1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,559 Speaker 1: I listened to the black Guy who Tips because Rod 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:03,800 Speaker 1: and Karen are heart. 3 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to another episode the Blackouts podcast that holds 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:12,319 Speaker 2: Rod and here, and we're live on a Wednesday, kind 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 2: of wrapping up our week, you know, ready to, ready to, 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: you know, it's our Friday, is what they say. And 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: we have a very special guest today on the show, 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: comedian veteran of Montreal, just for last last comic standing 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 2: and he has a new stand up special right now. 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: You can get it on Amazon Promise how I watch it, 11 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:33,919 Speaker 2: but it's on. 12 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 3: The streaming services and stuff too. 13 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 2: It's called Unknown and the comedian is Jason Wims. 14 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 3: What's going on? Brother? 15 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 4: Man? 16 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 2: How you doing? 17 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: Man? 18 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 2: Glad glad glad to see you face to face in 19 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: this quarantine man? I could see you know you having 20 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: to let the quarantine hair out and the beer come 21 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 2: all the way in. 22 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: You know. 23 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 5: If anybody sees the special, I look like a completely different. 24 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: Ded Yes you do. 25 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 5: Yeah? He like he like how he got warrants, I 26 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 5: mean witness protection. 27 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 6: Right. 28 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 3: My name is Jermaine Wen. 29 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 5: Douglas Fro going on. 30 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 2: List It looks good man came in all black, like 31 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 2: it's no gray. 32 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:21,680 Speaker 5: In it man, I mean I appreciate it, brother. 33 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 3: Like you got three albums left in you now instead 34 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: of too. 35 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 2: But yeah, man, we watched the special today or I watched. 36 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 3: It Karen listen to it. She was working for Another room. 37 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 3: But man, it's so good. 38 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,760 Speaker 2: Yes, it was hilarious and like it kind of breaks 39 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 2: the mold for what we the moment we're in now. 40 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 2: It feels like a lot of people's specials are like shorter, 41 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 2: like like it's like twenty minutes, twenty five minutes, and 42 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: I think I think the Rona hit two and a 43 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 2: lot of people put out specials because they was just like, man, 44 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm ever getting on the stage. 45 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 3: Again, but but this feels so complete. 46 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: Man, it feels like a like a like a yeah, 47 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: it feels like like I think it's like an hour 48 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 2: and maybe like eleven minutes if you're watch it on Amazon, 49 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 2: really really old school, and it's it's like it's packed, 50 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like it's content the whole 51 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 2: way through. Man, no very little filter, great crowd work, 52 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 2: all that stuff. How how long did it take you 53 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 2: to put this special together? 54 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 6: The thing about my style of comedy is I turn 55 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 6: over material like crazy. I mean pretty much every six 56 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,200 Speaker 6: months I have a new hour Wow, or or the 57 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 6: contents of what could be a new hour. It just 58 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,359 Speaker 6: comes down to whether if I want to record it 59 00:02:39,440 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 6: or not, if I feel so so tied to it 60 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 6: that I want to, you know, make it forever. 61 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 3: And what determines like what bits make the album? 62 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 2: Like uh, because I know it's just second stand up special, 63 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: So so what determines what bits like were you like 64 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 2: all right within this time period? 65 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 3: Then you have the keeper. 66 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 6: For me, it's that whichever ones I'm having the most 67 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 6: fun with still and whichever ones ain't vombing so. 68 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: True, Yeah, that's true. 69 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 6: And then I mean, it was some jokes that I 70 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 6: wanted in the special, and like two nights before I 71 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 6: ran the set in d C in front of a crowd, 72 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 6: and it was a couple of jokes that always hit 73 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 6: that like just flat line, and I was like, no, 74 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 6: y'all can't be in the special. 75 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: I'm saying you was giving people their money's worth. 76 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:40,760 Speaker 4: I had a ball cause, like I said, I was working, 77 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 4: and so yeah I was. And it was hilarious because 78 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 4: me and my husband we both have very hearty, heavy laughs. 79 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 3: So okay. 80 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 4: It would be funny because we was listening at two 81 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 4: different periods because you would hear me in here and 82 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 4: then I'll hear him laughing, and then you would hear 83 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 4: me laughing. So I don't know if people in the 84 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 4: apartment knew, but all you just hear with this sporadic laughing. 85 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: We had a Yeah, I. 86 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 2: Feel like I was a little ahead of Karen, so 87 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 2: I was catching my last a little bit before It's 88 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 2: gonna kill him, just gonna killing. 89 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 3: Yes. 90 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: And one thing I loved about it it was so us. 91 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 4: It was so black, And that's one thing that I 92 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 4: really loved about him because it's like, oh, I can 93 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 4: relate like I can relate to the humor and the 94 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 4: jokes and where it's coming from and the vibe and 95 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 4: it is nothing like because me and Roger we love comedy. 96 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 4: And so because I had seen like before I started playing, 97 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 4: I had kind of seen you on the stage through 98 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 4: the special, and I was like, you know what, this 99 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 4: reminds me of me of going to the comedy because 100 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 4: like old school comedy club where you can actually just 101 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 4: sit and eat and drink and just show like you 102 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 4: like you gonna I'm gonna get my money's worth, and 103 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:07,840 Speaker 4: that's how I feel when I go. I want to 104 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 4: feel like I'm getting my money's worth. And that's literally 105 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 4: how it brought me so much joy. So I'm telling 106 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 4: everybody this for y'all to please bye bye. 107 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 1: Bye listen stream. 108 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 4: When I tell y'all, and y'all know, we don't recommend 109 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:23,960 Speaker 4: no bullshit. 110 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be funny. We don't recommend no bullshit. 111 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: And y'all know we don't bring people on here that's 112 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: not funny. 113 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:31,480 Speaker 4: So it's one of the things where I want you 114 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 4: to know that I had I had a ball. It 115 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 4: was and I'm not trying to be funded with the coronavirus 116 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:36,919 Speaker 4: and shit like this. 117 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, this is It was like, this 118 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: is what I need. 119 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,039 Speaker 4: It was like one of the things where it was like, Oh, 120 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 4: the world can be normal again. As why as that 121 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 4: may sound, it felt like I was kind of going 122 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:48,839 Speaker 4: back in time. I was like, Okay, this is what 123 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 4: the world used to be and I'm going to sit 124 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 4: in this and just enjoy the moment. 125 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 5: Amen. Amen. 126 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 6: And that was one of the big things that we 127 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 6: were excited about. I mean, we shot this thing at 128 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 6: the end of twenty eighteen, and then literally a few 129 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 6: days after we shot it, my father had a heart 130 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 6: attack and had to have quadruple bypass. So it went 131 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 6: from this real like exciting moment because they were in 132 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 6: the crowd, like we saw the special, heard it, they 133 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 6: were sitting in front row my parents, and then a 134 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 6: couple of days later, you know, he's laid up in 135 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 6: Johns Hopkins Hospital, you know, getting cut open. So it 136 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 6: completely shifted the focus from you know, editing the special 137 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 6: and post production to it was just you know, I 138 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 6: met my father's side for the next three to four months. 139 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,159 Speaker 5: That pushed the project out. So then by the time. 140 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,599 Speaker 6: We got into the editing, it took us a while 141 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 6: to find the energy again, kind of get disconnected from 142 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 6: a project. And then by the time we started pitching it, 143 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 6: originally it looked like it was going to go to HBO, 144 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,599 Speaker 6: and then we had some interest with Netflix and some 145 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 6: other folks, and then the Rona hit and it just 146 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 6: wiped out everything. 147 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 5: Right, yeah, and you good on email chain that you 148 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 5: had going just ended? 149 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Netflix, Netflix is like, are we even gonna 150 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 2: have any content? 151 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 3: Like we right is? Content don't exist. 152 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 2: We need to get back to you we'll get back 153 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 2: to you and let you know we're gonna get set 154 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 2: straight up. 155 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 6: So, I mean, this is an immense blessing to have 156 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 6: this thing come out during the middle of a pandemic. 157 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 5: And like you said, Karen, it really does remind you of. 158 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,880 Speaker 6: A time, you know, I call it DC, you know, 159 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 6: before Corona, Right, It's just one of those things that 160 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 6: you forget how it feels to be communal with people 161 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:51,320 Speaker 6: and you know, to set hip to hip and you know, 162 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 6: laugh together in a small space and the type of 163 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 6: energy that creates, and it's it's really you gonnamost touch it. 164 00:07:58,040 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 5: You don't feel like it. 165 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: That's that's I felt, yes, like I can almost like 166 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: reach out and touch the audience. 167 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 4: As wow as that may sound like even though I 168 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 4: listen to audio, I felt included in the room. 169 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 2: I'm mean absolutely, I mere's black people like in that way. 170 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 2: Like that's and that's the other thing too, It was 171 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 2: so black man. What was your choice to like do 172 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,880 Speaker 2: it in Baltimore? And you know, like it felt like 173 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 2: you had like the community in the crowd, like in 174 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 2: my community, not just like the diaspora of black community, 175 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 2: but like people like like this nigga goes my whole 176 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 2: Foods type of vibe. 177 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:36,839 Speaker 6: It felt mm hm, it was uh excuse me, it 178 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 6: was really I mean, Baltimore's where I'm born and raised. 179 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 6: As much as people have this you know, notion of 180 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 6: what Baltimore is based on the wire or whatever they've. 181 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 5: Seen, yeah, I mean it's aspects of. 182 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 6: That like any other major, you know, urban city, right, 183 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:00,800 Speaker 6: but it's not you know, specific to Baltimore, right. So 184 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 6: it's one of these things that I really wanted to 185 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 6: show my city in a different light. It was one 186 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 6: of the reasons I chose that bench, which is a 187 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 6: real if you pass any bus stop in Baltimore, the 188 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 6: bench that you saw on the stage is what you see. 189 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 6: And it's it's a bench that says Baltimore the greatest 190 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 6: city in America on it, and it's an aspirational type 191 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 6: of thing. You know, it's a thing for you know, 192 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 6: I've got three little boys, an eight year old son 193 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 6: and twenty six year old me and my wife, so 194 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,439 Speaker 6: it's aspirational for them. It's like, you know, we are 195 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 6: the greatest city. You know, the greatest sit is. You know, 196 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 6: wherever you are, it's you know, as long as you're 197 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 6: you're grinding and you're putting love out and you know, good, 198 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 6: good energy, And that's what this special was. 199 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: It. 200 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,439 Speaker 5: I wanted it to feel like a celebration. 201 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 6: I wanted to feel like a homecoming in a sense, 202 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 6: you know, you know, just folks laughing. 203 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 5: You know that feeling of how like when you go 204 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 5: to a. 205 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 6: Party and like after everybody eats and the kitchens all 206 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 6: messed up. 207 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 5: That's like when the best conversations start, right it's. 208 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 2: You know, it's to me, it feels like, uh, it 209 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 2: felt because it's so in a way small, it's so intimate, 210 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 2: it becomes it becomes universal. 211 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 3: Right because everyone has that in that city. 212 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 2: Like when you name like you talk about your neighborhood 213 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,280 Speaker 2: and this dude in the crowd is like, yeah, you know, 214 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 2: it's like, well hold up man, you uh you following 215 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 2: your home Like but but it felt like that could 216 00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 2: have been your neighbor, Like that dude might have seen 217 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 2: you at the food line. 218 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 3: I don't know, like it felt kind of yoke like. 219 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 3: So I like that vibe. 220 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 2: And then I think, because we so many black people, 221 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 2: like we kind of share community no. 222 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 3: Matter where we at, right, we all kind of get. 223 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 2: Either lumped in together or you just get you know, 224 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,000 Speaker 2: if you're even if you're in a white place, you 225 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: end up being the black people at the coool, at 226 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 2: the table or whatever. 227 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:56,840 Speaker 1: Like. 228 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 3: So it had had that vibe man, and the. 229 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 2: Oaks and stuff was just so fucking like good and 230 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 2: they were just like rolling into each other and the 231 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,839 Speaker 2: crowd work was so dope like it just it just 232 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 2: really felt like a family reunion or some shit where 233 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 2: it's like I'm gonna bust on something on my uncle 234 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 2: real quick and then I'm gonna bring it back, you know. 235 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 4: Like. 236 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 6: And that's kind of yeah, I really wanted to go 237 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 6: for that feel when we put it together. I mean, 238 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 6: if you see the special or listen to the special, 239 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 6: like you said, I mean my. 240 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 5: Parents out there, you know, in. 241 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 6: Laws, people I went to high school with, people I 242 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 6: grew up with. So I mean it's really folks who 243 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 6: really want me to win, right, you know, looking back 244 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 6: at me. And when you've got that type of energy 245 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 6: in the room, it kind of takes, you know, stuff 246 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 6: to a higher height. 