Speaker 1: He laugh. If you watch coffee Time too, baby, you
Speaker 1: know the name Flame, my role also known as my
Speaker 1: role Flame. Come in with last and come in with
Speaker 1: jawn love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when you
Speaker 1: can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to polytics, shouting out comics,
Speaker 1: just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah you know she
Speaker 1: raped shot towns On speaking to the grounded. Second, we're
Speaker 1: gonna last cut of the kicking and at the end
Speaker 1: we leave it with just a lift di spirit. I
Speaker 1: think you want to revisit. So your first take a
Speaker 1: list of your folks. Say it's lit ah folks that
Speaker 1: we take it to. No kiss, do what you don't,
Speaker 1: No kiss, do what you do, can't no kiss, do
Speaker 1: what I do. Welcome to laugh and learned ladies and
Speaker 1: gentle good do, good morning, good evening, good something wherever
Speaker 1: you are, it's good because I'm good, I look good,
Speaker 1: I smell good, to feel good all that. Oh you're
Speaker 1: nice and so that's wait a minute, that's Lauren Hogan,
Speaker 1: Dude Godfrey, were come to get you in a minute.
Speaker 1: Let's bring on our other partner. They need to introduce themselves.
Speaker 1: I'm Flame Monroe, by the way, who is this and
Speaker 1: I'm Lauren Hogan. That's Laurie Laurie Hogan. Hello, Nick, how
Speaker 1: are you? You know? I'm loving that old Laurie thing. Yes,
Speaker 1: people are actually starting to call me Laurie. So got
Speaker 1: started something. How are you? How is your day? Nick?
Speaker 1: You're ready? I'm ready. I won't lie to you. I'm
Speaker 1: excited about Godfrey. You know, we were talking about it
Speaker 1: all week because I got a chance, I know, like
Speaker 1: so many other people did. I got a chance to
Speaker 1: check out they ready to and Godfrey absolutely killed it Nigeria.
Speaker 1: So it's ridiculous. You know, you know he from my hometown.
Speaker 1: You know he's from Chicago. I know that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know that. His impersonations are literally second to none. He's
Speaker 1: one of the best. He does a fantastic um uh
Speaker 1: President Trump. So I'm just gonna sound out, no ex
Speaker 1: President Trump say this ship right. If you're gonna say it,
Speaker 1: don't be working with my page. I think he's the
Speaker 1: only one that people are calling an ex president. Everybody's
Speaker 1: like former president or just calls them a president. He's
Speaker 1: the only ex president tell that in his own words,
Speaker 1: I said that you're fired. So that's just one of
Speaker 1: several great impersonations he's got, so I'm excited to hear
Speaker 1: him actually come on and join us and talk about
Speaker 1: everything that's going on in his life. Well, we're glad
Speaker 1: you came to join us. This morning, Mr Smith goes
Speaker 1: to Washington and you're not here in the studio with us.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, after this week, we won't be allowed to
Speaker 1: come to the studio either because COVID restrictions. So they're
Speaker 1: sending out equipment to me and Lauren, and we're going
Speaker 1: to have to do it from home or do it
Speaker 1: from somewhere like you're doing it. But me and Lauren
Speaker 1: will meet up together together and when you come in,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll all do it from the garage, from the
Speaker 1: love lounge. That would be That would be awesome. So
Speaker 1: starting next Monday, I didn't know that that it was
Speaker 1: that the announcement you talk about. Is there another announce
Speaker 1: that's announcing We got news today that today as I
Speaker 1: last closing down this studio. And it's gonna make me
Speaker 1: lazy because this is like a job to me. It
Speaker 1: makes me get up, it makes me dress up and
Speaker 1: come to work because y'all know at home, I'm laid
Speaker 1: out with a cookie hanging out of my mouth and
Speaker 1: a couple of facial hairs right there because it's my
Speaker 1: problem area. And yeah, so but so so let us know,
Speaker 1: will we will we get the full flame effect? Yes, well,
Speaker 1: I was saying, I was paid for a service. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to see him they paid for Are
Speaker 1: you for hire? I've been a hole for years. I
Speaker 1: used to say on the street. Now I'm selling on stage,
Speaker 1: and I used to be on the streets. Y'all said
Speaker 1: that it was a shame. I sold dick ties on
Speaker 1: the street. Now we're selling it on the mic. Hey,
Speaker 1: it's just different, got a little different. But it was
Speaker 1: so much more fun when I could walk up down
Speaker 1: the street jiggling. You know what. It's funny you would
Speaker 1: mentioned that because you know, this isn't one of our
Speaker 1: topics for this week, but New York literally just band uh.
Speaker 1: There was a law on the books that you could
Speaker 1: not be trans walking back and forth down the street
Speaker 1: because it was considered a distraction or it could be
Speaker 1: interpreted as solicitation. Solicitation and it literally Cuomo just struck
Speaker 1: it from the books. That was one of my topics.
Speaker 1: I was going to mention that to you, so now
Speaker 1: you are no longer it is no longer illegal to
Speaker 1: walk in New York while being trans. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know that was a law. I didn't you know how
Speaker 1: many do you know how many of my training holes
Speaker 1: that walked the street from but but you know it was.
Speaker 1: It was often deemed that if you, if if one
Speaker 1: of ample proportions like yourself, where to stop and just
Speaker 1: start to engage with someone, it could be interpreted as
Speaker 1: go back, Rewhan, what is the ample proportion a certain curvature?
Speaker 1: You know, so you know it could be distracting and
Speaker 1: people might think that, um, you know it was you
Speaker 1: weren't necessarily in your way to church. Kudos to Andrew
Speaker 1: Cuomo for that. Ladies and gentlemen. We have made major strides,
Speaker 1: uh in the trans community, and I hate to. I
Speaker 1: hate to point this out, but I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: since I since I need to, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't give a two damn rats, ask about what you
Speaker 1: think we have made such a major strides. Michael Chi
Speaker 1: did a joke last Saturday on Saturday Night Live about
Speaker 1: the transgender lift on the military that Joe Biden lifted
Speaker 1: the transgender ban on the military and the joke was
Speaker 1: don't ask, don't talk. First of all, let's start at
Speaker 1: the source. The joke wasn't funny worth for damn, it
Speaker 1: was as bad as the one that wasn't named. Then
Speaker 1: when she had Donald Trump's he had cut off that
Speaker 1: ship wasn't funny either. Let's start there. As comedians, you
Speaker 1: have to know what it is funny and what it's
Speaker 1: not funny. The joke wasn't funny. But we can't get
Speaker 1: upset with Michael ch about saying don't ask, don't talk.
Speaker 1: When drag Race has had a very successful show on
Speaker 1: on RuPaul's drag Race called Untucked for eleven seasons or more.
Speaker 1: That is wildly successful. We have to draw the line
Speaker 1: on what angers us. I'm I would be more offended
Speaker 1: if you see that I wasn't tucked and you could
Speaker 1: see what's dangling, because then you'd be mad. Chuck, there's
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing if you if that ain't what you're into,
Speaker 1: but you know eventually, if you're laying up with a
Speaker 1: trans girl, she's going to unroll and untucked and what
Speaker 1: you're saying the battle exactly. So I did it write up?
Speaker 1: What was the young lady's name? I did right up
Speaker 1: with Cynthia cynthiaself, but did it right up on NBC.
Speaker 1: They called me to interview me about it, and I
Speaker 1: gave them my true opinion because to me, the ass
Speaker 1: on Superman's chest has never still for Superman. It has
Speaker 1: always stand for self reliance, self awareness, self assurance, save yourself.
Speaker 1: All of these words started with the words self. It's
Speaker 1: about who you see looking back at you in the mirror.
Speaker 1: Michael cheated ship wasn't funny. Let's let's start there, baby
Speaker 1: saying night laugh, I definitely want to say laugh from
Speaker 1: New York you saidurday night. But let's start with some
Speaker 1: of these people y'all got on there. I'm gonna move
Speaker 1: on with that one. Let's let's move on and that's
Speaker 1: also recognized. I think it's a perfect transitions for us too.
Speaker 1: We always said we wanted to start every show in
Speaker 1: February recognizing moment in black history. And I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with something that I realized. Um and Flame
Speaker 1: you already know this. But one of the things that
Speaker 1: kind of encouraged me and inspired the career that I
Speaker 1: made in television was Bryant Gumble. Brian Gumble was the
Speaker 1: first African American to be selected for a morning national broadcast.
