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And the audience 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.600 raised their head, how many of y'all have had days 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.440 where you felt like you wasn't gonna make it? 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:11.880 And everybody raised their head. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.360 How many y'all have had days where you thought you 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.400 you just didn't know what you was gonna do. Everybody 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.560 raises they hand. I said, now, let me tell you 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:25.880 something about yourself. Your track record for surviving hard days, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.360 days you wasn't gonna make it, thought you weren't gonna 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:29.880 make it, an insurmountable days. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.440 Your track record for surviving those days is one per 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.399 every bad day you've ever had, you survived it. You 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:41.680 got a one hundred percent track record. Everybody in here, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.160 everybody watching, got a one hundred percent track record of 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:53.160 surviving funky ass days. My graduates from my school being 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:59.000 forced bad drop bag drop, Mike drop bad drop drop. 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.520 All right, guys, welcome back, e y l. This is 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.639 going to be a legendary situation. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:15.920 Feels legendary already. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.639 It's already a legendary pre conversation that we actually had 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.120 for like a half an hour. So if you know us, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.960 you know that you know we grew up in the 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:30.680 culture from music, sports, of course, entertainment. So one of 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.880 the pillars of our culture who's actually become an icon, 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.000 Steve Harvey. So Steve Harvey needs no introduction, But I 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.200 was telling him the story. My I'm not sure if 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.880 that's my first introduction, but like when it really became 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.080 like really really big. 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:47.440 For me was the Kings of Comedy. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.040 And it's crazy that that happened over twenty five years ago. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.840 Now the teenager say. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:55.720 That I was younger than the teenager. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.880 I'm gonna go further back. I'm gonna go further back. 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.840 I remember what happened to wait up at twelve am 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:02.639 to watch a show time at the Apollogy. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.040 Oh apollow that was before. 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.080 That was before what I'm saying the same time, right, 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:07.760 like you have to wait up to see it follow 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:11.040 that was legendary. But just to see the Kings of 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.119 comedy in the movie theater and to see his cultural impact, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.200 like I never forget, like I had never seen because 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.800 I'm too young for like raw or you know all 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:21.160 of those. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:21.760 So crazy. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:23.240 Yeah, that was before my time. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.160 So that was the first time I actually saw like 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:29.680 a comedy show in a movie theater packed and people 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.320 talking about it, and people stealing the jokes and making 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:34.120 it their own jokes. 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.920 Like what it just became like a cultural phenomenon. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.560 I think that might have been my first time crying 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.800 at theater. Why'd you cry because I was just laughing, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:45.840 so oh yeah, yeah. Once I said we back got 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:47.520 up there, it was just like this is crazy. And 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.400 then d l and it was it was crazy. It 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.080 was I couldn't wait for the DVD to come out 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:52.760 to keep watching it. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:53.560 That's how it was. 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.520 DVDs is what we used to put inside of the drive. 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:02.560 God damn forget it. Yeah, tell people, but you know, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.680 it's crazy. Just to see the evolution. I told them, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.040 it's just inspiring for me, Like we're actually at his 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.800 a state right now, and to see the evolution of 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.240 you know, somebody that was doing comedy and then it 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.800 was on TV radio and now just media mogul and 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.440 has grown a whole empire. Like, you know, it's inspiring 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.840 actually because we actually got to see it first hand. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:27.760 We actually got to like witness the growth step by 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:30.120 step by step by step. So this is going to 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.800 be a dope conversation because I feel like a lot 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.719 of times people might they might see the surface, like 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:38.200 they see, you know, the celebrity, but they don't actually 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.440 see what goes behind that and how he's actually transitioning 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.800 the whole world of Hollywood with the conversation that we 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.240 just had. We have that conversation as well, reframing everything 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.560 and ownership and all of this stuff global vision. So 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.240 this is going to be extremely extremely high level conversation. 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:55.120 Dope conversation. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.000 So it's dope because it's like we saw the entertainment, 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.320 but most people forget that there's a bit it and 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:03.720 so like they head here, what's gonna happen today? Man, 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.000 it's going to be one of those situations that they 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:06.880 gonna remember father. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.240 Yeah, thank you for joining us, brother, I appreciate it. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.000 Yeah, thank you for having us. Thank you man. 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:13.800 You know, one of the things like you were talking, 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:19.599 because what I learned very quickly that show business is 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:21.280 actually two separate words. 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.720 It's not one continuous thing. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.800 See, you can have the best show in the world, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:31.680 but if you don't have the business, then how would 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.919 people book you? How would people pay the ticket price 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.960 to see you? Why would people come? You know, if 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.040 you don't have the business. So you can have the 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.240 best show in the world, and if you don't take 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.240 care of the business, it won't work. You can have 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.120 the best business acumen in the world, but if you 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.800 ain't got no great show, or you might trick them 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.159 into paying you this money, and you might, but once 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.560 they get there and you don't have the show that 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.000 leaves up to the ticket price, you don't have a 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.080 repeat customer. So I always had to learn that show 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.640 business was two separate words, and I had to ask. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.919 And at first it only starts out as being a 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.760 great show show me because you got to learn the business. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:11.600 And over the. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.200 Years I started focusing on the business, and that was 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.839 one of the biggest causes for my success because I 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.800 always understood that even with a promoter that booked me 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.520 or comedy club owner that hired me, I didn't go 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:25.680 in there just to be hired. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:27.240 I went in there as his partner. 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.359 I wanted to sell his place out, so after he 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.880 paid me, he was successful, so he would want me back. 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:34.720 Over and over and over again. 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.800 And I kept that relationship whether it was a comedy 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.680 club owner or a promoter or a TV show. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:40.839 That was my philosophy. 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.520 So I want to get into this. I understand you 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.679 have five core principles when it comes to considering business. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:52.600 Dreaming big, dream big, use your imagination, show gratitude, overcome fear, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.159 and have faith. Yeah, man, can we go over each 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.120 one dream, big, let's start with that one. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.200 Everything starts with the dream. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:04.440 Nothing launches without the dream that comes from your childhood. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.479 From anything, it's the dream. It's the core basis of success. 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.840 See the thing with me, man, is that I don't 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.400 really focus on the technical aspects of business, because I'm 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.720 not the technical guy. I focus on the mental aspect 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.800 of business. I focus on the part that go on 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.360 in here, because if you fix what goes on in here, 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.480 you got a shot. Now, you technical ain't nothing if 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.680 you ain't got it set up. So the dream is 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.400 the core of everything. That dream, Man, it's biblical, you know. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.680 Man without a dream or vision shall perish. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:37.760 Listen about you. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.720 Education ain't even in the Bible. I ain't never mind. 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:45.320 I ain't never read nothing about Harvard Emory. I ain't 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.240 never heard no Ivy League scriptures. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.400 I've never All it talks about is that dream. So 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.680 that's the core imagination. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:59.200 Now that's critical, because see what people don't understand, is, man, 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:07.240 this thing that you imagine is is a peak. Albert 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.360 Einstein had a quote he said, imagination is everything. It's 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.520 the preview to life's coming attractions. Oh, man, when I 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.000 heard that that tripped me out. Because here's Albert Einstein 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.400 setting it out that imagination is everything. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.120 It's to preview to life coming attraction. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:28.280 So everything that's in your imagination is God showing you 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.600 a preview of a coming attraction that He has for you. See, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:36.520 So you can't don't let nobody play your imagination off. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.880 Don't let nobody twist you about what's in your imagination. 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.400 Don't learn how you see that they ain't supposed to 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.400 see it. See, everybody not gonna see your imagination. You 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.480 can quit telling it to them. Because God wanted them 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.280 to see it. He to put it in their imagination, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.000 but he put it in yours. So imagination is as 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.000 critical as the dream, because the imagination is just God 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.000 showing you a preview what he has to It's like 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.120 when you go to a movie and you get your 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.480 popcorn and you sit down before the movie start. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:06.679 What do they show you? 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:12.360 They show you previews of what a coming attraction? Have 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.560 you ever seen a preview? And then the movie ain't 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.240 come out? Now, Bro, Once you see the preview, it's 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.200 send to be a movie. 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.800 You believe that. And that's how the imagination works in 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:24.240 your life. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.440 I mean, as the third one is very interesting to me. 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.600 You show gratitude. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.200 See, gratitude is one of the most overlooked and key 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.880 principles to your success. 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:37.800 If your goal is to. 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.480 Be a millionaire, and you start out making twenty thousand 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:46.840 a year and then God gets you to fifty, but 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.920 you're mad because you ain't a millionaire, be hold up, man, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.120 do you not remember that just a minute ago you 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.760 wasn't didn't have a twenty, So you got to show 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:57.319 gratitude for the fifty. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.080 Then somehow, by the grace of God, you get to. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.719 It's people making one hundred and fifty who used to 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.600 be dead broke mad because they not a millionaire. Hold up, partner, 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.240 do you remember when you was just making the fifty? 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.040 Now you done triple that, And you gotta understand that 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.120 there's joy in the journey. So if you don't show 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.640 the proper amount of gratitude, you're never gonna be happy. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.319 You're never gonna be content. And after a while, man, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:26.440 God gonna get tired of you. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.560 They're like, if you somebody come over your house and 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.440 borrow a cup of sugar. Every day, every day, somebody 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:32.679 come to your house and ask you for a cup 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.319 of sugar and you give it to them and they 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.800 walk away and don't ever say thank you. How many 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.440 times can this cat come to your house and get 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.560 this sugar without saying thank you to you? 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.760 Before you, as a human being, go yo, yo, yo, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:46.439 my man. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.080 You come here every day and I give you this 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.040 couple of sugar, you ain't said thank you want to 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.360 don't come by here no more. But through God's grace 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.040 and mercy he allow us to keep coming back. But 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.400 suppose you were grateful though, Maybe one time you go 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.599 to God and ask for another one fifty and he 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.080 give you five hundred. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.439 Cause you didn't show gratitude. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.559 Maybe sometimes when the guy that kept coming by your 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.760 house asking for the cup of sugar, if he would 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.120 show g gratitude, maybe you go, hey, man. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.440 He go five pound cycle sugar. That way, you ain't 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:17.400 gotta come back tomorrow. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.760 But if you never show the gratitude, you never become 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.880 the recipient of the grace. And the grace is to 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.120 what you need on top of that that helps you 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.040 get to the next level and take your place. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.240 My wife asked me the other day, cause I just 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.320 turned sixty five, right, I was talking to my wife 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.520 and I said baby, I was just kind of kind. 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:37.920 I got a little throw it off a little bit, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:39.560 cause even I'm human, you know, I got a little 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.560 throw it off, said baby. I just turned sixty five, 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:45.280 and I really was wanting a little bit more to 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.360 be popped off by now. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.640 She said, way'm my hold up state. She said, let 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.360 me ask you something. When you was thirty, where did 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:56.920 you see yourself at sixty five? I said, well, I 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.320 ain't see this, She said exactly. She said, So you 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.360 could want all you want, but you need to go 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.200 outside and just drive around and go get in some 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:09.280 of your cars and see how you fly. 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.400 And just take a look around. And now I think 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.000 you be all right. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.199 And I went on and sat down and go sit 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:24.800 down about overcoming fear, well, fear. Fear is the number 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.440 one cause of people not being successful because davage person 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.720 freezes theyself with fear and they never try. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:32.559 You know. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:38.040 It's like people are afraid to fail. Dog, that's the process. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.400 I don't care who you talk to. I've watched y'all's interviews. Man, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.440 y'all can talk to some bad people. I don't care 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.200 who y'all was listening, Big Ross Man, that boy cold, 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.200 you sit up and listening to Ross Man, and you 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.920 go this a hood. Dude's real simple. If you don't 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.120 understand ross it's because you don't want to. He just basic, dude. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:03.520 But if you are afraid feel, it freezes you. And 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.679 people are afraid to fail. Failure is a part of 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.440 the process. You cannot get where you're going without failing, Pardoner, 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:17.080 you don't learn nothing winning. Michael Jordan took nine hundred 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.040 some game winning shots. He only made one hundred and 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:25.520 forty some of them. They don't write about the seven 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.559 hundred some missus, but you see he on Wheedi boxes 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.319 because in one hundred and forty six. 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.160 He made that. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:38.040 Nobody gives a down that he has failed three quarters 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.760 of the time. He was willing to take that game 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.839 winning shot and hoping to make it. Now he'd have 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.800 made one hundred and forty six. So he got a 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.319 lot of rings on his fingers because he lost to 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.000 feel failure and failure, man, is a part of the process, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.920 So you got to lose the fear of failing. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:53.160 Man. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.000 It's just a part of it. It's the deal. The 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:02.880 last one having faith, Well, that's the ultimate. See. 