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Speaker 1: what I mean. So that was starting to because I

419
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: remember the time she was on the porch and I'm

420
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,520
Speaker 1: over with my friends black neighborhood, you know, and she

421
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: had to come back to the house. She told me,

422
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,719
Speaker 1: you talk so drive now, you know what I mean,

423
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,440
Speaker 1: She told me talking abound. She said, yeah, you just

424
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,200
Speaker 1: got this thing about you were you you know, this

425
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 1: is another thing, you know what I mean. I was like, well,

426
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: you know that's me. She said, yeah, yeah, I know

427
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: it is. But you know, get that little thing, which

428
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: is not a problem. What became a problem was and

429
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: I had to fight from my sister. My brother was

430
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: never ran. See he's older than me. That fight for

431
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: my sister is to be like five black girls twelve

432
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: years old. We're like eight nine. He said, We're gonna

433
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: whip your sister ass for no reason, for no reason,

434
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: My my sister and I'm fighting, you know, four or

435
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: five black girls by my self taking asks whipping a

436
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: whole nine yards. And I'm still like defending her. You

437
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. I'm like, I'm probably like around

438
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: about because I didn't started really changing as a person.

439
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: I ain't really because man, when I moved, when I

440
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: moved to Maryland, you know, I was a really good lottle,

441
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: like I knew, like I was a good kid. I

442
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: had friends, like I loved everybody. You know, it was

443
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: like it was. It was when I turned eight, all

444
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: all all, all the black people from DC started moving

445
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,959
Speaker 1: into my neighborhood. You see what I'm saying. Even though

446
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,040
Speaker 1: the neighborhood was mixed, was mixed with African and all

447
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 1: of this, I had to deal with a whole another thing. Yeah,

448
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: I even turned my back on my little friends. Man.

449
00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: It liked me so much, man, because we're not when

450
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: when when I was fighting by myself okay, and I

451
00:27:55,359 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 1: wasn't big enough, okay, but I hooked up with some boys.

452
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: So my friends when I we we all met when

453
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: we were nine. We've been friends since we was nine.

454
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: So we was that that, you see, Yeah, And so

455
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: that that was different from me than my brother. I

456
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: was different than my brother. I was different than with

457
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: my sisters in that way. Is your brother and sister

458
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: still you know reachable today? My brother's my brother died. Yeah,

459
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 1: you and your sister really still close? Man? And her

460
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: like Bonnie and Clyde. I told you we're like twins.

461
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: Is your mom still no? She died too, So it's

462
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: just us too, just me and my sister. Sorry, bro, Yeah,

463
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: I always think about them. This morning it was just us.

464
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: Said no, I had met them. I got. I got

465
00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: to like real, I got, he said, dollars blood, Yeah, blood.

466
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: I got four sisters and two brothers. Okay, you know,

467
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: and I didn't know that we're grown up. I've never

468
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: seen my black family. You know. My family was that

469
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: family you know with your siblings you grew up with.

470
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: It was it was it was two. It was three

471
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: my brothers, sister and me and my mother because they

472
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 1: broke up, so it was just us, you know. So

473
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: that's when I started to change. But I didn't change

474
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,600
Speaker 1: for the worst. I just you know, we broughatly of

475
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: our environment, you know, so I just had to do

476
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: what I had to do as as as a as

477
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 1: a a black man in American man. Hey, you got

478
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: the information, and hey, you know we we we we

479
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: we you know in the neighborhood. You know, now I

480
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: got them six. You know, we think of Steve's so

481
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 1: ain't the more jumping me any more? That? Yeah, damn,

482
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: we was fair. You know, we had to. Somebody has

483
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: something within one of us or whatever they can straighten

484
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: it whatever, but no one else is gonna you. I

485
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: ain't gonna tell you. So I mean, I think I

486
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: think people should jump. People don't want I mean I want,

487
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: I want it. No no, no, no, no no no,

488
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,880
Speaker 1: you win. You gotta win that finish. I said, you

489
00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: win by any meaning. If I if I know my

490
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: I know my brother fin to fight some dude that

491
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: I know they can whoop my brother. We ain't taking

492
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: the whales, bro, now hold on, We're not taking their

493
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: old on. And that's the truth. Now, I said. With us,

494
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: it was like, hey, if it's a one on one situation, whatever,

495
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: but no one could come up to us if we're

496
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: not in my neighborhood. No one can come up to

497
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,239
Speaker 1: us if it's the one on one one of us.

498
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: If you got two people that want to fight, it's different.

499
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: If it's two people that want to fight each other

500
00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 1: and y'all want to go ahead, go head up. But

501
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: you're talking about trying to ride on my people or

502
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 1: something like that, that's gonna be a totally different stories.

503
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: Is that I give you. I give you an example

504
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: for my sister. My sister. All right, little du Jerry,

505
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,959
Speaker 1: you know you know short stocky whatever. You know, you're

506
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: like we like we like to Joan and DC. I

507
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,080
Speaker 1: don't know what they call it here they call it.

508
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,280
Speaker 1: They call it the Joan here ranking here Joan and

509
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: is busting in LA or whatever. Your dozens of snapping

510
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: in New York whatever. So you know we did that.

511
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: So she'm whipping your ass at the school. You do

512
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: it to Jones and I mean, huh, you go to

513
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: j King at d C. We got the Jones after

514
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: this ship is over. Yeah, I'm the king. Yeah, you

515
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. You saw me last name.

516
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: I'm the King. I'm a professional. That's like me going

517
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 1: to Jordan's. That's like, that's like me going to Michael.

518
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: Jordan's said, let's play one on one man. Yeah, I

519
00:31:52,280 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: ain't handled towards growing up up, we all we did well,

520
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: talked about each other. Man. So after you know, damn

521
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: where I got going? You better because I was gonna

522
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: get on your head. But go ahead, right, you're done,

523
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: You're done. You've got twenty minutes beyond. So so um,

524
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: you know after it's an example. You know me at

525
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: the bus stop, everybody want to see it. You know,

526
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: everybody there, everybody there he's you know, it was bigger

527
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: than me. But you know, whatever, right, I'm holding my own.

528
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: But I tripped over the sidewalk and it was a faucet.

529
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: They didn't have a knob on it, and I failed

530
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: and I hit my head. You know, I was like, oh, man,

531
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: when I looked up, he was right white flash. I

532
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: looked man, my sister and then then when when it

533
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: was over, they all they jumped them, you know what.

534
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: My sister was like, whatever, you know what I mean.

535
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: So so it's like, you know, when you're in that

536
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: situation that that don't make you black neither white, but

537
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: identified it as such, you see, identified it as such

538
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with anything else other than you

539
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: become who you are from whatever. I mean, you you

540
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: built out or whatever. But I was in that value

541
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: system where I was thinking, I'm talking about me. I

542
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: was thinking, in order for me to be black like

543
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: the dudes that I grew up around, I had to

544
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: be that, you see. So I went and did trifling things. So,

545
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I did all kind of stuff, and my

546
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: my mother was moving away from me. Man, she was

547
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: like she wasn't understanding what I was going through. Really

548
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: what I mean. But this is what I want to know, Like,

549
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: how how is it that you so like willingly accepted

550
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: that if I want to be black and identified with black,

551
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,239
Speaker 1: I gotta act like a criminal and do these crazy things,

552
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,400
Speaker 1: but not associate that with whiteness. Because white folks are

553
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,520
Speaker 1: criminals too, Like they do a lot of they commit

554
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 1: a lot of crimes. Yea even been made. Yeah, because

555
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: I'm just in my little pot trying to survive. And

556
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: you also probably you also probably being having these type

557
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: of negative thoughts about black people being reinforced by the media.

558
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: You're seeing certain things in the media and hearing certain

559
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 1: things at school, probably even from teachers or something, because

560
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: because I know some of those teachers are, they could

561
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: be as as bad as any enemy that you could have.

562
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: It could be. Uh. I thought you was the drummer

563
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: from the muppage man. Yeah, you know, scam me. I think,

564
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? Man? For those of you

565
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: who can you cannot see it? Yeah, animal, yeah you know. So,

566
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: So if everything everything is as you learn, you know, uh,

567
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: hindsight is always I was in that situation, you see,

568
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: even though I knew better, it doesn't matter because I

569
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: was in this situation. So I had. I had read

570
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: Claude Brown Man Child in Promise Land. Right, it's a book.

571
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: It's about Claude Brown, who was in the detention system

572
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: in New York City, you see what I'm saying. So

573
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: I read that probably when I was probably about oh,

574
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, Okay, what do you

575
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: went through? That? Is that? That the other thing? And

576
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. And you know, my neighborhood

577
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 1: was Weed neighborhood and Coke neighborhood. You know, uh, you know, hey,

578
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: you know use these whatever DC we boxed. That's we're

579
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: like in Florida like football, you know, right, And in

580
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 1: the Texas they like football, you know. You know in

581
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: d C we like boxing. Yeah, that's that's that's what

582
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: we do. So it's about what you got here, you know,

583
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: So learn what you need to learn, you see. So

584
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm thinking all of this but knowing it's it's it's

585
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: God man that I got put in the in the

586
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: right soil, in the right soil and then had the

587
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: kind of experiences that I had to be able to

588
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: come to the river the revelations to understand the things

589
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: he's talking about. And it took a little minute because

590
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: I was putting them all together, because my family was

591
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: helping me put them together. See, white people are with

592
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: the camera. There are nothing and not the same, you know.

593
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: And if I take that attitude, then I'm against a

594
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: whole lot of people with a whole lot of power.

595
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 1: I gotta take a look at individuals, even though they

596
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 1: don't got to do that with me. But for me

597
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: to be able to negotiate my way around, I gotta

598
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: be able to do that because because I found not

599
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: that our distinction is just this. So I'll give an

600
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: example from last night. I was at the club. We're

601
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: having a good time. He was there, Ladies said just

602
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,239
Speaker 1: that and everything right, And so a group of black

603
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: people came up to me and there was from cameraon.

