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Speaker 2: I had to learn something adversity. This is what I learned.
Speaker 2: I often ask people. I said, how many of you
Speaker 2: all have ever had a bad day? And the audience
Speaker 2: raised their head, how many of y'all have had days
Speaker 2: where you felt like you wasn't gonna make it?
Speaker 3: And everybody raised their head.
Speaker 2: How many y'all have had days where you thought you
Speaker 2: you just didn't know what you was gonna do. Everybody
Speaker 2: raises they hand. I said, now, let me tell you
Speaker 2: something about yourself. Your track record for surviving hard days,
Speaker 2: days you wasn't gonna make it, thought you weren't gonna
Speaker 2: make it, an insurmountable days.
Speaker 3: Your track record for surviving those days is one per
Speaker 3: every bad day you've ever had, you survived it. You
Speaker 3: got a one hundred percent track record. Everybody in here,
Speaker 3: everybody watching, got a one hundred percent track record of
Speaker 3: surviving funky ass days. My graduates from my school being
Speaker 3: forced bad drop bag drop, Mike drop bad drop drop.
Speaker 4: All right, guys, welcome back, e y l. This is
Speaker 4: going to be a legendary situation.
Speaker 5: Feels legendary already.
Speaker 4: It's already a legendary pre conversation that we actually had
Speaker 4: for like a half an hour. So if you know us,
Speaker 4: you know that you know we grew up in the
Speaker 4: culture from music, sports, of course, entertainment. So one of
Speaker 4: the pillars of our culture who's actually become an icon,
Speaker 4: Steve Harvey. So Steve Harvey needs no introduction, But I
Speaker 4: was telling him the story. My I'm not sure if
Speaker 4: that's my first introduction, but like when it really became
Speaker 4: like really really big.
Speaker 3: For me was the Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 4: And it's crazy that that happened over twenty five years ago.
Speaker 5: Now the teenager say.
Speaker 3: That I was younger than the teenager.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go further back. I'm gonna go further back.
Speaker 6: I remember what happened to wait up at twelve am
Speaker 6: to watch a show time at the Apollogy.
Speaker 3: Oh apollow that was before.
Speaker 4: That was before what I'm saying the same time, right,
Speaker 4: like you have to wait up to see it follow
Speaker 4: that was legendary. But just to see the Kings of
Speaker 4: comedy in the movie theater and to see his cultural impact,
Speaker 4: like I never forget, like I had never seen because
Speaker 4: I'm too young for like raw or you know all
Speaker 4: of those.
Speaker 5: So crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was before my time.
Speaker 4: So that was the first time I actually saw like
Speaker 4: a comedy show in a movie theater packed and people
Speaker 4: talking about it, and people stealing the jokes and making
Speaker 4: it their own jokes.
Speaker 3: Like what it just became like a cultural phenomenon.
Speaker 6: I think that might have been my first time crying
Speaker 6: at theater. Why'd you cry because I was just laughing,
Speaker 6: so oh yeah, yeah. Once I said we back got
Speaker 6: up there, it was just like this is crazy. And
Speaker 6: then d l and it was it was crazy. It
Speaker 6: was I couldn't wait for the DVD to come out
Speaker 6: to keep watching it.
Speaker 5: That's how it was.
Speaker 6: DVDs is what we used to put inside of the drive.
Speaker 4: God damn forget it. Yeah, tell people, but you know,
Speaker 4: it's crazy. Just to see the evolution. I told them,
Speaker 4: it's just inspiring for me, Like we're actually at his
Speaker 4: a state right now, and to see the evolution of
Speaker 4: you know, somebody that was doing comedy and then it
Speaker 4: was on TV radio and now just media mogul and
Speaker 4: has grown a whole empire. Like, you know, it's inspiring
Speaker 4: actually because we actually got to see it first hand.
Speaker 4: We actually got to like witness the growth step by
Speaker 4: step by step by step. So this is going to
Speaker 4: be a dope conversation because I feel like a lot
Speaker 4: of times people might they might see the surface, like
Speaker 4: they see, you know, the celebrity, but they don't actually
Speaker 4: see what goes behind that and how he's actually transitioning
Speaker 4: the whole world of Hollywood with the conversation that we
Speaker 4: just had. We have that conversation as well, reframing everything
Speaker 4: and ownership and all of this stuff global vision. So
Speaker 4: this is going to be extremely extremely high level conversation.
Speaker 3: Dope conversation.
Speaker 6: So it's dope because it's like we saw the entertainment,
Speaker 6: but most people forget that there's a bit it and
Speaker 6: so like they head here, what's gonna happen today? Man,
Speaker 6: it's going to be one of those situations that they
Speaker 6: gonna remember father.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for joining us, brother, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for having us. Thank you man.
Speaker 2: You know, one of the things like you were talking,
Speaker 2: because what I learned very quickly that show business is
Speaker 2: actually two separate words.
Speaker 3: It's not one continuous thing.
Speaker 2: See, you can have the best show in the world,
Speaker 2: but if you don't have the business, then how would
Speaker 2: people book you? How would people pay the ticket price
Speaker 2: to see you? Why would people come? You know, if
Speaker 2: you don't have the business. So you can have the
Speaker 2: best show in the world, and if you don't take
Speaker 2: care of the business, it won't work. You can have
Speaker 2: the best business acumen in the world, but if you
Speaker 2: ain't got no great show, or you might trick them
Speaker 2: into paying you this money, and you might, but once
Speaker 2: they get there and you don't have the show that
Speaker 2: leaves up to the ticket price, you don't have a
Speaker 2: repeat customer. So I always had to learn that show
Speaker 2: business was two separate words, and I had to ask.
Speaker 2: And at first it only starts out as being a
Speaker 2: great show show me because you got to learn the business.
Speaker 3: And over the.
Speaker 2: Years I started focusing on the business, and that was
Speaker 2: one of the biggest causes for my success because I
Speaker 2: always understood that even with a promoter that booked me
Speaker 2: or comedy club owner that hired me, I didn't go
Speaker 2: in there just to be hired.
Speaker 3: I went in there as his partner.
Speaker 2: I wanted to sell his place out, so after he
Speaker 2: paid me, he was successful, so he would want me back.
Speaker 3: Over and over and over again.
Speaker 2: And I kept that relationship whether it was a comedy
Speaker 2: club owner or a promoter or a TV show.
Speaker 3: That was my philosophy.
Speaker 4: So I want to get into this. I understand you
Speaker 4: have five core principles when it comes to considering business.
Speaker 4: Dreaming big, dream big, use your imagination, show gratitude, overcome fear,
Speaker 4: and have faith. Yeah, man, can we go over each
Speaker 4: one dream, big, let's start with that one.
Speaker 3: Everything starts with the dream.
Speaker 2: Nothing launches without the dream that comes from your childhood.
Speaker 2: From anything, it's the dream. It's the core basis of success.
Speaker 2: See the thing with me, man, is that I don't
Speaker 2: really focus on the technical aspects of business, because I'm
Speaker 2: not the technical guy. I focus on the mental aspect
Speaker 2: of business. I focus on the part that go on
Speaker 2: in here, because if you fix what goes on in here,
Speaker 2: you got a shot. Now, you technical ain't nothing if
Speaker 2: you ain't got it set up. So the dream is
Speaker 2: the core of everything. That dream, Man, it's biblical, you know.
Speaker 2: Man without a dream or vision shall perish.
Speaker 3: Listen about you.
Speaker 2: Education ain't even in the Bible. I ain't never mind.
Speaker 2: I ain't never read nothing about Harvard Emory. I ain't
Speaker 2: never heard no Ivy League scriptures.
Speaker 3: I've never All it talks about is that dream. So
Speaker 3: that's the core imagination.
Speaker 2: Now that's critical, because see what people don't understand, is, man,
Speaker 2: this thing that you imagine is is a peak. Albert
Speaker 2: Einstein had a quote he said, imagination is everything. It's
Speaker 2: the preview to life's coming attractions. Oh, man, when I
Speaker 2: heard that that tripped me out. Because here's Albert Einstein
Speaker 2: setting it out that imagination is everything.
Speaker 3: It's to preview to life coming attraction.
Speaker 2: So everything that's in your imagination is God showing you
Speaker 2: a preview of a coming attraction that He has for you. See,
Speaker 2: So you can't don't let nobody play your imagination off.
Speaker 2: Don't let nobody twist you about what's in your imagination.
Speaker 2: Don't learn how you see that they ain't supposed to
Speaker 2: see it. See, everybody not gonna see your imagination. You
Speaker 2: can quit telling it to them. Because God wanted them
Speaker 2: to see it. He to put it in their imagination,
Speaker 2: but he put it in yours. So imagination is as
Speaker 2: critical as the dream, because the imagination is just God
Speaker 2: showing you a preview what he has to It's like
Speaker 2: when you go to a movie and you get your
Speaker 2: popcorn and you sit down before the movie start.
Speaker 3: What do they show you?
Speaker 2: They show you previews of what a coming attraction? Have
Speaker 2: you ever seen a preview? And then the movie ain't
Speaker 2: come out? Now, Bro, Once you see the preview, it's
Speaker 2: send to be a movie.
Speaker 3: You believe that. And that's how the imagination works in
Speaker 3: your life.
Speaker 4: I mean, as the third one is very interesting to me.
Speaker 4: You show gratitude.
Speaker 2: See, gratitude is one of the most overlooked and key
Speaker 2: principles to your success.
Speaker 3: If your goal is to.
Speaker 2: Be a millionaire, and you start out making twenty thousand
Speaker 2: a year and then God gets you to fifty, but
Speaker 2: you're mad because you ain't a millionaire, be hold up, man,
Speaker 2: do you not remember that just a minute ago you
Speaker 2: wasn't didn't have a twenty, So you got to show
Speaker 2: gratitude for the fifty.
Speaker 3: Then somehow, by the grace of God, you get to.
Speaker 2: It's people making one hundred and fifty who used to
Speaker 2: be dead broke mad because they not a millionaire. Hold up, partner,
Speaker 2: do you remember when you was just making the fifty?
Speaker 2: Now you done triple that, And you gotta understand that
Speaker 2: there's joy in the journey. So if you don't show
Speaker 2: the proper amount of gratitude, you're never gonna be happy.
Speaker 3: You're never gonna be content. And after a while, man,
Speaker 3: God gonna get tired of you.
Speaker 2: They're like, if you somebody come over your house and
Speaker 2: borrow a cup of sugar. Every day, every day, somebody
Speaker 2: come to your house and ask you for a cup
Speaker 2: of sugar and you give it to them and they
Speaker 2: walk away and don't ever say thank you. How many
Speaker 2: times can this cat come to your house and get
Speaker 2: this sugar without saying thank you to you?
Speaker 3: Before you, as a human being, go yo, yo, yo,
Speaker 3: my man.
Speaker 2: You come here every day and I give you this
Speaker 2: couple of sugar, you ain't said thank you want to
Speaker 2: don't come by here no more. But through God's grace
Speaker 2: and mercy he allow us to keep coming back. But
Speaker 2: suppose you were grateful though, Maybe one time you go
Speaker 2: to God and ask for another one fifty and he
Speaker 2: give you five hundred.
Speaker 3: Cause you didn't show gratitude.
Speaker 2: Maybe sometimes when the guy that kept coming by your
Speaker 2: house asking for the cup of sugar, if he would
Speaker 2: show g gratitude, maybe you go, hey, man.
Speaker 3: He go five pound cycle sugar. That way, you ain't
Speaker 3: gotta come back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But if you never show the gratitude, you never become
Speaker 2: the recipient of the grace. And the grace is to
Speaker 2: what you need on top of that that helps you
Speaker 2: get to the next level and take your place.
Speaker 3: My wife asked me the other day, cause I just
Speaker 3: turned sixty five, right, I was talking to my wife
Speaker 3: and I said baby, I was just kind of kind.
Speaker 3: I got a little throw it off a little bit,
Speaker 3: cause even I'm human, you know, I got a little
Speaker 3: throw it off, said baby. I just turned sixty five,
Speaker 3: and I really was wanting a little bit more to
Speaker 3: be popped off by now.
Speaker 2: She said, way'm my hold up state. She said, let
Speaker 2: me ask you something. When you was thirty, where did
Speaker 2: you see yourself at sixty five? I said, well, I
Speaker 2: ain't see this, She said exactly. She said, So you
Speaker 2: could want all you want, but you need to go
Speaker 2: outside and just drive around and go get in some
Speaker 2: of your cars and see how you fly.
Speaker 3: And just take a look around. And now I think
Speaker 3: you be all right.
Speaker 2: And I went on and sat down and go sit
Speaker 2: down about overcoming fear, well, fear. Fear is the number
Speaker 2: one cause of people not being successful because davage person
Speaker 2: freezes theyself with fear and they never try.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: It's like people are afraid to fail. Dog, that's the process.
Speaker 2: I don't care who you talk to. I've watched y'all's interviews. Man,
Speaker 2: y'all can talk to some bad people. I don't care
Speaker 2: who y'all was listening, Big Ross Man, that boy cold,
Speaker 2: you sit up and listening to Ross Man, and you
Speaker 2: go this a hood. Dude's real simple. If you don't
Speaker 2: understand ross it's because you don't want to. He just basic, dude.
Speaker 2: But if you are afraid feel, it freezes you. And
Speaker 2: people are afraid to fail. Failure is a part of
Speaker 2: the process. You cannot get where you're going without failing, Pardoner,
Speaker 2: you don't learn nothing winning. Michael Jordan took nine hundred
Speaker 2: some game winning shots. He only made one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty some of them. They don't write about the seven
Speaker 2: hundred some missus, but you see he on Wheedi boxes
Speaker 2: because in one hundred and forty six.
Speaker 3: He made that.
Speaker 2: Nobody gives a down that he has failed three quarters
Speaker 2: of the time. He was willing to take that game
Speaker 2: winning shot and hoping to make it. Now he'd have
Speaker 2: made one hundred and forty six. So he got a
Speaker 2: lot of rings on his fingers because he lost to
Speaker 2: feel failure and failure, man, is a part of the process,
Speaker 2: So you got to lose the fear of failing.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: It's just a part of it. It's the deal. The
Speaker 3: last one having faith, Well, that's the ultimate. See.
Speaker 2: I was raised cool man because my father didn't go
Speaker 2: to church ever. My father was a hoolum. He was
Speaker 2: a hard working man, but my father was a hoolum.
Speaker 2: He wasn't a gangster. My father was a hoodlum. He
Speaker 2: did he had some legal activities with Don King in Cleveland,
Speaker 2: and when I see Don King man, we just hugged.
Speaker 2: Don King went to jail for manslaughter. My father knew
Speaker 2: this dude. My father ran numbers with Don King in
Speaker 2: Cleveland because in the winter time he worked construction, so
Speaker 2: he wasn't working, so he was a number runner in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: So my first job when I was ten years old
Speaker 2: was a paper route, and my job was not to
Speaker 2: just deliver the papers, but I had to go to
Speaker 2: everybody's house off my bike. And remember where they put
Speaker 2: their numbers. Some people put their numbers up under the
Speaker 2: fender of their car. Some people would tape it under
Speaker 2: their stairway, under their steps, rats and stuff under that
Speaker 2: had get up there and get their taper. Some people
Speaker 2: to put it behind their mail. Some people hand it
Speaker 2: to you every morning. And my father was a hoodlum.
Speaker 2: My mother was saved. She was a Christian. My mother
Speaker 2: took her to church. That combination of his being doing
Speaker 2: whatever he had to do to survive for his family,
Speaker 2: measured with my mother's teaching us about God and prayer
Speaker 2: and faith and scriptures has been the total cornerstone of
Speaker 2: who I am.
Speaker 3: My faith. See, faith is a belief in things that
Speaker 3: you cannot see. Without that how you make it.
Speaker 2: Because I'm finna ask God for something that I don't see,
Speaker 2: No how, no way I can get it.
Speaker 3: But I got the faith that one day I have it.
Speaker 2: That's cold, man, that's a cold peace to lock it
Speaker 2: into your mind. And people that don't have faith, that
Speaker 2: don't have a spiritual background, I feel sorry for him, man,
Speaker 2: because it's finna be way hart way harder, because too
Speaker 2: much gonna happen to you. That's gonna require some God.
Speaker 2: Now you can think it, don't. I don't really believe
Speaker 2: in God. Okay, you ain't gotta be He's still there.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I don't believe in heaven. It's still gonna be one.
Speaker 3: One dude told me.
Speaker 2: He said, well, hey, man, suppose you get there and
Speaker 2: you find out it ain't no heaven.
Speaker 3: Well then I lived the best life I could. It
Speaker 3: ain't no heaven.
Speaker 2: You got a bigger problem if if you think it
Speaker 2: ain't one day, and it is because now you've done
Speaker 2: done what you wanted to do and now you ain't
Speaker 2: going so faith man, all those five pillars are the
Speaker 2: cornerstone though.
Speaker 6: So I mean, there's a generation that has watched you,
Speaker 6: like we spoke earlier, like my son knows you for
Speaker 6: family feud and you know, like right, they've come up
Speaker 6: in the world where you've always been successful, but that
Speaker 6: always goesn't the case? And so those core principles how
Speaker 6: would they developed throughout your career because I know, I
Speaker 6: mean you started early.
Speaker 5: You go homemost at one point, living.
Speaker 6: Out your car, and so how did we start developing
Speaker 6: these court principles? Were the experiences that would happen? And
Speaker 6: he's like, all right, there's a lesson. They won't have
Speaker 6: to go through it because I did. Here's what you
Speaker 6: need to love, you know man.
Speaker 2: It's that failure piece that teaches them to you. That's
Speaker 2: why you got to lose your fear of failure, because
Speaker 2: it's in the failures.
Speaker 3: It's where you learn these lessons. You know.
Speaker 2: My father used to say, ain't the best lesson you'll
Speaker 2: ever learned is a balt lesson?
Speaker 3: That lesson you pay for that, one's gonna stick with
Speaker 3: you hard than anything.
Speaker 2: So when faith is When I was ten years old
Speaker 2: and I wrote on the assignment piece of paper what
Speaker 2: you want to be when you grow up? And I
Speaker 2: was ten and I wrote, I won't be on TV.
Speaker 2: Okay Le's faith. I didn't know I couldn't, so I
Speaker 2: just wrote it on. Bill Cosby was on TV in
Speaker 2: nineteen sixty six. So in nineteen sixty eight, when Bill
Speaker 2: Carsby came on TV, the whole block cleared out.
