Speaker 1: Morning. Everybody is Steve j n V. Just hilarious, Charlamage
Speaker 1: the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a
Speaker 1: special guest.
Speaker 2: In the building.
Speaker 1: We have a comedian Ali Sad. Welcome, brother man. Thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. You feeling I'm good man Man.
Speaker 2: Where you from?
Speaker 1: Houston?
Speaker 2: Houston? Okay? All day, all day man. I like the
Speaker 2: way you distribute your comedy.
Speaker 3: Man, like you you you dropping specials like little Wings
Speaker 3: to drop mixtape.
Speaker 4: And they all funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you all. Going to the independent route keeping
Speaker 1: the independent. You know, I'm from Houston. We the capital
Speaker 1: of independent. You know, ain't nobody coming out the way
Speaker 1: to look for us. We just got to do it.
Speaker 2: That's right after trunk wrap a lot, after after Trump's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody always say rap a Lot. I think that's
Speaker 1: our only label too. You know, we have some other labels,
Speaker 1: but you know they ain't stick around. You know, we
Speaker 1: got what we asked, you know, and then after that
Speaker 1: you have the indipendent, you know, switch your house for sure.
Speaker 1: But rap a Lot is the a staple. Absolutely, they
Speaker 1: should have did a comedy, a comedy thing. We tried
Speaker 1: Laugh a Lot, but it didn't. It didn't stick J Prince.
Speaker 2: J Prince reputation for season. But he's a funny guy.
Speaker 1: He is. I've done. I've roasted J Prince a lot.
Speaker 2: How was that?
Speaker 1: I think that we have a healthy respect for each other.
Speaker 1: You know. The last time I wrote, I was hosting something.
Speaker 1: And it's not like I'm roasting him at a roast.
Speaker 1: This is me hosting something. I'm like, yo, man, what
Speaker 1: so you got all these bodyguards? It was him and
Speaker 1: Floyd next to each other like somebody bodyguards got to
Speaker 1: take off because can't nobody see, like, who's gonna jump
Speaker 1: on you next to J Prince? You see, I'm like,
Speaker 1: and he's small, he a small little look at you.
Speaker 1: Look at a lot of dudes around though. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: and I know most of them.
Speaker 2: So when did you know when to quit? Did you do?
Speaker 2: Did he point the fingers?
Speaker 1: I don't never quit. He just I've known him for
Speaker 1: so long. It's just he just so as well as
Speaker 1: you juggling to me today. Yeah, I don't never say nothing.
Speaker 1: I don't need Chief and Steve to come talk to
Speaker 1: me in the corner. Hey let me, I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: let about you about the ball? Said man, Now I
Speaker 1: know you from Houston.
Speaker 2: I don't know nothing in people. I'm about to write
Speaker 2: them names down.
Speaker 1: Chief and them them the guys like you see him,
Speaker 1: then it's the dudes that you see around him. But them,
Speaker 1: not the ones. This is the second layer. You gotta
Speaker 1: go to the second tier to see the actual dudes
Speaker 1: who gonna do something. You got you in the front
Speaker 1: of me and them, the big dudes like, oh, them
Speaker 1: the ones that did. He was like, nah, it was
Speaker 1: Chief and Steve.
Speaker 2: Are you supposed to be saying this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Old news. Now everybody know Steve. Okay, okay, how'd you
Speaker 1: get in the comedy man? Just being black? Really? You know,
Speaker 1: I've been funny since I was a kid, you know.
Speaker 1: I know people try to think I was funny because
Speaker 1: I was in prison, But no, I was jovially sarcastic
Speaker 1: in prison. They was just I was the kid, the
Speaker 1: kid on the back of the bus. And then when
Speaker 1: I was in prison, I was the same way. Oh
Speaker 1: so y'all about to fight? Okay, who's gonna lose this fight? Twice?
Speaker 1: What you mean? I said, because okay the mix play.
Speaker 1: One of y'all gonna win this fight, and then the
Speaker 1: CEO is gonna come in and beat up both of y'all.
Speaker 1: So who fight? So that was my logic, you know,
Speaker 1: I was. I was just a sarcastic, jovial, sarcastic person.
Speaker 1: And when I got out, it was the It was
Speaker 1: the goal. It was definitely the goal. And that became
Speaker 1: funny how you even gotta start doing the goal because
Speaker 1: you start comming to you actually don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: You've seen it, but what do you go? You know,
Speaker 1: now you got to go to an open mic. I
Speaker 1: knew I needed close. That's what I definitely knew I
Speaker 1: needed was closed because you know, comics always dressed, and
Speaker 1: I'm coming out of prison. I had a my my
Speaker 1: sister sent me a Sears, little Sears outfit. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a little it was a little shirt from Sears.
Speaker 1: It was nice at the round tables. I knew that
Speaker 1: was from Sears and some khakis of the round. Man,
Speaker 1: it's a fake polo. My daddy bottom, my daddyottom with
Speaker 1: polo is really in style. Man. I found these polos
Speaker 1: on discount. I said, Man, that is not a polo. Man,
Speaker 1: that is a dude with a flag. And it's only
Speaker 1: you know, the Knights of the round. Table. Only have
Speaker 1: three legs on that horse. Then that horse on they
Speaker 1: had three legs. Man. You know they got a store
Speaker 1: in Time Square. Nice. Then I was like, who's shopping
Speaker 1: in that? But and they and it was probably packed
Speaker 1: that nice roundable.
Speaker 4: You never want nice around table the US Polo Association.
Speaker 1: No, that US Polo Association is different. That's a that
Speaker 1: you can find them a lot of places, but that
Speaker 1: nice at the round table. You get them at palace,
Speaker 1: royal list. It's it's it's you don't want them. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a polo man, he got the polo stick his leg.
Speaker 1: His horse has four legs. The nice of the round table.
Speaker 1: The man has a flag and it's halfway down and
Speaker 1: the horses misery. Same shirt not made out of the
Speaker 1: same fine cotton. But if you're wearing now, you know
Speaker 1: how to put it together. Yeah, you can put any
Speaker 1: thing together now, you know. Back then the kids knew.
Speaker 1: It's like coming in with with Adidas with four stripes.
Speaker 2: Damn.
Speaker 1: He's like say, say, I don't think, man, no, these no,
Speaker 1: these these really Adidas. Not quite case. It's like do
Speaker 1: you remember jams Jams?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 1: I old you forty five man, I'm fifty. You don't
Speaker 1: you remember jams. We had no Jams. Y'all had the
Speaker 1: colorful shorts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeahs I had Jams.
Speaker 2: I had like the netting side of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you had the ones who didn't have the
Speaker 1: net Yeah, those are nothing.
Speaker 2: Call them jams, I know you're talking about.
Speaker 1: That was the brand name. You know, you can look
Speaker 1: him up that they was Jams can play warm. You
Speaker 1: know that's when you had money. Yes, and talk about
Speaker 1: the basketball shorts.
Speaker 3: They would kind of like basketball shorts but not really
Speaker 3: like a little fanny pack.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's the ladies like swim trunks almost more
Speaker 1: so like swim trunk more like. But if you ain't
Speaker 1: had that netted them, they knew that there was not
Speaker 1: the ones. It was nice. It was not the one
Speaker 1: you know, you know it's closed. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: knockoff clothes. Now. It's like like and I can tell
Speaker 1: like if you have the little bit time bag and
Speaker 1: your your straps never changed color, that's not the real.
