was like they was near Connecticut.

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<v Speaker 4>They moved it to Connecticut. They don't know to cut

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<v Speaker 4>the budget or make it a little.

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<v Speaker 5>Like Maury was there, Jerry was there.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I knew for a second.

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<v Speaker 2>Tyler was there for a second, like he had a

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<v Speaker 2>ESPN ESPN.

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<v Speaker 3>But yeah, it was like that.

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<v Speaker 4>And it was very you know, very small town field,

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<v Speaker 4>very outside the loop, you know. And you had to

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<v Speaker 4>be there three to four months. And I was just like, nah,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, no, no, no. If you living in New

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<v Speaker 4>York doing that, then that's fun because you in the city,

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<v Speaker 4>you get to pop off. You you finish your day

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<v Speaker 4>and then you go and and we would shoot like

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<v Speaker 4>Monday through Thursday, so I would have Friday's awful lot

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<v Speaker 4>of Time game show. Yeah, I'm not gonna be stuck

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<v Speaker 4>in Bristol. You know, it's not gonna be my move.

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<v Speaker 7>Like I want to before we go with your barbecue man,

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<v Speaker 7>you and Anthony Anderson, Yeah, what do you do?

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<v Speaker 6>You like cook a lot?

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<v Speaker 3>What's just no, we just got the rubs right now.

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<v Speaker 3>So we the sauces are coming though, and we we

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<v Speaker 3>will because you know, Anthony's diabetic, so we got and

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<v Speaker 3>make sure we're not gonna be.

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<v Speaker 4>Over over the top with all our you know, sugars

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<v Speaker 4>and all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>But the idea really came from us. You know.

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<v Speaker 4>We we all golf together, meet Anthony, George Lopez, Don Cheeto.

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<v Speaker 3>Chris Spencer, Jesus Christ group.

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<v Speaker 4>We all travel d l and we'll travel and go

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<v Speaker 4>and then Anthony and I would often be the ones

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<v Speaker 4>doing the cooking, grilling, you know, cooking and making the

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<v Speaker 4>fool for everybody because we rent a house and hanging

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<v Speaker 4>be a fun time man.

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<v Speaker 3>So but you know, I grill a little bit and

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<v Speaker 3>cook a little bit.

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<v Speaker 4>But what we really loved about this space is that

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<v Speaker 4>everybody was, you know, trying to do liquors and tequilas

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<v Speaker 4>and all that, and what we wanted to do was

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<v Speaker 4>use our celebrity for something we thought that really was

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<v Speaker 4>like uplifting for the community and really authentic to who

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<v Speaker 4>we were in the sense that barbecuing and grilling and

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<v Speaker 4>getting together is just as black as they come, and

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<v Speaker 4>even more so American as it comes. Like it's a

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<v Speaker 4>this is where people fellowship. We I throw the meat

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<v Speaker 4>on you bring the tato salad. You somebody bring the

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<v Speaker 4>mac and chee, and.

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<v Speaker 3>We got a meal and we're gonna play cards.

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<v Speaker 4>And we're gonna laugh, Drake, and we was like, yo,

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<v Speaker 4>we can capture this as a brand. If we can

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<v Speaker 4>capture that essence, that's what we really want to do.

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<v Speaker 4>And that's what AC Barbecue about more than anything. We

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<v Speaker 4>we actually feature more pit masters than we grill ourselves.

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<v Speaker 4>So we really go around and find like people that

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<v Speaker 4>really like we're like, pull up, like that's the kind

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<v Speaker 4>of thing. We love the fact that you you really

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<v Speaker 4>love it, like you know, like you throw a cool

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<v Speaker 4>barbecue at your crib or got a season, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>and that's it. We come through pull up and like,

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<v Speaker 4>let's talk about what you're cooking. Let's talk about the

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<v Speaker 4>you know, the relationship you have to why you start

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<v Speaker 4>cooking and in the stories.

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<v Speaker 3>And then that's what we do. And then we you know,

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<v Speaker 3>as AC Barbecue.