Speaker 3: Everybody went in the house. Watch Bill calls me. He
Speaker 3: was on I spy.
Speaker 2: Here's a black dude that was talking on television to
Speaker 2: white people and telling them what to do.
Speaker 3: Oh man, we were sitting in there all day.
Speaker 2: So two years after that, when Lady asked me what
Speaker 2: I want to do, I said, I want to be
Speaker 2: on TV.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Through all of my hardships, I did not get on
Speaker 2: TV till I was thirty six. It took twenty six
Speaker 2: years for that little piece of paper to ring true.
Speaker 3: That took a lot of faith.
Speaker 2: But in there in between now the homelessness, the losing
Speaker 2: everything I ever earned, I ever ever had Twice, I've
Speaker 2: lost everything twice. I lost it all when I was homeless.
Speaker 2: I lost it all again in two thousand and five.
Speaker 3: I was zeroed out.
Speaker 2: In two thousand and five, I had one thousand, seven
Speaker 2: hundred dollars left king with a comedy all that a divorce.
Speaker 3: Yeah, her lawyer was outstanding. I was in court clacking
Speaker 3: for him. Yeah, he was so cold. I was in
Speaker 3: heath in court room going next thing I know, I
Speaker 3: ain't had nothing. This dude was gangster man, you know.
Speaker 5: And then I asked some.
Speaker 2: People had stole some stuff from me, and accounting and
Speaker 2: all types of stuff happening.
Speaker 3: I lost everything, But in those dark.
Speaker 2: Moments was when I learned, Okay, faith is belief in
Speaker 2: things that you cannot see.
Speaker 5: I don't know how.
Speaker 3: Much rise up again, but I gotta believe that I am.
Speaker 2: And then you got to keep that imagination that I
Speaker 2: saw since I was teen, and I was gonna.
Speaker 3: Be on TV. So that imagination I had to keep
Speaker 3: relying on that because.
Speaker 2: That's all I had, you understand, and then the dream
Speaker 2: was to get on TV, and I had to keep
Speaker 2: that in my head even through the darkest moments, because see,
Speaker 2: if you mastered a mental aspect of it, when the
Speaker 2: stuff is happening that comes into play. You remember all
Speaker 2: the scriptures my mama taught, today is the day that
Speaker 2: the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad.
Speaker 2: And she say that to me every day I went
Speaker 2: out of school. I was so tired of hearing that.
Speaker 2: But man, do you know how cold that thing.
Speaker 3: Stuck with me? That today is the day He made?
Speaker 2: And since I had to learn something in adversity, this
Speaker 2: is what I learned. I often ask people. I said,
Speaker 2: how many of you all have ever had a bad day?
Speaker 2: And the audience raised their head. How many of y'all
Speaker 2: have had days where you felt like you wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: make it?
Speaker 3: And everybody raised their head.
Speaker 2: How many y'all have had days where you thought you
Speaker 2: you just didn't know what you was gonna do. Everybody
Speaker 2: raises they hand. I said, now, let me tell you
Speaker 2: something about yourself. Your track record for surviving hard days,
Speaker 2: days you wasn't gonna make it, thought you weren't gonna
Speaker 2: make it, an insurmountable days, your track record for surviving
Speaker 2: those days is one hundred percent.
Speaker 6: That's great. I used to say that to my coworkers.
Speaker 6: I was when I was teaching, and like I had
Speaker 6: a terrible day. They were like, why are you always
Speaker 6: so happy? I'm like, if you had a terrible daddy, right,
Speaker 6: really internalize that, how many good days have you had
Speaker 6: to have to realize that this one wasn't as good
Speaker 6: as the other ones? Like, yeah, you're right, I'm yeah.
Speaker 6: So let's just be thankful for this moment. We might
Speaker 6: not get it again.
Speaker 3: But every bad day you've ever had, you survived it, exactly.
Speaker 3: You got a one track record. Everybody in here, everybody watching,
Speaker 3: got a one hundred track record of surviving funky ass
Speaker 3: days everybody.
Speaker 2: So now, once I know that when them funky days come,
Speaker 2: I'm rest assured that even if it lasts for a
Speaker 2: week or two six months, I'm gonna survive it. Because
Speaker 2: if you wake me up in the morning, man, that's
Speaker 2: a clear sign to me that he ain't through with
Speaker 2: me yet. So I feel like I'm almost out of it,
Speaker 2: and eventually you're gonna get out of whatever it.
Speaker 3: Is, you know. So let's let's talk about this.
Speaker 4: Steve har Global, So that's that's all your companies are
Speaker 4: underneath that, right, So I want to talk about the
Speaker 4: family feud Africa. But first I'll pick up on a
Speaker 4: conversation that we just had as far as you realizing
Speaker 4: that you wanted to change things up. How usually Hollywood
Speaker 4: is done where you wanted to eliminate like the traditional
Speaker 4: agent route, hiring a full time attorney south of Brandon
Speaker 4: and actually, you know, doing the deals yourself, negotiating the
Speaker 4: deals with yourself, you and your your attorney and not
Speaker 4: having to pay the percentage and not having to go
Speaker 4: through all of the hass or of dealing with the
Speaker 4: traditional So can you.
Speaker 3: Talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, See, it took me years to come to this
Speaker 2: because Hollywood is a system. They have an ingrained system
Speaker 2: out there. Man, you come out here, you get an agent.
Speaker 3: Then then a lot of them got a manager too.
Speaker 2: And then when you sign a contract with a Hollywood attorney,
Speaker 2: they five percent of your contract.
Speaker 3: For the duration.
Speaker 2: So if you sign a five year deal, they get
Speaker 2: five percent of your money for five years, and everybody
Speaker 2: falls into that deal many because they lock you in.
Speaker 2: And then what's crazy, what I found out was is
Speaker 2: not a lot of agents that's beating the bushes to
Speaker 2: procure you employment. They simply list you on their roster
Speaker 2: and when somebody want you, they go online and your
Speaker 2: name is under this agency's roster. And they call these
Speaker 2: people now because they picked up the phone. Now their
Speaker 2: ass is in for teen percent. Now when they come
Speaker 2: in for teen percent, then you want to go do
Speaker 2: the deal. They pick up their phone and call their
Speaker 2: favorite lawyer. Who is they boy? Who they work in conjunction, Steve,
Speaker 2: we got the guy that's gonna cut your deal. You
Speaker 2: so busy being happy to be on TV. You say, okay, cool,
Speaker 2: because you don't have that lawyer normally. And now right
Speaker 2: there you fifteen percent of your money gone. Now if
Speaker 2: you real stupid, you got a manager. Who is this dude?
Speaker 2: That's some dude that's usually your homie that you started
Speaker 2: out with, and you make him your manager. Now he
Speaker 2: can be anywhere from five to twenty percent, depending on
Speaker 2: how you cut.
Speaker 3: Your deal with him. Now you're looking up at.
Speaker 2: Your money, man, and you could be out of anywhere
Speaker 2: from fifteen to twenty five to thirty percent of your
Speaker 2: money off the.
Speaker 3: Dribble before taxes anything. You ain't got nothing.
Speaker 2: So if you make one million, three hundred thousand of
Speaker 2: that is gone.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 5: Man, man, you're doing it in California.
Speaker 2: You pay taxes, bro, And now you got that that
Speaker 2: franchise tax, that's semi cent. So now you sent up
Speaker 2: here going then the government they won't forty Now you
Speaker 2: send up here, man, seventy percent of your money gone.
Speaker 2: And that that's real, man, that's real talk. That's why, man,
Speaker 2: Hollywood is the land of illusion. Most of us man
Speaker 2: are not making what y'all think we making.
Speaker 3: We just not man, because we.
Speaker 2: In that system. And it's not just cause you stupid
Speaker 2: or nothing. It says you get caught up in the system.
Speaker 2: So as the years went by, and I I'm just
Speaker 2: not getting free of this, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It took me a long time to figure it out.
Speaker 2: So I said, wait a minute, man. So I had
Speaker 2: this lawyer that was doing some deals for me with
Speaker 2: a business. I had this this guy named Brandy Williams,
Speaker 2: and he was black, and he was with this huge
Speaker 2: law firm, the acquisition merger firm, right, and he used
Speaker 2: to come up to Chicago and do deals some man.
Speaker 3: I just liked him.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: So one day I was sitting up, Man, I was
Speaker 2: watching Godfather and I was watching my favorite movie Man,
Speaker 2: and Tom is the concilier or whatever that name is
Speaker 2: for the family, right, But he's not Italian, and he's
Speaker 2: not he's not a maid man or nothing. But he
Speaker 2: cut the deals for the Godfather. And I was sitting
Speaker 2: there really watching that movie, one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 2: I said, man, that's what I need. I need a
Speaker 2: tom somebody had just cut my deals. So Brandon Williams,
Speaker 2: some years ago we hooked up and I just approached
Speaker 2: you one day. I said, Man, I ever thought about
Speaker 2: doing something else? And he said, nah, I'm really good
Speaker 2: where I am. Yeah, but that's cause you know you
Speaker 2: in the system too, bruhs. So just let me talk
Speaker 2: to you for a little bit. And we talked about it.
Speaker 2: I said, Man, I'm gonna travel. I'm'a travel the world. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm finna be global. I'm gonna bema. I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: my brand and spread it across the world.
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna just sit here on United States TV.
Speaker 3: I wanna go be global.
Speaker 2: I said, Man, we can travel, We can do this,
Speaker 2: and he said and then he went home and talked
Speaker 2: to his wife. And like we often joke about how
Speaker 2: much smarter our wives are in US, and y'all don't
Speaker 2: get to see them in the background with them women, man,
Speaker 2: cause they know who they really are. She said it's
Speaker 2: a no brainer, and he had a conversation with a
Speaker 2: mom who's a lawyer, and next thing you know, he
Speaker 2: came back and we formed a relationship.
Speaker 3: And it took me some.
Speaker 2: While to get out of some of the contracts I
Speaker 2: was in. But after a while, as contracts was ending.
Speaker 3: I got rid of the lawyer.
Speaker 2: I said, hey, man, you read that paperwork and tell
Speaker 2: me what to say, because only section I can really
Speaker 2: understand his compensation.
Speaker 3: Once you type in the word WinCE, I get lost
Speaker 3: cause I don't know how to ma now I'm reading
Speaker 3: the Bible. Now whence further mold.
Speaker 2: That's why my Bible is the New Living Translation, because
Speaker 2: I need just regular English words, man, because once you
Speaker 2: say furthermore, whence hence after, I'm out. So I got
Speaker 2: him in there, slowly, but surely over the years, as
Speaker 2: contracts would inspire, I would take the lawyer out of this,
Speaker 2: take the lawyer out of that. And then I got
Speaker 2: smarter and I said, I don't really need an agent.
Speaker 2: You know, I got some agents that do IMG does
Speaker 2: some stuff like we're in partnership with miss Universe and stuff,
Speaker 2: and that's a whole nother story. But we in business
Speaker 2: with some stuff, and I'll allow you to package to
Speaker 2: deal for me. But that's between you and the network.
Speaker 2: But as far as now in my life, now, nobody,
Speaker 2: ain't nobody getting ten, ain't nobody getting five. I found
Speaker 2: a way to just keep them out. And you know
Speaker 2: that ain't bad business man. I'm just why would I
Speaker 2: You're not doing nothing. I'm the one got to put
Speaker 2: these suits on, to turn these corners and create these
Speaker 2: jokes and solve these problems being attained and not you, man.
Speaker 2: So it was a really blessing from God man that
Speaker 2: taught me that side of the business. And it's bought
Speaker 2: a lot more of the money to my side of
Speaker 2: the dam.
Speaker 6: And so when you do things like that, it obviously
Speaker 6: allows you to pay more to the people that you have.
Speaker 6: Why do you think that more people in Hollywood, the
Speaker 6: beast of Hollywood, are not taking that approach?
Speaker 2: Well, I just think, man, you get caught up in
Speaker 2: the system and it's comfortable and it's easy, and you know, look, man,
Speaker 2: you gotta look at some of these big boys out here.
Speaker 3: They make it so much money. You know, you look
Speaker 3: at Tyler and Denzel and Samuel al and these boys
Speaker 3: is I me and will will smell these dudes is
Speaker 3: really making money? Man? You know, I mean they may
Speaker 3: listen to me, they they make it. M they they.
Speaker 2: Scraping it so and I don't really know their particular business,
Speaker 2: but you know, if you make an X amount dollars
Speaker 2: and you know, off to dribble and you comfortable, and
Speaker 2: you got a team sometime comfort cause you don't wanna
Speaker 2: have you.
Speaker 3: Gotta get a lawyer. M you do have to get
Speaker 3: a lawyer.
Speaker 2: I'm just not finna pay you five percent. You know,
Speaker 2: why don't you tell me what your hourly rate is,
Speaker 2: how many hours it take you to cut this contract?
Speaker 2: And even let that be your money. But you get
Speaker 2: into TV business, it's like that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I would think of Denzel cause he's such a brilliant
Speaker 2: dude man and his wife paul Letta, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 2: she done sat down figured this out.
Speaker 3: Hold so and Tyler.
Speaker 2: Tyler's a gangster two because Tyler, I think has done
Speaker 2: more in our lifetime. Man, in this generation, I don't
Speaker 2: think there's been anybody black that's been more successful than
Speaker 2: this dude in terms of ownership. Now, the queen was
Speaker 2: Oprah for a long time, Oprah ain't no joke, but
Speaker 2: she teaches it to us. She then told me Steve
Speaker 2: got to get ownership. That's Tyler's whole mantra. But I think,
Speaker 2: what what Tyler Finney do of late gonna change the game?
Speaker 3: He's finished, He finish, go past everybody.
Speaker 5: So just really quick.
Speaker 6: So even like the shows that had your name as
Speaker 6: a title, So we had to Steve Harvey Show was
Speaker 6: on WD and obviously you have to see Harvey Show
Speaker 6: on NBC Talk show the license in the name or
Speaker 6: how does that work? There was no ownership of ours.
Speaker 2: See, I didn't get I wasn't a business man when
Speaker 2: Steve Harvey Show was out, was just happy to.
Speaker 3: Be on TV. You know. I just took my check
Speaker 3: and went out and said I owned twelve percent.
Speaker 2: Of the show back in. But I learned real quick.
Speaker 2: In Hollywood, you never see back in. They got a
Speaker 2: different type of arithmetic. It's like the music industry. The only
Speaker 2: people that you make true back in with is book people.
Speaker 2: Book people are the most honest people I've ever done
Speaker 2: business with.
Speaker 3: Books. They're honest. Music and TV, you're.
Speaker 2: Not gonna get no back in partner, how man, By
Speaker 2: the time they get through doing their arithmetic.
Speaker 3: I ain't made back in.
Speaker 4: On none of my shows ever, because they're saying they
Speaker 4: didn't hit the numbers that they were supposed.
Speaker 5: To hit, even in syndication.
Speaker 3: Bro Steve Harvey show never saw back in. Never. I
Speaker 3: just it's just crazy, man.
Speaker 2: So I started figuring that out and knowing, Okay, you
Speaker 2: know my business with Freemantle, which is one of the
Speaker 2: best companies I've ever dealt with. They're very honest and forthright.
Speaker 2: But when I signed a deal to do Family Feud,
Speaker 2: you know, look, man, Family Feud was a twenty year
Speaker 2: franchise and they had owner ship and they couldn't get
Speaker 2: you know, I was going through tax problems back there.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to check. So I took the check.
Speaker 2: Over the years, I still couldn't get ownership. But since
Speaker 2: I can't get ownership, I'll tell you what, though, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you what. I might not have ownership, but you
Speaker 2: don't feel like I'm won. And so we've negotiated really
Speaker 2: nicely with them and me.
Speaker 5: The longest running host in the history of the show.
Speaker 3: And it's the number one syndicated show on Earth.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Family Fud, so you have an unprecedented deal
Speaker 4: with Family Feud where you actually produced the.
Speaker 3: Show in Africa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which I believe is number one in Ghana and
Speaker 4: South Africa.
Speaker 3: So talk about that. Well, that was funny, man. I
Speaker 3: was sitting up one day.
Speaker 2: I was in Boswana at the Diamond Council thing, which
Speaker 2: is another business I was interested in. So I was
Speaker 2: over there at the Diamond Council conference in Boswana and
Speaker 2: I picked up the phone. I called Brandon and it
Speaker 2: was just one day. I was sitting there, man, and
Speaker 2: I saw a facility. I said, Man, you know what
Speaker 2: really be funny to do Family Feud in Africa.
Speaker 3: So I picked up the phone and called Brandon.
Speaker 2: Because the thing I love about Brandon is he don't
Speaker 2: never ask me, no, why are we gonna Because he
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2: See the thing that's important thing about people around me
Speaker 2: that I hire when I when I have a vision
Speaker 2: and God showed me something, I call you and tell
Speaker 2: you to do it. Don't start telling me why it
Speaker 2: won't work. I don't want to hear that. I already
Speaker 2: know it's gonna be hard to do. I already know
Speaker 2: it's gonna be obstacles I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 2: I want you to show me how we can do it.
Speaker 2: So I picked up phone and I said Brandon. He said, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: what's happening? I said, my men boswanna man, how is it?
Speaker 2: La da da dah dah. I said, hey, man, call Fremantle.
Speaker 2: I want to I want to do Family Feud in Africa.
Speaker 2: He said, okay, tell me what you want to do.
Speaker 2: I said, I want to do the show Family Feud
Speaker 2: in Africa. Hey man, hey man, let me know what
Speaker 2: they say clear and I know I think we a
Speaker 2: mind it something. But this dude, man, he don't call
Speaker 2: me back with no excuses. Do you know, Man, as
Speaker 2: long as we've been together, this brother has never given
Speaker 2: me a single excuse. Because that's one thing I'm really
Speaker 2: I don't I don't do excuses, man, don't. Please don't
Speaker 2: tell me an excuse that serves us no good an excuse.
Speaker 2: I don't do excuses. I've never given anybody excuse. When
Speaker 2: I make a mistake, I just eat mine. I don't
Speaker 2: do excuses, so please don't tell me your excuse. Brandon
Speaker 2: Williams has never given me an excuse. He got on
Speaker 2: that phone. I said, Brandon, how it's going, man, He said, Man,
Speaker 2: give me I'm working on a couple of things for
Speaker 2: your Ah. Okay, cool. Next thing, I know, he said, hey, man,
Speaker 2: there's a way we can do it. We can the
Speaker 2: international rights.