Speaker 1: It was common to see black people doing local television,
Speaker 1: but no one had ever been on a national stage
Speaker 1: doing a morning show until Brian Gumble. So he was
Speaker 1: the first selected to do a morning broadcast. And that
Speaker 1: was a big deal. That today show. Now we don't
Speaker 1: think about it because we see Robin Roberts, we see
Speaker 1: Michael Strahan, you know, we we see African Americans all
Speaker 1: the time. We see my favorite Gayle King. But so
Speaker 1: it's commonplace now, But there was a time when that
Speaker 1: was considered a bit edgy to have a black face
Speaker 1: popping up in your living room in Middle America, you know,
Speaker 1: a long way to say it's itching. Come on, Lauren,
Speaker 1: what what you about to say? No, I just think
Speaker 1: that I'm not okay with how many black you know,
Speaker 1: anchors that we have today. You know, Abby Phillips just
Speaker 1: got her show on CNN. Interestingly enough, um, I was
Speaker 1: actually at n a b J last year for those
Speaker 1: who don't know. It's a National Association of Black Journalists
Speaker 1: and uh, they have an awards component to their programming
Speaker 1: that they have for the weekend. And CNN was, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, given the award for lack of diversity and
Speaker 1: not actually having people of color in positions other than
Speaker 1: you know, Don Lemon is the only one we really see.
Speaker 1: Ye don't care what are you doing? So I'm to write,
Speaker 1: but I mean, I'm just saying that to say I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't think that we have enough black anchors
Speaker 1: honestly in news where it's happening more and more today.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, it's not as uncommon, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's enough. And Brian Gumble, let's let's
Speaker 1: go back. You know why Brian Gumble got the job.
Speaker 1: He had a great personality first of all, and he
Speaker 1: was a handsome man. But he was very fair, skiing
Speaker 1: with good curly hair, and he was very articulate with
Speaker 1: his words. He had a fantastic vernacular. Understand that had
Speaker 1: he been a big black brother, uh even attractive, he
Speaker 1: might not have gotten that job. That's when you always
Speaker 1: talk about that whole light skinned, dark skinned thing. If
Speaker 1: he was a big, darker skinned black man and could
Speaker 1: have been exceptionally attractive, he might not have gotten that job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was an easier pill to swallow. Is kind of
Speaker 1: the analogy that we can draw there. So, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that was just a moment in black his red one
Speaker 1: to recognize and I know that we have others. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. I mean, I saw the video.
Speaker 1: I know Flame you saw the video, and I think
Speaker 1: Nick you did too. Kamala Harris officially broke, you know,
Speaker 1: the first tie in the Senate and I was so
Speaker 1: elated and so happy. She had the mask on. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it ready also, I think there was
Speaker 1: a little smirk on her face breaking that time. I
Speaker 1: was like, yes, do it. Let me do it for y'all.
Speaker 1: Let me give it to y'all. Let me give it
Speaker 1: to you. I got my mask on purpose. Let me
Speaker 1: let me give it to y'all. Look there, So this
Speaker 1: is Kamala before they made the announcement. This is Kamala
Speaker 1: when they made the announcement that she broke the death
Speaker 1: She was snickering. She kiss I love it and I
Speaker 1: was happy to see it, you know, because they got
Speaker 1: one point nine trillion dollar COVID relief package past. Now
Speaker 1: it's not inacted yet because now it has to go
Speaker 1: to the Budget Committee and they've got to figure something's out.
Speaker 1: But the Budget Committee has now ran by Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1: And what Bernie did too was that everybody's fired. I'm
Speaker 1: bringing in my own people. We're gonna make this work.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited. You know, the Senate, these different committees
Speaker 1: that we got, Now we got some gangs is on
Speaker 1: the committee. Let me Bernie, Bernie Sanders, that was a
Speaker 1: gangster move him and then him and Nancy too. Oh
Speaker 1: they liked Bonnie and clad real old gangster diaper way
Speaker 1: and they're thing, oh my god, I love it. Okay, Nicholas,
Speaker 1: I have to bring my boy because he's gonna come
Speaker 1: on and talk. So tell me. Because you know about
Speaker 1: Godfrey before I told you that Godfrey was coming on,
Speaker 1: you're a fan because Nicholas loves comedy. That's what y'all know.
Speaker 1: Love comedy. And and to be fair, you know, you
Speaker 1: and I talked about I loved Godfrey show. I think
Speaker 1: Godfrey and I forget Godfrey's sidekick, uh Asian American guy name,
Speaker 1: but he is equally as funny and they just play
Speaker 1: well off of each other. They really do um and
Speaker 1: he has a young woman on their attractive sister as well.
Speaker 1: From time to time. It's just a solid group. And
Speaker 1: Godfrey does a great job of blending current events and
Speaker 1: politics um and mixing in humor at the same time.
Speaker 1: Godfrey also does late at night, so I make sure
Speaker 1: you're ask him about this. What is he doing up
Speaker 1: at one am? There are times when I get up
Speaker 1: in the morning here Central Standard time Zone and Godfrey
Speaker 1: is up him and his girlfriend doing things on I
Speaker 1: G Live, and I'm like, when does this brother sleep?
Speaker 1: So absolutely, Godfrey's beast. Absolutely. Okay, So we're gonna bring Godfrey, Nick,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be You're gonna rejoin rejoining us after the conversation.
Speaker 1: I'll see you all after the conversation. Needs you to
Speaker 1: do the feedback on the on the the comments because
Speaker 1: from my other glass, I got my phone right here,
Speaker 1: show me a text. We got it, you got alright, alright, guys, Okay,
Speaker 1: so later we're gonna bring on to the stage right now,
Speaker 1: on to the show. My friend, um comedian Godfrey. You
Speaker 1: can see him now. He's featured on Tiffany hattrish Is
Speaker 1: They're ready to He is from my hometown of Chicago,
Speaker 1: and he is as ignorant as I am, if not more.
Speaker 1: And I said what I said, And he was the
Speaker 1: host of Tiffany's tour. They ready to last year or
Speaker 1: year before last. He did it and he was fantastic.
Speaker 1: And the first show we did that I did with
Speaker 1: him was in Vegas and I was shook. I was
Speaker 1: shook by the massive size of the stage and Godfrey
Speaker 1: pulled me to the side and say, look at here.
Speaker 1: Don't think of it like that. Go out there and
Speaker 1: talk to the first row and get the ship done.
Speaker 1: Every five shows after that, I killed every last one,
Speaker 1: only because you gave me such great Avid. Hello, God,
Speaker 1: what are folks? Was up? Okay? This is my partner,
Speaker 1: Lauren Hoban, And Lauren was going to your boy that
Speaker 1: I appreciate his Uh, don't be flirting with my girl
Speaker 1: a Laurena over here either, guy for your black gass.
Speaker 1: Uh look a little. It's all good. It's all all
Speaker 1: my training girlfriends already in my inboxes. Flame dude with Godfrey,
Speaker 1: I said, girl, let me tell you something. He don't
Speaker 1: want you. I know this nigg don't want you. Then
Speaker 1: they're gonna talk to you, but he don't want you. Well,
Speaker 1: before we get started, let's talk about that video that
Speaker 1: you posted today. And what was the background on that video?
Speaker 1: Cutting up I did for about Tiffany. No, no, no no,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the video between you and Flames. What
Speaker 1: I thought, because I will touch you talking about my
Speaker 1: Instagram because I did know we're gonna get to that one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get that one. Was we were on the
Speaker 1: road and I said, Flame, let's do a dist video,
Speaker 1: you know, and she goes, oh, let's just do one
Speaker 1: comedians and he brought out the inner gangster immediately, yeah,
Speaker 1: throwing up signs and everything else. Flame is from the
Speaker 1: West Side of Chicago. Don't get on sleep with the
Speaker 1: west Side is real. My father taught on that side
Speaker 1: of town for forty five years. So when someone say
Speaker 1: they from the west Side, there's even better, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's like I'm from the north side,
Speaker 1: but when they say west you go okay. But um,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to do that a little. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to do that as a as a as because
Speaker 1: we're comedians, and there were some people to say, oh, man,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. Man, you pushing the agenda. I go,
Speaker 1: that's Flame, that's one of my pushing. It's a comedian,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We should be able to
Speaker 1: laugh about we have, but she's got to laugh about
Speaker 1: all of our differences in a in a good place.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter, you know what I mean. We joke,
Speaker 1: she jokes on me. I joke. It's like, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't come from a hateful standpoint. And I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to appease anybody. I'm being for real. People should be
Speaker 1: able to live the way the funk they want to live, period.