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.800 I was raised cool man because my father didn't go 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.880 to church ever. My father was a hoolum. He was 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.000 a hard working man, but my father was a hoolum. 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.680 He wasn't a gangster. My father was a hoodlum. He 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.760 did he had some legal activities with Don King in Cleveland, 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.280 and when I see Don King man, we just hugged. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:26.120 Don King went to jail for manslaughter. My father knew 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.520 this dude. My father ran numbers with Don King in 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:33.080 Cleveland because in the winter time he worked construction, so 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:35.480 he wasn't working, so he was a number runner in Cleveland. 0:14:36.080 --> 0:14:38.280 So my first job when I was ten years old 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.920 was a paper route, and my job was not to 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:43.760 just deliver the papers, but I had to go to 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.920 everybody's house off my bike. And remember where they put 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.920 their numbers. Some people put their numbers up under the 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:52.800 fender of their car. Some people would tape it under 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.440 their stairway, under their steps, rats and stuff under that 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:58.880 had get up there and get their taper. Some people 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.840 to put it behind their mail. Some people hand it 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.640 to you every morning. And my father was a hoodlum. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.840 My mother was saved. She was a Christian. My mother 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:16.480 took her to church. That combination of his being doing 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.680 whatever he had to do to survive for his family, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.720 measured with my mother's teaching us about God and prayer 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:28.440 and faith and scriptures has been the total cornerstone of 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:29.200 who I am. 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.840 My faith. See, faith is a belief in things that 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.320 you cannot see. Without that how you make it. 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:43.520 Because I'm finna ask God for something that I don't see, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.680 No how, no way I can get it. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.800 But I got the faith that one day I have it. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.840 That's cold, man, that's a cold peace to lock it 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.640 into your mind. And people that don't have faith, that 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.720 don't have a spiritual background, I feel sorry for him, man, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.840 because it's finna be way hart way harder, because too 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.280 much gonna happen to you. That's gonna require some God. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.400 Now you can think it, don't. I don't really believe 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.400 in God. Okay, you ain't gotta be He's still there. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:12.040 You know. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.160 I don't believe in heaven. It's still gonna be one. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.520 One dude told me. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.200 He said, well, hey, man, suppose you get there and 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:21.640 you find out it ain't no heaven. 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.920 Well then I lived the best life I could. It 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:25.560 ain't no heaven. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.480 You got a bigger problem if if you think it 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.840 ain't one day, and it is because now you've done 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.640 done what you wanted to do and now you ain't 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:37.600 going so faith man, all those five pillars are the 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:38.600 cornerstone though. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.760 So I mean, there's a generation that has watched you, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.600 like we spoke earlier, like my son knows you for 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.640 family feud and you know, like right, they've come up 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.040 in the world where you've always been successful, but that 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.960 always goesn't the case? And so those core principles how 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.400 would they developed throughout your career because I know, I 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:57.480 mean you started early. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.320 You go homemost at one point, living. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.200 Out your car, and so how did we start developing 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.520 these court principles? Were the experiences that would happen? And 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.840 he's like, all right, there's a lesson. They won't have 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.480 to go through it because I did. Here's what you 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.720 need to love, you know man. 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.880 It's that failure piece that teaches them to you. That's 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.840 why you got to lose your fear of failure, because 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.000 it's in the failures. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.320 It's where you learn these lessons. You know. 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.400 My father used to say, ain't the best lesson you'll 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:26.840 ever learned is a balt lesson? 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.080 That lesson you pay for that, one's gonna stick with 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:31.159 you hard than anything. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:36.200 So when faith is When I was ten years old 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.680 and I wrote on the assignment piece of paper what 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:39.960 you want to be when you grow up? And I 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.760 was ten and I wrote, I won't be on TV. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.879 Okay Le's faith. I didn't know I couldn't, so I 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.439 just wrote it on. Bill Cosby was on TV in 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.920 nineteen sixty six. So in nineteen sixty eight, when Bill 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.160 Carsby came on TV, the whole block cleared out. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.159 Everybody went in the house. Watch Bill calls me. He 0:17:58.280 --> 0:17:59.000 was on I spy. 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:02.679 Here's a black dude that was talking on television to 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.920 white people and telling them what to do. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.160 Oh man, we were sitting in there all day. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:10.560 So two years after that, when Lady asked me what 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.879 I want to do, I said, I want to be 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:12.439 on TV. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:13.760 Now. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.240 Through all of my hardships, I did not get on 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:23.639 TV till I was thirty six. It took twenty six 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.200 years for that little piece of paper to ring true. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:28.960 That took a lot of faith. 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:34.280 But in there in between now the homelessness, the losing 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:39.320 everything I ever earned, I ever ever had Twice, I've 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.160 lost everything twice. I lost it all when I was homeless. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.240 I lost it all again in two thousand and five. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:45.520 I was zeroed out. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.600 In two thousand and five, I had one thousand, seven 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.880 hundred dollars left king with a comedy all that a divorce. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:19:00.480 Yeah, her lawyer was outstanding. I was in court clacking 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:05.480 for him. Yeah, he was so cold. I was in 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.960 heath in court room going next thing I know, I 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.800 ain't had nothing. This dude was gangster man, you know. 0:19:12.080 --> 0:19:13.159 And then I asked some. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.520 People had stole some stuff from me, and accounting and 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:18.000 all types of stuff happening. 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:21.119 I lost everything, But in those dark. 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:25.080 Moments was when I learned, Okay, faith is belief in 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:26.479 things that you cannot see. 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:27.320 I don't know how. 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:29.760 Much rise up again, but I gotta believe that I am. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.840 And then you got to keep that imagination that I 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.840 saw since I was teen, and I was gonna. 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.280 Be on TV. So that imagination I had to keep 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:38.680 relying on that because. 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:43.000 That's all I had, you understand, and then the dream 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.960 was to get on TV, and I had to keep 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:50.240 that in my head even through the darkest moments, because see, 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.520 if you mastered a mental aspect of it, when the 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:58.560 stuff is happening that comes into play. You remember all 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.000 the scriptures my mama taught, today is the day that 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.359 the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:05.760 And she say that to me every day I went 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.400 out of school. I was so tired of hearing that. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:09.800 But man, do you know how cold that thing. 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.879 Stuck with me? That today is the day He made? 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:18.080 And since I had to learn something in adversity, this 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.640 is what I learned. I often ask people. I said, 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.560 how many of you all have ever had a bad day? 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.639 And the audience raised their head. How many of y'all 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.280 have had days where you felt like you wasn't gonna 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:27.560 make it? 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:29.000 And everybody raised their head. 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.480 How many y'all have had days where you thought you 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.520 you just didn't know what you was gonna do. Everybody 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.679 raises they hand. I said, now, let me tell you 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:43.000 something about yourself. Your track record for surviving hard days, 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.480 days you wasn't gonna make it, thought you weren't gonna 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:48.840 make it, an insurmountable days, your track record for surviving 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:50.800 those days is one hundred percent. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.679 That's great. I used to say that to my coworkers. 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:55.919 I was when I was teaching, and like I had 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.119 a terrible day. They were like, why are you always 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.800 so happy? I'm like, if you had a terrible daddy, right, 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:04.239 really internalize that, how many good days have you had 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:05.879 to have to realize that this one wasn't as good 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:09.520 as the other ones? Like, yeah, you're right, I'm yeah. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.840 So let's just be thankful for this moment. We might 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:12.600 not get it again. 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:19.400 But every bad day you've ever had, you survived it, exactly. 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:24.679 You got a one track record. Everybody in here, everybody watching, 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:29.639 got a one hundred track record of surviving funky ass 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:31.639 days everybody. 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:37.720 So now, once I know that when them funky days come, 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:41.960 I'm rest assured that even if it lasts for a 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.840 week or two six months, I'm gonna survive it. Because 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:48.400 if you wake me up in the morning, man, that's 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:50.240 a clear sign to me that he ain't through with 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:54.520 me yet. So I feel like I'm almost out of it, 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:56.560 and eventually you're gonna get out of whatever it. 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.960 Is, you know. So let's let's talk about this. 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:04.159 Steve har Global, So that's that's all your companies are 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:07.879 underneath that, right, So I want to talk about the 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:10.800 family feud Africa. But first I'll pick up on a 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:14.719 conversation that we just had as far as you realizing 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.480 that you wanted to change things up. How usually Hollywood 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.520 is done where you wanted to eliminate like the traditional 0:22:21.640 --> 0:22:25.479 agent route, hiring a full time attorney south of Brandon 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:31.199 and actually, you know, doing the deals yourself, negotiating the 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:33.360 deals with yourself, you and your your attorney and not 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:35.879 having to pay the percentage and not having to go 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:37.359 through all of the hass or of dealing with the 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:38.560 traditional So can you. 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:39.520 Talk about that a little bit. 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.479 Yeah, See, it took me years to come to this 0:22:41.840 --> 0:22:45.880 because Hollywood is a system. They have an ingrained system 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.520 out there. Man, you come out here, you get an agent. 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.040 Then then a lot of them got a manager too. 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.400 And then when you sign a contract with a Hollywood attorney, 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:00.480 they five percent of your contract. 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:01.160 For the duration. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:03.760 So if you sign a five year deal, they get 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:08.040 five percent of your money for five years, and everybody 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:11.240 falls into that deal many because they lock you in. 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.919 And then what's crazy, what I found out was is 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:18.119 not a lot of agents that's beating the bushes to 0:23:18.160 --> 0:23:21.639 procure you employment. They simply list you on their roster 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.320 and when somebody want you, they go online and your 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.840 name is under this agency's roster. And they call these 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.800 people now because they picked up the phone. Now their 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.960 ass is in for teen percent. Now when they come 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:37.919 in for teen percent, then you want to go do 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:40.600 the deal. They pick up their phone and call their 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:44.119 favorite lawyer. Who is they boy? Who they work in conjunction, Steve, 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.240 we got the guy that's gonna cut your deal. You 0:23:46.400 --> 0:23:49.480 so busy being happy to be on TV. You say, okay, cool, 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:52.880 because you don't have that lawyer normally. And now right 0:23:52.920 --> 0:23:57.480 there you fifteen percent of your money gone. Now if 0:23:57.520 --> 0:24:03.720 you real stupid, you got a manager. Who is this dude? 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:08.000 That's some dude that's usually your homie that you started 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.199 out with, and you make him your manager. Now he 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:14.600 can be anywhere from five to twenty percent, depending on 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:15.320 how you cut. 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:18.000 Your deal with him. Now you're looking up at. 0:24:17.880 --> 0:24:19.840 Your money, man, and you could be out of anywhere 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:23.760 from fifteen to twenty five to thirty percent of your 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:25.040 money off the. 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:27.800 Dribble before taxes anything. You ain't got nothing. 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:31.679 So if you make one million, three hundred thousand of 0:24:31.760 --> 0:24:33.160 that is gone. 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:33.880 Yo. 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:36.119 Man, man, you're doing it in California. 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:38.760 You pay taxes, bro, And now you got that that 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:41.800 franchise tax, that's semi cent. So now you sent up 0:24:41.800 --> 0:24:46.280 here going then the government they won't forty Now you 0:24:46.359 --> 0:24:49.720 send up here, man, seventy percent of your money gone. 0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:53.640 And that that's real, man, that's real talk. That's why, man, 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:59.040 Hollywood is the land of illusion. Most of us man 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:02.119 are not making what y'all think we making. 0:25:02.840 --> 0:25:05.120 We just not man, because we. 0:25:05.160 --> 0:25:08.959 In that system. And it's not just cause you stupid 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:11.359 or nothing. It says you get caught up in the system. 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:14.320 So as the years went by, and I I'm just 0:25:14.400 --> 0:25:16.080 not getting free of this, you know what I mean. 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:18.160 It took me a long time to figure it out. 0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:21.240 So I said, wait a minute, man. So I had 0:25:21.240 --> 0:25:23.679 this lawyer that was doing some deals for me with 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:27.960 a business. I had this this guy named Brandy Williams, 0:25:28.400 --> 0:25:30.840 and he was black, and he was with this huge 0:25:30.960 --> 0:25:33.959 law firm, the acquisition merger firm, right, and he used 0:25:34.000 --> 0:25:35.959 to come up to Chicago and do deals some man. 0:25:36.000 --> 0:25:36.800 I just liked him. 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:37.040 Man. 0:25:37.640 --> 0:25:39.440 So one day I was sitting up, Man, I was 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:43.360 watching Godfather and I was watching my favorite movie Man, 0:25:43.440 --> 0:25:48.159 and Tom is the concilier or whatever that name is 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:51.600 for the family, right, But he's not Italian, and he's 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:55.320 not he's not a maid man or nothing. But he 0:25:55.960 --> 0:26:00.280 cut the deals for the Godfather. And I was sitting 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:02.280 there really watching that movie, one of my favorite movies. 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:06.040 I said, man, that's what I need. I need a 0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:11.159 tom somebody had just cut my deals. So Brandon Williams, 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:14.920 some years ago we hooked up and I just approached 0:26:14.920 --> 0:26:16.399 you one day. I said, Man, I ever thought about 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:19.560 doing something else? And he said, nah, I'm really good 0:26:19.600 --> 0:26:21.480 where I am. Yeah, but that's cause you know you 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:23.840 in the system too, bruhs. So just let me talk 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:25.359 to you for a little bit. And we talked about it. 0:26:25.440 --> 0:26:29.600 I said, Man, I'm gonna travel. I'm'a travel the world. Man, 0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:33.240 I'm finna be global. I'm gonna bema. I'm gonna take 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:36.199 my brand and spread it across the world. 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:39.040 I ain't gonna just sit here on United States TV. 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:40.560 I wanna go be global. 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:42.880 I said, Man, we can travel, We can do this, 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:45.960 and he said and then he went home and talked 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.080 to his wife. And like we often joke about how 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:50.880 much smarter our wives are in US, and y'all don't 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:52.920 get to see them in the background with them women, man, 0:26:53.200 --> 0:26:55.360 cause they know who they really are. She said it's 0:26:55.440 --> 0:26:58.440 a no brainer, and he had a conversation with a 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:01.480 mom who's a lawyer, and next thing you know, he 0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:03.320 came back and we formed a relationship. 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:04.400 And it took me some. 0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:06.439 While to get out of some of the contracts I 0:27:06.520 --> 0:27:09.960 was in. But after a while, as contracts was ending. 0:27:10.480 --> 0:27:11.679 I got rid of the lawyer. 0:27:12.880 --> 0:27:14.840 I said, hey, man, you read that paperwork and tell 0:27:14.880 --> 0:27:17.600 me what to say, because only section I can really 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:19.040 understand his compensation. 