Speaker 3: I said, okay, boum.
Speaker 2: He said, well it's gonna be a little caught. That's
Speaker 2: that's okay, just go bound. He cut the deal and
Speaker 2: he bought the international rights to South Africa and ti Ghana.
Speaker 2: Then I said, okay, b let's go there and make TV.
Speaker 2: He went, and next thing you know, he went over
Speaker 2: there and everybody told him this was in what month
Speaker 2: was at we started talking?
Speaker 3: That was probably.
Speaker 2: Told him in February March, and they say it would
Speaker 2: take a year and a half to get this set up.
Speaker 2: That was in February. In November, we was taping because
Speaker 2: Brandon and now what you're talking about, we're gonna get
Speaker 2: on TV now.
Speaker 3: And so I go to Africa and we're over there
Speaker 3: and their mouth is.
Speaker 2: Open because they couldn't believe it. Wait a minute, you're
Speaker 2: a major TV star in the United States. You're gonna
Speaker 2: come to Africa in our studio and shoot this show.
Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh you're a host? Yeah, our host the show
Speaker 3: because ain't nobody gonna do it like me? So let
Speaker 3: me go on. How long did that take to do
Speaker 3: the season or how many episodes?
Speaker 2: It is twenty twenty six episodes because they do a
Speaker 2: weekly show, it's like an American TV season. It's twenty
Speaker 2: two episodes weekly. That's an American TV show. They wanted
Speaker 2: a full season, we gave them twenty six episodes in
Speaker 2: Ghana and twenty six episodes in the US.
Speaker 3: In South Africa. How long did that take? It took
Speaker 3: about a month or so to get it all together.
Speaker 3: It took.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of because now, man, we got
Speaker 2: to get questions that's unique.
Speaker 3: To South Africa, pole in Poland.
Speaker 2: Because I'm asking people questions, I have no idea what
Speaker 2: this answer. Because I was then, what's your favorite dish
Speaker 2: in Africa?
Speaker 3: Bunny chop? The hell is that bunny chop? And I'm
Speaker 3: looking at do like the fried chicken clearly has to
Speaker 3: be the number one aff and they would say stuff
Speaker 3: like pop pop, the hell is pop?
Speaker 2: Though all this stuff was on the board, so it
Speaker 2: was really funny. And then it was a language barrier
Speaker 2: because the accents. There's two thousand languages in Africa and
Speaker 2: you got tribes coming in as families, man dressing up
Speaker 2: and they use they speaking English, but they have heavy
Speaker 2: accents to me, but I'm the one on everybody understood
Speaker 2: them except me.
Speaker 3: I'm the one with the accent.
Speaker 2: And they names, We couldn't even fit their names on
Speaker 2: the cards. I mean they got some names man that
Speaker 2: you'd have to put a name plate on these people.
Speaker 2: And it was so funny, man, it was. It was
Speaker 2: the funniest. It's the funniest show I've ever done.
Speaker 3: Was that. And then once we got it on the air.
Speaker 2: They couldn't believe we it did it and then it
Speaker 2: aired and we were the number show in South Africa
Speaker 2: and the number one show in Ghana.
Speaker 6: Is that their plans to expand to other countries in Africa,
Speaker 6: particularly English speaker ons.
Speaker 3: My goal is to do like World Cup.
Speaker 2: Family feud, where I want to do it in a
Speaker 2: big facility and I want to bring in country against country.
Speaker 2: I want to have Ghana against the Congo, Egypt against Kenya,
Speaker 2: South Africa against Barcejuanas versus. I want to have them
Speaker 2: in there with flags because they so enthusiastic.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Because Number one, when I finally went over there to
Speaker 2: start taping. The whole thing was, so you are coming,
Speaker 2: so Steve Hobby, it's really come through Africa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, man, we believe that when Uncle Steve comes
Speaker 3: to I believe it when we see it.
Speaker 2: So when we went there and we started taping, it
Speaker 2: was mind blowing. It was such a popular show man
Speaker 2: and it worked.
Speaker 3: And I hear that Africa and the UAE have you
Speaker 3: have businesses in both. But let's talk about Africa. System's
Speaker 3: talking about Africa.
Speaker 4: You see a lot of opportunity in Africa, right, like
Speaker 4: outside of just doing the show, I understand that, you know,
Speaker 4: you're looking at Africa as a place to do investments
Speaker 4: and things down nature. Talk about that as far as
Speaker 4: because we actually had the opportunity to go to Africa
Speaker 4: for the first time a few months ago, went to
Speaker 4: Nigeria and we went to Egypt. And it was due
Speaker 4: for us because the way, you know, people was tapped
Speaker 4: in with our podcasts out there.
Speaker 3: They love us out there and they were saying.
Speaker 4: Like, maybe you should do this out here, you should
Speaker 4: do an actual Eyo university, Like here we're actually teaching
Speaker 4: people about financial literacy and just to see the enthusiastic spirit.
Speaker 4: It just let me know that there's so much room
Speaker 4: for opportunity out there, like just from us looking at
Speaker 4: so I'm curious to hear your standpoint.
Speaker 3: But see for you all to go over there is
Speaker 3: brilliant because you all are forming the bridge. That's my goal,
Speaker 3: is to create the bridge between African Americans and Africans
Speaker 3: because there's more of a similarity than we Like. When
Speaker 3: you was over there, it looked like you recognized all
Speaker 3: of them. They look just like Detroit. He thought you
Speaker 3: was in Philly. I mean the way they walk everything
Speaker 3: I thought.
Speaker 2: I saw so many people I knew because we are
Speaker 2: so similar in design, the way we walk, the way
Speaker 2: we move.
Speaker 3: It was just amazing. But what we got to do, man,
Speaker 3: is create that bridge.
Speaker 2: Like brothers like yourself who go over there, whose podcast
Speaker 2: is probable, but who can teach and share what we know.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm trying, Like all the young Africans want
Speaker 2: to come to America. But I tell them, I said, look, man,
Speaker 2: you sure, you sure you want to come over here
Speaker 2: and be in this This is what you think it is.
Speaker 2: See when I'm in Ghana or South Africa and I
Speaker 2: get stopped by the police.
Speaker 3: Guess what I get. I get a warning, I get
Speaker 3: a ticket, or I'll give them a hundred dollars in
Speaker 3: I drive home and I got a hundred dollars. So
Speaker 3: chances are I ain't got a ticket. Check to be
Speaker 3: speeding my ass off.
Speaker 2: I've never since I been over there, saw on the
Speaker 2: news or nothing that somebody got pulled over by the
Speaker 2: police and got shot.
Speaker 3: They don't shoot you in Africa.
Speaker 2: I said, man, y'all, sure, y'all won't come over here
Speaker 2: because you all don't understand that. And then when you're
Speaker 2: in South Africa you hear about the difference between the
Speaker 2: blacks and the colors. I said, well, let me help
Speaker 2: you out with that. You come to America, you ass
Speaker 2: is black. You can call them colors over here if
Speaker 2: you want to, and you can call them black. But
Speaker 2: you come to the United States, your ass is fit
Speaker 2: to be black. So you sure you want to come
Speaker 2: over here. I think it's more beneficial for us to
Speaker 2: go home. See, this is how I describe it. America
Speaker 2: is my home. This is my home, my children in here,
Speaker 2: my grandchildren in here, A lot of my.
Speaker 3: Business is here, But Africa is my homeland.
Speaker 2: Me going to Africa is like going to a place
Speaker 2: called home that I've never been. When you land in Africa,
Speaker 2: you immediately feel good, don't you. Doug is crazy because
Speaker 2: you home, Doug, this is where you're from. You'll feed
Speaker 2: me along on this soil we was ripped from there.
Speaker 2: So when I'm going to Africa, man, it's the place
Speaker 2: I get to walk around and I'm good all the
Speaker 2: time because the majority of the people look just like
Speaker 2: me everywhere I go, and that's a warm feeling.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: And if I could take what we've learned over here
Speaker 2: as African Americans and share that with them and empower them,
Speaker 2: that becomes great. But I think what people don't understand
Speaker 2: is how rich of a continent Africa really is.
Speaker 3: Do you realize, man, it's the.
Speaker 2: Only country in the world that don't have to import nothing.
Speaker 2: They don't need your food, they don't need your energy,
Speaker 2: they don't need your gold, they don't need your diamonds,
Speaker 2: they don't need your cold, down't need your uranium, they
Speaker 2: don't need your plant they don't need nothing. Africa is
Speaker 2: the only country in the world that they don't need
Speaker 2: your oil. You they ain't got to import nothing. But
Speaker 2: they've been over there just raped colonialization, the Dutch, the Portuguese,
Speaker 2: the Spanish, the French, the Chinese.
Speaker 3: They just over there just raping them, man.
Speaker 2: And so if we can go over there because they
Speaker 2: got they got hey, man, they got money over there.
Speaker 3: They got some dudes over there. That's just making some
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 6: It had me thinking, But as you said, everything is true,
Speaker 6: and it was like, all right, you were going to
Speaker 6: the UAE and not only bringing any food to Africa
Speaker 6: but bringing festivals, and we were supposed to meet at
Speaker 6: the last one ye, So why was it important to
Speaker 6: do it specifically in the UAE.
Speaker 3: Well, See, the UAE is very different from me.
Speaker 2: I'm accepted over there, like like I never thought I would.
Speaker 3: Be, because the ua for me is like it's like
Speaker 3: they like brothers. Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I'm so enamored with the UAE. Now
Speaker 2: the draw for me in the UAE, it.
Speaker 3: Is unbelievable peace.
Speaker 2: If you want to go somewhere and walk down the
Speaker 2: street and not have to worry about crime. If you
Speaker 2: want to go somewhere and walk down the street and
Speaker 2: not have to worry about racism, police, brutality, corrupt government,
Speaker 2: then go to the UAE.
Speaker 3: In the Middle East.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now, I don't know of a
Speaker 2: place on earth like it. There's no crime, don't buy
Speaker 2: steal your car.
Speaker 3: They don't steal cars over that.
Speaker 2: Ain't no shootings, ain't no armed robberies. Ain't nobody getting stabbed.
Speaker 3: Where's this? Look, man, I can take a cigar and
Speaker 3: walk down the beach. All I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Do is have to take selfiesh And they're polite and
Speaker 2: they're respectful. And it's because of their culture and their faith, man,
Speaker 2: that makes them who they are. That you get a
Speaker 2: clear picture there of what Islam is. It's not what
Speaker 2: it's made to be in the propaganda machine. Everybody you
Speaker 2: walk by ain't feeling to pull a cord and blow
Speaker 2: up the market.
Speaker 3: That ain't what's happening. Man. These people, man, are live
Speaker 3: in their life and they pray a lot of times
Speaker 3: a day. Man.
Speaker 2: And my business partner, man will be talking and he says, hey, man,
Speaker 2: you mind if I go in the other room to pray,
Speaker 2: And he'd have made me pray more because I'll be going, Man,
Speaker 2: look you you pray all these times today?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, and my business partner, he thirty four years old.
Speaker 3: Let's do and.
Speaker 2: I'm just going, wait a minute, man, how did they
Speaker 2: get this way? And it's their faith in their culture
Speaker 2: and it's the way they treat people. It's one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty nationalities that live in the UAE. I mean
Speaker 2: they got everybody. There's no homelessness, Ain't nobody living on
Speaker 2: the street, Ain't no paper on the ground. Go to Dubai,
Speaker 2: go to Dubai and apple doubt there's no paper on
Speaker 2: the ground. Ain't nobody beg and got no cup jangling
Speaker 2: it because no, we have a job for you. If
Speaker 2: you come here, we have a job for you. The
Speaker 2: only people that don't want to work over there is
Speaker 2: because they don't want to work. Everybody's employed, every everybody
Speaker 2: gets taken care of, but free medical everybody. That is
Speaker 2: a very very special place to me, and I think
Speaker 2: our company, melt UAE is where we can introduce all
Speaker 2: what the Middle East is from that region to America
Speaker 2: and the world and help with some of the falsehoods
Speaker 2: that's been out about it.
Speaker 4: Going back to the conversation about Hollywood, I'm gonna talk
Speaker 4: about this because you said that you know the back end,
Speaker 4: you never get paid on the back end, and like
Speaker 4: we've actually had conversations about We had conversations with like
Speaker 4: some Hollywood companies and we got talked about the back
Speaker 4: end and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So it's interesting that you say that.
Speaker 4: So, like, what are some things that you learned as
Speaker 4: far as like do you always try to negotiate, like well,
Speaker 4: just for young people that's coming up, like EP credit
Speaker 4: or like get paid up.
Speaker 3: Front or some level of ownership, Like what are some terms?
Speaker 4: Because I feel like a lot of people just don't
Speaker 4: know the information and you can't even ask a question.
Speaker 3: And if you're not equipped with some level of knowledge, the.
Speaker 2: Best thing I can tell you is if you have
Speaker 2: an idea, before you go around the town pitching this idea,
Speaker 2: have your paperwork in order.
Speaker 3: Make sure you have the.
Speaker 2: Domains for that name, make sure you have the ips,
Speaker 2: any trademarks.
Speaker 3: Before you walk around.
Speaker 2: Pitching your idea, have everything on paper, get your trademarks,
Speaker 2: get your IP. Because that's it ownership. Nobody's done it
Speaker 2: better than Tyler Perry. This guy right here is complete
Speaker 2: ownership of everything he do, so when he go to Hollywood,
Speaker 2: he can do it the way he wants to see.
Speaker 2: It took me a while to learn that part of it. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you something. Man, I don't know how
Speaker 2: this is gonna go with the country, but this is
Speaker 2: a a long time ago. In the ninth I created
Speaker 2: the show on the w B called Steve Harvey's Big Time.
Speaker 3: Do you know what Steve Harvey's Big Time was?
Speaker 2: Because they didn't believe me when I told them, y'all
Speaker 2: ought to take showtime at the Apollo and put it
Speaker 2: on mainstream TV instead of having me come on at
Speaker 2: one o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: I used to tell them that, no, you can't do that. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: no no.
Speaker 2: So I said, well, let me give him a version
Speaker 2: of it. I said, let me create Steve Harvey's Big Time.
Speaker 2: So I went to the fledgling network WB and they
Speaker 2: put it on. I didn't have the business of it.
Speaker 2: I should have owned the IP, the trademark, cause you
Speaker 2: know what Steve Harvey's Big Time was. I had acts
Speaker 2: from all over the world come on the show. I
Speaker 2: had three judges and I had a host that stayed
Speaker 2: on TV two years. It ended May tenth, two thousand
Speaker 2: and five. I was in the middle of a divorce.
Speaker 3: My head was cloud I didn't have the business along
Speaker 3: comes the show called America's Got Done. He's gonna say that.
Speaker 2: Yep, you know what America's Got Talent is. Shows come
Speaker 2: from all over the world, different acts.
Speaker 3: They got three judges and they got a star. Well,
Speaker 3: guess what. That's my ip, that's my concept, that's my
Speaker 3: whole thought.
Speaker 2: But I ain't had no business for it. Look, man,
Speaker 2: the first year of America's Got Talent was all acts
Speaker 2: from Steve Harvey's Big Time, and they took all the
Speaker 2: producers I had from Steve Harvey's Big Time and gave
Speaker 2: them jobs. If I understood my business, America's Got Talent
Speaker 2: would belong to me, and Steve Harvey would not be
Speaker 2: sitting here talking to y'all.
Speaker 5: Thinking in my mind like I could.
Speaker 6: Once you were describing them like I know what America's
Speaker 6: Got Talent. Then obviously Nick Kennon another guy who was
Speaker 6: doing incredible and media.
Speaker 5: I feel like that could have been you hosting it.
Speaker 6: But I want to go something because you said something earlier,
Speaker 6: and it just caught my mind about the most honest
Speaker 6: people being the people who.
Speaker 5: Are writing the books.
Speaker 6: And so I know you wrote you've written three and
Speaker 6: the fourth ones on the way, but from those books,
Speaker 6: you've actually turned those into movies. Right, So think like
Speaker 6: a man obviously one of those those classic movie What
Speaker 6: was that process like in terms of ownership?
Speaker 5: Right, because now it's your ip, the book that's turned
Speaker 5: into it. I know you're the voiceover in the movie,
Speaker 5: and so what was that process like?
Speaker 2: That deal wasn't bad for me, It should have been better.
Speaker 2: I did once again, I missed a couple of points.
Speaker 2: Now the book completely mine. I've made more money from
Speaker 2: that book, man, I can't even tell you. And I
Speaker 2: still get checks. They still send your check. I get
Speaker 2: paid every April first and every October first, and I
Speaker 2: still get checks from the book. I don't even have
Speaker 2: to check on it. The book business is honest. I'll
Speaker 2: give you an example, like when I go to a
Speaker 2: book signing and I got to fly there or get
Speaker 2: a hotel. If you're in the record business, they take
Speaker 2: all that, they put surcharges on it, and they charge
Speaker 2: it back against your deal and your record sales.
Speaker 3: They don't do that in the book business.
Speaker 2: Whatever your book sales is, whatever your percentage is, that's
Speaker 2: your check. Whatever it cost to promote it, they ain't
Speaker 2: got nothing to do with you. So the book business,
Speaker 2: I found to be.
Speaker 3: Very very clean back in for other stuff. Man.
Speaker 2: Now, when I went to the movie, it was a
Speaker 2: tough time for me because I was in a lot
Speaker 2: of tax trouble. So I took a big check from
Speaker 2: Sony for the rights, and then I made back in.
Speaker 2: I made back in points on the movie. I did,
Speaker 2: but I could have done better.
Speaker 6: They have you involved in the process of actually creating
Speaker 6: it and producing or nothing?
