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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning, everybody. It's DJ n V Jess Hilarious,

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Speaker 2: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club law La

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Speaker 2: Ross here as well. We got a special guest in

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Speaker 2: the building. We have a comedian, Ryan Davis. Welcome brother.

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Speaker 2: What's up man now? Donald Rawlings is feeling into here.

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Speaker 2: You know, Charlomagne's out, just is out. So donn Ella's

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Speaker 2: is one of our family members, extended family.

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Speaker 3: But don't expect me to do no booty drop, so

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Speaker 3: none of that type of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Crazy.

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Speaker 2: But how are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: First for I'm feeling good, man, I'm feeling good.

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Speaker 2: Your new special, Underrated is out right now. Yeah, man,

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Speaker 2: And it's a story. You put it together for people

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Speaker 2: that don't know. Explain how you started to do this

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Speaker 2: on your own. You shopped it around and yeah, you

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Speaker 2: couldn't get a deal.

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Speaker 1: Nah, I shopped it around. It's funny too whenever you

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Speaker 1: because I mentioned Netflix immediately when I said all Netflix

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Speaker 1: didn't take it, people go, you know, there's other places.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they understand how shopping around goes. You

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Speaker 1: shop it everywhere, you know, I just mentioned Netflix, but

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Speaker 1: it was hailed for like five months or it was

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Speaker 1: in their hands for like five months, and then eventually

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Speaker 1: they said, you know no, they passed on it. And

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Speaker 1: by that time, you know, yeah done. Will tell you man,

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Speaker 1: some material has like shelf Life. Yeah yeah. But what

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Speaker 1: I want to say, this is what people understand.

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Speaker 4: Like Robbie.

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Speaker 3: Robbie Praut is a big exec over Netflix, and even

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Speaker 3: for years I've been in his presence. I don't want

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Speaker 3: to make this interview by myself, but we shared the

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Speaker 3: same career paths and I asked him one time, I said,

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Speaker 3: what do I have to do to give myself a

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Speaker 3: better position for you know what? I know people ask

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Speaker 3: him all the time what about a Netflix special? And

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Speaker 3: he said, Donelle, you one of the funniest comments that

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Speaker 3: I know. I respect you, but you have to understand.

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Speaker 3: We tell people no all day and that's what people understand.

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Speaker 3: You see people that on Netflix. But it's a lot

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Speaker 3: of deserving people. But for some reason, it might not

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Speaker 3: have been the time, it might not have been the thing.

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Speaker 3: They might have needed something from the Alphabet Commune, somebody

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Speaker 3: from the Alphabet Commune that year, whatever, But what I could say,

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Speaker 3: and I had a problem moment I slipped on your

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Speaker 3: page when you took metals into your own hand.

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Speaker 4: And one of the.

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Speaker 3: Things I did, and I appreciate about you. A lot

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Speaker 3: of people in this business they talked ship. They won't

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Speaker 3: put their money where their mouth is and they won't

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Speaker 3: bet on themselves. So when I saw you that testimony

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Speaker 3: and you broke it down, this nigga went analytical. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: he had charged numbers.

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Speaker 2: You spent, well, how much did you shoot? How much

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Speaker 2: you did?

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Speaker 1: Take? You ast me about one fifty. Because you know,

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Speaker 1: when you choose certain venues and then you have to

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Speaker 1: address the venue. I had to paint the stage. It

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Speaker 1: was several cameras. You know, you got to get the jib,

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Speaker 1: you gotta get the everything. Like I had to pay

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Speaker 2: So when you go to these places like Netflix and

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Speaker 2: all these other places that said no, which made you

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Speaker 2: decide to do it on your own, they tell you

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Speaker 2: why no, or they just like, damn, you have no

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Speaker 5: Has been the block. Once you did that breakdown on

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Speaker 1: Many and that was the thing, it went so crazy.

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Speaker 1: But because it was it was shared hundreds of thousands

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Speaker 1: of times, So like my dms were crazy, and there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of people reaching out who have platforms

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Speaker 1: all or even entertain Plus I've already told millions of

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Speaker 1: do with it, you know, And to the people who

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Speaker 1: a great time to reach out to other comedians because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of comedians that have my story. You know,

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Speaker 1: at this point, you should you should put out that

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Speaker 1: them a space to share their art, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I wanted. I wanted, you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but they're not going to do it.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people talk a lot of shit, and

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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, like when we are

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Speaker 3: only like ABC, CBS, NBC, and the ultimate platform for

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Speaker 3: specialist was the HBO, Right, It wasn't a million things.

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Speaker 3: So there are avenues but if you know, in this business,

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Speaker 3: Netflix probably is the most prestigious, the one that people

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Speaker 3: it's something to be said about a Netflix special. I

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Speaker 3: think you're deserve it. Interesting to me, is underrated? Why

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Speaker 3: did you choose to name your special underrated?

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Speaker 1: I think that is.

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Speaker 2: And if you're just joining us, Ryan Davis is here,

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Speaker 2: Donnella's filling in for Charlemagne, and Donnella is on his journalist.

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Speaker 5: Tip period because he just brought that in real, real easy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think underrated describes kind of what my journey

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Speaker 1: is right now in stand up, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I think amongst my peers, they know how I get

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Speaker 1: down on stage. But I think the general public we

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Speaker 1: have gotten to a point where the skill of stand

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Speaker 1: an individual. And I wanted to highlight that when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the stand up space. You know, I think

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Speaker 1: think I'm criticist anytime I'm criticized, it's based off of

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Speaker 1: social media content. Oh, I don't think, you know, he

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Speaker 1: may be this because of the I've seen clips of

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Speaker 1: that's why I went with underrated.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you, is Netflix the goal? And what

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Speaker 2: I mean by that, It's like when you when you

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Speaker 2: play basketball, the goal is NBA, When you play football,

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Speaker 2: the goal is NFL. You know, when you do something

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Speaker 2: the goal might be, you know, to own a Ferrari

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Speaker 2: as a comedian, is the goal Netflix?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think I think Netflix put

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Speaker 1: It makes you go, Okay, now I see the influence

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Speaker 1: that Netflix has and I kind of want that launching pad.