604
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,760
Speaker 1: I know about cameraon. I'm I'm exposed to cameroon because

605
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: the people I work with been there before this that

606
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: another thing. And I had a whole separate kind of

607
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: conversation with them, a whole separate kind of conversation with

608
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: them then I would have with us, because we're a

609
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: different brand a black people, although we're black. Okay, Like

610
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: I Hatian in Miami, y'all in the h I'm a

611
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: niche because of what happened with me. I'm a nigologist, Okay,

612
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: a nigologist. I ain't find out about y'all. I ain't

613
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:22,879
Speaker 1: find out about y'all. Tell like, y'all, tell y'all because

614
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: the only thing I knew was that Artie Bill and

615
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: Drells about Houston. Billy who Warren Warren y'all? Yeah, how

616
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: how I'm just saying blowing that with the Bills Thorough

617
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: we call him Thorough Campbell, Thorough Campbell, tear away Jersey,

618
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 1: watch out, Donny Shell Bam. That's what I knew about you,

619
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: but I ain't know using like this though, I ain't

620
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,919
Speaker 1: know you was like DC. When you come from where

621
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: you come from, you think you you know, you're the

622
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,959
Speaker 1: only little corner, you know what I mean. I ain't

623
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,919
Speaker 1: gonna tell y'all. Yeah, you know, DC is, like I said,

624
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,960
Speaker 1: the biggest market. It's like at first, I second big

625
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,879
Speaker 1: fluctuates between d C in Chicago, Man Cleveland there too,

626
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: now well clean, yeah, the Cleveland is Yeah. If you

627
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: say it like that, then you also have Dallas is

628
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: in there and Houston is in there. But I didn't

629
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: get to see it, like we just made it. We

630
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 1: just made it a really we made a nice solid

631
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: market um in in all of the neighborhoods that that

632
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: are reflected, you know, the same images that were reflected

633
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: in our our neighborhoods. They love us. Yeah, and y'all

634
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 1: was able to do that and that motherfucker sound. See

635
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: that's where I said, oh, yeah, no, I can't go

636
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: down there, like you know, no you go down They're like, hey,

637
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,320
Speaker 1: I'm regulated or whatever. Like I'm thinking, I am anyway,

638
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 1: what you gonna do? Right? But but I didn't really

639
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: really really know that it was like that here. I

640
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: I even came here. I even came here um earlier

641
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: doing comedy before we live in color. You see what

642
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And didn't know that. See, so your eyes

643
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: get open to how similar we are, you see what

644
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean. So I even heard it just the other

645
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: day and it just hit me about the song. It

646
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: just hit me about the song my worst fears I

647
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:38,919
Speaker 1: may come real in my head. That's the song. That's

648
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: the song, But it's each of y'all's interpretation of that ship.

649
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying, And I ain't even we've

650
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: all been there, rabbits whatever, we've all been there with

651
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,800
Speaker 1: you might think this that that you might be and

652
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:56,959
Speaker 1: you're thinking it's real. Man, he's talking about on fans.

653
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:06,320
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, dude, I do do do. I

654
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: learnt dings a doo doo doo ding dootings do doom,

655
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:24,479
Speaker 1: I learn loom d dooms. Won't play, don't walk the link,

656
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: won't do I'll do do do. Okay, that's what I'm talking.

657
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: Speaks a whole lot of language. Man. I never quite

658
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:45,880
Speaker 1: hurt that nobody backed on the eight a weight like

659
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: that much. You know, they're like, doom do A little

660
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: lootle question, Man, at what point does the comedy start

661
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 1: in your life right away? At what? At what point

662
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: do you because, like you said, you were Jones Jones, right,

663
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 1: But at what point do you get there and you

664
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: say I want to do that for a living? What

665
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: are you doing at that moment? I got lucky, Yeah,

666
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: I got lucky. Um. I got a job at the

667
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: Remota end okay Um as an assistant chef. I had

668
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: an apartment, two cars, had doson beat you ten and

669
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: and Toyota Selleca and the Remota n page you like that.

670
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: I made it work. I made it work because I

671
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,959
Speaker 1: got thrown at the house when I was fourteen because

672
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,919
Speaker 1: my mother found all this stuff under my bed. She said,

673
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: you can't come back until you get a job. And

674
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: I went out there thinking, oh, man, I don't even

675
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, I could just hang now. And I went

676
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: to live with the guy who used to keep us

677
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: out of trouble, you know. And so me and my

678
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: friends decided we're gonna stick up a mopad shop. I'll

679
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: tell my daughter that this morning, because you don't want

680
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 1: to listen. She fourteen, So you know, at everybody, I

681
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: get caught, I get brought back to his house, right,

682
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,759
Speaker 1: but he run everything and he's embarrassed me. Man, we'll

683
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: be in the rex cent and playing pink pong or whatever.

684
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: He said. Man, y'all, hey, man, lead that lead that

685
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: boy along. He would have been through some ship. I'm like,

686
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: why he keeps saying that? Man? He was saying, Bill,

687
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: what you keep telling him? Mad man? He said, you

688
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: have But at the time I'm not knowing right. But

689
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: he loved me. Man. I went to live with him

690
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: and his family. I wouldn't go home the next day

691
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: because man, they clean mooning. My mother made his clean up,

692
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: you know. But I thought it was cool. I get

693
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: to hang out and all of this. Right, the police

694
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: brought me to his house, he says, something never forget.

695
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,319
Speaker 1: I walked in the house. You know. The police took

696
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: me to his house, not to jail, right, And he

697
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: came out the back. You know, is sight right. I

698
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: had later reform me to put the dog on me,

699
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: and you know, you know whoever was trying to you know.

700
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: So so he come out the back telling my daughter

701
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: that this mom made her remember me telling her that,

702
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know. So so he came out the

703
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 1: back and they said, Mr, you know, Mr mcmiller, this

704
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 1: is your son. And he said, yeah, I was kind

705
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: of scared. He said, yeah, yeah, it is, it is

706
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: it is. He said, all right man, Well he's all

707
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: yours man, He said all right man. So when I

708
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: closed the door, I thought he was gonna be like, nicky,

709
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: you need to do and do you know, he turned

710
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: his back went back to bed. He did even look back.

711
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: He said you know what time, he man, one day

712
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: you got to take responsibility for your goddamn south and

713
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: went to bed. That's the first time they just started thinking,

714
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: how did y'all rob the moped place? What did you

715
00:44:41,719 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: I didn't. They never let me carry one. But the

716
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: other guys, my friends never did they go to jail. No,

717
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: they got away. They got away. You brought you home

718
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: instead of sitting right right. Yeah. So so he says

719
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,879
Speaker 1: to me, I'm I need you to the point though.

720
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: How I got lucky. But this was a small town.

721
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: It was this DC. Yeah so so so so you know,

722
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: I'm fourteen right from tent from we met when he

723
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: was nine. Okay, so and I'm with them all the time,

724
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,520
Speaker 1: you know. So he turns his back and he says,

725
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: one day you gotta take response before you goddamnself. Man.

726
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,440
Speaker 1: And it had an impact on me, you know. And

727
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: his older his older son had a job at a hospital.

728
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 1: He he had he had the hospital scrubs and brand

729
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: new Ada white of DTAs. He needs to be the

730
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: cool dude. So we're out there fighting and stuff like that.

731
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: And I come home. You know, yeah, we've been fighting.

732
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: We've been fighting, and he's like, man, that's why I

733
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: stopped going out there with him. Niggas say what you

734
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 1: know I'm thinking? You know, yeah, he told me, look,

735
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: you know you got job this summer. You know, chain gun,

736
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 1: you lost your shoe. He said that with him, and

737
00:45:56,520 --> 00:46:00,080
Speaker 1: it started occurring to me, like, so my mom to

738
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: let me back in the house. But I had to

739
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: get a job. So I got my first job and said,

740
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 1: I have my friends. You should laugh at me because

741
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: I come home with them. I haven't pancakes stuff on me.

742
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: They like jeans and theaters, you know they you know

743
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: he he, he used to call me. You know, he

744
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: was very dough boy and ship you know what I mean.

745
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, whatever, Yeah, he got a blue dart

746
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: with him. How many times you get in the mom

747
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: so so so I built myself up, man, you know,

748
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: I didn't build myself up, but that helped. So I

749
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:45,439
Speaker 1: ended up with an apartment. See, and my friends ain't

750
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: come over to my apartment. They come for a second

751
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: and gone, you know, doing whatever they're doing. So my

752
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:52,879
Speaker 1: friend Howard, who grew up with me, I called him

753
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: when I got this job from her outer end. Howard

754
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: had Lemon brothers and sisters. You need the poorest, dude,

755
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,919
Speaker 1: I know. I mean they had moving blankets on nate bed.

756
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: You know the blankets they used for when you moved.

757
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 1: That was on their bed. Yeah, that was their bed.

758
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: My grandmother made those with my great great grandmother made those.

759
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: They were quilts. Yeah, yeah, just big giant industrial. Yeah,

760
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: they had them on their bed. They didn't have nothing, right.

761
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: So I grew up with him, you know, and he

762
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: always thought it was funny. He always thought it was talented,

763
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: you know. And I called him because he were my

764
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: best friends to know him since I was eight or whatever.

765
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: He moved a lot, he and I called him. I said, man,

766
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 1: I got a job as a rebody and man as

767
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: an assistant. Yeah, he told me, and you the stupid

768
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,879
Speaker 1: and Nick, I haven't met my motherucking lifetime. You're trying, mom.