Speaker 1: But it you know, it's like I saw a lady,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a grocery store. First of all,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even have to name in the
Speaker 1: grocer store. Just know it's a grocery store and she
Speaker 1: works in the grocery store. But she had the forty
Speaker 1: eight hundred dollars lou of Tome bag and she's walking
Speaker 1: into work and I was like, Nah, ain't nowhere in
Speaker 1: the world this lady work in this grocery store and
Speaker 1: she bought this She bought this bag. I just bought
Speaker 1: that bag for my mom. I know, definitely a lady
Speaker 1: who's a cashier cannot afford that bag. But in her mind,
Speaker 1: in her mind, it's like my brother and my brother
Speaker 1: got some ear rings and this is that only seen
Speaker 1: three people in the world with him. It was saying
Speaker 1: Oprah or Kelly when he was out and Dinah Ross
Speaker 1: and he got him in his head and he I'm like,
Speaker 1: so man, I told him, say, yo, you need to
Speaker 1: take them them fake it rings off? Mean what fake
Speaker 1: it rings? See this is the problem. But you then
Speaker 1: you owe me forty dollars, But you think that I
Speaker 1: think that you got ten thousand, right, You're a crazy person.
Speaker 2: I don't even know why people do that, Like, what's
Speaker 2: the point of fronting?
Speaker 1: Hey, what's the what's the saying fake it till you
Speaker 1: make it.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that. When I was young, I don't
Speaker 2: believe that.
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. Then because of the nice of
Speaker 1: the round table, she knew that knew that circle was fake.
Speaker 1: I'm just in there looking crazy. My daddy's sad, me pressed,
Speaker 1: I'm like this, my daddy bout this. That's your only excuse.
Speaker 1: My daddy bout of prison.
Speaker 2: That was your first out of prison?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my first shot prison. A nice of
Speaker 1: the round table? How long person six yeads six?
Speaker 2: What did you do?
Speaker 1: I used to be a street pharmaceutical rept with very
Speaker 1: from very front. Like they when you sell drugs, they
Speaker 1: want you to have a jacket, go to like a
Speaker 1: CVS or ride aid or somewhere. People come in with prescriptions.
Speaker 1: I was, you know, shortcutting it.
Speaker 2: What kind of drug? Was it? Drug?
Speaker 1: Unfortunately? Crack?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: You said the age said? You said okay? Like that
Speaker 1: was that?
Speaker 2: That was just ahead of your time?
Speaker 1: Marijuana. You know, I got fouting us who went to
Speaker 1: jail for marijuana is like and they and they knew
Speaker 1: it was wrong. They're like, man, this don't even make
Speaker 1: no sense. It's a leaf. Now. What I did was
Speaker 1: definitely wrong, you know, like with this and and I'm
Speaker 1: still sad about what I did. If you look at
Speaker 1: the epidemic now, you you realize that you you contributed
Speaker 1: to this in some form of fashion from what you
Speaker 1: were doing in the in the early late eighties, early nineties.
Speaker 1: And then the spin off of these drug induced children
Speaker 1: that came from the product of those people who you
Speaker 1: infected with that chemical.
Speaker 2: You can play about the crack babies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this they this day spent off and these
Speaker 1: kids take everything. You know, you know, generations, we had
Speaker 1: certain things. You know, you had the heroin, then you
Speaker 1: had weed, then you had cocaine, then you had cracked.
Speaker 1: But these kids, a man put it on the table.
Speaker 1: I'm doing all of it at once. Crush it up.
Speaker 1: Just put in the ball ex heroin. Hey that's one.
Speaker 1: That's that's at noon. And I still I still got
Speaker 1: weed and drank and I'm a snorting little thumb. I
Speaker 1: made you. I don't know what I'm doing all day, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: what it's called rolling? And I don't I don't want
Speaker 1: to do it. I don't want my kids doing it.
Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want people doing it. The
Speaker 1: fact that you only got six years back then. Is
Speaker 1: is because they were giving people football numbers. Who got
Speaker 1: six years? Hid six? I had six on the I
Speaker 1: did six on the fifteen. Wow, And I had a
Speaker 1: fifteen and a ten that ran concurrent. Said, so they
Speaker 1: said you only got six. I said, g man, no,
Speaker 1: you mean somebody, no envy. I didn't know nobody. I
Speaker 1: knew real Harris my attorney.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: When I first went in, it was a fair case
Speaker 1: and they spect to they come in, there were just
Speaker 1: gonna give you three hundred months. And in your mind
Speaker 1: they stay like that, that yeah, three hundred months. And
Speaker 1: in your mind you were like, Okay, three hundred months.
Speaker 1: That ain't that ain't nothing. But I know math, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, nah, nah, you know three hundred months twelve Nah.
Speaker 1: We carried nah. They because they said it months wouldn't
Speaker 1: sound like you can do it. Three hundred, three hundred
Speaker 1: months out of it sound like days. But then when
Speaker 1: you do go to calculating. So then it got dropped
Speaker 1: down the state right in the state. The lady came
Speaker 1: in and she was wild and the prosecute. She said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm recommending ninety nine years. This is when ninety nine years,
Speaker 1: this is the thing heavy?
Speaker 2: How much crack you got.
Speaker 6: On?
Speaker 1: Not only but it was five keys, right, So the
Speaker 1: thing is that Jesus I think is that I'm they're
Speaker 1: not supposed to let me in court because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say something. My attorney at he wasn't talking fast enough.
Speaker 1: He's like ninety nine years, And I said a very
Speaker 1: derogatory word toward that later, and I asked her who
Speaker 1: she thinks she caught. I'm like, man, I am nineteen.
Speaker 1: Who you think you caught? Ma'am? Esketball like, So we
Speaker 1: come back to court again, got reset off. She's talking
Speaker 1: about I think sixty years would be appropriate. Man again, ma'am, like,
Speaker 1: you want me to have a life as it is?
Speaker 1: So rio my attorney real hair, big shot out the
Speaker 1: real hairs. He he would in there, did what he did,
Speaker 1: and he came back. He said, man, I almost got
Speaker 1: you ten. I said, I almost got to meet ten.
Speaker 1: What happened? He said, your your cage started at fifteen,
Speaker 1: so you had to take fifteen, the lowest number. But
Speaker 1: I got that other ten because I was on Judiford probation,
Speaker 1: and so they ran it concurrent and the crazy when
Speaker 1: they gave me the ten and the fifteen. My girlfriend
Speaker 1: at the time, she's gonna she's gonna faint in court
Speaker 1: because she's thinking it's twenty five years she's gonna. I said,
Speaker 1: are you really back there doing the movies? Respect man,
Speaker 1: respect man. Listen that lady, that lady eighty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in one thing, fives in the trains bag in
Speaker 1: the house. Ask her how much? Asked me how much
Speaker 1: she sent me? While you're talking about she and their
Speaker 1: faint that dollar not a not a dollar. But now
Speaker 1: my my extra check. You know what I'm saying, Kindred,
Speaker 1: extra check, not even my extra check? Is you got
Speaker 1: to the extra check?
Speaker 2: You side is a derogatory term.
