WEBVTT - SPANKY HAYES - Tuna On Rice, Not Sushi! 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.080 You know when you come from Detroit, you know that 0:00:02.600 --> 0:00:05.920 this guest has to be special to be on this show. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:11.039 The official laugh fucked it up. Let's start all over again. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.680 Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:17.920 I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have special 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:23.079 guest actor, comedian all the way from Detroit. Spanky Hayes 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.520 is in the building. Yes, ma'am, and I'm really excited 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:29.760 about this moment because this is full circle. We go 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.479 way back, way back, you know, way back. I was 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.440 fresh from New York when I knew you. 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:37.120 Wow. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:42.839 Yeah, I was still rocking a lot of times, I think, yeah, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.320 a lot of a lot of tens. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:01:09.840 Yeah. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.040 So we go way back, yeah too, way back. And 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.640 that's good for this episode because I know where to 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:22.479 dig and search for all the crumbs. But speaking of crumbs, Spanky, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.720 we gotta know what you was eating while you were broke. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:31.520 Okay, so this is pretty simple. You have rice right here, 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.800 and you have tuna. You got butter, and then you 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.920 got hot sauce. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.240 So when we went back and forth on you know 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.160 what is Spanky gonna eat? And Spanky said tuna and rice, 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:49.040 and I was like huh like, And so even before 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.120 you got here, it was like, I would have loved 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.720 to like prepared for you, but I was like, there 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.840 has to be missing ingredients, because surely it can't be 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.640 tuna rice. And this is how desperate I was. Usually 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.800 I buy the tuna in water, but because you said 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.760 tuna and rice, I said, well, maybe he needs some 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:07.840 soft tuna so that the tuna in oil. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.520 That's how that's not bad. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.600 That's because I was like, surely there's missing ingredients. 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.400 But this is a true classic broke dish that has 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.320 never been done on this show. We have to search 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.400 hard for it. So I'm super excited because that means 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.160 the broker the dish, as you guys know, the better 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:25.919 the stories. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:27.600 There we go, there we go. 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.760 So seeing that you didn't have to cook it, let's 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.440 watch you prep this dish and walk us through it. 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.520 Because most of our audience is listening, not. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.320 Watching, okay, So for the listeners that should be watching, 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:47.519 I would just take some rice right here. Then I 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.679 would like, let's take some button. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.840 And hot though yeah I think it's like. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:02.680 Warm ish, Yes, it's melting a little bit. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:08.640 Okay, Okay, so you put butter in the rice. Okay, okay, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.320 like tastes buttery. Yeah, trust me, I'm a butter fan. 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.360 I like every dish. 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.400 I tell people I go through like a stick of 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.360 butter probably every. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.119 Three dishes I make. That's how much butter I go through. 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.120 I'll take a whole stick of butter in fire steak. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.720 Oh, I feel like I would want to eat that steak. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.160 It's amazing. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.160 Really Okay, what seasonings do you put though? 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:44.640 Just like Lauri season salt. Lauri's again some kind of 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:45.840 like garlic. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.440 So, guys, I'm watching him mash the butter into the 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:56.120 rice and it's going down. Okay. You know, I had 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:58.760 someone on the show I think they did like eggs running, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.640 eggs and rice, and it was actually, you're pretty good. 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.680 So I could see that running. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.920 See that you your eggs running. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.600 I like, I like all kinds of eggs. Yeah, but 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:09.560 I can see that, like if you got like salmon 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.360 coquettes and you got rice and then you got eggs, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.440 so then maybe the eggs kind of go over into 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:15.920 the rice. I can see that. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.120 So is this a dish that you would eat on 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.040 the road or is this like a dish you eight 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.080 when you broke? 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.600 I used to eat this when I was totally broke. 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.679 I could only thing. I would have to have somebody 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.760 make the rice for me. But it's so easy to 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.560 steal tula. You know what I'm saying out of the supermarket. 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:38.560 Did you say steal? 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.240 Yeah, I mean if I had to, if I had 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.080 to steal, you know what I'm saying. So it was great, Okay, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.000 And then okay, I think I think. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.920 Well the cool thing about you know today's episode. I 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.840 am an avid sponsor of the minute rice you put 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.640 in a microwave a minute in thirty seconds, some of 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:04.320 the best rice money can buy. Okay, here's here. You 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.240 can make both at the same time. So we got 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.279 the rice the buttery rice in a bowl. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:16.160 Okay, Okay, Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it real 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:17.920 for all y'all listeners, see if this really hits. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.160 So, I was gonna ask you how many times have 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.760 you not liked the dish? 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.120 There are a couple of dishes that I definitely will 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.680 never eat again. And that was the tuna casserole shout 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.919 outs to Uplift the Marketplace. I actually hated that dish. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:35.400 And then uh, the pickled egg by Miss Jackson. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.799 Was that sounds terrible. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.560 Those are the only two dishes that like, I'll never 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.520 eat in life. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.520 So now, if you like hot sauce, no, you don't 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:50.120 like hot Nope. Okay, so don't put that. So you 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:51.880 might want to put like maybe just a. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.120 Little assault, okay, just a little, but the bowl the 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:57.160 butter has salted. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.640 Okay, you wanted them healthy. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.120 No, I'm not. I just I'm just not from Cali 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.360 and I can't do that. Can I take this one? 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:12.240 Sure? Yeah? Okay, so you said so that's oh so I. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.200 Just okay, that's it. That's it, because you don't want 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.279 me having a heart attack while interviewing. I was interviewing 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.240 someone I was interviewing and I think they put a 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:21.600 lot of. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.000 Hot sauce and it was too much. So I'm guessing 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:24.880 we're just gonna mix it. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.600 Yeah, just you just get in there and do it. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.880 I thought for sure you were forgetting like mayo or. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.640 Something that'll be like a sandwich. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.760 Okay, let's see, let's see, let's see if it's hitting, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:40.479 let's see. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:44.839 Hold on, tell me what do you think? 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:54.479 Surprisingly, No, I'm gonna break this because this dish costs 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.360 like three dollars and you can. You could literally make 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.440 a couple of them because I did two cans of tuna, 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.120 expensive packet of pre made rice. It was like two bucks. 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:11.360 You could put lemon, you could put let me tell you. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:11.840 This can definitely hit and I I could see like 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:12.679 you adding lemon. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.600 I'm really see see. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.680 But if you're broke, for sure, for sure, this dish 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.560 will carry you through. I'm trying to tell you it's 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.520 like eating like a king on a budget though, because 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:27.160 you have your protein and you have a rice and 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:27.960 it's feeling. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.120 You don't work out right after this, I'm not gonna lie. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.720 I feel bad for my child because if I'm ever desperate, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:37.440 I'm gonna make this. 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:40.840 They're gonna love it. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.679 I feel like my daughter would really love this. You're 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.840 probably gonna give this to school school. I come home 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.800 sometimes what am I gonna give her? But this is 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.960 actually brilliant. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:53.480 I've been doing this. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:54.840 Does this pre eat well too? 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.320 I don't know. I never tried to cook it. 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:03.200 I just always let me tell you perfect dish. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.720 Thank you. See you were scared. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.040 I was definitely scared because I was like, this is 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:11.800 this is gonna. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.040 Be dry as hell, but good as long as it 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.560 got buttered and you got like some salt or is 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.960 like some lemon, or this hot sauce boom you own. 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.040 You've been sold by the way I'm eating it. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.160 It's good, guys, sell. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.480 Good, so I can get you to spell all the 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:31.280 team good. 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.760 Come on, I'm ready. I red tea. 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:39.080 Oh my gosh, that's a great dish than you like. 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.120 If I'm ever struggling, that's going to be my go to. 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.080 And guys, it's better than ramen. If you've been eating 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.400 ramen for like weeks, switch it up. Do the right thing. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:52.280 And then my family, my dad's side of the family 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.160 is from Cuba, so that's kind of where I got 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.800 it from, you know what I'm saying. But they would 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.960 do it like spam, but I don't like. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.719 I hate Oh I tried spam on this show. That's 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.599 another thing. I'll never do spam. Thank you for reminding me. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.040 I hate space. So those are my three will never 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.720 do again. I hate spam. I tried it. 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.040 Oh god, spam is terrible. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.520 It's so salty, right, So I tried it with that. 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.600 You don't be great with this, Like if you do 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:21.480 the corn beef with the rice. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.920 Maybe and an egg that might be good too. 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.240 You know what I'm saying. You know, you're inspiring me. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.280 So there we go. That's what we're here. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.560 So take us back to what was going on during 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:31.960 this era. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:38.400 Okay, I find myself still there sometimes. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.520 Okay, I like that. I like that. So you've rolled 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.280 the roller coaster wave of having money and losing money, 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.360 having money and losing money, Oh my god, and then 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.600 you also rode the wave of popularity and being in and. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.360 You know, out right right, I would say, so. 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:57.640 Why don't we do this since this dish is a 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.360 rolling Yeah, let's take us back. Take us back to Detroit, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:06.000 what was going on. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:13.280 Detroit is a great place to be from, but it's 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:19.800 very hard. Like people are hard, women are very hard. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.680 It's like your daddy is mean, your granddaddy mean, it's 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:26.560 like that. It's like kind of like New York. 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.080 Well, i'll tell you this. I went to Detroit and 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.120 I didn't know what to think. It was like there 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.320 was maybe a block where there was two houses that 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.079 were legit, and then like everything around looked like a 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.160 bomb headed. And if it was California, they would have 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.120 revitalized the whole thing. But you're like, wait, y'all lived 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.400 here how long and it's still looking like. 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.280 This and it's a whole city like that. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.240 I'm surprised when I go down to Detroit that people 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.080 it's so hard to see past your environment growing up 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.480 in it. But to get out of that environment, I 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.679 have so much respect for people because it's like, man, bro, 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.480 you had to see through the dirt. Yes, you had 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.680 to see your dreams through like I don't know you'd 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:09.880 have to. I don't know where do you get your 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:11.640 inspiration from in Detroit? Is it TV? 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.800 Yeah? Because well it's so violent there and it's so 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.640 like you gotta like sell down on how far I 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.120 can go in here, but you gotta like sell drugs 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.480 and you gotta like do weird shit. Yeah, you know, 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:30.040 like from sixteen yeah yeah, So you're doing some crazy 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.280 stuff to get money. And then most of the time 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.920 your mother's at work because they have Chrystler forward and 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.959 like that. So a lot of people work in the plants, 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.120 but if you work in a plant, you work in 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.440 like twelve sixteen hours, so your parents are not around. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:49.880 So you grow up like really fast, like so extremely fast. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.600 You're growing up fast in Detroit. At what age do 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.120 you decide I'm leaving. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.400 Soon as I graduated from high school, I said, you 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.080 know what, I can't I can't live and then I 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.200 was so disappointed. My grandmother lived in Harlem, New York, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.240 so I would go there every summer, and then like once, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.480 I was kind of too big, Like I could have 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.840 either moved there or moved to LA, but I just 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.480 chose to LA because I didn't know nothing about it. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.440 So, but what inspired you to move? Did you know 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.240 you want to do comedy at that point or did 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:22.920 you know you wanted to be in the industry like 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.120 or you just wanted to get run me away from Detroit. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.280 Yeah, I had to get the f away from Detroit. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.520 But I wanted to be an actor. I didn't even 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.880 want to do comedy. I wanted to be an actor, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.680 and I thought in Detroit I couldn't like find a 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.120 way to do that. It was like no outlets really, 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.360 and then in New York it seems so serious. Yeah, 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:46.000 you know what I mean. 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.040 Well, New York is also extremely fast paced compared to Detroit. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:52.079 Ferry like extremely. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.800 It's like if you go from Detroit to New York, 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:56.880 I mean, if you make it from Detroit straight to 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.959 New York. I mean you need them like an Olympic 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.079 metal because the pace is completely different. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.959 You know, how we get there. I would leave at 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.400 ten o'clock at night on the bus from Detroit, and 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:15.400 like eleven o'clock, like in the before noon, I would 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:16.000 be in New York. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.160 Okay. But even though you were familiar with New York, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.480 you still chose La. Yeah, okay, So you arrive in 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.040 LA suitcase. What's going on? You're straight from high school. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.080 What's your pockets looking like? 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:29.400 Nothing? 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.480 What's your connects looking like? Nowhere you have no connects nothing. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:35.280 I just came out here. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.560 Okay. So you come out here and I hate the picture. 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.320 I'm going to be a star. And I have my cousins, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.880 some cousins out here already, and they were like, okay, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.360 we heard that before. But I'm like, no, you don't 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.400 get it. I'm going to be a star. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.680 So it's funny because everybody I meet from Detroit it 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.320 seems like that is how it goes down. It's like, no, 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.720 like when I moved out from New York, I didn't 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.560 have nobody to like commadrate with, but I see Detroit 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.480 people in the industry, they kind of stick together, like 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:08.480 they're like family. You guys have your own college. What 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.800 do you call it? Like fraternity? Almost you from Detroit? Okay? 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.040 What what? What a dope? You second you hear that, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.600 you're like, oh, the fraternity just started, and you. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:22.120 Know, it's crazy about that. It's like it's so many 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:24.840 comics that I that's from Detroit that I meet out 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.200 here that I didn't know in Detroit, but they just 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:28.280 instantly family. 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.720 Yeah, yeah, the Detroit. Yeah, you guys have a ride 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.200 or die. I don't think New York has really had 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.720 that because we meet people from New York and it's like, Okay, 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.960 we're cool. But Detroit y'all is like, okay, you're a 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.120 part of my hood. Now what you need just call. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.280 You know, you'll be crashing on each other's couches. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.720 Couch surfing. I slept on thousands of couches. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:54.040 Yeah, yeah, okay, so you're in you're out here. How 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.040 long would you say you were struggling before you got 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:57.760 your first big opportunity? 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:04.840 Wow? Say about about five years? 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:05.920 Five years? 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:11.120 Yes, I was, Yeah, of strug and you're. 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.440 Only doing acting. You're not even doing comedy, right. 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.880 So when I got to LA, I started doing comedy 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.600 and well a little bit before that. But when I 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.080 got to La, I started seeing like Ricky Harris and 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.200 all these big guys, and I'm like, oh, okay, okay, 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.640 well I'm really in comedy now, so I took it 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.840 a little bit more serious, but it was it was 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.000 the beautiful struggle. I was broke. I used to have 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.560 to date fat girls that I don't like. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.200 And to like survive eat, Yeah, stuff like that. It 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.400 seems to be the Detroit Player story of the year. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.480 Detroit guy's move here. They're like, well, let's find abroad. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.000 But it's weird because the culture in Detroit. You said, 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.200 the women are harder. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.720 Right, yeah, so you can't do that to them in Detroit. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.200 But in La it's like the land of the adopt 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:00.360 adopter by friend. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.120 La is like the prettier girls they like give more 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:09.160 than nicer, you know. So that's beautiful truck girls. This 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:12.520 is beautiful Detroit girls. But it's just so hard to 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.000 talk to. 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.720 Defences are up well because Detroit. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.520 Kind of like New York, because you like New York people, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.840 girls they walk with the headphones on. You can't even 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:23.920 talk to you. So it's kind of like that. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.560 I'm listening to my music. 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.640 Then, So now they don't even turn around. It's like yo, yo, 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.440 they just keep walking like yo the fuck. But yeah, 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.440 Detroit was horrible at the time. It's beautiful to be 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.880 from there because I knew what kind of real life was. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.520 But then once I got indulged in La, it was 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.760 like I didn't go home for like eight years. So 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:48.960 my mom didn't see me for like eight years. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.280 Oh you didn't even go back to visit. 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:50.640 No. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:51.480 Wow. 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:57.080 So comedy scene in LA is notorious for not paying comics. 