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Speaker 1: That's how you think of it. I think that's what

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Speaker 3: When you say when you say underrated, is that your

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Speaker 3: observation or is that the observation from your fans and

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Speaker 3: people that have been following your journey. Who's saying you

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Speaker 1: Nah, I think that's what I've viewed over the years.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't even think. I think over the

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Speaker 3: I will say the first time I ever saw you,

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Speaker 3: And I was like, cause, you know is a thing,

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Speaker 3: you know, my stuff set I come to eat it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, did you come behind me? I closed?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was when I left them, I was like,

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Speaker 3: all right, do what you gotta do. What it was

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? You getting rattled.

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Speaker 3: And when I say, even when I watched the clips

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, you're timing, you know.

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Speaker 3: And then when I saw you, when I first time

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Speaker 3: I was like, this motherfucker's original his point of view.

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Speaker 3: He's not talking about everything these motherfuckers talked about. And

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Speaker 3: then when I watch you, I say, guess what this

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Speaker 3: the point. How do you do you feel sometimes because

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Speaker 4: I'm asking you the question.

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Speaker 2: So it's just but to add on what he said,

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Speaker 2: he's right, right, And the reason I say that is

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Speaker 2: is I know you as a comedian, but to me,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't stand out as it should. Yeah, he's a

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Speaker 2: So how do you deal with that? And how come

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Speaker 1: But that's why I lead to underrated. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: tell you, I'm not going to act like that's not

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Speaker 1: bothersome to be underrated amongst the people you feel like

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Speaker 1: you relate to the most black people.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, because I'm going to ask you, like, because you

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Speaker 6: said underrated, people look at you like you said up

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Speaker 6: and coming, like you're not successful. Like when I said,

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Speaker 6: I was going to ask you how successful you are?

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Speaker 6: But I don't mean for you to like name every accolade.

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Speaker 6: I mean, where do you think your level of success ranks?

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Speaker 6: And like what is success to you? Because if you

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Speaker 6: can put out one hundred and fifty k real easy

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Speaker 6: for a special right, a lot of people don't got

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Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty k in cash, just be like, yo,

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Speaker 6: I need to shoot this.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're doing something somewhere.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. So yeah, I'm doing all right.

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Speaker 1: But that's also because of my fans. I went straight

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Speaker 1: to my fans. This Patreon that I'm doing is not new,

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Speaker 1: and I you know, I don't do the whole flashy thing.

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Speaker 2: The Louis Vatine shirt that you got on it is cool,

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Speaker 2: How's he doing now?

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Speaker 1: He's see proud black man. He won't tell you, he

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Speaker 1: No, so that my family actually didn't know how successful

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Speaker 1: He was like, people come to see you like that.

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Speaker 1: It's just people love. Like when I grew up, MTV

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Speaker 3: You don't see color. You just see a person's a storyteller.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know before I went to Canada to

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Speaker 3: Culturally, that's all that comes with experiences like me coming

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Speaker 4: So I had to work on that.

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Speaker 1: No, it's really important. I think I have like control issues.

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Speaker 1: gonna bother me, and then I want to I want

436
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Speaker 1: to fix that, Like I don't know, that's just always.

437
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:13,840
Speaker 1: That's the thing in my personal life too.

438
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 2: You remember your worst show? You ever you ever got

439
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 2: booed like you remember your worst show?

440
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 1: Nah, I've never been booed. I always I always remember

441
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 1: my worst show. Though I invited a crush of mind

442
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:26,399
Speaker 1: to the show. She sat front row and I bombed

443
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,960
Speaker 1: right in front of her, and H damn, yeah, I

444
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:35,880
Speaker 1: don't think i've seen her sin this. Uh, I wasn't

445
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:37,439
Speaker 1: that long ago, like ten years?

446
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 4: Who wasn't Who wasn't?

447
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,399
Speaker 3: Like sometimes the girl No, no, no, my brain is

448
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 3: somewhere else always asks this question when someone thinks about

449
00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 3: doing comedy.

450
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 1: Who was it?

451
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 3: Was it somebody in your family or life that said

452
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Speaker 3: you have to do it?

453
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 4: Stop making me laugh, you gotta do it.

454
00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,360
Speaker 1: No, because my humor is a little different, and I

455
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,959
Speaker 1: love the art of comedy. You know, being funny in

456
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 1: a space versus being funny on stage is two different

457
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: skill sets. There's so much thoughtfulness to being funny on stage.

458
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Speaker 5: He don't understand that because.

459
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Speaker 1: I think you know, whenever you're whenever you're in a

460
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 1: space with many people, a conversation is usually already happening,

461
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 1: so the connection is already there. So you all, whatever

462
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 1: you're going to say in that moment is relevant to

463
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Speaker 1: the conversation. When you're on stage, you're creating the conversation

464
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 1: and the relevancy, and it's your job to communicate it

465
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Speaker 1: in a way that makes them laugh. So the idea

466
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Speaker 1: of just being funny in your day to day and

467
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 1: that's going to carry over. You know everybody that's a

468
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 1: that's a gift. Very few have. Donelle is funny like that.

469
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Speaker 1: Carlos Miller is funny like that. But there's not There's

470
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Speaker 1: not a lot of people who are so funny that

471
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Speaker 1: it can translate like that. I've seen Donelle walk into

472
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 1: the audience. He forced the connection of one of you.

473
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 1: You know, you'll understand what I'm saying, yo, and then

474
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Speaker 1: he'll put He'll like it's it's insane.

475
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Speaker 2: But let me ask you, you know, with so many

476
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 2: comedians supporting you, right if you listen, like you know,

477
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 2: I heard Kevin Hard and Charlemagne do an interview, and

478
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 2: I've heard Kevin support you, you know, support you. I

479
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 2: guess verbally, do you feel like there should be more

480
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Speaker 2: support with comedians where they actually help because they have

481
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,680
Speaker 2: other opportunities Because you know, we all see what's going

482
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 2: on with Netflix and some of those other things.