Speaker 1: It's bad, bad an extra person in your life. You
Speaker 1: gotta have something like that, you know. You can't just
Speaker 1: be like inside, now my my extra joon't Hendre. She
Speaker 1: she ain't got no but twelve grand. She bringing money
Speaker 1: up to the thing. Look how respectful that is. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying now eighty four over here out
Speaker 1: and man, it was it was she gonna faint, Hendry,
Speaker 1: Kindred in according the back too, She's like, I got you.
Speaker 1: And then when I talked on the phone, she asked me,
Speaker 1: did I want to Did I want her to go
Speaker 1: by and get that money for paying? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But she's gonna rob her, you know, rob
Speaker 1: her to bring in my bread. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But you know, yeah, yeah, you gotta have a real
Speaker 1: First of all, I don't even do drugs. No, I
Speaker 1: don't even still do. No. I don't know why I'm
Speaker 1: going into that life. I just I got too caught up.
Speaker 1: I'm about to say I'm gonna roby.
Speaker 3: When when the judd are telling you're gonna get three
Speaker 3: hundred months? At any point that you say, who can
Speaker 3: I tell on?
Speaker 1: No, you ain't thinking about no, no new That's that's
Speaker 1: that's cold, you man. It's some dudes through me in
Speaker 1: a trunk when I got I got robbed. You need
Speaker 1: a hug, brother, long. The stuff you going through.
Speaker 2: Life, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: I put this on the Specials.
Speaker 2: You got a story to tell everybody.
Speaker 1: You get out the trunk and you the trunk man.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta see the Specials and you gotta go.
Speaker 1: You gotta follow the I'm on three now, I got
Speaker 1: the trunk, I got thrown the trunk in two, I
Speaker 1: met it out the trunk. I'm out the trunk. You like, call,
Speaker 1: I've seen this. The car came through Houston, Yo, get
Speaker 1: out the trunk. And I've seen them, dudes. I ain't
Speaker 1: telling them. Dudes, you know you don't. You don't tell
Speaker 1: on people and you in the streets. But now now
Speaker 1: I'm telling everybody. Right now, I tell everybody. Bring people.
Speaker 1: Ain't got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: I think Emmy was over there. Yeah right man, Cause
Speaker 1: let me tell you. Because when I was young, I
Speaker 1: could take the mattress in jail. Oh no, I've been
Speaker 1: to jail as a real adult. I was like already
Speaker 1: sick or something like that. Traffic stop and driving with
Speaker 1: no license, spend the license crazy. Now, my license always
Speaker 1: been I don't trust my last.
Speaker 4: I don't trust my license.
Speaker 1: I don't, man, I don't trust my license at all.
Speaker 1: Like like, if I come if you and jail, if
Speaker 1: I got to come bard you out, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to senend somebody because my license is is shaky.
Speaker 2: Just never know.
Speaker 1: I probably got to stopped somewhere I didn't remember, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you know, I came to
Speaker 1: get you out. And now they talking about can you
Speaker 1: step on this side to get somebody? It's not exchange, yo,
Speaker 1: you for him? Now, I came to get it. We're
Speaker 1: supposed to both be leaving together. He can't drop my
Speaker 1: car and I don't. That's why I don't trust my license.
Speaker 1: But it's shaky sometimes, man. But that matt you can't
Speaker 1: take that mattress. No, I slept, man. It was funny.
Speaker 1: I went to jail in a in a white area
Speaker 1: and I thought, okay. And at the time, I was
Speaker 1: a spokesman for a bail bonds company and the CUCA
Speaker 1: wa I'm now. The slogan was, if you go to jail,
Speaker 1: we'll get you out. So it's no way in the
Speaker 1: world I'm gonna stay in there. But the you gotta
Speaker 1: make a phone call. Now. To make a phone call,
Speaker 1: you gotta get a bond first, right, So I said, okay,
Speaker 1: let me see the judge. I can get a bond.
Speaker 1: The man said, the judge is gone for the day.
Speaker 1: I said, but it's nine twenty a m. He's done
Speaker 1: all the judging like he's done for today. Man. So
Speaker 1: I had to stay overnight to get a bond for
Speaker 1: them to even come get me.
Speaker 2: What time did the judge come in.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is my thing. This is my thing in
Speaker 1: Bazouria County. I just wanted to let it be known
Speaker 1: Bassoura County. The man done at eight thirty and what
Speaker 1: so you come on and he's early because the next
Speaker 1: day I had to get one. They wake you up
Speaker 1: at four thirty. You in there at five. He ruled
Speaker 1: everybody sitting in the room. He gone at a thirty,
Speaker 1: so I had to wait till the next day to
Speaker 1: get bonded out. I'm thinking nobody's gonna know me because
Speaker 1: it's all white people, white and hispanic. I'm walking with
Speaker 1: a little mattress. And I was on this show on
Speaker 1: Comedy Central. This is not happening. This white guy beat
Speaker 1: on that on that window. At least come on, man,
Speaker 1: I look, I said, what's up? Man? Man? He was
Speaker 1: on this is not happening. I said, yeah, and this
Speaker 1: is not happening. Man going on all not man and
Speaker 1: in prison is loud. I can't. I couldn't take it.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was that loud when I was there.
Speaker 1: But I'm nineteen. I'm probably loud too, loud too, and
Speaker 1: this dude rapping and I'm nah This ain't what we're doing.
Speaker 1: It's sleek time. It's bedtime. This boy rapping, another dude
Speaker 1: beating on the he needed diabetic medicine. I say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you can't be doing crime if you sick, bro, you
Speaker 1: got to be I was healthy when I was doing
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: So so when you get out of jail, you get
Speaker 3: out of prison, you get your your fake polo.
Speaker 2: Do you remember your first show?
Speaker 1: Yes, just joking, comedy cafe Thursday night, apollow night. I
Speaker 1: have on a suit because I working at Most. I
Speaker 1: got a job at the marow so I'm working at
Speaker 1: most of the men's a peril store. Got a suit on.
Speaker 1: This is when you learn observation. So it's a lot
Speaker 1: of college kids in there because it's a pollow night,
Speaker 1: and everybody up there doing everything. So I go up
Speaker 1: and all I said was hey, and them folks boom,
Speaker 1: super jacket off. I'm not even I didn't even tell
Speaker 1: her it was bad. So it was, man, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about them boozers. It was. It was in stereo two.
Speaker 1: So I came and sat down and my finding the
Speaker 1: drake man, what happened? I said, I think you was
Speaker 1: born with them, like you participated and at the time Nikki,
Speaker 1: she she asked me, said, did my kids mom be
Speaker 1: talking like.
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 1: And I said, uh, She said what what what your
Speaker 1: jacket at? I said, Uh, it's going to stay. They
Speaker 1: booted off me because it was it was crazy. So
Speaker 1: you go back up there and get you jacket, man, Yes,
Speaker 1: spending people man, it was it was so I waited
Speaker 1: for two weeks, waiting for two weeks, came back T
Speaker 1: shirt and jeans, and I didn't write down what I
Speaker 1: was doing because everybody was singing man. And I never
Speaker 1: won at this bottle night because people hit you with
Speaker 1: the gospel songs. Even though I was I was good
Speaker 1: gospel song man. I heard I sang. The dude he
Speaker 1: was started rapping and was getting about to get booted
Speaker 1: and changed his song. In the middle of the song,
Speaker 1: we started singing about Jesus, so like this, how you
Speaker 1: spell relief? J U s you like? So I changed
Speaker 1: my whole thing, went back up every week for about
Speaker 1: a month and a half to the people. As soon
Speaker 1: as I would get there. After that, people were like, yo, man,
Speaker 1: you're going up tonight. Oh he's funny. So I ended
Speaker 1: up becoming the host of that same place that I
Speaker 1: got booed and just joking Comedy Cafe and I was
Speaker 1: the host for like a year, and yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: it started.