Speaker 2: No, that was mostly will pack h They asked me
Speaker 2: a couple of questions, asked me what I thought of
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart, and I was sitting him here, going, I mean,
Speaker 2: the little dude is come. He wasn't who he is now,
Speaker 2: but I knew right away that dude right there because
Speaker 2: he was putting the work in. Kevin was putting in
Speaker 2: the work as a young stand up. His stand up
Speaker 2: used to didn't be that good. He'll tell you that,
Speaker 2: but neither was mine because he was. You know, he
Speaker 2: worked mostly white rooms, and you had to be a
Speaker 2: certain way to survive white rooms. My earlier in my
Speaker 2: career was all white rooms until the Comedy Act Theater
Speaker 2: got started and Joe Torrey came one night and saw
Speaker 2: me at the Punchline and Buckhead and took me down
Speaker 2: to the Comedy Act Theater in the nineties and said, man,
Speaker 2: you ought to come see how they do. So we
Speaker 2: went to the waffle house and I was telling him
Speaker 2: stories about my father. Joe Tory was cracking up. He said, man,
Speaker 2: why don't you tell these stories on stage? I said,
Speaker 2: I can't tell it like that. And for the white folks,
Speaker 2: he said, man, let me take you down. He took
Speaker 2: me to Comedy Act Theater and a black dude went
Speaker 2: up on stage. He had on a pair of pajamas
Speaker 2: and they had a Barbie doll stuck in the pocket
Speaker 2: of the pajamas.
Speaker 3: He never mentioned the damn doll. He never mentioned them
Speaker 3: damn pajamas. And all this fucker was talking about was
Speaker 3: frying fish, and the black people was knocking shit over laughing. Man,
Speaker 3: I was laughing so hard at this black dude because
Speaker 3: all he was talking about was how to fry fish.
Speaker 2: But every black person in there knew what he was
Speaker 2: talking about. And he went through the different variations of hot, saucy,
Speaker 2: what you got it?
Speaker 3: And it was so black. They were just so black. Oh.
Speaker 3: I was in that vomity. So the next night I
Speaker 3: heard him.
Speaker 2: Got finished with my senate at the punchline, so I
Speaker 2: could go back down, and that's what I met Mike Williams.
Speaker 2: He said, hey, man, going up on stage, let me
Speaker 2: see what you gotta give you five minutes. Now, I
Speaker 2: had been at the Apollo, so a lot of people
Speaker 2: knew me from the Apollo. But when I walked up there, man,
Speaker 2: I left my white act that I had written for
Speaker 2: the punchline, and I was doing jokes about my father,
Speaker 2: barbecue and and stuff. Man, them black people was knocking
Speaker 2: shit over the I mean they was just raking shit
Speaker 2: off the tables. And I had never seen black people
Speaker 2: in the club, cause black people laugh different, They emotional,
Speaker 2: They don't they hit people that they rolled with.
Speaker 3: They they be in there. It it build and I
Speaker 3: was in there, so I said, man, this is magical.
Speaker 3: And it changed my.
Speaker 2: Life because I started writing my jokes even in the
Speaker 2: white club as my black ass self. And so what
Speaker 2: I learned at that particular time was I could become
Speaker 2: a crossover act. But the way I've always crossed over
Speaker 2: is I build a bridge and I invite white folks
Speaker 2: over to me. The problem with most blacks is they
Speaker 2: build a bridge and then they cross it.
Speaker 5: MM.
Speaker 3: Then when the bridge burned down, the ass can't come
Speaker 3: back home. M.
Speaker 2: I build a bridge and a lot of white folks
Speaker 2: come in the way I talk on family few is
Speaker 2: how I talk right now. I'm not finna change that, man,
Speaker 2: So you could be okay with me. Now, this is
Speaker 2: me I've been told all the time, Like I tell
Speaker 2: this story all the time. I was on NBC when
Speaker 2: I first got to talk to you, and they said
Speaker 2: they sent this lady in to talk to me.
Speaker 3: And she was a leing. She was old, what is
Speaker 3: it linguist? She was a linguist. I didn't know what
Speaker 3: that was. So I thought she was in there teach
Speaker 3: me how to fix pasta. And I thought that was
Speaker 3: nice cause I've always wanted to know a little bit
Speaker 3: about pasta. And so she says, no, I'm I'm your
Speaker 3: ling linguistics coach. And I said, well, what you mean?
Speaker 2: She said, NBC feels that if you speak more grammatically correct,
Speaker 2: you'll be more successful on TV.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, I ain't finna do all that. She said.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, I said, I ain't finna do all that?
Speaker 2: She said, could you say what you said slowly? For me, Sir,
Speaker 2: I ain't I said, I ain't fitn't it do all that?
Speaker 2: She said, That's exactly why I'm here. She said, do
Speaker 2: you understand what we can become if you speak better?
Speaker 2: I said, well, yeah, I ain't finna be about it though.
Speaker 3: She said, excuse me. I said, I ain't sitting to
Speaker 3: be boy that though. She so, Sir, this is exactly
Speaker 3: why I'm here. I said, Man, I'm gonna ask your question,
Speaker 3: I said, because I'm not finna change. She said, why not?
Speaker 2: I said, let me ask you a question. Which one
Speaker 2: of these sound better to you? I am broke or
Speaker 2: I'm as rich? I said, see now you're talking to me,
Speaker 2: but I'm as rich, I mean is rich? Now I'm
Speaker 2: already rich. Sown where are.
Speaker 3: You finnah go with this?
Speaker 2: Now that lady packed her stuff up, she said this
Speaker 2: black some of them. I know she wanted to say
Speaker 2: black air bastard. She packed that up and walked out
Speaker 2: of there. And I tell that to people all the time,
Speaker 2: man said, by felicias, because I'm not dog, I ain't
Speaker 2: finna do that.
Speaker 3: Not changing?
Speaker 5: So when did?
Speaker 3: When did it? Actually?
Speaker 4: Because you were saying you have financial hardship two thousand
Speaker 4: and five, and you still was making some mistakes, but
Speaker 4: in your state now, so obviously things changed.
Speaker 3: Dramatically. So what was the turning point?
Speaker 4: What was the turning point from you know, making mistakes
Speaker 4: to actually going on the skyrocket?
Speaker 2: I know, man, that this is gonna sound like cliches
Speaker 2: and corny, but a woman, a woman, what was the
Speaker 2: difference making in my life?
Speaker 3: My wife? When I married Marjorie Mann two thousand and seven,
Speaker 3: we got married.
Speaker 2: It changed the game for me because for the first
Speaker 2: time in my life, I was at peace because she
Speaker 2: made me good with who I was. She kept telling
Speaker 2: me you were made eat your TV star. Don't don't
Speaker 2: believe us here, Steve, you look good.
Speaker 3: You can do this.
Speaker 2: You're talented, You're the best. And I had a peaceful home.
Speaker 2: I had never had a peaceful home life before. Man,
Speaker 2: I was coming home.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sitting in the car looking at the door
Speaker 3: for three hours scared to go in there. You know,
Speaker 3: you probably might have been in something like that before.
Speaker 3: I fortunately enough, but fortunately no. But yeah, you never know.
Speaker 3: You know, faith, man, your faith? Yeah I know, but
Speaker 3: you're gonna sit in that driveway. But even if you're
Speaker 3: happy if you piss her off, you're gonna go sit
Speaker 3: in that car, dog, because at least I can lock
Speaker 3: these doors and roll these windows up in his car,
Speaker 3: But if I sit in his house, I'm yeah. So
Speaker 3: you know, I'm happy about that. But I was in
Speaker 3: a horrible situation.
Speaker 7: And this woman came along and gave me peace pieces,
Speaker 7: priceless man, and I was able to think clearly for
Speaker 7: the first time, and so I was able to start
Speaker 7: seeing stuff.
Speaker 3: Now we got huge.
Speaker 2: I got in a huge tax situation in two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight because my divorce was in two thousand and
Speaker 2: five and my accountant had gotten in cahoots. And next thing,
Speaker 2: you know, my accountant died and a girl that worked
Speaker 2: for him called my lawyer and said, we have a problem.
Speaker 2: She had found on the floor all my tax forms
Speaker 2: for seven years, signed and with the checks staple to them.
Speaker 3: So I'm thinking unassigned and unstaple of checks. Well, they
Speaker 3: were cashing the checks, keeping the money, and not turning
Speaker 3: into tax form.
Speaker 4: So your account that's why we interviewed Fat Joe similar situation.
Speaker 4: He went to jail for that actually tax evasion. So
Speaker 4: your accountant, you how you.
Speaker 3: Were signing the check Oh, so you didn't know who
Speaker 3: the check was being made out to, Oh, to the government.
Speaker 3: So how did they cash it?
Speaker 2: Well, they didn't cash it. They took the money out
Speaker 2: of their account that matched the exact cause I wasn't
Speaker 2: watching it. Six hundred thousand, you get duck it.
Speaker 3: So I'm thinking it's the check. Little did I know
Speaker 3: it was some people taking the money out for seven years.
Speaker 2: For seven years, how much money did that? I ended
Speaker 2: up owing twenty two million? Wow, twenty two million with
Speaker 2: the with the penalties. So now listen to me, man,
Speaker 2: me and my wife. In two thousand and eight, I
Speaker 2: get the call. And the way I found out was
Speaker 2: my lawyer called me and said, hey, man, we got
Speaker 2: a problem. You haven't paid taxes in seven years. I said, man, kich,
Speaker 2: what are you talking about. I paid tax I've been
Speaker 2: writing the checks and all this here. Oh man, he said,
Speaker 2: this woman found your taxes in your accountant's office on
Speaker 2: the floor. Every tax check I had written in, every
Speaker 2: was stable together for seven years, quarterly taxes, all of it.
Speaker 3: So he said, man, that's tax evasion. You can go
Speaker 3: to prison.
Speaker 2: And I said, what we gonna do? So he said,
Speaker 2: hold on, man, let me get some lawyers. So he
Speaker 2: called up some tax accountants out of Chicago. These boys
Speaker 2: was the best, and they set me down and they said, man,
Speaker 2: we got a major problem. He said, I got a
Speaker 2: friend work at dis let me take the first year.
Speaker 2: We took the first year and we sent it in
Speaker 2: and he said, man, well this is an old tax return.
Speaker 2: He said, man, we got a problem. He got more
Speaker 2: but he didn't know it, and so l we need
Speaker 2: a tax payment plan. So the tax payment plan was
Speaker 2: so astronomical that it was no way I could pay this.
Speaker 3: So the deal was if you.
Speaker 2: Missed one payment, we come and seize all your assets
Speaker 2: and you going to jail.
Speaker 3: That was the deal.
Speaker 2: So the way I found out I was in real
Speaker 2: bad trouble was my accountants, my former manager lawyer, got
Speaker 2: on a conference call to discuss it. But they sent
Speaker 2: out an email with the conference call number to my assistant.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't supposed to go to me. She inadvertently
Speaker 2: gave it to me. I wasn't even suposed to be
Speaker 2: on the call. So when I logged in, they were
Speaker 2: already talking and I just didn't announce myself, and I
Speaker 2: heard them say, nobody can live under this amount of stress.
Speaker 2: There's no way he can pay the back taxes, pay
Speaker 2: his current taxes and his living expenses.
Speaker 3: And I heard a guy on the phone say, what
Speaker 3: are we gonna do when he goes to jail?
Speaker 2: And I hung the phone up. I went upstairs. I said,
Speaker 2: Marjorie Dona, and Marjorie got a problem. When I explained
Speaker 2: it to her, Marjorie started crying. She sat down and cried.
Speaker 2: My wife cried for two straight days. She says, Steve,
Speaker 2: what you gonna do? I said, I'm gonna go to work.
Speaker 3: I took every comedy gig in this country. I signed
Speaker 3: every contract. I went to work. Man.
Speaker 2: I worked every single Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I went
Speaker 2: to every venue, the Verizon Staples Center, MCI Phillips, I
Speaker 2: sold out, the Fox I sold, I went everywhere.
Speaker 3: I stayed on the radio. Man, I'm coming, I'm coming
Speaker 3: sold out.
Speaker 2: I never missed a payment, And for four years in
Speaker 2: a row, I was sending six hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 2: a month to the government, plus I had to pay
Speaker 2: my current TAXI I couldn't get behind on nothing, and
Speaker 2: I was living so I was credit cards, running them up,
Speaker 2: paying them off and Finally, Man, in two thousand and.
Speaker 5: Twelve, you got me thinking, now this is the paper
Speaker 5: view event.
Speaker 3: Well it was coming to that. Two things happened.
Speaker 2: Two thousand and twelve, I sold forty nine percent of
Speaker 2: my radio company to iHeart. I got check, man, I
Speaker 2: got me a check and then so I paid the
Speaker 2: government completely off to zero.
Speaker 3: And that was the first time, man, I could breathe.
Speaker 2: And then the pay per view I said, let me
Speaker 2: get out of stand up because my wife said, Steve,
Speaker 2: you fin to be a major TV star. You're gonna
Speaker 2: have to stop telling the jokes you're telling, cause you're
Speaker 2: gonna ruin your career because she saw the political correctness turning,
Speaker 2: and so she said, Steve, you can stop if you
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 3: I said, maybe, I can't ever stop telling jokes. It's
Speaker 3: who I am. She said, well, okay, but you gotta
Speaker 3: watch what you say.
Speaker 2: And all of my TV shows are sponsored driven, the
Speaker 2: radio sponsorship driven. I said, man, and let me get
Speaker 2: out of this because I need time to go do
Speaker 2: more TV. And so I did one last comedy show,
Speaker 2: but I did it on pay per view, and little
Speaker 2: did I know, for eight dollars you could watch my
Speaker 2: last I had no idea how many people.
Speaker 3: It's gonna tune in for that. I made a lot
Speaker 3: of money.
Speaker 2: It was the biggest single paycheck I ever made. And
Speaker 2: next thing, you know, I was back.
Speaker 5: About that house.
Speaker 3: I had me some money, man, return. I was back return.
Speaker 3: I had a nice nut sitting over there. I said,
Speaker 3: I'm back, man, and then uh things. And after that, man,
Speaker 3: it was all because my wife had this vision for
Speaker 3: me and she could see it, and that was to
Speaker 3: turn around.
Speaker 4: So the account you said he died so that you
Speaker 4: couldn't sue his estatement, there was no there was no
Speaker 4: course of action that could be taken.
Speaker 3: So it cause like the money that it's the same
Speaker 3: situation with that Joe. It's crazy.
Speaker 4: So you lost the money that he took, but then
Speaker 4: you had to pay that money in taxes and then pendal,
Speaker 4: so it's like a double edged sword.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Man. It's nothing but the grace of God
Speaker 3: that I didn't go to jail how often.
Speaker 4: Because it's like, it's so crazy that this story, because
Speaker 4: it's like fat Joe yourself, Kevin Gardner, Tim Duncan, like
Speaker 4: this happens a lot. Like what would you advise for
Speaker 4: people that as a learning experience, like just to always
Speaker 4: watch your accounts a little.
Speaker 2: Let nobody sign your check, don't let nobody have access
Speaker 2: to your money, even if it's your wife. You still
Speaker 2: got to watch it yourself. Cause little did I know, man,
Speaker 2: I I wasn't moving the money. The only other person
Speaker 2: that could move the money had access to the account.
Speaker 2: So when you depart, when you're withdrawing the money out,
Speaker 2: like let's say tax with six hundred thousand and you
Speaker 2: take exactly six hundred thousand out, I'm thinking that's the
Speaker 2: check cleard, Oh it made They never okay, the.
Speaker 3: Exact amount, I don't care if it was. If it
Speaker 3: was one point two million, thirty two cent, one point
Speaker 3: two thirty two cent got took out exactly. So I'm
Speaker 3: thinking I'm just looking at real going down the sheet,
Speaker 3: not realizing that that check ain't clear. And that's what happened. Man.
Speaker 3: I got burnt. And that happened for seven years of money. Man.
Speaker 6: So so you spoke about the marriage in two thousand
Speaker 6: and seven that brought you peace. I want to talk
Speaker 6: about generational wealth and I kind of want to change
Speaker 6: the phrase of sustainable wealth because you have seven kids,
Speaker 6: five grandkids.
Speaker 2: Seven and seven, seven and seven. Oh yeah, they had two.
Speaker 2: They little machines right now cranking them out.
Speaker 6: And so I mentioned it because obviously maybe your children
Speaker 6: have seen sumer the setbacks that you've had, but your
Speaker 6: grandchick children will never see it.
Speaker 5: They don't know anything about that, and so it's tough
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 6: To understand the type of perseverance, the type of determination
Speaker 6: resiliency to sustain the things you've been through. So how
Speaker 6: do we teach from what you've been through to them?
Speaker 3: You know, man, I ain't figured that out yet, because.
Speaker 2: There's even a hiccup between not the grandkids, but my
Speaker 2: own kids. Okay, because look, bro, most of us that
Speaker 2: are successful today oftentimes are the first ones in our
Speaker 2: family to be successful. I'm pretty sure before Rick Ross hit,
Speaker 2: it wasn't no more. I know, before jay Z hit,
Speaker 2: it wasn't no more in his family. You know, we
Speaker 2: ain't got nobody to go to to figure this thing out.
Speaker 2: So what happens is and then you say, as most
Speaker 2: good parents, I want my children to have a better
Speaker 2: life than the one I had, So you try to
Speaker 2: protect your children from the hustling grit that you was under. Now,
Speaker 2: my kids ain't got to come up like me, figure
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 3: And work through this and work like that. But in
Speaker 3: that though, you've made a mistake. Because now.
Speaker 2: See, all of my children live their life as high
Speaker 2: acrobats with a net.
Speaker 3: So if they lose grip of the handle, Daddy down
Speaker 3: there got a net. I ain't handle net.
Speaker 2: So I was a high wire act and when I
Speaker 2: slipped off, my ass hit the ground, had to get repaired,
Speaker 2: then climb.
Speaker 3: Back up there. They got a safety belt on there
Speaker 3: on the hunt, they're doing wild ass flips. It wasn't
Speaker 3: nobody hold they hit the thing in the little cable,
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Speaker 3: you and I talked about this with all the brothers.
Speaker 2: I know that's successful. I don't know nobody to figured
Speaker 2: this one out.
Speaker 3: Man. How do we teach our the hustling grind.
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Speaker 2: Will be trying to keep them out of a hustling grind.
Speaker 2: You understand, why would you not give your child an allowance?
Speaker 3: And you have it? Why would you not?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Plus you want them in the best schools, right, so
Speaker 2: now you've got them in school with these white kids.
Speaker 2: They sitting up in here with the latest on iPads, iPhones.
Speaker 3: You can't send your little black ass kid up there
Speaker 3: without that because you're trying to teach them how to
Speaker 3: be tough, strong, wicked.