483
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Speaker 1: But they do. They do. I think the conversations aren't

484
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Speaker 1: had a lot. But Dave Chappelle, whenever I put it

485
00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: out or whatever, he texts me. He's told me before,

486
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 1: you know, if I need anything, I can reach out.

487
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Speaker 1: When we did when fifty was opening he did the

488
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Speaker 1: big show down in louisianas the Shreveport I was like,

489
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: literally in Dave's green room and he told fifty, if

490
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Speaker 1: you're working on something comedy or whatever, this is one

491
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,200
Speaker 1: of the better comedy writers of today. You need to

492
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,399
Speaker 1: book him to do something. Those things do happen, you know.

493
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:22,640
Speaker 1: I like, have you written on shows? No, So whenever

494
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Speaker 1: a time came for me to write on a show,

495
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 1: Aaron McGruder actually had reached out because they were working

496
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Speaker 1: on something, and I was like, man, the opportunity to

497
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: work with the creator of Boondocks would have been crazy,

498
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: but it got shelfed, so I didn't get the opportunity.

499
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Speaker 1: But yeah, now.

500
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Speaker 2: Man, he is reaching out.

501
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like so with my special I got it

502
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 1: as a one time by because Patreon is a subscription

503
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 1: based and I don't want nobody to feel obligated to stay.

504
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: But the people who get the subscription you also get

505
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 1: my talk show. Slash podcast is coming, Kevin Hart's gonna

506
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: be on that, Charlemagne's gonna be on that, Jill Scott

507
00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: method man a lot. There's a lot of support from

508
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: entertainers and they agreed to this before that video even

509
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: came out, you know what I mean. And within the

510
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,639
Speaker 1: industry there's always a lot of support in people, but

511
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: a lot of us artists aren't decision makers, so they're like,

512
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 1: what can I do that, you know what I mean.

513
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,360
Speaker 1: They can use their popularity and their platform to draw

514
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 1: more attention to you, but at the end of the day,

515
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: it's still on the decision makers to make that decision.

516
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, the decision makers didn't pick me,

517
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Speaker 1: but the people did, so let me do. I'll put

518
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Speaker 1: my own money up to give the people what they've

519
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: been asking for.

520
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Speaker 3: And you know, with that add to it's a slow grind,

521
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 3: but it's still a grind.

522
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

523
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Speaker 3: It's like, you can it's easy for it. You be

524
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Speaker 3: like this, oh I want to do, this is gonna blood.

525
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:47,880
Speaker 3: But I think the path that you're doing, how you're

526
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 3: doing building relationships with some of the top people, being

527
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Speaker 3: respected and being funny.

528
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Speaker 4: Like I said, the.

529
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Speaker 3: Success whatever success you, it's already my opinion, it's already

530
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 3: mapped out. It's going to happen. You just got to

531
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 3: stay the course and it's everything's going to fall into place.

532
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know what story because I don't laughing.

533
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 4: No, I'm telling you something.

534
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 3: It's so hard for me to laugh at the motherfucker

535
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 3: And I didn't want to laugh, right, I'm like this,

536
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 3: but it was just like, man, it was just seeing

537
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,200
Speaker 3: you perform. It was a breath of fresh air man,

538
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,200
Speaker 3: especially from seeing so much garbage, and like right now

539
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 3: the biggest thing now. And I'm not knocking anybody doing

540
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 3: the crowd work, but I remember when I first started

541
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,199
Speaker 3: that wasn't respected that side of comedy. It was like

542
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 3: I did forty five minutes, Yeah, but you did thirty

543
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 3: minutes worth of crowd work. But now it's a different thing,

544
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 3: and it's hard. It's so refreshing to see somebody like

545
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 3: it's up because it's easy. You can't tell these young

546
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 3: guys that have the following, you can't tell them to

547
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 3: work in their craft because it used to be if

548
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,239
Speaker 3: you want to pussy, if you want the money off

549
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 3: of this, guess what.

550
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 4: You had to do. You had to be good.

551
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: You had to be good.

552
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 4: Now you don't got to be good.

553
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 3: They got me the money, they getting the accolades, They're

554
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 3: getting the money before they good, and it's hard to

555
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 3: tell him you should work on this. And was like,

556
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,360
Speaker 3: you know, I just made three hundred thousand on Instagram. Yeah,

557
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 3: they don't have that. They don't have the thing to

558
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 3: make them want to be better.

559
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: And that was I didn't want to fall into that.

560
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: I didn't want to fall into that. Like I even

561
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: monetized my social media late. I remember a lot of

562
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: people were like, you're not monetizing, you just missing out

563
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,800
Speaker 1: on money. I was like, I don't want that to

564
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,000
Speaker 1: be my motivation.

565
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 2: Put that first check you is easy.

566
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, when you get when the money that come

567
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: from social media is dumb, it's really dumb. But I

568
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: didn't want that to be I wanted to be one

569
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: of the best, and I didn't want I'm gonna tell

570
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 1: you the story that bothers me so much is the

571
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: Bernie Mack story. Why he like he doesn't have that

572
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 1: hour special because he was at a time where you

573
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: had to be picked. Yeah, and they wouldn't pick him,

574
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: even though he was so popular amongst us that he

575
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: would sell out theaters and that other comedians like when

576
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: we when you can look at def Comedy Gym view

577
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: Bad Boys of Comedy, comedians up doing impressions of Denzel

578
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: Washington and Bernie Mack. Denzel Washington was our biggest star,

579
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: and the other recognizable voice within our community that people

580
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 1: wanted to do the most was Bernie Mack. And he

581
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: still wasn't picked. It took him dominating on Kings of Comedy,

582
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: which he wasn't considered the guy, you know, industry wise

583
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: before he really got And I just like I wish

584
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,639
Speaker 1: that he had the opportunity to self produce because that

585
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,000
Speaker 1: one stand up is really all most people have it.

586
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 3: I'm not exactly the same, but it's some similarities. Like

587
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 3: even with the testimony you did, was like this, okay,

588
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 3: how come what he did was eventually he showed.

589
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: In the numbers. Yeah, he showed the numbers.

590
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 4: This is this, this is this? How does that translate?