769
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: He said, you can be in Hollywood right now because

770
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: Eddie's Murphy's Delirious came out, you know. He said, Man,

771
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: you're getting funk with you. He said, man, you're funny

772
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: as hell. Do you know that? Man? You can be

773
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 1: doing this, you can be doing that, and you can

774
00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: sing and you get this. And I'm like, man, you man,

775
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: you ain't got no job. Right called me. He said

776
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: he's the worst strip club in DC. He called me

777
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: and said I talked to manager and letting me on

778
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: stage at the Penthouse. I was like, I ain't going there.

779
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: And there he said, man, come on, came out of

780
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: my house, took the bus to my house. Okay, I'll

781
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: leave out the house with him. Boom, my radiator buses February.

782
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: He got on the bus, looking right at me, sat

783
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 1: me back next week. You may be ready this time,

784
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: I radiot to fix. He come over. I go to

785
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: the club. Right walking to the club, the managers, I

786
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: got lucky man. Man, you just standing there right. Man

787
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 1: just said this the dude right here man and how

788
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, that's him. He said, you got five minutes, man,

789
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: he said, the worst strip club in d C. Right.

790
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: So I turned to Howard. I said, man, Howard, what

791
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: do you want me to do? You look at me?

792
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 1: He said, I don't care what you do. Just say something.

793
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: I swear because God is my witness. From the first

794
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: thing I said, people died laughing, and I never stopped.

795
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: How killed in that place. How do you get people's

796
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 1: attention at a strip? You got dudes that they did

797
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: all that interested interested in? Is that's right? Right? All

798
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: that interesting and it's getting money right at this point

799
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,359
Speaker 1: for five minutes that nobody's getting no money. Nobody's getting

800
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: no honey. How do you get their attention. I did

801
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: you know I did. I just told I just told

802
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: him a real story. Do you remember it? Yeah, what

803
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: you say? I said my mother? I said, we had

804
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: roaches a lot of roaches everywhere in the house. My

805
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: mother told us, you know, if you clean up the kitchen,

806
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: you wouldn't have no roaches. So she made us stay

807
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: home all weekend and clean the kitchen, and sure enough Monday,

808
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: we had no roaches. Right. But I found out they

809
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: was eating our couch because when me and my sister

810
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: wind to watch cartoons, we looked on the hill and

811
00:49:55,800 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: the move they moved from the kid into the couch,

812
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: and many they roared in that bitch and everything I

813
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: said was the real you see. And it was like

814
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,400
Speaker 1: I knew singers and what nobody doing singers? You know.

815
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: I found out nobody was doing singers afterwards. But I

816
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: knew how to do these because I used to do

817
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: when I was little. So my mother will say, stopped

818
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: and she said stopped all that, you know, until she

819
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: saw outro one time on TV. She said, do that again.

820
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 1: She said, you might have something there, you know, But

821
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: I didn't think about it. But I was around when

822
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: this song first came out. I so tired of belong

823
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:39,800
Speaker 1: I'm so tired of being wrong. Don't you helped me?

824
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: Girls soon as you can. You know I used to

825
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: do that when I was a little kid. You know,

826
00:50:48,120 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 1: umdunes done real well whatever, We're there, girl, you got it,

827
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: you know. Deeba deeba. Here the looks off on my face,

828
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 1: sweet on, sweet on the Carolyn lousy is on my face, Sweeter,

829
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,280
Speaker 1: I'm sweet. You know that's from Soultree watching it, watching

830
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: Berry watching so I had it. It was it was

831
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: like like opening the can and it was like all there,

832
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 1: you know, peeboe me. He just turns into a totally

833
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 1: different person. Feel the fire, yeah, you know, to get

834
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: the balloon polluting the wounds, Google liding blue, blue, loom, looming, banging,

835
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: ain't bound. It's a shame that when you went the

836
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: man edge man. It's a shame. Wy you hurt me.

837
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 1: You know it wouldn't that, nobody wouldn't It turned into

838
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: a totally different person, man, turn into a very different

839
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: person on it. How many times do you play this

840
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,839
Speaker 1: strip club before you find your way into a comedy club?

841
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: Like shit so much? Yea? And what's the name of

842
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: this comedy club Penhouse d C Georgia Avenue, right right

843
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: down street from Howard University and it was the worst.

844
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: They had the guards outside. He had t shirts swear

845
00:52:44,120 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: the teachers on the back seat don't shoot me. Wow,

846
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,920
Speaker 1: you know as a joke, you know, you know it

847
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: was right there, right there. And how long do you

848
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: play this comedy club before you moved to Where do

849
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:58,879
Speaker 1: you go first? I don't. I don't never play comedy club.

850
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: I only went to DC, only played one comedy club

851
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:03,880
Speaker 1: or two and the comedy club I went to, I

852
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: met Martin there, I met Dave Chappelle. There no at

853
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: a comedy club the first time I went to a

854
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:11,360
Speaker 1: comedy club and DC. Somebody said, you need to go

855
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: to comedy club. Well, pen Houses a comedy club club.

856
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: I actually like, when when's the next time you went

857
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: to a Okay, like four months from from that to

858
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: four months comedy club? Yeah, but I was killing in

859
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: there and I was killing that concerts. He promoters found

860
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: out about me. So you so you go to so

861
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: you go to the comedy club time and you meet

862
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence, he's there, You're on the stage. Yeah, I

863
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: got on stage and he loved it. Did you really

864
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,839
Speaker 1: know each other really, Yeah, he hadn't know hol Eddie

865
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 1: Murphy Kit. How long did you? How long did you play? Yeah?

866
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 1: He had you know, the Deaders were just right and

867
00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: then Golden Head? How long? How long did you play there?

868
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: Before you catch the break? And what's the break? Who

869
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 1: gave you a break? All black men gave me to

870
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 1: break All black man. It started with Robert Townsend. He

871
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:10,359
Speaker 1: saw me. He put me on Partners in Crime. Yeah,

872
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: he saw you. He saw me at the clubs in

873
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: l A. I'm trying to he gonna move. So I

874
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 1: started doing so good in d C. I started opening

875
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: for concerts Freddy uh Uh, Melbournemore, Evan Champagneking, Patty Bluebell.

876
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: So I'm sort of getting known throughout the city. You

877
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: see what I'm saying. Also, did Go Go music, So

878
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: Little Go Go album it was hot one summer for

879
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 1: the whole summer. Yeah, yeah, exactly, So I had that.

880
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,120
Speaker 1: So I'm bubbling, you know. But I never played a

881
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: comedy club, so people said you need to play a

882
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 1: comedy club, which I never played before. So I have

883
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 1: a comedy club. It was different, you know than what

884
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: I was doing. So the first comedy club. I went in.

885
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: Martin was there, Dave Chappelle was there. First time I

886
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: met him. I did comedy. I did good. I think,

887
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: what's the comedy? Um, I think it's Garvin's. So Dave

888
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 1: Chappelle actually been talking about it on YouTube about the

889
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:06,239
Speaker 1: first night that he met me and Martin you've been

890
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 1: talking about Yeah, at Garmen's right, he gave me a

891
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,080
Speaker 1: good compliment. I appreciate that too. That's my man right there.

892
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,839
Speaker 1: He be kind of scared of back in the day.

893
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: He used to live in my neighbor who he grew up.

894
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: Long story, so so so, so I went to the Apollo.

895
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: I said, you can, you can win the Apolo. So

896
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: I went to Apolo and Apolo was different. It wasn't

897
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,120
Speaker 1: like TV and TV the clown come out all the time.

898
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: The real Apollo, the clown never came out because everybody

899
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:38,080
Speaker 1: was serious. So I went down to the last person

900
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 1: on that just doing comedy. I'm being singers, I'm making everything.

901
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:44,440
Speaker 1: So they want to sign me, you know, I go,

902
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna make a record deal with you. To say

903
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 1: to ohing. But I've met a brother named st Clair Jones,

904
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: my first manager, a really good friend of mine, and

905
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 1: he told me, hey, man, you can do it all.

906
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:58,000
Speaker 1: He said, you could do movies, TV, you can write

907
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 1: your own ticket. I'll take you to l And I

908
00:56:00,760 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 1: paid for your ticket for like a week and you

909
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:04,960
Speaker 1: like it, would you let me manage you? I was like,

910
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: you know, we went out there s everybody here, came

911
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 1: off everywhere we went in l A. Over. Did you

912
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: ever play bird Land? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I used to.

913
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 1: I used to go. I'm trying to say if if

914
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: I haven't, was the turnout, yeah, because I used to go.

915
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: At one point I started I would go to bird

916
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: Land any weekend that we wasn't on tour and I

917
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: didn't have something to do, I would fly to bird

918
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: fly to l A. And I would live with my homeboy,

919
00:56:38,239 --> 00:56:42,800
Speaker 1: Reggie Johnson was middlewe champ of the world. So I

920
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: would live at this house in Lone Beach and we

921
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 1: go to uh to Bland on the weekend. And man,

922
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 1: I'm talking about everybody, Yeah, yeah, de yeah, all of us. Yeah.

923
00:56:53,560 --> 00:57:00,240
Speaker 1: It was liked who else, Jamie, Jamie, all these guys,

924
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: all these people. Man, you know that was the place

925
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,680
Speaker 1: none of us had TV shows, nobody had Yeah, tell me,

926
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: so you saw it? You saw it. You saw that.

927
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 1: I remember, Yeah, that was get on the stage for

928
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: fifty bucks. You know what I'm saying, I go and

929
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: sometimes free if if it was a crowded man, that's right. Yeah,

930
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 1: you're gonna do what you gotta do. Burn Land, I mean,

931
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: anybody that missed that, that was an experience. That was

932
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: one of the greatest comedy experiences for me because Birdland,

933
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: if you with the bird Land, the heckless sometimes was

934
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: better than the act on stage. To be ready, the

935
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 1: heckless was cold. Be ready there would l know what

936
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: I about Long Beach neither, you know, that's what trought

937
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: me about Long Yeah, Oh my god, I got me cavil. Yeah,

938
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: so so so you so you you played Long Beach

939
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,720
Speaker 1: and you started playing on the club And how does

940
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: in Living Color happens? Because that's what we got introduced

941
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: to New York or l A New York, I mean

942
00:58:01,360 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: l A because Jennifer Lopez is from New York and

943
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: she was a dancer on there, so traveled across the

944
00:58:07,520 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: country too. She used to go to Keenan. Yeah. Yeah,

945
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: so they were in a relationship when she got one.