Speaker 2: No, you got to put his little punk ass in
Speaker 2: the same outfit, say you know, cause come on, man,
Speaker 2: you can't have your child up there looking crazy. But
Speaker 2: now you mad because they ain't got the same grit,
Speaker 2: You got the same hustle. Like I look at them
Speaker 2: all man, and I just go, I'm proud of what
Speaker 2: they're becoming. But I know, man, that if something go
Speaker 2: really wrong for him, they got me. But when something
Speaker 2: went really wrong for me, my ass just had to
Speaker 2: live in my car. I couldn't go to my daddy
Speaker 2: and get a thousand for no apartment. By look, man,
Speaker 2: I was in college for three years before I flunked out.
Speaker 2: My father sent me money one time. He sent it
Speaker 2: in an envelope and it had two index cards, And
Speaker 2: when I opened it up, it had a flat crisp
Speaker 2: five dollar bill in it, and the note on the
Speaker 2: index card was, this shit gonna have to stop.
Speaker 3: Man, You're going too far with this shit. This ship
Speaker 3: got to stop. Five dollars man. Three years of college,
Speaker 3: he sent a five dollar bill and that was the
Speaker 3: message on the card on their car. Up with man
Speaker 3: had a day, So this shit got to stop.
Speaker 5: I went on book course this much bro brod.
Speaker 2: I had a job all through college, bought books. Everything, mother,
Speaker 2: father give me nothing wasn't nothing. Some center be going, Look, man,
Speaker 2: my kid tatoy call failed to pay their short because
Speaker 2: they forgotten. They come to me, we gotta get another car. Well,
Speaker 2: you ain't finna drive none of mine. I don't have
Speaker 2: cars you can drive already none of my children. Here's
Speaker 2: the only thing. None of my children have ever driven
Speaker 2: one of my cars because I don't have drivable call.
Speaker 3: I ain't got no car.
Speaker 2: You go straight. I got calls, see and read. People
Speaker 2: ask me all the time why you buy such expensive cars?
Speaker 3: Calls.
Speaker 2: If this all go away one day and I got
Speaker 2: to go back to living in a car, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be that motherfuck gonna be nice.
Speaker 3: Saying them. I'm gonna be in in the backseat of
Speaker 3: a fernom you want to seeping this out of the road.
Speaker 3: I got Refrench rate in now. I got lights in
Speaker 3: the city. That's what I'm gonna be home to see
Speaker 3: so quit asking me why I spend so much money
Speaker 3: on the car, because if I gotta go live back
Speaker 3: in that thing.
Speaker 6: Again, it's a nice living nice I brought the family
Speaker 6: piece because I know, uh, Laurie and yourself going into business,
Speaker 6: uh with with Moono. So what I mean, what's that
Speaker 6: process like knowing that one of your children has the
Speaker 6: you know, the business act mean to say, I want.
Speaker 3: To do this, you know, Laurie, Man, it's really great.
Speaker 2: I got a few businessmen in the family, you know,
Speaker 2: the two youngest ones, winning and Laurie figuring it out.
Speaker 2: Laurie came to me and said she didn't want to
Speaker 2: go to college no more. And I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: be damn, that's a fine time. After I done paid
Speaker 2: these money. You know, we could have had this discussion
Speaker 2: for the tuition with it, you know, I can't get
Speaker 2: it back. But she had a plan, and it's been
Speaker 2: really amazing watching her grow and developed because.
Speaker 3: Of a couple of things.
Speaker 2: Man, I'm so protective of her because I know what
Speaker 2: she's up against, you know, and but she's always wanted
Speaker 2: to be a business person, and so you know, you
Speaker 2: watch your kids grow and develop. You watch them learn,
Speaker 2: They make mistakes, as we all do. But what Laurie
Speaker 2: did was Laurie has She's just always asked me a question, Dan,
Speaker 2: what's it like for this?
Speaker 3: What's it like for that?
Speaker 2: And I could see her wanting more. But this Moon
Speaker 2: Culture investment that we invested in. But her skincare line
Speaker 2: was all her, all the vision of her and her mother,
Speaker 2: her and her mother. Her mother had this vision before,
Speaker 2: but she put it on the back burner and she
Speaker 2: dumped it all in with Lourie. Because Laurie got smart.
Speaker 2: Luri has a teen Louri has a CEO mentality. She
Speaker 2: understands it now.
Speaker 3: She gets it.
Speaker 2: You know, she been through the washer out here. She
Speaker 2: know what this social media can be. She learned how
Speaker 2: to make it more of a friend of hers than
Speaker 2: the enemy. And she just got real smart man. And
Speaker 2: she'll come to me and she'll go, Dad, I'm thinking
Speaker 2: about doing this.
Speaker 3: What do you think? I don't always agree.
Speaker 2: But I don't have to because what's in Laurie's imagination
Speaker 2: I don't have to see because God ain't gonna put
Speaker 2: her imagination.
Speaker 3: In my head.
Speaker 2: So since I understand that principle when LORI comes to
Speaker 2: me with this what people think is this wild crazy idea,
Speaker 2: Like this girl right here is not gonna stop.
Speaker 3: Man. Her skincare line is good, she's into fashion, she's smart,
Speaker 3: and uh, it's just a pleasure watching her.
Speaker 2: My oldest daughter, the twins, Brandy is on her own
Speaker 2: with her beyond her element that she does speaking engagements Carly.
Speaker 2: That girl went out here married her husband who came
Speaker 2: and asked me for her hand in marriage on a
Speaker 2: golf course.
Speaker 3: I had a seven eye in my hand. I wanna
Speaker 3: crack his head wide over because I'm finished. You find
Speaker 3: time to ask me to marry my daughter and I
Speaker 3: just lost this round of golf out here. And uh,
Speaker 3: but he's a good guy. She got it together. She
Speaker 3: has been Agent of the Year with State Farm now
Speaker 3: for two years and a running this girl and open
Speaker 3: up agencies and stuff. She's insurance business. Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: what started. I started that. I wasn't never agent of
Speaker 3: a year. I was stealing premiums and stuff. I was
Speaker 3: at lower level. Yeah, some things because I had to
Speaker 3: make some survival decisions when I was selling in shots.
Speaker 3: If you gave me your premium. But she's doing really,
Speaker 3: really well. Jason, my other son, is uh in the
Speaker 3: fashion business with his wife.
Speaker 2: He had a shoe line out for a while. It
Speaker 2: kind of was hard to keep afloat. Now he's back
Speaker 2: down at basel again. He's got his clothing line he's
Speaker 2: working on with his wife, who was a model, the
Speaker 2: runway model they met her. That's a long story, but
Speaker 2: he's giving me more grandkids than anybody, and he's doing well.
Speaker 2: My oldest son, Roderick, works on all my TV shows
Speaker 2: because he just wants he wants to be in TV
Speaker 2: uh directing and TV production, so he's working as a
Speaker 2: second stage director on stuff for all my shows. Winton
Speaker 2: does photography on my shows, but Winton does videos. He's
Speaker 2: did a lot of work with Kanye two chains, a
Speaker 2: lot of artists and stuff. Went and travels to do
Speaker 2: Bay work and he does work for the Department of
Speaker 2: Tourism over there. So when all of the kids, man
Speaker 2: are getting it. They're not where they want to be,
Speaker 2: but they're getting it.
Speaker 3: And I told them all.
Speaker 2: I think what helped him was I said I was
Speaker 2: cutting everybody off and I didn't, but it felt good
Speaker 2: saying it, but I didn't.
Speaker 3: I told Laura I was gonna cut her.
Speaker 2: Off, and she just went, Daddy stopped. That was all
Speaker 2: she said was don't play. Don't play because Laurie really
Speaker 2: thinks she's the special one.
Speaker 3: She really does lurid. I told Laury I was gonna
Speaker 3: cut off because she's making a lot of money right now,
Speaker 3: and I was gonna cut her off. And she just
Speaker 3: started laughing. And then she said, well, and you're not
Speaker 3: gonna speak to me anymore. I said, yeah, I'll still
Speaker 3: talk to you. She said, but not if you cut
Speaker 3: me off. So can't cut her off. But they're doing well.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this.
Speaker 4: You're also an angel investor, so you invested in coinbase, DraftKings, Airbnb,
Speaker 4: all pre ipo.
Speaker 3: How'd you get How'd you get in that world?
Speaker 2: Well, because I got a couple of smart people at
Speaker 2: work for me. To Bed Stevens is the head of
Speaker 2: my global business development and strategist. He brings a lot
Speaker 2: of these things to me because you know, really, like
Speaker 2: I said, man, I'm in the mental game of it.
Speaker 2: When it comes to the technical stuff, I just surround
Speaker 2: myself with people who are technically smart. Now, Brandon is
Speaker 2: not only my legal he's my COO. He's chief operating.
Speaker 2: He's in charge of everything and they all report to him.
Speaker 2: But to be d Stevens has bought me the majority
Speaker 2: of these deals, especially in the tech space. All the
Speaker 2: way I got this kid was I wanted my son
Speaker 2: to help me run my company, my oldest son, Roderick,
Speaker 2: who's in television. But he came to me and said, Dad,
Speaker 2: you really want your business to grow? How I'm my
Speaker 2: best friend. And I thought that was really smart of
Speaker 2: him because he could have took this check. But he said, no, Dad,
Speaker 2: this is what he dos. He gragged them graduated magnum
Speaker 2: cum Lotty from Morehouse.
Speaker 3: He had all these offers to go to all of
Speaker 3: these Ivy League schools. He had full rides to go
Speaker 3: to all these schools and stuff. And I was sitting
Speaker 3: down with him one day and I said, well, how
Speaker 3: much do it costs to go to these Ivy League schools?
Speaker 2: And he told me, And I said, well, when you
Speaker 2: get this degree at these Ivy League schools, how much
Speaker 2: money will you make a year? And then he told me,
Speaker 2: And I said how many years is this gonna take
Speaker 2: to do that?
Speaker 3: He told me.
Speaker 2: Then I said, well how much you and not already
Speaker 2: spent going to school, and he told me. And when
Speaker 2: he told me, it just didn't make no damn sense
Speaker 2: to me. So I said, I'll tell you what, man,
Speaker 2: If you come work for me, he said, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be in exports and imports.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be taking big meetings. Oh, you're on big
Speaker 3: meetings or you wanta sit in big meetings. I got
Speaker 3: big meetings for your ass tomorrow. And so I hired
Speaker 3: him and gave him a salary that'll save all that
Speaker 3: going to school for it. And how many years has
Speaker 3: been now bade seven years? And and the way we
Speaker 3: started was I took four hundred thousand dollars, gave him
Speaker 3: four hundred thousand dollars and said, hey, man, show me
Speaker 3: what you would do in the stock market. Four hundred thousand.
Speaker 3: Just give him an.
Speaker 2: When I tell you that, he gave me ten times
Speaker 2: that money in two years and then has quadrupled to
Speaker 2: get that money. Just sent over there making money.
Speaker 3: And stocks, all his picks and stocks, all his every
Speaker 3: last one of them. I'm I'm in some of those
Speaker 3: companies get a market Monday. Yeah, But that dude right
Speaker 3: there and that and that's what it takes, you know, Yeah, I.
Speaker 6: Mean we're having conversations for over the course of a
Speaker 6: few months. You probably didn't know this part though, So
Speaker 6: to Bed was part of a team, and we got
Speaker 6: to give credit to Chad kat Right. Eighty five South guys,
Speaker 6: they you know, found us early on to work for you, Chad.
Speaker 5: That's yeah.
Speaker 6: So all the all the things that they learned from
Speaker 6: working around you, they implemented and told us.
Speaker 5: So we were like, Okay, this is great information.
Speaker 6: And so when I was talking to TVD about it,
Speaker 6: he was like, yeah, man, we all used to sit
Speaker 6: in the same room and so indirectly all the lessons
Speaker 6: you've been teaching them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good lesson. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Actually you probably wasn't even aware of that. But really
Speaker 4: each one teach one situation because Chad used to work
Speaker 4: for you, and he built the eighty five South business
Speaker 4: structure mainly based on the stuff that he learned from you,
Speaker 4: and he's been a mentor for us.
Speaker 3: When we you know, getting in again. Yeah, we got
Speaker 3: got our lawyer from him. Chad been a mentor for y'all.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and vice versa, vice versus.
Speaker 4: Wow, he's been telling us a lot of stuff about
Speaker 4: how to run merch gave us the entertainment.
Speaker 6: Lawyer that we have all the lessons that you. I mean,
Speaker 6: every time he tells us a lesson, it's like I
Speaker 6: was and that crew man, this is what they told me.
Speaker 6: They always said this, They always said this, and now
Speaker 6: he's implemented on his own. And since we were just
Speaker 6: starting in the media space, he was just giving us
Speaker 6: the advice that he learned from y'all.
Speaker 5: And so like indirectly, him and him and.
Speaker 2: His cat Joe, they were spilling and they were just bright. Man,
Speaker 2: they were just bright. We just got into a situation
Speaker 2: with my former manager and that's all. But they I
Speaker 2: stayed in touch with him because I always believed in them,
Speaker 2: and you know, we talk every now and then and
Speaker 2: then I hear about stuff that they're doing. And I'm
Speaker 2: just proud of him, man, because they got it. They
Speaker 2: weren't bitter with what happened to him. See, sometimes you
Speaker 2: got to get in order to grow, You got to go.
Speaker 2: See people don't understand, man, when doors close, you can't
Speaker 2: trip when the door closed. That's simply God telling you
Speaker 2: he got another door. He wants you to walk through
Speaker 2: the problem that most people do. Like during the pandemic,
Speaker 2: a lot of companies close, a lot of people lost
Speaker 2: their jobs. It's people still standing there. Open this company
Speaker 2: back up. I want my job back up.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting on the company to get back and come
Speaker 3: back in business. It ain't.
Speaker 5: It's dog.
Speaker 2: Most of these companies that's gone ain't coming back. So
Speaker 2: you can quit beating on that door.
Speaker 3: Why don't you stop beating on that door, Stop praying
Speaker 3: to God to open that company back up.
Speaker 2: Lord bless 'em to get back on their feet. Why
Speaker 2: don't you stop beating on that door and turn away
Speaker 2: from the door and walk up the hall.
Speaker 3: It's some more dos? What hall ain't got no more dos?
Speaker 3: What this is the This is the hallway of life.
Speaker 3: The hallway of life got more doors. You got to
Speaker 3: turn up the hall and there's a bigger door with
Speaker 3: your name on it. But if you stay there banging
Speaker 3: on that door, you know, you can't drive your car
Speaker 3: looking in the rear view mirror. You gotta look in
Speaker 3: the windshield, the rearview mirror.
Speaker 2: That's why it's this small, that windshield that big people
Speaker 2: can't get out of their own way because they in
Speaker 2: that rear view mirror.
Speaker 3: What would it be?
Speaker 2: And I wish it had a should have could have
Speaker 2: would have. Hey, man, stop all that, walk up the
Speaker 2: hall and go see what else God got for you
Speaker 2: before we leave. I gotta ask you about this Michael
Speaker 2: Jackson story. I heard you took Michael Jackson to church?
Speaker 3: Is that had of that? I got pictures of that day. Man,
Speaker 3: that was one of my favorite moments. I uh.
Speaker 2: You know, Michael was in a lot of trouble mane
Speaker 2: and he had a He had a publicist named Ramon
Speaker 2: Bain and me and Mike was cool.
Speaker 3: Over the years.
Speaker 2: I always hung out with him and talk with him,
Speaker 2: you know, like I was the only one that ever
Speaker 2: called him the end word and stuff like that. I
Speaker 2: just talked crazy to Mike.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: He needed that, you know, he just oh, hey, man, hey.
Speaker 3: But I got no time for that. So one day
Speaker 3: Ramone called me and said, Steve, Michael want to talk
Speaker 3: to you. I said, it's up, Mike. He said, man,
Speaker 3: I need to go to church. I just want to
Speaker 3: go to church. And I said, well, he said, what
Speaker 3: can you take me to church? I said, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: I take you to church. Because Mike thought they was
Speaker 3: gonna convict him. Mm and he says, Steve, I didn't
Speaker 3: do this man, I just believed it.
Speaker 2: I just I've never believed that about Mike. I I
Speaker 2: know him, I've been around him, and that's just me.
Speaker 2: Everybody else will teach that last one that came out
Speaker 2: he did it, that's you.
Speaker 3: You don't know.
Speaker 2: I ah, where all this stuff come from after after
Speaker 2: he did and then if you anyway, that's a longer story.
Speaker 2: But they just was doing this.
Speaker 5: Brother.
Speaker 3: So he said, hey, man, I want to go to church.
Speaker 3: So I said, okay, man.
Speaker 2: So I called up my buddy chip Mary that owns
Speaker 2: chip Mary uh episcoal Ame church over off of Jefferson
Speaker 2: and Adams off for Crenshaw. Adam's over there somewhere in
Speaker 2: that area off Crenshaw, and I called him up. He said,
Speaker 2: Michael wants to come to this church. And I said, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: he wants you to talk with him and pray for him.
Speaker 2: And so I said, Mike, I'm gonna come pick you
Speaker 2: up and we can go to church. So Mike had
Speaker 2: took the entire floor of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and
Speaker 2: gutted it and just turned it into his own place.
Speaker 2: So I came up there and Mike met me at
Speaker 2: the door on a mopad because he was crazy.
Speaker 3: Man. I said he had another one, but he said,
Speaker 3: come on, let's go down to the apartment. I said, Mike,
Speaker 3: a mopead dog. I'm six too, What is it? This
Speaker 3: a little bit? So ride the mopeid down the in.
Speaker 3: We get up and go in the place. And I'm
Speaker 3: looking at this place and I'm going this because in incredible.
Speaker 3: He didn't gut it the whole floor and just made
Speaker 3: it his apartment. Incredible. So I'm in there man, and
Speaker 3: I said, Mike, we gotta go to church. It's black people.
Speaker 3: We gotta go now, you know.
Speaker 2: We gotta get parking and everything. I said, Mike, did
Speaker 2: you tell anybody who was going to church?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, I wanted to be a secret. I said, okay, cool,
Speaker 3: I told Chip Mary Man. We get in the car.
Speaker 2: No, first Mike goes to get dressed and he comes
Speaker 2: out dressed and with Mike, fuck you got on?