Speaker 1: It said, Man, we're comedians. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: We're just comedians. Weren't gonna fuck. Yeah, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, that's what we do. So it's like when
Speaker 1: you showed her to he was like, do something gangs
Speaker 1: do some gangs. I was like, what He's like, show
Speaker 1: the tis. I'm like, okay, but but flame can laugh
Speaker 1: at that. What are you mad about? She's laughing about that,
Speaker 1: you know. And what's funny is how the LGB critique
Speaker 1: community is mad at you when you just keep it,
Speaker 1: you keep it one hundred like which you did on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club. You broke down the whole gay community
Speaker 1: ship and he was already mad at you, Like it's
Speaker 1: like they never satisfied you're you're your old schools And
Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute. That don't be disrespecting
Speaker 1: a bit. I'm still young. Well we're both we're both
Speaker 1: young old school. Take that that sounds you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We're both from the same school. So I'm like,
Speaker 1: you come from it when it was even harder. You
Speaker 1: came with a bunch of you when you were Chicago.
Speaker 1: You came amongst all us men, like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And you came and we were like, oh, ship,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't give a fuck. Cats was trying to come
Speaker 1: at you, trying to and you you you held your
Speaker 1: ground like and this is when people didn't really come out.
Speaker 1: It's like, remember, do you ever meet Mario Cantone? I did.
Speaker 1: Mario canton has been a friend of mine for a
Speaker 1: long time. And Mario Mario and he's one funny man,
Speaker 1: that's a funny dude. And he's gay. And he told
Speaker 1: me one time, he said, oh, it's so funny how
Speaker 1: the gay community now they're so he listened me. He said,
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of pussies, he goes. I came
Speaker 1: out when that was detrimental to my career. I came out.
Speaker 1: I didn't give a funk. I didn't hide nothing. I
Speaker 1: came out and I was like ostracized. He said, these
Speaker 1: people now they complaining a bit about nothing. He's like,
Speaker 1: where were you when I came out and I was
Speaker 1: getting sucking ship up? He was breaking it down. That's
Speaker 1: why I get a lot of my information from you.
Speaker 1: I get my information from people who are from that community.
Speaker 1: Whenever I talk about those situations, you know so well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I've even told Flame too that I haven't
Speaker 1: met anybody from the transgender community like her. You know,
Speaker 1: she doesn't care about pronouns and it's not about, you know,
Speaker 1: the small things. She's an anomaly in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why so many people love her
Speaker 1: so um totally. He don't you say, she goes, I'm
Speaker 1: all of them, don't baby. We because he cast the check,
Speaker 1: she makes the money we spend. I know exactly who
Speaker 1: the funk I am come and slay because he could
Speaker 1: be a he because when he takes it's sometimes he's
Speaker 1: just a heat and then he goes back and forth.
Speaker 1: So sometimes I go and I go, you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't care, doesn't care. They don't as long as you
Speaker 1: respect what the fun he does. It's the she for
Speaker 1: me because I'm her manager, so she makes the money.
Speaker 1: So I'm always say she right talked to him. So
Speaker 1: let me tell you someone. When me and Godfrey with
Speaker 1: in the dress room that night, Tiffany had already come
Speaker 1: to Godfrey about doing they're ready to and yeah, and
Speaker 1: Godfrey was like, I don't know, I'm not shooting. I'm like, god,
Speaker 1: you should do it. You should do it, and he
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know, there's not enough time. I
Speaker 1: was like, God, it's going to be a game changer, Godfrey.
Speaker 1: All the reviews from yours out now, Tip, Lauren and
Speaker 1: I were at the show to the show, okay, so
Speaker 1: we knew the elements and the earth winning fire that
Speaker 1: you was up against outside all you got. That's what
Speaker 1: they should have called it. They ready earth winning fire.
Speaker 1: She because it was sirens and alarms, helicopters and y'all
Speaker 1: kept I remember coming home after coming to the show
Speaker 1: and going on laught to tell the artist that it
Speaker 1: was so challenging, challenging for you all as comedians. God
Speaker 1: for y'all did that ship and you held your composed.
Speaker 1: You were great, Godfrey, And I want to know, do
Speaker 1: you don't regret doing to do you do you you
Speaker 1: had to that man. Thank you for kicking me in
Speaker 1: the ask Tiffany. What was funny is when I said,
Speaker 1: I said, tiff I don't know. She goes, motherfucker you
Speaker 1: better take this. It got and she goes, she goes,
Speaker 1: I got a motherfucking plan. It's all about strategy, motherfucker you.
Speaker 1: I was like, got you. She had me to agree
Speaker 1: on I said, got you. And and when I look
Speaker 1: at it now, it's just like, first of all, shout
Speaker 1: out to want the Psykes and her company and page
Speaker 1: a page, the fact that they really and I love
Speaker 1: when I tell people, you know, it was outside, they're like,
Speaker 1: what outside? Imagine if it was indoors, you know how
Speaker 1: the destruction that would happened in that bitch and we
Speaker 1: killed it on the outside and blush. Remember we were
Speaker 1: a little bit separated from you guys because the tables
Speaker 1: were spread out, so it was it was a lot
Speaker 1: more air, you know, it wasn't as enclosed. So we
Speaker 1: were thank god that everybody was a veteran and we
Speaker 1: were able to just do what what we needed to do,
Speaker 1: because first of all, I wanted Tiffany to look good.
Speaker 1: This is on her reputation. This is her brand and
Speaker 1: I want her brand to be able to keep going.
Speaker 1: You know, so we out to go, Okay, I need
Speaker 1: we need to We need to bring the motherfucking pain
Speaker 1: because this is just good for Tiffany and this will
Speaker 1: get her to Hey, I'm doing another season. It is
Speaker 1: for other people, you know what I'm saying. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad it came out good. Everybody's and you know what's great? Man,
Speaker 1: It's so crazy because Tiffany has hooked up twelve comedians
Speaker 1: in a year and a half. I'm count one twelve.
Speaker 1: That is unheard of amongst our African Sorry to said,
Speaker 1: African American comedians are fucking horrible at at looking out
Speaker 1: for each other. We always beef in We're the only
Speaker 1: ones in the comedy community that beef like rappers, like
Speaker 1: black comics. We'll we'll go on public forums to dog
Speaker 1: another comic out, Like you don't have to be a
Speaker 1: fan of a certain comedian, But why are you going
Speaker 1: on a public forum to tell say, someone ain't funny
Speaker 1: or someone that what is that to you? Like? Why
Speaker 1: would you do that in a public forum? There are
Speaker 1: Asian comedians that some don't like each other but they
Speaker 1: never say it in the public form. There's Latino comedians
Speaker 1: they may not like, they don't say it in the
Speaker 1: public form. White comics they they'll they'll work with each other,
Speaker 1: not even like each other, just because they know they
Speaker 1: got a purpose. We are the only ones that take
Speaker 1: our personal bullshit and we'll say it on a fucking
Speaker 1: podcast or in an interview just to talk. It's it's disgusting.
Speaker 1: So Tiffany is literally changing the goddamn game as far
Speaker 1: as her service and what it means to to progress,
Speaker 1: black progress for real, black girl magic for real. She's
Speaker 1: fucking proving that ship. And I remember in two thousand.
Speaker 1: I've known symphony since two thousand and three, so a
Speaker 1: lot of people are late. I've been knowing her longer
Speaker 1: than probably most people. When she came out of comedy camp,
Speaker 1: out of laugh Factory comedy camp. So she used to
Speaker 1: say this when she said, when I get to a
Speaker 1: certain level. She never talked about buying a big house.
Speaker 1: She never talked about getting cars. She always said, you know,
Speaker 1: when I get there, I'm gonna help foster kids. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a I'm gonna get foster kids. Associated I'm
Speaker 1: like she wanted to help everybody. Then I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: my grandmother and my Grandmithers. Then I'm gonna get my sister.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get She always just talked about helping people. Man,
Speaker 1: just I'm going to help, help, help, help help. She
Speaker 1: still has the same house that I would that I
Speaker 1: would sleep in her, babysit her dogs, I would house
Speaker 1: sit her dogs. It's the same house. She doesn't. She
Speaker 1: talks about helping, that's all. She's always wanting to help.
Speaker 1: And she gets such a joy when she sees other
Speaker 1: people shine. Rare shit, black woman, black woman every day something.
Speaker 1: The year En, he started in that it's the year
Speaker 1: of the black woman, that year the woman of color. God,
Speaker 1: for you know, I was over women, by what you said.
Speaker 1: And Tiffy had only been a star technically since for
Speaker 1: four or five years since because when she introduced me,
Speaker 1: when bot redid my boobs, that was Tiffany Hatters and said,
Speaker 1: welcome to the stage, the queen, she was virtually unknown.
Speaker 1: And then girls trip dropped. The game was over. It
Speaker 1: was a Tom Brady All damn day was Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Pauler Tom Brady. As much as I hate Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Tiffany's tom Brady tom Brady, because everybody's going to score.