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:02.400 So which and what I've learned through eating while broke, guys, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.840 you ain't even eat it is I can't because I'm 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:07.240 gonna be all up in your See you think you 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.119 can sneak a bite, but when I hit you with 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.240 a question, you're gonna have to swallow fast. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:12.240 Right. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:18.120 But what I've learned is, you know, with the comedy scene, 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:19.760 and you could correct me if I'm wrong, but it 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.480 seems like you got to pick your comedy club and 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.720 kind of work at work, at work and to death right, 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.520 and that's your loyal club, and then the rest of 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.760 you're like a little pop up. So which was your 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:29.560 loyalty club? 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.320 I was you know, I was extremely lucky. When I 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:37.600 first came here. I was like, what like seventeen eighteen, 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:45.840 and I did a Fat Tuesday. My cousin. Damn, I'm sorry. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:48.560 You forgot your cousin name. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.440 Yeah, that's what's so funny. That's right, my funny. Keith 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.439 watched it is my cousin. So he always tell me, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.960 don't call him older cuts. I'm saying I'm your older cut. 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:04.840 Just tell your cousin. That's funny about that. But my cousin, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.080 he took me around like he took me shopping. He 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.760 took me like the Mayl Rose first day, first day, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.280 and it took me Mayl Roads, took me to Roscos, 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.480 took me all these places and got me off fresh. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.119 And he was like, I'm taking you to the comedy store. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.720 And it was fat Tuesday. So I was like, ah cool, 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:25.400 like Snoop Dogg. Everybody was there. This is like right 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.000 before Tupac got killed. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.639 He was wow, okay, whoa crazy? Okay? 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.200 So I went up. They didn't want to let me up. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.000 I guess keep like Paige gud Tori a couple of 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.480 dollars and he let me up and I got a 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:46.840 standovation and Missy Shore, the owner of the comedy store, 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.040 was sitting right in the audience get the freak out right, 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.439 and she came right up to me like, you know, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.919 you want to be a regular, And I was like, what, sure, 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.320 but I didn't even know what I was. Yeah, yeah, sure, Yeah, 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.199 you're a paid regular and you kinda every night. So 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.160 from that day on, I was every day, all three rooms. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.200 I would hit all three rooms. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.840 No way, But what was the pay looking at because 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.400 comedy store doesn't really pay that much. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.960 Well, they pay like seventy five dollars if you pay record, 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.399 so but imagine seven days a week going up at 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.400 least twice yeah in nineteen ninety. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.920 Yeah yeah, yeah. Shoot, First of all, you're going you're 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.600 getting paid to tell jokes. There's no greater dream than that. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:32.000 I would love to take your career. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.879 If I was skilled, you could do it cracking junks forever. 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.520 But yeah, that was like kind of a blessing. I mean, 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.560 it wasn't the answer, but it was a little better. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.160 Everybody was jealous of me, like. 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:49.359 Yeah, and that was your first night. Yes, sh okay, 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.359 you hit home runs, so your confidence must have been 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.840 through the roof through But you were still struggling. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.800 Yeah, and then I would do extra work. I did 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:01.960 shows like Moesha, I did Steve Harvey. Steve Harvey kicked 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.520 me off the first day that was on it because 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.560 he was like showing some shoes and you know, I'm 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.000 from Detroit. We wear gators and he was like, should 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.000 wear the gators or should where it is? And I 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.760 was like, gators, but I kept walking because I know 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.719 I don't know him. And he was like, come here, 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.919 you little, you know, cussing me out, little, Come here? 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.320 What you doing about gators? I was like, I'm from Detroit. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.880 And then this other dude that was from Detroit too, 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:28.840 he was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what we do. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.720 And then he like kept riding me. I don't know why. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.879 I don't know why, but it was That was cool 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.560 because I left there and went to Molitia. That's where 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:39.960 all my friends were. Okay you know what I'm saying, 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.040 Like I met a lot of fans. I met Kobe 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:42.640 Bryant there. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:43.320 Wow. 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.960 Yeah, so you made did you make? 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:47.119 Like? 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.240 Because this industry is also I feel like this industry 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.919 is weird because you make you don't really make friends 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.280