946
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: I don't know that, you know, I want to be

947
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: on record. It's nice saying that's because that she got

948
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: that she that you know what I mean. But I'm

949
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:26,919
Speaker 1: mad I mat her in New York. But they were dating.

950
00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: At some point he brought her to me, I mean,

951
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 1: my trailers drinking business man of my business. He said,

952
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm here, come on, come on, my

953
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: trailer man. He brought her up and there I was like, man,

954
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: so he brought up. He brought up to offer her

955
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: to you know, he brought her this dude with wasn't

956
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:51,640
Speaker 1: offer you know what I'm saying. But I was working

957
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: with Hallie, so I was you know, said yeah, yeah,

958
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: I was working at Halley. My boy Papa was my boy.

959
00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: Me and Pappa me puffing and have we up all

960
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: night at the clubs New York. So you know, it's

961
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: it's it, that's it's a situation. Yeah. Andre Horrell to

962
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: produce in the movie. It's I'm right there. You know,

963
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:17,360
Speaker 1: he was running up town and h Andre uh, Andre's

964
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: best friend Russell, you know, yeah, Puff was Andre's assistant.

965
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: Puff was my person on the movie who takes me everywhere.

966
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: Was my sitting and all that. So you know, I'm

967
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: feeling good at this point, you know he did it

968
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: was your assistant. Yeah, I'm a movie. Start now. Listen,

969
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: boys and girls. I don't say like that, man, No, no, no,

970
00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna rub it. I'm not gonna do it

971
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just letting people know that there's levels

972
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: to this. You know, some of these youngsters and stuff,

973
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: they want to come into the game and they want

974
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:47,200
Speaker 1: to start all the way. If they can't get to

975
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:49,160
Speaker 1: if they can't start at the top, they don't even

976
00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: want it, and so and so. You know, this is

977
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: indicative of what could happen, and you humble yourself. I

978
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: got humped by him. Yeah, yeah, I humble by him.

979
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: Humility is well, humility is something that you know, you

980
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: tied that around like a belt around you. Like forgiveness,

981
01:00:09,040 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 1: you gotta carry it rich Man. It works if you

982
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: use it, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah,

983
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: it works if you use it. It's like having a gun,

984
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: you know, you know, don't take it out nless you

985
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: mean it or whatever, because what happens when you take

986
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: it out? You know. But forgiveness and humility works the

987
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: same way. But there's not disaster behind it. You know,

988
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: you get to get to live more fulfilling life because

989
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: you know you have bullets in your life chamber that

990
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: help you grow as a person and understand, so you

991
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: don't turn the stone thinking, oh, this person is here

992
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 1: and I'm here now and he was here if you're

993
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: thinking in levels, and I'm glad you said that, because

994
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 1: it's levels. I knew he was smart from Jump Street.

995
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: I knew Puffy was smart from Jump I knew it

996
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 1: from Jump Street because he took me all the clubs,

997
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:03,520
Speaker 1: all the New York clubs, underground clubs, and he was

998
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:05,320
Speaker 1: telling me, we we're riding down there. He said, Man,

999
01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: this this this group ain't even signed, Tom, you gotta

1000
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 1: see them. I was like, really, I go down there

1001
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: leaders in the New School, busting all of them. And

1002
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: he told me we got some good m season in

1003
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: the group. Man, and I've gone in there a couple

1004
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: of times. He said, but I think it's gonna be

1005
01:01:23,040 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: bust man. I think Bus gonna be the one that

1006
01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: break from that. I mean, I was like, Noah, I

1007
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: like to see Brown. Dude. Brown got nice with it.

1008
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,960
Speaker 1: He's like, Nah, busting is different, you know what I mean.

1009
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:37,280
Speaker 1: That's why I went by Nick is mad. I get

1010
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: more boots to Nash trade fu the fed wall to

1011
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: get him on the fast way ski masks where nigga

1012
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: rass some no damn him hands damnit nigga boom boom

1013
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: more gun and Rods is rolling in and then busting

1014
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: my flag your ear leaf. See hey, hi, you know

1015
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: what I'm saying that he knew that back then. He

1016
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: was telling me before they was even signed, and the

1017
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: years that they became stars. And then Buster did the

1018
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: what the remix of flavoring Year of Craigs with l

1019
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: Boy Scout uh Big who was in the jump. You

1020
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 1: know you like sports bro like you know, it was

1021
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 1: like I got taught to in in in a in

1022
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: a continuum, you see what I'm saying, Because I'm like,

1023
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 1: you know, you discover how small somebody is over time.

1024
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 1: He said that, you said, and I bet Buster back

1025
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: then and we don't go to clubs and all that.

1026
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: I knew him back again, you know what I mean,

1027
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 1: But I hadn't seen you know, I knew that he had.

1028
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:46,000
Speaker 1: You know, but when you're see him with a group

1029
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know what I'm saying, You're like, Okay,

1030
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: but puff knew that Pop saw that. You see what

1031
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: I'm saying, it's not the individual. You know, if you're

1032
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: in a producing role, then that's how you need for that.

1033
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: Saw how you need for that because you're packaging stuff,

1034
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So you're going for you know,

1035
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: you know your slave, Uh either either you slave purchaser.

1036
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know, yeah, I can

1037
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: tell by his shoulders what country is he from? You

1038
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: goett kid him six? Um, yeah, he's you know what

1039
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: I mean. In order to get him all on one place,

1040
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: to get the cotton out, you gotta know the you

1041
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So so that's and he told

1042
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,959
Speaker 1: me at a high top fade and I had to peek,

1043
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, he said. And we ride into to say, said, yo,

1044
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 1: cut that you should cut that. You know. I was like, Man,

1045
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 1: I ain't cut my peak. Man. He said, yeah, but man,

1046
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:40,040
Speaker 1: on screen, that's gonna look big man. I was like, Man,

1047
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: I'm from DC. Mannna keep my you know you're from

1048
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 1: New York. I'm from DC. Right right at the premier

1049
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: of the movie when the movie, you know, I got

1050
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:51,959
Speaker 1: on the screen. Man, this thing was like it looked

1051
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: like a shark fin on my booking four. I said

1052
01:03:56,120 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 1: that it's smart. He got an eye what I'm saying.

1053
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:04,200
Speaker 1: So when you're saying that, you're right, you see. But

1054
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: I learned that from Mario van Peebles, another legend. I mean,

1055
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: not Mario Melvin were both both of a legends. But

1056
01:04:13,280 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on the plane coming back to Canada and

1057
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 1: I'm on the down, you know, I'm going through whatever,

1058
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 1: everything bad, right, and I'm going back to l A. Man.

1059
01:04:22,680 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 1: I'm wanting to myself, Man, I had I had kind

1060
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: of a bad, bad experience with Booty Call, you know,

1061
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:33,840
Speaker 1: and I'm going home. This is a joke movie. You're crazy,

1062
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 1: Jamie turned that shot out, I said, the experience so

1063
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: so so I get back. I'm going back from Canada

1064
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: to l a five hour flight and I'm in my

1065
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:49,200
Speaker 1: head and I'm you know what I need to do? Max?

1066
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 1: You know I mean that I'm down, man, I gotta

1067
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 1: go back home with the kid. What was the bad experience?

1068
01:04:54,040 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: Before we get too far away? Bad experience just trying

1069
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 1: to reach out to stuff that wasn't up for me.

1070
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: M hum, reaching out to stuff that wasn't helping me

1071
01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: that I thought would help me instead of getting into detail.

1072
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff out there. You know, the Bible

1073
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:14,080
Speaker 1: talk about a yokes, you know, snares, you know, snares

1074
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: out the forest and the foxing his business and bam,

1075
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:21,680
Speaker 1: coax a snare elaborate on. You know, you got to

1076
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep that. Okay, I'm gonna keep it too

1077
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 1: to sufferer, you know, get taught what I got taught to.

1078
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,920
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, that snare, I never you know,

1079
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: that snare is like a little thing that's put out

1080
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: in the forest. The fox is having a good time. Wham,

1081
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 1: ain't paying attention, he ain't going nowhere, you know, and

1082
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 1: that stuff put out for us. There's a lot of

1083
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: snares somebody, somebody, somebody's listening to. You know, the whole

1084
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 1: nine yards ain't anyway. Somebody somebody's listening right now, going like, man,

1085
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: tell me deep. You know, anytime you say something, man,

1086
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:07,360
Speaker 1: you know, very time you say something sorry, any time

1087
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: you come on back your animal, any time you say

1088
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 1: something where people can't understand it, they'd be like, man,

1089
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 1: that's deep. Man, that's deep. You know. But but yeah,

1090
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: I get it. Caught up on what's there? I get it,

1091
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And you know I'm in

1092
01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 1: that the only way to Canada. Yeah, I'm going to

1093
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: l A. Okay, I'm going from Canada to l A.

1094
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: Coming down, and I'm like coming down, coming coming coming

1095
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: off a bad off, a good experience, bad you know,

1096
01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: coming down of me, coming off of me. Just trying

1097
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: to to deal with the situation at the time. So

1098
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm in the plane like it's another day.

1099
01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 1: But so Man was in the playing and he told

1100
01:07:02,440 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: me come here. Man. I never met him. Man. I

1101
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: sat down next to him. He told me everything about me.

1102
01:07:09,400 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: He took five hours and talked to me like this, Yeah,

1103
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: somebody daddy though you would expect that from the daddy head.