Speaker 1: She's going to get the ball to you. She gotta play.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be, You're gonna score. I don't give up.
Speaker 1: What's your talent, what's your level is? Ye're gonna get
Speaker 1: the ball. And it's not like a hook up like
Speaker 1: you know, you know some comments, so hook their friends up.
Speaker 1: Give him a little time here, as long as they
Speaker 1: don't do too much. Tiffany literally is pivoting everybody's career. Like, no,
Speaker 1: you're gonna your ship's about to change, bro. She put
Speaker 1: us on an international fucking stage. I got people from
Speaker 1: Germany because I travel overseas. I got people from Germany,
Speaker 1: friends from Germany, Amsterdam, Saudi Arabia, all the countries I've
Speaker 1: been to, going it's about time, man, like unshut like
Speaker 1: what this is what Tiffany did. Yeah, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: continue to say that. And the way and the passion
Speaker 1: that I have for it, it's real. She did this
Speaker 1: ship man, because you act aggressive. My mom aggressive almost
Speaker 1: turned down if I didn't know that I'm messing with you. See,
Speaker 1: it's remble people. People don't do this kind of ship
Speaker 1: well well let's get into you though. Well, let's get
Speaker 1: it well, you know, we love Tiffany, but we want
Speaker 1: to talk about you though, and some of the inspiration
Speaker 1: that you've had behind comedy in general. You've been in
Speaker 1: the game for a very long time, so talk to
Speaker 1: us about how you got your start and really what
Speaker 1: was your inspiration behind you, you know, deciding to take
Speaker 1: on his career. Well, my start flame those we were
Speaker 1: all around Amateur Night the same around the same time.
Speaker 1: Shout out to all jokes aside to Williams, I know
Speaker 1: was flame since nine. So shout out to George Wilborn.
Speaker 1: Shout out to George Wilborn, Shout out to Bernie Mack.
Speaker 1: These are these are these were are people that got us,
Speaker 1: that that let us get stage time. Um um all
Speaker 1: of us. Dean Cole, Corey holcum uh Chicago, d Ray Davis, Um,
Speaker 1: Lisa Ray, Lisa Ray was Lisa McCoy. She was she
Speaker 1: was at the Amateur Yeah. So, um, I was inspired
Speaker 1: in college. I went to University of Illinois, was a
Speaker 1: pre med psychology major. I got my degree in psychology
Speaker 1: and I was like I wanted to I told my parents,
Speaker 1: like my Nigerian parents that I'm gonna be I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do comedy. Because Tommy Davidson had come to the college,
Speaker 1: had done a show at the college. I saw Ricky Harris,
Speaker 1: Tommy Davison, and I saw yes, Rick Yeah. I saw
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy too. I saw Eddie Murphy and concert, which
Speaker 1: is fucking crazy. I saw Eddie Murphy and I was like,
Speaker 1: I was inspising because Eddie Murphy was our like our generation.
Speaker 1: We were like Eddie Murphy too, a comedy to a
Speaker 1: rock star level. Not just because Richard Pryor, which Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy followed all his ship. Eddie Murphy made it cool,
Speaker 1: like to be in leather pants and take it to
Speaker 1: to be good looking, smart, funny black. You were proud
Speaker 1: to be black because he would shop on white people
Speaker 1: and but he was did it. He did it with charm.
Speaker 1: You like, That's who I want to be, you know.
Speaker 1: But in college, I wasn't trying to be Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1: When I was smaller, I didn't think I was gonna
Speaker 1: be a comedian. I wanted to be a baseball player.
Speaker 1: I played baseball, you know, and football. I was an athlete,
Speaker 1: you know, and I thought it was gonna be an
Speaker 1: astronaut because I'm a science freak. So I'm thinking I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be a sign. I'm gonna be an astronom. Played baseball,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be as because I had a lot of
Speaker 1: baseball ship and I had a lot of uh asked
Speaker 1: astronomy ship, you know. And so that, and so when
Speaker 1: I got to college, started studying psychology the whole nine.
Speaker 1: I was always interested in human behavior and how the
Speaker 1: brain works. And then I got real militant too. I
Speaker 1: got very militant, uh because I went to a very
Speaker 1: white university. Uh forty five thousand students and eight hundred
Speaker 1: black students. That was all that was there. But we
Speaker 1: had all the fraternities. Delta, we had Delta A k
Speaker 1: A Sigma s g ro zeta fla beta mega's Kapita's
Speaker 1: iotified beta. We had all and we all stuck together
Speaker 1: like this. I became very militant. This is all leading
Speaker 1: to what I was doing. I used to go see
Speaker 1: the minister, you know in Chicago ministers. I would go
Speaker 1: see the minister and just to listen to that. And
Speaker 1: you know, I was into the black history, the African history.
Speaker 1: I was that dude. I became I'm still that guy.
Speaker 1: And so when I was in college, I would always
Speaker 1: hold I would always hold you know the cafeterias where
Speaker 1: everybody's sitting around talking ship. But I was always holding
Speaker 1: it down, spitting about race and politics and but but
Speaker 1: I was funny with it. And then I was like, Man,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm thinking I should do this comedy ship. Man,
Speaker 1: I think I need to do it, because I tried
Speaker 1: to do the premed ship. But the one thing I
Speaker 1: hated was when people tell me to be quiet. Oh
Speaker 1: why are you joking? You know I used to always
Speaker 1: get into with my teachers. I'm like, cause you're boring,
Speaker 1: you fucking said. But I was too vocal, And so
Speaker 1: I said, I need to try this comedy ship. And
Speaker 1: the girl that I was dating, it was a rebound ship.
Speaker 1: I had broken up with a girl on campus. It
Speaker 1: was a rebound schick. And one day she wrote a
Speaker 1: bunch of ships that I was saying, I'm not bullshitting.
Speaker 1: Her name is Toya Dix, and I will never forget
Speaker 1: this and no toy Dixon because you know her. Do
Speaker 1: You know what's so funny is her daughter came to
Speaker 1: see in New York City. Her daughter was doing an
Speaker 1: intern the same girl that like was like the catalyst
Speaker 1: to me, going, you know what, when I get back
Speaker 1: to Chicago, I am better do it. She wrote out
Speaker 1: a bunch of ships that I was saying, say you
Speaker 1: need to do that. You keep talking about doing comedy.
Speaker 1: You get back to Chicago, you need to do this ship.
Speaker 1: I said, you you know you're right. And her daughter.
Speaker 1: I saw her daughter two years ago at an internship.
Speaker 1: She came with her friends to see me at a show.
Speaker 1: How crazy is that? And then I tell her, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, your mother was part of me doing this
Speaker 1: whole comedy ship. You know what I mean? And so
Speaker 1: you know, do you remember when I was in a
Speaker 1: comedy team. Now, she would have sucked you up if
Speaker 1: she would have told you that you was her daddy.
Speaker 1: I knew I wasn't her dadd because I know dudes.
Speaker 1: That day after I told how I didn't yo. So
Speaker 1: So did you were you there flame when I was
Speaker 1: in a comedy team. God, when you when we came
Speaker 1: out together, you stayed around for a little while. And
Speaker 1: the next thing I knew, you were in New York.
Speaker 1: And when you went to New York you never came back. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't um I had. It was t K Kirkland
Speaker 1: that got me to New York. And you know, people say, oh,
Speaker 1: t K talk to him as I go, But t
Speaker 1: K is telling the truth because t K got me
Speaker 1: my first manager, and both of my managers, they're they
Speaker 1: both passed away, Rest in peace. My one. My one
Speaker 1: manager just passed away. They were a team. One of
Speaker 1: them passed away from brain cancer and my mother just
Speaker 1: died just he didn't take care of himself, but he
Speaker 1: just passed away. But they were great dudes. But t
Speaker 1: K Kirkland introduced me to them. When you know, you
Speaker 1: know t K used to come to Chicago. I used
Speaker 1: to be on shows with him because t K liked
Speaker 1: me because I was college educated. I was different, I
Speaker 1: wasn't ghetto. He goes, you're you're so original, and that's
Speaker 1: another reason why I wanted to do because I knew
Speaker 1: I was gonna be different than everybody. I had a
Speaker 1: different angle, and so t K would work with me
Speaker 1: all the time. And t K said, man, you need
Speaker 1: to come to New York City. Man, I think you'll
Speaker 1: you do well. You need to get out of here
Speaker 1: and go to New York. I said, all right. So
Speaker 1: I started just commuting out the comedy scene in New York.
Speaker 1: That's when I met Tracy Morgan, Dave Chappelle, Bill Bellingman,
Speaker 1: I met everybody, everybody from Death Jam. I was like, oh, shoot,
Speaker 1: audition for Death Jam, Bob something that never chose me.