0:27:21.760 --> 0:27:25.240 Once you type in the word WinCE, I get lost 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:27.720 cause I don't know how to ma now I'm reading 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:30.200 the Bible. Now whence further mold. 0:27:30.240 --> 0:27:32.960 That's why my Bible is the New Living Translation, because 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:35.720 I need just regular English words, man, because once you 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:42.680 say furthermore, whence hence after, I'm out. So I got 0:27:42.720 --> 0:27:45.440 him in there, slowly, but surely over the years, as 0:27:45.520 --> 0:27:48.760 contracts would inspire, I would take the lawyer out of this, 0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:51.680 take the lawyer out of that. And then I got 0:27:51.720 --> 0:27:54.879 smarter and I said, I don't really need an agent. 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:57.160 You know, I got some agents that do IMG does 0:27:57.640 --> 0:28:01.879 some stuff like we're in partnership with miss Universe and stuff, 0:28:01.920 --> 0:28:05.159 and that's a whole nother story. But we in business 0:28:05.240 --> 0:28:08.600 with some stuff, and I'll allow you to package to 0:28:08.680 --> 0:28:11.600 deal for me. But that's between you and the network. 0:28:11.680 --> 0:28:15.920 But as far as now in my life, now, nobody, 0:28:16.119 --> 0:28:19.760 ain't nobody getting ten, ain't nobody getting five. I found 0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:23.080 a way to just keep them out. And you know 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:25.879 that ain't bad business man. I'm just why would I 0:28:26.960 --> 0:28:29.000 You're not doing nothing. I'm the one got to put 0:28:29.040 --> 0:28:31.840 these suits on, to turn these corners and create these 0:28:31.960 --> 0:28:35.359 jokes and solve these problems being attained and not you, man. 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:38.520 So it was a really blessing from God man that 0:28:38.640 --> 0:28:42.120 taught me that side of the business. And it's bought 0:28:41.800 --> 0:28:44.040 a lot more of the money to my side of 0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:44.440 the dam. 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:46.760 And so when you do things like that, it obviously 0:28:46.920 --> 0:28:49.440 allows you to pay more to the people that you have. 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:52.960 Why do you think that more people in Hollywood, the 0:28:53.000 --> 0:28:55.240 beast of Hollywood, are not taking that approach? 0:28:55.600 --> 0:28:57.560 Well, I just think, man, you get caught up in 0:28:57.600 --> 0:29:02.239 the system and it's comfortable and it's easy, and you know, look, man, 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:04.080 you gotta look at some of these big boys out here. 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:07.560 They make it so much money. You know, you look 0:29:07.600 --> 0:29:12.040 at Tyler and Denzel and Samuel al and these boys 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:15.520 is I me and will will smell these dudes is 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:17.960 really making money? Man? You know, I mean they may 0:29:18.320 --> 0:29:21.440 listen to me, they they make it. M they they. 0:29:21.320 --> 0:29:25.160 Scraping it so and I don't really know their particular business, 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:27.960 but you know, if you make an X amount dollars 0:29:27.960 --> 0:29:29.880 and you know, off to dribble and you comfortable, and 0:29:29.920 --> 0:29:33.040 you got a team sometime comfort cause you don't wanna 0:29:33.080 --> 0:29:33.480 have you. 0:29:33.440 --> 0:29:36.120 Gotta get a lawyer. M you do have to get 0:29:36.120 --> 0:29:36.560 a lawyer. 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:39.920 I'm just not finna pay you five percent. You know, 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:42.000 why don't you tell me what your hourly rate is, 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:44.000 how many hours it take you to cut this contract? 0:29:44.240 --> 0:29:46.480 And even let that be your money. But you get 0:29:46.520 --> 0:29:49.200 into TV business, it's like that. 0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:49.560 Now. 0:29:49.560 --> 0:29:53.560 I would think of Denzel cause he's such a brilliant 0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:57.160 dude man and his wife paul Letta, I'm pretty sure 0:29:57.240 --> 0:29:58.880 she done sat down figured this out. 0:29:58.880 --> 0:30:01.400 Hold so and Tyler. 0:30:01.520 --> 0:30:04.920 Tyler's a gangster two because Tyler, I think has done 0:30:04.960 --> 0:30:08.960 more in our lifetime. Man, in this generation, I don't 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:14.160 think there's been anybody black that's been more successful than 0:30:14.240 --> 0:30:17.720 this dude in terms of ownership. Now, the queen was 0:30:17.800 --> 0:30:21.200 Oprah for a long time, Oprah ain't no joke, but 0:30:21.280 --> 0:30:24.200 she teaches it to us. She then told me Steve 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:27.600 got to get ownership. That's Tyler's whole mantra. But I think, 0:30:27.680 --> 0:30:30.720 what what Tyler Finney do of late gonna change the game? 0:30:30.800 --> 0:30:33.320 He's finished, He finish, go past everybody. 0:30:33.400 --> 0:30:34.320 So just really quick. 0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:36.960 So even like the shows that had your name as 0:30:36.960 --> 0:30:39.080 a title, So we had to Steve Harvey Show was 0:30:39.200 --> 0:30:41.480 on WD and obviously you have to see Harvey Show 0:30:41.520 --> 0:30:45.200 on NBC Talk show the license in the name or 0:30:45.400 --> 0:30:47.000 how does that work? There was no ownership of ours. 0:30:47.120 --> 0:30:49.320 See, I didn't get I wasn't a business man when 0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:51.240 Steve Harvey Show was out, was just happy to. 0:30:51.160 --> 0:30:53.520 Be on TV. You know. I just took my check 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:55.560 and went out and said I owned twelve percent. 0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:57.880 Of the show back in. But I learned real quick. 0:30:57.880 --> 0:31:00.680 In Hollywood, you never see back in. They got a 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:05.000 different type of arithmetic. It's like the music industry. The only 0:31:05.040 --> 0:31:07.600 people that you make true back in with is book people. 0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:11.240 Book people are the most honest people I've ever done 0:31:11.320 --> 0:31:11.800 business with. 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:18.640 Books. They're honest. Music and TV, you're. 0:31:18.520 --> 0:31:22.400 Not gonna get no back in partner, how man, By 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:24.200 the time they get through doing their arithmetic. 0:31:24.560 --> 0:31:25.520 I ain't made back in. 0:31:25.520 --> 0:31:28.320 On none of my shows ever, because they're saying they 0:31:28.360 --> 0:31:30.080 didn't hit the numbers that they were supposed. 0:31:29.800 --> 0:31:31.280 To hit, even in syndication. 0:31:31.800 --> 0:31:37.600 Bro Steve Harvey show never saw back in. Never. I 0:31:37.760 --> 0:31:39.280 just it's just crazy, man. 0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:43.640 So I started figuring that out and knowing, Okay, you 0:31:43.680 --> 0:31:45.800 know my business with Freemantle, which is one of the 0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:48.760 best companies I've ever dealt with. They're very honest and forthright. 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:51.360 But when I signed a deal to do Family Feud, 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:54.280 you know, look, man, Family Feud was a twenty year 0:31:54.320 --> 0:31:58.320 franchise and they had owner ship and they couldn't get 0:31:58.440 --> 0:32:00.840 you know, I was going through tax problems back there. 0:32:00.960 --> 0:32:03.360 I just wanted to check. So I took the check. 0:32:04.160 --> 0:32:08.520 Over the years, I still couldn't get ownership. But since 0:32:08.520 --> 0:32:11.440 I can't get ownership, I'll tell you what, though, I'll 0:32:11.440 --> 0:32:13.400 tell you what. I might not have ownership, but you 0:32:13.440 --> 0:32:17.720 don't feel like I'm won. And so we've negotiated really 0:32:17.800 --> 0:32:18.720 nicely with them and me. 0:32:18.800 --> 0:32:21.520 The longest running host in the history of the show. 0:32:21.720 --> 0:32:24.800 And it's the number one syndicated show on Earth. 0:32:25.480 --> 0:32:28.440 Speaking of Family Fud, so you have an unprecedented deal 0:32:28.480 --> 0:32:30.800 with Family Feud where you actually produced the. 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:31.800 Show in Africa. 0:32:32.360 --> 0:32:35.479 Yeah, which I believe is number one in Ghana and 0:32:35.560 --> 0:32:36.240 South Africa. 0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:41.080 So talk about that. Well, that was funny, man. I 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:43.000 was sitting up one day. 0:32:43.160 --> 0:32:47.200 I was in Boswana at the Diamond Council thing, which 0:32:47.240 --> 0:32:49.960 is another business I was interested in. So I was 0:32:50.000 --> 0:32:54.440 over there at the Diamond Council conference in Boswana and 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:57.440 I picked up the phone. I called Brandon and it 0:32:57.560 --> 0:32:59.640 was just one day. I was sitting there, man, and 0:32:59.680 --> 0:33:01.600 I saw a facility. I said, Man, you know what 0:33:01.800 --> 0:33:05.280 really be funny to do Family Feud in Africa. 0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:07.440 So I picked up the phone and called Brandon. 0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:11.400 Because the thing I love about Brandon is he don't 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:15.280 never ask me, no, why are we gonna Because he 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:15.560 don't know. 0:33:15.560 --> 0:33:16.320 I don't want to hear that. 0:33:17.000 --> 0:33:20.040 See the thing that's important thing about people around me 0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:23.920 that I hire when I when I have a vision 0:33:23.960 --> 0:33:26.000 and God showed me something, I call you and tell 0:33:26.040 --> 0:33:29.360 you to do it. Don't start telling me why it 0:33:29.400 --> 0:33:32.880 won't work. I don't want to hear that. I already 0:33:32.960 --> 0:33:36.080 know it's gonna be hard to do. I already know 0:33:36.200 --> 0:33:38.479 it's gonna be obstacles I don't want to hear that. 0:33:39.040 --> 0:33:41.440 I want you to show me how we can do it. 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:44.239 So I picked up phone and I said Brandon. He said, yeah, man, 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:46.440 what's happening? I said, my men boswanna man, how is it? 0:33:46.480 --> 0:33:50.600 La da da dah dah. I said, hey, man, call Fremantle. 0:33:51.400 --> 0:33:55.640 I want to I want to do Family Feud in Africa. 0:33:58.040 --> 0:34:00.240 He said, okay, tell me what you want to do. 0:34:00.280 --> 0:34:02.720 I said, I want to do the show Family Feud 0:34:03.320 --> 0:34:08.759 in Africa. Hey man, hey man, let me know what 0:34:08.800 --> 0:34:13.640 they say clear and I know I think we a 0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:17.399 mind it something. But this dude, man, he don't call 0:34:17.520 --> 0:34:20.200 me back with no excuses. Do you know, Man, as 0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:22.120 long as we've been together, this brother has never given 0:34:22.160 --> 0:34:25.360 me a single excuse. Because that's one thing I'm really 0:34:26.360 --> 0:34:29.719 I don't I don't do excuses, man, don't. Please don't 0:34:29.800 --> 0:34:33.520 tell me an excuse that serves us no good an excuse. 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:37.879 I don't do excuses. I've never given anybody excuse. When 0:34:37.880 --> 0:34:40.440 I make a mistake, I just eat mine. I don't 0:34:40.520 --> 0:34:45.520 do excuses, so please don't tell me your excuse. Brandon 0:34:45.520 --> 0:34:48.239 Williams has never given me an excuse. He got on 0:34:48.280 --> 0:34:51.799 that phone. I said, Brandon, how it's going, man, He said, Man, 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:53.880 give me I'm working on a couple of things for 0:34:53.920 --> 0:34:58.239 your Ah. Okay, cool. Next thing, I know, he said, hey, man, 0:34:58.480 --> 0:35:00.319 there's a way we can do it. We can the 0:35:00.440 --> 0:35:01.840 international rights. 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:04.560 I said, okay, boum. 0:35:04.880 --> 0:35:07.160 He said, well it's gonna be a little caught. That's 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:11.440 that's okay, just go bound. He cut the deal and 0:35:11.480 --> 0:35:16.320 he bought the international rights to South Africa and ti Ghana. 0:35:17.280 --> 0:35:20.080 Then I said, okay, b let's go there and make TV. 0:35:20.680 --> 0:35:25.640 He went, and next thing you know, he went over 0:35:25.680 --> 0:35:31.080 there and everybody told him this was in what month 0:35:31.200 --> 0:35:33.600 was at we started talking? 0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:38.240 That was probably. 0:35:39.960 --> 0:35:42.359 Told him in February March, and they say it would 0:35:42.360 --> 0:35:45.200 take a year and a half to get this set up. 0:35:45.880 --> 0:35:50.200 That was in February. In November, we was taping because 0:35:50.239 --> 0:35:52.600 Brandon and now what you're talking about, we're gonna get 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:53.319 on TV now. 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:57.399 And so I go to Africa and we're over there 0:35:57.520 --> 0:35:58.440 and their mouth is. 0:35:58.400 --> 0:36:01.839 Open because they couldn't believe it. Wait a minute, you're 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:06.240 a major TV star in the United States. You're gonna 0:36:06.239 --> 0:36:10.840 come to Africa in our studio and shoot this show. 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:15.120 Yeah? Oh you're a host? Yeah, our host the show 0:36:15.680 --> 0:36:17.960 because ain't nobody gonna do it like me? So let 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:20.200 me go on. How long did that take to do 0:36:20.280 --> 0:36:22.240 the season or how many episodes? 0:36:22.280 --> 0:36:26.799 It is twenty twenty six episodes because they do a 0:36:26.840 --> 0:36:30.200 weekly show, it's like an American TV season. It's twenty 0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:34.160 two episodes weekly. That's an American TV show. They wanted 0:36:34.160 --> 0:36:37.000 a full season, we gave them twenty six episodes in 0:36:37.080 --> 0:36:39.680 Ghana and twenty six episodes in the US. 0:36:39.800 --> 0:36:44.960 In South Africa. How long did that take? It took 0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:48.000 about a month or so to get it all together. 0:36:48.040 --> 0:36:48.439 It took. 0:36:48.520 --> 0:36:50.839 It was a lot of because now, man, we got 0:36:50.880 --> 0:36:53.200 to get questions that's unique. 0:36:52.920 --> 0:36:55.320 To South Africa, pole in Poland. 0:36:55.440 --> 0:36:57.400 Because I'm asking people questions, I have no idea what 0:36:57.480 --> 0:37:01.920 this answer. Because I was then, what's your favorite dish 0:37:02.000 --> 0:37:02.560 in Africa? 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:07.640 Bunny chop? The hell is that bunny chop? And I'm 0:37:07.680 --> 0:37:11.680 looking at do like the fried chicken clearly has to 0:37:11.680 --> 0:37:14.120 be the number one aff and they would say stuff 0:37:14.200 --> 0:37:17.239 like pop pop, the hell is pop? 0:37:17.360 --> 0:37:20.840 Though all this stuff was on the board, so it 0:37:20.960 --> 0:37:23.960 was really funny. And then it was a language barrier 0:37:24.000 --> 0:37:30.400 because the accents. There's two thousand languages in Africa and 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:34.399 you got tribes coming in as families, man dressing up 0:37:34.760 --> 0:37:38.520 and they use they speaking English, but they have heavy 0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:42.560 accents to me, but I'm the one on everybody understood 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:43.279 them except me. 0:37:43.360 --> 0:37:44.360 I'm the one with the accent. 0:37:44.680 --> 0:37:47.080 And they names, We couldn't even fit their names on 0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:50.480 the cards. I mean they got some names man that 0:37:50.560 --> 0:37:53.400 you'd have to put a name plate on these people. 0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:58.560 And it was so funny, man, it was. It was 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:02.120 the funniest. It's the funniest show I've ever done. 0:38:02.800 --> 0:38:05.840 Was that. And then once we got it on the air. 0:38:05.760 --> 0:38:07.480 They couldn't believe we it did it and then it 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:11.320 aired and we were the number show in South Africa 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:12.600 and the number one show in Ghana. 0:38:13.680 --> 0:38:17.560 Is that their plans to expand to other countries in Africa, 0:38:18.560 --> 0:38:20.080 particularly English speaker ons. 0:38:20.600 --> 0:38:24.520 My goal is to do like World Cup. 0:38:25.920 --> 0:38:29.839 Family feud, where I want to do it in a 0:38:29.920 --> 0:38:34.240 big facility and I want to bring in country against country. 0:38:34.480 --> 0:38:40.360 I want to have Ghana against the Congo, Egypt against Kenya, 0:38:41.320 --> 0:38:45.279 South Africa against Barcejuanas versus. I want to have them 0:38:45.280 --> 0:38:48.680 in there with flags because they so enthusiastic. 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:48.960 Man. 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:51.960 Because Number one, when I finally went over there to 0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:55.800 start taping. The whole thing was, so you are coming, 0:38:57.760 --> 0:39:02.360 so Steve Hobby, it's really come through Africa. 0:39:02.480 --> 0:39:06.080 Yeah, yeah, man, we believe that when Uncle Steve comes 0:39:06.120 --> 0:39:08.040 to I believe it when we see it. 0:39:08.360 --> 0:39:10.440 So when we went there and we started taping, it 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:14.359 was mind blowing. It was such a popular show man 0:39:14.560 --> 0:39:15.400 and it worked. 0:39:16.080 --> 0:39:20.400 And I hear that Africa and the UAE have you 0:39:20.440 --> 0:39:23.040 have businesses in both. But let's talk about Africa. System's 0:39:23.040 --> 0:39:23.760 talking about Africa. 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:27.120 You see a lot of opportunity in Africa, right, like 0:39:27.360 --> 0:39:30.279 outside of just doing the show, I understand that, you know, 0:39:30.320 --> 0:39:33.080 you're looking at Africa as a place to do investments 0:39:33.080 --> 0:39:34.719 and things down nature. Talk about that as far as 0:39:34.760 --> 0:39:36.720 because we actually had the opportunity to go to Africa 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:38.160 for the first time a few months ago, went to 0:39:38.280 --> 0:39:41.120 Nigeria and we went to Egypt. And it was due 0:39:41.120 --> 0:39:42.880 for us because the way, you know, people was tapped 0:39:42.880 --> 0:39:43.880 in with our podcasts out there. 0:39:43.920 --> 0:39:45.480 They love us out there and they were saying. 0:39:45.280 --> 0:39:46.920 Like, maybe you should do this out here, you should 0:39:46.920 --> 0:39:50.279 do an actual Eyo university, Like here we're actually teaching 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:54.400 people about financial literacy and just to see the enthusiastic spirit. 0:39:54.840 --> 0:39:56.799 It just let me know that there's so much room 0:39:57.120 --> 0:39:59.920 for opportunity out there, like just from us looking at 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:03.160 so I'm curious to hear your standpoint. 0:40:03.239 --> 0:40:05.160 But see for you all to go over there is 0:40:05.239 --> 0:40:10.959 brilliant because you all are forming the bridge. That's my goal, 0:40:11.120 --> 0:40:15.440 is to create the bridge between African Americans and Africans 0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:18.520 because there's more of a similarity than we Like. When 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:21.000 you was over there, it looked like you recognized all 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:25.279 of them. They look just like Detroit. He thought you 0:40:25.440 --> 0:40:28.680 was in Philly. I mean the way they walk everything 0:40:29.000 --> 0:40:29.520 I thought. 0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:33.520 I saw so many people I knew because we are 0:40:33.560 --> 0:40:36.919 so similar in design, the way we walk, the way 0:40:36.960 --> 0:40:37.439 we move. 0:40:37.640 --> 0:40:40.600 It was just amazing. But what we got to do, man, 0:40:40.719 --> 0:40:42.000 is create that bridge. 0:40:42.040 --> 0:40:46.719 Like brothers like yourself who go over there, whose podcast 0:40:46.840 --> 0:40:50.680 is probable, but who can teach and share what we know. 0:40:51.640 --> 0:40:54.560 You know, I'm trying, Like all the young Africans want 0:40:54.560 --> 0:40:58.600 to come to America. But I tell them, I said, look, man, 0:40:58.640 --> 0:41:01.480 you sure, you sure you want to come over here 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:04.279 and be in this This is what you think it is. 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:09.840 See when I'm in Ghana or South Africa and I 0:41:09.920 --> 0:41:11.320 get stopped by the police. 0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:15.560 Guess what I get. I get a warning, I get 0:41:15.560 --> 0:41:17.719 a ticket, or I'll give them a hundred dollars in 0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:22.880 I drive home and I got a hundred dollars. So 0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:26.359 chances are I ain't got a ticket. Check to be 0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:27.840 speeding my ass off. 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:33.480 I've never since I been over there, saw on the 0:41:33.520 --> 0:41:36.640 news or nothing that somebody got pulled over by the 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:37.959 police and got shot. 0:41:39.000 --> 0:41:40.280 They don't shoot you in Africa. 0:41:40.719 --> 0:41:42.840 I said, man, y'all, sure, y'all won't come over here 0:41:43.320 --> 0:41:45.040 because you all don't understand that. And then when you're 0:41:45.080 --> 0:41:48.319 in South Africa you hear about the difference between the 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:50.719 blacks and the colors. I said, well, let me help 0:41:50.719 --> 0:41:53.879 you out with that. You come to America, you ass 0:41:54.000 --> 0:41:56.520 is black. You can call them colors over here if 0:41:56.520 --> 0:41:58.279 you want to, and you can call them black. But 0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:00.200 you come to the United States, your ass is fit 0:42:00.280 --> 0:42:02.160 to be black. So you sure you want to come 0:42:02.160 --> 0:42:06.799 over here. I think it's more beneficial for us to 0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:11.680 go home. See, this is how I describe it. America 0:42:11.760 --> 0:42:15.560 is my home. This is my home, my children in here, 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:18.000 my grandchildren in here, A lot of my. 0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:21.880 Business is here, But Africa is my homeland. 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:25.600 Me going to Africa is like going to a place 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:28.920 called home that I've never been. When you land in Africa, 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:36.480 you immediately feel good, don't you. Doug is crazy because 0:42:36.480 --> 0:42:39.480 you home, Doug, this is where you're from. You'll feed 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:42.600 me along on this soil we was ripped from there. 0:42:43.280 --> 0:42:45.879 So when I'm going to Africa, man, it's the place 0:42:45.920 --> 0:42:48.799 I get to walk around and I'm good all the 0:42:48.840 --> 0:42:51.640 time because the majority of the people look just like 0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:55.960 me everywhere I go, and that's a warm feeling. 0:42:56.000 --> 0:42:56.360 Man. 0:42:56.600 --> 0:42:59.720 And if I could take what we've learned over here 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:05.640 as African Americans and share that with them and empower them, 0:43:06.160 --> 0:43:09.320 that becomes great. But I think what people don't understand 0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:11.880 is how rich of a continent Africa really is. 0:43:12.680 --> 0:43:14.240 Do you realize, man, it's the. 0:43:14.080 --> 0:43:18.760 Only country in the world that don't have to import nothing. 0:43:20.560 --> 0:43:23.840 They don't need your food, they don't need your energy, 0:43:24.640 --> 0:43:27.040 they don't need your gold, they don't need your diamonds, 0:43:27.080 --> 0:43:30.080 they don't need your cold, down't need your uranium, they 0:43:30.080 --> 0:43:33.360 don't need your plant they don't need nothing. Africa is 0:43:33.440 --> 0:43:35.799 the only country in the world that they don't need 0:43:35.840 --> 0:43:40.440 your oil. You they ain't got to import nothing. But 0:43:40.480 --> 0:43:47.480 they've been over there just raped colonialization, the Dutch, the Portuguese, 0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:49.800 the Spanish, the French, the Chinese. 0:43:49.840 --> 0:43:52.120 They just over there just raping them, man. 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:56.359 And so if we can go over there because they 0:43:56.400 --> 0:43:58.360 got they got hey, man, they got money over there. 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.840 They got some dudes over there. That's just making some 0:44:01.280 --> 0:44:01.480 I was. 0:44:01.880 --> 0:44:04.160 It had me thinking, But as you said, everything is true, 0:44:04.160 --> 0:44:06.360 and it was like, all right, you were going to 0:44:06.400 --> 0:44:09.400 the UAE and not only bringing any food to Africa 0:44:09.520 --> 0:44:12.080 but bringing festivals, and we were supposed to meet at 0:44:12.080 --> 0:44:16.279 the last one ye, So why was it important to 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:17.680 do it specifically in the UAE. 0:44:18.520 --> 0:44:22.960 Well, See, the UAE is very different from me. 0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:28.680 I'm accepted over there, like like I never thought I would. 