247 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, and for forty dollars a ticket, like that's that's 248 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 2: a lot with black people like you, like, your shit 249 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 2: has to be good, you know what I'm saying, like 250 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 2: if this shit was just okay funny, it'd be like, man, 251 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 2: I don't really fuck with Jason no more. Man. 252 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 4: I had to ask and make go Down Down the 253 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 4: Highway serious. 254 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 2: When we did our live show, like we had to 255 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 2: like come up with we had to come up with 256 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: prices for like this show of like you know, we 257 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 2: never did no ship like this before, and so we. 258 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 3: Don't know what other people charge and all this. 259 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 2: Shit, So like we had to sit down and come 260 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 2: up with a number to be like, all right, if 261 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 2: we can get this many people to pay this much, 262 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 2: we'll at least get our money back. 263 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: It was like go out were no. 264 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 2: Our event planner was like, listen, it should be blank 265 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 2: per ticket. We was like, no, I feel what you're 266 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 2: trying to say. Stand, but we want people are going 267 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 2: to actually come. Like there's a there's an expectation of like, 268 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 2: oh this is dope. 269 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 3: I had a great time, and then there's. 270 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 2: An expectation of like these niggas betterup be funny. 271 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 3: And I was like, I just want to get to 272 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 3: the borderline. 273 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I want the expectation to. 274 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 3: Be too high. 275 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,560 Speaker 5: It's a lot of pressure, it is. 276 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,439 Speaker 6: It's so much pressure, and like you said, I mean 277 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 6: it was that that we felt going into the show, 278 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,360 Speaker 6: because I mean, you know, this is a completely self produced, 279 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 6: you know, self funded project, black lead, you know, black created, 280 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 6: you know, all black creatives throughout the show, the entire 281 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,120 Speaker 6: the film crew, the dude who did the artwork, who's 282 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:20,480 Speaker 6: also my opening act. 283 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 5: He's also a comedian who's also a dope artist. 284 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 6: So I mean, going into it, it was that pressure 285 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 6: of Okay, folks paid forty dollars, you know, they gonna 286 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:39,480 Speaker 6: want to laugh forty dollars about their body. And then 287 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 6: to make it even more stressful, we shot that show 288 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:42,720 Speaker 6: on me. 289 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:45,719 Speaker 5: Typically when you shoot a comedy special, they shoot it 290 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 5: at least two shows so you can have a fall 291 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 5: back to cut to. With this show, we had two 292 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 5: shows for sale. 293 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 6: The second show had issues with the ticketing site, so 294 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 6: we ended up having to condense in the one show 295 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:06,120 Speaker 6: at the last minute. M this was shot in one take. Wow, 296 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 6: So I mean it was just a straight continuous run. 297 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 6: Any edits that we made, you know, it may have 298 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 6: been a flub of a word here that they made, 299 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 6: trimmed a little bit of an and off in a 300 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 6: sentence or something, but I. 301 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 5: Mean what you see was the show straight from front 302 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 5: to back. 303 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 2: Wow, that's even more impressive man. And even like with 304 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 2: the camera work and stuff. 305 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 3: I mean it was on point. 306 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 2: It's like you talk about your parents, Boom, they get 307 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 2: your parents in there, the part where you like go 308 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:35,040 Speaker 2: and you got. 309 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,720 Speaker 3: Kind of memud the camera on the edge of the 310 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,400 Speaker 3: stage like all that. Like to know that you did 311 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 3: that in one take, dog, that's very impressive. 312 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 2: Man, because you know, if you watch a lot of 313 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 2: these specials, what you do you know sometimes like you know, 314 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 2: and I think the like Comedy Central and stuff, especially 315 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 2: those ones, they kind of put you through the factory. 316 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 5: You know. 317 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,760 Speaker 2: It's just like, oh, we filmeding sake specials tonight, Like 318 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 2: let's go, like you kind of see the editing. 319 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 4: I don't think y'all was all at the same yo 320 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 4: here like this laugh and go with this joke. 321 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 2: This is like this reaction. Yeah, but this joint felt 322 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 2: like it's so smooth. I mean it may have even 323 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 2: benefited you to do it in one like the one 324 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: take joint because it felt real kinetic. 325 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 3: It just flowed the whole way. 326 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 4: Man. 327 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 3: It was extremely impressive. 328 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 2: The other thing I wanted to know too, like, how 329 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:24,800 Speaker 2: long have you been doing stand up? Like I know 330 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 2: you say you're born and raised in Baltimore. Has that 331 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 2: always been like your home base or stand up or 332 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:33,320 Speaker 2: you know, have you ever moved out of there and stuff? 333 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:34,320 Speaker 7: Right? 334 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 5: Well, I've always lived here. 335 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 6: I traveled quite a bit though, although I live in 336 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 6: both to my started comedy, like in the DC area 337 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 6: the Improv and DC is my home club. That's kind 338 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 6: of where I work out, you know, kind of that 339 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 6: if you really want to catch me kind of in 340 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 6: this area, that's where I am typically. But then it 341 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 6: was uh yeah to Double Bank for a second. Fourteen 342 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 6: years will be my anniversary this fall. Okay, so September 343 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 6: twenty seventh will make fourteen years for me. 344 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 3: Wow, how long did you wait till you did that 345 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 3: first special? 346 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:20,000 Speaker 6: The first specials actually pretty relatively quickly in so, I 347 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 6: mean I started at the end of six and I 348 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 6: shot my first special at the end of twenty ten. Okay, okay, 349 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 6: it's about three years or so, a little bit over 350 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 6: three years. And uh that one was called intellectual property, 351 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 6: and that one ended up being like on some. 352 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 5: Masterpiece shit, like we just sold it out the Trump 353 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 5: and you know. 354 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 6: Hand the hands at shows and uh, you know, we 355 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 6: did good. I think we moved maybe like twenty five 356 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 6: hundred units at all. 357 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 5: No, and that's just. 358 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,840 Speaker 6: You know, setting up in lobbies after you know, shows 359 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 6: and comedy clubs on the hood, my car on sidewalks, 360 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 6: out in front of different spots. 361 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 2: It's like, rather than be like a mixtape rapper, you 362 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 2: mixtape comedian, you know what I mean. 363 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 3: Like and the numbers, I mean the good news about that. 364 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 2: The bad news obviously is you got to do all 365 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 2: the investment, right, But the good news is you get 366 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:18,720 Speaker 2: to keep the money. 367 00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying that people people sleep on. 368 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 6: Ain't no cut, but it's all coming back to right. 369 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, like sometimes you have to do that. 370 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:30,959 Speaker 2: I remember when I was trying to rap when I 371 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 2: was younger, like every black man. I remember, I used 372 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 2: to sell my mixtapes for like five dollars, but and 373 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:40,000 Speaker 2: I really was just doing it to have fun. But 374 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,320 Speaker 2: at some point I was like, you know what, though, 375 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,679 Speaker 2: I could get used to this, like I know that, 376 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 2: I know the cliche joker was like these niggas selling 377 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 2: mixtapes in the food line, parking line and stuff. 378 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 3: But I'm like, I mean, hey, it's five to me. 379 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, two for ten, let's go. 380 00:17:57,920 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 381 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 2: But but yeah, that was that's when you did the 382 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 2: first special. And then so you say you've mostly worked 383 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:07,720 Speaker 2: in d C and Baltimore. 384 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 3: How far apart are they? 385 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 5: About an hour? 386 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:11,240 Speaker 3: Okay? 387 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 6: So I mean like when I first started stand up, 388 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 6: I mean I used to teach kindergarten. 389 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 5: I used to teach school here in Baltimore City. 390 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 6: Excuse me once, I'm gonna take mine heller real quick, 391 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:22,880 Speaker 6: no problem, I want that. 392 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 5: I want to die again. 393 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're coming to that. Absolutely. 394 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 6: When I first started, it was literally I was teaching 395 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 6: school and I would get off of school in Baltimore 396 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 6: and drive to d C every single night. And I 397 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 6: did that, you know, seven nights a week for probably 398 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 6: six years. 399 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 5: Wow, my wife just handed me water. Look at that. 400 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,360 Speaker 8: Look at that black love listen. 401 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, you love to see you get it. 402 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 5: Thank you for the hydration. 403 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 4: Black women be knowing I think. 404 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 5: My husband dying upstates. 405 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: My black my black wife sense is tingling. 406 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 5: That's hilarious. Yep. 407 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 6: So yeah, I drove back and forth like crazy those 408 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 6: first couple of years in an in an attempt to 409 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 6: make up lost time. So like, I wanted to start 410 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 6: stand up when I was in college, but I was 411 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 6: like too scared to do it. 412 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 5: I did it one time in college. 413 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 6: I mean it was a dude who went to college 414 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:48,920 Speaker 6: with me at Morgan State University in Baltimore. 415 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 5: Shout out to m s U, greatest HDCU in the land. 416 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 2: I feel you, Yes, Fabell State. We both went to 417 00:19:56,480 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 2: Fabell State down here, So right, ab love up in. 418 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 3: Here, you know what I'm saying. 419 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 6: So yeah, the first show I did, I bombed terribly. 420 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 6: I mean like bad, bad, Like it was like a 421 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:15,320 Speaker 6: real hood show. It was like, I mean, a real 422 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 6: hood show. This was in if y'all remember like when 423 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 6: Freddie Gray happened here in Baltimore was the Uprising, and 424 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 6: it was like this iconic scene of these kids coming 425 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:29,879 Speaker 6: out of a high school throwing rocks to the police. 426 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 6: And that high school is where I was at doing 427 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 6: this comedy show. 428 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 5: It was that high school, which oddly enough is called 429 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 5: Frederick Douglas High School. 430 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 3: You say, hey, look at least ain't throw rocks at 431 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 3: you though. 432 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 6: And I remember I was mad, scared, and I came 433 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 6: out on stage and the DJ brought me out. The 434 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 6: jay z Nigga was Nigga who and I came out. 435 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 6: It was all hype and I told this joke. It 436 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 6: was right when Training Day was out and I was like, y'all, 437 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 6: don't y'all know the movie train today And the crowd 438 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,200 Speaker 6: was like yeah. I was like, wouldn't it. 439 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 5: Be crazy if Little bow Wow I was in it? 440 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 6: It be called party training Day? 441 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 5: Yo. I thought that joint was going to destroy it. 442 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 5: When I say no, one. 443 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 6: Laughed like no one laughed and it shook me so bad. 444 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 6: I said good night and walked off stage. Walked off 445 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 6: stage so that I went back. I went back stage 446 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,960 Speaker 6: and it was all these comics like veteran cats who 447 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 6: I know now, and they were clowning me. They was 448 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 6: like yo, shorty. 449 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 3: Bomb y yo. 450 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 5: They was laughing, and you know how black folks do. 451 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 3: That's honestly, I mean in a weird way. 452 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: It's like, if I have my choice of seeing the 453 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 2: comedy show, I only want to see motherfuckers kill or 454 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 2: bomb that bag, like cause either way, I got my 455 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 2: to me, I got my money's I know, like most 456 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,639 Speaker 2: audience members think like nah, I'd rather have like a 457 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 2: mediocre twenty minute No, man, I would have I would 458 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 2: have been laughing. 459 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,399 Speaker 3: At that ship for we ever yes like this, and 460 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 3: then the nigga just walked off like I would have been. 461 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: I would have been sharing it with everybody named Mama. 462 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: I'll never forget. 463 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 4: We went to Houston, South Carolina, and we were just 464 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 4: walking around and we. 465 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: Were like, let's go in this place to eat. So 466 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:30,679 Speaker 1: we was actually eating. 467 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 4: We didn't know we're gonna turn into a comedy show, 468 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:35,600 Speaker 4: so we were eating and that was like, anybody want 469 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 4: to come. 470 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: On stage to tell jokes. 471 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 4: So he was sitting there like okay, cause we didn't 472 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 4: know what was happening, but we kept eating that foot. 473 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 1: I was like, bitch, I paid for it, so I'm 474 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: gonna eat my food. 475 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,679 Speaker 4: And so this one dude got up there and he 476 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 4: was terrible, and me and Roderick were dying. 477 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,880 Speaker 1: We were cackling. 478 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,920 Speaker 2: Everyone else in everyone else in the restaurant was quiet, 479 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 2: and ship yes we was. 480 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,640 Speaker 3: We was about this die us and the. 481 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 4: Who's at the back of the restaurant so I ain't 482 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 4: here with us was just busting out last. 483 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 5: We gotta be joing me and my wife. We gotta 484 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 5: get together together. 485 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 2: It was so good because like he like, the jokes 486 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 2: were terrible, like I can't remember the jokes. But at 487 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,919 Speaker 2: one point he was bombing so bad. He was just like, man, 488 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,399 Speaker 2: I drove all the way from Ohio to be here, and. 489 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 7: That just made up her laugh harder. 