Speaker 1: I auditioned five six times, murdered the ship, never chose me.
Speaker 1: He never chose me for some reason. Chose everybody around
Speaker 1: Chicago but me. Me. I auditioned to got passed the
Speaker 1: audition at the Peppermint with Bill Bellant gotta standing ovation.
Speaker 1: But I was not willing to play at that time
Speaker 1: because I was gay and not blind. I also have
Speaker 1: a choice. I hate when me and say, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't want someone so looking at me. Nigga, I ain't
Speaker 1: nobody looking at your fat ass. I wasn't God for
Speaker 1: you knew me back when I was young, Nigga, I
Speaker 1: would shake the whole in a state with this body.
Speaker 1: But I had choices, and the choice that I chose
Speaker 1: was not to do Death Jam because I didn't want
Speaker 1: to play that game. I just didn't want to play
Speaker 1: with that person. No not, you haven't said the name.
Speaker 1: I ain't say they name. I never out nobody like that.
Speaker 1: But that was But I remember the pepper The Pepperman
Speaker 1: was a dangerous place at that time. It was New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Remember Netflix Anniversary when Sheryl Underwood, you know she from
Speaker 1: Chicago to Sheryl Underwood went on stage and said she said,
Speaker 1: y'all remember the motherfucking Peppermint Lounge. Everybody's like, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: I was like, it was the scariest, scariest place ever.
Speaker 1: I am not when you got when you when you
Speaker 1: got a date, Tina Graham, if you a date, you
Speaker 1: would think about that date the whole mother fucking year.
Speaker 1: You'd be like, dude, I got a date in my
Speaker 1: in May. I would think about it's it's January. I'll
Speaker 1: be like, damn, I got hen Lounge. Good lord. It
Speaker 1: was killing you inside because Bill Bellamy, it was five
Speaker 1: d people in this big ass ghetto ass used to
Speaker 1: be stripped joint East Orange, New Jersey. It would be treached,
Speaker 1: would be the Naughty by Nature and the Knicks, we
Speaker 1: Altoman and Bill Bellamy. If you bombed Bill with ship
Speaker 1: on you as you're getting on stage, on right in
Speaker 1: front and mind you, this is like they were like
Speaker 1: dope dealers and drugging, and at the time that I auditioned,
Speaker 1: east On, New Jersey was the car jack capital of
Speaker 1: the nation at that time, which was like ninety five.
Speaker 1: I think. So my imagine, I'm trains, I'm walking up
Speaker 1: and me and my girlfriend. My girlfriend was real passible.
Speaker 1: May she rest in peace. She looked like a woman.
Speaker 1: I never looked like nobody's woman. You always knew that
Speaker 1: nigga banging. That's the nigga got some beautiful bodies, some
Speaker 1: pretty titties. But if you dropped the panties, you bettered up. Baby.
Speaker 1: When I tell you, it was so scary one. So
Speaker 1: when I for me to go up in their guy friend,
Speaker 1: I know just what you meant it was. I was
Speaker 1: terrified for because I thought if I wasn't good, they
Speaker 1: were gonna kill me, like for real. It's just just
Speaker 1: it was like straight fear. That's why it's so funny
Speaker 1: when I see these black comics now and they're there
Speaker 1: there clubs, I go, you just say, ship this really
Speaker 1: really it's weak as fun because you have to understand
Speaker 1: we were coming up. It was Bernie D. L. Steve Hart.
Speaker 1: It was they were killers, Mark Curry, murderers, like simply marvelous,
Speaker 1: simply marvelous, simply look simply marvelous. What like straight killers?
Speaker 1: Everybody murdered on stage. So this ship here now anyway,
Speaker 1: not knocking them, but I'm like, you didn't see fear
Speaker 1: until you came to the Cotton Club or the Click
Speaker 1: in Chicago with dope dealers and pimps and ship. This
Speaker 1: is what the fun we did. So so I get
Speaker 1: on stage right, very loud. I get on stage. I'm
Speaker 1: autist thing. Bill Bellamy goes this, next guy coming up,
Speaker 1: lady and gentlemen from Chicago got mad applause because Bernie
Speaker 1: Mack was rocking death Jam. You know, everybody respected Bernie.
Speaker 1: So I got up there and the first joke I did.
Speaker 1: First of all, when you get on that stage, there's
Speaker 1: a mirror on the stage. It looks like they're more
Speaker 1: motherfucker's in there. So it's like you go, you go, damn,
Speaker 1: and you turn around. It's just thugs looking at you.
Speaker 1: The first joke you didn't there I'm talking about. I
Speaker 1: started talking about that group Crucial Conflict, Remember Crucial Conflict.
Speaker 1: They started all that um that that fucking that fucking
Speaker 1: um that Southern They were more than they'd start kind
Speaker 1: of where the precursor to the Southern hip hop, because
Speaker 1: you know, Chicago's really southern, you know, And so they
Speaker 1: didn't remember that. Hey, in the middle of the barn
Speaker 1: was doing this ship. That ship. I was making fun
Speaker 1: of that, and I'm my fucking destroyed. I mean, I
Speaker 1: tell you how I killed that ship. And so they
Speaker 1: kept inviting me to the Peppermint Loud. I was like,
Speaker 1: God damn it. I did it about nine times. And
Speaker 1: the one time I got booed that was one time
Speaker 1: I was getting comfortable because they were used to me.
Speaker 1: One time I got booed in that bitch was when
Speaker 1: this was talking shit about me. He said, man, you
Speaker 1: fucking corny blah blah blah, And I said, and I
Speaker 1: started cheating this dude up. But everybody knew the guy,
Speaker 1: and they said, you'll leave my man alone right now.
Speaker 1: I said, he's talked to me. They all start booing me,
Speaker 1: like funk out of here, y'all. And I stayed on
Speaker 1: stage right and as they booed me, I did remember
Speaker 1: scar Face star Face, So I started acting like star
Speaker 1: Face at the end when he's getting shot, and I
Speaker 1: start doing that. They started laughing again. Then they booed
Speaker 1: me again. They laughed. They said, no, Godfrey, let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question, because the booing booing on stage,
Speaker 1: especially when you were name comedie. I love what you
Speaker 1: said about you got too comfortable going. That happens to comedians.
Speaker 1: That happened to me one time. We're coming you. We
Speaker 1: we get so comfortable and we get so complacent that
Speaker 1: I got this. I'm gonna kill this. I didn't killed
Speaker 1: the seven eight times. Not remember that every show is
Speaker 1: a fresh new show with a fresh new zero from
Speaker 1: zero star from zero. And I'm telling you, I learned
Speaker 1: that lesson the way. I didn't get booed, but I
Speaker 1: crashed into a brick wall. It's just nothing worked, y,
Speaker 1: Yes it is. It was great training, but it learned.
Speaker 1: I learned that we learned our lesson. But you know, um,
Speaker 1: I so I never did death comedy jack because I
Speaker 1: was talking to kid Kulpre not too long ago. He said, yo, God,
Speaker 1: he said, you never you did death jam Right said no,
Speaker 1: he said, get the you ain't never go. I said,
Speaker 1: they never picked me for death jail. I did. I
Speaker 1: was in a comedy team with a guy named Alexander
Speaker 1: Okay for like a year that's right before I met you,
Speaker 1: and we did. We opened up for a Dell Givens,
Speaker 1: you know Dell from Chicago to we did. We opened
Speaker 1: up for Dell Givings and I remember we were working
Speaker 1: with Steve Harvey and and my partner was pissing me off,
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm sick of this dude. And Steve
Speaker 1: told me Steve was in the Hallway of all jokes, socide.
Speaker 1: That was when he was balding at the top okay,
Speaker 1: and he was like, he's like, he's like, what's what's
Speaker 1: the matter with you? I go, yeah, I just I'm
Speaker 1: just my boy. He's like high and drunk. He keeps
Speaker 1: forgetting all the fucking lines and ship he goes. He goes,
Speaker 1: remember this ship, how about you getting for that? I said,
Speaker 1: we get like a hundred dollars. He tired of splitting
Speaker 1: that ship. I said, yeah, cut his ass. And from
Speaker 1: there that's when I went solo, Well, look at least
Speaker 1: hee gave you some good advice, because he'd be able
Speaker 1: to talk to that daughter anyway. Let me well listen,
Speaker 1: she may listen. She got the skin, baby, I don't
Speaker 1: know what card to be talking about with the wap.
Speaker 1: She may not have a whop because they might not marry,
Speaker 1: but they damn show carried. I want meet some Lori Harvey.