591
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 3: And somebody foually that got I think I forgot who

592
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 3: was the showrun? He finally connected with the right crew

593
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 3: and then they saw it and he basically was like

594
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Speaker 3: this this what to tell you, motherfucker.

595
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I think it was like cracked me from wrong.

596
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 6: All of that fight shouldn't have happened because from the

597
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 6: minute that he mic, we knew he was the guy.

598
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 6: And you actually had a quote I wanted to actually

599
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 6: if you still felt this way. You said, fame hasn't

600
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 6: cared about talent for.

601
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: A while now, for a while now, and I don't.

602
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: But this is the funny part. They moved the goal post.

603
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: They moved a gold post. Fame hasn't cared about talent

604
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: for a while, so but now they don't even give

605
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: opportunities to the famous. So it's like like, what do

606
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: you do? Like you can be really like what are

607
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: they looking for? Are they searching for anything? Because you

608
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: can go I'm really like, I'm really skilled, I'm really talented,

609
00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: or you get Nah, we're not giving it to that

610
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: right now. And it was like this person has a

611
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: bigger follower than you, will give it to you. Well,

612
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: this person has a bigger follower than them. Yeah, we're

613
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 1: not doing followings right now. It's like it's like, what

614
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: is the criteria I would look, I'll do I'll do

615
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: the work necessary to let me know where the I

616
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: think that's one of the most difficult things just for

617
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: us within this space is if you set a criteria,

618
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: we'll hit it. But when there's no criteria, now you

619
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: you have us like waiting on you to make a

620
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: decision on us. And once I realized that, I was like,

621
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not waiting on nobody.

622
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: No more about with you and Kevin Durant, Why are

623
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 2: you Kevin Durant got upset with you.

624
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: Oh, Kevin Durant. So, Kevin Durant loves to go back

625
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: and forth with people on social media. And you know,

626
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: we had a difference of opinion, and I'm cool with

627
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: difference of opinion. He said, he said offense wins championships,

628
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: which is not a saying, has never been a saying

629
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: in any sport. Yeah, and that's what we disagreed. And

630
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: then he called me a trash comedian. And that's when

631
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: I knew he was familiar. This is what I'm talking about.

632
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: It's certain words, the in word in comedy.

633
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: It's like, it's hard to go back to trash anything whack.

634
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 4: Those are fighting words in the way in the world

635
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:12,440
Speaker 4: of comedy that you roasted.

636
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: The man's just horrible. Trash is trash trash. That's how

637
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,959
Speaker 1: my whole day went. Like if you like, you know

638
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: people now they set up, they try party. You see,

639
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: they show with how they do that. If that, if

640
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: that had done that, all you would have saw is

641
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: me like sitting at the trash everywhere.

642
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 5: But that's what But that's I said. But if you

643
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 5: know you funny though, it's like.

644
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's why I think. I think he didn't know.

645
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: That's why you felt like, yeah, I had to show

646
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: him he don't know, and let me let me show you.

647
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 5: Show you something. I like that.

648
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: But the thing is, like, y'all asked me about that,

649
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 3: why do you take it so personal? It is the

650
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 3: trigger trash Cordy in Whact when when Kramer went off

651
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 3: at the last factory that year and he just was

652
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 3: flowing down, you know what triggered him? Somebody, Yo, you

653
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 3: ain't funny, That's like, what the fuck are you talking about?

654
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 3: And especially when you know you know you're not trash

655
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: is so sensitive?

656
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: It's not comedians. Let me tell you something sensitive, y'all. Y'all,

657
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: y'all ignore when everybody else is. You gotta remember Erica

658
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: Badu said it best keep in mind, I'm an artist

659
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: and I'm sensitive about my ship.

660
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 6: But I thought so many shots though, So I feel

661
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 6: like y'all moved from sensitivity.

662
00:32:37,920 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, I just I don't feel like I was

663
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: sensitive in that moment. I kept it basketball. I talked

664
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: about basketball and that he said I was a trash

665
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: commed he said that he made it personal. I would

666
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: I kept it basketball, but I was like, since we

667
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: want to get personal.

668
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 5: You want to be finding, you want to.

669
00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 1: Be Yeah, you want to step into my arena. Let's

670
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: let's see how you fair. I can't beat you in basketball,

671
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: but I promise you I'm way better at this.

672
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 3: Like you said, well you you put it in one lesson.

673
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 3: Certain comics aren't like you, like y'all fuck with everybody

674
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 3: like your style. He's not a style of comic that's

675
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 3: going to be like trying.

676
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: To roast certain people like that.

677
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,479
Speaker 3: You got Michael Blackson, perfect example, Michael Blackson, and I

678
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 3: love him. He's a provocateur. He's going to push the

679
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 3: button and he's going to cross the line. But it's

680
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 3: like a person like Ryan, person like myself. They don't

681
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 3: cross the line. When people come at him like that.

682
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 3: It is I know it's easy for y'all say why

683
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 3: y'all take person because this is our shit man.

684
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is the crazy part when they say

685
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: people take shots. Michael Blackson is a good example. Michael

686
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: Blackson is roasting you with love. I run into him

687
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: in the airport. He's like, what you doing in here?

688
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: You ugly nigga? And then be like, Yo, were about

689
00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: to go to Ghana in a couple of months. You

690
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: know what I mean, let me know if you've available,

691
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fly you out. I'm gonna show you some

692
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: stuff where I come from, like in Africa. You know

693
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: what I mean. That ain't somebody who hate you.

694
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 3: He just he just loves I had him on my

695
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 3: podcast and it's so funny. A lot of people don't know,

696
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 3: like what he did in regard to his village during

697
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 3: that school and I was like, wow, I know you

698
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,959
Speaker 3: look at him and he talked. I'm like, why isn't

699
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 3: this being celebrated, And a lot of people when I

700
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 3: passed a lot of people saying I didn't even.

701
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 4: Know about it.

702
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know. I think people just look at

703
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 5: because I know what you're talking about.