Speaker 2: Do you remember the joke that that got him, that
Speaker 2: made you say, you know what, I can do this?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I remember the jones that got him. It was
Speaker 1: a dude. A dude tried to boo me that was
Speaker 1: on a football team and I told him that he
Speaker 1: was a he was a nose tackle. It wouldn't hike
Speaker 1: the ball because he liked the way the quarterback had
Speaker 1: his hands on this ball.
Speaker 2: He was the center. You mean he's the center.
Speaker 1: H I was like, yo, he he, I don't feel
Speaker 1: like it.
Speaker 2: I remember it was.
Speaker 1: That's when I was doing jokes, you know, and not
Speaker 1: the stories. You know. So now it's it's a different thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've really in a joke and maybe
Speaker 1: ten years.
Speaker 5: So, how did you turn into the storyteller comedian? Because
Speaker 5: that's that a lot of that's hard for people to do,
Speaker 5: Like it's hard, but it's hard.
Speaker 1: Deal deal. I'm I'm on the road with d L
Speaker 1: and he he told me, he said, yo, man, the
Speaker 1: funniest you're gonna ever be in life is based on
Speaker 1: how honest you want to be. And this was after
Speaker 1: some people when I was writing jokes. I don't even
Speaker 1: blame the people anymore, because I think that when you
Speaker 1: have writers, that writers under the pressure of turning in
Speaker 1: something to another comic, and so they could see your
Speaker 1: show and then turn in, man, I don't have nothing
Speaker 1: this week. But if you try to get that check,
Speaker 1: so you turn in somebody else's material to the person
Speaker 1: who you turned it into has no idea that you
Speaker 1: that you just sought it somewhere, and so now are
Speaker 1: you a thief? So now I just I switched from
Speaker 1: doing jokes to doing everything personally about me and if
Speaker 1: you would have to, and people still try to steal it.
Speaker 1: But it's hard because now you know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of comics that all of a sudden they went to jail,
Speaker 1: but I went to prison. It's a different thing. Jailing
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the jail, but prison is
Speaker 1: two different things. So I would go up and people
Speaker 1: trying to doing jail stuff in front of me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: but you know that's not what I'm doing. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: walking through my life from ten years old to now.
Speaker 1: So it just happens to be the first comedy series
Speaker 1: of specials like these. All these specials are tied together.
Speaker 1: So if you see three now, which came out Mother's Day,
Speaker 1: you can't go see you can't go see four without
Speaker 1: seeing one and two and one is one is the
Speaker 1: is the masterpiece. But three is the best one to
Speaker 1: me thus far that I that I see, and two
Speaker 1: has a different, a different cachet to it because I
Speaker 1: was showing a different skill set in the actual art
Speaker 1: of it, because it's two faces to comedy. You know,
Speaker 1: it's having a tragedy. So in two my sister passed,
Speaker 1: and well it's late now, you know, you know, twenty years,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen it all the time.
Speaker 2: Grief is not linear. I don't know how you're feeling
Speaker 2: this morning about.
Speaker 1: It, man, twenty years ago to say.
Speaker 2: Twenty years.
Speaker 1: Years, I don't know. Sorry, sorry, man, Well I'm man.
Speaker 1: We've dealt with God's crazy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: People racked them up about seven more, you can say, man,
Speaker 2: I can run them off.
Speaker 1: After my sister, with my son, then it was my grandmother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we we had some hard ones, man. So that's why
Speaker 1: I heard about all of them, brother, That's why I
Speaker 1: did loss, because that's one of the number one things
Speaker 1: in the black community that man, death runs through our
Speaker 1: family a little harder than just a loss. It's like,
Speaker 1: now you got to figure out how to bury them
Speaker 1: and and all this. Man, I don't I'm I don't
Speaker 1: want not another gold fund. Don't send me not another
Speaker 1: goal fund.
Speaker 6: Me.
Speaker 1: Let's try to figure out what is the situation that
Speaker 1: we need to prepare for when it's inevitable, it's death
Speaker 1: is gonna happen, we won't even talk about it, which
Speaker 1: is hey, man, I think about death every single day,
Speaker 1: every single day. So I live a better life than
Speaker 1: most people because I know I don't have the time
Speaker 1: to be engaged in things that really I can't rectify.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not gonna hold a grudge behind something
Speaker 1: when I can get an apology or I can apologize,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, my whole intent to come
Speaker 1: up here because I was mad at you. Man, you
Speaker 1: were saying my name wrong, and you did it twice too.
Speaker 1: He was saying, Ali. I'm like, this man, know how
Speaker 1: to say my name Ali? You know, talking about my
Speaker 1: special with somebody. Yeah, I think it's name Ali. Al
Speaker 1: I'm like, and they send it to me break, I'm like,
Speaker 1: he knows how to say Ali.
Speaker 2: You know he knows because I kept hearing other people
Speaker 2: say Ali was listening.
Speaker 1: To other people better. And I asked somebody call up
Speaker 1: there and asked them who his favorite box is? Probably
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali, just take the Muhammad out.
Speaker 3: Because when the first special came out, everybody I knew
Speaker 3: was talking about that special, especially in the comedy world.
Speaker 2: It was like, Yo, you gotta watch this due Alid.
Speaker 1: You know, nobody say that. Nobody nobody said you know
Speaker 1: a lot of ain't nobody saying nobody said that? You know,
Speaker 1: It's like Ali wrong, like he said there all. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't even know Charlote. I'm like Charlamage, don't like me.
Speaker 1: When when I get up, when I finally get to
Speaker 1: the bad leading, I'm leading with man, why you're saying
Speaker 1: my name? Then I forget. Then I left it alone.
Speaker 4: It's like.
Speaker 1: Whatever. At least he mentioned me. That's all I had.
Speaker 3: But that first special took off though. Did you did
Speaker 3: you understand that it would do that or it was
Speaker 3: just a risk? Come and throw this on YouTube and
Speaker 3: see what man?
Speaker 1: I thought it was really good. And when I do
Speaker 1: a special, it takes a while for it to You know,
Speaker 1: I have recorded probably three or four specials before that
Speaker 1: one and was like, no, it's not special. So Domino
Speaker 1: Effect the first one. I knew that it was. I
Speaker 1: knew it. It's like the first album I put out
Speaker 1: talk a loud saying something that's my reasonable doubt, you know.
Speaker 1: So I knew once I put this one out, I
Speaker 1: knew it. I had that feeling about I was too
Speaker 1: excited about it, and it didn't have any flaws to it.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing when I look at something, I
Speaker 1: don't want it to have anything that somebody can grab
Speaker 1: on to like. But but what about this? So when
Speaker 1: when that happened, and then somebody said, well, what's the
Speaker 1: rest of the story, I said, what, like, what happened
Speaker 1: after that? I said, you want to know?
Speaker 4: So they oh, so you had never even planned to
Speaker 4: make it to keep on going with a series.
Speaker 1: Well, somebody ad ask me about what happened after that,
Speaker 1: and I said, okay, Well I stopped at sixteen, so
Speaker 1: let's do from sixteen to nineteen and then we get
Speaker 1: we did the first, we did two, and then I said, yo,
Speaker 1: let's finish up. How I even got incarcerated? People know
Speaker 1: I was there, but let's see how I got there.