Speaker 3: So where you going? Man? What is this you wearing?
Speaker 3: What's the matter? This is my suit? What you dressed like?
Speaker 3: Cap'n crunch?
Speaker 5: For?
Speaker 3: Where's she going with all these balls on your shoulders? Military?
Speaker 3: We're going to church? Man? You got one stripe on
Speaker 3: one leg? I said, where your suit at? Man? Black
Speaker 3: people wear suits ties. This is all I got, Steve.
Speaker 3: This jacket is twenty twenty thousand dollars. I'm going what
Speaker 3: the dude was spending money on stuff? So I'm laughing
Speaker 3: at him. So we go get in the car. He said, Man,
Speaker 3: this is great, man, is it are?
Speaker 2: They have a great choirs? Man, they be jamming. So
Speaker 2: we get down off the tin and we turn on Crenshaw.
Speaker 3: And it's cars from the tin all the way down
Speaker 3: Crenshaw all up. Jefferson opts, people all on the side.
Speaker 3: Where might go. I'm gonna what the hell? I said, Mike,
Speaker 3: I thought, I told you, ain't tell nobody. I never
Speaker 3: opened my mouth. Well, the preacher told somebody Michael was coming,
Speaker 3: and the word got out. Let me tell you something, man.
Speaker 2: It was people from Belgium, Argentina, Amsterdam, signs from everywhere.
Speaker 2: People from all over the world flew in to see
Speaker 2: this guy go to church. So we finally took us
Speaker 2: a long time to get through all the crowd and stuff.
Speaker 2: Police escorts got it about out the way. We get
Speaker 2: to the church.
Speaker 3: It's packed this Easter.
Speaker 2: It's a regular Sunday, it's Easter in hill Man, it's packed.
Speaker 2: So before the service start, I get him in the
Speaker 2: back with the preacher chip Mary. Chip Mary prayed for Michael.
Speaker 2: He told me, said, Mike, you're gonna walk away from this.
Speaker 2: He said, God knows what you did, you good brother, youinger,
Speaker 2: And he was so worried.
Speaker 3: He prayed for him. Mike said, man, he says, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna walk away. Say what these these people? He talked
Speaker 3: God all the time with this black church man.
Speaker 2: So we went and they had a seat for us
Speaker 2: in the middle, and we sat down and Boyd his
Speaker 2: choir came out and they was jamming, and Mike's hat
Speaker 2: was in his eyes, and Michae was just sitting there
Speaker 2: just rocking.
Speaker 3: Man. He was getting it, man. He said, this is great, man,
Speaker 3: this is great. Oh my god, what are they doing? Phil?
Speaker 2: He knew every instruments. Man, They went from a detour
Speaker 2: e flat. This is amazing.
Speaker 3: What you heard that? I don't talk.
Speaker 5: He was in that.
Speaker 3: Man, Oh my god, why are those people jumping up
Speaker 3: and down? I say they shouting for what? Well? Probably
Speaker 3: because you here. It was funny, man. So the whole
Speaker 3: church service, he was just rocking. Man. He loved it.
Speaker 3: And so he went.
Speaker 2: He said, I want to meet with kids, and man,
Speaker 2: basement full of kids. They was asking Michael questions, is
Speaker 2: that your hair? Can I touch your face? Mike was
Speaker 2: just letting him touch him and everything. So it's news
Speaker 2: reporters outside. Where my phone at? Man, it's my phone anyway,
Speaker 2: I got pictures of the news conference and everything. So
Speaker 2: Mike says, I don't want to talk to anybody. Steve,
Speaker 2: go out there and talk for me. I say, ain't
Speaker 2: no problem. Look, man, Michael phones man. I mean everywhere
Speaker 2: everybody was there, Steve, we want to talk to Michael.
Speaker 3: He ain't coming out.
Speaker 2: Not happening, and well, Steve, we won't talk, I say, Man,
Speaker 2: Mike said, he ain't coming out, and he wants me
Speaker 2: to talk for him.
Speaker 3: I go out in front of all the mics.
Speaker 2: Steve, where's Michael we'll talking about? So Mike ain't coming out.
Speaker 2: We have questions for Mike, I said. Mike told me
Speaker 2: to answer all the questions.
Speaker 3: So go ahead. Why did he come to church? I say,
Speaker 3: you know he liked church music. Why did he pick
Speaker 3: this church? He said he did? And I did. I
Speaker 3: told him which one to come to. Well, when's he
Speaker 3: coming out? I said, when he come out, We're gonna
Speaker 3: get straight in the car. We don't want to talk
Speaker 3: to you. We want to talk to Mike. I said, Man,
Speaker 3: tell you no, motherfucker, mo, Mike ain't coming out here now.
Speaker 2: We ain't in the church right now. So y'all and
Speaker 2: you know this, this is me back in the day
Speaker 2: for I had all these shows.
Speaker 3: I ain't had nothing to lose, doog, I'm lighting.
Speaker 2: They ass up, and I'm aggravated because the dude don't
Speaker 2: want to talk to me.
Speaker 3: I'm going with damn. I'm all you're gonna get So
Speaker 3: what does Michael do now? He's talking to the I say,
Speaker 3: he's talking to the kids about what why are they
Speaker 3: allowing children in the basement with Michael? I said, hold on, man,
Speaker 3: where you going with this? Hire? I said, what I say,
Speaker 3: press conference over? So I go in the back. So
Speaker 3: we talk with the kids.
Speaker 2: Long to Michael and say, Steve, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 2: I said, all right, man. So I told us Katy
Speaker 2: to go get the car bringing around. We walking out
Speaker 2: there to get an umbrella for Mike and all this here.
Speaker 2: We walked to the car and we get in the car,
Speaker 2: I said, Mike, listen, Man, it's people all the way
Speaker 2: down here. I just want to shake their hand, I said, Mike,
Speaker 2: you can't shake these people hand.
Speaker 3: Doug, you know what we are. We crush all this.
Speaker 3: Say what we finna do. So Mike's sitting over there,
Speaker 3: and this ass roll the window down. Showe it by herself.
Speaker 3: He rolled the window down. Man, he's fine. People was
Speaker 3: reaching out there tying his clothes off. Oh yeah, they're
Speaker 3: pulling me. I said, roll your wonder up. Shut up
Speaker 3: all that wine and the shit. Mike can roll your
Speaker 3: window up. You're gonna crush that hand. They fuck that hand.
Speaker 3: And I got that window and this dude's hand was
Speaker 3: caught in the window, he said. And so now the
Speaker 3: car pick and I'm speeding. The dude is running with
Speaker 3: his hand crushed in the window. So Mike said, Steve,
Speaker 3: stopped the car. He's gonna get hurt, man, fuck him.
Speaker 3: Were all gonna get hurt if we don't get out
Speaker 3: of here. So I told dude, speed up, man. So
Speaker 3: the driver sped up and I opened the window just
Speaker 3: a little bit and he got his hand out.
Speaker 2: He said, Steve, you were gonna drag the poor man.
Speaker 2: I said, did not tear your ass not to open
Speaker 2: the window. Shit is your fault, Mike, He.
Speaker 3: Said, you're crazy. He's just talking to me so crazy.
Speaker 3: I said, I'm trying to save your ass. You don't
Speaker 3: know how to fight in here, talking about they're tearing
Speaker 3: my clothes off? What is your hands? Fuck you think
Speaker 3: they gonna do? So we get all the way back
Speaker 3: to the hotel and they take us through the back
Speaker 3: and Mike has stepped in some gum somewhat, so we
Speaker 3: on elevator and he raised his foot up in his
Speaker 3: gum down from his foot down to the floor. He said, Steve,
Speaker 3: there's gum on my shoe. I said, And what the
Speaker 3: fuck I'm supposed to do? I said, Mike, I don't
Speaker 3: get gum off. Nobody's shooting man, but it's on my shoe.
Speaker 2: And now security they off that laugh in the asshof
Speaker 2: because nobody talked to Mike like that.
Speaker 3: But it's gum on my shoe. What the fuck I'm
Speaker 3: supposed to do?
Speaker 2: Rub that ship off the elevator, opening them two down
Speaker 2: mope heads, and I said, man, we ain't got time
Speaker 2: for this ship.
Speaker 3: Let's walk down here. True story.
Speaker 6: I can't let you go because you spoke about your
Speaker 6: wife and have from a financial standpoint and bringing peace.
Speaker 5: But she's also changed your style.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't go to.
Speaker 5: See my man. Ellie's here.
Speaker 6: We gotta acknowledge that he transformation and the Steve Harby said,
Speaker 6: we went from the big suits.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you couldn't tell me nothing.
Speaker 6: You couldn't tell me nothing class in the classic airline.
Speaker 3: You look at them suits.
Speaker 2: Every NBA player from Magic Johnson to Michael Jordan had
Speaker 2: them suits.
Speaker 5: That was a treasure dog.
Speaker 2: They said, Man, we used to watch the Apollo to
Speaker 2: see what you was wearing. And we get it made Michael,
Speaker 2: all of them, they all know that. They all used
Speaker 2: to come man them suits. Man, it was I was
Speaker 2: king of the urban wear.
Speaker 6: But you transitioned now at lettusage and now it's fine fashion.
Speaker 6: It's gotten to the point now it's like I think,
Speaker 6: like people are looking just to see what you're wearing again.
Speaker 6: But in the social media world it's like like they're
Speaker 6: turning it into a comedy at some at some places,
Speaker 6: but other people are looking at it like, Yo, who's
Speaker 6: who's dressing this dude.
Speaker 5: Because he's fly? Yeah, see the hater, how was that transition?
Speaker 3: Well, Marjorie, if you watched my wife over the years.
Speaker 2: She's she's it man. She's the fastest and fashionista. And
Speaker 2: it started with her when she said, Steven, want you.
Speaker 3: To change your suits?
Speaker 2: And I said why, She said, because I'm tired of
Speaker 2: being married to a pimp. I said, well, I'm the
Speaker 2: damn you ain't had no problem. She said, well, I
Speaker 2: just had to get you married. Further, she said, I
Speaker 2: was gonna change you the whole long. So she got
Speaker 2: a couple of tailors and I started.
Speaker 3: Wearing some little Canali kitan suits and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and it was going okay.
Speaker 2: And then I got this guy when I got to
Speaker 2: talk show and all this here, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: have a certain look. I'm a game show host, I'm
Speaker 2: a talk show host. I wanted to be more mainstreams.
Speaker 2: So she took all the big suits off of me
Speaker 2: and she cut the suits down. But I was one
Speaker 2: note man, because that was the image I just wanted
Speaker 2: out there, game show hosts, TV hosts, tie collar bar clamp,
Speaker 2: cuff links, pocket square necktie, colors, shoe gators.
Speaker 3: That was it, and that went for a long time.
Speaker 2: The reputation on Family few was he dressed so nice
Speaker 2: and all the people that have come on Family Feud
Speaker 2: would try to wear two pocket squares because they thought
Speaker 2: it was two pocket squares. It's really only one. I
Speaker 2: just wore tom Ford pocket squares that had a border.
Speaker 2: Once you have a pocket square with a border on it,
Speaker 2: when you pulled the middle out and put the board,
Speaker 2: it looked like it's too.
Speaker 3: So that was a little trick move I did, right.
Speaker 2: I was going along with that And then I went
Speaker 2: to Africa four years ago and I started taping the show.
Speaker 2: I had a problem with the guy. He couldn't make
Speaker 2: the trip. He had some family issues. So my wife's
Speaker 2: had been telling me about Ellie. She said, Steve, you
Speaker 2: really ought to hire this kid. He's very, very talented
Speaker 2: in fashion and you need to freshen up your look.
Speaker 2: And I said, babe, I don't need all that, you know.
Speaker 2: And plus I had seen Ellie a few times with
Speaker 2: Wynton and Lloyd. They were friends, and you know, I
Speaker 2: just didn't think nothing, you know, But every time they
Speaker 2: got dressed, they was calling him, what do I wear?
Speaker 3: What do I do? And so when the dude didn't
Speaker 3: couldn't make it to Africa, she called Ellie and said,
Speaker 3: what are you doing? And he told her.
Speaker 2: Now, Ellie had designed something for me, some pajama sets
Speaker 2: with Doce Cabano. Before that, I flew him out to
Speaker 2: La to show me these designs. He designed these cold
Speaker 2: sets for me and they were just outstanding. So she
Speaker 2: called him and said, what are you doing? She said,
Speaker 2: he said, I'm off right now. She said, get on
Speaker 2: the plane and come to Africa.
Speaker 3: Now, this is Marjorie. She don't play. So the next
Speaker 3: evening he shows up in Africa. Well, the guy that
Speaker 3: wasn't making it made it. He had the dinner too.
Speaker 3: Okrah moment.
Speaker 2: Now we go to the dinner at this restaurant in Africa,
Speaker 2: this beautiful restaurant called the Saint, and the only seat
Speaker 2: of veil at the table they sitting next to each other.
Speaker 5: This was awkward.
Speaker 3: This was a very awkward moment. Man.
Speaker 5: This was And so.
Speaker 2: One thing led through another and the brother had to
Speaker 2: go home for family reasons. So Ellie stayed. And that
Speaker 2: was the first time the first season of Family Feud.
Speaker 2: He was starting to style me and I was going, yo, man.
Speaker 2: So he says, oh, you're not wearing a pocket square today,
Speaker 2: and I went, what are you nuts?
Speaker 3: No pocket square? Who?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 8: Who?
Speaker 3: You think you dressing and he says, we don't have
Speaker 3: to match. We're going to color block. No, what you
Speaker 3: mean we are f in the match. We're not finna match.
Speaker 3: What No, we're fin the match partner. I'm from Cleveland.
Speaker 2: You know, my gators got to be the same color
Speaker 2: as my hat, and my gators got to match my belt.
Speaker 3: I don't know what you're talking about. These are rules,
Speaker 3: since that's old.
Speaker 2: So he started dressing me and color blocking and doing
Speaker 2: all this stuff. I wasn't really happy with it, but
Speaker 2: you know, when I come out to the dressing room,
Speaker 2: all my sons dad as dope, and I was going, man,
Speaker 2: this ain't that dope. And you know, it got on,
Speaker 2: so it worked out for us. And then I just
Speaker 2: noticed he was super organized. He was he took better,
Speaker 2: took such great care to clothes. And then he started
Speaker 2: showing me stuff. Mister Hervey, look at this, this is
Speaker 2: coming out. This is gonna be the new collection. I
Speaker 2: had never seen this in my life. What do you
Speaker 2: mean new collection?
Speaker 5: Stuff?
Speaker 2: Getting the stoves? That's what I buy, stepanold Richard, a
Speaker 2: little bit of tom Ford and buy some key time.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, this is what we're
Speaker 3: gonna do.
Speaker 2: And so I got the show called Facebook Watch after that,
Speaker 2: and they said, they don't want me to dress like
Speaker 2: I normally dress. Would you wear your regular clothes? Now,
Speaker 2: my regular clothes were different than my image was. So
Speaker 2: he would go in the closet and start putting stuff together.
Speaker 2: Then he just started saying, let me, let me buy
Speaker 2: some stuff and bring it to you. So he would
Speaker 2: go out and shop and bring stuff to the house
Speaker 2: and I would.
Speaker 3: Look at it.
Speaker 2: I was fighting him all the way. He said, no,
Speaker 2: mister Harvey, but you got to try it on. We
Speaker 2: got to have a fitting. I used to hate when
Speaker 2: he said it would have a fitting, and then you
Speaker 2: know he said. Then one day he really pissed me
Speaker 2: off cause the last year we was in Africa.
Speaker 3: He said, mister Harvey, you need to lose some weight.
Speaker 3: You're making these fashions look ridiculous. And I'm went, oh,
Speaker 3: you little skinny some bitch. You're sitting up in here
Speaker 3: looking like a somebnie and you tryna tell him I
Speaker 3: need to lose some weight. You don't tell him I
Speaker 3: need to lose some weight.
Speaker 2: Okay. Cool kind of pissed me off. My wife said
Speaker 2: he might be right that now when your wife say it,
Speaker 2: then you I got to get my ass in the gym.
Speaker 2: We gotta get some of this weight off. And then
Speaker 2: on Facebook Watch two years ago, he started dressing me
Speaker 2: the way we just started on some different stuff. He said,
Speaker 2: mister Harvey, what's the one thing you really want to do.
Speaker 2: I said, my wanma colors back. I used to wear
Speaker 2: colors on Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 3: That's what I miss. He says, But we have to
Speaker 3: change your fit. He started narrowing down the shoulders, narrowing
Speaker 3: down the sleeves. I was against all of this. Change
Speaker 3: your fit, mister Harvey. You now don't have the weight
Speaker 3: you can wear. The clothes are better and y color
Speaker 3: blocking and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: And then it just took off. And it started happening
Speaker 2: a few years ago on Facebook Watch. And then he
Speaker 2: did a special order on uh NFL Honors and that
Speaker 2: took off. And then the guy that would run the
Speaker 2: NFL Honors works for Celebrity Family Feud and call him
Speaker 2: up and said, hey man, you should let Steve Harvey
Speaker 2: dress on Celebrity Family Feud the way he does on
Speaker 2: NFL Honors. So they cause I used to have to
Speaker 2: wear the same suit on celebrity family Feud because they
Speaker 2: didn't know what order he was going, So I just
Speaker 2: wore the same suit. When they did that, I told Ellie,
Speaker 2: do your thing, and then he just started setting stuff out,
Speaker 2: and next thing, you know, he said, mister Harvey, let
Speaker 2: me take your picture. Which is the one thing I
Speaker 2: hate sitting up for a picture. I don't like looking
Speaker 2: at camera and smiling and stuff like that. So he said,
Speaker 2: just look now. So most of my pictures I'm looking
Speaker 2: down or something or got a cigar or something. He
Speaker 2: was taking pictures and then he would start posting it
Speaker 2: and by accident, next thing, you know, man, fashion bomb
Speaker 2: daily and boom, people started picking it up. And I
Speaker 2: was going, what's going on? Because it was never my intention,
Speaker 2: you know, I just wanted to I didn't want to
Speaker 2: hear my wife's mouth no more.
Speaker 3: That's all it was for her to be quiet.
Speaker 2: But this kid, Ellie is such an innovative dude, and
Speaker 2: he understands how I am. And he don't bring stuff
Speaker 2: that don't fit my body because still, all in all, man,
Speaker 2: I'm sixty five, You dig you gotta let me be comfortable.