704
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 6: But like when you got y'all are like, we look

705
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,400
Speaker 6: to you guys for relief a little bit, and I

706
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 6: know you talk. There was a sitdown that you did

707
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 6: where you talked about how comedy, especially black comedy, is

708
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 6: kind of like the relief for a lot of like

709
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,480
Speaker 6: traumas and different things. And when I watched that, I

710
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:42,879
Speaker 6: was like, Okay, I kind of get what he's saying,

711
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 6: and maybe that's why I don't see Like for me,

712
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 6: I look at you, it's like, Okay, you're the funny guy.

713
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 6: So when you're being upset about something, it's like, why

714
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 6: you upset, You the funny guy.

715
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 5: Or when you're responding, it's like, no, you're the funny guy.

716
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 5: Just be funny. But it's like you're our relief. So

717
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 5: it's like it's hard for us to see y'all as

718
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 5: anything but that.

719
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: Sometimes, and that's messed up that y'all don't see us

720
00:34:59,480 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: as people.

721
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 3: Smokey Robinson, people say I'm the life of the party

722
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 3: because I tell a joker too, But take a good

723
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 3: look in my face and you see I'm frowning. We

724
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 3: as comics, as much as someone going to the show's

725
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 3: therapeutic for them, is therapeutic for us, and the best

726
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,720
Speaker 3: comments are the ones that whatever they deal with life,

727
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 3: they know how to go up, go on stage and

728
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:20,239
Speaker 3: talk about things in trouble in them.

729
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 1: Right on my special I talk about I talk about

730
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: my relationship. I have a fractured relationship with my mother.

731
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: I talk about that.

732
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 2: I talk about that must have been difficult to do

733
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 2: that in front of him.

734
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: Oh what like she she had something to say, but

735
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: she was there, she supported So I always love her

736
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: for that.

737
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 4: Fractured relationship.

738
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: Man, whenever, especially in our community, the woman the matriarch

739
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: of the family. You know, she can do no wrong

740
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: at times, and then she does do wrong. You gotta

741
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 1: have that grace. You don't ever disconnect from your mother.

742
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: And I made the decision not to really speak to

743
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: my mother for several years.

744
00:35:58,719 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 4: Oh that's tough.

745
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I talk about that in the set. You

746
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: know what I mean. The mother of my children almost died,

747
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: you know, carrying our children. I talk about that. I

748
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 1: talk about That's what I'm saying. I turn those those

749
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: things into levity. I talk about race, I talk about

750
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: political correctness, I talk about relationships. I talk about everything,

751
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: because there aren't spaces for that. I talk about suicide.

752
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 1: I talk about. And I think people don't realize because

753
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: if you don't go to my shows, you don't know

754
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 1: they've been. There have been many black men who walk

755
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:39,320
Speaker 1: up to me and go, you know, I have a

756
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: kind of a fractured relationship with my mother and there's

757
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: no space for us. Nobody's talking about what it is

758
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: to be a black man in that space, to look

759
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: at the woman who created you and not feel the connection.

760
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: That's the person we want to love us the most.

761
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: You know. The people who don't feel that love, where

762
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: do they go for levity? And that's what I try

763
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 1: to provide.

764
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:01,720
Speaker 2: But do you give a grace?

765
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: Right? Oh? I give her grace?

766
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 2: And I say that is you know, we came up

767
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: in the ever where, you know, especially black families, it

768
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 2: was mind your business, a kids, stay in a kid's place,

769
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 2: and they didn't show emotion. They didn't talk about their bills,

770
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 2: they didn't talk about none of that. You had to

771
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 2: figure it out when you figured it out, right, So

772
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,720
Speaker 2: you have to give her that. Like my kids are differently.

773
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 2: They know everything that's going They know when daddy got

774
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:23,800
Speaker 2: a bad day, daddy having a good day. They know

775
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 2: when daddy get a big check. When that they ain't

776
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 2: got no check. They know everything because we're more I

777
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 2: would think we're younger parents and we're more relatable. So

778
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 2: as long as you're giving your mom.

779
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,959
Speaker 1: I had to give her grace because my mom's super young.

780
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: My mom had me as a teenager and I wasn't

781
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: even a first child, so you know, understanding, I had

782
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 1: my first child at twenty six and I wasn't ready.

783
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: So having my third one at like seventeen, you know,

784
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: I couldn't even imagine what. You know, she never had

785
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 1: a chance to become an adult before she started raising

786
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: children of her own. Was your mother trafficked? No, she

787
00:37:59,320 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 1: was married.

788
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 4: I was on stage the other day and I really

789
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,000
Speaker 4: do the stage. I realized that my father trafficed my mother.

790
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 5: What what is happening?

791
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry?

792
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: What did you want to talk about it?

793
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 5: Like, not whenever your mom got traffic tell us about it?

794
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 4: No, this is your show.

795
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 2: But your mother had three children by the age of seventeen.

796
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 1: Four by nineteen by nineteen Yeah, so was your father

797
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: a lot older? Was it? He's older? Yeah, he's older.

798
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: I talk about that in the special.

799
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 5: What was that dynamic like for you? Though?

800
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 6: Just because I mean the relationship ended up fracture, but

801
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 6: like coming up and your mom is growing up with

802
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 6: you with three other kids for other kids, that was like,

803
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 6: that was your sister.

804
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: Was like when you see her as mom, that's mom

805
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: because she we weren't raised like she's. We weren't raised

806
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: by grandma like my parents were married, they raised us together.

807
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 1: It wasn't until you get to like you get to

808
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 1: become an adult, like I'm thirty eight. My mom was

809
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 1: thirty eight when I was twenty one and I had

810
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: older siblings. That's crazy, that's crazy. That's when I started

811
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: to see how young she was. Before it was always

812
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: that's my mom.

813
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 2: Club and actually see your yeah.

814
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: Man, listen, no, yeah, but she my mom is I

815
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: and I deal with It's so funny because now because

816
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: I didn't deal with the stuff that she dealt with,

817
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: it's like I'm more mature than her now because she

818
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: never got a chance to mature. She had to be

819
00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: that fourteen year old girl and then turned mom and

820
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: then never really got the chance to grow us up

821
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: because she had to focus on everybody else. And at

822
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,839
Speaker 1: times now I feel like I'm older than her.