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<v Speaker 4>We out telling that story along with you know, introducing

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<v Speaker 4>our products and uh, you know, we got in like

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<v Speaker 4>twenty seven hundred walmarts right now, we got lows coming,

1:20:04.760 --> 1:20:10.479
<v Speaker 4>we got home depot coming. We're doing tools and we

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<v Speaker 4>got spachelors.

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<v Speaker 3>And tongs and all that coming. We got, we got

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<v Speaker 3>restaurants coming. We are here. We are here doing it.

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<v Speaker 4>So we actually got the opportunity to do some restaurants

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<v Speaker 4>on college campuses. So these are things that we all

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<v Speaker 4>got in development. So we're working hard at making sure

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<v Speaker 4>that we out here you know, talking about you know,

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<v Speaker 4>something that really started from you know, our culture really

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<v Speaker 4>is that that idea of taking whatever we got and

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<v Speaker 4>throwing on some hot coals and making a meal out

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<v Speaker 4>of it that goes as far back as slavery and

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<v Speaker 4>beyond on the way the cook so you know, but

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<v Speaker 4>it definitely culturally a thing. But we we we love

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<v Speaker 4>and we know that barbecue is different in different regions.

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<v Speaker 4>And that's why we didn't want to be like, you know,

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<v Speaker 4>you gotta do it our way. We like, we love

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<v Speaker 4>the way you do it. We're gonna come and show

1:20:57.320 --> 1:20:59.479
<v Speaker 4>and get that love. And so that's what our show

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<v Speaker 4>is all about too.

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<v Speaker 2>So man, so uh, mister Kyle's I thank you for

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<v Speaker 2>coming on our show.

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<v Speaker 1>Man talking to us.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh about time, Like we we've been here almost what

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<v Speaker 2>are we six years now?

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<v Speaker 5>Almost seven we're not remembering. Yeah, we're not. We're not

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<v Speaker 5>gonna seven.

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<v Speaker 3>Because because you don't love that's a blessing.

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<v Speaker 5>Man and podcast land, you're damn right, we're old and

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<v Speaker 5>podcast like.

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<v Speaker 9>Yeah, thank you, O G. Thank you for everything you're

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<v Speaker 9>doing for race, race relations with the neighborhood. Since I

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<v Speaker 9>want to say that, because you're doing some introducing, some things,

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<v Speaker 9>letting people know and stuff.

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<v Speaker 3>I appreciate that we use.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, that's my favorite said, that's what I always talk about.

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<v Speaker 5>That's a big deal.

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<v Speaker 3>It's so true.

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<v Speaker 5>You're talking about the town joke.

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<v Speaker 3>Y'all.

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<v Speaker 5>Y'all know, we just we're just people. Don't use washingws

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<v Speaker 5>your wash class wash class.

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<v Speaker 8>Watch watch, thank you, any comment, Thank you, che I

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<v Speaker 8>love all the stuff you do.

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<v Speaker 4>Thank you, brother, many birthday man, thank you, thank you,

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<v Speaker 4>m thank you for everything.

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<v Speaker 3>Man.

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<v Speaker 7>You one of my favorite comedians and just one of

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<v Speaker 7>you know, my favorite entertainers period.

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<v Speaker 6>And uh he's got teased.

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<v Speaker 7>In high school and everybody told me, I look like you.

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<v Speaker 1>You have this humor.

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<v Speaker 3>He's funny like that.

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<v Speaker 9>Yes, oh my god, showcase check it out.

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<v Speaker 3>A fan.

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<v Speaker 6>Brother, Just love love everything you do.

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<v Speaker 3>Man.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, well we be half of laya pay bill

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<v Speaker 2>and Birthday Steve and h F Tielo and shout out

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<v Speaker 2>to Fritt and Jake.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah and in the entire family at I Heeart.

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<v Speaker 2>This is another quest Love Supreme extravagans. We'll see you

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<v Speaker 2>on the next program, all right, thank you.

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