1104
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 1: But he knew the numbers, he knew my stats, he

1105
01:07:19,400 --> 01:07:22,480
Speaker 1: knew you know. But he told me. The main thing

1106
01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: I can sum it up. He said, you got your

1107
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: own audience. M hm, you're good. You know, whatever you're thinking,

1108
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 1: it ain't real. You got your own audience. You know

1109
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: what moves them. So if you fashion your game for

1110
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: your audience, you can take it any direction you want

1111
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 1: to go. You got very talents, take those talents and

1112
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,800
Speaker 1: craft them into places where your audiences are, you know,

1113
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: and you can do that yourself with the help of

1114
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: your respensation, not not with them doing it for you,

1115
01:07:57,360 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: because you're the one who knows your talent, and you're

1116
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: the one who knows you. And then he told me that,

1117
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:08,000
Speaker 1: he said, I did Street Bags, badass song, and I

1118
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: was the first black dude to make a movie before

1119
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: the black explotation started. He said, that was a serious movie,

1120
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:17,639
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Then they started making Shaft

1121
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 1: and all this stuff aboutdrug dealers and all that, But

1122
01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:22,639
Speaker 1: that was a serious movie, you know. But it started

1123
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:25,719
Speaker 1: a movement. Brothers got paid. It was also another dimension

1124
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:27,680
Speaker 1: of our neighborhood where we did have that going on

1125
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:29,600
Speaker 1: or whatever. You know, you got a reflection of that

1126
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: happening now, right. But he told me, he said, so

1127
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:35,600
Speaker 1: I got paid for this thing, man, And all of

1128
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,640
Speaker 1: a sudden, man I was famous, man, and and and

1129
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: and I had money. You know. I got a big

1130
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: old new house. My family could do some things, you

1131
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And then somebody asked me on

1132
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 1: a TV Digest interview, how did you get to the top,

1133
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:55,559
Speaker 1: And he told me, he said, y'all, motherfucker's wouldn't let

1134
01:08:55,560 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: me in at the bottom. Mm hmm. You said, your

1135
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:02,760
Speaker 1: top is your top. Your top is what you make it.

1136
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: That changed everything. That one conversation changed everything, Man, schooling

1137
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: right now, that one conversation changed everything. So how did

1138
01:09:21,320 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 1: you how do you get that? How did how do

1139
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:32,600
Speaker 1: you get to that audition? Um? I had when I

1140
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:35,040
Speaker 1: got the l When I got to l A, I

1141
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:38,719
Speaker 1: was the number one out of North Carolina, like number

1142
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 1: twenty three. You know what I'm saying, like national champ

1143
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 1: just yeah, yeah, yeah, j B yeah, you know what

1144
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:48,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Right, So so so I am j So

1145
01:09:49,800 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 1: I had all these deals on the table. Damn. I

1146
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: had what I wanted. Man, you number okay, so you

1147
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:58,560
Speaker 1: number three? Job pick jo number three? Now join with

1148
01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:03,800
Speaker 1: number three. You've was number one? Uh right right right?

1149
01:10:03,840 --> 01:10:09,800
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's understandable. You know. Is that region

1150
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:19,679
Speaker 1: still still Georgia fans still? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. So So anyway,

1151
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:22,920
Speaker 1: I worked my ass off, me and st Clair Jones,

1152
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 1: and we found out what it was that made me

1153
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 1: take I worked my butt off at comedy. I found

1154
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:29,760
Speaker 1: my skills. I worked on it seven days a week.

1155
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: I worked in a little Delhi, you know, I did

1156
01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: what I needed to do. I got finally to the

1157
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:39,120
Speaker 1: main room the comedy room, main room. You get you know,

1158
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 1: three years, ain't let me in comedy store. Comedy story

1159
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: and let me in the comedy store. That's key because

1160
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: I finally got called by them. Yeah, on on a

1161
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 1: on the weekend. They said, you got that. You're you're

1162
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 1: You're in the main room and on this weekend. So

1163
01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:02,719
Speaker 1: really he said, yeah, you Richard Pryor Eatie. He said, okay.

1164
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, well then do you

1165
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: want me to see the intros when you want me

1166
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: to be there? And said, no, you're on the show.

1167
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,240
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm on the show. How long they want

1168
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 1: me to do? He said, you're doing a half an hour,

1169
01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:16,360
Speaker 1: You're doing a half hour, Eddie's doing a half hour,

1170
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: and Prior is doing a half I said, okay, well

1171
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 1: what time I gotta be there, you know, to do

1172
01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,800
Speaker 1: intros for it? He said, no, Eddie comes on first.

1173
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: Hell no, you come on second for first and second

1174
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 1: show Friday night, first Shore Friday Night. Eddie comes on first,

1175
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: you come on second, Prior goes on last. Second show,

1176
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: Prior goes on first, You come on second, Eddie goes

1177
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 1: on last, and the same thing Saturday Night. It was like, seriously,

1178
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: they were like, yeah. I was like, let's go, let's go.

1179
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:49,639
Speaker 1: I was. I was like, are you closed behind Prior

1180
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 1: and the first first the first night. Yeah, so she

1181
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,000
Speaker 1: was in the middle of both both nights. Yeah, man,

1182
01:11:56,479 --> 01:12:02,760
Speaker 1: was coming behind Prior. Let's go. Oh, let's go. You

1183
01:12:02,840 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 1: had to write some new stuff, if you when it's

1184
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:08,000
Speaker 1: in me by that time, I'm like, I've lost my

1185
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: apartment and you know, in d C, I was my cars.

1186
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:13,600
Speaker 1: I had to drive a button, take the bus for

1187
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 1: the first time, and like since I was like I

1188
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,760
Speaker 1: don't know when, like, hey, I was admitted rice and

1189
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: and and and pizza on a good day after have

1190
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:26,519
Speaker 1: him out, you know what I'm saying, working in the

1191
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:30,639
Speaker 1: game whatever. So I'm like, all right, all right, cool,

1192
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: you know, I'm like, uh, Jordan's net Championship game that

1193
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: that series with Boston when he has six year Okay,

1194
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:51,519
Speaker 1: oh man, huh huh right, So it's over everybody there,

1195
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,840
Speaker 1: Stevie wonder you know, because I'm in there now. I

1196
01:12:54,880 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 1: went from burn Steve. Everybody was there. Man, it's Eddie

1197
01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: and it's Eddie and Prior. So it's a Saturday night

1198
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 1: at the college when the comics at the comedy store

1199
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 1: didn't have TV shows yet. Sign Feil's in the main room.

1200
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 1: Rose Hand's in the main room, Jim Adam Sanders in

1201
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:21,720
Speaker 1: the main Uh uh, Michael Keaton's in the main room.

1202
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: What's his name? Life like a box of chocolates. Um

1203
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 1: Hanks is in the main room. They all stand up

1204
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 1: movies in the main room. Wait wait, wait wait, So

1205
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks was a stand up comedian before he became

1206
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 1: in the main room. So I'm in the main room

1207
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:44,600
Speaker 1: from from Whoopy Go very funny on stage as a

1208
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 1: stand up. Really, she's a killer, she's the real. Yeah.

1209
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 1: And the thing about it was, I got to watch

1210
01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 1: all of them. See I came out there from d C.

1211
01:13:53,680 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 1: And since I pay my dudes in our little rooms,

1212
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: we run to the main room. Just okay. And the

1213
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 1: next day about it, you know, how do you like

1214
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 1: how he did that? He was like my, my, my

1215
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:09,640
Speaker 1: sense a man. So by the time I got that

1216
01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 1: main room shot, I was like, all right, let's go,

1217
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 1: let's go. I gotta standing ovation. Every night we're in

1218
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: the little closet. We and we in the green room,

1219
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,800
Speaker 1: ring room, green room, got the bitches and the food

1220
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah, yeah, they got prior to he

1221
01:14:28,120 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 1: got that Joan and they the hottest. So we're a

1222
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: little closet right, never forget this. So I'm sitting there

1223
01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: with my boy. You know. We then came out there,

1224
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 1: he wrote my Lissa his Nissan Sentra, you know, my

1225
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:41,000
Speaker 1: big gass TV. We drove out the l a not

1226
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 1: knowing nobody. So here we are a little, a little cubicle.

1227
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there. We're talking, not to disturb, no

1228
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:51,840
Speaker 1: camera angles. So I'm sitting there and Prior walks up

1229
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 1: to me. He looks me up and down and We're like,

1230
01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, and he shook his head. He looked at me,

1231
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:08,360
Speaker 1: he said, use a funny motherfucker, man, and just walked away. Yeah.

1232
01:15:08,439 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 1: And me and my boy was like, oh, I called

1233
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 1: my mother. I said, Mom, Mom, no proceed. You know,

1234
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 1: I'm a funny motherfucking And she was like, I told

1235
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: you not to leave. I told you not to leave.

1236
01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:20,080
Speaker 1: She wouldn't let me leave. I want to go. I

1237
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: want to go home because it was just tough, you know.

1238
01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:26,360
Speaker 1: So from there I got all these big deals with Disney.

1239
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:29,639
Speaker 1: I was I had a part on Murphy Brown without

1240
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:33,840
Speaker 1: even auditioning. Okay, um um, I had all these opportunities.

1241
01:15:33,920 --> 01:15:35,880
Speaker 1: I had a pilot with Eddie Murphy's company to do

1242
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 1: coming to America as his Little Brother of his TV

1243
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:41,959
Speaker 1: series on CBS just came out. People put it on YouTube.

1244
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: You know. It was a tough experience, but none of

1245
01:15:44,479 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 1: it happened. None of it happened, none of it. So

1246
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:52,680
Speaker 1: we went back to the clubs, you know. And so

1247
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: I get a call from my agent. Agent said, Keenan

1248
01:15:56,360 --> 01:15:59,599
Speaker 1: got a show called it a Living Color was Liken

1249
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: right now. We're just back in the clubs doing this

1250
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 1: And my agent told me, what's your audition? You get it?