0:44:28.520 --> 0:44:33.200 Be, because the ua for me is like it's like 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:35.439 they like brothers. Man. 0:44:35.680 --> 0:44:40.919 I mean, I'm I'm so enamored with the UAE. Now 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:44.719 the draw for me in the UAE, it. 0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:46.880 Is unbelievable peace. 0:44:47.640 --> 0:44:51.440 If you want to go somewhere and walk down the 0:44:51.520 --> 0:44:55.520 street and not have to worry about crime. If you 0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:57.799 want to go somewhere and walk down the street and 0:44:57.840 --> 0:45:03.320 not have to worry about racism, police, brutality, corrupt government, 0:45:04.360 --> 0:45:05.480 then go to the UAE. 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:06.319 In the Middle East. 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:09.360 I'm telling you right now, I don't know of a 0:45:09.400 --> 0:45:15.799 place on earth like it. There's no crime, don't buy 0:45:15.880 --> 0:45:16.600 steal your car. 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:17.960 They don't steal cars over that. 0:45:18.680 --> 0:45:23.480 Ain't no shootings, ain't no armed robberies. Ain't nobody getting stabbed. 0:45:24.239 --> 0:45:29.400 Where's this? Look, man, I can take a cigar and 0:45:29.480 --> 0:45:32.400 walk down the beach. All I'm gonna. 0:45:32.160 --> 0:45:36.719 Do is have to take selfiesh And they're polite and 0:45:36.760 --> 0:45:40.720 they're respectful. And it's because of their culture and their faith, man, 0:45:40.880 --> 0:45:43.960 that makes them who they are. That you get a 0:45:44.200 --> 0:45:48.919 clear picture there of what Islam is. It's not what 0:45:50.400 --> 0:45:53.239 it's made to be in the propaganda machine. Everybody you 0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:55.560 walk by ain't feeling to pull a cord and blow 0:45:55.640 --> 0:45:56.280 up the market. 0:45:56.560 --> 0:46:00.279 That ain't what's happening. Man. These people, man, are live 0:46:00.280 --> 0:46:03.520 in their life and they pray a lot of times 0:46:03.520 --> 0:46:04.120 a day. Man. 0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:06.799 And my business partner, man will be talking and he says, hey, man, 0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:08.920 you mind if I go in the other room to pray, 0:46:09.280 --> 0:46:12.520 And he'd have made me pray more because I'll be going, Man, 0:46:12.440 --> 0:46:14.920 look you you pray all these times today? 0:46:15.040 --> 0:46:18.759 Yeah? Man, and my business partner, he thirty four years old. 0:46:19.840 --> 0:46:20.640 Let's do and. 0:46:20.640 --> 0:46:24.040 I'm just going, wait a minute, man, how did they 0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:26.560 get this way? And it's their faith in their culture 0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:29.600 and it's the way they treat people. It's one hundred 0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:33.640 and sixty nationalities that live in the UAE. I mean 0:46:33.680 --> 0:46:38.160 they got everybody. There's no homelessness, Ain't nobody living on 0:46:38.200 --> 0:46:40.800 the street, Ain't no paper on the ground. Go to Dubai, 0:46:41.760 --> 0:46:44.239 go to Dubai and apple doubt there's no paper on 0:46:44.280 --> 0:46:48.120 the ground. Ain't nobody beg and got no cup jangling 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:50.680 it because no, we have a job for you. If 0:46:50.719 --> 0:46:53.000 you come here, we have a job for you. The 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:54.719 only people that don't want to work over there is 0:46:54.719 --> 0:47:00.400 because they don't want to work. Everybody's employed, every everybody 0:47:00.440 --> 0:47:05.920 gets taken care of, but free medical everybody. That is 0:47:05.960 --> 0:47:08.360 a very very special place to me, and I think 0:47:09.120 --> 0:47:17.040 our company, melt UAE is where we can introduce all 0:47:17.280 --> 0:47:21.800 what the Middle East is from that region to America 0:47:21.840 --> 0:47:24.759 and the world and help with some of the falsehoods 0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:25.879 that's been out about it. 0:47:26.719 --> 0:47:29.719 Going back to the conversation about Hollywood, I'm gonna talk 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:31.560 about this because you said that you know the back end, 0:47:31.600 --> 0:47:34.799 you never get paid on the back end, and like 0:47:34.840 --> 0:47:38.120 we've actually had conversations about We had conversations with like 0:47:38.160 --> 0:47:41.279 some Hollywood companies and we got talked about the back 0:47:41.320 --> 0:47:41.960 end and stuff like that. 0:47:41.960 --> 0:47:43.120 So it's interesting that you say that. 0:47:43.440 --> 0:47:46.160 So, like, what are some things that you learned as 0:47:46.160 --> 0:47:48.879 far as like do you always try to negotiate, like well, 0:47:49.120 --> 0:47:51.640 just for young people that's coming up, like EP credit 0:47:51.760 --> 0:47:53.200 or like get paid up. 0:47:53.040 --> 0:47:55.520 Front or some level of ownership, Like what are some terms? 0:47:55.600 --> 0:47:57.560 Because I feel like a lot of people just don't 0:47:57.560 --> 0:48:00.000 know the information and you can't even ask a question. 0:48:00.040 --> 0:48:03.400 And if you're not equipped with some level of knowledge, the. 0:48:04.360 --> 0:48:07.839 Best thing I can tell you is if you have 0:48:07.880 --> 0:48:13.720 an idea, before you go around the town pitching this idea, 0:48:14.160 --> 0:48:15.560 have your paperwork in order. 0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:18.719 Make sure you have the. 0:48:18.680 --> 0:48:22.919 Domains for that name, make sure you have the ips, 0:48:23.200 --> 0:48:24.400 any trademarks. 0:48:24.719 --> 0:48:26.640 Before you walk around. 0:48:26.400 --> 0:48:31.000 Pitching your idea, have everything on paper, get your trademarks, 0:48:31.760 --> 0:48:37.200 get your IP. Because that's it ownership. Nobody's done it 0:48:37.239 --> 0:48:43.560 better than Tyler Perry. This guy right here is complete 0:48:43.600 --> 0:48:47.600 ownership of everything he do, so when he go to Hollywood, 0:48:47.640 --> 0:48:49.920 he can do it the way he wants to see. 0:48:49.960 --> 0:48:52.480 It took me a while to learn that part of it. Man, 0:48:53.280 --> 0:48:55.520 I'm gonna tell you something. Man, I don't know how 0:48:55.560 --> 0:48:57.520 this is gonna go with the country, but this is 0:48:57.520 --> 0:49:01.000 a a long time ago. In the ninth I created 0:49:01.040 --> 0:49:03.800 the show on the w B called Steve Harvey's Big Time. 0:49:05.239 --> 0:49:07.160 Do you know what Steve Harvey's Big Time was? 0:49:07.400 --> 0:49:10.479 Because they didn't believe me when I told them, y'all 0:49:10.480 --> 0:49:12.520 ought to take showtime at the Apollo and put it 0:49:12.600 --> 0:49:15.120 on mainstream TV instead of having me come on at 0:49:15.160 --> 0:49:16.160 one o'clock in the morning. 0:49:16.719 --> 0:49:19.719 I used to tell them that, no, you can't do that. No, no, no, 0:49:19.840 --> 0:49:20.040 no no. 0:49:20.640 --> 0:49:22.480 So I said, well, let me give him a version 0:49:22.560 --> 0:49:26.000 of it. I said, let me create Steve Harvey's Big Time. 0:49:26.080 --> 0:49:28.640 So I went to the fledgling network WB and they 0:49:28.719 --> 0:49:31.440 put it on. I didn't have the business of it. 0:49:31.719 --> 0:49:34.840 I should have owned the IP, the trademark, cause you 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:37.640 know what Steve Harvey's Big Time was. I had acts 0:49:38.600 --> 0:49:41.560 from all over the world come on the show. I 0:49:41.719 --> 0:49:46.480 had three judges and I had a host that stayed 0:49:46.520 --> 0:49:51.160 on TV two years. It ended May tenth, two thousand 0:49:51.200 --> 0:49:53.320 and five. I was in the middle of a divorce. 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:57.000 My head was cloud I didn't have the business along 0:49:57.160 --> 0:49:59.920 comes the show called America's Got Done. He's gonna say that. 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:04.000 Yep, you know what America's Got Talent is. Shows come 0:50:04.360 --> 0:50:06.840 from all over the world, different acts. 0:50:07.080 --> 0:50:10.960 They got three judges and they got a star. Well, 0:50:11.000 --> 0:50:14.960 guess what. That's my ip, that's my concept, that's my 0:50:15.160 --> 0:50:15.960 whole thought. 0:50:16.880 --> 0:50:19.640 But I ain't had no business for it. Look, man, 0:50:20.000 --> 0:50:25.560 the first year of America's Got Talent was all acts 0:50:25.840 --> 0:50:29.920 from Steve Harvey's Big Time, and they took all the 0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:33.719 producers I had from Steve Harvey's Big Time and gave 0:50:33.800 --> 0:50:40.000 them jobs. If I understood my business, America's Got Talent 0:50:40.080 --> 0:50:44.920 would belong to me, and Steve Harvey would not be 0:50:45.040 --> 0:50:46.480 sitting here talking to y'all. 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:50.560 Thinking in my mind like I could. 0:50:51.239 --> 0:50:52.960 Once you were describing them like I know what America's 0:50:53.000 --> 0:50:55.800 Got Talent. Then obviously Nick Kennon another guy who was 0:50:55.840 --> 0:50:57.080 doing incredible and media. 0:50:58.120 --> 0:50:59.640 I feel like that could have been you hosting it. 0:51:00.000 --> 0:51:01.760 But I want to go something because you said something earlier, 0:51:01.960 --> 0:51:04.200 and it just caught my mind about the most honest 0:51:04.200 --> 0:51:05.239 people being the people who. 0:51:05.160 --> 0:51:06.000 Are writing the books. 0:51:06.560 --> 0:51:08.400 And so I know you wrote you've written three and 0:51:08.520 --> 0:51:10.880 the fourth ones on the way, but from those books, 0:51:10.880 --> 0:51:14.520 you've actually turned those into movies. Right, So think like 0:51:14.560 --> 0:51:18.040 a man obviously one of those those classic movie What 0:51:18.200 --> 0:51:19.960 was that process like in terms of ownership? 0:51:20.000 --> 0:51:22.000 Right, because now it's your ip, the book that's turned 0:51:22.000 --> 0:51:24.120 into it. I know you're the voiceover in the movie, 0:51:25.080 --> 0:51:26.320 and so what was that process like? 0:51:26.760 --> 0:51:29.959 That deal wasn't bad for me, It should have been better. 0:51:30.920 --> 0:51:33.640 I did once again, I missed a couple of points. 0:51:34.239 --> 0:51:38.960 Now the book completely mine. I've made more money from 0:51:39.040 --> 0:51:43.320 that book, man, I can't even tell you. And I 0:51:43.560 --> 0:51:46.520 still get checks. They still send your check. I get 0:51:46.560 --> 0:51:50.560 paid every April first and every October first, and I 0:51:50.680 --> 0:51:52.840 still get checks from the book. I don't even have 0:51:52.960 --> 0:51:55.920 to check on it. The book business is honest. I'll 0:51:55.920 --> 0:51:58.000 give you an example, like when I go to a 0:51:58.080 --> 0:52:00.480 book signing and I got to fly there or get 0:52:00.520 --> 0:52:03.719 a hotel. If you're in the record business, they take 0:52:03.800 --> 0:52:07.280 all that, they put surcharges on it, and they charge 0:52:07.320 --> 0:52:09.319 it back against your deal and your record sales. 0:52:09.520 --> 0:52:10.960 They don't do that in the book business. 0:52:11.719 --> 0:52:15.120 Whatever your book sales is, whatever your percentage is, that's 0:52:15.160 --> 0:52:18.120 your check. Whatever it cost to promote it, they ain't 0:52:18.120 --> 0:52:20.760 got nothing to do with you. So the book business, 0:52:21.040 --> 0:52:21.960 I found to be. 0:52:23.440 --> 0:52:29.040 Very very clean back in for other stuff. Man. 0:52:29.480 --> 0:52:32.600 Now, when I went to the movie, it was a 0:52:32.680 --> 0:52:34.279 tough time for me because I was in a lot 0:52:34.320 --> 0:52:38.680 of tax trouble. So I took a big check from 0:52:38.800 --> 0:52:43.000 Sony for the rights, and then I made back in. 0:52:43.239 --> 0:52:45.319 I made back in points on the movie. I did, 0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:47.040 but I could have done better. 0:52:47.239 --> 0:52:49.480 They have you involved in the process of actually creating 0:52:49.480 --> 0:52:50.480 it and producing or nothing? 0:52:50.840 --> 0:52:53.600 No, that was mostly will pack h They asked me 0:52:53.680 --> 0:52:56.000 a couple of questions, asked me what I thought of 0:52:56.080 --> 0:52:58.839 Kevin Hart, and I was sitting him here, going, I mean, 0:52:58.960 --> 0:53:02.279 the little dude is come. He wasn't who he is now, 0:53:03.040 --> 0:53:05.920 but I knew right away that dude right there because 0:53:05.920 --> 0:53:08.520 he was putting the work in. Kevin was putting in 0:53:08.600 --> 0:53:10.840 the work as a young stand up. His stand up 0:53:10.920 --> 0:53:12.640 used to didn't be that good. He'll tell you that, 0:53:12.800 --> 0:53:15.400 but neither was mine because he was. You know, he 0:53:15.520 --> 0:53:19.000 worked mostly white rooms, and you had to be a 0:53:19.080 --> 0:53:21.640 certain way to survive white rooms. My earlier in my 0:53:21.760 --> 0:53:24.800 career was all white rooms until the Comedy Act Theater 0:53:24.920 --> 0:53:27.680 got started and Joe Torrey came one night and saw 0:53:27.760 --> 0:53:30.759 me at the Punchline and Buckhead and took me down 0:53:30.880 --> 0:53:33.880 to the Comedy Act Theater in the nineties and said, man, 0:53:33.960 --> 0:53:35.600 you ought to come see how they do. So we 0:53:35.680 --> 0:53:37.400 went to the waffle house and I was telling him 0:53:37.400 --> 0:53:39.839 stories about my father. Joe Tory was cracking up. He said, man, 0:53:40.400 --> 0:53:43.239 why don't you tell these stories on stage? I said, 0:53:43.239 --> 0:53:45.160 I can't tell it like that. And for the white folks, 0:53:45.280 --> 0:53:46.680 he said, man, let me take you down. He took 0:53:46.719 --> 0:53:49.239 me to Comedy Act Theater and a black dude went 0:53:49.320 --> 0:53:51.160 up on stage. He had on a pair of pajamas 0:53:51.960 --> 0:53:54.280 and they had a Barbie doll stuck in the pocket 0:53:54.320 --> 0:53:55.040 of the pajamas. 0:53:55.480 --> 0:53:58.839 He never mentioned the damn doll. He never mentioned them 0:53:58.920 --> 0:54:02.520 damn pajamas. And all this fucker was talking about was 0:54:02.640 --> 0:54:08.440 frying fish, and the black people was knocking shit over laughing. Man, 0:54:08.880 --> 0:54:11.680 I was laughing so hard at this black dude because 0:54:11.760 --> 0:54:13.920 all he was talking about was how to fry fish. 0:54:14.440 --> 0:54:17.080 But every black person in there knew what he was 0:54:17.200 --> 0:54:20.760 talking about. And he went through the different variations of hot, saucy, 0:54:21.120 --> 0:54:21.719 what you got it? 0:54:21.840 --> 0:54:27.839 And it was so black. They were just so black. Oh. 0:54:29.480 --> 0:54:32.200 I was in that vomity. So the next night I 0:54:32.320 --> 0:54:32.680 heard him. 0:54:32.760 --> 0:54:35.040 Got finished with my senate at the punchline, so I 0:54:35.080 --> 0:54:37.200 could go back down, and that's what I met Mike Williams. 0:54:37.239 --> 0:54:39.000 He said, hey, man, going up on stage, let me 0:54:39.040 --> 0:54:42.560 see what you gotta give you five minutes. Now, I 0:54:42.680 --> 0:54:44.759 had been at the Apollo, so a lot of people 0:54:44.840 --> 0:54:47.680 knew me from the Apollo. But when I walked up there, man, 0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:50.560 I left my white act that I had written for 0:54:50.640 --> 0:54:55.399 the punchline, and I was doing jokes about my father, 0:54:55.600 --> 0:54:59.360 barbecue and and stuff. Man, them black people was knocking 0:55:00.120 --> 0:55:02.839 shit over the I mean they was just raking shit 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:05.719 off the tables. And I had never seen black people 0:55:05.800 --> 0:55:09.120 in the club, cause black people laugh different, They emotional, 0:55:09.239 --> 0:55:11.560 They don't they hit people that they rolled with. 0:55:11.719 --> 0:55:14.279 They they be in there. It it build and I 0:55:14.480 --> 0:55:16.520 was in there, so I said, man, this is magical. 0:55:17.160 --> 0:55:18.120 And it changed my. 0:55:18.239 --> 0:55:23.520 Life because I started writing my jokes even in the 0:55:23.640 --> 0:55:29.040 white club as my black ass self. And so what 0:55:29.160 --> 0:55:33.720 I learned at that particular time was I could become 0:55:33.800 --> 0:55:37.000 a crossover act. But the way I've always crossed over 0:55:37.239 --> 0:55:40.360 is I build a bridge and I invite white folks 0:55:40.440 --> 0:55:44.719 over to me. The problem with most blacks is they 0:55:44.760 --> 0:55:46.520 build a bridge and then they cross it. 0:55:47.239 --> 0:55:47.399 MM. 0:55:47.880 --> 0:55:50.080 Then when the bridge burned down, the ass can't come 0:55:50.160 --> 0:55:50.759 back home. M. 0:55:51.800 --> 0:55:53.879 I build a bridge and a lot of white folks 0:55:53.920 --> 0:55:56.320 come in the way I talk on family few is 0:55:56.360 --> 0:55:59.040 how I talk right now. I'm not finna change that, man, 0:55:59.640 --> 0:56:01.960 So you could be okay with me. Now, this is 0:56:02.040 --> 0:56:04.080 me I've been told all the time, Like I tell 0:56:04.120 --> 0:56:06.440 this story all the time. I was on NBC when 0:56:06.440 --> 0:56:07.919 I first got to talk to you, and they said 0:56:08.960 --> 0:56:10.560 they sent this lady in to talk to me. 0:56:11.680 --> 0:56:17.480 And she was a leing. She was old, what is 0:56:17.520 --> 0:56:22.440 it linguist? She was a linguist. I didn't know what 0:56:22.560 --> 0:56:24.640 that was. So I thought she was in there teach 0:56:24.719 --> 0:56:27.080 me how to fix pasta. And I thought that was 0:56:27.280 --> 0:56:30.040 nice cause I've always wanted to know a little bit 0:56:30.080 --> 0:56:33.680 about pasta. And so she says, no, I'm I'm your 0:56:33.760 --> 0:56:37.000 ling linguistics coach. And I said, well, what you mean? 0:56:37.120 --> 0:56:41.480 She said, NBC feels that if you speak more grammatically correct, 0:56:41.520 --> 0:56:43.239 you'll be more successful on TV. 0:56:43.719 --> 0:56:46.000 I said, oh, I ain't finna do all that. She said. 0:56:46.040 --> 0:56:48.759 Excuse me, I said, I ain't finna do all that? 0:56:49.200 --> 0:56:51.480 She said, could you say what you said slowly? For me, Sir, 0:56:51.600 --> 0:56:54.880 I ain't I said, I ain't fitn't it do all that? 0:56:55.760 --> 0:56:59.160 She said, That's exactly why I'm here. She said, do 0:56:59.239 --> 0:57:02.239 you understand what we can become if you speak better? 0:57:02.320 --> 0:57:04.920 I said, well, yeah, I ain't finna be about it though. 0:57:05.680 --> 0:57:09.680 She said, excuse me. I said, I ain't sitting to 0:57:09.800 --> 0:57:16.080 be boy that though. She so, Sir, this is exactly 0:57:16.200 --> 0:57:19.000 why I'm here. I said, Man, I'm gonna ask your question, 0:57:20.080 --> 0:57:23.560 I said, because I'm not finna change. She said, why not? 0:57:23.720 --> 0:57:25.720 I said, let me ask you a question. Which one 0:57:25.760 --> 0:57:32.920 of these sound better to you? I am broke or 0:57:33.080 --> 0:57:40.080 I'm as rich? I said, see now you're talking to me, 0:57:40.240 --> 0:57:43.880 but I'm as rich, I mean is rich? Now I'm 0:57:43.920 --> 0:57:47.160 already rich. Sown where are. 0:57:47.080 --> 0:57:47.920 You finnah go with this? 0:57:48.360 --> 0:57:50.240 Now that lady packed her stuff up, she said this 0:57:50.400 --> 0:57:53.200 black some of them. I know she wanted to say 0:57:53.320 --> 0:57:56.360 black air bastard. She packed that up and walked out 0:57:56.400 --> 0:57:58.600 of there. And I tell that to people all the time, 0:57:58.720 --> 0:58:03.000 man said, by felicias, because I'm not dog, I ain't 0:58:03.040 --> 0:58:03.680 finna do that. 0:58:05.400 --> 0:58:06.040 Not changing? 0:58:06.360 --> 0:58:06.880 So when did? 0:58:07.000 --> 0:58:07.960 When did it? Actually? 0:58:08.400 --> 0:58:11.000 Because you were saying you have financial hardship two thousand 0:58:11.000 --> 0:58:14.400 and five, and you still was making some mistakes, but 0:58:15.120 --> 0:58:17.640 in your state now, so obviously things changed. 0:58:19.000 --> 0:58:21.200 Dramatically. So what was the turning point? 0:58:21.600 --> 0:58:25.440 What was the turning point from you know, making mistakes 0:58:25.480 --> 0:58:27.680 to actually going on the skyrocket? 0:58:27.880 --> 0:58:31.600 I know, man, that this is gonna sound like cliches 0:58:31.760 --> 0:58:36.240 and corny, but a woman, a woman, what was the 0:58:36.320 --> 0:58:37.600 difference making in my life? 0:58:38.840 --> 0:58:43.959 My wife? When I married Marjorie Mann two thousand and seven, 0:58:44.040 --> 0:58:44.760 we got married. 0:58:45.240 --> 0:58:49.200 It changed the game for me because for the first 0:58:49.320 --> 0:58:54.880 time in my life, I was at peace because she 0:58:55.040 --> 0:58:58.160 made me good with who I was. She kept telling 0:58:58.240 --> 0:59:02.080 me you were made eat your TV star. Don't don't 0:59:02.120 --> 0:59:04.959 believe us here, Steve, you look good. 0:59:05.160 --> 0:59:05.920 You can do this. 0:59:06.760 --> 0:59:09.840 You're talented, You're the best. And I had a peaceful home. 0:59:09.960 --> 0:59:12.280 I had never had a peaceful home life before. Man, 0:59:12.600 --> 0:59:13.520 I was coming home. 0:59:13.640 --> 0:59:15.640 I wasn't sitting in the car looking at the door 0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:18.080 for three hours scared to go in there. You know, 0:59:18.160 --> 0:59:20.000 you probably might have been in something like that before. 0:59:21.240 --> 0:59:24.600 I fortunately enough, but fortunately no. But yeah, you never know. 0:59:26.400 --> 0:59:28.480 You know, faith, man, your faith? Yeah I know, but 0:59:28.600 --> 0:59:31.680 you're gonna sit in that driveway. But even if you're 0:59:31.760 --> 0:59:35.080 happy if you piss her off, you're gonna go sit 0:59:35.120 --> 0:59:37.200 in that car, dog, because at least I can lock 0:59:37.280 --> 0:59:39.080 these doors and roll these windows up in his car, 0:59:39.160 --> 0:59:42.440 But if I sit in his house, I'm yeah. So 0:59:42.600 --> 0:59:45.200 you know, I'm happy about that. But I was in 0:59:45.280 --> 0:59:46.760 a horrible situation. 0:59:46.840 --> 0:59:51.000 And this woman came along and gave me peace pieces, 0:59:51.320 --> 0:59:55.680 priceless man, and I was able to think clearly for 0:59:55.800 --> 0:59:58.280 the first time, and so I was able to start 0:59:58.320 --> 0:59:59.000 seeing stuff. 0:59:59.400 --> 1:00:00.720 Now we got huge. 1:00:01.120 --> 1:00:04.840 I got in a huge tax situation in two thousand 1:00:04.880 --> 1:00:07.840 and eight because my divorce was in two thousand and 1:00:07.960 --> 1:00:14.560 five and my accountant had gotten in cahoots. And next thing, 1:00:14.640 --> 1:00:20.040 you know, my accountant died and a girl that worked 1:00:20.080 --> 1:00:24.760 for him called my lawyer and said, we have a problem. 1:00:26.120 --> 1:00:30.720 She had found on the floor all my tax forms 1:00:30.800 --> 1:00:35.360 for seven years, signed and with the checks staple to them. 1:00:35.720 --> 1:00:40.480 So I'm thinking unassigned and unstaple of checks. Well, they 1:00:40.560 --> 1:00:44.360 were cashing the checks, keeping the money, and not turning 1:00:44.440 --> 1:00:45.160 into tax form. 1:00:45.200 --> 1:00:48.400 So your account that's why we interviewed Fat Joe similar situation. 1:00:48.600 --> 1:00:51.080 He went to jail for that actually tax evasion. So 1:00:51.200 --> 1:00:54.280 your accountant, you how you. 1:00:54.320 --> 1:00:56.240 Were signing the check Oh, so you didn't know who 1:00:56.280 --> 1:00:58.280 the check was being made out to, Oh, to the government. 1:00:58.520 --> 1:00:59.400 So how did they cash it? 1:01:00.000 --> 1:01:02.440 Well, they didn't cash it. They took the money out 1:01:02.480 --> 1:01:05.360 of their account that matched the exact cause I wasn't 1:01:05.400 --> 1:01:10.560 watching it. Six hundred thousand, you get duck it. 1:01:11.240 --> 1:01:14.840 So I'm thinking it's the check. Little did I know 1:01:16.040 --> 1:01:18.520 it was some people taking the money out for seven years. 1:01:18.920 --> 1:01:22.080 For seven years, how much money did that? I ended 1:01:22.160 --> 1:01:26.040 up owing twenty two million? Wow, twenty two million with 1:01:26.200 --> 1:01:29.560 the with the penalties. So now listen to me, man, 1:01:30.400 --> 1:01:32.360 me and my wife. In two thousand and eight, I 1:01:32.480 --> 1:01:35.480 get the call. And the way I found out was 1:01:38.120 --> 1:01:40.200 my lawyer called me and said, hey, man, we got 1:01:40.240 --> 1:01:43.920 a problem. You haven't paid taxes in seven years. I said, man, kich, 1:01:44.000 --> 1:01:46.120 what are you talking about. I paid tax I've been 1:01:46.160 --> 1:01:50.120 writing the checks and all this here. Oh man, he said, 1:01:50.320 --> 1:01:54.680 this woman found your taxes in your accountant's office on 1:01:54.840 --> 1:01:59.640 the floor. Every tax check I had written in, every 1:02:00.160 --> 1:02:03.560 was stable together for seven years, quarterly taxes, all of it. 1:02:04.520 --> 1:02:07.520 So he said, man, that's tax evasion. You can go 1:02:07.640 --> 1:02:08.200 to prison. 1:02:09.280 --> 1:02:12.360 And I said, what we gonna do? So he said, 1:02:12.400 --> 1:02:14.480 hold on, man, let me get some lawyers. So he 1:02:14.600 --> 1:02:17.440 called up some tax accountants out of Chicago. These boys 1:02:17.640 --> 1:02:20.360 was the best, and they set me down and they said, man, 1:02:20.400 --> 1:02:21.920 we got a major problem. He said, I got a 1:02:21.960 --> 1:02:24.560 friend work at dis let me take the first year. 1:02:24.640 --> 1:02:26.840 We took the first year and we sent it in 1:02:27.840 --> 1:02:30.240 and he said, man, well this is an old tax return. 1:02:31.000 --> 1:02:33.320 He said, man, we got a problem. He got more 1:02:33.960 --> 1:02:37.080 but he didn't know it, and so l we need 1:02:37.160 --> 1:02:44.640 a tax payment plan. So the tax payment plan was 1:02:44.920 --> 1:02:49.120 so astronomical that it was no way I could pay this. 1:02:50.280 --> 1:02:51.360 So the deal was if you. 1:02:51.400 --> 1:02:55.040 Missed one payment, we come and seize all your assets 1:02:55.160 --> 1:02:56.080 and you going to jail. 1:02:56.400 --> 1:02:57.120 That was the deal. 1:02:58.320 --> 1:03:00.280 So the way I found out I was in real 1:03:00.400 --> 1:03:04.960 bad trouble was my accountants, my former manager lawyer, got 1:03:05.040 --> 1:03:08.720 on a conference call to discuss it. But they sent 1:03:09.440 --> 1:03:12.640 out an email with the conference call number to my assistant. 