823
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 5: When she came and saw you, was that her first

824
00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 5: time hearing the jokes about your relationship.

825
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I've talked about our relationship on podcasts

826
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,239
Speaker 1: and I never said what exactly was or whatever she

827
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:05,040
Speaker 1: did because it was you know, that's between us. But

828
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 1: the thing is she won't admit to it. And there'll

829
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: be people who watch this who know what I'm talking about.

830
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: When you confront your parents about what it is or

831
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: what trauma they brought to you or what they did,

832
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,800
Speaker 1: and it's not that you're saying you're a bad parent,

833
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: this is my experience of you. And then the first

834
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: thing they'll say is, also, I was the worst parent ever. No,

835
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here if you were a bad parent,

836
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,479
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't purchase the home and give you that.

837
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 1: You know, if I thought you were a bad parent,

838
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: I wouldn't praise you the way i'd do if you

839
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 1: were a bad parent. This is where I feel like

840
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: something went wrong in my development and I just want

841
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: you to see what's happening to me. I'm coming to

842
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: you because I'm trusting you. This is still me being

843
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: vulnerable with you. They can't register it like that you're

844
00:40:58,480 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: taking a shot.

845
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 3: I have a daughter, How does that affect the relationship

846
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 3: did you had did you have with your mother? How

847
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 3: does that affect the relationship? And you're raising your daughter?

848
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,399
Speaker 1: So my I have a ten year old daughter, seven

849
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,920
Speaker 1: year old son. So what I realized is because my

850
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: parents wasn't affectionate, and I felt like I turned out okay,

851
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: that there was no need to give my children that

852
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,840
Speaker 1: kind of affection. You know, I didn't deem affection necessary.

853
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: Well, you know what in Korean culture because I was stationary.

854
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 3: That's Korean fathers. They have no emotional connection with the kick.

855
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 3: Their only responsibility is to provide and protect all that

856
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 3: I love you and everything they are. Korean fathers are

857
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 3: the toughest fathers to have period.

858
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was really like that. My son, you know,

859
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:50,200
Speaker 1: he's very affectionate, he's very sensitive and things like that,

860
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: and I was just like tough up, blah blah blah

861
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: blah blah. But I'm like, he's going to the person

862
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: he believes will protect him, and he trusting with these emotions.

863
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here going get over it. I ain't

864
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 1: even realizing what I'm doing to him. I'm drawing a

865
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: line of disconnecting with him. He doesn't feel safe around me. Now.

866
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: Is that because of the relationship you have with your father?

867
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 3: Is that passed on the generations?

868
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: No, man, my father was my dad. Oh my god.

869
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 1: If you have older parents, your parents still here, you

870
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: might have seen this from your father.

871
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 4: You have father's dad.

872
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, sorry to hear that. Yeah, Dad, I love you,

873
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: See you when I get back to Charlotte.

874
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 4: So my dad, y'all got your fathers all in your life.

875
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: No, it's not a flex man. Yeah, it's not a flex.

876
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 5: So, I mean my dad halfway and half way, y'all

877
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 5: depends on today.

878
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, stop rubbing this. So my dad, he wasn't

879
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: very affectionate and I and you get older and you realize,

880
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: you know, I remember how my grandmother was, and I

881
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: was like, oh, he probably didn't get a whole lot

882
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: of affection either. But my dad is super affectionate now.

883
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,800
Speaker 1: He says I love you all the time. He calls

884
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: to see how you're doing, any cares and all that stuff.

885
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: He a completely different nigga than the nigga I grew

886
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 1: up with, and that took a while for me to

887
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: get used to. Like he would go, you know, he

888
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: would say I love you, over the phone. I'd be

889
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: like everything, okay, we're good. Yeah man, yeah, But grandfather

890
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: he'd be like, gone, my dad was he didn't do

891
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: he didn't do it like that. But now I'm so

892
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: like I kissed my son and my daughter every time

893
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: I see him, hug him every time. We can't get

894
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: off to you gotta we got it. Exchange I love

895
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: you or it's not. So it's up to you to

896
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: change it. It's up to you to recognize these things

897
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,240
Speaker 1: because your your parents did the best they could, whether

898
00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: you believe it or not. Even if you like, well,

899
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: they could have done better what they couldn't see how

900
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: many of us actually see the things that we do

901
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: that we're messing up. Somebody from somebody has to tell you. Usually,

902
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: somebody has to tell you how they're experiencing you. You

903
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: don't get to tell people how they should experience you. Absolutely.

904
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 3: How do you want your kids to see you?

905
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: Oh? I want my kids. I want my kids to

906
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: respect me, and I want my kids to be proud,

907
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: and they're not. They're not proud of me.

908
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you you I don't know. Once you

909
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 4: voice something.

910
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 2: But no one else said they'll be proud they'll be

911
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 2: proud in the next couple of years.

912
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: Right.

913
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 2: Let me tell you why. Similar to you, my kids

914
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 2: they know they hit me on the radio, but they

915
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 2: don't know what it is.

916
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: They don't know what it is.

917
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 2: When people take pictures, they like, that's just dad. Still

918
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: not popping to them. But when they see me on TikTok,

919
00:44:53,160 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 2: so be with other people, don't I'll be like, see

920
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 2: me like when they see me on TikTok and the

921
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 2: Man Yo.

922
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: When Kevin Hart was on here and he said my name,

923
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: I showed my son and he said, why does he

924
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:14,959
Speaker 1: know you? I was like, he was like, but he said,

925
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: casanat casanatus cool and like I when I had done

926
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 1: I had done TV movies and stuff like that, I'll

927
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: put it on the TV screen. It didn't mean nothing

928
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: to them. They saw I had a large following on YouTube.

929
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, my dad is really somebody. He on

930
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: YouTube with a lot of followers.

931
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 3: It was sol for me. When I did this character

932
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 3: on Soul. My son was like because the characters made

933
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 3: it to and that's how he got to get McDonald

934
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 3: happy meals every week because that was the toy thing.

935
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 3: He was like, my dad was in soul. And I

936
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 3: remember when when the Happy Mill discontinues that Dad, I

937
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 3: got a happy meal a day and I wasn't.