Speaker 1: Lorie Harvey just mailed it to me. I want to
Speaker 1: borrow it for about three days. Wait a minute, she
Speaker 1: got Michael Michael B. Jordan, but maybe she got them
Speaker 1: all turned around. I don't know what she got down there,
Speaker 1: but the black girl magic is powerful. Godfrey, let me
Speaker 1: ask you a question, cause y'all know, y'all hear Godfrey
Speaker 1: talking ship and he had core real overly top. But
Speaker 1: I've seen the sense of this size. It is a
Speaker 1: sensitive side, this nigga on lab. Was it yesterday or
Speaker 1: day before yesterday? If you have not seen that, you
Speaker 1: have to go to Godfrey's page, because I could share
Speaker 1: a moment that you probably please show when you were
Speaker 1: at Times Square and there was a billboard with your
Speaker 1: faith and your name on. I know that moment just
Speaker 1: like I'm reliving it because I I was. I came
Speaker 1: from Baltimore yesterday. I was doing the uh mcgooby shout
Speaker 1: out to mcgooby's Awesome Comedy Club. And so we was
Speaker 1: on the road, me and Andre. So he's driving and said,
Speaker 1: he goes yo, you know your bill because Aaron Jackson
Speaker 1: took a picture and said, the billboard is in Times Square.
Speaker 1: I said, and if you're a New Yorker, you want
Speaker 1: to be in Times Square. Those billboards are so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Like you know, I've seen Tiffany a few times in
Speaker 1: Times Square. She live in l A. I go, tiff
Speaker 1: there's a giant billboard, and she goes, I always imagine that.
Speaker 1: I always put that in my head that that was
Speaker 1: gonna happen, and she goes, just gonna happen to you.
Speaker 1: And I saw that yesterday and I said, and I
Speaker 1: made a video. It's my newest video. I said, Tiffany,
Speaker 1: you did that. You fucking did that. You did that.
Speaker 1: I've been here twenty years and I've never seen myself
Speaker 1: on a billboard here. I've tried, I've audition, I've done this.
Speaker 1: That the best I've never in because of you. I'm
Speaker 1: up there, right up there, just at all tips, I said,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, she just threw the ball and I got
Speaker 1: to score the touchdown. You know what I mean? I
Speaker 1: did mean it meant a lot to me because I
Speaker 1: was just in the street, like you fucking did that, yo,
Speaker 1: And I mean it's we saw all your emotions. I
Speaker 1: was just waiting on you to cray. Godfrey. I thought
Speaker 1: that was beautiful because I did that. I've experienced that
Speaker 1: same thing when we when I saw that Godfrey and
Speaker 1: then the irony is. I was on tour with the
Speaker 1: Brole's campaign and we stayed in the w Right where
Speaker 1: we actually ended up staying there. So like two months later,
Speaker 1: I was back there, but I saw my name on
Speaker 1: that billboard gard that shook me a baby, the man
Speaker 1: and me Crab, the woman in me Crad and all
Speaker 1: all all of us. We was all over there, craw
Speaker 1: like a group on we was on cram ship. But
Speaker 1: it's such an overwhelming feeling because you're like, wow, I
Speaker 1: made it to Broadway. You know so many people you
Speaker 1: know you know you know what I mean Like, and
Speaker 1: it's so funny because there are people that that that
Speaker 1: that are from that that network. We're like, we didn't
Speaker 1: even think of these people to choose, Like that's it's
Speaker 1: so crazy because Tony Woods a master of the game.
Speaker 1: Barbara Carlyle, I mean you took when she said, Barbara
Speaker 1: carl I said, Tiffany, you're something else. Man. You went
Speaker 1: and grabbed Barbara Carlisle a beast A long time to
Speaker 1: remember Barbara Carlyle meeting her in Chicago, and she'd be like,
Speaker 1: I go, Barbara, so where are you going next? When
Speaker 1: I drive, I drove buck, I'll drop. I don't give
Speaker 1: it up. I'll drop everywhere. I love drive. I don't
Speaker 1: give ship. I don't give buck as long as there's money.
Speaker 1: I'm bunt. And I said, you're about to drive where
Speaker 1: or I'm about to drive about ten hours. She was
Speaker 1: a road dog, like hardcore wrote and Tiffany just had
Speaker 1: to wear with all to find. Man, you don't meet
Speaker 1: people like that, dude. That's real ship. It is better
Speaker 1: than Santa Claus, Fu Santa Claus. They ain't got shipped
Speaker 1: on tips Santa Claus a black girl on Tiffany and
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm glad that that. I was part of
Speaker 1: her life as far as her improvement, because she goes Godfrey,
Speaker 1: you're the one that got me to this spot. I said,
Speaker 1: you were just my friend. I didn't know you're gonna
Speaker 1: be a list. I didn't know you're gonna be producing it.
Speaker 1: I just helped you because you needed help. I didn't.
Speaker 1: That's just what I do. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of ship for comics that didn't
Speaker 1: have ship. Then they got shipped and after like they
Speaker 1: didn't know me. All good. That's just that's just you
Speaker 1: as a human being. You ain't ship, that's just you,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And I skipped. I go
Speaker 1: whatever Tony Woods, who has done shipped for all of us,
Speaker 1: And you're just now getting something and you got it
Speaker 1: from Tiffany when there's a whole bunch of other motherfuckers
Speaker 1: that should have looked out for you been in one hundred.
Speaker 1: Because I do not like people who do not pay
Speaker 1: it forward. That is how the reason why we're so
Speaker 1: stagnant as black folks, because we don't have people in
Speaker 1: the circle pushing it forward, going, yo, we we gotta Yeah,
Speaker 1: the people I'm saying, the people that you know, that
Speaker 1: you know will do the job. You don't just give
Speaker 1: people ship because they black fuck that you want people,
Speaker 1: You go, this person has been doing a long time,
Speaker 1: this person's they're good this They just need a little shot,
Speaker 1: and and people go, yo, who do you need? That's
Speaker 1: how the white boys do it, and most and a
Speaker 1: lot of them be mediocre. I'm sorry, but guess what
Speaker 1: the motherfucker's be making moves, because first of all, when
Speaker 1: you're white, you're pretty much in already. But they help
Speaker 1: each other. And I know these white dudes. I know them.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of famous white dude and they
Speaker 1: look out for their crew, They look out on their
Speaker 1: podcast each other, They go on each other's podcasts did
Speaker 1: and you know who's the most helpful. Now as far
Speaker 1: as African Americans, the Instagram kids, that's how my numbers
Speaker 1: went up. Shout out to Rennie, Shout out to King Batch,
Speaker 1: shout out to d Storm, shout out to all of
Speaker 1: those Instagram stars who who who were fans of mine
Speaker 1: and taught me to the social media game. And I
Speaker 1: watched them work with each other. I watched all of them.
Speaker 1: They're all twenty five, between twenty five and thirty, right,
Speaker 1: thank god, I looked the same age as them. That's
Speaker 1: my age, you know what I'm saying. But I watched
Speaker 1: them in l A and New York, and I watched
Speaker 1: them work with each other. They all just go, yo,
Speaker 1: let's do this. They all just include they all get numbers.
Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, but our era, it was like mo
Speaker 1: motherfucker climb up the ladder. They pulled the ladder up
Speaker 1: because they're like, no, I can't, I don't And I'm
Speaker 1: not speaking for everybody. I'm just saying our culture is
Speaker 1: is like just one nig at a time. We gotta
Speaker 1: get out of that bullshit. If we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: black progress and being together, we have to do that
Speaker 1: ship when there's some mother fuckers that won't even won't
Speaker 1: even tag you and give you a little out on
Speaker 1: social media. This is you know what Tiff did though, guy,
Speaker 1: I think she has opened the door to show more
Speaker 1: men comics because comedy is still a very male dominated game. Uh,
Speaker 1: show more male comics that you know what. You two
Speaker 1: can still be successful by giving somebody else the helping hand,
Speaker 1: because like you said, a lot of male comics will
Speaker 1: give somebody when you can open for me, you give me.
Speaker 1: But nobody has really pushed nobody to get those hours,
Speaker 1: specially now. Kevin did great for his camp. Kevin Hard
Speaker 1: did great for his camp. His team, all Joey Wales
Speaker 1: and all the men. Yeah they're great. And and Dave
Speaker 1: Chappelle always reaches back to help people. You know, he
Speaker 1: hasn't had any other specially where he put people on.