1:03:13.160 --> 1:03:15.360 But it wasn't supposed to go to me. She inadvertently 1:03:15.400 --> 1:03:16.720 gave it to me. I wasn't even suposed to be 1:03:16.760 --> 1:03:19.160 on the call. So when I logged in, they were 1:03:19.240 --> 1:03:23.040 already talking and I just didn't announce myself, and I 1:03:23.160 --> 1:03:29.160 heard them say, nobody can live under this amount of stress. 1:03:29.600 --> 1:03:32.800 There's no way he can pay the back taxes, pay 1:03:32.880 --> 1:03:35.640 his current taxes and his living expenses. 1:03:36.240 --> 1:03:38.360 And I heard a guy on the phone say, what 1:03:38.520 --> 1:03:40.439 are we gonna do when he goes to jail? 1:03:41.920 --> 1:03:44.320 And I hung the phone up. I went upstairs. I said, 1:03:44.360 --> 1:03:47.480 Marjorie Dona, and Marjorie got a problem. When I explained 1:03:47.520 --> 1:03:51.160 it to her, Marjorie started crying. She sat down and cried. 1:03:51.240 --> 1:03:54.560 My wife cried for two straight days. She says, Steve, 1:03:54.840 --> 1:03:57.640 what you gonna do? I said, I'm gonna go to work. 1:03:59.600 --> 1:04:05.120 I took every comedy gig in this country. I signed 1:04:05.160 --> 1:04:07.600 every contract. I went to work. Man. 1:04:07.920 --> 1:04:12.840 I worked every single Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I went 1:04:12.920 --> 1:04:18.960 to every venue, the Verizon Staples Center, MCI Phillips, I 1:04:19.200 --> 1:04:22.240 sold out, the Fox I sold, I went everywhere. 1:04:22.280 --> 1:04:25.280 I stayed on the radio. Man, I'm coming, I'm coming 1:04:25.400 --> 1:04:25.920 sold out. 1:04:26.880 --> 1:04:30.120 I never missed a payment, And for four years in 1:04:30.240 --> 1:04:34.440 a row, I was sending six hundred and fifty thousand 1:04:34.520 --> 1:04:38.600 a month to the government, plus I had to pay 1:04:38.680 --> 1:04:42.280 my current TAXI I couldn't get behind on nothing, and 1:04:42.480 --> 1:04:46.280 I was living so I was credit cards, running them up, 1:04:46.320 --> 1:04:50.000 paying them off and Finally, Man, in two thousand and. 1:04:50.280 --> 1:04:54.240 Twelve, you got me thinking, now this is the paper 1:04:54.320 --> 1:04:54.720 view event. 1:04:55.880 --> 1:04:58.800 Well it was coming to that. Two things happened. 1:05:01.840 --> 1:05:06.320 Two thousand and twelve, I sold forty nine percent of 1:05:06.440 --> 1:05:14.520 my radio company to iHeart. I got check, man, I 1:05:14.640 --> 1:05:18.920 got me a check and then so I paid the 1:05:19.080 --> 1:05:21.720 government completely off to zero. 1:05:22.480 --> 1:05:24.760 And that was the first time, man, I could breathe. 1:05:25.160 --> 1:05:27.640 And then the pay per view I said, let me 1:05:27.720 --> 1:05:31.040 get out of stand up because my wife said, Steve, 1:05:31.080 --> 1:05:34.400 you fin to be a major TV star. You're gonna 1:05:34.400 --> 1:05:37.400 have to stop telling the jokes you're telling, cause you're 1:05:37.400 --> 1:05:42.240 gonna ruin your career because she saw the political correctness turning, 1:05:43.080 --> 1:05:45.480 and so she said, Steve, you can stop if you 1:05:45.520 --> 1:05:45.800 want to. 1:05:45.840 --> 1:05:48.560 I said, maybe, I can't ever stop telling jokes. It's 1:05:48.640 --> 1:05:53.040 who I am. She said, well, okay, but you gotta 1:05:53.080 --> 1:05:53.920 watch what you say. 1:05:54.920 --> 1:05:57.520 And all of my TV shows are sponsored driven, the 1:05:57.640 --> 1:06:00.520 radio sponsorship driven. I said, man, and let me get 1:06:00.560 --> 1:06:02.480 out of this because I need time to go do 1:06:02.640 --> 1:06:08.280 more TV. And so I did one last comedy show, 1:06:08.760 --> 1:06:11.720 but I did it on pay per view, and little 1:06:11.800 --> 1:06:15.840 did I know, for eight dollars you could watch my 1:06:16.000 --> 1:06:18.160 last I had no idea how many people. 1:06:17.920 --> 1:06:20.640 It's gonna tune in for that. I made a lot 1:06:20.640 --> 1:06:21.000 of money. 1:06:22.040 --> 1:06:27.760 It was the biggest single paycheck I ever made. And 1:06:27.920 --> 1:06:31.080 next thing, you know, I was back. 1:06:32.560 --> 1:06:33.200 About that house. 1:06:34.280 --> 1:06:37.560 I had me some money, man, return. I was back return. 1:06:37.600 --> 1:06:39.840 I had a nice nut sitting over there. I said, 1:06:39.920 --> 1:06:44.280 I'm back, man, and then uh things. And after that, man, 1:06:44.280 --> 1:06:46.440 it was all because my wife had this vision for 1:06:46.560 --> 1:06:47.880 me and she could see it, and that was to 1:06:47.960 --> 1:06:48.439 turn around. 1:06:48.720 --> 1:06:51.120 So the account you said he died so that you 1:06:51.160 --> 1:06:53.960 couldn't sue his estatement, there was no there was no 1:06:54.360 --> 1:06:55.720 course of action that could be taken. 1:06:57.120 --> 1:06:58.960 So it cause like the money that it's the same 1:06:59.040 --> 1:07:00.560 situation with that Joe. It's crazy. 1:07:00.760 --> 1:07:04.600 So you lost the money that he took, but then 1:07:04.640 --> 1:07:07.800 you had to pay that money in taxes and then pendal, 1:07:07.880 --> 1:07:09.280 so it's like a double edged sword. 1:07:09.440 --> 1:07:12.120 It's crazy. Man. It's nothing but the grace of God 1:07:12.240 --> 1:07:14.000 that I didn't go to jail how often. 1:07:13.800 --> 1:07:15.960 Because it's like, it's so crazy that this story, because 1:07:16.000 --> 1:07:19.480 it's like fat Joe yourself, Kevin Gardner, Tim Duncan, like 1:07:20.000 --> 1:07:24.600 this happens a lot. Like what would you advise for 1:07:24.760 --> 1:07:28.040 people that as a learning experience, like just to always 1:07:28.080 --> 1:07:29.040 watch your accounts a little. 1:07:29.440 --> 1:07:33.000 Let nobody sign your check, don't let nobody have access 1:07:33.040 --> 1:07:39.080 to your money, even if it's your wife. You still 1:07:39.200 --> 1:07:42.960 got to watch it yourself. Cause little did I know, man, 1:07:44.440 --> 1:07:49.360 I I wasn't moving the money. The only other person 1:07:49.440 --> 1:07:52.920 that could move the money had access to the account. 1:07:54.240 --> 1:07:57.000 So when you depart, when you're withdrawing the money out, 1:07:57.640 --> 1:08:00.160 like let's say tax with six hundred thousand and you 1:08:00.280 --> 1:08:03.440 take exactly six hundred thousand out, I'm thinking that's the 1:08:04.520 --> 1:08:08.160 check cleard, Oh it made They never okay, the. 1:08:08.240 --> 1:08:10.520 Exact amount, I don't care if it was. If it 1:08:10.640 --> 1:08:13.960 was one point two million, thirty two cent, one point 1:08:14.000 --> 1:08:17.920 two thirty two cent got took out exactly. So I'm 1:08:18.000 --> 1:08:20.719 thinking I'm just looking at real going down the sheet, 1:08:21.400 --> 1:08:26.360 not realizing that that check ain't clear. And that's what happened. Man. 1:08:26.560 --> 1:08:30.720 I got burnt. And that happened for seven years of money. Man. 1:08:31.439 --> 1:08:35.880 So so you spoke about the marriage in two thousand 1:08:35.880 --> 1:08:37.760 and seven that brought you peace. I want to talk 1:08:37.800 --> 1:08:41.160 about generational wealth and I kind of want to change 1:08:41.160 --> 1:08:44.360 the phrase of sustainable wealth because you have seven kids, 1:08:44.520 --> 1:08:45.720 five grandkids. 1:08:45.600 --> 1:08:48.040 Seven and seven, seven and seven. Oh yeah, they had two. 1:08:49.360 --> 1:08:52.360 They little machines right now cranking them out. 1:08:52.439 --> 1:08:56.240 And so I mentioned it because obviously maybe your children 1:08:56.280 --> 1:08:59.240 have seen sumer the setbacks that you've had, but your 1:08:59.280 --> 1:09:00.880 grandchick children will never see it. 1:09:01.479 --> 1:09:03.120 They don't know anything about that, and so it's tough 1:09:03.120 --> 1:09:03.559 for them. 1:09:03.680 --> 1:09:07.800 To understand the type of perseverance, the type of determination 1:09:08.680 --> 1:09:12.040 resiliency to sustain the things you've been through. So how 1:09:12.080 --> 1:09:14.960 do we teach from what you've been through to them? 1:09:16.160 --> 1:09:19.200 You know, man, I ain't figured that out yet, because. 1:09:22.160 --> 1:09:25.320 There's even a hiccup between not the grandkids, but my 1:09:25.520 --> 1:09:30.120 own kids. Okay, because look, bro, most of us that 1:09:30.240 --> 1:09:35.080 are successful today oftentimes are the first ones in our 1:09:35.160 --> 1:09:39.160 family to be successful. I'm pretty sure before Rick Ross hit, 1:09:39.200 --> 1:09:42.680 it wasn't no more. I know, before jay Z hit, 1:09:42.720 --> 1:09:44.880 it wasn't no more in his family. You know, we 1:09:44.960 --> 1:09:47.639 ain't got nobody to go to to figure this thing out. 1:09:48.479 --> 1:09:51.960 So what happens is and then you say, as most 1:09:52.040 --> 1:09:55.080 good parents, I want my children to have a better 1:09:55.160 --> 1:09:58.920 life than the one I had, So you try to 1:09:59.400 --> 1:10:03.160 protect your children from the hustling grit that you was under. Now, 1:10:03.280 --> 1:10:05.519 my kids ain't got to come up like me, figure 1:10:05.520 --> 1:10:06.040 it out. 1:10:05.920 --> 1:10:08.320 And work through this and work like that. But in 1:10:08.560 --> 1:10:13.400 that though, you've made a mistake. Because now. 1:10:14.760 --> 1:10:18.400 See, all of my children live their life as high 1:10:18.439 --> 1:10:20.040 acrobats with a net. 1:10:21.240 --> 1:10:24.320 So if they lose grip of the handle, Daddy down 1:10:24.400 --> 1:10:26.720 there got a net. I ain't handle net. 1:10:27.479 --> 1:10:29.519 So I was a high wire act and when I 1:10:29.600 --> 1:10:33.120 slipped off, my ass hit the ground, had to get repaired, 1:10:33.320 --> 1:10:34.360 then climb. 1:10:34.080 --> 1:10:37.280 Back up there. They got a safety belt on there 1:10:37.360 --> 1:10:40.200 on the hunt, they're doing wild ass flips. It wasn't 1:10:40.200 --> 1:10:43.599 nobody hold they hit the thing in the little cable, 1:10:43.640 --> 1:10:48.160 pick them back up, and it's messed up. Man. Because 1:10:48.680 --> 1:10:52.080 you and I talked about this with all the brothers. 1:10:52.240 --> 1:10:55.960 I know that's successful. 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Additional terms and conditions may apply. 1:13:24.200 --> 1:13:26.679 Will be trying to keep them out of a hustling grind. 1:13:27.200 --> 1:13:30.800 You understand, why would you not give your child an allowance? 1:13:30.960 --> 1:13:32.960 And you have it? Why would you not? 1:13:33.520 --> 1:13:33.560 So? 1:13:33.760 --> 1:13:33.920 Now? 1:13:34.160 --> 1:13:36.800 Plus you want them in the best schools, right, so 1:13:36.920 --> 1:13:38.960 now you've got them in school with these white kids. 1:13:39.640 --> 1:13:42.880 They sitting up in here with the latest on iPads, iPhones. 1:13:43.120 --> 1:13:44.920 You can't send your little black ass kid up there 1:13:44.960 --> 1:13:46.680 without that because you're trying to teach them how to 1:13:46.720 --> 1:13:48.080 be tough, strong, wicked. 1:13:48.720 --> 1:13:51.160 No, you got to put his little punk ass in 1:13:51.240 --> 1:13:55.040 the same outfit, say you know, cause come on, man, 1:13:55.080 --> 1:13:57.960 you can't have your child up there looking crazy. But 1:13:58.240 --> 1:14:03.200 now you mad because they ain't got the same grit, 1:14:03.360 --> 1:14:07.160 You got the same hustle. Like I look at them 1:14:07.200 --> 1:14:11.800 all man, and I just go, I'm proud of what 1:14:12.640 --> 1:14:19.360 they're becoming. But I know, man, that if something go 1:14:19.560 --> 1:14:23.599 really wrong for him, they got me. But when something 1:14:23.600 --> 1:14:25.960 went really wrong for me, my ass just had to 1:14:26.040 --> 1:14:28.559 live in my car. I couldn't go to my daddy 1:14:28.600 --> 1:14:31.920 and get a thousand for no apartment. By look, man, 1:14:31.960 --> 1:14:34.160 I was in college for three years before I flunked out. 1:14:35.439 --> 1:14:39.720 My father sent me money one time. He sent it 1:14:39.800 --> 1:14:44.000 in an envelope and it had two index cards, And 1:14:44.120 --> 1:14:48.639 when I opened it up, it had a flat crisp 1:14:49.080 --> 1:14:52.880 five dollar bill in it, and the note on the 1:14:53.080 --> 1:14:56.280 index card was, this shit gonna have to stop. 1:15:03.360 --> 1:15:08.080 Man, You're going too far with this shit. This ship 1:15:08.200 --> 1:15:13.080 got to stop. Five dollars man. Three years of college, 1:15:13.840 --> 1:15:16.479 he sent a five dollar bill and that was the 1:15:16.600 --> 1:15:19.639 message on the card on their car. Up with man 1:15:19.760 --> 1:15:22.639 had a day, So this shit got to stop. 1:15:23.200 --> 1:15:26.479 I went on book course this much bro brod. 1:15:27.400 --> 1:15:30.360 I had a job all through college, bought books. Everything, mother, 1:15:30.400 --> 1:15:36.080 father give me nothing wasn't nothing. Some center be going, Look, man, 1:15:36.680 --> 1:15:41.840 my kid tatoy call failed to pay their short because 1:15:41.840 --> 1:15:45.400 they forgotten. They come to me, we gotta get another car. Well, 1:15:45.439 --> 1:15:47.880 you ain't finna drive none of mine. I don't have 1:15:48.080 --> 1:15:51.479 cars you can drive already none of my children. Here's 1:15:51.479 --> 1:15:54.400 the only thing. None of my children have ever driven 1:15:54.479 --> 1:15:57.920 one of my cars because I don't have drivable call. 1:15:59.000 --> 1:15:59.760 I ain't got no car. 1:15:59.840 --> 1:16:04.000 You go straight. I got calls, see and read. People 1:16:04.040 --> 1:16:06.759 ask me all the time why you buy such expensive cars? 1:16:07.280 --> 1:16:07.639 Calls. 1:16:08.760 --> 1:16:12.160 If this all go away one day and I got 1:16:12.240 --> 1:16:15.040 to go back to living in a car, it's gonna 1:16:15.040 --> 1:16:17.200 be that motherfuck gonna be nice. 1:16:18.720 --> 1:16:21.200 Saying them. I'm gonna be in in the backseat of 1:16:21.240 --> 1:16:23.280 a fernom you want to seeping this out of the road. 1:16:24.640 --> 1:16:27.560 I got Refrench rate in now. I got lights in 1:16:27.640 --> 1:16:30.400 the city. That's what I'm gonna be home to see 1:16:34.600 --> 1:16:36.880 so quit asking me why I spend so much money 1:16:36.960 --> 1:16:38.960 on the car, because if I gotta go live back 1:16:39.000 --> 1:16:39.519 in that thing. 1:16:39.520 --> 1:16:44.040 Again, it's a nice living nice I brought the family 1:16:44.080 --> 1:16:48.280 piece because I know, uh, Laurie and yourself going into business, 1:16:48.800 --> 1:16:51.160 uh with with Moono. So what I mean, what's that 1:16:51.240 --> 1:16:54.040 process like knowing that one of your children has the 1:16:54.360 --> 1:16:56.320 you know, the business act mean to say, I want. 1:16:56.160 --> 1:17:00.400 To do this, you know, Laurie, Man, it's really great. 1:17:01.640 --> 1:17:04.640 I got a few businessmen in the family, you know, 1:17:04.760 --> 1:17:08.639 the two youngest ones, winning and Laurie figuring it out. 1:17:09.840 --> 1:17:12.120 Laurie came to me and said she didn't want to 1:17:12.160 --> 1:17:14.360 go to college no more. And I was like, I'm 1:17:14.400 --> 1:17:17.960 be damn, that's a fine time. After I done paid 1:17:18.000 --> 1:17:20.679 these money. You know, we could have had this discussion 1:17:20.720 --> 1:17:23.160 for the tuition with it, you know, I can't get 1:17:23.200 --> 1:17:28.400 it back. But she had a plan, and it's been 1:17:28.800 --> 1:17:31.960 really amazing watching her grow and developed because. 1:17:33.439 --> 1:17:34.599 Of a couple of things. 1:17:34.760 --> 1:17:38.280 Man, I'm so protective of her because I know what 1:17:38.400 --> 1:17:43.759 she's up against, you know, and but she's always wanted 1:17:43.800 --> 1:17:48.360 to be a business person, and so you know, you 1:17:48.479 --> 1:17:51.040 watch your kids grow and develop. You watch them learn, 1:17:51.280 --> 1:17:55.439 They make mistakes, as we all do. But what Laurie 1:17:55.520 --> 1:18:01.880 did was Laurie has She's just always asked me a question, Dan, 1:18:02.000 --> 1:18:02.760 what's it like for this? 1:18:02.960 --> 1:18:03.720 What's it like for that? 1:18:04.280 --> 1:18:07.920 And I could see her wanting more. But this Moon 1:18:08.000 --> 1:18:11.519 Culture investment that we invested in. But her skincare line 1:18:13.120 --> 1:18:16.160 was all her, all the vision of her and her mother, 1:18:16.920 --> 1:18:19.599 her and her mother. Her mother had this vision before, 1:18:20.520 --> 1:18:23.840 but she put it on the back burner and she 1:18:24.040 --> 1:18:27.639 dumped it all in with Lourie. Because Laurie got smart. 1:18:27.760 --> 1:18:32.640 Luri has a teen Louri has a CEO mentality. She 1:18:32.960 --> 1:18:34.240 understands it now. 1:18:34.600 --> 1:18:35.240 She gets it. 1:18:36.160 --> 1:18:39.120 You know, she been through the washer out here. She 1:18:39.320 --> 1:18:42.320 know what this social media can be. She learned how 1:18:42.360 --> 1:18:44.800 to make it more of a friend of hers than 1:18:44.880 --> 1:18:48.519 the enemy. And she just got real smart man. And 1:18:48.680 --> 1:18:51.400 she'll come to me and she'll go, Dad, I'm thinking 1:18:51.439 --> 1:18:52.120 about doing this. 1:18:52.280 --> 1:18:55.400 What do you think? I don't always agree. 1:18:55.479 --> 1:18:59.400 But I don't have to because what's in Laurie's imagination 1:19:00.040 --> 1:19:03.040 I don't have to see because God ain't gonna put 1:19:03.840 --> 1:19:05.280 her imagination. 1:19:04.880 --> 1:19:05.479 In my head. 1:19:06.120 --> 1:19:08.880 So since I understand that principle when LORI comes to 1:19:09.000 --> 1:19:12.639 me with this what people think is this wild crazy idea, 1:19:13.040 --> 1:19:14.679 Like this girl right here is not gonna stop. 1:19:14.760 --> 1:19:19.879 Man. Her skincare line is good, she's into fashion, she's smart, 1:19:20.560 --> 1:19:22.760 and uh, it's just a pleasure watching her. 1:19:23.240 --> 1:19:26.720 My oldest daughter, the twins, Brandy is on her own 1:19:26.840 --> 1:19:31.719 with her beyond her element that she does speaking engagements Carly. 1:19:32.520 --> 1:19:35.479 That girl went out here married her husband who came 1:19:35.560 --> 1:19:38.200 and asked me for her hand in marriage on a 1:19:38.240 --> 1:19:38.720 golf course. 1:19:38.760 --> 1:19:40.439 I had a seven eye in my hand. I wanna 1:19:40.560 --> 1:19:43.280 crack his head wide over because I'm finished. You find 1:19:43.320 --> 1:19:44.960 time to ask me to marry my daughter and I 1:19:45.120 --> 1:19:47.680 just lost this round of golf out here. And uh, 1:19:47.840 --> 1:19:51.560 but he's a good guy. She got it together. She 1:19:52.600 --> 1:19:55.679 has been Agent of the Year with State Farm now 1:19:55.920 --> 1:19:58.240 for two years and a running this girl and open 1:19:58.360 --> 1:20:01.720 up agencies and stuff. She's insurance business. Yeah, yeah, that's 1:20:01.720 --> 1:20:05.439 what started. I started that. I wasn't never agent of 1:20:05.520 --> 1:20:09.200 a year. I was stealing premiums and stuff. I was 1:20:09.240 --> 1:20:13.320 at lower level. Yeah, some things because I had to 1:20:13.360 --> 1:20:16.400 make some survival decisions when I was selling in shots. 1:20:16.400 --> 1:20:20.720 If you gave me your premium. But she's doing really, 1:20:20.760 --> 1:20:26.120 really well. Jason, my other son, is uh in the 1:20:26.240 --> 1:20:28.040 fashion business with his wife. 1:20:28.200 --> 1:20:30.600 He had a shoe line out for a while. It 1:20:30.760 --> 1:20:33.360 kind of was hard to keep afloat. Now he's back 1:20:33.439 --> 1:20:36.120 down at basel again. He's got his clothing line he's 1:20:36.120 --> 1:20:39.439 working on with his wife, who was a model, the 1:20:40.240 --> 1:20:43.040 runway model they met her. That's a long story, but 1:20:43.600 --> 1:20:47.639 he's giving me more grandkids than anybody, and he's doing well. 1:20:47.840 --> 1:20:51.519 My oldest son, Roderick, works on all my TV shows 1:20:51.920 --> 1:20:55.479 because he just wants he wants to be in TV 1:20:55.920 --> 1:20:59.840 uh directing and TV production, so he's working as a 1:21:00.080 --> 1:21:03.519 second stage director on stuff for all my shows. Winton 1:21:03.600 --> 1:21:07.280 does photography on my shows, but Winton does videos. He's 1:21:07.560 --> 1:21:10.280 did a lot of work with Kanye two chains, a 1:21:10.320 --> 1:21:13.160 lot of artists and stuff. Went and travels to do 1:21:13.360 --> 1:21:17.920 Bay work and he does work for the Department of 1:21:18.000 --> 1:21:21.000 Tourism over there. So when all of the kids, man 1:21:21.120 --> 1:21:23.400 are getting it. They're not where they want to be, 1:21:24.040 --> 1:21:24.840 but they're getting it. 1:21:25.360 --> 1:21:27.680 And I told them all. 1:21:27.760 --> 1:21:29.280 I think what helped him was I said I was 1:21:29.320 --> 1:21:34.920 cutting everybody off and I didn't, but it felt good 1:21:35.120 --> 1:21:36.599 saying it, but I didn't. 1:21:36.600 --> 1:21:38.000 I told Laura I was gonna cut her. 1:21:37.920 --> 1:21:41.160 Off, and she just went, Daddy stopped. That was all 1:21:41.280 --> 1:21:45.120 she said was don't play. Don't play because Laurie really 1:21:45.200 --> 1:21:46.680 thinks she's the special one. 1:21:47.080 --> 1:21:49.479 She really does lurid. I told Laury I was gonna 1:21:49.520 --> 1:21:51.479 cut off because she's making a lot of money right now, 1:21:51.920 --> 1:21:53.560 and I was gonna cut her off. And she just 1:21:53.600 --> 1:21:56.600 started laughing. And then she said, well, and you're not 1:21:56.720 --> 1:21:58.720 gonna speak to me anymore. I said, yeah, I'll still 1:21:58.760 --> 1:22:00.920 talk to you. She said, but not if you cut 1:22:01.000 --> 1:22:05.160 me off. So can't cut her off. But they're doing well. 1:22:05.280 --> 1:22:05.840 Let me ask you this. 1:22:06.439 --> 1:22:12.080 You're also an angel investor, so you invested in coinbase, DraftKings, Airbnb, 1:22:12.880 --> 1:22:13.879 all pre ipo. 1:22:15.240 --> 1:22:16.679 How'd you get How'd you get in that world? 1:22:17.200 --> 1:22:19.479 Well, because I got a couple of smart people at 1:22:19.560 --> 1:22:23.600 work for me. To Bed Stevens is the head of 1:22:23.720 --> 1:22:29.160 my global business development and strategist. He brings a lot 1:22:29.240 --> 1:22:31.640 of these things to me because you know, really, like 1:22:31.760 --> 1:22:35.320 I said, man, I'm in the mental game of it. 1:22:35.439 --> 1:22:37.759 When it comes to the technical stuff, I just surround 1:22:37.840 --> 1:22:41.560 myself with people who are technically smart. Now, Brandon is 1:22:42.000 --> 1:22:45.719 not only my legal he's my COO. He's chief operating. 1:22:45.840 --> 1:22:50.240 He's in charge of everything and they all report to him. 1:22:50.640 --> 1:22:53.479 But to be d Stevens has bought me the majority 1:22:53.520 --> 1:22:58.160 of these deals, especially in the tech space. All the 1:22:58.240 --> 1:23:01.120 way I got this kid was I wanted my son 1:23:01.280 --> 1:23:04.519 to help me run my company, my oldest son, Roderick, 1:23:04.520 --> 1:23:07.240 who's in television. But he came to me and said, Dad, 1:23:08.000 --> 1:23:10.120 you really want your business to grow? How I'm my 1:23:10.200 --> 1:23:13.160 best friend. And I thought that was really smart of 1:23:13.240 --> 1:23:16.320 him because he could have took this check. But he said, no, Dad, 1:23:16.600 --> 1:23:19.799 this is what he dos. He gragged them graduated magnum 1:23:19.840 --> 1:23:21.040 cum Lotty from Morehouse. 1:23:21.560 --> 1:23:23.920 He had all these offers to go to all of 1:23:24.000 --> 1:23:26.800 these Ivy League schools. He had full rides to go 1:23:26.880 --> 1:23:29.120 to all these schools and stuff. And I was sitting 1:23:29.160 --> 1:23:30.760 down with him one day and I said, well, how 1:23:30.840 --> 1:23:33.960 much do it costs to go to these Ivy League schools? 1:23:33.960 --> 1:23:36.080 And he told me, And I said, well, when you 1:23:36.160 --> 1:23:38.920 get this degree at these Ivy League schools, how much 1:23:39.040 --> 1:23:41.479 money will you make a year? And then he told me, 1:23:41.960 --> 1:23:44.280 And I said how many years is this gonna take 1:23:44.720 --> 1:23:45.160 to do that? 1:23:45.400 --> 1:23:46.000 He told me. 1:23:46.479 --> 1:23:48.080 Then I said, well how much you and not already 1:23:48.120 --> 1:23:50.960 spent going to school, and he told me. And when 1:23:51.000 --> 1:23:54.080 he told me, it just didn't make no damn sense 1:23:54.200 --> 1:23:56.200 to me. So I said, I'll tell you what, man, 1:23:56.439 --> 1:23:58.920 If you come work for me, he said, I'm gonna 1:23:58.920 --> 1:24:00.559 be in exports and imports. 1:24:00.920 --> 1:24:04.080 I'm gonna be taking big meetings. Oh, you're on big 1:24:04.160 --> 1:24:07.680 meetings or you wanta sit in big meetings. I got 1:24:07.760 --> 1:24:11.599 big meetings for your ass tomorrow. And so I hired 1:24:11.720 --> 1:24:14.760 him and gave him a salary that'll save all that 1:24:14.920 --> 1:24:18.200 going to school for it. And how many years has 1:24:18.240 --> 1:24:23.000 been now bade seven years? And and the way we 1:24:23.160 --> 1:24:29.000 started was I took four hundred thousand dollars, gave him 1:24:29.040 --> 1:24:33.080 four hundred thousand dollars and said, hey, man, show me 1:24:33.200 --> 1:24:36.160 what you would do in the stock market. Four hundred thousand. 1:24:36.280 --> 1:24:37.000 Just give him an. 1:24:39.960 --> 1:24:45.120 When I tell you that, he gave me ten times 1:24:45.240 --> 1:24:49.960 that money in two years and then has quadrupled to 1:24:50.000 --> 1:24:52.200 get that money. Just sent over there making money. 1:24:52.200 --> 1:24:55.400 And stocks, all his picks and stocks, all his every 1:24:55.479 --> 1:24:57.120 last one of them. I'm I'm in some of those 1:24:57.120 --> 1:25:01.280 companies get a market Monday. Yeah, But that dude right 1:25:01.360 --> 1:25:04.800 there and that and that's what it takes, you know, Yeah, I. 1:25:04.880 --> 1:25:07.519 Mean we're having conversations for over the course of a 1:25:07.560 --> 1:25:10.160 few months. You probably didn't know this part though, So 1:25:10.840 --> 1:25:12.920 to Bed was part of a team, and we got 1:25:13.000 --> 1:25:17.400 to give credit to Chad kat Right. Eighty five South guys, 1:25:18.520 --> 1:25:21.240 they you know, found us early on to work for you, Chad. 1:25:21.240 --> 1:25:22.160 That's yeah. 1:25:22.200 --> 1:25:24.280 So all the all the things that they learned from 1:25:24.400 --> 1:25:26.800 working around you, they implemented and told us. 1:25:26.840 --> 1:25:28.879 So we were like, Okay, this is great information. 1:25:29.439 --> 1:25:31.080 And so when I was talking to TVD about it, 1:25:31.160 --> 1:25:32.400 he was like, yeah, man, we all used to sit 1:25:32.479 --> 1:25:34.719 in the same room and so indirectly all the lessons 1:25:34.760 --> 1:25:35.479 you've been teaching them. 1:25:36.120 --> 1:25:38.120 Yeah, that's a good lesson. Yeah. 1:25:38.600 --> 1:25:40.599 Actually you probably wasn't even aware of that. But really 1:25:40.640 --> 1:25:43.800 each one teach one situation because Chad used to work 1:25:43.920 --> 1:25:47.439 for you, and he built the eighty five South business 1:25:47.479 --> 1:25:50.640 structure mainly based on the stuff that he learned from you, 1:25:51.000 --> 1:25:52.479 and he's been a mentor for us. 1:25:52.920 --> 1:25:55.360 When we you know, getting in again. Yeah, we got 1:25:55.479 --> 1:25:58.080 got our lawyer from him. Chad been a mentor for y'all. 1:25:58.320 --> 1:26:00.360 Yeah, and vice versa, vice versus. 