490 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 5: Next me, why you personal confessions. 491 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 3: Yes, it was just this inner monologue. At one point. 492 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 3: It wasn't no jokes, but it was just like, you know, 493 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 3: I shouldn't even be doing this. Man, I missed my 494 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 3: ship and the chickens. I'm supposed to get my pH D. 495 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 3: I'm fucking around driving up. 496 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 6: It was so good. 497 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 3: It was so good. My bad but but yeah, told 498 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 3: us more about the first night the older comedians. 499 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 6: So Yo, what's crazy about that story is I went 500 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 6: off stage. Everybody laughing at me in the back in 501 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 6: the green room. So at that point it was just 502 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 6: a bunch of dudes and my pride kicked it and 503 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 6: I was like, no, it ain't going out like this. 504 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 5: So I told the DJ and the host, I said, 505 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 5: bring me back out again. 506 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 7: Oh me. 507 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,240 Speaker 5: They was like you sure up, and I. 508 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,880 Speaker 6: Was like, yeah, bring me out. And at this point 509 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 6: this was the first time I had ever done stand up. 510 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,200 Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, oh my god. 511 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 6: I was just trying to be confident, like I seen 512 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 6: cats doing comic U and different things. 513 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 5: So I said, bring me. 514 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 3: Out, hey, look lose yourself by m and l started 515 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 3: playing this shit. 516 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 6: I'm in the back jumping up and down here. So 517 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,040 Speaker 6: they was like all right, So they brought me back out. 518 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 6: Sammy's that song, Yo, nigga? 519 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 3: What nigga? 520 00:24:58,359 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: Who? 521 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 5: So I come back out all hype. I'm coming out 522 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 5: like what's suit y'all? 523 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:03,320 Speaker 3: What's up? 524 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,120 Speaker 5: And like people kind of clap again. 525 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 6: I grabbed the bike with all this like attitude and 526 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,080 Speaker 6: I'm like, it's one of my kids, mites and I'm like, 527 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 6: what's up, y'all? They're like hey, and I'm like, wouldn't 528 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 6: it be crazy if Little Bow I was in train 529 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 6: to day the same fucking joke, the same My mind 530 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 6: was so. 531 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 5: Locked into the set. I couldn't get out of that order. 532 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 5: I couldn't get to the second joke without telling that 533 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:38,200 Speaker 5: first joke, I said. I said the joke again, and 534 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 5: it bombed even worse. 535 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: I'm I didn't bow you right, you know. 536 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 6: I got on stage and I literally I was so embarrassed. 537 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,399 Speaker 6: I waited until the entire auditorium emptied out. 538 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, cause you can't. 539 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 1: You can't. 540 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 3: You can't be that. You can't go stand by the 541 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 3: door and say. 542 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 8: No, you gotta you gotta just leave, like step in 543 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 8: the bathroom, get the table where you you gotta leave, 544 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 8: like when somebody, like when somebody blow up the bathroom 545 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,199 Speaker 8: at work and they just try to slide out. 546 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:14,800 Speaker 3: You gotta do that. 547 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I literally I hit on these back staircase. 548 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 6: And then when my I called my homeboy who was 549 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:24,920 Speaker 6: there in the crowd, and I told him to pull 550 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,200 Speaker 6: his station wag around by the dumpsters. 551 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 3: Because I'm trash, Come get me by the trash. 552 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: I pulled up. 553 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 5: I laid in the back in the back. 554 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 2: They had to sneak They had to sneak them out, 555 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 2: like like how they had to sneak out like the 556 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 2: Beatles and ship. 557 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 4: Yes, And. 558 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 6: He just drove off into the darkness and I'm in 559 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 6: the back, laid flat, breathing slowly and quietly. 560 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,679 Speaker 5: Yo, he's just run me off. We didn't take a bar. 561 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 3: I just walked away. 562 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 5: No, So I thought our relationship was over, and I 563 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 5: was like, he ain't gonna talk. 564 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:14,880 Speaker 3: To you no more. 565 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 5: That best friend. 566 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:22,680 Speaker 2: Oh man, it's a miracle. It's a miracle you still 567 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 2: doing stand up. It's honestly, it's like starting there is 568 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 2: so low, it's nowhere to go but up. No, in 569 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 2: a way, it's almost better to start, you know what 570 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 2: I'm saying, Like, this was my worst day ever. 571 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 3: And then I did day number two, you know what 572 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 3: I mean? Actually, oh man. 573 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 5: But that show was so traumatizing to me. I didn't 574 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:43,920 Speaker 5: get back on stage for six years. 575 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 3: I don't I can imagine. 576 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 6: I can imagine dog six years because that was that 577 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 6: was my junior year of college. So I was like 578 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 6: twenty maybe nineteen, turn of twenty. I didn't get back 579 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,000 Speaker 6: on stage, so I was about to turn twenty six. 580 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah. 581 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,679 Speaker 6: And it was just one of these things of my wife, 582 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 6: my now wife. You know, we met in college at 583 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 6: Morgan State, and you. 584 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 5: Know we was homeboy and homegirl, and you know, it 585 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:11,800 Speaker 5: just grew into something else and then you know, we 586 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 5: ended up having the kids. 587 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 6: And so she was been with me through me being 588 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 6: at Morgan and the dream kind of you know, being 589 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 6: realized and you know the whole manifestation of it, and 590 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 6: when I first started stand up for years at six 591 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,359 Speaker 6: year period, but when I bombed and when I started again, 592 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 6: people will come. 593 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 5: Up to us like we be in the mall and 594 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:35,199 Speaker 5: like me and my. 595 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 6: Wife, you walking and somebody come up towards the noise 596 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 6: from Morgan and I always to tell everybody as soon 597 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 6: as I graduate, you know, I'm going through comedy, so 598 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 6: everybody knew this. So people will come up to us 599 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 6: in the mall like, oh. 600 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 5: Jason, what's up that It's good to see yo? Day 601 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 5: Oh you're doing stand up And I was straight lined 602 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,479 Speaker 5: to them. I was like, yeah, I've been out here. 603 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm absolutely doing stand up comedy. And my wife 604 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 6: would be standing next to me looking at me like, nigga, you. 605 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,080 Speaker 2: Just gonna keep lying in front of my face, right 606 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 2: in front of my FA, in front of my whole self. 607 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 6: So it got to a point where I was literally 608 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 6: I felt like my woman was losing respect for me, right, Yeah, 609 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,600 Speaker 6: of course, yeah, just in the sense of I've been 610 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 6: talking about this being my dream, but I'm not chasing 611 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 6: it anymore because I had this horrible first experience. 612 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 3: You should get some T shirts made that just say 613 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 3: potty training Day. You know what I'm saying, yo. 614 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 7: I should like the anniversary I'm surprised people weren't. 615 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 8: Walking up to you in the mall like, hey, chillin't 616 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 8: come out say it, take a picture with you. 617 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 3: I was at the right, oh man. 618 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: Yeah. 619 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 5: So it was one of them joints of uh yeah, 620 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 5: we the first speccial got shot and. 621 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 6: I bombed or I mean I bombed, you know, got 622 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 6: back on stage six years later, and it was a 623 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 6: thing of just trying to make up for lost time. 624 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,840 Speaker 6: Like you know, I felt like those six years were 625 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 6: like crucial in my development, and I felt like I 626 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,320 Speaker 6: had to work in dog years. So it was like 627 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 6: that's why it was, you know, seven nights a week, 628 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,720 Speaker 6: you know, for basically pretty about four and a half 629 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 6: five years. 630 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: And that's not hour and that hour commute. I mean 631 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 3: that's like basically two hours a night, right, Like wow yeah. 632 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 6: And then I would do maybe two or three sets 633 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 6: a night. I would just bounce around the city, get 634 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 6: up as many times as I could. 635 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 2: Now, is the comedy scene in Baltimore like even comparable 636 00:30:58,360 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 2: to DC? 637 00:30:58,920 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: Or is it? 638 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 4: Like? Was it? 639 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 3: Or was you like in case I have another party 640 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 3: training day? Is that I don't want to be Yeah, 641 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 3: these niggas might see me at church I can't. 642 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 5: You're gonna see me in food line. 643 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:17,440 Speaker 3: Day y'all look at this, niggas. 644 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 4: I don't want them to recognize you. Yeah, I don't 645 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 4: want them to recognize me in a frozen food section. 646 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:30,520 Speaker 5: Right, it was a d C scene is more vibrant 647 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,720 Speaker 5: than Baltimore's. It was then and it still is now. 648 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 5: Baltimore has a growing scene. 649 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 6: There's definitely when I started, you might be able to 650 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 6: get up in this city maybe three times a week, 651 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 6: that's over the course of seven days. But now you 652 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 6: typically can get up most nights in Baltimore, you know, 653 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 6: sometimes two times a night. But d C is a 654 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 6: whole nother animal. Like I mean, if you really hustled, 655 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 6: you can probably get up, you know, hit four mics tonight. 656 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,320 Speaker 5: I mean that's Sunday through you know, Sunday again. 657 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,320 Speaker 6: It's just you know a lot of rooms, you know 658 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 6: a lot of foot traffic, you know a lot of 659 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 6: places where these rooms are set up. 660 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 5: You know people are just out, you know, moving or 661 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 5: but this is before Rona hit. But I mean people 662 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:22,880 Speaker 5: used to be out. 663 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 6: So I mean it really proved to be invaluable to 664 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 6: me when I was really kind of you know, trying 665 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 6: to make up for that lost time. Then my kids 666 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 6: were born, probably about four years into me starting stand up, 667 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:43,520 Speaker 6: my first was born twenty eleven, and then my focus shifted. 668 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,680 Speaker 6: It was like, you know, it wasn't from being on 669 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 6: stage seven nights a week to I'm not going. 670 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,600 Speaker 5: Out at all, right, It was so I was always 671 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 5: out to just completely disappearing. 672 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 6: And we had shot the last special intellectual property probably 673 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 6: maybe about two weeks right before we found out that 674 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:06,880 Speaker 6: my wife was pregnant. So by the time that came out, 675 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 6: you know, my son was born, and people were still 676 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 6: hitting me with like show requests, like you know, hey, 677 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 6: can you come perform? But I didn't want to go 678 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,920 Speaker 6: out and perform an hour that I just recorded, right, 679 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 6: and I hadn't been on the scene working out. 680 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 5: New material because I had been home with my son. 681 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 6: So it actually it ended up being a blessing because 682 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 6: it changed my style completely. 683 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,560 Speaker 5: I used to be more you know, straight joke, joke 684 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:34,040 Speaker 5: back to. 685 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,040 Speaker 6: Back at least when I initially started. But now my 686 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:42,840 Speaker 6: style is real fast and loose, it's real organic. I 687 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 6: really kind of mold to you know, the energy in 688 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 6: the room. Uh that literally some nights when I go 689 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 6: on stage and do an hour and a half and 690 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 6: not do one joke. I mean it's just straight riffs 691 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 6: and crowd work and you know, just feeding off the 692 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 6: energy and reacting to you know, real time situations. 693 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 5: So when my son was born, my style kind of. 694 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:10,080 Speaker 6: Switched to that, okay, because I didn't have a new hour, 695 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 6: so I would just talk ship to to kind of 696 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,840 Speaker 6: mad kind to make you forget that I didn't have 697 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:18,239 Speaker 6: an hour. 698 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he worked on no jokes, but 699 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,120 Speaker 2: that was pretty good. 700 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,680 Speaker 3: Time, right, absolutely, yeah. 701 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 2: And then like so you know, you get your first 702 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 2: album in the can. You know you got the kids now, 703 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 2: Like then there's this period where I know the podcast 704 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:45,399 Speaker 2: First Day Back covered it, right, there's this night where 705 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,799 Speaker 2: you because you know, you took your hair a little 706 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 2: cold times. I also, I grew up with asthma, outgrew 707 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,800 Speaker 2: it and like like teenage years or some ship. I 708 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 2: don't I don't know why I just left it just left, 709 00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:00,120 Speaker 2: I don't know, but but it was but like I 710 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,239 Speaker 2: saw that girl with asthma like one thing that needs 711 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 2: to kill me. I don't know if you even experienced this, 712 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:10,440 Speaker 2: but comedy used to kill me because laughing gave me 713 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:11,759 Speaker 2: a asthma attack. 714 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,759 Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it used to fuck me up, but I 715 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,240 Speaker 3: love comedy. 716 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 4: Like. 717 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:18,879 Speaker 2: It was one of the few times in my house 718 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,280 Speaker 2: where like my dad is letting me listen to cousins 719 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,319 Speaker 2: and ship like and I would be in the house 720 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 2: on the Saturday night. That's back when HBO was like 721 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 2: it you know what I'm saying. It's like, oh, you know, 722 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,840 Speaker 2: so I'm like, oh wait, Robert Townsend got a new 723 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 2: special coming out. Yeah, Chris Rock said bad Like yeah, 724 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 2: so Damon Wayne's killed me literally about kill me to 725 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 2: this day, that's special. Like I just remember laughing so hard. 726 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,200 Speaker 2: My parents is like, no, you know, like you are 727 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,560 Speaker 2: you literally will if we don't like you will be irresponsible. 