Speaker 1: But I believe what Tiffany is showing him and showing
Speaker 1: so many others that they will. I think Steve Harvey Wheell,
Speaker 1: I think that you can entertain the wheel. I think
Speaker 1: even Jamie FOXXI, because Jamie fox has done before. Jamie
Speaker 1: FOXX has done stuff like that before. And those guys
Speaker 1: have the power to like do that like a little
Speaker 1: like they have used to do it. They've been famous
Speaker 1: for a long time. They got juice where we're white,
Speaker 1: but everybody would be like, what do you need? They're
Speaker 1: at that, they're the what do you need? Negros? See
Speaker 1: I'm still the who's that guy? Like me? It's like
Speaker 1: this guy. But it takes you see what it takes, though,
Speaker 1: godfre It takes somebody to say you're okay, Godfrey. We
Speaker 1: all knew you a great comic. Everybody who follows you
Speaker 1: always knew. If they say you like me, but we knew.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it takes somebody in a position to say,
Speaker 1: you know what this person is cool? They all right,
Speaker 1: give them a pass. Before Tiffany put me on, they
Speaker 1: ready I had comics that like me, but the male
Speaker 1: male people in the artist me and straight me and
Speaker 1: would be afraid to laugh with me because they were
Speaker 1: afraid that if they laughed with me or at my jokes,
Speaker 1: the stigma would be, oh, you laughing at that? You
Speaker 1: must be attracted to that. That stopped a lot of
Speaker 1: my work. Back, Tiffany said, flame is all right, wand
Speaker 1: the page wand the sykes and page flame is all right.
Speaker 1: So now my new demographic of my audience is straight
Speaker 1: me and because you know, I talk about sex with
Speaker 1: me and sex with women. But and now they've allowed
Speaker 1: themselves to let down the screen and stop looking at
Speaker 1: what I look like and listen to what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: God for you was always a part of that. You,
Speaker 1: d ray Davis, Evan Lionel, the owner of all jokes Aside, Raymond,
Speaker 1: you are always saw my talent more than you saw
Speaker 1: these titties. Even though when I was younger, I know
Speaker 1: y'all was looking, uh, but y'all always accepted me and
Speaker 1: embraced me for being who I am. I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: everybody is coming around to that. That's a great Even
Speaker 1: when they walk up and say, what's up, flame, nigger?
Speaker 1: What's up dude? You know in the comedy cluse, that's
Speaker 1: how we talk as comedians and a lot of my
Speaker 1: translustors be like flame. They're disrespecting you, they offending you know,
Speaker 1: they're not. This is the comedy world. We got our
Speaker 1: own little world, We got our own little circle. And
Speaker 1: if you're not, if you're on the outside looking in it,
Speaker 1: you won't understand. You just won't. And my thing is this,
Speaker 1: the gay community will say, hey, you know we want
Speaker 1: to be treated like human beings. Well, guess what, when
Speaker 1: we're fucking with you, you're a human being. Now, when
Speaker 1: we're fucking joking with you, we that's an acceptance in comedy.
Speaker 1: When we funk with you, whether it's racial jokes, whether
Speaker 1: it's that means you're being accepted. You can't you can't
Speaker 1: say you want to be accepted and then we can't
Speaker 1: joke with you. It's not making sense because comedy is
Speaker 1: like a vulnerability where you open up and laugh at
Speaker 1: all the ridiculousness. You know what I'm saying. So it's
Speaker 1: like like when I do a joke about lesbians, right
Speaker 1: and I say it on perfect they go, you know,
Speaker 1: lesbians remind and people already I haven't even finished the joke.
Speaker 1: They hear lesbian Andy go, wait, I go Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Lesbian is the proper term, right, and
Speaker 1: that's what the L stand for, right? Lesbian's right? Is
Speaker 1: there another name? I need to know? No? Right, So
Speaker 1: I go. It's so funny how you all are sitting
Speaker 1: up there champion the gay community, but I say lesbian
Speaker 1: and you're still reacting to it. So if you're supposed
Speaker 1: to make them feel comfortable, why are you reacting to
Speaker 1: the word lesbian? That should be normal. They're human beings.
Speaker 1: To me, I'm just talking about it. At least talking
Speaker 1: them from a bad place. At least you say last
Speaker 1: being my gay still say bull dagger? Look but I
Speaker 1: loved me? Oh boyd? Let me just say Godfrey? Did
Speaker 1: you so you can't say that? I listen, Garfrey? So
Speaker 1: did you see we were talking about Michael Chi because
Speaker 1: Michael chief from certainly was who was one of my
Speaker 1: good friends. He's a brilliant community. But that joke was funny.
Speaker 1: I don't even what he is. Fun Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. The Joe Barbata So they were
Speaker 1: talking about the transgender band on the military, that Joe
Speaker 1: Biden lifted the transgender band and they were going to
Speaker 1: call it don't ask, don't talk, which is you know
Speaker 1: the girls talk there any who. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was funny. This is me talking.
Speaker 1: Did you not think it was funny because it was
Speaker 1: about your community. I didn't give a funk. The joke
Speaker 1: was whacked. I don't even talk about it. So was
Speaker 1: not challenging that he but what the joke that he said?
Speaker 1: But it wasn't funny, And so the community, some of
Speaker 1: the girls, some of the transpart of the community was
Speaker 1: upset because he said, don't talk. Meanwhile, they have a
Speaker 1: show called Untucked about RuPaul's drag Race, very very very
Speaker 1: popular show. Great show. I'm not throwing to show up
Speaker 1: under the bus. I'm showing the hypocrisy. Yeah, so y'all,
Speaker 1: y'all said nothing about this show that's been on for
Speaker 1: at least eleven years successfully, But y'all for a joke
Speaker 1: that he said and it wasn't even funny. We have
Speaker 1: made wonderful strategy in the trans community. We gotta state Senator.
Speaker 1: We have a doctor that was appointed by Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: We got people in the media that's doing that's trans
Speaker 1: limit openly, and now they're allowed to be in the military.
Speaker 1: The same ones that's complaining are the same ones that
Speaker 1: wouldn't go to the military because I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not fighting for this country. I'm fighting with this country
Speaker 1: because y'all don't give me no vag say, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna fight for this I'm promised you right, I
Speaker 1: will fight a nigger, but I ain't gonna fight no America.
Speaker 1: Michael did he did? He do it on S ANDL Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did it on said Tonight laugh. Well, they they're writers,
Speaker 1: and he probably didn't he fighting write it could have
Speaker 1: been writers that wrote it, and you know they read
Speaker 1: the script and it's gonna be hit. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: the blame. But that's the that's the chance you take
Speaker 1: in comedy. That's the chance you take. Michael's a good dude.
Speaker 1: Michael's fantastic man. He's a He's another guy that pays
Speaker 1: it forward and helps cats. So Michael's a brilliant comedian
Speaker 1: does dope ass ship. Wait a minute back, when I said, look,
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna take you back, it wasn't funny. I
Speaker 1: don't care who wrote that. It wasn't funny. Now it
Speaker 1: wasn't funny, but I wasn't offended either, not the one.
Speaker 1: I was not offended at all. It was just not
Speaker 1: funny that No, it just wasn't funny. Well, I just said,
Speaker 1: some ship ain't funny, So I blame. You say a
Speaker 1: lot of ship that pissed people off and it ain't funny,
Speaker 1: So I do too, So care god free, how flame
Speaker 1: is always going there? I don't give a fun dumb hand. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't do m I never said that
Speaker 1: that's some ship that he wanted to get off his
Speaker 1: chest and he just tried to sneak one there. You
Speaker 1: black back. You don't blame. You're very edgy. So we
Speaker 1: we take that chance. We walk that line. Man, if
Speaker 1: I were to if I were to count, how many
Speaker 1: people were upset of the joke? Mess don't be a
Speaker 1: comedian then, and I did an interview for NBC magazine
Speaker 1: and that's just what I said. I don't want to
Speaker 1: send your comedy. That is one of my pet peeves.
Speaker 1: Now that you can't you offend every group, you know?
Speaker 1: Did you guys have to do the for Netflix and
Speaker 1: don have to write out the jokes and oh I
Speaker 1: was read land for two hope for two times they
Speaker 1: relied the ship out of me because I was gonna
Speaker 1: offend this group or you was gonna shake up that group.
Speaker 1: You can't say anything. It's it's still in the joy
Speaker 1: of doing comedy. Honestly, it's they're trying to police comedy.
Speaker 1: And the sad part about it is they will reward
Speaker 1: the people that ain't got nothing to say, and that's
Speaker 1: not cool because everybody lives a life. Your life is
Speaker 1: totally different than mine. We're in the same city, we're
Speaker 1: in different sides of the same city. That's a different lifestyle.
Speaker 1: We should be able to talk about our perspectives period
Speaker 1: that as long as you stay within the parameters of comedy.
Speaker 1: You just not saying it is gaye that, but you
Speaker 1: have no punchline. You gotta have some clever ship to
Speaker 1: it where it's not coming from an hateful standpoint. But
Speaker 1: you should be able. What what do you want everybody
Speaker 1: to sound the same? You want? I've done I've done
Speaker 1: jokes about Dug I remember he was a perfect example.