1251
01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 1: You get it? You don't, you don't. I was like

1252
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:09,559
Speaker 1: a he said, just go. So when Keen is there

1253
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: with all the people, you know, and they're watching me,

1254
01:16:11,280 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 1: and they asked me to do improv. So I don't

1255
01:16:12,840 --> 01:16:14,719
Speaker 1: know how to do improv, but I knew all my life.

1256
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: So they said, man, hey, have a good one. You

1257
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: know what. I'm like, hey, because I don't not got

1258
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,160
Speaker 1: auditions before the Different world. It was me Alfonds were

1259
01:16:25,240 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 1: berrow and and Kadeem Hardison who got it? You know

1260
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 1: what I mean? Kadeem got it? You know, It's like yeah,

1261
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 1: Codem from a different character. Right. It came down to

1262
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: me and cadem I didn't get it. So I figured,

1263
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:41,719
Speaker 1: this is another one I didn't get. But I must

1264
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: keep working, you know, keep working. And and then we

1265
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 1: got a call from a Living Color. They said there's this.

1266
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: I'll say. My agent said, how do you do? I said,

1267
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:55,360
Speaker 1: I don't think I did too well. Man, He said, well,

1268
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 1: don't worry. This is there's a stand up audition at

1269
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: the laugh Factor tomorrow night. Is it? Really? Said? Yeah?

1270
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: He told me to line up. It was thirty of

1271
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: the comics that everybody. No, guess who's number thirty? Yeah,

1272
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,840
Speaker 1: give me the ball. I don't know about no, Tom Brady,

1273
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:26,240
Speaker 1: Yes I do. Uh. Jordan's uh chef chef chef uh

1274
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 1: uh Yankee grets the great You know what I'm saying? Yeah,

1275
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: Ray Robinson, Okay, now I know about that, right, I'm thinking, Hey,

1276
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: but I know what I know about this. And I'm

1277
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:52,680
Speaker 1: thirtieth and I'm thirty and I'm regardless of I get

1278
01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:56,960
Speaker 1: this show. Somebody getting hurt tonight. What's the whole crowd

1279
01:17:57,040 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: still there? Did the crowd stayed at the time? Yeah,

1280
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:04,640
Speaker 1: it was everybody, Martin Man, Yeah, is everybody you know,

1281
01:18:06,680 --> 01:18:09,919
Speaker 1: and you went on and this was not an audition.

1282
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,760
Speaker 1: This was an audition. I thought I blew the sketch thing.

1283
01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: He said, well, there's another audition. They're doing two auditions. Okay,

1284
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: they're doing two auditions doing sketch. What andy doing it?

1285
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,840
Speaker 1: So I grow up? And that's by stopping thirties? Are

1286
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Me? And and he always used to

1287
01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: train me like a boxer. So I'm on the sidewalk

1288
01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: everybody else inside She's like, let's do it again. Do

1289
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 1: it again, man, do it again. Take me through it,

1290
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: Take me through me. Take me through a john, take

1291
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: me through it. Magame on, take me through it again. Man,

1292
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:39,639
Speaker 1: we want sade w boom boom boom boom boom boom

1293
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 1: boo boo boom boo boo boo boom. Take me through

1294
01:18:41,360 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: it again, man, take me through it again. And every time,

1295
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:47,120
Speaker 1: you know, once in a while a friend of mine

1296
01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:48,560
Speaker 1: to come outside and say, hey, man, you can't do

1297
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: that thing that you do. Man, because which mccon did it?

1298
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 1: You know? Yeah, So I'd be like, all right, man,

1299
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:55,599
Speaker 1: all right, you know he's that man. I don't pay

1300
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 1: no attention. Then, man, come on, man, run the ship.

1301
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: Running ship time. You know it might come out and

1302
01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: you can't do the thing thing thing because somebody else

1303
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:05,400
Speaker 1: did that. Man, all right, man, don't worry about that. Man.

1304
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 1: Come on, let's run it time. Man. They said my name. Man,

1305
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 1: I don't remember it. I really don't remember the set.

1306
01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 1: I don't. But all I do is I remember this.

1307
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:23,599
Speaker 1: I knew what I couldn't do, right, but the comedy

1308
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: got in the sky. Robin Givings was real hot at

1309
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:32,120
Speaker 1: the time, her and Mike Tyson, right, and RoboCop was

1310
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:34,960
Speaker 1: like the number one movie, right. So I did this

1311
01:19:35,120 --> 01:19:42,439
Speaker 1: thing with Robin Gibbons as robo Cop with Tyson and

1312
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:47,760
Speaker 1: murdered it. It just came to me standing ovation keen

1313
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: to lead up, leaned up. He came out to do it.

1314
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: He said, Man, I ain't telling nobody, but it's what

1315
01:19:51,400 --> 01:19:56,800
Speaker 1: you got it, God damn got it. And they were

1316
01:19:56,840 --> 01:20:02,760
Speaker 1: all these comics were auditioning for. Yeah, yeah, only the

1317
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:09,639
Speaker 1: best of the best. Guy on there. Yeah, the uh

1318
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:12,360
Speaker 1: it was l It was everybody that goes to Burland,

1319
01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:15,800
Speaker 1: Jim Jim, Jim Carrey. He wasn't here. I'm talking about

1320
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 1: the ones who did not I know who. Jamie wasn't

1321
01:20:18,600 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 1: in but he but he would we know that did

1322
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 1: not make it? That was that John Lego Zamos almost good. U.

1323
01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: I didn't think Robin Harris. Robin Harris is good. Uh,

1324
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:37,559
Speaker 1: you know T Kane and you know what Stay um

1325
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:44,599
Speaker 1: k is good. David Allen Grier. No, I'm saying David,

1326
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: they made the show. I'm saying who who did not?

1327
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,639
Speaker 1: Trying to see but who did not make the show

1328
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:55,840
Speaker 1: that we know. I'm gonna see everybody. Lego Zamo, I'm

1329
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:59,240
Speaker 1: gonna say everybody. Man did you know? Because I can't

1330
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,840
Speaker 1: really because I was so I was so in it,

1331
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,680
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But I know that it

1332
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:07,439
Speaker 1: was when when we started the cast, it was like

1333
01:21:07,479 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: twelve people. Then they took a damn from twelve to

1334
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: just us. See, I'm more interested in knowing who those

1335
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,640
Speaker 1: people were, just you know, for the sake of the

1336
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:20,560
Speaker 1: people on the our side. Like no, I know, I

1337
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,600
Speaker 1: wish I could remember they went through all of that

1338
01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: in spite of these people still perfectly Yeah and look

1339
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:30,960
Speaker 1: at them now, I like your angle, Yeah yeah, because

1340
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,280
Speaker 1: it ain't over till us all. But never so the

1341
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: people that are on there, Jamie wasn't even in town

1342
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: yet nobody heard of what Jamie foxx Well said entertainer

1343
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:44,560
Speaker 1: or even a Bernie mac but never played on in

1344
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 1: Living Color later or whatever. No, no, no, no, no,

1345
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:50,920
Speaker 1: Jamie was in Hollywood around that time because they was

1346
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: playing Birdland. Well he wasn't, because we're talking, you're talking

1347
01:21:58,880 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: it built up from built up from AD seven, so

1348
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: A seven built up from them comics. Jamie got there

1349
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: probably about the ninety one ninety one at the at

1350
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:16,560
Speaker 1: the most, but he wasn't a party of like the

1351
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:21,640
Speaker 1: all pro squads. Yeah, you see by that time, you know,

1352
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:26,160
Speaker 1: we've been playing, playing, playing playing. But he was good.

1353
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:30,559
Speaker 1: He was good. He was real good. I remember Jamimes.

1354
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: I remember one of his first, very first jokes. He's

1355
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,720
Speaker 1: talking about his grandmother being afraid of AIDS. Like he

1356
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 1: was like talking about his grandmother like being like really

1357
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: really afraid of anybody with AIDS. And he was talking

1358
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: about the time that he was in the bathroom, uh,

1359
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 1: playing with himself and and uh and his his his

1360
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 1: his grandmother knocked on the door. Jamie, I hope you're

1361
01:22:57,280 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 1: in and that hope hen that playing what your self?

1362
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:04,640
Speaker 1: You know it that's how you get them AIDS. But

1363
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: he just kept going away. It was dudes on a

1364
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 1: totally different level even way back. And the crazy thing

1365
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: about all these cats that were playing that burn Land

1366
01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 1: you're watching, you was in it. You're watching Magic Man.

1367
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 1: You're looking at these guys, and you said, you see

1368
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:29,879
Speaker 1: every single one of these guys on in an arena

1369
01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:35,800
Speaker 1: by themselves, Like this guy could play that arena by himself. Yeah. Yeah,

1370
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: but that's I mean, it's the same with y'all. You know,

1371
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: we just came in a really good time. Yeah, you know,

1372
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: we came in a really good time. We came during

1373
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:47,760
Speaker 1: we were, we were, we're we're the new Black Renaissance.

