WEBVTT - "Code Switching Expert" with Larry Owens 0:00:01.240 --> 0:00:05.920 I, Oh, my god, what a beautiful, beautiful day? 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:07.680 Is it? Yes, it's glorious. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.600 I just looked out the side. I haven't been out yet. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.080 It's it's great. This is my this is my second 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.160 time being out, but I'm just really excited to be Okay, 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:15.600 what was. 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:17.040 The first time, because it sounds like you want to. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:18.920 Talk about it, you know, and just went to the gym, 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.160 you know, doing what I can. I'm just learning from 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.880 my friends. What are you doing at the gym today? 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.520 I did, I did arms, I did our arms, worked 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.160 on my tricep. Yesterday we did legs. I had to 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.920 do what's that bar? The machine that you have, the 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.479 bar that you do the squats on sis. I can 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.080 see your panties. I don't know what that machine is. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.919 I can see right up your skirt. You can okay, Well, yeah, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.440 I was using the machine that you put the weights 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.080 on the side of the the the dumbbell or whatever, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:49.319 and then you bring it down. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.040 Are you trying to say squats? I'm trying to say 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:51.840 you were doing squat. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.640 I was doing squats, but I was doing assisted squats 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.160 with that with that machine. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.680 Okay, yeah, nobody listening, those are talking Okay, yeah, okay, great, 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.600 so legs, arms, but shoulders yeah all that. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:03.600 Head, shoulders these and tozi. 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:04.120 Yes. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.080 So do you feel strong? 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.360 No, I have absolutely no core. I have to work 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.399 on our core strength. It's one of my weaknesses, which 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:13.160 is a real thing. 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:14.000 Yeah, I believe that. 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:17.160 Yeah, I mean I don't work out. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:17.880 Yeah, I know. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.320 It's in your blood to work out, though, like your sister. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.840 Your family is very athletic. Yeah, your your mother runs 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.640 the track in the morning. Yeah, in address shoe, Yeah, 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.720 in a dressed in a dress shoe, Yeah, in a loafer. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.560 I don't know, that's just not in my blood to 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:39.000 do that. 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.240 So I'm just I'm forcing myself or your girlfriend is 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:42.600 forcing you. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.119 Don't do that. Sis, don't act like she's not making Wow, Maie. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.120 I thought there's just some things that we could just 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:48.280 keep amongst yourself. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.280 You talk about it in your instant stories, that public knowledge. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.040 That's not everybody, but listen to the podcast also watch 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:58.040 your instant stories. Not everybody though it's two different platforms. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:01:59.480 Sis. Well, now the. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.760 Rest of the people who didn't know, they watch those 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:03.480 instant stories. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.000 She's so honest and she's so hurt. Yeah, she's like, 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.320 I look like this regularly, So why do I need 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:10.160 to go to the gym? Oh? 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:11.640 The haters were upset. 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.320 They were in my in my inbox, like, well, not 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.040 everybody is blessed like you. And I said, well, I'm sorry, 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.200 I'm sorry for their God. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.000 But my God, my God always provides. God. 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:26.280 My God comes true, comes true through like these ablines. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:32.480 Uh huh City. That sounds like a rooster. That's not 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:38.720 I said, oh, and you said that's not. That's the 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.280 new one. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:44.120 That's the new CARDI b right there. What were you 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.160 an expert in today this week? An expert in this week? 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:48.480 Get into it? 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.519 I don't know, dealing with negative energy? 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.920 Oh you sound like a white woman. Yeah, I know, 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:54.359 I've been. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.079 I've been dealing with you know, I feel like I've 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.160 been going now and people have been just giving me 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.000 like the side eye and stuff like that, and I 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.400 just don't understand. But I do understand because I'm actually 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.480 glowing from within. 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.760 Is this a new wig because it looks longer a 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:09.160 little bit. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:09.520 No. 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.919 No, we went to Goods and Biscuits with it. No, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.600 I know nothing. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.840 This is like your look, dude, thanks friend, you go 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:19.600 when you go to the academy awards. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.240 You do this, Well, it's gonna be real. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.520 It's gonna be real human, Magnolian or what No, Mangolian, Mongolian. Yeah, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:31.359 it's gonna be Mangolian, Malaysian, chile Chilean, Virgin, Chilean, I'm 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:36.840 dol Vietnamese in the bag. Yeah, just a little Cambodian 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.119 bubbles and I'm gonna have I'm gonna have a name 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.520 for her and everything. I'm just saying, it's good. I 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.040 see you in like a red maybe off the shoulder. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.560 I don't know how you how you'll feel about your shoulders? Well, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.880 if I keep working out. I actually I'm waiting for 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.200 your sister's boot camp to come through. Yeah, my sister's 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.760 boot camp starts when the first weekend of June. We're 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.520 not gonna be here, Okay, so oh so it's this weekend. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:03:59.400 I think it's this weekend. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.240 This is track. Well, maybe it's the following weekend. I 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:03.000 don't know. Well, I'll have her push your back so 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.760 we could be at the art girl Who Camp. 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.440 Yeah, but I've been I've been dealing with a little 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.760 bit of hate and it's uh, how so, well, you 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.480 know I got this this Clusterfest thing, and I've been 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.960 going to a couple of shows and comedians have just 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:18.479 been like paying me dirt, like just not giving me 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:23.080 open arms like they usually do. And it's like, all right, well, 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.920 aren't we all here to get something? Like why would 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.400 you be mad at somebody getting something? Would you want 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.440 them to do the same to you. We're all working 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.800 towards something. It's not that they would want them to 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.560 do the same to them, it's they're jealous. Jealousy is 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:38.719 is real, Like you got it and they want it, 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.120 and they're like, well, why are you here in my 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.160 face at this mic with me? If you're better than us? No, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.240 but I don't think I'm better. I'm still happy, but 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.400 you are. Well, my bank account does not, I mean, 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.279 feel the same way equal everybody's poor. Yeah, you're funnier 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.040 than them. No, I mean when Marie, when you got 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.000 just for laughs, I feel like, I bet I'm funnier 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:58.920 than everybody in the room. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.000 You going to Montreal to do coming Baby? 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.159 I feel like everybody was man excited for you and 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.440 happy about it, and like I was happy about it. 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.479 I don't know if everybody was mad excited. I wasn't 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.400 really paying attention to how everybody else felt. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.280 When I got just for laughs, I literally was like, 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.960 I'm gonna go, I'm gonna kill it, I'm gonna come back, 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.520 I'm gonna become a star. And then I'm not. You are, 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.839 but I'm not, And so my back account doesn't reflect. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.760 It does not reflect at all, like my Angelina Jolie's status. 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:31.560 But yeah, you know, I don't even have Catherine Heigel money. Sis, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.240 that's how small the funds are. It's so sad, so small. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.200 We're working towards it though. Yes, yes, we're going to 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.040 San Francisco this weekend. It's gonna be cute, yes, But 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.440 I don't. I wasn't thinking about how people were reacting 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.800 to me getting just for laps at all. And you know, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.800 I'm oblivious to these white comedians. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:52.000 I wasn't. Yeah, I have no idea. I'm assuming that 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.000 they were all bitter. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.960 I'm assuming everybody was like, oh here comes how sexy 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.520 loud ass, yes, feeling the show. 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:01.760 Well. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.039 I had a conversation with a comedian and he was 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.560 just like, oh, well, the industry always takes care of 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.240 the beautiful people and the gaze and all that other stuff. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.800 So the gazey the gay wave is like, he. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.360 Was, like, there was no straight uh, straight black men 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.960 on that list for cluster fests. Well, I said, but 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.360 you're all on. You're on every other list though. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.000 Take it up with management. It has nothing to do 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:25.320 with me. 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.600 But that's not true. I mean, you guys are in 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.880 lists always. There's always straight black men. Why are you 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.279 mad at pretty people in the gays? You should be 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.160 mad at the straight white man, the straight white, unfunny 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:39.039 white woman. 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.039 Okay, where's all the anger for the white female comic 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:44.839 that talks about sucking dick for twenty minutes? 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.280 Where's the aa? But that's her, that's her truth. Let 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.960 her speak in her truth. I let her have that. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.560 Where's the anger for the white female comics that talk 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.400 about the Civil War on stage? 