Speaker 1: And then we did three, and we recorded three and
Speaker 1: four in DC at the same time, So we did
Speaker 1: two shows on that Friday and two shows on that Saturday.
Speaker 1: So four comes out Father's Day. So we strategically put
Speaker 1: one on Mother's Day, one on Father's Day, and four
Speaker 1: is two hours long, you know, versus the one thirty
Speaker 1: that I've been doing. And it's getting to the pinnacle
Speaker 1: of how what I went through I was inside and
Speaker 1: how did I get jovial to come out out and
Speaker 1: want to pursue comedy. So after this series, we're going
Speaker 1: to start another series called in the Shadows, which is
Speaker 1: the walk with me doing stand up, getting being in
Speaker 1: a public in a public space, trying to be private
Speaker 1: because I'm on parole, and on parole most people don't
Speaker 1: realize parole people. We try to stay out the way
Speaker 1: because we know anything can get us back incarcerated. So
Speaker 1: now you're trying to fight for your innocens from a
Speaker 1: disposition of being incarcerated. And incarceration is especially mass incarceration
Speaker 1: is it's crippling. A lot of it cripples a family
Speaker 1: because it's wear and tearing on a family. And it's
Speaker 1: not just you. You know, people think that my mom
Speaker 1: was locked up right with me, you know, and because
Speaker 1: I'm there and she's concerned about me every day. It's
Speaker 1: like when somebody go to jail. My mom, NICKI would
Speaker 1: always say, why you always go get trade out of
Speaker 1: jail when he locked up? I said, man, because something
Speaker 1: can happen just by being in there. Is the oldest boy.
Speaker 2: Again, I mean.
Speaker 1: The oldest boy, the oldest boy. You know, he's the
Speaker 1: only one that's been in trouble thus far. You know,
Speaker 1: hopefully nobody else is ever gets in trouble because my
Speaker 1: oldest daughter, Jaden, she's a chef, she's she's the she's
Speaker 1: a spinoff version of me I'm talking about. Man, It's
Speaker 1: nothing like having somebody respect your daughter in the streets
Speaker 1: like they respect you. And they always hey, man, I
Speaker 1: saw your daughter. Man, she's a g man like appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You know you raised I raised a good one. But
Speaker 1: you know that that raising daughters, you also have this fear,
Speaker 1: this constant fear because you've been incoss rated.
Speaker 2: And you know.
Speaker 1: How people that's not really good navigate. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've sat down and I've talked to people who have
Speaker 1: attacked women and you know, and did all these these
Speaker 1: file things in the world. So when you out in
Speaker 1: the street, everything I see is a red flag. It's
Speaker 1: just like you're like, man, you know, hey, listen, this
Speaker 1: is a sign that triggers them, you know, but you
Speaker 1: can't tell women. I'm I should be able to do yeah,
Speaker 1: but but but you know, I should be able to
Speaker 1: do too, But I don't go.
Speaker 2: And then you don't want to raise your kids out
Speaker 2: of field. But it's kind of.
Speaker 1: Hard not to, kind of hard not to because everything,
Speaker 1: everything that you've experienced, you know. Even with my sons, man,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very fearful of him having children out of
Speaker 1: wed lock with people that that don't serve him. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm not that father who like would tell
Speaker 1: my daughters this. No, I'm more on my son. A man,
Speaker 1: keep your penis in your pans, bro, before you end
Speaker 1: up in a situation that you can't get out of.
Speaker 1: Then some of these young men out here nowadays, man,
Speaker 1: they need some real talking to. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear about another young lady losing her life because her
Speaker 1: brother didn't understand no, absolutely or she want to leave.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a man and I have girls, and
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm I'm really concerned about the state of
Speaker 1: mind these young men because I'm like, yo, man, what
Speaker 1: is your deal? But I understand, I know where it
Speaker 1: comes from. I don't understand these situations, but I understand
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't communicate enough. They on this machine
Speaker 1: all day on this phone, and you you you don't, Man,
Speaker 1: I got turned down. You know you need to take
Speaker 1: that walk, what I'm saying. And just at a at
Speaker 1: a table with friends, you decide you fin to go
Speaker 1: higher as somebody and they look at it. Look, look,
Speaker 1: look shoes on. You're gonna pick the wrong one every time.
Speaker 1: So hey, where you see me? I'm pregnant. You can't
Speaker 1: go to the next one. You know, you got to
Speaker 1: take that long walk of rejection back and forth. I man.
Speaker 3: Girls, Also, we didn't have a sense of entitlement because
Speaker 3: think about even the note we used to write.
Speaker 2: It was would you go out with me?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: No, even a maybe? So you were prepared for whatever.
Speaker 1: Man, do you understand having to ask the slow dance?
Speaker 1: After ask the dance, because now that you be dancing,
Speaker 1: somebody walking behind you no, and man, I had to
Speaker 1: go over there. Would you like to dance? And no? Cool? Right,
Speaker 1: that's cool, envy go ad, would you like to dance? Ah?
Speaker 1: She like light skin, like light skin. I see what
Speaker 1: this is. I'll never ask her again. She got a
Speaker 1: type already, g you already got a type. You gotta type.
Speaker 1: I'm right, okay, cool, all right? Not so because he
Speaker 1: like all.
Speaker 2: Right, all right.
Speaker 1: And that's when I think that was. That was a
Speaker 1: little raor where people trying to be like and I
Speaker 1: remember the bow legged era. You remember the bow legging
Speaker 1: air when dudes tried to stand like they were bow legged. No,
Speaker 1: do nothing, girl, dude. The South girls love girls love
Speaker 1: a bowt legged dude.
Speaker 4: I'm sloop for.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that. I wanted to do understand
Speaker 1: like I'm.
Speaker 5: Not a man, but I'm on the other side of it,
Speaker 5: though I did. It was something about some of them athletes,
Speaker 5: the way they're standing in there.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of your legs are like, you know,
Speaker 4: a little like parentheses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be pigeon.
Speaker 4: Told though, that's where it's different.
Speaker 1: Told and slew for. We ain't getting no love like
Speaker 1: your shoes ain't look right. If your knees not, man,
Speaker 1: I ain't never like and look it's the only knock
Speaker 1: neeede basketball player I even respect the Kenni smeth. I
Speaker 1: just didn't and I didn't even know he was knock
Speaker 1: need man. It's just something about them I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I just seen some girls so look like their legs
Speaker 1: and an x. Man, what's wrong with you? Man? How
Speaker 1: do you even getting knockne They should get a check.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you a question you said about
Speaker 2: your son.
Speaker 3: When you're telling your sons about you know, I guess
Speaker 3: women to stay away with, stay away from. How do
Speaker 3: you have that conversation with your with a son when
Speaker 3: you might be talking about his mama mm hm and.
Speaker 1: Saying I didn't say that.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen, simy son. You see how you ma? Man,
Speaker 1: you don't want one who do that? Sud right there,
Speaker 1: This is what you don't want that mother. See all
Speaker 1: this fat mither, all the fat mile. But my younger
Speaker 1: son he has he has a little crisis going on hisself.