1374
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: Anybody anywhere from eight six to nine and from ninety two,

1375
01:23:54,720 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: two thousand three or four, that's the renaissance. That that's

1376
01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:06,879
Speaker 1: the the renaissances. It's a French word for um new beginning,

1377
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And that that renaissance for them,

1378
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 1: they called it the renaissance. Because the Black More's were

1379
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:20,320
Speaker 1: in Ata Louisa. They got thrown out after being there

1380
01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:26,519
Speaker 1: for seven honey years, bringing them grapes, tomatoes, lemons, animal stalls,

1381
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:32,720
Speaker 1: most importantly algebra, algebra. They you know, they also brought

1382
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 1: them um um gunpowder stuff to change Europe. But mainly

1383
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:44,439
Speaker 1: it was the library in Cordoba, which was the library

1384
01:24:44,479 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 1: that had all these Arabic texts from Africa thousands and

1385
01:24:47,760 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: thousands of years old. So the French took those Arabic

1386
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 1: texts and translated them into French so that all that

1387
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 1: knowledge was now available to Europe because they were in

1388
01:25:01,840 --> 01:25:08,520
Speaker 1: the dark ages, you see. So they called that their renaissance,

1389
01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: you see. And then the first then that when the

1390
01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 1: English finally by the English time, the English, uh turned

1391
01:25:15,920 --> 01:25:21,080
Speaker 1: that stuff into English. They had a renaissance. They they

1392
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 1: started the first university in Europe, Oxford. So there their

1393
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: renaissance ain't nothing, but uh so i'm old for us,

1394
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 1: with with with with that. Our renaissance wasn't old something

1395
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,120
Speaker 1: but old for us. But it was brand new for

1396
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: us because the seventies from sixty nine, yeah, you know,

1397
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: it's about seventy nine when Good Times came out. That

1398
01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:51,560
Speaker 1: was a renaissance, and soul renaissance what he took and

1399
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: renamed our music. It was called soul music. And Smody

1400
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 1: coming with R and B. R and B was the

1401
01:25:56,560 --> 01:25:59,640
Speaker 1: oldest ready and all them, you know, so old man,

1402
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:04,640
Speaker 1: that was that the soul is is man drill sholights,

1403
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 1: brightest side of darkness, art building drills cameo earth when

1404
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:15,559
Speaker 1: you fry uh parliament, Uh sun brass, construction, mass production.

1405
01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:20,479
Speaker 1: That that's soul. Somebody said his R and B took

1406
01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 1: that soul off of because it was called soul. Because

1407
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:26,639
Speaker 1: what so soul? Marvin Gate, what's going on? You get

1408
01:26:26,640 --> 01:26:29,960
Speaker 1: albums that Gil Scott hearing, You get albums that you

1409
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 1: get to grow from. You see that renaissance coming off

1410
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:37,680
Speaker 1: another renaissance, but coming out of that seventy nine, what

1411
01:26:37,800 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: about eighty crack or whatever? You know, gotta be a

1412
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: new beginning somewhere. You see about eighty six eight six

1413
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: seventy nine started the hip hop thing, not the whole one,

1414
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 1: because it started in seventy seven. In my eyes, because

1415
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: I was in New York m hm, seventy six. The

1416
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:57,000
Speaker 1: first time I heard rap myself and I'm from d C.

1417
01:26:57,840 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 1: What's the first song? You heard? The first? Wraps on

1418
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: her on Wax the first song period I heard him

1419
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:09,400
Speaker 1: on cassettes. I don't know. It was some brothers from

1420
01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:12,160
Speaker 1: around the block. They just was was mixing tapes and rapping.

1421
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:18,879
Speaker 1: The first one I heard on wax was spoony mm students,

1422
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 1: students speeding down the street when they pushed my brakes,

1423
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:30,200
Speaker 1: when it seemed to find girl maybe ship or artis

1424
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:35,280
Speaker 1: from the south, from the north, from the east to

1425
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:37,479
Speaker 1: the west. Come on, did you got to go out?

1426
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:40,600
Speaker 1: And yes, yes, y'all, that's the first I heard or

1427
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: or um um do lu doo do do do lu

1428
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:45,639
Speaker 1: doo do do do lu doo do do do. That's

1429
01:27:45,680 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 1: the joint. I was HEARDing it from uptown and I

1430
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 1: was before a sugar Hill gang. The stuff I heard

1431
01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:59,040
Speaker 1: on wax was the funky for treacherous melle melingmousah turcher

1432
01:27:59,160 --> 01:28:02,439
Speaker 1: four plus one more plus one more rock hit the top,

1433
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:06,479
Speaker 1: don't hit the top and k K and out here

1434
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: you ain't c k K. We're gonna we've been breaking

1435
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:10,680
Speaker 1: to the break to day. We're gonna go all the

1436
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: way k K checking out, y'all. You don't you know

1437
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 1: I was hearing that. See that was that was me

1438
01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: in d C. They dined years before the is before

1439
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 1: the butt. Yeah. You mentioned Richard and and Eddie at

1440
01:28:28,680 --> 01:28:33,840
Speaker 1: the comedy store. Right, and these are two guys to

1441
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:39,120
Speaker 1: comment giants that are on my mount us more right,

1442
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:50,720
Speaker 1: who's on your mount Rushmore for comedy them too? Um, Dave,

1443
01:28:50,760 --> 01:29:00,679
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny, yeah, Dave said, he that's what you said, Rushmore. Yeah,

1444
01:29:01,439 --> 01:29:05,280
Speaker 1: I says, right, Well, my my Brushmore would consist of

1445
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,599
Speaker 1: people that ain't my contemporary. You see. So I would

1446
01:29:08,600 --> 01:29:10,560
Speaker 1: I would put, I would put, I would put, I

1447
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: would put prior numero Oh no, I put, I put Uh.

1448
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:22,000
Speaker 1: Eddie he died for a second with Red Red Fox

1449
01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:24,599
Speaker 1: was it was from a whole another Rid was doing

1450
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:30,519
Speaker 1: comedy fifty six years. Yeah, the albums and all that. Man, Yeah,

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01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:36,040
Speaker 1: these albums he clips prior you know, prior albums came

1452
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:38,320
Speaker 1: out of the seventies. Man, Red was back in the fifties. Man,

1453
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:41,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna train. Have you ever worked with Eddie Murphy

1454
01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:46,200
Speaker 1: in the movie in movies? Nope, let's run off this

1455
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:50,920
Speaker 1: this Nope, And I wonder about that. It's round. I'm

1456
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:55,000
Speaker 1: gum coop. So we got Eddie, we got Richard, we

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01:29:55,120 --> 01:30:04,240
Speaker 1: got we got Red Fox. I put Red Um, I

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01:30:04,360 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 1: put Dick just on the strength of what he brought

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01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 1: the comedy. Okay, what he brought the comedy he brought,

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01:30:12,240 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 1: he brought, he brought consciousness. How are we gonna do

1461
01:30:15,960 --> 01:30:26,639
Speaker 1: without that, you see, Um, I'll put Robbing on that beach. Harris. Yeah,

1462
01:30:27,439 --> 01:30:33,680
Speaker 1: so you got five reconstructing Mount Rushmore, just on the

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01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:37,719
Speaker 1: strength that you know, he's off the head, he's he's

1464
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 1: he's a kid like you like he like um, like

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01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:43,920
Speaker 1: Reddy moss Man, like you know, you can't do nothing

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01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: with him. You understand. The game is so good. You

1467
01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 1: can tell him that he run his own bass patterns

1468
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 1: like you know, he just got that easily, got that thing.

1469
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:55,760
Speaker 1: You can't really you can't. You can't teach that. You know.

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01:30:56,520 --> 01:31:01,479
Speaker 1: That's my Rushmore. I got several. But you know there's

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01:31:01,479 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 1: a white Rushmore too, Robin Williams. Uh, George Carlin, a

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01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:12,759
Speaker 1: guy named um uh no, no, he crushed water Millen.

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01:31:13,240 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 1: I'm talking. I'm talking about uh Charlie Fleischer. The voice said,

1474
01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:23,680
Speaker 1: Roger Rabbit. Yeah, stand up, I understand, stand up. You know,

1475
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 1: I understand the craft. You know, I understand the craft

1476
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 1: of standout is good. Yeah, it's it's what he can

1477
01:31:30,439 --> 01:31:33,200
Speaker 1: bring to were only on an hour, half an hour?

1478
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:35,120
Speaker 1: What you can bring to an hour? Where can you

1479
01:31:35,200 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 1: bring to the table George brought you know? Yeah, he

1480
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:42,920
Speaker 1: had that that that knowledge what's that boy, they said,

1481
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:48,120
Speaker 1: He said, uh, he said, they check your pist. He said,

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01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:53,360
Speaker 1: seven eleven, opened twenty four hours a day, has a

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01:31:53,760 --> 01:32:00,439
Speaker 1: lock on the door. Having eleven is open twenty hours

1484
01:32:00,439 --> 01:32:05,120
Speaker 1: a day and it has a lock on the door. Yeah, right, right, right,

1485
01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,519
Speaker 1: right right? Is that that's sublime? But since I'm a

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01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:11,519
Speaker 1: student of the whole thing, so I got several rush

1487
01:32:12,080 --> 01:32:14,800
Speaker 1: rush mors. You know, I'm like, I'm like Bruce Lee,

1488
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, don't turn into Bruce Lee on the show

1489
01:32:18,160 --> 01:32:24,439
Speaker 1: Man Easy, cowboys, don't don't. Earlier, I said, I don't

1490
01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 1: want to affect any camera angle. Yeah, you know what

1491
01:32:28,720 --> 01:32:34,519
Speaker 1: cameras six cameras. Yeah, okay, okay, okay, y'all can cover me. Okay,

1492
01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:37,400
Speaker 1: y'all can cover me. Y'all got y'all gouts covered. No.

1493
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:41,760
Speaker 1: But but but the genius thing about him was, you know,

1494
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:47,840
Speaker 1: is that he studied each form of it. He studied

1495
01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 1: each form of it, He studied each form of martial arts.

1496
01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:54,760
Speaker 1: Boxing is boxing is a martial art. Boxing is an art,

1497
01:32:56,120 --> 01:32:58,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's art with gloves in a ring and

1498
01:32:58,439 --> 01:33:03,160
Speaker 1: rules and a ref and this technique. But judo akido

1499
01:33:03,280 --> 01:33:09,680
Speaker 1: is about weight moving weight around. Karate uh, kimpo, and

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Speaker 1: all of those are like empty hand. They're called empty hand.