938
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 2: Really happy You're.

939
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 3: Not there no more than that's when he went back

940
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 3: to not fucking with me.

941
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 6: Before y'all get out of here, this is I'm changing

942
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 6: gears because I really want to hear your opinion on this.

943
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 6: So I was just this is breaking right now, not breaking,

944
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 6: but a lot of outlets are picking this up right now.

945
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 6: Eddie Murphy, he's a part of the No call Sheet documentary,

946
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 6: number one on the call Sheet documentary, and he talks

947
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 6: about Sidney Potier telling him to not do dramatic roles

948
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 6: in movies and to lead that up to like the

949
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 6: Denzels and things of that nature. I just want to

950
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 6: hear how y'all feel about that. Just hearing it, I

951
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 6: can give you all more context my personal.

952
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 4: Opinion on it.

953
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 3: If someone tells me what I can't do or shouldn't do,

954
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 3: that's gonna put the pack on me to want to

955
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 3: do it. And especially you can't understand Sidney Poitier's thing

956
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,440
Speaker 3: on that. But you never know, like how Eddie wanted

957
00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 3: to start, you know what I mean? Comedy might have

958
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 3: been the thing that he connected with it, but at

959
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 3: the same time he might have been wanted to be

960
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:46,439
Speaker 3: considered a more dramatic actor opposed to like a comedy actor.

961
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,360
Speaker 1: Stay Ryan, I think if he takes that advice, we

962
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: don't get Jimmy Early from dream Girls, and what a

963
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 1: shame that would have been. You see what I'm saying,

964
00:46:55,160 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: Like you can, you can respect the greatest who ever

965
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: do it. But just because they're one of the greatest

966
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: to ever do it doesn't mean that they won't set

967
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: limitations on you. And it's on you to not listen

968
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:11,920
Speaker 1: to those limitations. Thank god Eddie Murphy didn't listen to that.

969
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: You know what I mean that. That's my first thought

970
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: is you know, and Eddie Murphy to me, is the

971
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: greatest talent to ever live. I've never seen anybody more

972
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 1: talented than that in all facets, That's what I'm saying.

973
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: I've never.

974
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 6: He said he turned down that they were putting together

975
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 6: a Malcolm Ximell's be and he turned it down because

976
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 6: he had basically had been in conversation for it and

977
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 6: he was talking to Sean was like, Hey, what do

978
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 6: you think about this?

979
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 5: And after that advice. He was like, you probably won't

980
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 5: do it.

981
00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: Yep, And that was and that's sad. But I think

982
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: when people try to set limitations on you, they're thinking

983
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: about their own. As great as Sidney Poitier is, he

984
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:56,439
Speaker 1: probably was thinking about He probably thought that there were

985
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: you can't imagine. I don't think people can imagine a

986
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:04,959
Speaker 1: person like Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy is unimaginably talented. He's

987
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 1: literally a parrot. He can mimic anybody's voice, he can

988
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: mimic people's singing voice. But then he's talented within his

989
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: own right. Like his stand up is magnificent. His movies

990
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: are blockbusters. Saturday Night Live, he showed you I can

991
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: dominate sketch comedy and do that animation. He's Mushu and Moulan,

992
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,320
Speaker 1: He's Donkey and Shrek. There's no avenue that he has

993
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 1: not dominated. He has hit records like, yeah, I understand

994
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: telling somebody to be you know, realistic. I guess that's

995
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,239
Speaker 1: what you know. Maybe Sidney Poitier was thinking, but Eddie

996
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: Murphy doesn't fall into that. Neither does Jamie Fox. I

997
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: don't think a guy like DC young Fly falls into

998
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: that category. Is some people in this world who are

999
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 1: just so multifaceted and mostly talented that you actually limit

1000
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: the gift they could given to the world when you

1001
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,320
Speaker 1: tell them to stay in their lane.

1002
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,439
Speaker 5: He said that Sidney said to him, you're a brother

1003
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 5: for fresh air, and don't.

1004
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 1: F with that. Yeah.

1005
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 3: And then also that's a matter of opinion too, you

1006
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 3: have to subscribe to a Yeah.

1007
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: No, I think I think it was it was done,

1008
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: and I think he was looking out for him. I

1009
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: don't think people realize how how close you are from

1010
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: a bad movie from being forgotten or a bad performance

1011
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: from being forgotten. It happens, you know. I think also

1012
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: you got to think about in Sydney's time, he couldn't

1013
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:39,280
Speaker 1: take a risk on a roll because if it didn't happen,

1014
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: it was it wasn't a space for him to come.

1015
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 4: Sid did an open mic involved, right.

1016
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: So you gotta But I don't think like even Kevin

1017
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: Hart came up here and said the exact opposite, you know,

1018
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: when he was talking to my generation of comics, he

1019
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 1: was like, don't make your main thing your only thing, right,

1020
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 1: you know. So that's I just think that's the evolution.

1021
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 3: That resonated with that part resonated with me. That was

1022
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 3: like loud and clear.

1023
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: That was clear. I thank you for that.

1024
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 3: That was That was something that so many people and

1025
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 3: there's so many different lanes and so many other avenues

1026
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 3: that you can do. I remember, want to remember they

1027
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 3: used to do the Mixed Type Mixed Tape Awards, yep,

1028
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 3: I remember, and you know those crowds used to be

1029
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 3: rowdy as hell and run run DMC.

1030
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 4: He run it.

1031
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 3: I mean those mixed tape boards. They'd be like, yo,

1032
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 3: fuck you get out of here. I never seen nobody

1033
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 3: when he went on stage he commanded that order. They

1034
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,879
Speaker 3: got completely quiet. Then he was talking about hip hop

1035
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,760
Speaker 3: and he was like, hip hop is not just about

1036
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 3: being an MC. Hip hop is creating fashion. You have

1037
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,759
Speaker 3: hip hop lawyers and they don't just limit it to

1038
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:53,160
Speaker 3: music just MC just behind the scenes. I remember one

1039
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 3: time it was a quote from method Man. Mehan Man said,

1040
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 3: I'm tired of being a chump in the front. I

1041
00:50:57,719 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 3: want to be the MAC in the back. And what

1042
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,919
Speaker 3: Kevin said that it kind of all of those things

1043
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 3: resonated on what you can do in this business.