1:26:00.479 --> 1:26:02.599 Wow, he's been telling us a lot of stuff about 1:26:02.640 --> 1:26:05.560 how to run merch gave us the entertainment. 1:26:05.240 --> 1:26:07.680 Lawyer that we have all the lessons that you. I mean, 1:26:07.840 --> 1:26:09.920 every time he tells us a lesson, it's like I 1:26:10.040 --> 1:26:13.400 was and that crew man, this is what they told me. 1:26:13.439 --> 1:26:15.320 They always said this, They always said this, and now 1:26:15.400 --> 1:26:17.840 he's implemented on his own. And since we were just 1:26:17.960 --> 1:26:20.680 starting in the media space, he was just giving us 1:26:20.680 --> 1:26:21.880 the advice that he learned from y'all. 1:26:22.479 --> 1:26:25.519 And so like indirectly, him and him and. 1:26:25.560 --> 1:26:30.000 His cat Joe, they were spilling and they were just bright. Man, 1:26:30.280 --> 1:26:33.160 they were just bright. We just got into a situation 1:26:33.240 --> 1:26:36.400 with my former manager and that's all. But they I 1:26:36.520 --> 1:26:39.639 stayed in touch with him because I always believed in them, 1:26:40.240 --> 1:26:42.320 and you know, we talk every now and then and 1:26:42.400 --> 1:26:44.720 then I hear about stuff that they're doing. And I'm 1:26:44.840 --> 1:26:47.400 just proud of him, man, because they got it. They 1:26:47.479 --> 1:26:50.320 weren't bitter with what happened to him. See, sometimes you 1:26:50.479 --> 1:26:53.080 got to get in order to grow, You got to go. 1:26:53.600 --> 1:26:57.639 See people don't understand, man, when doors close, you can't 1:26:57.720 --> 1:27:02.160 trip when the door closed. That's simply God telling you 1:27:02.600 --> 1:27:04.639 he got another door. He wants you to walk through 1:27:04.920 --> 1:27:07.479 the problem that most people do. Like during the pandemic, 1:27:08.080 --> 1:27:10.120 a lot of companies close, a lot of people lost 1:27:10.160 --> 1:27:13.559 their jobs. It's people still standing there. Open this company 1:27:13.640 --> 1:27:15.880 back up. I want my job back up. 1:27:16.080 --> 1:27:18.320 I'm waiting on the company to get back and come 1:27:18.400 --> 1:27:19.800 back in business. It ain't. 1:27:20.880 --> 1:27:21.519 It's dog. 1:27:21.960 --> 1:27:24.400 Most of these companies that's gone ain't coming back. So 1:27:24.479 --> 1:27:25.760 you can quit beating on that door. 1:27:26.320 --> 1:27:29.120 Why don't you stop beating on that door, Stop praying 1:27:29.200 --> 1:27:31.040 to God to open that company back up. 1:27:31.400 --> 1:27:33.519 Lord bless 'em to get back on their feet. Why 1:27:33.560 --> 1:27:37.599 don't you stop beating on that door and turn away 1:27:37.640 --> 1:27:39.639 from the door and walk up the hall. 1:27:40.680 --> 1:27:44.719 It's some more dos? What hall ain't got no more dos? 1:27:45.280 --> 1:27:47.559 What this is the This is the hallway of life. 1:27:48.080 --> 1:27:51.360 The hallway of life got more doors. You got to 1:27:51.479 --> 1:27:54.840 turn up the hall and there's a bigger door with 1:27:55.000 --> 1:27:58.679 your name on it. But if you stay there banging 1:27:58.800 --> 1:28:01.840 on that door, you know, you can't drive your car 1:28:02.200 --> 1:28:04.479 looking in the rear view mirror. You gotta look in 1:28:04.560 --> 1:28:06.120 the windshield, the rearview mirror. 1:28:06.160 --> 1:28:09.080 That's why it's this small, that windshield that big people 1:28:09.200 --> 1:28:11.000 can't get out of their own way because they in 1:28:11.080 --> 1:28:11.960 that rear view mirror. 1:28:12.360 --> 1:28:13.080 What would it be? 1:28:13.160 --> 1:28:14.800 And I wish it had a should have could have 1:28:14.840 --> 1:28:17.360 would have. Hey, man, stop all that, walk up the 1:28:17.439 --> 1:28:19.280 hall and go see what else God got for you 1:28:19.479 --> 1:28:21.400 before we leave. I gotta ask you about this Michael 1:28:21.479 --> 1:28:23.760 Jackson story. I heard you took Michael Jackson to church? 1:28:24.040 --> 1:28:27.920 Is that had of that? I got pictures of that day. Man, 1:28:28.160 --> 1:28:30.599 that was one of my favorite moments. I uh. 1:28:31.680 --> 1:28:33.559 You know, Michael was in a lot of trouble mane 1:28:33.600 --> 1:28:37.840 and he had a He had a publicist named Ramon 1:28:38.040 --> 1:28:40.840 Bain and me and Mike was cool. 1:28:40.960 --> 1:28:41.519 Over the years. 1:28:41.600 --> 1:28:43.640 I always hung out with him and talk with him, 1:28:43.720 --> 1:28:48.439 you know, like I was the only one that ever 1:28:48.640 --> 1:28:51.040 called him the end word and stuff like that. I 1:28:51.200 --> 1:28:52.600 just talked crazy to Mike. 1:28:52.840 --> 1:28:52.960 You know. 1:28:53.040 --> 1:28:57.760 He needed that, you know, he just oh, hey, man, hey. 1:28:58.080 --> 1:29:01.800 But I got no time for that. So one day 1:29:02.760 --> 1:29:04.840 Ramone called me and said, Steve, Michael want to talk 1:29:04.920 --> 1:29:07.599 to you. I said, it's up, Mike. He said, man, 1:29:07.600 --> 1:29:10.479 I need to go to church. I just want to 1:29:10.520 --> 1:29:13.560 go to church. And I said, well, he said, what 1:29:13.760 --> 1:29:15.880 can you take me to church? I said, yeah, man, 1:29:16.320 --> 1:29:20.560 I take you to church. Because Mike thought they was 1:29:20.640 --> 1:29:24.840 gonna convict him. Mm and he says, Steve, I didn't 1:29:24.920 --> 1:29:26.640 do this man, I just believed it. 1:29:27.240 --> 1:29:29.680 I just I've never believed that about Mike. I I 1:29:29.960 --> 1:29:33.120 know him, I've been around him, and that's just me. 1:29:33.240 --> 1:29:35.800 Everybody else will teach that last one that came out 1:29:36.120 --> 1:29:37.560 he did it, that's you. 1:29:38.439 --> 1:29:38.840 You don't know. 1:29:39.120 --> 1:29:41.479 I ah, where all this stuff come from after after 1:29:41.560 --> 1:29:44.719 he did and then if you anyway, that's a longer story. 1:29:44.800 --> 1:29:46.080 But they just was doing this. 1:29:46.200 --> 1:29:46.400 Brother. 1:29:47.160 --> 1:29:48.800 So he said, hey, man, I want to go to church. 1:29:49.520 --> 1:29:50.519 So I said, okay, man. 1:29:51.960 --> 1:29:54.080 So I called up my buddy chip Mary that owns 1:29:54.160 --> 1:29:59.040 chip Mary uh episcoal Ame church over off of Jefferson 1:29:59.120 --> 1:30:02.800 and Adams off for Crenshaw. Adam's over there somewhere in 1:30:02.840 --> 1:30:06.040 that area off Crenshaw, and I called him up. He said, 1:30:06.479 --> 1:30:09.800 Michael wants to come to this church. And I said, yeah, man, 1:30:09.920 --> 1:30:11.880 he wants you to talk with him and pray for him. 1:30:13.200 --> 1:30:15.920 And so I said, Mike, I'm gonna come pick you 1:30:16.040 --> 1:30:19.760 up and we can go to church. So Mike had 1:30:19.840 --> 1:30:23.720 took the entire floor of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and 1:30:24.280 --> 1:30:28.120 gutted it and just turned it into his own place. 1:30:28.760 --> 1:30:30.760 So I came up there and Mike met me at 1:30:30.800 --> 1:30:35.519 the door on a mopad because he was crazy. 1:30:35.600 --> 1:30:39.800 Man. I said he had another one, but he said, 1:30:39.800 --> 1:30:42.479 come on, let's go down to the apartment. I said, Mike, 1:30:43.960 --> 1:30:46.720 a mopead dog. I'm six too, What is it? This 1:30:47.560 --> 1:30:49.680 a little bit? So ride the mopeid down the in. 1:30:49.840 --> 1:30:51.760 We get up and go in the place. And I'm 1:30:51.800 --> 1:30:56.040 looking at this place and I'm going this because in incredible. 1:30:56.680 --> 1:30:58.559 He didn't gut it the whole floor and just made 1:30:58.600 --> 1:31:02.479 it his apartment. Incredible. So I'm in there man, and 1:31:04.040 --> 1:31:07.080 I said, Mike, we gotta go to church. It's black people. 1:31:07.120 --> 1:31:08.680 We gotta go now, you know. 1:31:08.840 --> 1:31:12.040 We gotta get parking and everything. I said, Mike, did 1:31:12.080 --> 1:31:13.720 you tell anybody who was going to church? 1:31:13.840 --> 1:31:16.519 Oh? No, I wanted to be a secret. I said, okay, cool, 1:31:17.000 --> 1:31:20.760 I told Chip Mary Man. We get in the car. 1:31:22.320 --> 1:31:24.880 No, first Mike goes to get dressed and he comes 1:31:24.960 --> 1:31:28.080 out dressed and with Mike, fuck you got on? 1:31:29.479 --> 1:31:32.519 So where you going? Man? What is this you wearing? 1:31:33.880 --> 1:31:37.840 What's the matter? This is my suit? What you dressed like? 1:31:37.960 --> 1:31:38.639 Cap'n crunch? 1:31:38.680 --> 1:31:38.720 For? 1:31:39.600 --> 1:31:43.240 Where's she going with all these balls on your shoulders? Military? 1:31:43.320 --> 1:31:45.760 We're going to church? Man? You got one stripe on 1:31:45.920 --> 1:31:49.519 one leg? I said, where your suit at? Man? Black 1:31:49.560 --> 1:31:53.759 people wear suits ties. This is all I got, Steve. 1:31:53.880 --> 1:31:57.000 This jacket is twenty twenty thousand dollars. I'm going what 1:31:57.920 --> 1:32:00.799 the dude was spending money on stuff? So I'm laughing 1:32:00.840 --> 1:32:04.760 at him. So we go get in the car. He said, Man, 1:32:04.840 --> 1:32:07.640 this is great, man, is it are? 1:32:07.680 --> 1:32:10.560 They have a great choirs? Man, they be jamming. So 1:32:12.920 --> 1:32:17.760 we get down off the tin and we turn on Crenshaw. 1:32:18.880 --> 1:32:23.760 And it's cars from the tin all the way down 1:32:23.880 --> 1:32:28.759 Crenshaw all up. Jefferson opts, people all on the side. 1:32:28.800 --> 1:32:32.320 Where might go. I'm gonna what the hell? I said, Mike, 1:32:32.360 --> 1:32:34.639 I thought, I told you, ain't tell nobody. I never 1:32:34.840 --> 1:32:39.880 opened my mouth. Well, the preacher told somebody Michael was coming, 1:32:40.320 --> 1:32:42.280 and the word got out. Let me tell you something, man. 1:32:42.880 --> 1:32:47.919 It was people from Belgium, Argentina, Amsterdam, signs from everywhere. 1:32:48.320 --> 1:32:53.479 People from all over the world flew in to see 1:32:53.560 --> 1:32:56.920 this guy go to church. So we finally took us 1:32:56.920 --> 1:32:58.880 a long time to get through all the crowd and stuff. 1:32:58.920 --> 1:33:01.519 Police escorts got it about out the way. We get 1:33:01.560 --> 1:33:02.160 to the church. 1:33:02.880 --> 1:33:06.840 It's packed this Easter. 1:33:07.760 --> 1:33:11.040 It's a regular Sunday, it's Easter in hill Man, it's packed. 1:33:11.600 --> 1:33:13.800 So before the service start, I get him in the 1:33:13.880 --> 1:33:17.280 back with the preacher chip Mary. Chip Mary prayed for Michael. 1:33:17.280 --> 1:33:19.280 He told me, said, Mike, you're gonna walk away from this. 1:33:20.360 --> 1:33:23.880 He said, God knows what you did, you good brother, youinger, 1:33:24.120 --> 1:33:25.080 And he was so worried. 1:33:25.120 --> 1:33:29.040 He prayed for him. Mike said, man, he says, I'm 1:33:29.080 --> 1:33:32.320 gonna walk away. Say what these these people? He talked 1:33:32.360 --> 1:33:34.960 God all the time with this black church man. 1:33:35.479 --> 1:33:37.280 So we went and they had a seat for us 1:33:37.360 --> 1:33:40.560 in the middle, and we sat down and Boyd his 1:33:40.720 --> 1:33:43.320 choir came out and they was jamming, and Mike's hat 1:33:43.439 --> 1:33:45.240 was in his eyes, and Michae was just sitting there 1:33:45.400 --> 1:33:45.960 just rocking. 1:33:46.120 --> 1:33:49.719 Man. He was getting it, man. He said, this is great, man, 1:33:50.439 --> 1:33:54.040 this is great. Oh my god, what are they doing? Phil? 1:33:54.200 --> 1:33:57.479 He knew every instruments. Man, They went from a detour 1:33:57.600 --> 1:33:59.520 e flat. This is amazing. 1:33:59.760 --> 1:34:03.400 What you heard that? I don't talk. 1:34:03.520 --> 1:34:04.200 He was in that. 1:34:04.400 --> 1:34:07.680 Man, Oh my god, why are those people jumping up 1:34:07.720 --> 1:34:11.559 and down? I say they shouting for what? Well? Probably 1:34:11.600 --> 1:34:16.200 because you here. It was funny, man. So the whole 1:34:16.360 --> 1:34:19.439 church service, he was just rocking. Man. He loved it. 1:34:20.000 --> 1:34:20.760 And so he went. 1:34:20.880 --> 1:34:23.840 He said, I want to meet with kids, and man, 1:34:23.960 --> 1:34:27.320 basement full of kids. They was asking Michael questions, is 1:34:27.400 --> 1:34:30.200 that your hair? Can I touch your face? Mike was 1:34:30.240 --> 1:34:34.240 just letting him touch him and everything. So it's news 1:34:34.400 --> 1:34:42.040 reporters outside. Where my phone at? Man, it's my phone anyway, 1:34:42.160 --> 1:34:44.720 I got pictures of the news conference and everything. So 1:34:44.960 --> 1:34:48.719 Mike says, I don't want to talk to anybody. Steve, 1:34:49.160 --> 1:34:51.479 go out there and talk for me. I say, ain't 1:34:51.520 --> 1:34:58.160 no problem. Look, man, Michael phones man. I mean everywhere 1:34:58.280 --> 1:35:01.519 everybody was there, Steve, we want to talk to Michael. 1:35:01.680 --> 1:35:02.479 He ain't coming out. 1:35:03.640 --> 1:35:06.840 Not happening, and well, Steve, we won't talk, I say, Man, 1:35:07.120 --> 1:35:09.120 Mike said, he ain't coming out, and he wants me 1:35:09.479 --> 1:35:10.360 to talk for him. 1:35:10.479 --> 1:35:12.040 I go out in front of all the mics. 1:35:12.880 --> 1:35:15.680 Steve, where's Michael we'll talking about? So Mike ain't coming out. 1:35:16.040 --> 1:35:18.439 We have questions for Mike, I said. Mike told me 1:35:18.520 --> 1:35:19.719 to answer all the questions. 1:35:19.920 --> 1:35:23.720 So go ahead. Why did he come to church? I say, 1:35:23.800 --> 1:35:27.680 you know he liked church music. Why did he pick 1:35:27.800 --> 1:35:30.479 this church? He said he did? And I did. I 1:35:30.560 --> 1:35:32.920 told him which one to come to. Well, when's he 1:35:33.040 --> 1:35:34.760 coming out? I said, when he come out, We're gonna 1:35:34.760 --> 1:35:37.080 get straight in the car. We don't want to talk 1:35:37.120 --> 1:35:38.880 to you. We want to talk to Mike. I said, Man, 1:35:39.280 --> 1:35:41.880 tell you no, motherfucker, mo, Mike ain't coming out here now. 1:35:41.960 --> 1:35:44.320 We ain't in the church right now. So y'all and 1:35:44.400 --> 1:35:46.479 you know this, this is me back in the day 1:35:46.560 --> 1:35:47.879 for I had all these shows. 1:35:48.120 --> 1:35:50.759 I ain't had nothing to lose, doog, I'm lighting. 1:35:50.840 --> 1:35:54.599 They ass up, and I'm aggravated because the dude don't 1:35:54.640 --> 1:35:55.400 want to talk to me. 1:35:55.960 --> 1:35:59.080 I'm going with damn. I'm all you're gonna get So 1:35:59.200 --> 1:36:02.160 what does Michael do now? He's talking to the I say, 1:36:02.240 --> 1:36:06.000 he's talking to the kids about what why are they 1:36:06.080 --> 1:36:09.840 allowing children in the basement with Michael? I said, hold on, man, 1:36:10.200 --> 1:36:14.200 where you going with this? Hire? I said, what I say, 1:36:14.439 --> 1:36:18.160 press conference over? So I go in the back. So 1:36:18.280 --> 1:36:19.040 we talk with the kids. 1:36:19.120 --> 1:36:21.120 Long to Michael and say, Steve, I'm ready to go. 1:36:21.400 --> 1:36:22.960 I said, all right, man. So I told us Katy 1:36:23.000 --> 1:36:25.439 to go get the car bringing around. We walking out 1:36:25.479 --> 1:36:27.439 there to get an umbrella for Mike and all this here. 1:36:28.560 --> 1:36:31.080 We walked to the car and we get in the car, 1:36:31.840 --> 1:36:34.439 I said, Mike, listen, Man, it's people all the way 1:36:34.560 --> 1:36:37.360 down here. I just want to shake their hand, I said, Mike, 1:36:37.439 --> 1:36:39.040 you can't shake these people hand. 1:36:39.120 --> 1:36:41.600 Doug, you know what we are. We crush all this. 1:36:42.080 --> 1:36:45.280 Say what we finna do. So Mike's sitting over there, 1:36:45.360 --> 1:36:50.120 and this ass roll the window down. Showe it by herself. 1:36:50.200 --> 1:36:53.080 He rolled the window down. Man, he's fine. People was 1:36:53.160 --> 1:36:56.760 reaching out there tying his clothes off. Oh yeah, they're 1:36:56.800 --> 1:37:02.680 pulling me. I said, roll your wonder up. Shut up 1:37:02.680 --> 1:37:05.240 all that wine and the shit. Mike can roll your 1:37:05.320 --> 1:37:08.639 window up. You're gonna crush that hand. They fuck that hand. 1:37:08.960 --> 1:37:11.600 And I got that window and this dude's hand was 1:37:11.640 --> 1:37:15.680 caught in the window, he said. And so now the 1:37:15.760 --> 1:37:18.040 car pick and I'm speeding. The dude is running with 1:37:18.200 --> 1:37:22.360 his hand crushed in the window. So Mike said, Steve, 1:37:22.560 --> 1:37:26.280 stopped the car. He's gonna get hurt, man, fuck him. 1:37:27.360 --> 1:37:29.360 Were all gonna get hurt if we don't get out 1:37:29.400 --> 1:37:32.120 of here. So I told dude, speed up, man. So 1:37:32.280 --> 1:37:34.400 the driver sped up and I opened the window just 1:37:34.600 --> 1:37:36.200 a little bit and he got his hand out. 1:37:36.560 --> 1:37:39.240 He said, Steve, you were gonna drag the poor man. 1:37:39.600 --> 1:37:41.800 I said, did not tear your ass not to open 1:37:41.880 --> 1:37:45.680 the window. Shit is your fault, Mike, He. 1:37:45.760 --> 1:37:48.559 Said, you're crazy. He's just talking to me so crazy. 1:37:48.720 --> 1:37:50.400 I said, I'm trying to save your ass. You don't 1:37:50.439 --> 1:37:54.759 know how to fight in here, talking about they're tearing 1:37:54.840 --> 1:37:58.439 my clothes off? What is your hands? Fuck you think 1:37:58.520 --> 1:38:01.680 they gonna do? So we get all the way back 1:38:01.840 --> 1:38:04.280 to the hotel and they take us through the back 1:38:05.400 --> 1:38:07.760 and Mike has stepped in some gum somewhat, so we 1:38:07.840 --> 1:38:10.400 on elevator and he raised his foot up in his 1:38:10.560 --> 1:38:13.679 gum down from his foot down to the floor. He said, Steve, 1:38:14.000 --> 1:38:17.040 there's gum on my shoe. I said, And what the 1:38:17.120 --> 1:38:20.040 fuck I'm supposed to do? I said, Mike, I don't 1:38:20.080 --> 1:38:23.000 get gum off. Nobody's shooting man, but it's on my shoe. 1:38:23.040 --> 1:38:25.200 And now security they off that laugh in the asshof 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:27.439 because nobody talked to Mike like that. 1:38:28.360 --> 1:38:30.680 But it's gum on my shoe. What the fuck I'm 1:38:30.680 --> 1:38:31.200 supposed to do? 1:38:32.600 --> 1:38:36.519 Rub that ship off the elevator, opening them two down 1:38:36.560 --> 1:38:38.200 mope heads, and I said, man, we ain't got time 1:38:38.280 --> 1:38:38.679 for this ship. 1:38:38.760 --> 1:38:43.840 Let's walk down here. True story. 1:38:44.840 --> 1:38:46.800 I can't let you go because you spoke about your 1:38:46.840 --> 1:38:50.320 wife and have from a financial standpoint and bringing peace. 1:38:51.160 --> 1:38:52.479 But she's also changed your style. 1:38:54.040 --> 1:38:56.160 Yeah, we can't go to. 1:38:56.280 --> 1:38:57.240 See my man. Ellie's here. 1:38:57.280 --> 1:39:01.639 We gotta acknowledge that he transformation and the Steve Harby said, 1:39:01.680 --> 1:39:03.000 we went from the big suits. 1:39:03.200 --> 1:39:05.720 Yeah, you couldn't tell me nothing. 1:39:06.120 --> 1:39:09.240 You couldn't tell me nothing class in the classic airline. 1:39:10.160 --> 1:39:11.200 You look at them suits. 1:39:11.479 --> 1:39:15.880 Every NBA player from Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan had 1:39:15.960 --> 1:39:16.360 them suits. 1:39:17.280 --> 1:39:18.360 That was a treasure dog. 1:39:18.479 --> 1:39:20.840 They said, Man, we used to watch the Apollo to 1:39:20.880 --> 1:39:24.519 see what you was wearing. And we get it made Michael, 1:39:24.640 --> 1:39:27.080 all of them, they all know that. They all used 1:39:27.080 --> 1:39:30.560 to come man them suits. Man, it was I was 1:39:30.680 --> 1:39:31.639 king of the urban wear. 1:39:31.840 --> 1:39:36.040 But you transitioned now at lettusage and now it's fine fashion. 1:39:37.080 --> 1:39:39.720 It's gotten to the point now it's like I think, 1:39:39.960 --> 1:39:41.960 like people are looking just to see what you're wearing again. 1:39:42.720 --> 1:39:46.559 But in the social media world it's like like they're 1:39:46.600 --> 1:39:49.400 turning it into a comedy at some at some places, 1:39:49.479 --> 1:39:51.639 but other people are looking at it like, Yo, who's 1:39:51.640 --> 1:39:52.679 who's dressing this dude. 1:39:52.520 --> 1:39:55.280 Because he's fly? Yeah, see the hater, how was that transition? 1:39:55.840 --> 1:39:59.599 Well, Marjorie, if you watched my wife over the years. 1:39:59.680 --> 1:40:04.000 She's she's it man. She's the fastest and fashionista. And 1:40:04.680 --> 1:40:08.640 it started with her when she said, Steven, want you. 1:40:08.640 --> 1:40:09.439 To change your suits? 1:40:09.479 --> 1:40:11.439 And I said why, She said, because I'm tired of 1:40:11.520 --> 1:40:14.120 being married to a pimp. I said, well, I'm the 1:40:14.200 --> 1:40:16.000 damn you ain't had no problem. She said, well, I 1:40:16.120 --> 1:40:18.560 just had to get you married. Further, she said, I 1:40:18.720 --> 1:40:21.360 was gonna change you the whole long. So she got 1:40:21.400 --> 1:40:23.120 a couple of tailors and I started. 1:40:22.840 --> 1:40:26.800 Wearing some little Canali kitan suits and stuff like that, 1:40:27.160 --> 1:40:28.719 and it was going okay. 1:40:28.800 --> 1:40:31.600 And then I got this guy when I got to 1:40:31.720 --> 1:40:33.439 talk show and all this here, and I wanted to 1:40:33.520 --> 1:40:35.920 have a certain look. I'm a game show host, I'm 1:40:35.960 --> 1:40:39.240 a talk show host. I wanted to be more mainstreams. 1:40:39.320 --> 1:40:41.400 So she took all the big suits off of me 1:40:42.000 --> 1:40:45.320 and she cut the suits down. But I was one 1:40:45.400 --> 1:40:47.960 note man, because that was the image I just wanted 1:40:48.000 --> 1:40:54.240 out there, game show hosts, TV hosts, tie collar bar clamp, 1:40:54.840 --> 1:41:00.919 cuff links, pocket square necktie, colors, shoe gators. 1:41:01.520 --> 1:41:04.320 That was it, and that went for a long time. 1:41:04.439 --> 1:41:07.040 The reputation on Family few was he dressed so nice 1:41:07.080 --> 1:41:08.800 and all the people that have come on Family Feud 1:41:08.800 --> 1:41:11.720 would try to wear two pocket squares because they thought 1:41:11.760 --> 1:41:14.360 it was two pocket squares. It's really only one. I 1:41:14.520 --> 1:41:17.120 just wore tom Ford pocket squares that had a border. 1:41:17.439 --> 1:41:19.479 Once you have a pocket square with a border on it, 1:41:19.560 --> 1:41:21.559 when you pulled the middle out and put the board, 1:41:21.600 --> 1:41:22.439 it looked like it's too. 1:41:22.560 --> 1:41:24.280 So that was a little trick move I did, right. 1:41:24.800 --> 1:41:27.320 I was going along with that And then I went 1:41:27.360 --> 1:41:33.519 to Africa four years ago and I started taping the show. 1:41:33.760 --> 1:41:35.559 I had a problem with the guy. He couldn't make 1:41:35.560 --> 1:41:38.200 the trip. He had some family issues. So my wife's 1:41:38.560 --> 1:41:42.880 had been telling me about Ellie. She said, Steve, you 1:41:43.040 --> 1:41:46.320 really ought to hire this kid. He's very, very talented 1:41:46.439 --> 1:41:49.320 in fashion and you need to freshen up your look. 1:41:49.320 --> 1:41:51.840 And I said, babe, I don't need all that, you know. 1:41:52.560 --> 1:41:55.120 And plus I had seen Ellie a few times with 1:41:55.320 --> 1:41:58.960 Wynton and Lloyd. They were friends, and you know, I 1:41:59.080 --> 1:42:02.040 just didn't think nothing, you know, But every time they 1:42:02.120 --> 1:42:04.080 got dressed, they was calling him, what do I wear? 1:42:04.160 --> 1:42:07.240 What do I do? And so when the dude didn't 1:42:07.360 --> 1:42:11.000 couldn't make it to Africa, she called Ellie and said, 1:42:11.080 --> 1:42:13.439 what are you doing? And he told her. 1:42:13.520 --> 1:42:18.240 Now, Ellie had designed something for me, some pajama sets 1:42:18.280 --> 1:42:21.800 with Doce Cabano. Before that, I flew him out to 1:42:21.920 --> 1:42:24.240 La to show me these designs. He designed these cold 1:42:24.320 --> 1:42:26.720 sets for me and they were just outstanding. So she 1:42:26.880 --> 1:42:28.639 called him and said, what are you doing? She said, 1:42:28.720 --> 1:42:31.720 he said, I'm off right now. She said, get on 1:42:31.840 --> 1:42:33.559 the plane and come to Africa. 1:42:33.800 --> 1:42:37.559 Now, this is Marjorie. She don't play. So the next 1:42:38.479 --> 1:42:45.240 evening he shows up in Africa. Well, the guy that 1:42:45.920 --> 1:42:51.080 wasn't making it made it. He had the dinner too. 1:42:53.000 --> 1:42:53.639 Okrah moment. 1:42:53.800 --> 1:42:56.479 Now we go to the dinner at this restaurant in Africa, 1:42:56.520 --> 1:42:59.599 this beautiful restaurant called the Saint, and the only seat 1:42:59.640 --> 1:43:02.760 of veil at the table they sitting next to each other. 1:43:03.880 --> 1:43:04.799 This was awkward. 1:43:05.200 --> 1:43:08.280 This was a very awkward moment. Man. 1:43:08.360 --> 1:43:09.640 This was And so. 1:43:11.320 --> 1:43:13.280 One thing led through another and the brother had to 1:43:13.360 --> 1:43:16.120 go home for family reasons. So Ellie stayed. And that 1:43:16.280 --> 1:43:20.800 was the first time the first season of Family Feud. 1:43:20.840 --> 1:43:24.880 He was starting to style me and I was going, yo, man. 1:43:25.040 --> 1:43:28.200 So he says, oh, you're not wearing a pocket square today, 1:43:28.960 --> 1:43:31.679 and I went, what are you nuts? 1:43:32.200 --> 1:43:33.559 No pocket square? Who? 1:43:34.120 --> 1:43:34.160 No? 1:43:34.280 --> 1:43:34.400 Who? 1:43:34.520 --> 1:43:37.960 You think you dressing and he says, we don't have 1:43:38.120 --> 1:43:42.439 to match. We're going to color block. No, what you 1:43:42.520 --> 1:43:45.160 mean we are f in the match. We're not finna match. 1:43:45.280 --> 1:43:48.520 What No, we're fin the match partner. I'm from Cleveland. 1:43:49.120 --> 1:43:51.639 You know, my gators got to be the same color 1:43:51.640 --> 1:43:54.360 as my hat, and my gators got to match my belt. 1:43:54.479 --> 1:43:57.280 I don't know what you're talking about. These are rules, 1:43:58.160 --> 1:43:59.080 since that's old. 1:44:00.840 --> 1:44:04.960 So he started dressing me and color blocking and doing 1:44:05.000 --> 1:44:07.760 all this stuff. I wasn't really happy with it, but 1:44:08.520 --> 1:44:10.240 you know, when I come out to the dressing room, 1:44:10.400 --> 1:44:16.360 all my sons dad as dope, and I was going, man, 1:44:16.439 --> 1:44:19.320 this ain't that dope. And you know, it got on, 1:44:19.640 --> 1:44:22.519 so it worked out for us. And then I just 1:44:22.680 --> 1:44:27.559 noticed he was super organized. He was he took better, 1:44:27.840 --> 1:44:31.080 took such great care to clothes. And then he started 1:44:31.120 --> 1:44:33.880 showing me stuff. Mister Hervey, look at this, this is 1:44:34.000 --> 1:44:37.280 coming out. This is gonna be the new collection. I 1:44:37.320 --> 1:44:38.800 had never seen this in my life. What do you 1:44:38.880 --> 1:44:39.599 mean new collection? 1:44:40.320 --> 1:44:40.639 Stuff? 