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:58.720 Where's that? Where's that? Anyway? Yeah, how you're a black man? 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.080 You mad at me because I got something like I'm 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.240 just getting my foot in the door about That's. 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.159 What I That's what I was saying. 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.159 I was like, and don't act like I don't work 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.440 every fucking night. I'll go to every every silly, messy 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.680 show possible to get up and do better. And like 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.440 I go to shows, and even if I don't have 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.320 the strongest tet, audience members come up to me and 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.000 be like, where are you gonna be next? Like because 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:26.240 they're you're likable. Okay, you know what, Let's let's switch 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:27.240 to my expertise. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.200 Expertise. You're working me up. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.720 What's your expertise? Honestly, I wasn't even really prepared. You're ready, though, 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.840 you're ready. Let me tell you what my expertise was 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.440 this week. My expertise was being a good host. 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.280 Okay, this week, because like we know we're coming in 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.080 on this is the week number three. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.000 Stilled out a mouth in my house. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.040 Still, I thought, you said, you haven't seen him in days. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.720 So we went out on Saturday. He must have went 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:59.400 out of town. Uh, So we went to We were 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.080 out on Saturday night and I came home and I 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.320 had like because I took an edible before we went out, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:08.160 and I left a little cookie on my dresser. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.160 And I got home and I was like, this was 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.640 this hole? Here was there? And I was like, oh wait, 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.160 did the mouse get into this? 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.040 And then I look at my shade butter that was 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:18.880 next to the cookie. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:23.200 It was little footprints in my shape butter I put on. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:28.720 My face on my skin moisturizing product. The mouse had 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.480 jumped into that like shot shot slide, like did did 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:36.280 the electric slide in my shade butter and then ate 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.200 the edible or maybe had the edible and then jumped 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:39.400 into the shape butter, I don't know. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.920 I think and then got into the shape because when 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:42.880 you get high, you're like. 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.559 Oh, I just want to roll around some shit. I 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:46.640 hope he died. I hope he died. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.960 I mean was expensive, but I hope that mouse got 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.439 so high that he jumped off like the roof of 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:52.640 his No. 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.200 You haven't seen him because he's lit. He's somewhere in 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.000 the corner, like sleeping. He's got to sleep. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.880 This edible off is he ate it on Sadday And 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.320 I had to throw the edible in the trashes. I 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.720 was like, this is It was something that Christina Galston 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.959 had given me that I know was gonna be super cute. 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:07.760 Damn. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.480 And I was like, can I cut around the mouse? No, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.160 you can't actually like drugs that much. 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.240 I have to throw this. I will get you another edible. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:16.600 Friend. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.320 Well, we're gonna be in San Francisco. Weed is legal, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.840 so we're gonna haveeit some dispensary. Yes, well, Adrie and 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:23.400 I and I have already discussed it. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:25.720 Good good girl friend and I. Y'all have fun. Can 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.640 find all the weed, do all the things vapes, vape, 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:29.280 vape it up. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.480 Put weed in my butt? Sis Justice, Wow, you're. 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.560 Gonna do a weed bump, weed in my butt, a 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.040 butt bump, weed bump bump. 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.800 I'm great, speaking of weed bump umps, speaking of bumps. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:47.800 Our guess today is a hilarious comic, super entertaining. He's 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.640 a writer, okay, he's a singer, singer at all. He 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:56.400 sangs okay, not like Jennet Jackson sing, but like Jennifer 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:57.040 Hudson sang. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.400 Yes said the full voice, the full foat. And he's 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.960 an actor Okay, Sydney Andrew our guest give it up 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:12.440 for our code switching expert Larry Owens. Hey, hey, mo 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:19.000 ell no, it's me the mousefuck but I didn't go 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.960 nowhere and guess what I ask because that's shake got me. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:29.720 Look my god, that mouse is moisturized and should have Larry. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.760 Yeah, I'm done. That's my character work. Thank you, Larry. 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.880 Slap it up, Larry. 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.480 I know I've been like listening for weeks waiting to 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.080 come on and trol you about the mouse. 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.360 I know you were saying this mouse saga, like every 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.200 time I post about it on Instagram, He's like, the 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:46.440 mouse saga is hilary. 