728 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 2: Parents were recorded, okay, but as of right now take 729 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:09,359 Speaker 2: your ass. They had to turn on the hot water 730 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:09,880 Speaker 2: in the shower. 731 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 3: I had to go. I had to go in there, 732 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:14,440 Speaker 3: get my lungs. 733 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,840 Speaker 2: Right, and it's like, now go lay down because you 734 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,719 Speaker 2: can't you can't die listening to Damien Walliams. But yes, so, like, 735 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 2: even the irony of being in a comedic field is 736 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,120 Speaker 2: almost funny because you know, laughing performing takes a while 737 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 2: out of you in the first place, so Uh, you're 738 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 2: at this, You're you're you're you're doing a stand up 739 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,400 Speaker 2: and you have an asthma attack? Is it on stage? 740 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:38,480 Speaker 5: It was literally on stage. 741 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,319 Speaker 6: So I mean every everything you just described literally hit home, 742 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,719 Speaker 6: like exactly. I mean, I've had asthma as long as 743 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,920 Speaker 6: I can remember, you know, farted. You know, used to 744 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,879 Speaker 6: miss whole semesters of school in elementary school because I'd 745 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 6: be in the hospital, admit it. You know, went through 746 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,840 Speaker 6: tons of painful procedures and all the types of stuff. 747 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,320 Speaker 6: You know, I can vividly remember my father still carrying 748 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 6: me up the sidewalk in his arms, and like I 749 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,719 Speaker 6: just feel like limp and I'm like eight years old 750 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:12,360 Speaker 6: and just seeing the sky as he's carrying me and 751 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,560 Speaker 6: just hoping I don't die. 752 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 2: Like one time, my mom took me for a walk 753 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,760 Speaker 2: on it had just rained, and so she took me outside. 754 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,399 Speaker 2: And you know, in North Carolina, you know it's normally 755 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,759 Speaker 2: pretty warm, so it rained and everything was real it 756 00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:30,839 Speaker 2: like cool down real quick, and then you know it's 757 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,480 Speaker 2: still so that it was like the outside was a 758 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 2: big ass humidifier, and she just took me for a 759 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 2: little walk. And that year worked the same thing the tub, 760 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,160 Speaker 2: pouring hot water in the shower and stuff the feel 761 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:41,560 Speaker 2: from that. 762 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:44,360 Speaker 3: Hot tea, Like I just remember all this shit like 763 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,520 Speaker 3: in addition to this pump. You know what I'm saying. 764 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,800 Speaker 3: It's like like we are trying to save your mother's 765 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 3: fucking life. Like, whatever it takes, here's some honey and 766 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:53,759 Speaker 3: some tea. 767 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 2: Drink this shit like it was. 768 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,240 Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like I know the struggles. 769 00:37:58,280 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 4: What I'm trying to say, brother, you know one thing 770 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 4: by black folks, Black folks would be creative. 771 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 1: It's like, look, we gonna find a way to. 772 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 4: Fix this, but we ain't going by all the suspensive ass. 773 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,319 Speaker 4: Madisone these white folks is talking about it. But we're 774 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,439 Speaker 4: gonna fix this ship. I don't have Yes, I don't 775 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,360 Speaker 4: care if I got to wrap your ass up in timvs. 776 00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: Fix this. 777 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,839 Speaker 2: Put this vix on your chest, let me get at as, 778 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 2: lay a hot towel on your back, and then we 779 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:20,520 Speaker 2: gotta figure out. 780 00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:26,480 Speaker 5: Take these sweet potatoes to the ceiling right out of here. 781 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: Yes, niggas be like, rub your feet on these onions. 782 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,240 Speaker 1: Were gonna make this ship work today. 783 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 2: I have no idea if it worked because of that, 784 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,640 Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm a love, I'm counting it. 785 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 3: I'm counting it as working. But I have no idea 786 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:47,880 Speaker 3: yea yo. 787 00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 6: My parents used to put sliced up potatoes in my 788 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 6: socks to suck the. 789 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 5: Fever out, and I would wake up brown. But know, 790 00:38:55,880 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 5: if I just got some dirty just really killed the sickness. 791 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:10,440 Speaker 3: That Placebo medicine dogs put these. If you believe it worked, 792 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 3: it works. 793 00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,000 Speaker 5: Okay, it works, amen? 794 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,440 Speaker 6: Yeah, So yeah, May third, the night you're talking about, 795 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:24,800 Speaker 6: I drove to Philly, So Philly still two hours from Baltimore, 796 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 6: and uh, I drove up and there was a show 797 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,719 Speaker 6: that I was supposed to close out, you know, the 798 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,680 Speaker 6: forty five to sixty at the end of the show, 799 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 6: and uh, it was weird, Like nothing felt different about 800 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 6: that night, Like it didn't feel ominous. 801 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:43,919 Speaker 5: It didn't feel sometimes. 802 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,560 Speaker 6: On movies, like when somebody you know dies be about 803 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 6: to walk out the house. 804 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,080 Speaker 5: They're like, you know, I got a bad feeling about. 805 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:57,760 Speaker 3: Jason's getting in the cars. A change gonna come, yes, yeah, yeah. 806 00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the Spike Lee shot. 807 00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:06,440 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, everybody was fine. He got that bitch with 808 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,880 Speaker 1: so wid you work right right right. 809 00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:10,080 Speaker 4: Yeah. 810 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,600 Speaker 2: In the movie, though, it was like we gonna do 811 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,319 Speaker 2: the Dolly and he gonna be just holding the mic, 812 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,480 Speaker 2: staring forward slowly. 813 00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:17,600 Speaker 3: And it was like, oh this way he about the downstage. 814 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:19,919 Speaker 5: He ain't come. 815 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,279 Speaker 6: So yeah, I literally I driven up to Philly and 816 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,800 Speaker 6: it was actually a great night. Typically I'm like fighting 817 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 6: in traffic on ninety five and I'm cussing and I'm 818 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 6: stressed out, and I'm calling the booker telling him, like, 819 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,400 Speaker 6: you know, I be there in twenty minutes. I mean, 820 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,520 Speaker 6: it's been times where you know, I'm so late to 821 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,160 Speaker 6: the show because of you know, I'm a father. You 822 00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,240 Speaker 6: know a lot of times I'm trying to wait until 823 00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:44,400 Speaker 6: you know. 824 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,400 Speaker 5: My wife would get home from work and we're like 825 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,879 Speaker 5: switching out. So you know, it's been times. 826 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,320 Speaker 6: So I pull up the clubs and I can't find parking, 827 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,600 Speaker 6: so like another comical runout and like jumping my car 828 00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:57,160 Speaker 6: and I run in and go on. 829 00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 5: Stage real quick. So it was one of those situations. 830 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:04,719 Speaker 5: Like I drove up, it was very peaceful. It was 831 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,520 Speaker 5: a good drive. 832 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:06,080 Speaker 3: I had. 833 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,240 Speaker 5: I got a parking space right in front of the venue. 834 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:10,920 Speaker 5: Like I was feeling good. I was, I'm about to 835 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,600 Speaker 5: kill this shit. I went in. 836 00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,000 Speaker 6: I was comfortable as fuck. I'm sitting over in the 837 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:16,880 Speaker 6: corner talking to people. 838 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,319 Speaker 5: The show's going on. And then right before I went 839 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,320 Speaker 5: up on stage, the booker of the show came to 840 00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,160 Speaker 5: me and she gave me two drink tickets and she 841 00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,960 Speaker 5: was like, you know, here you go checking out. You're 842 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,560 Speaker 5: going on in five minutes. I look all right cool. 843 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 6: So I went over to the bar and I think 844 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,040 Speaker 6: I had ordered something. They didn't have it, so I 845 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:37,520 Speaker 6: was like, you know, just give me a red wine. 846 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,320 Speaker 6: So he gave me a little glass of red wine. 847 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 6: I took like half a sip of it, and then 848 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,600 Speaker 6: they were announcing me, so. 849 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:47,160 Speaker 5: They're like, you know, give it up, Jason Waiams. 850 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,320 Speaker 6: And at that point, the crowd all night had just 851 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,520 Speaker 6: kind of been like like mid grade. Nobody had really 852 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 6: busted them wide open. You know, nobody was bombing, but 853 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:03,320 Speaker 6: it wasn't it wasn't uproarys after and whenever I'm on 854 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,880 Speaker 6: a show like that, I take it as a personal 855 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:10,840 Speaker 6: challenge to create uproryous laughter. So I went on stage 856 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,680 Speaker 6: and like probably like thirty seconds in, like I'm destroying. 857 00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,920 Speaker 5: I mean, people are screaming. 858 00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:22,600 Speaker 6: And it just feels like I can typically tell you 859 00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,239 Speaker 6: know how like when Jordan was playing, and he used 860 00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,080 Speaker 6: to say like it was some nights where he felt like. 861 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:30,040 Speaker 5: The real one was like test white and like no 862 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,719 Speaker 5: matter what he threw up, it was gonna go in. 863 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,840 Speaker 6: It felt it was one of those nights where I 864 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,080 Speaker 6: was like, oh, I'm about to fuck these people up, 865 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:43,400 Speaker 6: Like if y'all laughing, it's hard thirty seconds in like 866 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,160 Speaker 6: wait till I get to some real stuff. 867 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,520 Speaker 5: So I'm feeling good, like I'm feeling confident, and then 868 00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 5: like during like a huge laugh break, like the crowd is. 869 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 6: Like laughing so hard and so long that I literally 870 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,840 Speaker 6: just had to stand in the silence and by silence 871 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:04,000 Speaker 6: and wait for them to calm down. And in me 872 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:09,120 Speaker 6: standing there, I felt an asthma tack coming on. It's 873 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,239 Speaker 6: ric I'm standing there this crowd. I mean, people are 874 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,040 Speaker 6: stomping their feet, people clapping, you know, be pushing each other. 875 00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:15,920 Speaker 1: You know. 876 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,080 Speaker 6: Uh, it's really like a good like a celebratory moment. 877 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,600 Speaker 6: And it felt so weird because I could see that through. 878 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,520 Speaker 5: My eyes, but internally I felt like my world was 879 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,239 Speaker 5: closing in, like. 880 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,000 Speaker 6: So like people are like dying, and so I tried 881 00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,320 Speaker 6: to say the next line of the next joke or whatever. 882 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,440 Speaker 6: The next thought came to my mind was and I 883 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,320 Speaker 6: didn't even have enough breath to properly finish sing. 884 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:49,960 Speaker 3: At this point. Did they think this part of the 885 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,640 Speaker 3: act or they or they like, oh no, something is wrong. 886 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,160 Speaker 6: They did initially, because initially I pulled out mind heller 887 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:57,360 Speaker 6: and I took it on stage. 888 00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:01,560 Speaker 3: Oh okay, they're when this nigga got props too. 889 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:06,759 Speaker 6: Oh my god, right, he took it to the h 890 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 6: They laughed harder when I punked it initially, and it 891 00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:11,640 Speaker 6: scared me. 892 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,240 Speaker 5: I was like, oh ship this these types of mother bus. 893 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,040 Speaker 1: That was I'm gonna drop dad and niggas to be 894 00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,440 Speaker 1: like that's part of the joke. 895 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,640 Speaker 2: That actually I mean look and the comic view era 896 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:24,880 Speaker 2: that actually would have been a dope tag to all 897 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,280 Speaker 2: your punchlines like the new Chucky Ducky quack quack overew 898 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,040 Speaker 2: that motherfucker and like, oh. 899 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:39,359 Speaker 7: He killed them the night, yeah, yeah, yeah. 900 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,440 Speaker 3: So I was at the show and. 901 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:46,439 Speaker 6: I could feel the attack coming and then I said 902 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,440 Speaker 6: good night and I walked off stage and it was 903 00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,880 Speaker 6: very abrupt, and the host was looking like, you know, 904 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,400 Speaker 6: like what the fuck is going on? I was supposed 905 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,080 Speaker 6: to have like fifty minutes left in the set. So 906 00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,719 Speaker 6: they were looking at me like what's going on? And 907 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,839 Speaker 6: I made a I made I made a bee line 908 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,880 Speaker 6: for the door, and you know, I was thinking some 909 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:11,000 Speaker 6: fresh air may help. And I got outside and I 910 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,600 Speaker 6: puffed my head like crazy, like damn it emptied it 911 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:17,840 Speaker 6: just puff after puff after puff, and it just kept. 912 00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:18,800 Speaker 5: Getting tighter and tighter. 913 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,600 Speaker 6: Then one of the wait staff came out, a guy, 914 00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,960 Speaker 6: and he was like, you know, do you have any 915 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,320 Speaker 6: medicine or anything in your car? So I travel in 916 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,120 Speaker 6: one of my little travel bags. I keep a nebulizer 917 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,640 Speaker 6: and some preting the zone and some other stuff. 918 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:36,960 Speaker 5: So I gave him the keys. 919 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 6: He got to the trunk, which you know was right 920 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,480 Speaker 6: pretty much right in front of the venue. Gets it 921 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:45,759 Speaker 6: out at that time. Then I heard another voice. At 922 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,520 Speaker 6: this point, I'm on my knees, literally on the sidewalk, 923 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,560 Speaker 6: and I could hear a voice over my shoulder and 924 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,759 Speaker 6: it was a woman. And then she said, you know, 925 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,160 Speaker 6: I'm a doctor. You know, I was in the crowd. 926 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,640 Speaker 5: You know, I see that you're having trouble breathing. Started 927 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:03,400 Speaker 5: asking me all these you know, medical questions. 928 00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,360 Speaker 6: Obviously, I didn't have enough breath to you know, complete 929 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:08,279 Speaker 6: sentences of talk. 930 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,120 Speaker 5: So I'm kind of trying to wheeze. I'm wheezing and 931 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:12,320 Speaker 5: trying to talk through all of this. 932 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,239 Speaker 2: Shout out to doctors, by the way, because they really 933 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:18,040 Speaker 2: be doing shit. 934 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:18,719 Speaker 3: When they off the clock. 935 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:20,560 Speaker 2: Man, a lot of us wouldn't do Like when I 936 00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,239 Speaker 2: worked at McDonald's if it was like a fucking I 937 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:25,640 Speaker 2: don't know, French fried emergency somewhere, they would be on 938 00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:26,120 Speaker 2: their own. 939 00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:30,560 Speaker 3: God Like, right, nigga, better show up to McDonald's. Doctors. Really, 940 00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,080 Speaker 3: they really be in like an airplane. It's like, we 941 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,680 Speaker 3: need a doctor. It's like, damn, I got it. 942 00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:37,600 Speaker 1: I can't let you die. 943 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:38,640 Speaker 3: They better than me. 944 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, man, But she jumped in and uh. At that point, 945 00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,640 Speaker 6: I was kind of going in and out of consciousness. 