1:44:40.640 --> 1:44:43.680 Getting the stoves? That's what I buy, stepanold Richard, a 1:44:43.760 --> 1:44:46.120 little bit of tom Ford and buy some key time. 1:44:46.520 --> 1:44:48.960 No, no, no, no, no, no, this is what we're 1:44:49.000 --> 1:44:49.320 gonna do. 1:44:49.760 --> 1:44:52.200 And so I got the show called Facebook Watch after that, 1:44:52.360 --> 1:44:54.439 and they said, they don't want me to dress like 1:44:54.560 --> 1:44:57.559 I normally dress. Would you wear your regular clothes? Now, 1:44:57.640 --> 1:45:01.080 my regular clothes were different than my image was. So 1:45:01.240 --> 1:45:03.599 he would go in the closet and start putting stuff together. 1:45:03.720 --> 1:45:06.200 Then he just started saying, let me, let me buy 1:45:06.320 --> 1:45:09.160 some stuff and bring it to you. So he would 1:45:09.160 --> 1:45:11.120 go out and shop and bring stuff to the house 1:45:11.160 --> 1:45:11.799 and I would. 1:45:11.600 --> 1:45:12.040 Look at it. 1:45:12.600 --> 1:45:15.200 I was fighting him all the way. He said, no, 1:45:15.320 --> 1:45:17.760 mister Harvey, but you got to try it on. We 1:45:17.880 --> 1:45:19.640 got to have a fitting. I used to hate when 1:45:19.680 --> 1:45:21.720 he said it would have a fitting, and then you 1:45:21.800 --> 1:45:24.000 know he said. Then one day he really pissed me 1:45:24.040 --> 1:45:26.440 off cause the last year we was in Africa. 1:45:26.479 --> 1:45:28.800 He said, mister Harvey, you need to lose some weight. 1:45:29.880 --> 1:45:33.040 You're making these fashions look ridiculous. And I'm went, oh, 1:45:33.120 --> 1:45:35.400 you little skinny some bitch. You're sitting up in here 1:45:35.439 --> 1:45:37.840 looking like a somebnie and you tryna tell him I 1:45:37.880 --> 1:45:40.200 need to lose some weight. You don't tell him I 1:45:40.240 --> 1:45:40.960 need to lose some weight. 1:45:41.360 --> 1:45:44.000 Okay. Cool kind of pissed me off. My wife said 1:45:44.040 --> 1:45:47.760 he might be right that now when your wife say it, 1:45:47.960 --> 1:45:49.679 then you I got to get my ass in the gym. 1:45:49.720 --> 1:45:52.320 We gotta get some of this weight off. And then 1:45:53.080 --> 1:45:58.160 on Facebook Watch two years ago, he started dressing me 1:45:58.280 --> 1:46:01.160 the way we just started on some different stuff. He said, 1:46:01.200 --> 1:46:04.120 mister Harvey, what's the one thing you really want to do. 1:46:04.520 --> 1:46:07.120 I said, my wanma colors back. I used to wear 1:46:07.240 --> 1:46:08.679 colors on Kings of Comedy. 1:46:08.760 --> 1:46:10.840 That's what I miss. He says, But we have to 1:46:11.000 --> 1:46:16.679 change your fit. He started narrowing down the shoulders, narrowing 1:46:16.800 --> 1:46:19.759 down the sleeves. I was against all of this. Change 1:46:19.800 --> 1:46:22.479 your fit, mister Harvey. You now don't have the weight 1:46:22.560 --> 1:46:25.439 you can wear. The clothes are better and y color 1:46:25.520 --> 1:46:26.760 blocking and blah blah blah. 1:46:26.800 --> 1:46:29.599 And then it just took off. And it started happening 1:46:29.680 --> 1:46:32.680 a few years ago on Facebook Watch. And then he 1:46:32.800 --> 1:46:36.080 did a special order on uh NFL Honors and that 1:46:36.280 --> 1:46:38.600 took off. And then the guy that would run the 1:46:38.720 --> 1:46:41.519 NFL Honors works for Celebrity Family Feud and call him 1:46:41.600 --> 1:46:43.840 up and said, hey man, you should let Steve Harvey 1:46:43.920 --> 1:46:47.120 dress on Celebrity Family Feud the way he does on 1:46:47.360 --> 1:46:49.720 NFL Honors. So they cause I used to have to 1:46:49.760 --> 1:46:53.599 wear the same suit on celebrity family Feud because they 1:46:53.600 --> 1:46:55.080 didn't know what order he was going, So I just 1:46:55.120 --> 1:46:59.599 wore the same suit. When they did that, I told Ellie, 1:46:59.720 --> 1:47:03.840 do your thing, and then he just started setting stuff out, 1:47:04.720 --> 1:47:06.920 and next thing, you know, he said, mister Harvey, let 1:47:06.960 --> 1:47:08.560 me take your picture. Which is the one thing I 1:47:08.680 --> 1:47:11.599 hate sitting up for a picture. I don't like looking 1:47:11.600 --> 1:47:14.120 at camera and smiling and stuff like that. So he said, 1:47:14.240 --> 1:47:16.400 just look now. So most of my pictures I'm looking 1:47:16.479 --> 1:47:19.040 down or something or got a cigar or something. He 1:47:19.240 --> 1:47:22.120 was taking pictures and then he would start posting it 1:47:23.680 --> 1:47:26.519 and by accident, next thing, you know, man, fashion bomb 1:47:26.640 --> 1:47:29.400 daily and boom, people started picking it up. And I 1:47:29.439 --> 1:47:31.559 was going, what's going on? Because it was never my intention, 1:47:31.720 --> 1:47:33.600 you know, I just wanted to I didn't want to 1:47:33.600 --> 1:47:34.960 hear my wife's mouth no more. 1:47:35.160 --> 1:47:36.880 That's all it was for her to be quiet. 1:47:37.840 --> 1:47:43.920 But this kid, Ellie is such an innovative dude, and 1:47:44.120 --> 1:47:46.679 he understands how I am. And he don't bring stuff 1:47:46.720 --> 1:47:48.840 that don't fit my body because still, all in all, man, 1:47:48.840 --> 1:47:52.120 I'm sixty five, You dig you gotta let me be comfortable. 1:47:52.200 --> 1:47:57.439 Skinny jeans is for skinny people, you know. And then 1:47:57.479 --> 1:48:00.960 we got a couple of rules. I will not wear high. 1:48:00.880 --> 1:48:04.800 Top sneakers with a suit. I'm not gonna do that 1:48:05.560 --> 1:48:07.599 for you. Yeah, I'm not finna do that. I see 1:48:07.600 --> 1:48:10.080 all these basketball players and stuff. I'm not finna do that. 1:48:10.439 --> 1:48:12.599 I'm not wearing a high top sneaker with my suit. 1:48:13.000 --> 1:48:16.160 Now, we got some stuff on a Ricci alligator sneakers 1:48:16.200 --> 1:48:19.000 I had made. I'll wear that with them. But they 1:48:19.120 --> 1:48:24.320 look they look dope, and we get in a lot 1:48:24.360 --> 1:48:29.439 of fights because I don't like a lot of the stuff. 1:48:30.439 --> 1:48:33.519 But to give him credit, he's right ninety percent of 1:48:33.600 --> 1:48:36.559 the time. And but when it comes to fashion, man, 1:48:36.640 --> 1:48:39.280 the dude just said, mister Harvey, I'm gonna let you 1:48:39.360 --> 1:48:42.320 be you. I'm gonna introduce you to these looks. And 1:48:42.439 --> 1:48:43.200 he introduced them. 1:48:43.240 --> 1:48:43.960 Some of it work. 1:48:44.640 --> 1:48:46.400 I put on some stuff and love it, and he'll go, 1:48:46.720 --> 1:48:49.120 you're not wearing that, and I'll be going, well, the 1:48:49.240 --> 1:48:49.800 hell I ain't. 1:48:50.920 --> 1:48:52.559 Well, I don't want my name on it. And then 1:48:52.600 --> 1:48:54.400 that's when I know I look like a fool, you know. 1:48:55.120 --> 1:48:57.280 But it turned out to be a great relationship, man, 1:48:57.360 --> 1:49:01.920 And I think it's done a lot for his recognition. 1:49:03.000 --> 1:49:05.080 Really more so than mine because for me. 1:49:05.160 --> 1:49:08.720 It's an it's an added like an accident, but for 1:49:08.880 --> 1:49:12.679 him its career changing because this is truly what he does. 1:49:12.880 --> 1:49:14.640 And I think what's gonna happen is I think this 1:49:14.800 --> 1:49:18.439 dude is gonna be He's gonna end up before it's over. 1:49:18.720 --> 1:49:21.720 He won't always work for me, because that's not how 1:49:21.800 --> 1:49:23.920 I do people. I expect me to be a stepping 1:49:24.000 --> 1:49:26.360 stone for most people like Chad and them cats like that. 1:49:27.520 --> 1:49:30.280 He's gonna be one top fashion designers in the world. 1:49:31.640 --> 1:49:35.960 He he will be what Virgil was. He will be 1:49:36.120 --> 1:49:40.280 what Virgil was not for real when once somebody understand it, 1:49:40.800 --> 1:49:43.800 he will be what Virgil was and Virgil was a 1:49:43.920 --> 1:49:44.360 bad boy. 1:49:45.120 --> 1:49:45.360 Yeah. 1:49:45.560 --> 1:49:46.040 Absolutely. 1:49:46.400 --> 1:49:48.040 Before we leave, I know you want to talk about 1:49:48.080 --> 1:49:52.200 the NFT project, the NFT project that dropped h Yeah, yeah, yeah, 1:49:52.240 --> 1:49:56.120 I got monkeys and how you feel about that, because 1:49:56.120 --> 1:49:57.760 I'm like, I know, you old school, so to be 1:49:57.880 --> 1:49:59.639 in a new world of n f T s, that's 1:49:59.760 --> 1:50:01.439 that's whole new school. 1:50:01.960 --> 1:50:02.120 You know. 1:50:02.760 --> 1:50:05.800 You just have to listen. Man, tab D bought this 1:50:06.000 --> 1:50:07.760 to me because I'm telling you it was a tough 1:50:07.880 --> 1:50:08.400 sale for me. 1:50:09.200 --> 1:50:15.760 N FT's what are you talking about, mister Harvey, buy 1:50:15.840 --> 1:50:20.080 this monkey, because for me, it's just a little little 1:50:20.120 --> 1:50:22.920 stupid ass face, right. I buy the monkey and next 1:50:22.960 --> 1:50:27.280 thing you know, I'm in the magazine. I'm everywhere and 1:50:27.360 --> 1:50:28.920 I'm sitting up here going to bed. 1:50:29.240 --> 1:50:31.439 Explain this to me because he has to help me. 1:50:31.880 --> 1:50:34.680 But one of the things about being successful, man, is 1:50:35.280 --> 1:50:37.960 you have to surround yourself with people thats smarter than you. 1:50:38.640 --> 1:50:40.280 You hear the saying all the time, if you're the 1:50:40.360 --> 1:50:42.960 smartest person in your group, you need a new group. Dog, 1:50:44.280 --> 1:50:47.559 I got a new group because I don't know everything. 1:50:48.080 --> 1:50:52.080 But these NFT's have been so interesting to me, and 1:50:52.200 --> 1:50:54.160 how to be a part of it and participate it 1:50:54.240 --> 1:50:56.280 and get on the ground floor say it out loud. 1:50:58.760 --> 1:50:59.600 But that's for me. 1:51:00.080 --> 1:51:02.960 If I can own something, that's the deal for me. 1:51:03.439 --> 1:51:04.519 It's not gonna change. 1:51:04.560 --> 1:51:08.320 This new Judge show is like such a jump for me, man, 1:51:08.400 --> 1:51:11.679 because it's like I finally got one. 1:51:11.920 --> 1:51:16.320 I created this ip. You know that there's never been 1:51:16.360 --> 1:51:23.400 a Judge show on primetime television ever ever. Dog, that's original. 1:51:23.760 --> 1:51:27.000 That's an ip. I thought of it. 1:51:28.479 --> 1:51:32.080 It's my show. I'm the star, and I own it. 1:51:32.960 --> 1:51:35.120 Now with the numbers that this show is getting on 1:51:35.200 --> 1:51:40.120 ABC or trust and believe this one right here, This 1:51:41.439 --> 1:51:46.760 Judge Show God willing, as my brothers say in the 1:51:46.840 --> 1:51:53.760 Middle East in Shilah. If this pops off, When this 1:51:53.920 --> 1:51:57.880 pops off as God's will, this will be the one 1:51:58.040 --> 1:52:00.479 that I can ride off in the sunset in This 1:52:00.600 --> 1:52:04.080 will be the biggest thing I've ever done. This is 1:52:04.520 --> 1:52:11.840 complete ownership. I'm the executive producer, I'm the owner, I'm 1:52:11.920 --> 1:52:17.080 the star, the creator. What's going to shock them though, 1:52:17.120 --> 1:52:19.760 and I'm not gonna say it on camera. What's going 1:52:19.880 --> 1:52:22.320 to shock them is the next move I make with 1:52:22.439 --> 1:52:26.320 the Judge Show. It's gonna be paramount. And you can 1:52:26.400 --> 1:52:29.439 look for us on the global level. You can expect 1:52:29.520 --> 1:52:31.800 to see some studios in the Middle East, you can 1:52:31.880 --> 1:52:36.759 expect to see some studios in Africa, and Steve Harvey Global, 1:52:37.439 --> 1:52:43.120 Steve Harvey melt Uae melt Africa. The conversations I'm having 1:52:43.160 --> 1:52:46.160 around the world. Man, by the grace of God, because 1:52:46.200 --> 1:52:50.720 he put all this in my imagination. Brother disgi's the 1:52:50.840 --> 1:52:54.080 limit And all I need for God to do is. 1:52:56.160 --> 1:52:57.000 I just need. 1:52:59.080 --> 1:53:03.200 Thirty nine years. I just need thirty nine more years. 1:53:03.240 --> 1:53:05.559 That's a long time. Thirty nine years a long time. 1:53:06.000 --> 1:53:09.000 I'm gonna live to one oh four and then I'm 1:53:09.000 --> 1:53:10.840 gonna push all the chips up to the window and 1:53:10.960 --> 1:53:14.080 cash it head. But I'm gonna be on the boat 1:53:14.320 --> 1:53:19.000 pepping so hard, I swear it god Man. 1:53:19.560 --> 1:53:21.840 Next time y'all interviewed me to be on the yacht 1:53:21.880 --> 1:53:24.599 in the middle of the Mediterranean, I'm gonna fly y'all 1:53:24.720 --> 1:53:27.240 out for it. We're gonna spend two days out there 1:53:27.280 --> 1:53:34.480 smoking cigars and drinking a leeche martinis. A leeche martinis. 1:53:34.479 --> 1:53:35.880 You ever heard of that? I have a favor. 1:53:36.120 --> 1:53:38.840 That's what you drink, Alchi. 1:53:38.560 --> 1:53:41.599 Martini Martini, y'all. I had one last year. I ain't 1:53:41.640 --> 1:53:44.720 know what it was because I didn't know what the 1:53:44.800 --> 1:53:45.360 leachi was. 1:53:45.439 --> 1:53:46.200 Yeah, I never had it. 1:53:47.760 --> 1:53:49.840 And when they showed it to me before they peeled it, 1:53:50.400 --> 1:53:53.200 they had all them spines on it. Anybody eating that 1:53:53.280 --> 1:53:56.479 they peeled it off made a martini? Yeah, it's good. 1:53:56.960 --> 1:54:01.559 Oh man, you had one dog, real pluck. 1:54:01.560 --> 1:54:04.480 Where you get them at New York in the restaurants, 1:54:04.680 --> 1:54:09.479 Oh you in New York, not in Georgia. You get 1:54:09.479 --> 1:54:12.120 a barbecue. My tita down here with a little gravy 1:54:12.200 --> 1:54:15.479 on it because you and Georgia down here. Pardon it's 1:54:15.520 --> 1:54:18.320 some areas down here where gravy is actually a beverage 1:54:20.479 --> 1:54:25.000 gravy shaking that start. No, it's been a pleasure, brother. 1:54:25.040 --> 1:54:27.080 This is actually probably our longest episode, but it just 1:54:27.160 --> 1:54:30.240 seemed like it was just like could last forever because 1:54:30.240 --> 1:54:33.880 it's so much information. And I'm personally appreciative because I 1:54:34.040 --> 1:54:35.720 learned from actually asking questions. 1:54:35.920 --> 1:54:38.160 It's like an audience does so a lot of the questions. 1:54:38.200 --> 1:54:40.400 I was asking you because I personally wanted to know 1:54:40.560 --> 1:54:43.440 myself to not make mistakes and to know how to maneuver. 1:54:43.520 --> 1:54:46.120 And that's what it's really about mentorship. So I appreciate 1:54:46.160 --> 1:54:47.480 you taking the time out of your schedule. 1:54:47.840 --> 1:54:50.440 It was good, man, because I've watched y'all. Y'all deep brothers. 1:54:50.520 --> 1:54:53.400 Man, what y'all trying to do is educate, and the 1:54:53.520 --> 1:54:56.880 more people you help become successful, the more successful you become. 1:54:57.320 --> 1:55:00.120 That's what people don't understand. Man. You got I had 1:55:00.120 --> 1:55:02.160 to take some time to share the knowledge. 1:55:02.800 --> 1:55:03.880 You know. It's like. 1:55:05.520 --> 1:55:07.320 I went to Robert Smith's house and tell you his 1:55:07.480 --> 1:55:12.000 quick story the billionaire, and the story is you got 1:55:12.160 --> 1:55:16.120 thirty minutes. No one gets more than thirty minutes of 1:55:16.200 --> 1:55:20.080 his time period. I was told that I done got 1:55:20.120 --> 1:55:22.640 a jet on a flu to Austin to his house 1:55:23.400 --> 1:55:26.440 cool for thirty minutes. Man, do you know how bad 1:55:26.480 --> 1:55:28.080 I wanted to sit with this man to get a 1:55:28.160 --> 1:55:30.880 jet and go somewhere for thirty minute meeting. Then the 1:55:30.960 --> 1:55:34.000 lady explained to me, at thirty minutes, when I walk up, 1:55:34.040 --> 1:55:36.720 if he does that, that means give him five more minutes. 1:55:37.760 --> 1:55:40.200 At thirty minutes, that lady walked right in that room 1:55:40.240 --> 1:55:41.920 and he did like that. I said, well, I got 1:55:42.000 --> 1:55:43.440 five more minutes, and I sat down. 1:55:43.520 --> 1:55:46.320 We talked. She came back in, he did like that. 1:55:47.000 --> 1:55:50.440 She walked away, She came back again. He did like that. 1:55:51.280 --> 1:55:54.240 She didn't come back no more. I was at Robert 1:55:54.280 --> 1:55:59.760 Smith's house for seven hours. I was leaving his house 1:56:00.840 --> 1:56:04.360 and I asked his the lady who runs it, I said. 1:56:05.080 --> 1:56:06.040 Can I answer your question? 1:56:07.240 --> 1:56:09.680 I said, I was expecting to leave in thirty minutes 1:56:09.760 --> 1:56:16.040 forty minutes. I said, why was I in this man's 1:56:16.080 --> 1:56:18.920 house for seven hours? She said, you know why, Steve, 1:56:19.560 --> 1:56:21.520 She said, cause you the first person that sat with 1:56:21.640 --> 1:56:24.000 him for twenty minutes and ain't asking for no money. 1:56:24.240 --> 1:56:27.400 Mm mm she said. So the question is, why ain't 1:56:27.400 --> 1:56:29.480 you ask the man for no money? Cause he was waiting, 1:56:30.040 --> 1:56:32.080 I said, cause I didn't wanna ask for no money. 1:56:32.640 --> 1:56:35.360 I wanna learn how he made that money. Mm See, 1:56:35.360 --> 1:56:39.120 I wanna be a billionaire. So what I needed from 1:56:39.200 --> 1:56:43.280 him was information. The biggest thing Robert smith taught me 1:56:43.720 --> 1:56:48.360 was to scale up everything you say in Steve, scale it. 1:56:49.520 --> 1:56:51.480 You wanna bring three hundred boards your ranch? 1:56:51.960 --> 1:56:54.760 How do you bring three thousand to your ranch? You 1:56:54.880 --> 1:56:58.720 bring three thousand? How do you bring thirty thousand? You 1:56:58.840 --> 1:57:01.840 wanna train thirty thou lies? How you change three hundred 1:57:01.920 --> 1:57:06.160 thousand lives? He taught me that valuable lesson. And me 1:57:06.200 --> 1:57:09.400 and Robert Smiths we've been friends every since. Man and 1:57:09.480 --> 1:57:12.080 when he gave that money the more house and paid 1:57:12.120 --> 1:57:14.440 off all them loans. Do you know he meets with 1:57:14.560 --> 1:57:18.000 them brothers once a month. He meets with him once 1:57:18.040 --> 1:57:20.920 a month. I was on the yacht for my birthday. 1:57:20.960 --> 1:57:22.800 He called me and says, Steve, need you join this 1:57:22.920 --> 1:57:25.000 call with me on Thursday night. Man, ain't no problem. 1:57:26.200 --> 1:57:28.560 Got on the lunch with him and set in, got 1:57:28.640 --> 1:57:31.000 in on the zoom call with him. He had about 1:57:31.040 --> 1:57:33.800 forty and fifty of them cats on the line set online, 1:57:34.200 --> 1:57:38.200 and all I did was give them information about the 1:57:38.520 --> 1:57:41.160 mindset you have to have for success. 1:57:41.880 --> 1:57:44.600 You got to get your mind wrapped around this thing. Man. 1:57:44.880 --> 1:57:47.120 If you don't get this here, you got to have 1:57:47.240 --> 1:57:50.480 successful thought. Everything I think is big, and everything I 1:57:50.600 --> 1:57:52.400 try to think is positive. And I'm human. I have 1:57:52.520 --> 1:57:55.920 my days, you know, when I have doubts, and I'm human. 1:57:57.040 --> 1:58:00.800 But right after that, whenever I think some working, I 1:58:00.920 --> 1:58:04.160 do two things I start thinking of. I get grateful 1:58:05.440 --> 1:58:08.960 and I immediately go into prayer. I get grateful and 1:58:09.040 --> 1:58:11.480 then I just say, okay, God, I thank you for 1:58:11.560 --> 1:58:13.400 what all you've done for me. Let me just shut 1:58:13.480 --> 1:58:15.640 up and cool out. And then I go into prayer 1:58:17.000 --> 1:58:20.280 and dog. What I have now is because of that. 1:58:20.480 --> 1:58:23.520 It's not because like I'm the funniest cat out there. 1:58:23.640 --> 1:58:25.920 You know, somebody asked me one time, you think you 1:58:26.080 --> 1:58:26.560 that funny. 1:58:26.840 --> 1:58:29.480 I don't know. I know enough people do. 1:58:30.080 --> 1:58:32.200 I got about I got a hundred million people willing 1:58:32.240 --> 1:58:37.520 to give me a dollar. I made a few hundred million. 1:58:38.120 --> 1:58:40.520 Now you might not think I'm funny, but I don't really. 1:58:40.440 --> 1:58:42.560 Need you to make it. Don't do it there's a 1:58:42.600 --> 1:58:44.320 whole lot of people hating on y'all, but you don't 1:58:44.360 --> 1:58:46.600 need that one of Them's a fact, you know the 1:58:46.720 --> 1:58:49.200 fact that I ain't never heard now one of Little 1:58:49.240 --> 1:58:53.040 Baby's records. I wouldn't know a Little Baby song. He 1:58:53.120 --> 1:58:58.360 don't need me asap Rocky. He got Rihanna. What do 1:58:58.440 --> 1:58:58.880 you need me? 1:59:01.680 --> 1:59:01.840 Dog? 1:59:01.960 --> 1:59:05.520 I said, ain't South Rocket, went ain't South Rocket, Ain't 1:59:05.560 --> 1:59:08.480 South rocket A South rocket? Got rihar What he need 1:59:08.680 --> 1:59:11.760 me for? Hell if I know I ain't South Racket. 1:59:12.320 --> 1:59:15.400 I don't even know what he do. I ain't got 1:59:15.480 --> 1:59:19.360 to know none of that, man, Dog I was. 1:59:19.600 --> 1:59:22.240 I was that dumb ass dude in nineteen seventy seven 1:59:22.320 --> 1:59:25.240 when hip hop hippity hop, when that came out. 1:59:25.600 --> 1:59:28.200 It was my last year of college. I heard that song. 1:59:28.320 --> 1:59:29.080 I was at a dance. 1:59:29.160 --> 1:59:32.320 I said, Man, this, this shit ain't gonna last. I 1:59:32.360 --> 1:59:35.400 don't know what is hip hop. This ain't gonna last. 1:59:36.200 --> 1:59:36.960 This will never make it. 1:59:37.080 --> 1:59:41.800 They ain't even singing. It's no way this will make it. 1:59:43.320 --> 1:59:46.480 I bought in my life, I can. I can tell 1:59:46.480 --> 1:59:48.000 you the hip hop albums I bought. 1:59:49.160 --> 1:59:51.840 I bought All Eyes on Me by Tupac, I bought 1:59:51.920 --> 1:59:53.480 Death certificate by ice Q. 1:59:54.600 --> 1:59:58.760 I bought jay Z's Blueprint. I bought P. D. Pablo's 1:59:58.880 --> 2:00:04.880 Diary of a Center. Interesting. Interesting personally, that's one of 2:00:04.960 --> 2:00:06.680 my favorite. You can't talk to me. 2:00:07.120 --> 2:00:09.440 You was going it was, yeah, I was class classic 2:00:09.480 --> 2:00:11.600 class tupac J. 2:00:13.120 --> 2:00:23.280 Yeah, it felt. I know it was like y'all because 2:00:23.640 --> 2:00:33.920 Dolly shut up turning around classic country ass. 2:00:34.520 --> 2:00:37.320 And then that song he got, I was scraping up, 2:00:37.440 --> 2:00:41.600 changeing an ass tray, two cigarettes, not a dime to 2:00:41.760 --> 2:00:42.160 my name. 2:00:42.800 --> 2:00:46.920 But man, it's a song about gratitude. It's a song 2:00:47.000 --> 2:00:47.560 about man. 2:00:47.640 --> 2:00:50.400 Where he it was its darkest moments and he just 2:00:50.480 --> 2:00:52.320 didn't know how he was gonna make it. But when 2:00:52.320 --> 2:00:55.480 he said I was down to a cigarette, scraping up, 2:00:55.560 --> 2:00:57.160 changing the ass tray, that was me. 2:00:58.040 --> 2:01:00.440 I played that song in my dress to the room 2:01:00.640 --> 2:01:01.440 all the time. 2:01:02.080 --> 2:01:02.280 P D. 2:01:02.480 --> 2:01:05.920 Poblo Diary of a Center. They're gonna quit talking to me. 2:01:06.120 --> 2:01:08.280 I played that for my son. My son said, who 2:01:08.400 --> 2:01:13.000 is this country ass to I'm sitting here. I'm shocked. 2:01:13.480 --> 2:01:17.320 You don't know. Pdy Poplo went to prison, came out. 2:01:17.960 --> 2:01:22.320 I told y'all, everybody have it, but y'all wouldn't listen 2:01:22.440 --> 2:01:24.840 to me. Now you got your see it popping off, 2:01:25.200 --> 2:01:28.840 got you in the club, dancing your ass, salt, shake 2:01:28.880 --> 2:01:33.280 it down, shake it down. Come on, man, I don't 2:01:33.280 --> 2:01:35.600 even know y'all sitting up here to him. Y'all supposed 2:01:35.640 --> 2:01:36.920 to be here, pop Foul those. 2:01:36.880 --> 2:01:39.080 Number five though it's number five, that's four, it's about five. 2:01:39.480 --> 2:01:44.720 The other album Okay, Petie Poplot, Blueprint Death Certificate, All. 2:01:44.640 --> 2:01:48.320 Ees on Me, All Eyes on Me, and uh uh 2:01:49.480 --> 2:01:50.880 out Cast speaker Box. 2:01:51.480 --> 2:01:55.000 Think about blow oh yeah, that that double album that 2:01:55.760 --> 2:01:59.400 was Cold. That was cold, the coldest album that seeing there. 2:01:59.440 --> 2:02:02.680 When they wrote, uh, ain't nobody dops me, I'm just 2:02:02.760 --> 2:02:07.200 so fresh and clean like that video like Key Key Mine, 2:02:07.480 --> 2:02:10.520 like show Time at the Apollo minus the Key Key Sheppard. 2:02:10.920 --> 2:02:13.280 When they released that, they came to the beat in 2:02:13.520 --> 2:02:16.520 LA and I played it on my radio station and 2:02:16.920 --> 2:02:20.000 a big boy say wrote this for you, huh, And 2:02:20.080 --> 2:02:23.440 he played that line, Ain't nobody dopsh me, I'm just 2:02:23.560 --> 2:02:27.240 so fresh and clean like show Time at the Apollo 2:02:27.480 --> 2:02:28.760 minus the Key Key Sheppard? 2:02:28.800 --> 2:02:31.640 Well, who else out there? Ain't nobody enough for me? 2:02:32.120 --> 2:02:33.640 After that? You couldn't say shit to me. 2:02:33.920 --> 2:02:36.120 Yeah, it's number one, number one selling hip hop album 2:02:36.120 --> 2:02:40.800 of all time cause of me, number yes, number one reason. 2:02:41.120 --> 2:02:44.200 No, I'll kid you, not them the five albums I bought, 2:02:44.720 --> 2:02:46.200 But hip hop don't need me. 2:02:47.520 --> 2:02:49.880 Look how many albums. It's the biggest music genre ever 2:02:50.000 --> 2:02:52.800 created in the world. And Steve Harvey ain't about but 2:02:52.920 --> 2:02:55.520 five of the albums what they need me for. 2:02:56.000 --> 2:02:58.600 So when people ask me, man, you think you the funniest, 2:02:58.600 --> 2:03:00.840 I don't need you to think I'm funny man, you 2:03:00.880 --> 2:03:02.840 ain't even for you. Wasn't the funniest ones in the King. 2:03:03.040 --> 2:03:06.240 I ain't have to be. I was on the Kings. 2:03:06.840 --> 2:03:09.000 You take me off, and it ain't no kings. You 2:03:09.120 --> 2:03:10.520 take Bernie off. Ain't no kings. 2:03:10.560 --> 2:03:13.280 You take said off the m See like if I had, 2:03:13.640 --> 2:03:16.360 you ain't asked me this. But that's pride right there. 2:03:16.480 --> 2:03:19.640 That's the reason if I had a mount Rushmore comedy. 2:03:21.720 --> 2:03:25.560 First of all, the trial is a mountain by hisself. 2:03:26.280 --> 2:03:27.120 He don't. He don't. 2:03:27.360 --> 2:03:30.480 You can't put him on this rock. He's a chisel, 2:03:30.920 --> 2:03:34.120 whole plateau rock taller than the mount. 2:03:35.680 --> 2:03:38.320 Eddie Murphy gets a plaque alone. 2:03:38.920 --> 2:03:43.520 Okay, yes, legend, Eddie get a whole plaque by himself. 2:03:44.120 --> 2:03:46.240 You can't touch Eddie when he comes to comedy who 2:03:47.040 --> 2:03:56.360 Delirious Raw and then Satnday Night Live, but eyes three 2:03:56.560 --> 2:04:05.880 times a maid day, My nu news Dog Buck Dog? 2:04:05.960 --> 2:04:08.400 Are you talking about somebody sitting there on Saturday Night 2:04:08.520 --> 2:04:10.320 Live crying? I'm talking about Dog. 2:04:10.560 --> 2:04:15.160 I would go home and cry watching Buck Wheaton, Velvet Jones, 2:04:15.280 --> 2:04:16.440 the Pimp and all this. 2:04:16.600 --> 2:04:21.720 Hell. Eddie got a rock by hisself for me, that 2:04:22.000 --> 2:04:22.960 Mount Rushmore. 