Speaker 1: That that's Hassan. Hassan is thirteen and you have to hey, bro,
Speaker 1: you need to respect your mother, respect your sisters. He's
Speaker 1: in he's entitled. And this is and this is my fault, man,
Speaker 1: these these kids, it's slightly my fault and slightly the
Speaker 1: lady who lived in the house. This is the thing,
Speaker 1: this is the thing. You have to give him chores.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have any resp He's not responsible for anything.
Speaker 1: So I think when you don't have chores, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna have a lack of respect for a
Speaker 1: lot of things. You know, when you have chores, Man,
Speaker 1: that's a but I had things that I had to do,
Speaker 1: and so I'm structured in that way now that man,
Speaker 1: I had, Hey, before I do anything, I gotta do
Speaker 1: this and that that goes when you become a grown man.
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, man, let me take care of this first,
Speaker 1: and then I get to that if you don't have that,
Speaker 1: but you got to get that young, I get that young.
Speaker 4: You're you're a special. Part Four comes out on Father's Day.
Speaker 5: Like you said, how much is how much of that
Speaker 5: involves like your dad or does it even involve?
Speaker 1: Man? My dad? He I put him all through the
Speaker 1: rest of them, and he has a small piece. And
Speaker 1: four because he had why I was incarcerated. My pops
Speaker 1: had at fifty almost sixty years old, got locked up
Speaker 1: for an assault, right, and he my daddy thought he
Speaker 1: was on some big boss mob type thing because his
Speaker 1: two brothers was locked up. I was locked up. Then
Speaker 1: he gets locked up, so he sends five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: on everybody's books while he and while he locked up,
Speaker 1: and gonna write a letter. Yeah, just sent you some bread.
Speaker 1: We're not we're not in the family. Like say you,
Speaker 1: you didn't see me nothing until you got locked up.
Speaker 1: I don't even understand this. Like I've been locked up
Speaker 1: like four years now. He gonna, yeah, sent you some bread.
Speaker 1: Since we down here, man, I rode back, hey, man,
Speaker 1: try to go home in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: He had less time than me. He beat me on anyway,
Speaker 1: but he said money to his brother his brothers, Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Yeah. They thirstyself. Like my uncle Mac he's
Speaker 1: a g but my uncle Alfred, he's a sucker.
Speaker 2: He's a sucker.
Speaker 1: Sucker. Man. My grandmother, right, dementia, had dementia. I'm putting
Speaker 1: money in her books. The money coming up missing. He
Speaker 1: writing checks, had my grandmother sign them, and she had dementia.
Speaker 1: She got dimension. You're stealing the boss. Yeah, that's wild,
Speaker 1: and then putting in a bad position where her bills
Speaker 1: not getting paid. And I don't know who my grandmother
Speaker 1: was when she was younger, but you know, dementia, they
Speaker 1: be staying stuff in their life. So I'm I'm taking
Speaker 1: care of her. One day because my cousin were rotating
Speaker 1: and I'm over, I give a coke and coch is low.
Speaker 1: I come back to grab a coke to fill it up.
Speaker 1: She grabbed my wrists and say put my glass down.
Speaker 1: I said, what say? Put my glass down before I
Speaker 1: drown you? I said, when was you drowned grown men
Speaker 1: in your life? She must have been a mob, but
Speaker 1: she owned the cafe, so I don't know when she
Speaker 1: was doing it, but at some point she was drowning
Speaker 1: full grown. That's that ain't no regular threat. That's why
Speaker 1: before that one up, I put it down.
Speaker 3: I'm like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you I just I'm not messing with this.
Speaker 2: Later, you sound like d L.
Speaker 1: Sometimes when just in regular conversation you man called you
Speaker 1: all Now you said you sound like somebody else me
Speaker 1: and d L has a total different voice. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: have a totally different cadence.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can just hear it every now and
Speaker 2: then you said it three times.
Speaker 1: He said, you just know that, you just know, you
Speaker 1: just you just looked in the files. You sound like
Speaker 1: Bill Bird to.
Speaker 2: Which one, which one of those guys you think has
Speaker 2: had the most impact on on your career?
Speaker 1: My career, how the whole?
Speaker 2: Just anybody?
Speaker 1: D L. Definitely d L. Dick Gregory, Bill Bellamy. I
Speaker 1: can put him in order the Dad's White Billy watch it.
Speaker 2: Did you?
Speaker 1: Yes, very well? Like but I don't have no by
Speaker 1: way you say, did you know? Yeah? Because you did?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Dick said, yeah, very well.
Speaker 1: Know how that was. You took experience to you know what.
Speaker 1: I heard it once you said it. I'm so a dope.
Speaker 1: I didn't even listen to me. I'm fifty.
Speaker 6: I was just saying.
Speaker 1: I was saying, and I would say, none of that. Man, man,
Speaker 1: it's a nice next, that's a nice shirt. I don't
Speaker 1: have to say, pouls mind. I'm gone, I'm kids. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, Dick, You're like, yeah, no, Dick. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, just like you and then but but
Speaker 1: but but you but you're making sense though, Charlemagne, you go,
Speaker 1: Dick on the wall. You know, what I'm saying to do, like.
Speaker 2: I like we had we had a Dick Gregory up here.
Speaker 2: We had he was up for like an hour forty
Speaker 2: five minutes.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all he gave you our for.
Speaker 2: That was that's the interview. That's how long the interview was.
Speaker 1: No, No, that man, I've done. Let me let me see,
Speaker 1: let me see after the show, Dick Gregory right now,
Speaker 1: I all got a COMPLI. So we talked two shows.
Speaker 1: I think it was six hours each night. After the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so I have very close times and I don't
Speaker 1: care what nobody say. It was too many people around
Speaker 1: that night when that man told me in my face,
Speaker 1: you're going to take my place if you can maintain
Speaker 1: your attitude, said Ali, because you you a firecracker, yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, he said, man, and I understand because you're
Speaker 1: a Libra and you and he he was a Libra.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm very good with balance. I like balance,
Speaker 1: and then I don't. I don't shuck and jove, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say nothing to you that about you. I
Speaker 1: won't say in your face. I'm not even gonna say
Speaker 1: it under silence. So I'm ready to say it in
Speaker 1: your face.
Speaker 2: I don't do the.
Speaker 1: Somebody said, yes, you know who's the somebody? N you know?
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna say who the somebody is? And they
Speaker 1: said it. They I'm just I don't play them type
Speaker 1: of games. I'm just a straight forward person. And in
Speaker 1: its business, this business, it's a lot of phony ballogneas
Speaker 1: man that you can just tell me no, bro, I
Speaker 1: got tough skin. I don't need the fake and shake,
Speaker 1: and so when you try to handle me like that,
Speaker 1: I get a little I get a little touchy. And
Speaker 1: I'm not one that I don't miss worth. If I
Speaker 1: say I'm gonna do it, that's done. I'm not feel
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't play a lot. I wish I
Speaker 1: could with people, but I just don't play a lot
Speaker 1: with with the goofies. I just I can't do it.
Speaker 1: And it's a lot of them. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: people say say things and then act like they didn't
Speaker 1: say it, or because you have more popularity, you can
Speaker 1: throw something out there and people gravitate towards it. But man,
Speaker 1: I always think about Benny Blanco. You the way you
Speaker 1: handle people, that person is gonna eventually come back, you know,
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and I tell people, Man Benny Banco
Speaker 1: from The Bronx man, that man just wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to him. So I don't even handle young comics like that.