1501
01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:14,720
Speaker 1: That's being able to defend yourself with nothing in your hand,

1502
01:33:14,760 --> 01:33:17,599
Speaker 1: no weapon, you see what I'm saying. And then you've

1503
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,400
Speaker 1: got the other more extravagant forms like kung fu. Kung

1504
01:33:20,439 --> 01:33:24,160
Speaker 1: foo is called time. Come fuo is called time. That's

1505
01:33:24,200 --> 01:33:28,679
Speaker 1: the name of it. So they watched animals and nature

1506
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:31,960
Speaker 1: so long that they were able to take all the

1507
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:35,120
Speaker 1: traits that they saw and put him into a defensive form.

1508
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:37,960
Speaker 1: He took all those put them all in one form.

1509
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 1: He took the best of all of them and put

1510
01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:44,720
Speaker 1: it into one. So I was wondering, can I do

1511
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:47,400
Speaker 1: that with comedy, you know? And so that's what I've done.

1512
01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:49,720
Speaker 1: If you see my show, you don't know if you

1513
01:33:49,800 --> 01:33:51,559
Speaker 1: don't know if this is the beginning or the end.

1514
01:33:53,120 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 1: You don't know if I'm making this up or it's real,

1515
01:33:57,200 --> 01:34:01,360
Speaker 1: because it is, it's all one. What is speaking of?

1516
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:06,280
Speaker 1: What's what's imaginary and real? What? What? What do you

1517
01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:11,920
Speaker 1: believe is the greatest misconception about Tommy Davison? M hmm,

1518
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:19,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, I guess I would say that

1519
01:34:19,479 --> 01:34:21,680
Speaker 1: people don't know how really skilled I am as a

1520
01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:26,599
Speaker 1: comic as as a stand up comedian. They don't really

1521
01:34:26,760 --> 01:34:29,439
Speaker 1: really realize how skilled I am. I think that's the

1522
01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:36,080
Speaker 1: average person though. But people that no comed understand skill. No,

1523
01:34:36,240 --> 01:34:38,880
Speaker 1: I don't think that. People in the business, no that.

1524
01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:42,120
Speaker 1: I don't think that other comics know that. You know,

1525
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:47,160
Speaker 1: because there's different brand's, different brands different But I disagree.

1526
01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:55,760
Speaker 1: But okay, dirt dirt dude, you can do your joint

1527
01:34:55,800 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 1: from me on that. Do do do? Do? What is

1528
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:04,320
Speaker 1: a lot of little fluke? What the hill is at? What?

1529
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:08,240
Speaker 1: I never knew? I knew that was slick, though I

1530
01:35:08,320 --> 01:35:10,400
Speaker 1: knew that. I knew that was slick. Though I knew

1531
01:35:10,400 --> 01:35:14,439
Speaker 1: it was slick, I knew it was slick. Tell me, man,

1532
01:35:14,560 --> 01:35:17,720
Speaker 1: how do you I heard it before? Now, not heard

1533
01:35:17,760 --> 01:35:20,360
Speaker 1: that exact riff, But you hear the songs, you know

1534
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:29,200
Speaker 1: the bas break something. You know you heard it, but

1535
01:35:29,479 --> 01:35:31,680
Speaker 1: y'all took some over the only reason why I can

1536
01:35:31,760 --> 01:35:34,000
Speaker 1: identify what the ship that you're doing is because I'm

1537
01:35:34,040 --> 01:35:36,200
Speaker 1: a musician. So I hear this ship, but don't don't.

1538
01:35:37,080 --> 01:35:39,439
Speaker 1: Did you do that in class like a school? Did

1539
01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:43,760
Speaker 1: you do that in the in the first grade? Did

1540
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:47,559
Speaker 1: you get sent to the principal's office. For I could

1541
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:49,840
Speaker 1: see it when Howard said that to me, I'm telling you,

1542
01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 1: I got lucky. Did you do it like after you

1543
01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:53,800
Speaker 1: finish your work, because you're a smart guy, you know,

1544
01:35:53,960 --> 01:35:55,599
Speaker 1: so you did it after you got your work done.

1545
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 1: And then you were trying to say he didn't say anything.

1546
01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,479
Speaker 1: You see that, you see this, you see I know

1547
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:04,240
Speaker 1: for I did it. Yeah, we wanted the same what

1548
01:36:04,360 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying. What I'm saying because you're a comic, I'm

1549
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:12,080
Speaker 1: a musician. But that's a whole another, that's the whole,

1550
01:36:12,080 --> 01:36:15,080
Speaker 1: another gig. And Willie is a fighter. I know that.

1551
01:36:16,080 --> 01:36:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm a comic, musician and a fighter. He's not funny,

1552
01:36:20,439 --> 01:36:24,160
Speaker 1: he's not funny, but you're funny. I'm not funny, Willie,

1553
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:26,719
Speaker 1: And you're not funny. But you don't understand you're funny.

1554
01:36:26,920 --> 01:36:31,600
Speaker 1: I'm not funny. I'm not funny. Funny. That's not funny. No,

1555
01:36:31,680 --> 01:36:33,719
Speaker 1: but he's not saying that. He's in that Robert the Neork.

1556
01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:42,320
Speaker 1: I'm funny, funny, funny Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the whole another, Yeah,

1557
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: you're on the whole another thing here. Yeah, man, we

1558
01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:47,519
Speaker 1: appreciate you coming out for having man, you know, I've

1559
01:36:47,520 --> 01:36:49,160
Speaker 1: been always wanted to see that and talk to y'all.

1560
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:53,400
Speaker 1: Why because I saw what y'all did. Do you know that?

1561
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:55,680
Speaker 1: I mean, Willie have we have never been able to

1562
01:36:55,720 --> 01:36:59,800
Speaker 1: get along like this is the most you know how

1563
01:37:00,000 --> 01:37:02,280
Speaker 1: when you get you know, y'all got on from one recording,

1564
01:37:02,800 --> 01:37:04,280
Speaker 1: but you know how when they recorded y'all in a

1565
01:37:04,360 --> 01:37:06,439
Speaker 1: different place. But look, man, it's it's it's you know

1566
01:37:06,520 --> 01:37:09,519
Speaker 1: how things can be water. You can have water under

1567
01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 1: the bridge. Did he do it? Sision last though I

1568
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 1: don't remember. You can have water under the bridge, and

1569
01:37:16,280 --> 01:37:20,040
Speaker 1: then you have people like him that will fucking try

1570
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:23,160
Speaker 1: to come with a jackhammer and destroy the bridge. You know, No,

1571
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:25,600
Speaker 1: look at this water. It was right here. Look we

1572
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: still got problems. What we're gonna do about this water?

1573
01:37:28,320 --> 01:37:30,840
Speaker 1: Right right? This? Dude? Man, I mean, I tell you,

1574
01:37:30,920 --> 01:37:32,760
Speaker 1: But that's why I don't even say ship bro Hey,

1575
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:34,600
Speaker 1: let us pray. I've been waiting for this. Let us

1576
01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:38,920
Speaker 1: because I saw it happen. You saw me and Willie

1577
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,240
Speaker 1: Dee happening. I saw y'all group happened. I saw your

1578
01:37:41,280 --> 01:37:45,080
Speaker 1: song happening. But I ain't see y'all coming really, But

1579
01:37:45,280 --> 01:37:47,559
Speaker 1: when I heard the song, I had never heard nothing

1580
01:37:47,680 --> 01:37:53,040
Speaker 1: like that. Nobody has. Everybody got a song. Everybody has

1581
01:37:53,120 --> 01:37:55,519
Speaker 1: a song that defines them. That's not your only song.

1582
01:37:55,840 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 1: Y'all got songs that are nice. Y'all got catalogs and stuff.

1583
01:37:59,160 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: But the one that his names with everybody, he's the

1584
01:38:02,160 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 1: one is that one after it comes. He never heard

1585
01:38:04,800 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 1: Willie's first song. When I left my neighborhood to make

1586
01:38:10,479 --> 01:38:13,439
Speaker 1: this big break, I promised my road dogs that I

1587
01:38:13,560 --> 01:38:16,800
Speaker 1: dedicate a super jam to the hood that is sharp

1588
01:38:16,840 --> 01:38:19,760
Speaker 1: as a sickle. So here it is fifth Ward, better

1589
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:23,320
Speaker 1: known as than Nickel. Everybody know my neighborhood. They say

1590
01:38:23,360 --> 01:38:26,160
Speaker 1: it's no good, but they don't talk that ship my

1591
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 1: Nickel the woods. And then he was like naming some

1592
01:38:29,439 --> 01:38:37,080
Speaker 1: names and ship Thomas, who is it? Jordan's Your ladies

1593
01:38:37,080 --> 01:38:40,720
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. Uh, that's a rap. Thank you for joining us.

1594
01:38:41,240 --> 01:38:46,160
Speaker 1: Uh absolutely, Tommy Davis, it's got so much man. You

1595
01:38:46,240 --> 01:38:51,679
Speaker 1: know your library. The club I was telling you about,

1596
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:55,200
Speaker 1: get me get one more second. The club we were

1597
01:38:55,240 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 1: talking about is the club he was mad him at

1598
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:05,519
Speaker 1: that club of that comedy club that was here, just joking, Hey,

1599
01:39:05,560 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: do you think that's where we met? You want you

1600
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:11,519
Speaker 1: want to do a man any time, get on the mic.

1601
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:13,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to get on the mic where we

1602
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:15,880
Speaker 1: were still we're not, we're not. We haven't closed the

1603
01:39:15,920 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 1: show out yet. Man, you got a closer shot. Say

1604
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:28,080
Speaker 1: something in the show, say something, Man. Okay, bye. This

1605
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:30,680
Speaker 1: episode was produced by a King and brought to you

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01:39:30,840 --> 01:39:35,599
Speaker 1: by The Black Effect Podcast Network and our Heart Radio