2:04:23.080 --> 2:04:26.560 That was for Outside of that, we got Defoe Ye, 2:04:27.560 --> 2:04:33.840 Chris Rock Okay, okay, legend, Dave Chappelle, Yes, legend. 2:04:33.960 --> 2:04:34.160 Yes. 2:04:37.600 --> 2:04:41.040 Now it's hard because I know. 2:04:42.920 --> 2:04:47.040 I know some things people don't know. Bill Cosby was 2:04:47.120 --> 2:04:52.040 the most prolific stand up of all time twenty comedy albums. 2:04:52.360 --> 2:04:53.360 Ain't nobody done that? 2:04:53.520 --> 2:04:53.720 Dog? 2:04:54.080 --> 2:04:56.480 This dude right here was masterful. But if you say 2:04:56.520 --> 2:04:59.840 something about Bill, anybody, how could you like? People ask me, all, 2:05:00.440 --> 2:05:02.120 how could you be friends with Bill Callsby? 2:05:02.240 --> 2:05:02.400 Well? 2:05:02.440 --> 2:05:03.080 Hell, I ain't no. 2:05:04.080 --> 2:05:07.000 Well here, you know, you know they took all this 2:05:07.120 --> 2:05:09.840 money from Bill, caused me, took his names off all 2:05:09.880 --> 2:05:10.440 these buildings. 2:05:10.440 --> 2:05:13.080 Ain't nobody gave that money back? Though? You know? Why 2:05:13.080 --> 2:05:13.800 are you what? 2:05:14.000 --> 2:05:14.960 He was? So? 2:05:15.760 --> 2:05:19.200 I would want to put him there? But if I 2:05:19.360 --> 2:05:22.600 had to put the New School in there, it had 2:05:22.640 --> 2:05:23.600 to be Kevin Hard. 2:05:24.240 --> 2:05:27.280 So the that's the fourth, that's the three three. 2:05:27.400 --> 2:05:29.040 Oh so we're not putting, Okay, So we got three, 2:05:29.080 --> 2:05:29.919 got one more start. 2:05:29.880 --> 2:05:33.520 And one more the last spot. The Kings of Comedy 2:05:33.880 --> 2:05:40.240 is a plaque together altogether. Yes, sir, My laws is 2:05:40.440 --> 2:05:43.520 the most gift. My loss is the most What if 2:05:43.560 --> 2:05:47.040 I said about Martin my Lawns is the best mimicker 2:05:47.440 --> 2:05:49.080 I've ever been around in my life. 2:05:49.480 --> 2:05:52.520 What he did on death jam was unthinkable. 2:05:52.680 --> 2:05:57.560 He's the best mimicker, the most talented, versatile stand up 2:05:58.080 --> 2:05:59.280 ever born on this planet. 2:05:59.320 --> 2:06:04.040 Which Jamie four Jamie Fox another one. But I'm telling you, 2:06:04.200 --> 2:06:06.600 but we can't put everybody on this round. 2:06:07.760 --> 2:06:07.880 Now. 2:06:07.920 --> 2:06:10.400 I'm impartial because I'm one of the Kings, but I 2:06:10.560 --> 2:06:12.920 know what the Kings did for black comedy. 2:06:13.760 --> 2:06:15.000 I know what it was. Man. 2:06:15.600 --> 2:06:21.840 It launched you can ask Kevin. It launched a Kevin Hart. 2:06:23.240 --> 2:06:27.560 There's no Cat Williams. There's no Kevin, There's no there's 2:06:27.640 --> 2:06:32.080 no none of these dudes. Man Earthquake. Who is a 2:06:32.200 --> 2:06:32.800 bad boy? 2:06:33.600 --> 2:06:33.760 You know? 2:06:33.920 --> 2:06:39.280 Bill Bellamy A Dale gives Monique Samora uh Man, that 2:06:39.520 --> 2:06:45.960 Teddy carp Into, Damon Ways. It's some boys, j Anthony 2:06:46.000 --> 2:06:48.760 Brown Man the first night, the first week of Death 2:06:48.840 --> 2:06:52.520 Jail on the stage in one night was Martin Lawrens, 2:06:52.920 --> 2:06:57.520 All of the Waynes Broughts, Jamie Fox, Bill Bellamy, Bernie 2:06:57.640 --> 2:07:03.400 mack Sheryl Underwood, Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, j Anthony Brown, 2:07:04.000 --> 2:07:09.400 Teddy carp Into, a Dale Givings Dog. That stage was 2:07:09.480 --> 2:07:17.480 so no genre, bread more still living talented people than 2:07:17.600 --> 2:07:18.240 death Jail. 2:07:19.240 --> 2:07:20.200 Chause Tucker too was on it. 2:07:21.680 --> 2:07:24.760 Chris Tucker was on that stage. This boy. See you 2:07:24.920 --> 2:07:27.200 can't that that that genre right. 2:07:27.280 --> 2:07:30.920 There was nothing else but that Mount Rushmore for me 2:07:31.920 --> 2:07:33.520 because I know what the Kings was. 2:07:33.720 --> 2:07:37.280 Man, it was nice, the est grossing. It's just so 2:07:37.560 --> 2:07:39.680 it's something that ain't. Ain't nobody finna do that. You 2:07:39.720 --> 2:07:42.240 can get four Like. I love these boys at eighty 2:07:42.320 --> 2:07:42.920 five South. 2:07:43.760 --> 2:07:46.120 But they doing something, man, I never thought would be done. 2:07:46.120 --> 2:07:47.880 That's why I gotta take my hat off to him, 2:07:48.320 --> 2:07:50.080 because I don't know how they did this. Man. 2:07:50.800 --> 2:07:53.520 They actually go on stage in the living room setting 2:07:54.000 --> 2:07:57.640 and sit around and talk and sell out and the 2:07:57.760 --> 2:08:02.720 ship is funny. They they've taken improv comedy to a 2:08:02.880 --> 2:08:06.080 whole nother level, Like a lot of conversations, they're different. 2:08:06.160 --> 2:08:08.040 We sat we did that show, and just after the 2:08:08.080 --> 2:08:09.920 show was just like, how did they just do that? 2:08:11.440 --> 2:08:13.640 It's so talented and you don't realize it, like as 2:08:13.680 --> 2:08:14.120 this happenue? 2:08:14.760 --> 2:08:17.800 Does this happen? I didn't think that could work. I 2:08:17.960 --> 2:08:19.720 tried improv comedy. I can't do it. 2:08:19.720 --> 2:08:22.440 And then I don't understand dividing the check. That's what 2:08:23.800 --> 2:08:27.080 always through me. We're gonna get this check and we're 2:08:27.120 --> 2:08:29.840 gonna split it. Now, I gotta do this myself. But 2:08:30.200 --> 2:08:34.520 eighty five self has came along Chico and Man Seeing 2:08:34.840 --> 2:08:37.640 and DC and them boys, and they special. 2:08:37.760 --> 2:08:37.920 Man. 2:08:38.640 --> 2:08:43.160 They changed the way comedy could be done. So my 2:08:43.320 --> 2:08:45.920 hat's off to them young boys right there, man, because 2:08:46.000 --> 2:08:49.880 I just I didn't think it could work. But once again, 2:08:50.160 --> 2:08:52.280 it wasn't in my imagination. 2:08:52.000 --> 2:08:55.240 It was in theirs. So that's my view, man. So 2:08:55.360 --> 2:08:58.880 you have to write your own jokes to be top 2:08:58.920 --> 2:09:01.000 tier or does that not mat Yeah? 2:09:01.160 --> 2:09:04.440 But then you know, like the like Chapelle and Rock 2:09:05.080 --> 2:09:07.920 you know they had writers, you know, but they doing 2:09:08.000 --> 2:09:10.600 some high level stuff. It's it's time consuming. Like if 2:09:10.640 --> 2:09:13.040 I went back, I'd have to go that route. I 2:09:13.160 --> 2:09:15.360 spent my whole career writing my own. I bought two 2:09:15.520 --> 2:09:19.160 jokes in thirty years, he said, bought them, bought two 2:09:19.280 --> 2:09:22.160 jokes writers, Yeah, off of a writer. I bought a 2:09:22.240 --> 2:09:26.320 funeral joke from Prescott Comedian out of Memphis. I bought 2:09:26.320 --> 2:09:30.280 a funeral joke from Prescott, and I bought something else 2:09:30.320 --> 2:09:32.680 from Prescott. I don't remember that joke, but I bought 2:09:32.720 --> 2:09:35.480 it and then didn't use it. Right, But that funeral 2:09:35.600 --> 2:09:38.040 joke that I never put on tape one of the 2:09:38.120 --> 2:09:41.240 funniest pieces I've ever gotten. It was just, you know, 2:09:41.520 --> 2:09:44.560 going to a black funeral and you know, and then 2:09:44.640 --> 2:09:47.200 I you know, like you know, funeral homes, like back 2:09:47.240 --> 2:09:49.320 in the day we lived in the hood, you had 2:09:49.360 --> 2:09:51.160 to take the body to the funeral home. They didn't 2:09:51.160 --> 2:09:51.840 do pickups. 2:09:52.600 --> 2:09:56.040 So my uncle died and we came home and he 2:09:56.240 --> 2:09:58.760 was dead, and we had to take him to the 2:09:58.800 --> 2:09:59.480 funeral home. 2:10:00.200 --> 2:10:03.880 Now, me and my nephew, we tend and my mom 2:10:03.960 --> 2:10:06.040 and daddy in the front, and they propped my uncle 2:10:06.160 --> 2:10:08.240 up in the back, sitting him up, and they put 2:10:08.360 --> 2:10:10.800 us on each side so he wouldn't fall over. Ye know, 2:10:10.880 --> 2:10:14.920 how fucking traumatized. I was we make a left turn. 2:10:15.000 --> 2:10:18.760 This he oon't me, He don't mean Mama helled me. 2:10:19.160 --> 2:10:22.280 You shut up and leave my brother quick pushing him. 2:10:22.520 --> 2:10:25.120 You know you're how hard it is to ride with 2:10:25.280 --> 2:10:28.120 your first dead person and you and you and your 2:10:28.200 --> 2:10:30.680 brother is bookends trying to prop his ass up. 2:10:31.840 --> 2:10:32.120 Brother. 2:10:34.920 --> 2:10:37.960 Listen to me, you need therapy after that ship. You 2:10:38.080 --> 2:10:39.080 got to go to therapy. 2:10:39.320 --> 2:10:42.160 And now I wrote a whole joke about that and 2:10:42.840 --> 2:10:45.240 taking him up there and took the suit down there 2:10:45.320 --> 2:10:47.720 for the funeral director to dress him in and everything. 2:10:47.800 --> 2:10:50.000 We get to the funeral and we opened up the 2:10:50.080 --> 2:10:53.120 cask and and my uncle ain't got the suit on. 2:10:54.680 --> 2:10:58.000 He got on a Michael Jordan's jog and suit with 2:10:58.160 --> 2:11:02.680 number two and three of the director to shoot. I 2:11:02.840 --> 2:11:06.000 used to I had wrote this ship. That ship was 2:11:06.160 --> 2:11:10.520 one of the greatest jokes. I never put that on tape, man, 2:11:10.640 --> 2:11:13.080 but that was one. If I came back, I had 2:11:13.160 --> 2:11:13.880 to release. 2:11:13.680 --> 2:11:16.000 That n f T release it as an FT. 2:11:17.000 --> 2:11:18.560 Yeah, one of the first, one of the first. 2:11:18.920 --> 2:11:23.600 Actually, uh endorse and speak about Solano as to media. 2:11:23.600 --> 2:11:27.400 I'm sure he's behind that. Man. You explain how that 2:11:27.480 --> 2:11:31.040 would work, how you would put it as an NFT. 2:11:31.280 --> 2:11:34.800 Yeah, so I first I would do it like as 2:11:34.840 --> 2:11:38.240 a I would record it right, and then making a 2:11:38.280 --> 2:11:40.680 digital product and make it exclusive to the people who 2:11:40.720 --> 2:11:43.480 bought maybe create artwork around it and make it exclusive 2:11:43.520 --> 2:11:45.720 to the people. And then after they bought it, perhaps 2:11:45.800 --> 2:11:48.960 make it one night only where you actually perform. 2:11:49.040 --> 2:11:50.720 If they have the NFT, they get a whole big 2:11:50.760 --> 2:11:51.400 business around it. 2:11:52.000 --> 2:11:54.360 They buy it in crypto, they can resell it. Every 2:11:54.360 --> 2:11:57.000 time they resell it, you get percentage on it. Percentage 2:11:57.040 --> 2:11:57.200 on it. 2:12:00.520 --> 2:12:04.800 To me, it's like, wait, that's it, man. 2:12:04.840 --> 2:12:07.160 You know how much of that stuff I got? Hey, man, 2:12:07.640 --> 2:12:13.040 do you know I have footage? I have at least 2:12:20.760 --> 2:12:27.520 sixteen hours of never recorded. I'm talking about because I 2:12:27.720 --> 2:12:30.480 when I did my seven specials man and and and 2:12:30.840 --> 2:12:34.880 and feature films and for stand up, I only picked 2:12:34.960 --> 2:12:40.680 the best hour ten. I've got some stuff that never 2:12:40.760 --> 2:12:43.800 got recorded. The funeral joke to Jerry spring a bit, 2:12:44.960 --> 2:12:48.760 the waffle house joke. I got some shit, man, that 2:12:49.240 --> 2:12:51.440 was so gut. 2:12:51.280 --> 2:12:55.120 Wrench and funny. Man, I just haven't had time to 2:12:55.200 --> 2:12:56.720 go through all of it. I got a lot of 2:12:56.800 --> 2:12:58.880 the footage, but this this'll be a time for it. 2:12:59.000 --> 2:13:01.040 I mean I'm gonna look up with. 2:13:01.080 --> 2:13:01.720 Y'all and do something. 2:13:01.720 --> 2:13:01.840 Man. 2:13:01.880 --> 2:13:03.800 I wanna do a business venture with y'all too. 2:13:04.160 --> 2:13:05.080 Let's do it. Do it. 2:13:05.240 --> 2:13:07.320 Y'all gotta get with the bad and y'all gotta come 2:13:07.400 --> 2:13:09.480 up with the idea and we got to do the 2:13:09.560 --> 2:13:11.680 three of us got to do a business venture together 2:13:12.840 --> 2:13:17.480 and launch it. Take my radio show, use it as 2:13:17.520 --> 2:13:21.760 the nucleus to promote, and then whatever social media I got, 2:13:22.080 --> 2:13:24.480 and then we need to get out there and we can. 2:13:24.360 --> 2:13:27.800 Do something big. Man. We can promote on our side too. Yeah, 2:13:27.880 --> 2:13:28.800 y'all y'all strong. 2:13:29.320 --> 2:13:31.520 Seeing if whatever y'all trying to do in Africa, if 2:13:31.600 --> 2:13:34.240 y'all trying to go high of that work I got. 2:13:34.880 --> 2:13:38.400 Yeah, we'll talk about that. We got some investment opportunities 2:13:38.400 --> 2:13:38.640 out there. 2:13:38.760 --> 2:13:43.000 I got a studio for you in Abu Dhabi's me 2:13:44.160 --> 2:13:47.680 know to dip and I'm talking about where you can go. Man. 2:13:47.960 --> 2:13:51.160 Like when you go to Abu Dhabi, man, you won't 2:13:51.160 --> 2:13:55.960 even believe it. You've never been nowhere on earth like this. 2:13:57.840 --> 2:14:00.680 You you you know what it's like to walk outside 2:14:00.680 --> 2:14:01.720 and not have to look around. 2:14:02.120 --> 2:14:06.040 That's like I was with Singapore and Singapore that was 2:14:06.080 --> 2:14:08.040 like the most immaculate place that I've been to, Like 2:14:08.160 --> 2:14:11.840 it was just no poverty, nothing on it stet looked 2:14:11.880 --> 2:14:12.880 like we was in the future. 2:14:13.040 --> 2:14:14.800 Like it was like that was just like I ain't 2:14:14.800 --> 2:14:16.280 never been there. Oh it's crazy. 2:14:16.280 --> 2:14:17.880 You know when you go on the plane, so I 2:14:18.000 --> 2:14:21.200 was coming from Hong Kong, and when you go on 2:14:21.280 --> 2:14:23.480 the plane, you know how to give you those things 2:14:23.560 --> 2:14:25.720 to read, but nobody ever really reads it, Like I 2:14:25.840 --> 2:14:28.760 actually read it this time it said drug trafficking of 2:14:28.840 --> 2:14:33.920 any kind is punishable by death. Yeah, So then I 2:14:34.040 --> 2:14:36.600 get there and then my friend who he's with, his 2:14:36.800 --> 2:14:39.160 cousin actually was living out there, so she was telling 2:14:39.280 --> 2:14:42.040 us like there's no drugs, like they're serious about that, 2:14:42.360 --> 2:14:45.560 really no drugs, Like there's no drugs out there. But 2:14:45.680 --> 2:14:47.840 it was like, I'm like, because it's like one of 2:14:47.880 --> 2:14:50.920 the most expensive places to live, and she was like yeah, 2:14:51.000 --> 2:14:54.440 but everybody works. And she's like even like low income housing, 2:14:54.480 --> 2:14:56.800 it's like, are just a regular apartment, Like there's no poverty, 2:14:56.840 --> 2:14:59.760 there's no ghettos, there's no crime, there's no none of that. 2:15:00.080 --> 2:15:02.400 And it looked like we was in the future. What 2:15:02.880 --> 2:15:03.840 language is over there? 2:15:04.840 --> 2:15:08.760 Well, everybody spoke English because really, yeah, I forget what 2:15:08.840 --> 2:15:10.560 it like native language is now. 2:15:10.640 --> 2:15:12.840 Somebody was telling me to go to Singapore, but I 2:15:12.960 --> 2:15:13.800 kept thinking. 2:15:13.720 --> 2:15:14.680 The four principle. 2:15:15.200 --> 2:15:17.800 We can't leave without talking about I think, which is 2:15:18.080 --> 2:15:21.760 probably the sixth principle, and that's the give back. Let's 2:15:21.800 --> 2:15:24.480 talk about your foundation, the philanthropy work that you're doing well. 2:15:25.560 --> 2:15:27.760 I've been doing this for quite some time, Steve and 2:15:27.840 --> 2:15:31.720 Marjora Harvey Foundation. But it's about to take a new turn. 2:15:31.880 --> 2:15:32.080 Man. 2:15:32.240 --> 2:15:36.640 I'm in the process of closing a deal to buy 2:15:36.800 --> 2:15:40.040 Rock Ranch. And Rock Ranch is owned by. 2:15:40.000 --> 2:15:43.840 Chick fil A right now, and it's sixteen hundred acres. 2:15:44.160 --> 2:15:46.520 Where is it that just south of here. 2:15:47.160 --> 2:15:49.640 It's about an hour and a half from here in 2:15:50.640 --> 2:15:54.280 is it Rock, Georgia, And it's called the Rock Ranch 2:15:54.600 --> 2:15:58.160 and it's one thousand, six hundred acres. I'm gonna buy 2:15:58.200 --> 2:16:02.360 it myself, donated to my foundation because I don't want 2:16:02.400 --> 2:16:04.520 my foundation to have to take that type of hit. 2:16:04.720 --> 2:16:07.920 There's a lot of money to buy, but this is 2:16:08.040 --> 2:16:10.560 going to give me a chance to do what Robert 2:16:10.600 --> 2:16:13.440 Smith taught me to do, was to scale up. And 2:16:13.800 --> 2:16:17.280 so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna build permanent 2:16:17.400 --> 2:16:20.920 housing on it. Because right now, when I go down there, 2:16:20.920 --> 2:16:24.200 I gotta spend hundreds of thousands on tents for the 2:16:24.280 --> 2:16:27.240 boys to sleep in. I gotta I gotta have a 2:16:28.000 --> 2:16:32.280 toilet's body in and showers body in, and uh. I 2:16:32.520 --> 2:16:35.360 just want to change it and really really go all 2:16:35.480 --> 2:16:39.720 out with it. We're gonna build sleeping for seven hundred kids, 2:16:39.879 --> 2:16:44.879 boys and girls with indoor uh toilets and showers for everybody. 2:16:46.800 --> 2:16:50.160 We're gonna have a performing arts center that seats seven 2:16:50.240 --> 2:16:52.680 hundred with theater seating in it to show movies and 2:16:52.760 --> 2:16:57.280 do presentations for corporate getaways. I'm gonna build about fifteen 2:16:57.440 --> 2:17:01.039 tiny houses on it for corporate execus getaways to come 2:17:01.120 --> 2:17:04.760 down there. I've got fishing ponds all over the place. 2:17:05.120 --> 2:17:08.160 I got rock climbing, zip lining. I'm gonna open up 2:17:08.520 --> 2:17:11.440 the STEM center. Robert Smith has committed to opening that 2:17:11.600 --> 2:17:14.440 for me. I'm gonna open up a STEM coding center 2:17:14.840 --> 2:17:18.240 to teach coding to young All of this for underprivileged kids. 2:17:18.920 --> 2:17:21.400 If your child got money, that ain't who I'm working with. 2:17:21.879 --> 2:17:23.560 I work for people who can't afford it. 2:17:23.640 --> 2:17:26.960 Man. I'm taking all underprivileged kids. That that's all. 2:17:27.080 --> 2:17:30.000 I'm taking the ones people don't thank God a shot 2:17:30.160 --> 2:17:35.879 that was me. I'm gonna I'm claiming it. I'm gonna 2:17:35.879 --> 2:17:38.760 open up the Floyd Mayweather boxing facility down there, and 2:17:38.760 --> 2:17:39.640 he mentioned it to. 2:17:39.680 --> 2:17:41.760 Floyd, said. 2:17:43.640 --> 2:17:46.560 He ain't had a conversation with Floyd Mayweather bought it. 2:17:46.959 --> 2:17:49.320 But here a good brother. Every time we see each other, 2:17:49.400 --> 2:17:50.000 we cordial. 2:17:50.080 --> 2:17:52.920 But I love his dude. Al Hayman. He a Cleveland boy. 2:17:53.560 --> 2:17:56.000 I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go to Floyd and 2:17:56.040 --> 2:17:58.320 I'm gonna ask him to build a gym for these boys. 2:17:58.400 --> 2:18:00.160 I'm just putting it out there. I claim. 2:18:01.440 --> 2:18:05.880 I'm building the Tyler Perry Performing Arts Center, the Robert 2:18:05.959 --> 2:18:09.440 Smith Coding Center. I want to build it. Here's another 2:18:09.480 --> 2:18:11.440 one that I'm putting out there. I'm gonna build the 2:18:11.600 --> 2:18:16.520 Shaquille O'Neil Gymnasium. Shaquille is a good brother man, just 2:18:16.640 --> 2:18:20.120 a good brother man. And I like being affiliated with 2:18:20.280 --> 2:18:22.760 people as good dudes. Man that I know got their 2:18:22.840 --> 2:18:23.920 heart in the right place. 2:18:24.920 --> 2:18:25.480 You know it. 2:18:25.920 --> 2:18:25.960 It. 2:18:27.080 --> 2:18:29.400 I just claim stuff like that, you know. 2:18:29.600 --> 2:18:31.879 But if they understand that I don't put my money 2:18:31.920 --> 2:18:33.800 in at these cats is willing to give. They have 2:18:33.879 --> 2:18:36.200 a lot of give back spirit in them, you know, 2:18:36.760 --> 2:18:40.160 And I'm gonna open up Ah. I'm gonna put a 2:18:40.240 --> 2:18:44.560 track down there. I'm gonna open up a gardening facility. 2:18:44.600 --> 2:18:47.520 I'm gonna sell flowers. I'm gonna take two hundred acres 2:18:48.000 --> 2:18:51.560 and grow flowers down there and raise honey with the bees. 2:18:52.360 --> 2:18:54.320 And I'm gonna open up farming. 2:18:54.400 --> 2:18:57.520 I'm gonna find me an African American farmer that got 2:18:57.640 --> 2:19:01.199 hit during the pandemic and lost they farm. I'm gonna 2:19:01.200 --> 2:19:04.119 give him farming acreage down there, a few hundred acres, 2:19:04.520 --> 2:19:08.520 and I'm just gonna pay him to grow organic vegetables. 2:19:08.720 --> 2:19:12.320 I'm gonna feed the community and whoever needs vegetables that 2:19:12.440 --> 2:19:14.200 live in that area, I'm gonna just feed them for 2:19:14.320 --> 2:19:17.199 free and let his brother earn a living from farming. 2:19:18.560 --> 2:19:21.320 And I'm gonna open up a dining hall. I'm gonna 2:19:21.320 --> 2:19:23.440 have facility there. When I'm not using it, i can 2:19:23.520 --> 2:19:26.720 rent it out for corporate events and for weddings and 2:19:26.840 --> 2:19:29.879 things like that. I'm also gonna open up the gym 2:19:30.000 --> 2:19:32.760 and create it in a way where if HBCUs wanna 2:19:32.800 --> 2:19:35.440 come down there and have camps, they can come down 2:19:35.480 --> 2:19:38.600 there doing as long as it's not summer and hold camps, 2:19:40.040 --> 2:19:43.680 training facilities, and I'm gonna have a Division one workouts 2:19:43.680 --> 2:19:47.320 center built for football teams who wanna come down there. 2:19:47.360 --> 2:19:49.240 I'm gonna go to the NFL and get them build 2:19:49.280 --> 2:19:52.280 me a football field with astro turf, and I'm gonna 2:19:52.280 --> 2:19:55.840 go to the NBA. If Shaq don't come through, I'm 2:19:55.840 --> 2:19:57.360 gonna go to the NBA. I'm gonna have them build 2:19:57.360 --> 2:19:58.800 me a gym. If they don't do it, I'll do 2:19:58.920 --> 2:20:01.680 it myself. Don't make me no difference. I hope they do, 2:20:01.879 --> 2:20:04.520 but it don't matter to me. I'm not in the 2:20:04.600 --> 2:20:07.360 beg business. I'll ask you, but I won't beg you. 2:20:08.240 --> 2:20:10.640 And then that's what God don't put on my heart. 2:20:10.760 --> 2:20:15.080 So that's what we're going with philanthropy and my wife's 2:20:15.120 --> 2:20:17.480 goal and our goal is to send ten thousand young 2:20:17.560 --> 2:20:19.840 people to college full paid scholarships. 2:20:19.920 --> 2:20:22.560 We're on our way. We've done a hundred or so 2:20:22.840 --> 2:20:25.400 right now, but we're a long way from ten thousand. 2:20:25.480 --> 2:20:28.080 But that's the goal. I'll say this. We definitely want 2:20:28.080 --> 2:20:29.440 to help in any way that we can help in that. 2:20:29.800 --> 2:20:32.080 So I'm gonna have y'all come down there and teach 2:20:32.120 --> 2:20:34.040 a course. Yeah, for sure, do it for sure. That's 2:20:34.080 --> 2:20:36.480 what I want y'all to do. Gotta be dope. We 2:20:36.600 --> 2:20:40.480 definitely do that. So thank you man. Yeah, Steve, it's 2:20:40.879 --> 2:20:43.560 been a pleasure with my brother. Been real Black. Appreciate 2:20:43.640 --> 2:20:46.039 you mine. I appreciate you man. I appreciate y'all. Let 2:20:46.120 --> 2:20:48.280 me let me speak like this. Most people don't come 2:20:48.320 --> 2:20:50.720 at me like this. I don't get to say these 2:20:50.800 --> 2:20:53.960 types of things, So I appreciate it, app I appreciate 2:20:54.000 --> 2:20:55.960 you more. Thank you guys for rocking with it. 2:20:56.120 --> 2:20:58.800 Before we go, we got to give thanks again to 2:20:58.879 --> 2:21:03.000 be make you that this happened, shouting the Cole All Black. 2:21:02.879 --> 2:21:05.920 Effect family for also making sure that this took place. 2:21:06.000 --> 2:21:06.840 So thank y'all. 2:21:07.240 --> 2:21:09.960 And I want to highlight his he's talking about it, 2:21:10.080 --> 2:21:12.040 but I think it's important to really say this on camera. 2:21:12.160 --> 2:21:15.240 So he talked about his lawyer, He talked about his stylust, 2:21:15.320 --> 2:21:17.720 He talked about TVD who helps him out a lot 2:21:17.760 --> 2:21:21.920 of financial issues. And they're all young black men and 2:21:22.120 --> 2:21:24.720 that's important too. Like he has his staff and a 2:21:24.879 --> 2:21:29.960 team of black professionals. He didn't have to compromise the 2:21:30.120 --> 2:21:31.200 entire A lot of time, we think we have to 2:21:31.240 --> 2:21:33.280 compromise the integrity. If we hired somebody black, he didn't 2:21:33.320 --> 2:21:38.039 compromise the integrity. People are extremely highly qualified, and that's 2:21:38.080 --> 2:21:41.080 something to highlight. It's like like Lebron you know different 2:21:41.080 --> 2:21:43.400 things that nature, but it's always good to see, you know, 2:21:43.480 --> 2:21:48.440 a team of black people, especially black men, working together. 2:21:49.000 --> 2:21:50.040 And they qualified too. 2:21:50.080 --> 2:21:52.320 Because when I put them boys in the room, I 2:21:52.360 --> 2:21:54.840 ain't got to be in there because I know they're 2:21:54.840 --> 2:21:58.000 gonna handle bits because they're smart and you ain't gonna 2:21:58.040 --> 2:21:59.920 run nothing by them. Doog, I ain't even worried about it. 2:22:00.080 --> 2:22:02.760 You can come in there. These cats got some minds 2:22:02.800 --> 2:22:04.920 on them. And like you say, I didn't hire black 2:22:04.959 --> 2:22:09.240 people that have to compromise. No, man, I'm actually I actually, 2:22:09.720 --> 2:22:11.960 I actually have an edge because to tell you what 2:22:12.040 --> 2:22:14.640 else it gives me, Man, gives me a comfort level. 2:22:15.400 --> 2:22:18.000 Cause you know, man, sometimes, Man, when you out here 2:22:18.000 --> 2:22:20.520 in this world as an hour for mail, it's lonely 2:22:20.600 --> 2:22:23.160 out here. You're out here operating with people that don't 2:22:23.200 --> 2:22:25.320 look like you, talk like you. Some of them don't 2:22:25.320 --> 2:22:26.959 want to really be bothered with you, but you had 2:22:27.000 --> 2:22:28.840 ability to make money, so they tolerate you. 2:22:29.320 --> 2:22:29.520 Well. 2:22:29.879 --> 2:22:32.600 When I'm home and I'm sitting around my guys. I 2:22:32.720 --> 2:22:34.320 want the comfort level. I want to be able to 2:22:34.400 --> 2:22:36.760 talk like I talk, say what I say now. If 2:22:36.800 --> 2:22:39.480 I far off a word that ain't politically correct, ain't 2:22:39.520 --> 2:22:40.640 nobody wincing. 2:22:40.480 --> 2:22:45.480 Writing me up? Get then out? No paperwork? Hey dog, 2:22:46.000 --> 2:22:47.160 I don't want to say nothing. And all of a 2:22:47.160 --> 2:22:52.520 sudden I see somebody filling out paperwork work Okay, yeah, yeah, 2:22:53.320 --> 2:22:54.920 And we have a lot of meanings in my house 2:22:54.959 --> 2:22:56.199 where HR don't apply. 2:23:01.800 --> 2:23:04.160 No, it's a pleasure of my brother. Thank you guys 2:23:04.240 --> 2:23:05.800 for rocking with us. We'll see you next week. 2:23:05.959 --> 2:23:12.320 Peace, peace, my graduates from my school being forced bad. 2:23:12.480 --> 2:23:16.320 Drop Bag Drop Mike, drop Bag Drop. 2:23:29.400 --> 2:23:32.840 Lows knows that free makes everything better. 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