946 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:50,359 Speaker 6: So what From what I can remember, I remember them 947 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,920 Speaker 6: taking me back into the venue. I remember like a 948 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,760 Speaker 6: bunch of people kind of like around me, like audience 949 00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,640 Speaker 6: members and you know, the staff and you know. 950 00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,400 Speaker 5: The people from the bar and everything. 951 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,040 Speaker 6: I remember them trying to plug up the nebulizer and 952 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:10,400 Speaker 6: it's hilarious. The last thing I remember hearing before I 953 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:14,200 Speaker 6: guess I collapsed was how do you plug this thing up? 954 00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:14,880 Speaker 5: And then I. 955 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,920 Speaker 1: Was about to ask you what the hell of nebulizer was? 956 00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,480 Speaker 3: Right right, somebody just like, oh the better is backwards 957 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,080 Speaker 3: and then you just pass out? See that would that 958 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:24,440 Speaker 3: would have. 959 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:31,560 Speaker 1: Been me, been like it, But I got a double D. Yeah, 960 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:35,000 Speaker 1: don't plug it to a USB. Caught no, no, right. 961 00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,160 Speaker 6: So for when I'm told you know, I literally collapsed 962 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,000 Speaker 6: right then the venue right then, you know, hitting my 963 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,680 Speaker 6: head on the ground and code it right in the venue. 964 00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,320 Speaker 5: You know, no heart beat, a pulse for five minutes. 965 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:50,120 Speaker 3: Wow. 966 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,319 Speaker 6: So you know all of this now from what I'm told, 967 00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:57,160 Speaker 6: you know, all of this is just third point, third 968 00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:00,759 Speaker 6: party you know, uh accounts. But you know, from what 969 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,560 Speaker 6: I'm told you they said, you know, at that point, 970 00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,920 Speaker 6: you know, the woman who ended up saving me, she 971 00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,320 Speaker 6: ain't even told me that she didn't think that I 972 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,640 Speaker 6: was gonna make it the doctor, you know, she said, 973 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,160 Speaker 6: you know, she was doing you know, the chess compressions, 974 00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,360 Speaker 6: you know, after like a minute and a half, and 975 00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,279 Speaker 6: I showed no signs of you know, uh, you know, 976 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,960 Speaker 6: breathing that she really you know, didn't think that it 977 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,719 Speaker 6: was gonna end favorably. 978 00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:32,440 Speaker 5: But she just kept doing it because that was her medical. 979 00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:36,560 Speaker 6: Training, right, So she did it long enough that she 980 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:41,200 Speaker 6: kept me viable until the medics came right and they 981 00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,840 Speaker 6: were able to, you know, do some stuff on the scene, 982 00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,440 Speaker 6: and I think they did hit me with something kind 983 00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,239 Speaker 6: of tube in my neck and did some kind of 984 00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,560 Speaker 6: probably a shot of epinephrine, a bunch of other stuff. 985 00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,839 Speaker 6: But then I woke up in a Philadelphia hospital, uh 986 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,319 Speaker 6: sixteen hours later, on a. 987 00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,640 Speaker 5: Ventilator, in hand restraints and labeled. 988 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:06,320 Speaker 2: Unknown damn, which is the title the album, you know, 989 00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,239 Speaker 2: like it's the title of the special YEP. 990 00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,239 Speaker 5: And that kind of comes from It's kind of a 991 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:14,000 Speaker 5: three part thing. 992 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,919 Speaker 6: So when they got me from the venue, I don't 993 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:23,040 Speaker 6: know what happened in the transportation, but they must have 994 00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:24,200 Speaker 6: misplaced my wallet. 995 00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,640 Speaker 5: They had my wallet at the hospital, but. 996 00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,760 Speaker 6: They must have misplaced it because they had me listed 997 00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,000 Speaker 6: as unknown on my name bracelet, which ended up calling 998 00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,640 Speaker 6: up causing a lot of confusion because when I dropped 999 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,640 Speaker 6: in the venue, everyone was freaking out. They was like, 1000 00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,200 Speaker 6: you know, we got to call his family, you know, 1001 00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:45,440 Speaker 6: but my phone was locked, so it was like, you know, 1002 00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:47,480 Speaker 6: how do we get in touch with him? So then 1003 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,080 Speaker 6: this is why I'm so thankful for social media because 1004 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,680 Speaker 6: people just started tweeting and posting on Facebook. You know, 1005 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:58,880 Speaker 6: who knows that Jason Wims comedy family. And it bounced 1006 00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,440 Speaker 6: around a bunch until got to one of my homeboys 1007 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:05,560 Speaker 6: who lived in Baltimore, and he came and notified my wife. 1008 00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,160 Speaker 6: But even when she got the news, when she called 1009 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,200 Speaker 6: the hospital and acts, you know, you know, where is 1010 00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:16,200 Speaker 6: my husband, Jason Williams, you know, there's there's. 1011 00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,279 Speaker 5: No one here by that name. 1012 00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,040 Speaker 6: So you know, she had to drive to Philly in 1013 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,920 Speaker 6: the middle of the night under the impression that I 1014 00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:29,480 Speaker 6: was already dead or dying, that I may not even 1015 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:29,799 Speaker 6: be at the. 1016 00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:34,760 Speaker 5: Hospital that she was driving towards. So it's a whole 1017 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,880 Speaker 5: lot of kind of factors in play. So unknown. The 1018 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,560 Speaker 5: name of the special, it literally comes from That name 1019 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:42,080 Speaker 5: breaks me. 1020 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,160 Speaker 6: Then it also speaks to you know, I've been doing 1021 00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:49,360 Speaker 6: stand up for you know, almost fourteen years. You know, 1022 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,840 Speaker 6: you know I've had some success, you know, you know, 1023 00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,160 Speaker 6: just for Laughs and NBC and you know, done some 1024 00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,080 Speaker 6: stuff for HBO. But you know, I'm not at you know, 1025 00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,520 Speaker 6: a household name just yet, right, So you know, it's 1026 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:04,120 Speaker 6: unknown in that sense. And then the third kind of 1027 00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,400 Speaker 6: part of it is, you know, if you look at 1028 00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,560 Speaker 6: the city, uh, you know, at the special and you 1029 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,480 Speaker 6: see this, you know, the bench in the city, the 1030 00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,160 Speaker 6: middle of the stage, you know, Baltimore. 1031 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:14,759 Speaker 5: It's really you know, kind of like shining a light 1032 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:15,399 Speaker 5: on my city. 1033 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,800 Speaker 6: Where Baltimore is not known for, you know, it's not 1034 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,719 Speaker 6: known for comedy, it's not known for I mean, you 1035 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,520 Speaker 6: got a few people, you know, moniques from Baltimore on 1036 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,239 Speaker 6: different folks, but it's not, you know. 1037 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:30,359 Speaker 5: An entertainment hub. 1038 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,960 Speaker 6: But there's some world class artists that live within the city, 1039 00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,239 Speaker 6: just like I'm sure it's world class. 1040 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:41,919 Speaker 5: Artists that live in or you know, it's people here, 1041 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,799 Speaker 5: you know. So it was kind of a way of saying, 1042 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,840 Speaker 5: you know, hey, look over here, there's something put. 1043 00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,239 Speaker 2: The city, trying to put the city on the map 1044 00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,520 Speaker 2: a little bit, man, is it? And especially during the 1045 00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,600 Speaker 2: special there you know, like that's dope. 1046 00:51:55,719 --> 00:51:56,160 Speaker 3: And then. 1047 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,439 Speaker 2: Like and then also the thing is too like once 1048 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,040 Speaker 2: you get to the hospital, you know, thank y'all, y'all 1049 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,239 Speaker 2: saving my life obviously, but then there's a part where 1050 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,319 Speaker 2: and I think this is so relevant to the day, 1051 00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:10,879 Speaker 2: the fucking medical debt. 1052 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,000 Speaker 3: You start thinking about the bill and you know, in 1053 00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,320 Speaker 3: a perfect world, In a perfect world. 1054 00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:19,920 Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not worried about the bill, y'all whatever 1055 00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:21,920 Speaker 2: y'all need to do to make sure I'm safe, so 1056 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,040 Speaker 2: I can leave this motherfucker cool. 1057 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:28,319 Speaker 3: But in the world we got, it's like, how much 1058 00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,360 Speaker 3: how much is this apple sauce? I'll starved? 1059 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,399 Speaker 1: You know, you ain't got to give me that? Take 1060 00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:37,160 Speaker 1: out my task? 1061 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:38,920 Speaker 3: Wait too, Advil? 1062 00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:39,480 Speaker 1: Is what now? 1063 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:41,800 Speaker 3: Because I can go to CBS and just get a 1064 00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:43,239 Speaker 3: whole thing avae like no. 1065 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,800 Speaker 2: Hospital advil, one hundred bottles of bill, like one hundred 1066 00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,280 Speaker 2: dollars a bottle or whatever. It's like, so what happens? 1067 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,360 Speaker 2: What takes place there? Once you start thinking about this 1068 00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:53,360 Speaker 2: bill piling up? 1069 00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,200 Speaker 5: Well, it was that. I mean it was like, you know, 1070 00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:58,520 Speaker 5: like I said, and I grew up with asthma. 1071 00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,920 Speaker 6: So I remember Rember seeing my parents get you know, 1072 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,879 Speaker 6: ignorant hospital bills. You know, when I was a kid, 1073 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:07,960 Speaker 6: you know, they would take me and I'd be in 1074 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,000 Speaker 6: a hospital for you know, an emergency room for it 1075 00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:12,120 Speaker 6: might be four hours. 1076 00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:13,680 Speaker 5: You know, we get a bill for. 1077 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:17,960 Speaker 6: You know, six thousand dollars or something silly. So those 1078 00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,360 Speaker 6: types of things have always been in my mind. And 1079 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,320 Speaker 6: then you know, when I became an adult, you know, 1080 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:26,000 Speaker 6: and got my own insurance, you know, I had similar experiences, 1081 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,520 Speaker 6: you know, where I would go in for you know, 1082 00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,400 Speaker 6: a quick thing, and that it you know, it was 1083 00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:34,040 Speaker 6: twenty five hundred or whatever. So I mean that was 1084 00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,160 Speaker 6: like really at the forefront. And then one of my 1085 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:41,480 Speaker 6: twins has asthma, and probably about a year before my attack, 1086 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,080 Speaker 6: he had an asthma attack and we had to rush 1087 00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:44,759 Speaker 6: them to the er. 1088 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,879 Speaker 5: And I mean they kept him overnight. I mean, didn't 1089 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:48,400 Speaker 5: do it. 1090 00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,879 Speaker 6: Put an IV in just to have it in case 1091 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:55,240 Speaker 6: of meeting it for fluids, but they didn't do hardly anything. 1092 00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,320 Speaker 5: He basically just laid in the bed all night. And 1093 00:53:57,440 --> 00:53:59,360 Speaker 5: that ended up being like like four. 1094 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,560 Speaker 2: Grand just to observe you. And I mean not you know, 1095 00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,160 Speaker 2: I'm thankful, you know, honestly, I'd rather not be dead, 1096 00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:09,000 Speaker 2: but that that that motherfucking bill. 1097 00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:09,600 Speaker 3: Is coming down. 1098 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,680 Speaker 1: And that's even with insurance. 1099 00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, even if you got insurance, you're getting fucked. It 1100 00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:15,440 Speaker 3: is what it is. 1101 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,480 Speaker 6: I mean, when I died, you know, we had insurance, 1102 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,200 Speaker 6: you know, it was a commercial plan through you know, 1103 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,040 Speaker 6: care First and everything else. 1104 00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,359 Speaker 5: And I still got a bill for sixty one thousand dollars. 1105 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,040 Speaker 6: Sixty one grand and I was in the hospital for 1106 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,880 Speaker 6: maybe an hour total of maybe about twenty hours all 1107 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,360 Speaker 6: together from when they first picked me up, and you 1108 00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:38,800 Speaker 6: know until I you know, I ended up having to 1109 00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,400 Speaker 6: sin you know, sign what was it called. 1110 00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,880 Speaker 5: AMA Forms against Medical Advice. 1111 00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, because they don't want to be accountable if something 1112 00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,439 Speaker 4: happened for you once you walk out that door, they're 1113 00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:51,920 Speaker 4: gonna be like, no, yeah. 1114 00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:56,000 Speaker 5: Right exactly. But we knew it was that type of situation. 1115 00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,239 Speaker 6: And also I didn't want to be in Philly, in 1116 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:06,000 Speaker 6: this hospital, you know, for if anything. And I told 1117 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:08,239 Speaker 6: the doctors that I was like, you know, let me 1118 00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,160 Speaker 6: go back to Baltimore. At least I'm closest to my 1119 00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:14,520 Speaker 6: family and my kids in the event that something does 1120 00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,080 Speaker 6: go south. You know, folks don't got to drive two 1121 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:21,120 Speaker 6: and a half hours, you know, when I could be 1122 00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:21,640 Speaker 6: right here. 1123 00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:25,120 Speaker 5: So it was one of those. 1124 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,799 Speaker 6: Types of situations. But I mean that was literally one 1125 00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:29,640 Speaker 6: of my first thoughts when I woke up. It was 1126 00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,400 Speaker 6: just like I told my wife, and I had the 1127 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,320 Speaker 6: ventilator in the two were still in my throat, so 1128 00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,920 Speaker 6: I couldn't talk, so I motioned toward for a pen 1129 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,399 Speaker 6: and some paper, and I just wrote down like get 1130 00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,440 Speaker 6: me out of here, like shock out. And when the 1131 00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,680 Speaker 6: doctors came, you know, it turned into like it was 1132 00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:47,600 Speaker 6: you know, I mean they weren't rude, but I mean 1133 00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:52,480 Speaker 6: it was an argument, yeah, and I understood. 1134 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,719 Speaker 5: Their position because it was like, you know, I did 1135 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:56,640 Speaker 5: die just a few hours. 1136 00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,040 Speaker 3: I mean, they had a point. You know what I'm saying. 1137 00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,920 Speaker 2: They had a point, right, It's like, but if I 1138 00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,200 Speaker 2: got to pay back one hundred and twenty thousand, it's 1139 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:05,920 Speaker 2: gonna kill me too. 1140 00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,120 Speaker 3: So like it's just slow of death, but it's still there, 1141 00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:11,040 Speaker 3: Like I don't need to get out of that. 1142 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,520 Speaker 5: I'm gonna die monthly, right. 1143 00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:18,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, this instarted plans or death and shit, no, I'm good. 1144 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:19,959 Speaker 3: I'm good on this one. Bruh. 1145 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:23,920 Speaker 2: But but so like that, did your wife drive you 1146 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,480 Speaker 2: back that night or I guess it's sixteen hours later 1147 00:56:26,600 --> 00:56:27,719 Speaker 2: so that next night or whatever. 1148 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, So it was it kind of like that next morning, 1149 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:33,800 Speaker 6: kind of like mid morning, and uh, thankfully my parents 1150 00:56:33,880 --> 00:56:36,160 Speaker 6: lived you know, pretty close to us, so they had 1151 00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,560 Speaker 6: driven over in the middle of the night, and so 1152 00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,600 Speaker 6: she kind of jumped in the car, drove to Philly. 1153 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,600 Speaker 6: They came here so that my kids had somebody to 1154 00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:48,000 Speaker 6: wake up to, right and you know, just kind of 1155 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,400 Speaker 6: keep the house cool. So yeah, she drove up and 1156 00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,840 Speaker 6: then yeah we drove back. And but the thing is 1157 00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:55,920 Speaker 6: I still had a car that I had driven up. 1158 00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:59,920 Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that was parked up outside of its venue. 