Speaker 2: Skinny jeans is for skinny people, you know. And then
Speaker 2: we got a couple of rules. I will not wear high.
Speaker 3: Top sneakers with a suit. I'm not gonna do that
Speaker 3: for you. Yeah, I'm not finna do that. I see
Speaker 3: all these basketball players and stuff. I'm not finna do that.
Speaker 3: I'm not wearing a high top sneaker with my suit.
Speaker 2: Now, we got some stuff on a Ricci alligator sneakers
Speaker 2: I had made. I'll wear that with them. But they
Speaker 2: look they look dope, and we get in a lot
Speaker 2: of fights because I don't like a lot of the stuff.
Speaker 2: But to give him credit, he's right ninety percent of
Speaker 2: the time. And but when it comes to fashion, man,
Speaker 2: the dude just said, mister Harvey, I'm gonna let you
Speaker 2: be you. I'm gonna introduce you to these looks. And
Speaker 2: he introduced them.
Speaker 3: Some of it work.
Speaker 2: I put on some stuff and love it, and he'll go,
Speaker 2: you're not wearing that, and I'll be going, well, the
Speaker 2: hell I ain't.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want my name on it. And then
Speaker 3: that's when I know I look like a fool, you know.
Speaker 2: But it turned out to be a great relationship, man,
Speaker 2: And I think it's done a lot for his recognition.
Speaker 3: Really more so than mine because for me.
Speaker 2: It's an it's an added like an accident, but for
Speaker 2: him its career changing because this is truly what he does.
Speaker 2: And I think what's gonna happen is I think this
Speaker 2: dude is gonna be He's gonna end up before it's over.
Speaker 2: He won't always work for me, because that's not how
Speaker 2: I do people. I expect me to be a stepping
Speaker 2: stone for most people like Chad and them cats like that.
Speaker 2: He's gonna be one top fashion designers in the world.
Speaker 2: He he will be what Virgil was. He will be
Speaker 2: what Virgil was not for real when once somebody understand it,
Speaker 2: he will be what Virgil was and Virgil was a
Speaker 2: bad boy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Before we leave, I know you want to talk about
Speaker 4: the NFT project, the NFT project that dropped h Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I got monkeys and how you feel about that, because
Speaker 4: I'm like, I know, you old school, so to be
Speaker 4: in a new world of n f T s, that's
Speaker 4: that's whole new school.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: You just have to listen. Man, tab D bought this
Speaker 3: to me because I'm telling you it was a tough
Speaker 3: sale for me.
Speaker 2: N FT's what are you talking about, mister Harvey, buy
Speaker 2: this monkey, because for me, it's just a little little
Speaker 2: stupid ass face, right. I buy the monkey and next
Speaker 2: thing you know, I'm in the magazine. I'm everywhere and
Speaker 2: I'm sitting up here going to bed.
Speaker 3: Explain this to me because he has to help me.
Speaker 2: But one of the things about being successful, man, is
Speaker 2: you have to surround yourself with people thats smarter than you.
Speaker 2: You hear the saying all the time, if you're the
Speaker 2: smartest person in your group, you need a new group. Dog,
Speaker 2: I got a new group because I don't know everything.
Speaker 2: But these NFT's have been so interesting to me, and
Speaker 2: how to be a part of it and participate it
Speaker 2: and get on the ground floor say it out loud.
Speaker 5: But that's for me.
Speaker 3: If I can own something, that's the deal for me.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna change.
Speaker 2: This new Judge show is like such a jump for me, man,
Speaker 2: because it's like I finally got one.
Speaker 3: I created this ip. You know that there's never been
Speaker 3: a Judge show on primetime television ever ever. Dog, that's original.
Speaker 3: That's an ip. I thought of it.
Speaker 2: It's my show. I'm the star, and I own it.
Speaker 2: Now with the numbers that this show is getting on
Speaker 2: ABC or trust and believe this one right here, This
Speaker 2: Judge Show God willing, as my brothers say in the
Speaker 2: Middle East in Shilah. If this pops off, When this
Speaker 2: pops off as God's will, this will be the one
Speaker 2: that I can ride off in the sunset in This
Speaker 2: will be the biggest thing I've ever done. This is
Speaker 2: complete ownership. I'm the executive producer, I'm the owner, I'm
Speaker 2: the star, the creator. What's going to shock them though,
Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna say it on camera. What's going
Speaker 2: to shock them is the next move I make with
Speaker 2: the Judge Show. It's gonna be paramount. And you can
Speaker 2: look for us on the global level. You can expect
Speaker 2: to see some studios in the Middle East, you can
Speaker 2: expect to see some studios in Africa, and Steve Harvey Global,
Speaker 2: Steve Harvey melt Uae melt Africa. The conversations I'm having
Speaker 2: around the world. Man, by the grace of God, because
Speaker 2: he put all this in my imagination. Brother disgi's the
Speaker 2: limit And all I need for God to do is.
Speaker 5: I just need.
Speaker 3: Thirty nine years. I just need thirty nine more years.
Speaker 3: That's a long time. Thirty nine years a long time.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna live to one oh four and then I'm
Speaker 3: gonna push all the chips up to the window and
Speaker 3: cash it head. But I'm gonna be on the boat
Speaker 3: pepping so hard, I swear it god Man.
Speaker 2: Next time y'all interviewed me to be on the yacht
Speaker 2: in the middle of the Mediterranean, I'm gonna fly y'all
Speaker 2: out for it. We're gonna spend two days out there
Speaker 2: smoking cigars and drinking a leeche martinis. A leeche martinis.
Speaker 3: You ever heard of that? I have a favor.
Speaker 5: That's what you drink, Alchi.
Speaker 3: Martini Martini, y'all. I had one last year. I ain't
Speaker 3: know what it was because I didn't know what the
Speaker 3: leachi was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I never had it.
Speaker 3: And when they showed it to me before they peeled it,
Speaker 3: they had all them spines on it. Anybody eating that
Speaker 3: they peeled it off made a martini? Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 5: Oh man, you had one dog, real pluck.
Speaker 3: Where you get them at New York in the restaurants,
Speaker 3: Oh you in New York, not in Georgia. You get
Speaker 3: a barbecue. My tita down here with a little gravy
Speaker 3: on it because you and Georgia down here. Pardon it's
Speaker 3: some areas down here where gravy is actually a beverage
Speaker 3: gravy shaking that start. No, it's been a pleasure, brother.
Speaker 4: This is actually probably our longest episode, but it just
Speaker 4: seemed like it was just like could last forever because
Speaker 4: it's so much information. And I'm personally appreciative because I
Speaker 4: learned from actually asking questions.
Speaker 3: It's like an audience does so a lot of the questions.
Speaker 4: I was asking you because I personally wanted to know
Speaker 4: myself to not make mistakes and to know how to maneuver.
Speaker 4: And that's what it's really about mentorship. So I appreciate
Speaker 4: you taking the time out of your schedule.
Speaker 3: It was good, man, because I've watched y'all. Y'all deep brothers.
Speaker 2: Man, what y'all trying to do is educate, and the
Speaker 2: more people you help become successful, the more successful you become.
Speaker 3: That's what people don't understand. Man. You got I had
Speaker 3: to take some time to share the knowledge.
Speaker 5: You know. It's like.
Speaker 2: I went to Robert Smith's house and tell you his
Speaker 2: quick story the billionaire, and the story is you got
Speaker 2: thirty minutes. No one gets more than thirty minutes of
Speaker 2: his time period. I was told that I done got
Speaker 2: a jet on a flu to Austin to his house
Speaker 2: cool for thirty minutes. Man, do you know how bad
Speaker 2: I wanted to sit with this man to get a
Speaker 2: jet and go somewhere for thirty minute meeting. Then the
Speaker 2: lady explained to me, at thirty minutes, when I walk up,
Speaker 2: if he does that, that means give him five more minutes.
Speaker 2: At thirty minutes, that lady walked right in that room
Speaker 2: and he did like that. I said, well, I got
Speaker 2: five more minutes, and I sat down.
Speaker 3: We talked. She came back in, he did like that.
Speaker 3: She walked away, She came back again. He did like that.
Speaker 2: She didn't come back no more. I was at Robert
Speaker 2: Smith's house for seven hours. I was leaving his house
Speaker 2: and I asked his the lady who runs it, I said.
Speaker 3: Can I answer your question?
Speaker 2: I said, I was expecting to leave in thirty minutes
Speaker 2: forty minutes. I said, why was I in this man's
Speaker 2: house for seven hours? She said, you know why, Steve,
Speaker 2: She said, cause you the first person that sat with
Speaker 2: him for twenty minutes and ain't asking for no money.
Speaker 3: Mm mm she said. So the question is, why ain't
Speaker 3: you ask the man for no money? Cause he was waiting,
Speaker 3: I said, cause I didn't wanna ask for no money.
Speaker 3: I wanna learn how he made that money. Mm See,
Speaker 3: I wanna be a billionaire. So what I needed from
Speaker 3: him was information. The biggest thing Robert smith taught me
Speaker 3: was to scale up everything you say in Steve, scale it.
Speaker 3: You wanna bring three hundred boards your ranch?
Speaker 2: How do you bring three thousand to your ranch? You
Speaker 2: bring three thousand? How do you bring thirty thousand? You
Speaker 2: wanna train thirty thou lies? How you change three hundred
Speaker 2: thousand lives? He taught me that valuable lesson. And me
Speaker 2: and Robert Smiths we've been friends every since. Man and
Speaker 2: when he gave that money the more house and paid
Speaker 2: off all them loans. Do you know he meets with
Speaker 2: them brothers once a month. He meets with him once
Speaker 2: a month. I was on the yacht for my birthday.
Speaker 2: He called me and says, Steve, need you join this
Speaker 2: call with me on Thursday night. Man, ain't no problem.
Speaker 2: Got on the lunch with him and set in, got
Speaker 2: in on the zoom call with him. He had about
Speaker 2: forty and fifty of them cats on the line set online,
Speaker 2: and all I did was give them information about the
Speaker 2: mindset you have to have for success.
Speaker 3: You got to get your mind wrapped around this thing. Man.
Speaker 2: If you don't get this here, you got to have
Speaker 2: successful thought. Everything I think is big, and everything I
Speaker 2: try to think is positive. And I'm human. I have
Speaker 2: my days, you know, when I have doubts, and I'm human.
Speaker 2: But right after that, whenever I think some working, I
Speaker 2: do two things I start thinking of. I get grateful
Speaker 2: and I immediately go into prayer. I get grateful and
Speaker 2: then I just say, okay, God, I thank you for
Speaker 2: what all you've done for me. Let me just shut
Speaker 2: up and cool out. And then I go into prayer
Speaker 2: and dog. What I have now is because of that.
Speaker 2: It's not because like I'm the funniest cat out there.
Speaker 2: You know, somebody asked me one time, you think you
Speaker 2: that funny.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I know enough people do.
Speaker 2: I got about I got a hundred million people willing
Speaker 2: to give me a dollar. I made a few hundred million.
Speaker 2: Now you might not think I'm funny, but I don't really.
Speaker 3: Need you to make it. Don't do it there's a
Speaker 3: whole lot of people hating on y'all, but you don't
Speaker 3: need that one of Them's a fact, you know the
Speaker 3: fact that I ain't never heard now one of Little
Speaker 3: Baby's records. I wouldn't know a Little Baby song. He
Speaker 3: don't need me asap Rocky. He got Rihanna. What do
Speaker 3: you need me?
Speaker 5: Dog?
Speaker 3: I said, ain't South Rocket, went ain't South Rocket, Ain't
Speaker 3: South rocket A South rocket? Got rihar What he need
Speaker 3: me for? Hell if I know I ain't South Racket.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what he do. I ain't got
Speaker 3: to know none of that, man, Dog I was.
Speaker 2: I was that dumb ass dude in nineteen seventy seven
Speaker 2: when hip hop hippity hop, when that came out.
Speaker 3: It was my last year of college. I heard that song.
Speaker 3: I was at a dance.
Speaker 2: I said, Man, this, this shit ain't gonna last. I
Speaker 2: don't know what is hip hop. This ain't gonna last.
Speaker 2: This will never make it.
Speaker 3: They ain't even singing. It's no way this will make it.
Speaker 3: I bought in my life, I can. I can tell
Speaker 3: you the hip hop albums I bought.
Speaker 2: I bought All Eyes on Me by Tupac, I bought
Speaker 2: Death certificate by ice Q.
Speaker 3: I bought jay Z's Blueprint. I bought P. D. Pablo's
Speaker 3: Diary of a Center. Interesting. Interesting personally, that's one of
Speaker 3: my favorite. You can't talk to me.
Speaker 5: You was going it was, yeah, I was class classic
Speaker 5: class tupac J.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it felt. I know it was like y'all because
Speaker 3: Dolly shut up turning around classic country ass.
Speaker 2: And then that song he got, I was scraping up,
Speaker 2: changeing an ass tray, two cigarettes, not a dime to
Speaker 2: my name.
Speaker 3: But man, it's a song about gratitude. It's a song
Speaker 3: about man.
Speaker 2: Where he it was its darkest moments and he just
Speaker 2: didn't know how he was gonna make it. But when
Speaker 2: he said I was down to a cigarette, scraping up,
Speaker 2: changing the ass tray, that was me.
Speaker 3: I played that song in my dress to the room
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 5: P D.
Speaker 3: Poblo Diary of a Center. They're gonna quit talking to me.
Speaker 3: I played that for my son. My son said, who
Speaker 3: is this country ass to I'm sitting here. I'm shocked.
Speaker 3: You don't know. Pdy Poplo went to prison, came out.
Speaker 3: I told y'all, everybody have it, but y'all wouldn't listen
Speaker 3: to me. Now you got your see it popping off,
Speaker 3: got you in the club, dancing your ass, salt, shake
Speaker 3: it down, shake it down. Come on, man, I don't
Speaker 3: even know y'all sitting up here to him. Y'all supposed
Speaker 3: to be here, pop Foul those.
Speaker 6: Number five though it's number five, that's four, it's about five.
Speaker 2: The other album Okay, Petie Poplot, Blueprint Death Certificate, All.
Speaker 3: Ees on Me, All Eyes on Me, and uh uh
Speaker 3: out Cast speaker Box.
Speaker 2: Think about blow oh yeah, that that double album that
Speaker 2: was Cold. That was cold, the coldest album that seeing there.
Speaker 2: When they wrote, uh, ain't nobody dops me, I'm just
Speaker 2: so fresh and clean like that video like Key Key Mine,
Speaker 2: like show Time at the Apollo minus the Key Key Sheppard.
Speaker 2: When they released that, they came to the beat in
Speaker 2: LA and I played it on my radio station and
Speaker 2: a big boy say wrote this for you, huh, And
Speaker 2: he played that line, Ain't nobody dopsh me, I'm just
Speaker 2: so fresh and clean like show Time at the Apollo
Speaker 2: minus the Key Key Sheppard?
Speaker 3: Well, who else out there? Ain't nobody enough for me?
Speaker 3: After that? You couldn't say shit to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's number one, number one selling hip hop album
Speaker 5: of all time cause of me, number yes, number one reason.
Speaker 3: No, I'll kid you, not them the five albums I bought,
Speaker 3: But hip hop don't need me.
Speaker 2: Look how many albums. It's the biggest music genre ever
Speaker 2: created in the world. And Steve Harvey ain't about but
Speaker 2: five of the albums what they need me for.
Speaker 3: So when people ask me, man, you think you the funniest,
Speaker 3: I don't need you to think I'm funny man, you
Speaker 3: ain't even for you. Wasn't the funniest ones in the King.
Speaker 3: I ain't have to be. I was on the Kings.
Speaker 3: You take me off, and it ain't no kings. You
Speaker 3: take Bernie off. Ain't no kings.
Speaker 2: You take said off the m See like if I had,
Speaker 2: you ain't asked me this. But that's pride right there.
Speaker 2: That's the reason if I had a mount Rushmore comedy.
Speaker 2: First of all, the trial is a mountain by hisself.
Speaker 3: He don't. He don't.
Speaker 2: You can't put him on this rock. He's a chisel,
Speaker 2: whole plateau rock taller than the mount.
Speaker 3: Eddie Murphy gets a plaque alone.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, legend, Eddie get a whole plaque by himself.
Speaker 2: You can't touch Eddie when he comes to comedy who
Speaker 2: Delirious Raw and then Satnday Night Live, but eyes three
Speaker 2: times a maid day, My nu news Dog Buck Dog?
Speaker 3: Are you talking about somebody sitting there on Saturday Night
Speaker 3: Live crying? I'm talking about Dog.
Speaker 2: I would go home and cry watching Buck Wheaton, Velvet Jones,
Speaker 2: the Pimp and all this.
Speaker 3: Hell. Eddie got a rock by hisself for me, that
Speaker 3: Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 6: That was for Outside of that, we got Defoe Ye,
Speaker 6: Chris Rock Okay, okay, legend, Dave Chappelle, Yes, legend.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: Now it's hard because I know.
Speaker 2: I know some things people don't know. Bill Cosby was
Speaker 2: the most prolific stand up of all time twenty comedy albums.
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody done that?
Speaker 3: Dog?
Speaker 2: This dude right here was masterful. But if you say
Speaker 2: something about Bill, anybody, how could you like? People ask me, all,
Speaker 2: how could you be friends with Bill Callsby?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Hell, I ain't no.
Speaker 2: Well here, you know, you know they took all this
Speaker 2: money from Bill, caused me, took his names off all
Speaker 2: these buildings.
Speaker 3: Ain't nobody gave that money back? Though? You know? Why
Speaker 3: are you what?
Speaker 6: He was? So?
Speaker 2: I would want to put him there? But if I
Speaker 2: had to put the New School in there, it had
Speaker 2: to be Kevin Hard.
Speaker 5: So the that's the fourth, that's the three three.
Speaker 6: Oh so we're not putting, Okay, So we got three,
Speaker 6: got one more start.
Speaker 2: And one more the last spot. The Kings of Comedy
Speaker 2: is a plaque together altogether. Yes, sir, My laws is
Speaker 2: the most gift. My loss is the most What if
Speaker 2: I said about Martin my Lawns is the best mimicker
Speaker 2: I've ever been around in my life.
Speaker 3: What he did on death jam was unthinkable.