Speaker 1: It's certain things I'm gonna tell you. I don't want
Speaker 1: you in the green room when I get there. It's
Speaker 1: not your green room. You know. It's a certain code
Speaker 1: to how I came up. I don't go in the
Speaker 1: green room in my home club. If you're the headliner,
Speaker 1: until you invite me into that green room, I'm outside.
Speaker 1: Disrespect It's just a it's just a code. If I'm
Speaker 1: the feature or the host, I'm not going in the
Speaker 1: green room.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Man, what if I'm on the show, We'll watch this
Speaker 1: Dick Gregory between each show. He used to sleep, just
Speaker 1: like Damon Wayne's. They sleep in between each show. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep walking in out of the green room
Speaker 1: while they're in their sleep.
Speaker 2: Disrespectful, disrespectful.
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't make sense. But it's so many
Speaker 1: people think that they entitled to a space because you
Speaker 1: was there at that club doing the open mic. That's
Speaker 1: the open mic is not the show, but it's it's levels.
Speaker 1: So it's levels to all of it and then stand up.
Speaker 1: I think the barriers have gotten broken due to a
Speaker 1: combination of things. When people used to talk about the
Speaker 1: internet comics, they are they taking our they taking our slots,
Speaker 1: just not taking your slot. Way the people who were
Speaker 1: doing sketches, they weren't taking your slot. The comedy club,
Speaker 1: it was like this, we have a building. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: need people, people, we need people, just as can you
Speaker 1: come on Wednesday and Thursdays. We have Faison Love on Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
Speaker 1: but we're going to make this money on Wednesday and Thursdays.
Speaker 1: And we had a magic show on Tuesday before you came.
Speaker 1: And if I had defense, i had comedy defensive driving
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I'm trying the doors open so we can
Speaker 1: have a place to do comedy. You was looking people
Speaker 1: was looking at them as skipping the line. No, it's
Speaker 1: no skipping the line. In his business. You can jump forward.
Speaker 1: But then what make you have to come back? Mhm.
Speaker 1: Skill set When you first started, you know how to
Speaker 1: do stand up. You on the screen. Now these people
Speaker 1: that you were that you were getting on the screen,
Speaker 1: now these people right here, there's no added It's like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hey, y'all. Y'all saw what I just did.
Speaker 1: I'm going to cut that and I'm gonna come back
Speaker 1: and say something different.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: Then then what happened was the internet guy started getting
Speaker 1: success and then they start big dogging the stand up
Speaker 1: experienced stand up saying oh, I'm I'm making my money
Speaker 1: you have. But then pandemic happened. Now everybody got a
Speaker 1: home with their self again because I can't my editor
Speaker 1: and my people not in here. I don't have nobody
Speaker 1: to do these schedules with. Now. Now comics were Reign
Speaker 1: and Supreme doing that. We just cutting the camera on boom,
Speaker 1: what's up baby, I'm here, you know. So that's how
Speaker 1: it now. It's emerging. Now you haven't heard a beef
Speaker 1: about Internet versus traditional because now everybody's back. You had
Speaker 1: to go to the club and work. They had to
Speaker 1: come from behind the screen. Then people like me started
Speaker 1: using the screen to just promote that I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: somewhere instead of just instead of shutting because I'm I'm
Speaker 1: old school. I'm yo, man, I've been doing standing up
Speaker 1: twenty six years. I'm in the trenches. It's different for me,
Speaker 1: and now I have both. You know, now I have,
Speaker 1: but I wasn't trying to find out, trying to get
Speaker 1: on the way of the algorithm and all that. Now
Speaker 1: pay somebody to do that. But the slapsticks and the
Speaker 1: the the shock comics. Now we're back to at least
Speaker 1: with me, it's back to long form. People told me
Speaker 1: that what they told me they don't really listen to
Speaker 1: that much. They're not gonna watch the whole thing. So
Speaker 1: I started putting out longer than just an hour. He
Speaker 1: was like, Nah, this is what I want to hear.
Speaker 1: Now you engaged in the story. If you watch Law
Speaker 1: and Order, you watched John Wick, why you wouldn't watch
Speaker 1: a series of something that's funny because my only skill
Speaker 1: set is to tell stories the same way that I
Speaker 1: grew up hearing them. You know my uncle, that's how
Speaker 1: they started a man, let me tell you about this
Speaker 1: big legging lady. I just met you, like big lady.
Speaker 1: Then you you my grandmother. She'll come in and tell
Speaker 1: my aunts. You know. I tell stories just like people
Speaker 1: in your fan So it's not a it's not a
Speaker 1: magic trick to it. I read books and I listened
Speaker 1: to the ancestors how they did things, and I try
Speaker 1: to put that together and that's relatable.
Speaker 5: And a lot of people don't have that though, like
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying, a lot of it's not.
Speaker 5: It's not it's easy for people like you know, like
Speaker 5: a lot of the like internet comics, they don't know
Speaker 5: how to keep people's attention like you can do that.
Speaker 5: You're a great storyteller, and like you said, you tell
Speaker 5: it like your family member, like you know, just like
Speaker 5: people you know, people you grew up here and telling stories.
Speaker 4: People don't know how to do that.
Speaker 1: I get that's back, and that's when I'm sitting down
Speaker 1: with when the last time you sat down and you
Speaker 1: listen to a story from somebody in your family, like
Speaker 1: an aunt or all the time? Love it? Yes, all
Speaker 1: the time you got you had it. So if you
Speaker 1: were telling the story, you would probably do it the
Speaker 1: same way that you've always seen it done. If people
Speaker 1: have these disconnected families and they don't know a man,
Speaker 1: when the last time you saw your aunt?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 1: But I'm like, nah, I can't wait for my cousins
Speaker 1: to call me and say, man, let me tell you
Speaker 1: what your aunt did yesterday? You almost fell off a boat.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna listen to the whole story. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: listen to the whole entire story because and then I'm calling.
Speaker 1: Then I'm calling, oh see you out here falling off boat.
Speaker 1: I can't even wipe the car. We told you that
Speaker 1: because I grew up with them, with the whole I
Speaker 1: never did nothing private in my family. If if I
Speaker 1: did it, my mother called everybody, and then everybody know,
Speaker 1: I mean people that you didn't even think and you
Speaker 1: mind your own benness, your uncle. So you just around
Speaker 1: here peeing in the bed. Hey, man, we are and
Speaker 1: he man, we we out in the boat. That's what
Speaker 1: you want to talk about. Now, I'm just saying, your
Speaker 1: mama tell me you with every day and I'm saying,
Speaker 1: you just just pissed through a mattress what you're doing.
Speaker 4: And these are still things that people are going through.
Speaker 4: So it's relatable. It's gonna always be relatable. Family.
Speaker 1: Do you understand my uncle right now? He don't care
Speaker 1: nothing about no. Hey, remember when you used being what
Speaker 1: you So you won't say that in front of my head,
Speaker 1: in front of my head, in front of my children.
Speaker 1: You want to bring that up. I'm just that I
Speaker 1: always went I can't say this.
Speaker 3: Man, just dropped Domino Effect three on May twelfth, oh
Speaker 3: Man and Domino Effect four sixteenth day.
Speaker 1: That's right now, I think I'm gonna blow up now
Speaker 1: I don't finally got up here and.
Speaker 2: Right what you want to do? Do you want to do?
Speaker 2: Like Netflix or something like that? Doesn't even?