1159 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:04,400 Speaker 6: So but my wife didn't feel comfortable with me driving 1160 00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:09,080 Speaker 6: my own car, you know, yeah, because you know, with 1161 00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,360 Speaker 6: the with the asthma attack, it was so severe it 1162 00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:15,680 Speaker 6: caused cardiac arrest, right, so you know, the doctor was like, 1163 00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,520 Speaker 6: you know, you could go back, and you know it 1164 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:22,240 Speaker 6: could recur it could you know, you know, thankfully it didn't. 1165 00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,800 Speaker 6: But I mean, yeah, so we drove home that scene 1166 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,600 Speaker 6: that morning, and it was just it was weird. 1167 00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:33,080 Speaker 5: It was just one of these feelings of like when 1168 00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,240 Speaker 5: I was driving, I remember one of the main thoughts 1169 00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,640 Speaker 5: that I had was like, just the world doesn't stop 1170 00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:39,440 Speaker 5: right that. 1171 00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:41,160 Speaker 3: Same Cook that saund Cook was playing. 1172 00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,960 Speaker 2: Yes, it's just like on to the next one, man, 1173 00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,560 Speaker 2: Like it's really uh, I think it's you know, who 1174 00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:49,600 Speaker 2: is it that got this song? 1175 00:57:49,960 --> 00:57:52,640 Speaker 3: But I think about it all the time. But it's 1176 00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:53,280 Speaker 3: a rap group. 1177 00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:54,800 Speaker 2: I won't to say, as you GK and they got 1178 00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,480 Speaker 2: that song. One day here and then you're gone. 1179 00:57:58,280 --> 00:57:58,600 Speaker 6: Mm hm. 1180 00:57:59,000 --> 00:57:59,840 Speaker 3: It really be like that. 1181 00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,960 Speaker 2: Man, one day you hear and the next day you 1182 00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,320 Speaker 2: just ain't here and everybody gotta figure out what to 1183 00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:06,520 Speaker 2: do without. 1184 00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:06,480 Speaker 3: There no more. 1185 00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:07,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. 1186 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, So it was one of those moments of that. 1187 00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:14,600 Speaker 5: It was just we were real quiet, you know, she 1188 00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:16,440 Speaker 5: was driving and I was looking out the window. 1189 00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:31,400 Speaker 3: Yes it is, I was. That's my joint every time 1190 00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:35,320 Speaker 3: I see that up right, it's the ship flat on the. 1191 00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:36,760 Speaker 5: Table and just stare out the window. 1192 00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:41,600 Speaker 3: It's just real if you're about to die, you almost 1193 00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:43,520 Speaker 3: die if it for all the death, like. 1194 00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:50,720 Speaker 6: Yeah. And then yeah, when I got home, then it 1195 00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,080 Speaker 6: just went. I mean that's the crazy thing about being 1196 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:53,520 Speaker 6: a parent. 1197 00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:55,800 Speaker 5: It's like it's no days off, right. 1198 00:58:55,960 --> 00:58:56,800 Speaker 1: The kids don't care. 1199 00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,400 Speaker 6: So as soon as we came through that front door, 1200 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:03,240 Speaker 6: it was like, hey, daddy, and they didn't know about 1201 00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,919 Speaker 6: what happened. They just knew my mom pop up was there, 1202 00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:10,360 Speaker 6: and so was trying to kind of, you know, integrate 1203 00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:14,040 Speaker 6: myself back into the house. But like, I felt very 1204 00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:17,560 Speaker 6: weird for a long time. Yeah, to the point where 1205 00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,120 Speaker 6: I was going to therapy for it, you know, just 1206 00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:23,400 Speaker 6: trying to figure out because just knowing that she was dead, 1207 00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:28,200 Speaker 6: like like your skin looks different to you, like you 1208 00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:30,480 Speaker 6: feel like something, like you feel like things don't work 1209 00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:31,400 Speaker 6: in you right anymore. 1210 00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's almost like it would have been 1211 00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,320 Speaker 2: better off if you felt bad, you know what I'm saying, 1212 00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:39,800 Speaker 2: Like like if it was like, man, I shouldn't even 1213 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,080 Speaker 2: go out here, but I guess I'm gonna go, and 1214 00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:41,960 Speaker 2: then something happened, and. 1215 00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,160 Speaker 3: You're like, well shit, that's what I get as a 1216 00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:48,000 Speaker 3: part of like I was killing. Everything was fine, like. 1217 00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,720 Speaker 2: You know, I was out there, fucking getting the best 1218 00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:55,760 Speaker 2: parking spot, no traffic, just fucking lovely day was playing. 1219 00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,400 Speaker 3: And then yeah, that would fuck with anybody, bro. 1220 01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:05,280 Speaker 6: Absolutely, And that's how I felt, because I mean, and 1221 01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,280 Speaker 6: for me stand up. When I'm off stage, I'm a 1222 01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:12,280 Speaker 6: fairly quiet person. I mean I like to sit back 1223 01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:16,240 Speaker 6: observe people. You know, that's kind of where the comedy 1224 01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:19,120 Speaker 6: comes from. That's where the stand up comes from. It's 1225 01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,400 Speaker 6: from observing. I think if you look really at your 1226 01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,400 Speaker 6: most at your greatest comics, whether that you know you're 1227 01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,600 Speaker 6: where you're looking at Chappelle or Rock or you know, 1228 01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:28,160 Speaker 6: Damion Wayne's any of these folks. 1229 01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:31,760 Speaker 5: These people really are students of life. Like you know, 1230 01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:35,920 Speaker 5: you gotta learn how to talk, or you gotta learn how. 1231 01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,200 Speaker 6: To listen more than you're talking. I mean, so that's 1232 01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:41,880 Speaker 6: typically when I'm off stage. I mean, I'm I'm I'm 1233 01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:44,000 Speaker 6: laughing a little bit, but I'm really just kind of 1234 01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:49,000 Speaker 6: taking things in. And there was a situation of, uh, 1235 01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:52,400 Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I completely blanked on while the hell we 1236 01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:52,840 Speaker 6: was saying this. 1237 01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,120 Speaker 2: It was just talking about how you could be here 1238 01:00:56,280 --> 01:00:58,880 Speaker 2: and then and then the next morning a minute you go. 1239 01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,160 Speaker 2: But it's like you weren't feeling bad. You just had 1240 01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:06,680 Speaker 2: like this moment of like boom, like instead I'm saying 1241 01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:09,160 Speaker 2: or whatever, you know, and it was. 1242 01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, like you said it was. It was such a 1243 01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:12,800 Speaker 5: stand up for me. 1244 01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:18,160 Speaker 6: Is typically my safe space, like you know, typically when 1245 01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:20,480 Speaker 6: I'm off stage. You know, I'm a pretty reserved person. 1246 01:01:21,720 --> 01:01:24,880 Speaker 6: I'm typically recording when I'm off stage. When I go 1247 01:01:25,040 --> 01:01:27,600 Speaker 6: on stage, i hit my play button and then I'm 1248 01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:31,560 Speaker 6: reporting then everything that I saw now I'm throwing it 1249 01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:36,600 Speaker 6: back out with like little twists and stuff. So for 1250 01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:41,640 Speaker 6: me to die on stage in the place where I'm 1251 01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:47,280 Speaker 6: typically most comfortable, it felt it felt very intrusive, Like 1252 01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:50,640 Speaker 6: it almost felt It's the feeling that people describe, like 1253 01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,720 Speaker 6: when someone breaks into your house and you come home 1254 01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:56,720 Speaker 6: and like the house is all messed up, and like 1255 01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,240 Speaker 6: it's just that feeling of knowing someone else was in 1256 01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:03,560 Speaker 6: your space right right they touched your things, or they 1257 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,520 Speaker 6: went through your drawers or you know. It was that 1258 01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:10,880 Speaker 6: type of feeling that I felt violated. This as my attack. 1259 01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:11,560 Speaker 5: I felt. 1260 01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:14,160 Speaker 6: I was pissed for a while, like like, how dare 1261 01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,680 Speaker 6: you right approached me while I'm at work. 1262 01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:18,480 Speaker 4: It was. 1263 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:24,560 Speaker 1: I asked you to come here. It's rude, okay, that 1264 01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:26,640 Speaker 1: shit just pop up on you and like you was 1265 01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:27,400 Speaker 1: not invited. 1266 01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:29,920 Speaker 2: I remember I tried out for a basketball team when 1267 01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,480 Speaker 2: I was a kid, and I had thought I had 1268 01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:34,520 Speaker 2: I was outgrowing it a little bit, so I was 1269 01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,120 Speaker 2: probably about fifteen or so, because I outgrew it at 1270 01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,000 Speaker 2: about like seventeen eighteen. And my family, my dad, my dad, 1271 01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:43,760 Speaker 2: and my brother big basketball. They played basketball. My brother 1272 01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,000 Speaker 2: played in high school all this shit. But I couldn't really, 1273 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:47,919 Speaker 2: I couldn't play when I was young. I'll be reading books, 1274 01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:49,800 Speaker 2: playing video games shit because I'm like I'm gonna die. 1275 01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:52,080 Speaker 3: But I finally got strong enough. 1276 01:02:52,160 --> 01:02:54,360 Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I'm playing basketball in the neighborhood. 1277 01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:55,439 Speaker 2: I'm going out of them on my bike. 1278 01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,120 Speaker 3: I'm like, I could, I could do this now I 1279 01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:58,680 Speaker 3: could finally, man, I. 1280 01:02:58,720 --> 01:03:00,960 Speaker 2: Had an asthma attack in the first is fucking practice, 1281 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,400 Speaker 2: like the one where you just like just getting initiated. 1282 01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:06,800 Speaker 2: It was like, all right, before we play ball, because 1283 01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,280 Speaker 2: you know, in my mind, I'm like I'm like, I'm 1284 01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:11,640 Speaker 2: like I'm good at basketball. 1285 01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:13,160 Speaker 3: So like we get out there, I'm like, I can't 1286 01:03:13,200 --> 01:03:14,000 Speaker 3: wait to play basketball. 1287 01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:16,320 Speaker 2: He's like, all right, put the balls down before we 1288 01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,240 Speaker 2: play ball. Everybody need to run twenty laps. I'm just 1289 01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,120 Speaker 2: like I'm gonna die. And so I like a few 1290 01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:23,840 Speaker 2: laps in and I just had an asthma attack. And 1291 01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,320 Speaker 2: I just remember being like, this ship is so cruel 1292 01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,000 Speaker 2: because I just wanted to hang with the boys. 1293 01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:30,640 Speaker 3: I just wanted to kick it. I just want to 1294 01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:32,520 Speaker 3: be I didn't even want to be the best. I 1295 01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,960 Speaker 3: just wanted to be around and make it through pregnous 1296 01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:37,280 Speaker 3: and that ship it humbled the funk out of me. 1297 01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,000 Speaker 3: I was in there like, well, I guess my mom 1298 01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:41,720 Speaker 3: can go ahead and pick. 1299 01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:45,880 Speaker 8: Me up, because no, shouldn't get that deposit back because 1300 01:03:46,880 --> 01:03:47,520 Speaker 8: naked Home. 1301 01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:52,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I can imagine that happening as an adult 1302 01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:55,720 Speaker 2: at this place where you basically it's your job at 1303 01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:59,200 Speaker 2: that point, I'm doing this thing and then boom, like 1304 01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:01,000 Speaker 2: I can imagine also kind of humbling. 1305 01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,360 Speaker 3: Did you struggle to get back on stage after that? 1306 01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,600 Speaker 5: I definitely did, so it was crazy. 1307 01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:09,800 Speaker 6: May third was one that happened May third, twenty seventeen. 1308 01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:14,600 Speaker 6: I didn't get on stage for an exact month. So 1309 01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,680 Speaker 6: the next show I did was June third, and it 1310 01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:20,560 Speaker 6: was a real kind of soft, kind of slide back in. 1311 01:04:22,240 --> 01:04:26,280 Speaker 5: And the only reason I did that show was right 1312 01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,800 Speaker 5: before I had the incident of the Philly where I died. 1313 01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:29,920 Speaker 5: I had just. 1314 01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:36,080 Speaker 6: Competed in these The AVFF American Black Film Festival has 1315 01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:38,120 Speaker 6: a big film joint in the summertime. 1316 01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:39,480 Speaker 5: Typically died in Miami. 1317 01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:42,360 Speaker 6: Sometimes it's in La every year and a bunch of 1318 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:45,200 Speaker 6: you know, filmmakers come and you know actors. 1319 01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:48,080 Speaker 5: You know. It's kind of like one of those types 1320 01:04:48,120 --> 01:04:48,520 Speaker 5: of events. 1321 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:50,600 Speaker 6: It's kind of like a three day joint and they've 1322 01:04:50,600 --> 01:04:54,800 Speaker 6: got this part of it called Comedy Wings competition where 1323 01:04:54,840 --> 01:04:58,200 Speaker 6: they picked like like rising talent from all over the country. 1324 01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:00,840 Speaker 5: To come and compete and front of all of these 1325 01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:01,800 Speaker 5: decision makers. 1326 01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:06,160 Speaker 6: So I had competed in a couple of rounds and 1327 01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:10,520 Speaker 6: I just competed in the semifinals in Atlanta, probably a 1328 01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:15,600 Speaker 6: week before I died, and I made it through, and 1329 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,000 Speaker 6: I was looking for the finals were in Miami in June, 1330 01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:24,560 Speaker 6: like June fifteenth for something. So I die in May 1331 01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:29,120 Speaker 6: May third, I come back and do my first show 1332 01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:31,600 Speaker 6: just kind of as like a soft kind of introduction 1333 01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,160 Speaker 6: on June third, and then I fled to Miami to 1334 01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,560 Speaker 6: compete in the finals June fifteenth. So when I was 1335 01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:43,320 Speaker 6: on stage in Miami for the finals of this big competition, 1336 01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:45,760 Speaker 6: it was only the second time I've been back on 1337 01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:49,680 Speaker 6: stage in a month and a half after dying, and 1338 01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:51,240 Speaker 6: it was like, I mean, when I say this was 1339 01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:56,200 Speaker 6: like a big auditorium, I mean Yvonne Orgy, one of 1340 01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:58,960 Speaker 6: my who actually one of my homegirls from the Insecure. 1341 01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:04,480 Speaker 5: Yeah we know each other from she started comedy. 1342 01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:07,200 Speaker 6: In DC and in Virginia, Okay, so we used to 1343 01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,640 Speaker 6: do shows together all the time. 1344 01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:14,320 Speaker 5: So she actually hosted the finals of this competition. 1345 01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:18,560 Speaker 6: So you know, it's tons of people there and I've 1346 01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,600 Speaker 6: got like this crazy anxiety and I feel like I'm 1347 01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:25,840 Speaker 6: gonna die on this stage in front of Chris Spencer. 1348 01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:30,080 Speaker 3: And at that point it's like a win. 1349 01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,360 Speaker 2: Even if you would have came out and bombed, it's 1350 01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,640 Speaker 2: a win now to be alive at the end. So 1351 01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:37,560 Speaker 2: it's like, you know, it's like the bar gets lowered 1352 01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:39,600 Speaker 2: a little bit. It's like, listen, they didn't laugh and shit, 1353 01:06:39,720 --> 01:06:40,360 Speaker 2: but I'm alive. 1354 01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:47,520 Speaker 6: So but she ain't definitely caused anxiety for a long 1355 01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,360 Speaker 6: and I still get it every time I'm driving to 1356 01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:54,800 Speaker 6: a show now or your pre Rona, there's always a 1357 01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:56,800 Speaker 6: point in the drive or while. 1358 01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:58,720 Speaker 5: I'm on stage where I feel like I'm having an 1359 01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,520 Speaker 5: attack again. And what you're saying was perfect. I mean 1360 01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:05,680 Speaker 5: the way when you laugh or you're talking fast and 1361 01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:08,480 Speaker 5: it kicks it up, it makes it start. 1362 01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:12,040 Speaker 6: So yeah, almost, and I find a good riff and 1363 01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:15,760 Speaker 6: I'm laughing with the crowd. You know, sometimes it'll just 1364 01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,320 Speaker 6: you know, push it over just enough and then before 1365 01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:21,160 Speaker 6: you know it, you know, now I'm on. 1366 01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:22,920 Speaker 5: Stage, you know, puffing like crazy. 1367 01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:25,800 Speaker 2: Yes that shiit treacherous, dog like. It's so funny that 1368 01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,560 Speaker 2: it's like people take it for granted. But it's literally 1369 01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:29,720 Speaker 2: like laughing. 