Speaker 2: He's the best mimicker, the most talented, versatile stand up
Speaker 2: ever born on this planet.
Speaker 3: Which Jamie four Jamie Fox another one. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 3: but we can't put everybody on this round.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: I'm impartial because I'm one of the Kings, but I
Speaker 2: know what the Kings did for black comedy.
Speaker 3: I know what it was. Man.
Speaker 2: It launched you can ask Kevin. It launched a Kevin Hart.
Speaker 2: There's no Cat Williams. There's no Kevin, There's no there's
Speaker 2: no none of these dudes. Man Earthquake. Who is a
Speaker 2: bad boy?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Bill Bellamy A Dale gives Monique Samora uh Man, that
Speaker 2: Teddy carp Into, Damon Ways. It's some boys, j Anthony
Speaker 2: Brown Man the first night, the first week of Death
Speaker 2: Jail on the stage in one night was Martin Lawrens,
Speaker 2: All of the Waynes Broughts, Jamie Fox, Bill Bellamy, Bernie
Speaker 2: mack Sheryl Underwood, Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, j Anthony Brown,
Speaker 2: Teddy carp Into, a Dale Givings Dog. That stage was
Speaker 2: so no genre, bread more still living talented people than
Speaker 2: death Jail.
Speaker 5: Chause Tucker too was on it.
Speaker 3: Chris Tucker was on that stage. This boy. See you
Speaker 3: can't that that that genre right.
Speaker 2: There was nothing else but that Mount Rushmore for me
Speaker 2: because I know what the Kings was.
Speaker 3: Man, it was nice, the est grossing. It's just so
Speaker 3: it's something that ain't. Ain't nobody finna do that. You
Speaker 3: can get four Like. I love these boys at eighty
Speaker 3: five South.
Speaker 2: But they doing something, man, I never thought would be done.
Speaker 2: That's why I gotta take my hat off to him,
Speaker 2: because I don't know how they did this. Man.
Speaker 3: They actually go on stage in the living room setting
Speaker 3: and sit around and talk and sell out and the
Speaker 3: ship is funny. They they've taken improv comedy to a
Speaker 3: whole nother level, Like a lot of conversations, they're different.
Speaker 3: We sat we did that show, and just after the
Speaker 3: show was just like, how did they just do that?
Speaker 5: It's so talented and you don't realize it, like as
Speaker 5: this happenue?
Speaker 3: Does this happen? I didn't think that could work. I
Speaker 3: tried improv comedy. I can't do it.
Speaker 2: And then I don't understand dividing the check. That's what
Speaker 2: always through me. We're gonna get this check and we're
Speaker 2: gonna split it. Now, I gotta do this myself. But
Speaker 2: eighty five self has came along Chico and Man Seeing
Speaker 2: and DC and them boys, and they special.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: They changed the way comedy could be done. So my
Speaker 2: hat's off to them young boys right there, man, because
Speaker 2: I just I didn't think it could work. But once again,
Speaker 2: it wasn't in my imagination.
Speaker 3: It was in theirs. So that's my view, man. So
Speaker 3: you have to write your own jokes to be top
Speaker 3: tier or does that not mat Yeah?
Speaker 2: But then you know, like the like Chapelle and Rock
Speaker 2: you know they had writers, you know, but they doing
Speaker 2: some high level stuff. It's it's time consuming. Like if
Speaker 2: I went back, I'd have to go that route. I
Speaker 2: spent my whole career writing my own. I bought two
Speaker 2: jokes in thirty years, he said, bought them, bought two
Speaker 2: jokes writers, Yeah, off of a writer. I bought a
Speaker 2: funeral joke from Prescott Comedian out of Memphis. I bought
Speaker 2: a funeral joke from Prescott, and I bought something else
Speaker 2: from Prescott. I don't remember that joke, but I bought
Speaker 2: it and then didn't use it. Right, But that funeral
Speaker 2: joke that I never put on tape one of the
Speaker 2: funniest pieces I've ever gotten. It was just, you know,
Speaker 2: going to a black funeral and you know, and then
Speaker 2: I you know, like you know, funeral homes, like back
Speaker 2: in the day we lived in the hood, you had
Speaker 2: to take the body to the funeral home. They didn't
Speaker 2: do pickups.
Speaker 3: So my uncle died and we came home and he
Speaker 3: was dead, and we had to take him to the
Speaker 3: funeral home.
Speaker 2: Now, me and my nephew, we tend and my mom
Speaker 2: and daddy in the front, and they propped my uncle
Speaker 2: up in the back, sitting him up, and they put
Speaker 2: us on each side so he wouldn't fall over. Ye know,
Speaker 2: how fucking traumatized. I was we make a left turn.
Speaker 3: This he oon't me, He don't mean Mama helled me.
Speaker 3: You shut up and leave my brother quick pushing him.
Speaker 3: You know you're how hard it is to ride with
Speaker 3: your first dead person and you and you and your
Speaker 3: brother is bookends trying to prop his ass up.
Speaker 5: Brother.
Speaker 3: Listen to me, you need therapy after that ship. You
Speaker 3: got to go to therapy.
Speaker 2: And now I wrote a whole joke about that and
Speaker 2: taking him up there and took the suit down there
Speaker 2: for the funeral director to dress him in and everything.
Speaker 2: We get to the funeral and we opened up the
Speaker 2: cask and and my uncle ain't got the suit on.
Speaker 2: He got on a Michael Jordan's jog and suit with
Speaker 2: number two and three of the director to shoot. I
Speaker 2: used to I had wrote this ship. That ship was
Speaker 2: one of the greatest jokes. I never put that on tape, man,
Speaker 2: but that was one. If I came back, I had
Speaker 2: to release.
Speaker 3: That n f T release it as an FT.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the first, one of the first.
Speaker 6: Actually, uh endorse and speak about Solano as to media.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's behind that. Man. You explain how that
Speaker 3: would work, how you would put it as an NFT.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I first I would do it like as
Speaker 6: a I would record it right, and then making a
Speaker 6: digital product and make it exclusive to the people who
Speaker 6: bought maybe create artwork around it and make it exclusive
Speaker 6: to the people. And then after they bought it, perhaps
Speaker 6: make it one night only where you actually perform.
Speaker 5: If they have the NFT, they get a whole big
Speaker 5: business around it.
Speaker 3: They buy it in crypto, they can resell it. Every
Speaker 3: time they resell it, you get percentage on it. Percentage
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 5: To me, it's like, wait, that's it, man.
Speaker 3: You know how much of that stuff I got? Hey, man,
Speaker 3: do you know I have footage? I have at least
Speaker 3: sixteen hours of never recorded. I'm talking about because I
Speaker 3: when I did my seven specials man and and and
Speaker 3: and feature films and for stand up, I only picked
Speaker 3: the best hour ten. I've got some stuff that never
Speaker 3: got recorded. The funeral joke to Jerry spring a bit,
Speaker 3: the waffle house joke. I got some shit, man, that
Speaker 3: was so gut.
Speaker 2: Wrench and funny. Man, I just haven't had time to
Speaker 2: go through all of it. I got a lot of
Speaker 2: the footage, but this this'll be a time for it.
Speaker 5: I mean I'm gonna look up with.
Speaker 3: Y'all and do something.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 3: I wanna do a business venture with y'all too.
Speaker 5: Let's do it. Do it.
Speaker 2: Y'all gotta get with the bad and y'all gotta come
Speaker 2: up with the idea and we got to do the
Speaker 2: three of us got to do a business venture together
Speaker 2: and launch it. Take my radio show, use it as
Speaker 2: the nucleus to promote, and then whatever social media I got,
Speaker 2: and then we need to get out there and we can.
Speaker 3: Do something big. Man. We can promote on our side too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: y'all y'all strong.
Speaker 2: Seeing if whatever y'all trying to do in Africa, if
Speaker 2: y'all trying to go high of that work I got.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll talk about that. We got some investment opportunities
Speaker 5: out there.
Speaker 3: I got a studio for you in Abu Dhabi's me
Speaker 3: know to dip and I'm talking about where you can go. Man.
Speaker 2: Like when you go to Abu Dhabi, man, you won't
Speaker 2: even believe it. You've never been nowhere on earth like this.
Speaker 2: You you you know what it's like to walk outside
Speaker 2: and not have to look around.
Speaker 4: That's like I was with Singapore and Singapore that was
Speaker 4: like the most immaculate place that I've been to, Like
Speaker 4: it was just no poverty, nothing on it stet looked
Speaker 4: like we was in the future.
Speaker 3: Like it was like that was just like I ain't
Speaker 3: never been there. Oh it's crazy.
Speaker 4: You know when you go on the plane, so I
Speaker 4: was coming from Hong Kong, and when you go on
Speaker 4: the plane, you know how to give you those things
Speaker 4: to read, but nobody ever really reads it, Like I
Speaker 4: actually read it this time it said drug trafficking of
Speaker 4: any kind is punishable by death. Yeah, So then I
Speaker 4: get there and then my friend who he's with, his
Speaker 4: cousin actually was living out there, so she was telling
Speaker 4: us like there's no drugs, like they're serious about that,
Speaker 4: really no drugs, Like there's no drugs out there. But
Speaker 4: it was like, I'm like, because it's like one of
Speaker 4: the most expensive places to live, and she was like yeah,
Speaker 4: but everybody works. And she's like even like low income housing,
Speaker 4: it's like, are just a regular apartment, Like there's no poverty,
Speaker 4: there's no ghettos, there's no crime, there's no none of that.
Speaker 3: And it looked like we was in the future. What
Speaker 3: language is over there?
Speaker 4: Well, everybody spoke English because really, yeah, I forget what
Speaker 4: it like native language is now.
Speaker 3: Somebody was telling me to go to Singapore, but I
Speaker 3: kept thinking.
Speaker 5: The four principle.
Speaker 6: We can't leave without talking about I think, which is
Speaker 6: probably the sixth principle, and that's the give back. Let's
Speaker 6: talk about your foundation, the philanthropy work that you're doing well.
Speaker 2: I've been doing this for quite some time, Steve and
Speaker 2: Marjora Harvey Foundation. But it's about to take a new turn.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I'm in the process of closing a deal to buy
Speaker 2: Rock Ranch. And Rock Ranch is owned by.
Speaker 3: Chick fil A right now, and it's sixteen hundred acres.
Speaker 3: Where is it that just south of here.
Speaker 2: It's about an hour and a half from here in
Speaker 2: is it Rock, Georgia, And it's called the Rock Ranch
Speaker 2: and it's one thousand, six hundred acres. I'm gonna buy
Speaker 2: it myself, donated to my foundation because I don't want
Speaker 2: my foundation to have to take that type of hit.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of money to buy, but this is
Speaker 2: going to give me a chance to do what Robert
Speaker 2: Smith taught me to do, was to scale up. And
Speaker 2: so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna build permanent
Speaker 2: housing on it. Because right now, when I go down there,
Speaker 2: I gotta spend hundreds of thousands on tents for the
Speaker 2: boys to sleep in. I gotta I gotta have a
Speaker 2: toilet's body in and showers body in, and uh. I
Speaker 2: just want to change it and really really go all
Speaker 2: out with it. We're gonna build sleeping for seven hundred kids,
Speaker 2: boys and girls with indoor uh toilets and showers for everybody.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a performing arts center that seats seven
Speaker 2: hundred with theater seating in it to show movies and
Speaker 2: do presentations for corporate getaways. I'm gonna build about fifteen
Speaker 2: tiny houses on it for corporate execus getaways to come
Speaker 2: down there. I've got fishing ponds all over the place.
Speaker 2: I got rock climbing, zip lining. I'm gonna open up
Speaker 2: the STEM center. Robert Smith has committed to opening that
Speaker 2: for me. I'm gonna open up a STEM coding center
Speaker 2: to teach coding to young All of this for underprivileged kids.
Speaker 2: If your child got money, that ain't who I'm working with.
Speaker 2: I work for people who can't afford it.
Speaker 3: Man. I'm taking all underprivileged kids. That that's all.
Speaker 2: I'm taking the ones people don't thank God a shot
Speaker 2: that was me. I'm gonna I'm claiming it. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: open up the Floyd Mayweather boxing facility down there, and
Speaker 2: he mentioned it to.
Speaker 3: Floyd, said.
Speaker 2: He ain't had a conversation with Floyd Mayweather bought it.
Speaker 2: But here a good brother. Every time we see each other,
Speaker 2: we cordial.
Speaker 3: But I love his dude. Al Hayman. He a Cleveland boy.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go to Floyd and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask him to build a gym for these boys.
Speaker 3: I'm just putting it out there. I claim.
Speaker 2: I'm building the Tyler Perry Performing Arts Center, the Robert
Speaker 2: Smith Coding Center. I want to build it. Here's another
Speaker 2: one that I'm putting out there. I'm gonna build the
Speaker 2: Shaquille O'Neil Gymnasium. Shaquille is a good brother man, just
Speaker 2: a good brother man. And I like being affiliated with
Speaker 2: people as good dudes. Man that I know got their
Speaker 2: heart in the right place.
Speaker 3: You know it.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 3: I just claim stuff like that, you know.
Speaker 2: But if they understand that I don't put my money
Speaker 2: in at these cats is willing to give. They have
Speaker 2: a lot of give back spirit in them, you know,
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna open up Ah. I'm gonna put a
Speaker 2: track down there. I'm gonna open up a gardening facility.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna sell flowers. I'm gonna take two hundred acres
Speaker 2: and grow flowers down there and raise honey with the bees.
Speaker 3: And I'm gonna open up farming.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna find me an African American farmer that got
Speaker 2: hit during the pandemic and lost they farm. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: give him farming acreage down there, a few hundred acres,
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna pay him to grow organic vegetables.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna feed the community and whoever needs vegetables that
Speaker 2: live in that area, I'm gonna just feed them for
Speaker 2: free and let his brother earn a living from farming.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna open up a dining hall. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have facility there. When I'm not using it, i can
Speaker 2: rent it out for corporate events and for weddings and
Speaker 2: things like that. I'm also gonna open up the gym
Speaker 2: and create it in a way where if HBCUs wanna
Speaker 2: come down there and have camps, they can come down
Speaker 2: there doing as long as it's not summer and hold camps,
Speaker 2: training facilities, and I'm gonna have a Division one workouts
Speaker 2: center built for football teams who wanna come down there.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to the NFL and get them build
Speaker 2: me a football field with astro turf, and I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go to the NBA. If Shaq don't come through, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go to the NBA. I'm gonna have them build
Speaker 2: me a gym. If they don't do it, I'll do
Speaker 2: it myself. Don't make me no difference. I hope they do,
Speaker 2: but it don't matter to me. I'm not in the
Speaker 2: beg business. I'll ask you, but I won't beg you.
Speaker 2: And then that's what God don't put on my heart.
Speaker 2: So that's what we're going with philanthropy and my wife's
Speaker 2: goal and our goal is to send ten thousand young
Speaker 2: people to college full paid scholarships.
Speaker 3: We're on our way. We've done a hundred or so
Speaker 3: right now, but we're a long way from ten thousand.
Speaker 3: But that's the goal. I'll say this. We definitely want
Speaker 3: to help in any way that we can help in that.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna have y'all come down there and teach
Speaker 3: a course. Yeah, for sure, do it for sure. That's
Speaker 3: what I want y'all to do. Gotta be dope. We
Speaker 3: definitely do that. So thank you man. Yeah, Steve, it's
Speaker 3: been a pleasure with my brother. Been real Black. Appreciate
Speaker 3: you mine. I appreciate you man. I appreciate y'all. Let
Speaker 3: me let me speak like this. Most people don't come
Speaker 3: at me like this. I don't get to say these
Speaker 3: types of things, So I appreciate it, app I appreciate
Speaker 3: you more. Thank you guys for rocking with it.
Speaker 6: Before we go, we got to give thanks again to
Speaker 6: be make you that this happened, shouting the Cole All Black.
Speaker 5: Effect family for also making sure that this took place.
Speaker 5: So thank y'all.
Speaker 4: And I want to highlight his he's talking about it,
Speaker 4: but I think it's important to really say this on camera.
Speaker 4: So he talked about his lawyer, He talked about his stylust,
Speaker 4: He talked about TVD who helps him out a lot
Speaker 4: of financial issues. And they're all young black men and
Speaker 4: that's important too. Like he has his staff and a
Speaker 4: team of black professionals. He didn't have to compromise the
Speaker 4: entire A lot of time, we think we have to
Speaker 4: compromise the integrity. If we hired somebody black, he didn't
Speaker 4: compromise the integrity. People are extremely highly qualified, and that's
Speaker 4: something to highlight. It's like like Lebron you know different
Speaker 4: things that nature, but it's always good to see, you know,
Speaker 4: a team of black people, especially black men, working together.
Speaker 3: And they qualified too.
Speaker 2: Because when I put them boys in the room, I
Speaker 2: ain't got to be in there because I know they're
Speaker 2: gonna handle bits because they're smart and you ain't gonna
Speaker 2: run nothing by them. Doog, I ain't even worried about it.
Speaker 2: You can come in there. These cats got some minds
Speaker 2: on them. And like you say, I didn't hire black
Speaker 2: people that have to compromise. No, man, I'm actually I actually,
Speaker 2: I actually have an edge because to tell you what
Speaker 2: else it gives me, Man, gives me a comfort level.
Speaker 2: Cause you know, man, sometimes, Man, when you out here
Speaker 2: in this world as an hour for mail, it's lonely
Speaker 2: out here. You're out here operating with people that don't
Speaker 2: look like you, talk like you. Some of them don't
Speaker 2: want to really be bothered with you, but you had
Speaker 2: ability to make money, so they tolerate you.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 2: When I'm home and I'm sitting around my guys. I
Speaker 2: want the comfort level. I want to be able to
Speaker 2: talk like I talk, say what I say now. If
Speaker 2: I far off a word that ain't politically correct, ain't
Speaker 2: nobody wincing.
Speaker 3: Writing me up? Get then out? No paperwork? Hey dog,
Speaker 3: I don't want to say nothing. And all of a
Speaker 3: sudden I see somebody filling out paperwork work Okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And we have a lot of meanings in my house
Speaker 3: where HR don't apply.
Speaker 4: No, it's a pleasure of my brother. Thank you guys
Speaker 4: for rocking with us. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 3: Peace, peace, my graduates from my school being forced bad.
Speaker 3: Drop Bag Drop Mike, drop Bag Drop.
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