Speaker 1: Man, No, I don't say no, but well I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say if why not? Why can't say? Now?
Speaker 2: If it comes but they come with twenty million and say.
Speaker 1: Hey man, but if they own it, then this is
Speaker 1: none of they can't get If they own it, they
Speaker 1: can't get it.
Speaker 2: You can make up a story, you can say anything.
Speaker 2: Take the twenty mill.
Speaker 1: Wait, man, see now they got it. I'm on Netflix.
Speaker 1: I got twenty million, and now they put out I
Speaker 1: haven't put out some nonsense now people, yeah, it a
Speaker 1: cold yeah, but I want to do it on that
Speaker 1: she's doing what you're doing?
Speaker 6: They're like, yeah, yeah, neverly Chable name said, man, I
Speaker 6: may do.
Speaker 1: I'm man netflixing about me. What you're doing?
Speaker 4: You're doing so well?
Speaker 2: Now you definitely doing well.
Speaker 1: My brother man and I and I appreciate that. Man.
Speaker 1: I just can you know something, I just feel like
Speaker 1: an emmy. It's gonna come my way since I have
Speaker 1: made it. This break used to always say, you know
Speaker 1: something enough people don't know me. I gotta get up
Speaker 1: there to see DJ Mby. It wasn't really about you, yeah,
Speaker 1: because because once he hit it with that, this is
Speaker 1: a djybody. That's that's the part that you wait on.
Speaker 1: It ain't even really the show.
Speaker 2: If you hear that.
Speaker 1: Show just came out. Hey, I'm Charlamagne to God and
Speaker 1: it's just larr like what what what they need to
Speaker 1: think about. When we first started, we hated it. I
Speaker 1: was like, why we gotta keep saying our names. I
Speaker 1: don't want to see saying many But our program director
Speaker 1: of the time is like, you keep saying your name
Speaker 1: gets stuck in constant and that keeps saying your name
Speaker 1: but introducing yourself.
Speaker 4: Even when he beef with people, they be like mocking him,
Speaker 4: like j it's a whole rhythm of it.
Speaker 1: So you got to like that, just like, no, you
Speaker 1: gotta say this is But let me tell you that
Speaker 1: the the the thing that that makes me laugh like
Speaker 1: uncontrollably comes from the breakfast club and I'm talking about
Speaker 1: me and the lady living in the house. May let
Speaker 1: me tell you something if I don't care how mad
Speaker 1: if that lady called man saying, yeah, this is this
Speaker 1: sweet Joe Joe, y'all do that? What the boy who
Speaker 1: couldn't say y'all name god?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. It was true? That wasn't
Speaker 1: it was true? We know, we know, man, you was serious. Girl.
Speaker 1: Do you understand the type of I'm talking about? Man,
Speaker 1: If my day is going bad, come on web and
Speaker 1: gonna get gonna get it. But somebody made a cartoon
Speaker 1: tell them gate. But yeah, y'all got the name.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: Boy. It's like this. It was like our Sharpton versus
Speaker 1: a teleprompter. Damn you that no, oh al sharp. And
Speaker 1: the only reason I don't really say nothing about it
Speaker 1: much is because I did a just have you ever
Speaker 1: done a thing that they had the teleprop on absolutely
Speaker 1: just over the weekend, and it was it was going
Speaker 1: too fast. Yeah, And you have to like if I
Speaker 1: tell you, I'm just up there and I'm dyslexic. That's
Speaker 1: the whole other thing. People, I don't I don't do
Speaker 1: cold reads. Let me see it for let me take
Speaker 1: the picture of it in my brain. I can do it. Man.
Speaker 1: I'm in there with the cold with a cold read
Speaker 1: on the telepromptum and and I'm talking. They got on
Speaker 1: speed out. I'm just I'm like, I'm just up and
Speaker 1: the man I'm doing it. And the man looked like this,
Speaker 1: he's liker. I know, damn well, ain't none of that
Speaker 1: whatever he's saying, what are you looking at? I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: man started saying stuff like I'm the king and changing
Speaker 1: my stuff to I tell you everything. Because sometimes they
Speaker 1: be going too fast. You can't get that fast, man,
Speaker 1: do you understand the man had to look at the
Speaker 1: teleprobm he no, damn way like, bro, man, what are
Speaker 1: you looking at? Are you looking past me outside something?
Speaker 1: I'm like, nah, bro, I'm looking dead at you, but
Speaker 1: you man, it's too fast. Yeah. Billy Currels go in
Speaker 1: after me for the same position. I said, Billy Man,
Speaker 1: they tell a propab, he said, Man, I wouldn't looking
Speaker 1: at them telling problem. I was saying what I thought
Speaker 1: they wanted, look like, well, make up, got to make
Speaker 1: it up on the fly.
Speaker 2: How didy find you? Ali?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: Ali? Man? And definitely because you know you're a mess.
Speaker 4: And this man still now here calling you Ali like
Speaker 4: O L L I E le.
Speaker 1: No, he can't do nothing, man, Man spelled my name
Speaker 1: with an I s I D d i Q. I'm
Speaker 1: saying a L I first s I D d i Q. Man,
Speaker 1: it's a visit line killing him over here. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you that's dot com or you can go on YouTube
Speaker 1: a comedy, you know, Man, Just you know, stay linked
Speaker 1: in with me on my on my Instagram. Everything is
Speaker 1: the same.
Speaker 2: I'm following it right now. I think I already follow you, though.
Speaker 1: You already follow me, because I know you definitely follow
Speaker 1: my Man, what's what's what's the guy you be with
Speaker 1: all the time? And yeah, I just saw I just
Speaker 1: saw Andrew at the roast. I was at the roast. Tom.
Speaker 1: It's funny when you become a comics comic and you
Speaker 1: don't know and then you walk in the room and
Speaker 1: all these comics come over you. Hey brother, Hey man,
Speaker 1: why are you bowing? Said man, I'm not I'm a
Speaker 1: big I'm a big fan. Like, hey man, what what
Speaker 1: what's the bowing about? Though? And like Kevin was talking,
Speaker 1: I was walking around with Kevin talking to somebody. He
Speaker 1: turned around, Hey brother, I didn't know you was gonna
Speaker 1: be hey man, what is wrong with y'all? Y'all see me.
Speaker 1: And then I'm walking into the party. I'm going to
Speaker 1: the to the Farm, to the Farm Club, and I've
Speaker 1: been wanting to go get you know, Maggi Johnson, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite players of all time. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to see what him and Bus was doing. They work
Speaker 1: at in his farm club. I'm in there and as
Speaker 1: I'm walking in, this is the biggest compliment I think
Speaker 1: I ever got. I'm talking a non this no out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. I'm walking to this party. Chappelle is coming
Speaker 1: this way, a bunch of people with him, and he
Speaker 1: just stopped, Hey, Ali, you come into Cincinnati, man, next
Speaker 1: weekend at the Task Theater. I'm gonna try to come
Speaker 1: by there if I'm in town. And I'm okay, how
Speaker 1: you know my schedule? And he said, Man, take my
Speaker 1: number and call me. Okay, and I'm and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to play it cool cause I'm like, yeah, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: Chapel and walk right in there. The Sam Jays Sam
Speaker 1: that's my number, gave me his number, told me comment
Speaker 1: to the man, know my schedule. You know he all
Speaker 1: in the files. Thank you, thank y'all for having me. Man,
Speaker 1: it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,