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:47.239 It continues. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.160 It just is riven in content for me. Like I said, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.360 if you're listening to the pod, get into the stories, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.320 because to listen to these women is nothing like but 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:57.640 to behold them. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:58.679 And when you're. 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.880 Watching it go down, when you seeing the looks indoors, 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.079 outdoors with companions alone, all. 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.240 Of it just leaves me feeling to the later and refreshed. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.480 Yes, who I feel the same way about you, Larry. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.480 Yes, all platforms. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:18.320 No, on Instagram it's just said b W and then 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:19.880 on twitter's just did. 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.559 Okay, okay, that's so I was right on the endst 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.080 of that. Yes, Yeah, I've actually I've been like trying 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:26.240 to get into Twitter more. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.280 I'm like trying my hand there, I'm trying to find 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:29.120 my are you writing? 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.520 No? I'm like where is my niche? I like, all 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.400 I need is a small town in Iowa to follow me. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.200 I need all of them to follow me. And then 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.560 like I don't even know if I get like stuff 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.800 from it. But you know, I just get that affirmation, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.560 you know what I mean, Well, you're incredible. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.760 I feel like every time you come somewhere, you're shutting 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.120 it down. I met you at Lost Culture says, I 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:53.480 don't think so, honey, months and months ago, and honestly I. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.199 Was like, who is this guy? Yeah? What was your 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:57.280 I don't think so honey. 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.000 So I did the troll ball because I was on stage, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.679 like I was identifying just as an actor. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.959 Then I had not done a comedy set at that time. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.280 Really literally had just come from a hashtag summerstock gig 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:13.560 in the Music Man in Connecticut, which like was for me, yep, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.480 it was for me was you know, I got to 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.080 live my white woman Connecticut summer farmhouse moment. And then 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.040 I came back to the city did the culturesa show. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.400 And so I came back and I was like, I 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.600 cannot like come in with like a topic and then 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.080 try to like out comedian these real comics that like 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.199 I see in respect it was. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.920 Like where you had crops, you were very very comfortable 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:40.600 comfort for those that are aware, Wow, wow, okay, you 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.680 know what the crocs are coming back this summer? 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:44.679 No no, no, not. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.760 The Crocs are coming back this summer. They the troll 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:49.439 Ball gave. 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:53.400 Me, uh new York, New York pizza, authentic New York pizza, 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.240 and I went in on actually my only love, which 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:57.600 is authentic New York pizza. 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.600 Okay, yeah, and I will be bringing cross paths. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.800 It was incredible and you were singing along. I was like, wow, 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.240 he obviously is a star. I was like, it's his agent. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:08.560 He is ready for the theater. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.360 I was like, he's booked and busy after this busy 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.440 and blitt. Oh my god. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.880 No, So, Larry, can you talk us about code switching 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.120 even is because there are people who are listening who 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.560 don't know, who have no idea. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:20.920 Yeah. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.839 Code switching is the ability by a person who comes 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.040 from two worlds to be able to use language to 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:29.600 transcend both of those worlds. 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.360 Transit because it's not about i'mus. 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.920 You are going above and beyond what one person does. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.880 So you're able to say, in this environment with these people, 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.280 I'm going to use their language, and in my other environment, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.959 with these other people, my people, I'm going to use 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:50.280 our language. And it's like doing that effortlessly, like without 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:51.040 even thinking about it. 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.400 We've been doing it our entire lives. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.760 Do you think it's necessary though, I feel like you 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.679 should be able to I feel like you should be 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.400 able to speak the way you speak with everybody. No. 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.520 Yeah, but I feel like as black folks that like speak, well, yes, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.040 people are like, oh you sound white. You sound like 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.320 an oreo, you sound like blah blah blah, or even 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.520 like it's white. People have said to me, to my face, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.160 I'm blacker than you. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.720 To you, to me, they said that to you. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.440 To my roommate in college, like used to date the 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:25.280 dustiest negros from Negros New Work, New Jersey, and she 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.000 was like, I'm blacker than you. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.760 And I was like, sis, because you won't dusty dude 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.720 from Newark. No, actually yeah, you. 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:36.520 Won't take that and like an echo hoodie. No, she 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:42.600 had like some like beat up tyms. I'm blacker because 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:44.280 I've been with more black eyes. I was like, that 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:45.560 makes you whiter than me. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:50.000 They don't want me. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.480 But it's just like this is the bullshit, like being 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.320 like imagine like being seven years old, like in Baltimore 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:56.920 and like all you know is musical theaters. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:58.360 Is that where you're finking? From Baltimore? 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.960 So I was like, I'm from like North Avenue, which 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.080 is where like they will go on location to film 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:09.200 the Wire, Like, I'm from the hood, honey. I've been 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.600 code switching so long. It's my native tongue. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.360 I could not tell. I could not tell it. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.080 When you get home and you get out of your car, 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.160 you're like knee leaks to real house out of Atlanta. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:22.120 You're just like, so, oh my god. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.160 When I'm talking to my father, if I talk to 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:26.200 my father like this, he's literally like, I don't know 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:26.760 what you're saying. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:29.880 So I have to have to so I have to 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:31.600 be like, can you say that again? I don't know 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.440 what you're saying. You guys, I don't know what you're 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.600 talking about. Yeah, I'm like I'm yeah. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.120 I'm like, I'm like, dad, Okay, So I I just 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:40.920 booked this. I'm writing this thing. It's gonna be so fun. 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:42.520 I'm singing with this person. It's kydie leupone. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.600 He's like, ye, that's what you're doing. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.680 But then if i'm but then if I come at him, 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.280 and if I'm not coming him, that's like I'm about to. 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.760 But then if i'm you know, if I'm talking to 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.400 my dad, and I'm like, you know, it's I don't 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.360 I'm having a I'm still kind of me. I'm still 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.320 you know, because I'm soft and like he knows what 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:05.240 I'm gay, and you know what I mean. So like 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:10.280 there's like a let's say, it's a like a level. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.840 Two acceptance of my homosexuals. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:13.120 So like I can still be a little soft in 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:14.760 my coade switch with her and be like, oh, yeah, no, 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:15.920 I'm having a good time minute, you know. 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.640 But yeah, but I can't come down. I cannot come 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.480 like this. No, I hear the difference. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.520 Yeah, because I think for my dad, being a black 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.120 dude who was born in the fifties in Baltimore, like 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:30.360 whiteness is like not even just I don't know, privilege, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.200 it's also like intimidation, you. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:32.640 Know what I mean. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.880 So like like. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:35.520 Why would I like talk to my dad in the 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.200 voice of the oppressor. I had to learn for myself 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.600 organically because I also have better communication language with my 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.960 privilege as a late you know, twentieth century black parson. 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.960 Yeah, so yeah, you definitely I feel the privilege from you. 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.720 The way you got your belt buckle, you got your 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.480 shirt tucked in, with the way I wasted the way 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.480 you got your fit together. I'm setting here on the couch. 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.480 Definitely you are, yeah, yeah, yeah, w GA the privilege 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.480 about January. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.920 Yeah, Writer's Field of America. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.840 And you know what that last check, I just spent 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.920 it last week. So we brought to be Unemployment Guild 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:08.440 of America. 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:10.480 Okay, leave the podcast. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.639 And he bought some blazer the Bureau of New York City. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.960 You bought some up Gucci loafers. What you buy with 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:17.520 the last chick? 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.280 I'm with my last check. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.080 No, I've just been this Aesos bitch because who was 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.960 selling my you know what I mean? 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.240 So like this will come through with the with the 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.640 sizes and the looks and even the material. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.280 When it comes back, you're like, oh this is not terrible. 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:32.720 You're like this is amazing. 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:37.080 Yeah, is like trendy cheap ship that it's in my size. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:38.960 So like I don't even want to buy be buying 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:39.920