1370 01:07:29,880 --> 01:07:32,960 Speaker 3: Can't kill you, can't kill you, Like, yeah, they don't 1371 01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:36,000 Speaker 3: even know. It's like like I appreciate the fuck. 1372 01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,600 Speaker 2: Out of these laughs now, okay, Like after David Wayne's 1373 01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:41,520 Speaker 2: almost killed me, I was like, every last one of 1374 01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:43,000 Speaker 2: these motherfuckers I get on this earth. 1375 01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:49,800 Speaker 4: Yeah right, that's probably about your laugh so loud because 1376 01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,000 Speaker 4: one thing about me and Roger told you. 1377 01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:53,960 Speaker 1: Me and Roger have like a hearty hearty, like a 1378 01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:55,400 Speaker 1: really loud laugh. 1379 01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:57,120 Speaker 5: And yes. 1380 01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:01,600 Speaker 4: And so when I love going to comedy shows where 1381 01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:04,240 Speaker 4: it's like a lot of white people and like the 1382 01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:06,280 Speaker 4: black table, and a lot of times people actually look 1383 01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:07,480 Speaker 4: at us like is it okay? 1384 01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:12,120 Speaker 1: And I realized this a lot of times comedian. 1385 01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,800 Speaker 4: Was actually start the jokes towards us because like the 1386 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:18,360 Speaker 4: whole table will actually land. At that time, Me, Roderick, 1387 01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,720 Speaker 4: nick Ju and Lennon Brothers went out and Taryland and 1388 01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,160 Speaker 4: the whole table was like the center of like all 1389 01:08:25,240 --> 01:08:27,240 Speaker 4: the comedians. So everybody that came on, they was like, 1390 01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:31,080 Speaker 4: let's target this table because they laughed and everybody else 1391 01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:31,679 Speaker 4: was stuck. 1392 01:08:31,760 --> 01:08:34,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're definitely a great artist, like you. 1393 01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,040 Speaker 1: Know, yeah that comedian is little. 1394 01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:37,439 Speaker 3: I feel like we helped the artists. 1395 01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,479 Speaker 2: And it's not on purpose either, so it's not even 1396 01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:42,639 Speaker 2: on some like charity shit, because I hate a charity laugh. 1397 01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:45,280 Speaker 3: That's like the worst. Like just call me, just tell 1398 01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:47,519 Speaker 3: me I'm not funny, you know what I mean, Like, 1399 01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,439 Speaker 3: don't do that. But but like you know, we just 1400 01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:51,280 Speaker 3: have hearty laughs. 1401 01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:53,720 Speaker 2: But it's just interesting because, like I said, it's like 1402 01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,559 Speaker 2: when it happens in your space, it's something you can't 1403 01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:00,400 Speaker 2: ever not think about. Have you ever perform ordered that 1404 01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:03,719 Speaker 2: club again in Philly or like is that act Liminals? 1405 01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:05,040 Speaker 3: Not yet? 1406 01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:07,160 Speaker 5: It was funny. 1407 01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,800 Speaker 6: I joked with my wife last night because I was 1408 01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:12,719 Speaker 6: telling them my mind's always spinning about like the next special, 1409 01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:16,960 Speaker 6: what's next, what's the next move? And I told her 1410 01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:18,799 Speaker 6: I was like, I should go back and film. 1411 01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:23,679 Speaker 5: A special in this I got. But since this last 1412 01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:24,439 Speaker 5: special was so. 1413 01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:29,200 Speaker 6: Heavily themed around the death experience, it was going to 1414 01:09:29,320 --> 01:09:32,400 Speaker 6: kind of kind of you know, it could be overkilled. 1415 01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:36,439 Speaker 3: To a certain over yeah right intent. 1416 01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:43,519 Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, I mean I definitely think about it. 1417 01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:45,120 Speaker 5: There's no way that I can't. 1418 01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,080 Speaker 2: Nah that would be that would be such a dope 1419 01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:51,920 Speaker 2: idea though, man, like it's I mean, you know, maybe 1420 01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:53,960 Speaker 2: not now, but at some point man to go back 1421 01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,120 Speaker 2: there and film that special, like you know that that's 1422 01:09:57,280 --> 01:09:58,120 Speaker 2: it's so poetic. 1423 01:09:58,200 --> 01:09:59,559 Speaker 3: It's almost like it gotta happen. 1424 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:02,960 Speaker 2: But like, and I know, now, I'm sure you're taking 1425 01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:06,439 Speaker 2: it serious, but you know, with Corona out there, it's like, 1426 01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:08,040 Speaker 2: well when we get some. 1427 01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:09,439 Speaker 3: Vaccines and shit, then okay. 1428 01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:12,160 Speaker 2: But yeah, so yeah, like what do you think about 1429 01:10:12,280 --> 01:10:14,880 Speaker 2: stand up in this age of the you know, dealing 1430 01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,840 Speaker 2: with Corona. You got people doing like outside shows, you 1431 01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:19,960 Speaker 2: got zoom comedy, you. 1432 01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:22,760 Speaker 3: Got shit, you got some motherfuckerss just like we're doing 1433 01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:25,080 Speaker 3: it old school. We don't care. Like, what do you 1434 01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:25,840 Speaker 3: think seeing all this? 1435 01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:31,880 Speaker 6: It's definitely difficult times. I mean, like I'm hurting folks, 1436 01:10:31,960 --> 01:10:34,760 Speaker 6: any artists. Well, I mean it's a struggle. I mean 1437 01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:39,000 Speaker 6: it went from March third. Oddly enough, Friday, March thirteenth 1438 01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:42,519 Speaker 6: was my last show. The rona kind of hit Thursday, 1439 01:10:42,600 --> 01:10:45,439 Speaker 6: March twelfth, I remember them shutting down the kids' schools, 1440 01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:48,600 Speaker 6: and then the next day I had a show in 1441 01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:51,960 Speaker 6: Virginia and it ended up being like a real epic show, 1442 01:10:52,160 --> 01:10:54,400 Speaker 6: Like it was like the last show people came out 1443 01:10:54,439 --> 01:10:56,519 Speaker 6: to before everything kind of shut down. 1444 01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,479 Speaker 5: You know, A lot of venues were canceling shows. You know. 1445 01:11:01,680 --> 01:11:04,080 Speaker 6: Thankfully the show that I was on, they went ahead 1446 01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,840 Speaker 6: and went with it, and uh, you know, I went 1447 01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:10,920 Speaker 6: on stage with lightsow and gloves on, right, and I 1448 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:13,120 Speaker 6: mean it was just one of them. It was one 1449 01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:15,720 Speaker 6: of those nights again where it felt like Jordan, where 1450 01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:19,160 Speaker 6: the room was you know, tenni what and it was 1451 01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:21,400 Speaker 6: just a straight ball. And that's the last time I 1452 01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:23,360 Speaker 6: was on stage. You know, I haven't been on stage 1453 01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:27,280 Speaker 6: in almost six months now, so yeah. 1454 01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:32,720 Speaker 5: It feels. Uh, it's scary because you know, you you 1455 01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:35,120 Speaker 5: spend you know, fourteen. 1456 01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:39,000 Speaker 6: Years building a Korean you know, unknowns, the special that 1457 01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:42,840 Speaker 6: I think does have the potential of creating some waves, right, 1458 01:11:44,160 --> 01:11:45,920 Speaker 6: but it's like, you know, how much can you even 1459 01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:49,960 Speaker 6: capitalize on those opportunities? You know, you can't go and 1460 01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,920 Speaker 6: take the meetings, you know, you know they wanted to 1461 01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:54,880 Speaker 6: offer you a spot on this sitcom, but they ain't 1462 01:11:54,880 --> 01:11:57,559 Speaker 6: shooting the show no more. It's like all these whatever 1463 01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,679 Speaker 6: it's far as clubs. I mean a lot of smaller clubs. 1464 01:12:02,920 --> 01:12:06,000 Speaker 6: I've seen them go under already, some of the more 1465 01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:11,840 Speaker 6: major ones, like the Improvs or Holding On. But I mean, 1466 01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:15,840 Speaker 6: like these zoom shows. Like you said, I don't think 1467 01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:19,280 Speaker 6: they can support comedy in the way that it's supposed 1468 01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:24,120 Speaker 6: to be consumed. Like I'm a very I'm a purist 1469 01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,920 Speaker 6: when it comes to stand up, Like I think it 1470 01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:29,920 Speaker 6: should be a mic and a person in a crowd 1471 01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:32,080 Speaker 6: and that's it. 1472 01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,799 Speaker 2: Like there's something intimate about it that that's just missing 1473 01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:36,880 Speaker 2: from online, you know. 1474 01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:39,439 Speaker 1: And I think too that that's a different muscle. 1475 01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:42,000 Speaker 4: I don't think people understand a muscle that has to 1476 01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:44,680 Speaker 4: be it has to come on because there's a lot 1477 01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:47,960 Speaker 4: of comedians they're very good at that, not old school 1478 01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:52,160 Speaker 4: but traditional comedy. But if you get them into Snapchad 1479 01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:56,080 Speaker 4: or into Instagram, into Facebook, it's difficult. 1480 01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,439 Speaker 1: But you have some people with that's their lane, but 1481 01:12:58,520 --> 01:12:59,400 Speaker 1: they're terrible. 1482 01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,640 Speaker 3: At like stand up. And it's also that thing too, 1483 01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:03,120 Speaker 3: where like. 1484 01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:07,280 Speaker 2: In a comedy in a room, there's a there's a 1485 01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:11,040 Speaker 2: different type of allowance for comedy like in a like 1486 01:13:11,160 --> 01:13:13,479 Speaker 2: in a room, you can play a little bit with 1487 01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:15,439 Speaker 2: the lines of like I'm gonna go a little over 1488 01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:17,280 Speaker 2: the edge and I'm gonna bring y'all back, I'm gonna, 1489 01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,840 Speaker 2: you know, like this joke, y'all gonna go ooh, and 1490 01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:21,760 Speaker 2: then the next thing, y'all gonna laugh at I'm gonna 1491 01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:22,479 Speaker 2: release the tention. 1492 01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:24,920 Speaker 3: And I feel like online is not the same. 1493 01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,280 Speaker 2: It's like, you know, people take shit out of context, 1494 01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,640 Speaker 2: people record shit and put it out like there's not 1495 01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:32,760 Speaker 2: a trust there with the audience that I think you 1496 01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:35,799 Speaker 2: can have a little bit more in person exactly. 1497 01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:38,839 Speaker 5: Yeah, in the room, that truly is like a sanctity. 1498 01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:43,479 Speaker 5: It's like an unspoken rule. Like you said, there's a trust. 1499 01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:46,920 Speaker 5: That's me Chappelle and Rock. 1500 01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:48,280 Speaker 6: I mean one of the things that they do with 1501 01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:50,720 Speaker 6: shows now that they take your phones and put them 1502 01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:51,240 Speaker 6: in bags. 1503 01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:53,400 Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't get them back until you leave. 1504 01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:56,720 Speaker 2: So I forget who said it, but damn, I can't 1505 01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:58,040 Speaker 2: remember who said it, but there was sh it was 1506 01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:01,360 Speaker 2: so funny. There was just like nothing funny in text. 1507 01:14:01,760 --> 01:14:04,240 Speaker 2: And they're fucking right, Like if you take a stand 1508 01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:06,320 Speaker 2: up special and just type the shit out and take 1509 01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:09,439 Speaker 2: like put put put different things on this, like this 1510 01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:12,120 Speaker 2: ship ain't funny and he's talking about so and so 1511 01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,760 Speaker 2: and this, and it's like but if you're in the room, 1512 01:14:15,120 --> 01:14:18,000 Speaker 2: you understand the vibe and it's like it's different. So 1513 01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:20,679 Speaker 2: it is taking something away from comedy, Like I feel 1514 01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:23,599 Speaker 2: like stand up like has to come back. 1515 01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:26,479 Speaker 3: As stand up. It can't be created, recreated into some 1516 01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:27,080 Speaker 3: other ship. 1517 01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,639 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely can't. 1518 01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:32,280 Speaker 6: I mean I think, uh, I mean, I think it's 1519 01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,640 Speaker 6: a place for all of it. There's a place for 1520 01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:39,759 Speaker 6: the for the online cat. I mean when you're talking 1521 01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:44,160 Speaker 6: about yeah, I mean a zoom show will never replace, right, 1522 01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:48,000 Speaker 6: you know, sitting and having three hundred people looking back 1523 01:14:48,080 --> 01:14:50,000 Speaker 6: at you and you stay that. 1524 01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:53,040 Speaker 5: One line in the whole room pops at the same time. 1525 01:14:53,400 --> 01:14:56,080 Speaker 3: Right, that's just it's just yeah, something to it that 1526 01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:57,160 Speaker 3: you just can't replace. 1527 01:14:57,280 --> 01:14:57,479 Speaker 1: Man. 1528 01:14:58,479 --> 01:14:59,840 Speaker 2: And then, like I said, you see some of the 1529 01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:03,120 Speaker 2: mediings out here, they like they got the outside shows, 1530 01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:05,360 Speaker 2: which I think is a you know, it's a pretty 1531 01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:07,719 Speaker 2: good compromise, but it's not it's not the same because 1532 01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,479 Speaker 2: people ain't packed in it's tight, it's not you know, 1533 01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:12,160 Speaker 2: it's extracted. 1534 01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:13,400 Speaker 3: Everybody got a mask on. 1535 01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:13,800 Speaker 4: You know. 1536 01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:15,599 Speaker 3: They worry about getting Corona too. 1537 01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:18,599 Speaker 2: Like it's like, it's really just we gotta fix Corona 1538 01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:20,559 Speaker 2: first before I feel like all that shit can really 1539 01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:21,040 Speaker 2: come back. 1540 01:15:21,880 --> 01:15:25,160 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's impossible for it to. I mean, comedy clubs 1541 01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:29,960 Speaker 6: are notoriously you know, tight spaces packed in, you know, 1542 01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:32,920 Speaker 6: they they purposely put the tables close together for the 1543 01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:37,120 Speaker 6: energy factor. Yes, you know, so all the things that 1544 01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,360 Speaker 6: it's completely opposite social distancing. 1545 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:43,519 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, exactly. Like that's the thing, Like you 1546 01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:44,559 Speaker 3: be in a comedy club. 1547 01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,680 Speaker 2: It's like this nigga is hitting my elbow and this 1548 01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,439 Speaker 2: other motherfucker is about to be sweating in my drink. 1549 01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,479 Speaker 3: But if a person, if a person is funny enough, 1550 01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,240 Speaker 3: you don't give a no more. Yeah, it's just like, 1551 01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:58,320 Speaker 3: oh no, we all in here laughing, and that vibe 1552 01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:01,400 Speaker 3: is crucial to to man. 1553 01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:05,280 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's something I'm scared about. It's 1554 01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:08,160 Speaker 6: something that I'm very I mean, I pray about stand 1555 01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:10,280 Speaker 6: up the way I pray for my kids and my family. 1556 01:16:10,479 --> 01:16:12,480 Speaker 1: Right yeah, that's your baby. 1557 01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:15,080 Speaker 6: My baby, I mean, and it's really something that I 1558 01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:18,519 Speaker 6: I mean, I honor it, you know, I you know, 1559 01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:21,960 Speaker 6: I don't bring no bullshit around it. You know, you 1560 01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:25,240 Speaker 6: know when I approach the stage just with humbleness, it's 1561 01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:28,280 Speaker 6: with you know, you know, I respect the talent that 1562 01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:31,640 Speaker 6: God gave me. So it's you know, everything has to 1563 01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:34,560 Speaker 6: be in line, and I never want to be on 1564 01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:39,240 Speaker 6: some sucker shit, you know what. I mean, so, you know, 1565 01:16:39,320 --> 01:16:42,599 Speaker 6: I hope that it comes back. I don't really see 1566 01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,559 Speaker 6: it coming back maybe until maybe like twenty twenty two, 1567 01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:51,400 Speaker 6: like in full force. But I think when it does, 1568 01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:56,800 Speaker 6: I think it's going to be like real celebratory, and 1569 01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,840 Speaker 6: I just hope folks like like this is like a 1570 01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:03,679 Speaker 6: a challenge to all other comics, Like, you know, we're 1571 01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:06,080 Speaker 6: all in the house right now. You know, obviously we 1572 01:17:06,160 --> 01:17:09,160 Speaker 6: don't have places to work out, but I mean, I 1573 01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:11,320 Speaker 6: hope everybody's writing their best shit. 1574 01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:11,920 Speaker 5: Yeah. 1575 01:17:12,520 --> 01:17:13,679 Speaker 3: Absolutely, So when. 1576 01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:16,280 Speaker 6: We can come back out in twenty twenty two and 1577 01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:20,439 Speaker 6: start filming specials again, I want everybody to be trying 1578 01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:22,720 Speaker 6: to swing for the fences, you know. 1579 01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:25,840 Speaker 5: I want people to want to embarrass you with their 1580 01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:26,600 Speaker 5: special I. 1581 01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:29,519 Speaker 2: Want you know, yeah, I really do hope materials coming 1582 01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:31,280 Speaker 2: out of this, because it's like, this is the time, 1583 01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:33,680 Speaker 2: you know, if your students are life. I feel like 1584 01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:35,640 Speaker 2: everybody shit when they come back, gonna have to have 1585 01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:37,960 Speaker 2: some runa material because we all went through it. But 1586 01:17:38,479 --> 01:17:40,680 Speaker 2: it's gonna separate the week from the chafe. You know, 1587 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:42,240 Speaker 2: we're gonna find out who the best Carol. 