1044
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: And I hope whenever you know, me putting my money

1045
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: behind my own projects and I will do that for

1046
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: the rest of my career, whether anybody chooses me or not.

1047
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm always work towards my passion and I'm not gonna

1048
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: let anybody slam the door on my on my dreams.

1049
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: But I want to inspire my peers to do the same.

1050
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 1: Not just do the same in their own career, but

1051
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: come do it with me. Let's go, let's go make

1052
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: some stuff together. You got something you're passionate about. Let's

1053
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: put our money together, Let's get it done. Let's just

1054
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: get it done.

1055
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:39,919
Speaker 3: You know you're in our community. Easier said than done.

1056
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why it's easier said than done.

1057
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:47,760
Speaker 1: In our community. Black people love credit. They love credit.

1058
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: Like like you said, the method man said, you want

1059
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: to be the mac in the back. Not a lot

1060
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:54,479
Speaker 1: of us want to be the mac in the back.

1061
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: Like me. If I did a movie about my life story,

1062
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: people would expect me to play myself. Right, what if

1063
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: there's a better actor than me for this role, I'll

1064
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: move out the way. A lot of us won't move

1065
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: out of the way because we want credit. We rather

1066
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 1: our face be on the front of it than giving

1067
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: people the best product possible. And that but that comes

1068
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: from I believe just we go through life in our

1069
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,759
Speaker 1: community without getting the credit we deserve. So whenever we

1070
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: get the opportunity to get it, we want all of it.

1071
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: And we can't move like that whenever we're wanting to

1072
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: be creative. So I just hope that this inspires people

1073
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: to go look for it. Yeah, go look at the audience.

1074
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: Go look for people you because when you think about it,

1075
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 1: some of the most popular people don't even do stand

1076
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: up the people you deal the point if you really

1077
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: want to enjoy stand up comedy, there are people a

1078
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: Lei Sadik is killing it, you know what I mean?

1079
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 1: You know you got people like name Lyn, you got

1080
00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: me you know even the way. Yeah, and you just

1081
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Speaker 1: gotta you gotta go search it because they're not like

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00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 1: in music, they used to have artists development that we

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00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: just don't have that no more. So it's up to

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Speaker 1: the audience to go find us.

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00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 2: But where can they find you? Where can they find

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00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 2: your comedy special underratio? If they want to see it paid.

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00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: For, go to You can go to my Instagram, right,

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00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,319
Speaker 1: but you go to Patreon type and Ryan Davis, it'll

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00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: come up. Just go to Patreon type and Ryan Davis.

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00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 2: It'll come up and if you want to see him live,

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00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 2: he's performing at the Gramercy Theater on April.

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Speaker 1: Twelfth in here in New York.

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Speaker 2: That's right, And we appreciate you for joining us, and

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00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 2: thank you Donnelle for sitting due. Donnell's actually gonna be

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Speaker 2: at the City Winery this weekend. So I appreciate both

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Speaker 2: of you. Brothers man, thank you, thank you for donaver Stadase,

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Speaker 2: Charlamagne and just without today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but can I I don't even think Donnelle even remembers.

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00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:55,240
Speaker 1: But when we did, uh we did the Laugh Factory.

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00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,280
Speaker 1: He was hosting. I wanted to close. Shout out to Lonnie.

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00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,800
Speaker 1: Lonnie is a tough judge of comics.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, we had so many beasts in the day.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, she loves you, and that was the thing.

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00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: She was like, I need somebody to close. I was like,

1105
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,399
Speaker 1: I can close. She was like I don't know about that,

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00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:13,040
Speaker 1: and then I was like, nah, let me, let me

1107
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Speaker 1: do it. And then I got there and Donnelle was hosting.

1108
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's probably why she so. But

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00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: the show it was like me Donelle, miss pat JJ Williamson,

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Speaker 1: Seawan Jones. It was it was like they were bringing it.

1111
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:30,840
Speaker 1: And then I did the first show and the second

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00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: show when Donelle brought me up, he said, there's some

1113
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: people in this game that people don't know. They're like,

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00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: you don't know who they are one day and then

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00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: the next day they're one of the biggest comedians. I

1116
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: think this guy might be one of them. Wow, you

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00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,879
Speaker 1: probably don't even remember, but that's how he brought me up.

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00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, I proved the Donelle

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Speaker 1: that I'm supposed to be.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it was like for me because it's again

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00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 3: that three years ago.

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00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because I'd like, it's whatever.

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Speaker 3: People want to say that I know talent when when

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00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 3: I see it right and that room, I mean, the

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Speaker 3: thing that impressed me the most. People could go up

1126
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 3: there and they can have a good set, but it's

1127
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,279
Speaker 3: the way he did it, the subject matter, and you

1128
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 3: could tell it was somebody that didn't do the easy route.

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Speaker 3: It's like, this is who I am. And the level

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Speaker 3: of confidence. I was like, that's a bad motherfucker. And

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Speaker 3: I've seen people they're going to these spots and they

1132
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Speaker 3: feel like they got to perform a certain way. They've

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Speaker 3: seen this guy do that. That works for him. But

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Speaker 3: the ship was so original. That's why when you say underrated,

1135
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:28,919
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, who's rating you?

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Speaker 1: Well, they don't know, That's what I'm saying. They want me.

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Speaker 1: Being underrated speaks to if I was rated properly, they

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Speaker 1: would talk like you talk right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well definitely go check it out for yourself so

1140
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 2: you can see the brother, Ryan Davis, and again, thank

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Speaker 2: you for joining.

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00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: Us, you for having men down there.

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Speaker 4: Thank you brother.

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00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, and you see down there. We ain't make

1145
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:52,720
Speaker 2: no booty jokes today. Nothing.

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Speaker 4: I missed the movie. No, no, no, it is Ryan Davis.

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00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, thank you about now.

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.

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Speaker 4: The Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 1: H