1588 01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:42,920 Speaker 3: What were we gonna say? 1589 01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:45,559 Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you do you run your jokes 1590 01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,240 Speaker 4: past your wife and she was like. 1591 01:17:47,320 --> 01:17:49,280 Speaker 1: That's funny, that's not funny, or you're just like, you know, 1592 01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:51,200 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna include you in the process. 1593 01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:57,479 Speaker 5: Right, Occasionally I'll uh, because I mean, most of my 1594 01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:59,479 Speaker 5: jokes kind of just come out of the moments. 1595 01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:02,920 Speaker 6: Like it's never really I mean, some comics literally sit 1596 01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:05,880 Speaker 6: and write, you know, they sit at the computer for 1597 01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:08,840 Speaker 6: an hour a day, and you know, if it doesn't 1598 01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:12,479 Speaker 6: come out of me organically, I typically don't take it 1599 01:18:12,520 --> 01:18:16,800 Speaker 6: to the stage. So sometimes I will, you know, say 1600 01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,120 Speaker 6: something to her if it comes out, Like if me 1601 01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:23,360 Speaker 6: and her are laughing together about something and something she 1602 01:18:23,600 --> 01:18:27,800 Speaker 6: says sparks a funny thought in my mind. As I'm 1603 01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:31,680 Speaker 6: typing it down, I'll say, I'll repeat it back to her, 1604 01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:34,599 Speaker 6: you know, just to see if it gets a reaction 1605 01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:35,439 Speaker 6: a second time. 1606 01:18:36,880 --> 01:18:38,120 Speaker 5: If that makes sense Now. 1607 01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:38,639 Speaker 3: It makes sense. 1608 01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,920 Speaker 2: I live in my head too, so a lot of times. 1609 01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:44,200 Speaker 2: That's the other thing too, is I'm always coming up 1610 01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:48,000 Speaker 2: with shit anyway. So like every once in a while, 1611 01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:52,519 Speaker 2: I'll share something with Karen or something where it's just like, well, 1612 01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,479 Speaker 2: I'm already thinking that it is funny. So like we'll 1613 01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:56,880 Speaker 2: be watching TV one has a TV show called for 1614 01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:02,599 Speaker 2: My Man. Yeah, that's my show, my favorite show. It's 1615 01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:05,160 Speaker 2: basically it's like the black version of Snap, you know 1616 01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:08,120 Speaker 2: what I mean, like people, people killing people and ship 1617 01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:14,000 Speaker 2: for documentary style, real bad reenactment. Uh it's beautiful, man, anyone. 1618 01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:17,200 Speaker 2: I can't recommend it show highly enough. Uh, TV one 1619 01:19:17,320 --> 01:19:19,240 Speaker 2: for My Man if you got it in your local area. 1620 01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:22,559 Speaker 2: But anyway, like sometimes I'll just be watching that ship 1621 01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:24,760 Speaker 2: by myself, and I'm always thinking of funny ship the 1622 01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:28,800 Speaker 2: whole time. I'm just like, you know, but every once 1623 01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:31,400 Speaker 2: in a while, with caring, I'll just bridge, I'll just 1624 01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:34,120 Speaker 2: share some inner monologue or something, and then that. 1625 01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,400 Speaker 3: Lets me know like, Okay, that ship is funny or whatever. 1626 01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:37,080 Speaker 5: You know, Like. 1627 01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:41,559 Speaker 3: Like like if a woman kills some like when last 1628 01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:44,360 Speaker 3: night a woman killed her married dude. She was a 1629 01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:49,360 Speaker 3: side chick too. She killed him for her boyfriend who 1630 01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:52,200 Speaker 3: who was using her for money, and you know, I. 1631 01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:54,960 Speaker 2: Just I just wait, just like it's going to commercial 1632 01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:58,280 Speaker 2: and be like yeah, you know, uh that's that's that's 1633 01:19:58,320 --> 01:19:58,880 Speaker 2: love right there. 1634 01:19:58,920 --> 01:19:59,560 Speaker 3: That's what I would do. 1635 01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:00,439 Speaker 5: You know. 1636 01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:02,760 Speaker 3: She's like, I'm not doing that for you. I'm just 1637 01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:05,920 Speaker 3: like all right, cool, cool, not as funny as I 1638 01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:06,400 Speaker 3: thought it was. 1639 01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:11,760 Speaker 1: I had to let him know. When people go ride 1640 01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:12,760 Speaker 1: or die, I'm ride. 1641 01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:13,639 Speaker 3: I'm not die. 1642 01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:16,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't do that part. 1643 01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:19,240 Speaker 4: Like if I die, you better be one hundred percent 1644 01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:22,679 Speaker 4: in the right. Like if I'm gonna, I'm standing for justice. 1645 01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:24,120 Speaker 4: I'm not dying on a bullshit. 1646 01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:26,400 Speaker 3: I'm like, I was, I was. I was like, no, 1647 01:20:26,479 --> 01:20:27,320 Speaker 3: I kill a nigga for you. 1648 01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:28,320 Speaker 5: Just let me know, like. 1649 01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:34,000 Speaker 3: No questions asked. You know, everybody get one free, but 1650 01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:35,519 Speaker 3: not a fan. 1651 01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:37,679 Speaker 2: But but yeah, it is that and and it also 1652 01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,000 Speaker 2: it was interesting because me and Karen been together forever too, 1653 01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:43,800 Speaker 2: and it was funny. On a special we talk about 1654 01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,599 Speaker 2: how you went from like homegirl homeboy to like dating. 1655 01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:50,200 Speaker 2: It is very similar where it's just like and it's 1656 01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:53,200 Speaker 2: so weird that people write off in our minds, like 1657 01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:56,080 Speaker 2: the idea of like a friend, and it's like it's 1658 01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:58,200 Speaker 2: like the separation, Like this is my best friend. 1659 01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:00,639 Speaker 3: I love everything about her. We do every thing together. 1660 01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:05,200 Speaker 3: It's like, no, nigga, that's disgusting. Why would I ever. 1661 01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:09,360 Speaker 3: I'm like, so you're telling me we think marriage is 1662 01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:11,880 Speaker 3: till death? Do you part? Best friend? 1663 01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:16,880 Speaker 2: Like we need to share everything finances children. But don't 1664 01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:19,479 Speaker 2: let this nigga be your best friend. That's crazy. 1665 01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:22,760 Speaker 1: Like everybody that don't make no sense, you know. 1666 01:21:23,240 --> 01:21:26,160 Speaker 4: Because me and Roger we used to ride the bus 1667 01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:29,840 Speaker 4: together and so I sat right behind the bus driver. 1668 01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:31,920 Speaker 4: So when I got the bus, drip picked me up 1669 01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:33,880 Speaker 4: and pick him up a few stop later. So I 1670 01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,640 Speaker 4: would get on and sit down, and if anybody try 1671 01:21:36,680 --> 01:21:38,200 Speaker 4: to sit aside me, I was like, no, you can't 1672 01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:40,439 Speaker 4: sit here. This seat is already even the bus driver 1673 01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:42,519 Speaker 4: was killing them, this seat is already taken. 1674 01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:46,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was a similar experience. 1675 01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:46,240 Speaker 7: Man. 1676 01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:49,080 Speaker 3: Seen that Teddy changed everything. 1677 01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:53,439 Speaker 2: Bro, when the t come out, it's all best off, 1678 01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:54,840 Speaker 2: it changes everything, Bro. 1679 01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:59,800 Speaker 4: I was, Yeah, I was the aggressor because my my, 1680 01:22:00,080 --> 01:22:03,160 Speaker 4: your husband, that the the cues that go out, he 1681 01:22:03,280 --> 01:22:03,680 Speaker 4: missed them. 1682 01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:05,640 Speaker 1: All. I had to tell him the Verizon woman was 1683 01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:06,559 Speaker 1: hitting on him and ship. 1684 01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:08,120 Speaker 3: He was like, what do you mean. 1685 01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:10,559 Speaker 1: I was like, that woman was hitting on your side. 1686 01:22:11,520 --> 01:22:13,280 Speaker 5: Get you free nights and weekends, right. 1687 01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:16,920 Speaker 3: Try to get some of you know, any time minutes? 1688 01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:17,280 Speaker 1: I don't. 1689 01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:20,000 Speaker 3: I don't know. That's what it was for me too. 1690 01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:24,880 Speaker 3: It's like, oh, these why did you tell the phone. 1691 01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:33,400 Speaker 2: Along with the Okay, but no, that's that's dope, man 1692 01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:37,120 Speaker 2: like and uh to know that, you know, you know 1693 01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:40,360 Speaker 2: that that in addition to like that relationship, you know 1694 01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:42,559 Speaker 2: it's coming to Philly to. 1695 01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:46,280 Speaker 3: Get you is the kids. It's it's like like you said, 1696 01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:48,479 Speaker 3: you're in it for You're in it for life like 1697 01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:49,000 Speaker 3: that man. 1698 01:22:49,280 --> 01:22:52,040 Speaker 2: And to have that, you know, the person that know, 1699 01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,960 Speaker 2: to get you some water before you die on the podcast, 1700 01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:56,680 Speaker 2: that's what That's what we're all looking for. 1701 01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:57,760 Speaker 3: That's what everybody wants. 1702 01:22:58,400 --> 01:22:58,599 Speaker 4: Yeah. 1703 01:22:58,680 --> 01:23:00,639 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean my wife, you guys are minus what's 1704 01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:00,960 Speaker 5: a lot? 1705 01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:03,760 Speaker 6: I mean, you know we worked very closely together, you know, 1706 01:23:03,960 --> 01:23:06,240 Speaker 6: I mean stand up and she works in marketing. She 1707 01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:10,799 Speaker 6: owns her own marketing firm called the Audacity Group Marketing. 1708 01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:14,840 Speaker 1: That's want to be doing ship? Did she going for 1709 01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:15,559 Speaker 1: another degree? 1710 01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:16,280 Speaker 7: You know how we do? 1711 01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:20,800 Speaker 4: Like nobody black woman, I'm getting another degree because I 1712 01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:22,520 Speaker 4: can bitch, because I can't. 1713 01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:25,240 Speaker 5: Tonight come out. 1714 01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:28,400 Speaker 3: I didn't get them all yet, Okay, gotta catch them all. 1715 01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:32,439 Speaker 1: I want all the letters behind my name, all of them. 1716 01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:35,439 Speaker 5: Yeah, but I mean, I mean she was one of 1717 01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:37,160 Speaker 5: the executive producers of the special. 1718 01:23:37,400 --> 01:23:40,519 Speaker 6: You know, her marketing you know agency was you know, 1719 01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:43,360 Speaker 6: integral and you know, promoting the show and pushing it out. 1720 01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,840 Speaker 3: So I mean that's another part of that's the other 1721 01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:48,679 Speaker 3: part that's so funny. 1722 01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:48,840 Speaker 6: Man. 1723 01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:51,080 Speaker 2: When people talk about marriage, like people will be like, 1724 01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:54,600 Speaker 2: so you work with your wife, It's like, yeah, I 1725 01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:55,439 Speaker 2: mean I really. 1726 01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:56,080 Speaker 3: Do like my wife. 1727 01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:56,719 Speaker 1: Is that okay? 1728 01:23:56,960 --> 01:23:57,760 Speaker 5: Is like I. 1729 01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:01,040 Speaker 3: Thought that was the point. 1730 01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:05,720 Speaker 1: Y'all, y'all talk to each other. Y'all actually like each other. 1731 01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:10,639 Speaker 4: Because the thing about about me is that I'm kind 1732 01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:12,800 Speaker 4: of coming into my comedy mind. I don't know if 1733 01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:16,240 Speaker 4: this makes sense, Like I've I haven't always been funny. 1734 01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:17,840 Speaker 4: I used to didn't have a sense of humor. Roger 1735 01:24:17,960 --> 01:24:19,599 Speaker 4: kind of got me into a sense of human Cauager 1736 01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:21,200 Speaker 4: used to say stuff and I would go off and 1737 01:24:21,320 --> 01:24:21,680 Speaker 4: he had to. 1738 01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:23,000 Speaker 1: Have to calm me down. 1739 01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:25,800 Speaker 4: But like Karen, I'm joking, so I know how it 1740 01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:27,720 Speaker 4: is to go from a nonsense of humor to a 1741 01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:28,479 Speaker 4: sense of humor. 1742 01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:34,120 Speaker 1: And so for me, I'm putting pieces together and like 1743 01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:37,600 Speaker 1: learning how to do ads, like to add on and 1744 01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:38,080 Speaker 1: shit like that. 1745 01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:40,320 Speaker 4: So I'm actually a lot better than I used to be, 1746 01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:43,040 Speaker 4: and I have the cushion of our audience because sometimes 1747 01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:44,400 Speaker 4: my jokes are fucking terrible. 1748 01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:47,120 Speaker 1: But that's the fun part of it is that they bad. 1749 01:24:47,720 --> 01:24:50,880 Speaker 2: They don't they don't give a fuck, Like it's like 1750 01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:52,519 Speaker 2: a little bit I get mad because I'm like, I 1751 01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:55,840 Speaker 2: worked online and y'all, y'all gave me. 1752 01:24:55,880 --> 01:24:58,879 Speaker 3: The same laugh as Karen, being like this fun makes. 1753 01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:00,559 Speaker 2: No sense, but I'm gonna go ahead it out here 1754 01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:03,479 Speaker 2: and we yeah, same, we get the same laugh. 1755 01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:04,360 Speaker 3: And Karen don't care. 1756 01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:07,120 Speaker 2: But nope, Hey, Jason, tell them where to because we're 1757 01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:10,000 Speaker 2: about to hit the time limit. Tell them where to 1758 01:25:10,080 --> 01:25:13,720 Speaker 2: get the album or the stand up special and and 1759 01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:15,280 Speaker 2: where to find you and all that stuff. 1760 01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:18,200 Speaker 5: Yep. So you can stream the special. 1761 01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:21,000 Speaker 6: If you want to watch physical physically watch the special, 1762 01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:23,479 Speaker 6: go to Amazon Prime Video. 1763 01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,639 Speaker 5: Everybody got that Everybody got jail broken? Five sticks? 1764 01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:35,000 Speaker 2: Uh, that should be that's easily as that is the 1765 01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:38,280 Speaker 2: best slash words now is motherfucker's got all of It's like, yo, man, 1766 01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,400 Speaker 2: I seen your special, Like, oh for real, yeah, man, 1767 01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:41,880 Speaker 2: I got it off of YouTube. 1768 01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:45,480 Speaker 3: You're like, right, right right, I mean, thank you, but damn. 1769 01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,599 Speaker 5: So yeah, a special on Amazon Prime. 1770 01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:52,960 Speaker 6: But it's also an album, so if you want to 1771 01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,000 Speaker 6: listen to the audio version of it, you can go 1772 01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:56,519 Speaker 6: to Pandora and. 1773 01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:57,040 Speaker 5: Type it in. 1774 01:25:57,200 --> 01:26:01,440 Speaker 6: It's on Serious exam. Uh, it's pretty much everywhere iTunes. 1775 01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:05,960 Speaker 6: You can get it through Google Play a bunch of 1776 01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:10,639 Speaker 6: different places, but those are the main main joints. Also, 1777 01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:12,639 Speaker 6: if you can go to my site, my website Jason 1778 01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:19,160 Speaker 6: Wimscomedy dot com on my socials length right there on Instagram, 1779 01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:23,320 Speaker 6: I'm at Jason Williams Comedy, Twitter's at Jay Williams Comedy, 1780 01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,000 Speaker 6: and Facebook's Jason Williams Comedy. 1781 01:26:26,080 --> 01:26:27,760 Speaker 3: There you go, man, I'll make sure to put it 1782 01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,760 Speaker 3: all in the show notes. Man, we appreciate you coming through. 1783 01:26:30,880 --> 01:26:31,040 Speaker 7: Man. 1784 01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:32,599 Speaker 3: It was it was such a great time. 1785 01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:36,680 Speaker 2: It's like yesterday we had a guest that had to 1786 01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:39,599 Speaker 2: cancel at the last minute, so I wasn't here nervous 1787 01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:41,600 Speaker 2: and ship like, man, it can't be two days in 1788 01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:45,320 Speaker 2: a row like. But it was like you came through 1789 01:26:45,439 --> 01:26:49,160 Speaker 2: man completely, like you killed it, bro. So we'll appreciate 1790 01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:49,719 Speaker 2: you man. 1791 01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:52,000 Speaker 3: For for y'all. 1792 01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,439 Speaker 2: The rest of y'all will be back Saturday for our 1793 01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:57,080 Speaker 2: feedback show for our premium members. We're gonna do the 1794 01:26:57,080 --> 01:26:58,439 Speaker 2: sports show and stuff tomorrow. 1795 01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:02,560 Speaker 3: And I'm trying to think that's I think that's it. 1796 01:27:02,720 --> 01:27:06,000 Speaker 2: We've been so busy the last couple of weeks I 1797 01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:07,680 Speaker 2: had I had to stop and be like, we got 1798 01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:09,240 Speaker 2: some ship to do Friday Saturday. 1799 01:27:09,560 --> 01:27:11,160 Speaker 3: I think we can actually breathe. 1800 01:27:11,240 --> 01:27:14,240 Speaker 2: We can take the time off and just breathe and relax. 1801 01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:16,599 Speaker 2: So all right, y'all, until next time. 1802 01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:17,439 Speaker 6: I love you. 1803 01:27:18,280 --> 01:27:18,479 Speaker 1: Why