Speaker 1: I was in Canada. I do a lot of Canadian comedy.
Speaker 1: I was in Canada. The comedian before me was talking
Speaker 1: about sodomizing something. He was sucking something. Nass As we're
Speaker 1: talking about this lady's laughing. I get on stage after
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about my life, um in Catholic school,
Speaker 1: because I was in Catholic school from first grade to
Speaker 1: to freshman year in high school. And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: religion and this Catholic ship is weird and just and
Speaker 1: she gets up, the same lady that was laughing at
Speaker 1: the sodomy joke right before me, How dare you? And
Speaker 1: I said, bitch, kick rocks, kick rocks. You just talked.
Speaker 1: You just laughed at this dude fucking a goat for
Speaker 1: ten minutes. And I'm telling you I have a problem
Speaker 1: with religion, and I don't believe Jesus is white, just geographically.
Speaker 1: And you're getting mad. I said, kick rocks. Get the
Speaker 1: funk this people. But people find anything to get bad at.
Speaker 1: You talk about dogs, don't talk about the bitch. I
Speaker 1: live on this planet. There's only so many subjects we have. Okay,
Speaker 1: so white people will shoot you about their dogs. You
Speaker 1: can't make jokes about that. And I'll say this, though,
Speaker 1: I think that what's makes you guys so great as
Speaker 1: comics is your authenticity. Like, for instance, I had some
Speaker 1: of my friends officially watched like your episode. They're ready,
Speaker 1: they watched your episode, Godfrey. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: makes you guys so special despite all of the bullshit
Speaker 1: that may happen, and you guys is midst with you know,
Speaker 1: whatever material you guys have, it's the authenticity that people
Speaker 1: really connect with, you know what I mean? And Godford,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the scientists in you and all these
Speaker 1: different things. You've got a lot of people going crazy like,
Speaker 1: oh God, God free smart too. So you might have
Speaker 1: some other d m s after this show is over.
Speaker 1: But I do want to segue really quickly and ask you, though,
Speaker 1: what is the ultimate goal that you have for yourself
Speaker 1: and your career? Like what would be something that happened
Speaker 1: that just you were like I made it. I made it.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something with the way, First of all,
Speaker 1: the business has changed. COVID shed a lot of man
Speaker 1: COVID leveled the motherfucking playing field and and all the
Speaker 1: bells and whistles that people are used to. It's kind
Speaker 1: of keep everybody you really saw who was not that
Speaker 1: talented and who was you know, I mean, there were
Speaker 1: no applause signs for your ass. It was just your
Speaker 1: you and your dumb apartment and the audience was the
Speaker 1: people you talked to right now in this camera. Understand.
Speaker 1: So the business has changed for me. My thing is
Speaker 1: to be able to just be success because let's let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. Comedians are all we we We
Speaker 1: either do podcasting, we either act, we either host, we
Speaker 1: either do sitcoms. There's doors that we can go to
Speaker 1: as comedians. I just want to be able to go
Speaker 1: to any door that I want to. I want to
Speaker 1: be able to create my own ship and be able
Speaker 1: to do what I want when I feel like it.
Speaker 1: If I say, man, I want to shoot the film Boom,
Speaker 1: here's the boom. You you're good, let's do it. I
Speaker 1: want to have the freedom to be able to express
Speaker 1: myself in my different talents. That's success to me without
Speaker 1: losing my integrity, without someone making me do some ship
Speaker 1: I don't want to do. That's success because people say, well,
Speaker 1: what do you want? I want to I don't want
Speaker 1: to do movies. You know, I'm a Marvel kid. I
Speaker 1: go up on superhero, Who the funk don't want to
Speaker 1: be a superhero? Who the funk don't want to shoot
Speaker 1: fire off their hand? And stand there like, who the fu?
Speaker 1: Everybody want, even people that shouldn't be acting, will take
Speaker 1: that part. I want to be a training superhero. I
Speaker 1: want to be the first training superhero. It's coming, baby.
Speaker 1: I want to know how to rob banks. Usual ebt
Speaker 1: don't everything we grew up. Who doesn't want to shoot
Speaker 1: two guns and slide under a table and boom? But
Speaker 1: we all want to do that. Even people that don't
Speaker 1: even do it right be doing it because everybody wants
Speaker 1: to do it. I want to be able to do creative,
Speaker 1: creative artwork. I want to do smart ship. I want
Speaker 1: to make motherfucker's be like yo, you want to inspire
Speaker 1: other people to go like Denzel Washington, that's my don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have a body of work like
Speaker 1: that guy. He he could look back and said, I
Speaker 1: never did no dumb ship. I never threw my culture
Speaker 1: under the bus. I never dogged black women ever. I
Speaker 1: never did any of that. But I still am liked
Speaker 1: by everyone. You know, you're not gonna be liked by everyone.
Speaker 1: Not that mouth. I'm telling you in the gate let
Speaker 1: me ship. You are not gonna be like comedian that
Speaker 1: mouth for you. I've been trying to tain that. Oh
Speaker 1: your wor than Godfree. So you know, So God, I've
Speaker 1: done Godfrey's podcast to New York, y'all, so me and
Speaker 1: god forgot history were free and so I was on
Speaker 1: Godfrey show after I did the Breakfast Club because y'all
Speaker 1: know it was such a big hooplaha. So God, I
Speaker 1: have to bring this up to you because I know
Speaker 1: you're very politically savvy and woo woo. So Lauren, help
Speaker 1: me with this, because you know, mess it up. There
Speaker 1: is a track team in Maryland. Oh let me, let
Speaker 1: me just pull up the article. So we got wait
Speaker 1: minute questions. Yeah, so the two trans girls were on
Speaker 1: the track team, on the female track team, and they
Speaker 1: got first running up and they won. Of course they did.
Speaker 1: What did you think about that? Godfrey? That's bullshit? You
Speaker 1: do so to be on the men's track team not
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on before before we get into it,
Speaker 1: let's just get some context for everybody so they know.
Speaker 1: So a New Haven, Connecticut, there's an individual name Andrea Yearwood's.
Speaker 1: She hears comments, usually from adults and usually not to
Speaker 1: her face, but that she shouldn't be running and that
Speaker 1: she shouldn't be running against girls, even though she is
Speaker 1: a transgender female so year would. She's a seventeen year
Speaker 1: old junior at Crama High School and she's one of
Speaker 1: two transgender high school sprinters in Connecticut who is transitioning
Speaker 1: to be mail. So she recently finished second in the
Speaker 1: fifty dash at the State Open Indoor track Championship. The
Speaker 1: winner Terry Miller of Bloomfield High. It's also transgender. Instead
Speaker 1: of girls state indoor record of six point nine five seconds,
Speaker 1: Yearwood finished at seven point zero one seconds. So the
Speaker 1: question is becoming, is it fair that, you know, men
Speaker 1: who are transitioning to be female should be allowed to,
Speaker 1: you know, participate in female sports. It's it's it's hello.
Speaker 1: It's like that that transgender tennis player that was smoking
Speaker 1: all the chicks and he was like he was beating
Speaker 1: up all the girls, and they were like, you gotta
Speaker 1: play in the men's your strength. See, a man has strength.
Speaker 1: That is why females don't box men. That's why females
Speaker 1: don't play football with dudes, because we will knock you
Speaker 1: the funk out and you don't have the strength. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about mental capability, because a woman can be
Speaker 1: smarter than man all day, but physically we're just stronger.
Speaker 1: Than you two stops on the whole nine. If you
Speaker 1: are literally smoking girl and you're you're a man because
Speaker 1: by that you can go by track times I took.
Speaker 1: I was in track and field. Usually a woman that
Speaker 1: runs a hundred meters a fast woman is about a
Speaker 1: ten point seven ten point eight men run track and
Speaker 1: field nine point eight. Nine. You saw what us, Saint
Speaker 1: Bolt ran nine point six. There's there's a strength thing there.
Speaker 1: They that's unfair. You need to no, no, no, unless
Speaker 1: you take enough estrogen where you're starting to run as
Speaker 1: fast as No. No, no, I'm not gonna give you pushback.
Speaker 1: Guy free, I'm gonna I completely agree with you. That
Speaker 1: is completely un fan. But I don't want you to
Speaker 1: think I was about You looked at me like you
Speaker 1: was about to come through. But it's cheating. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. But what do you think the
Speaker 1: solution would be? And I'm asking you. I I got
Speaker 1: my own opinion, but I'm asking you what I think
Speaker 1: you should just be on the men's track team and
Speaker 1: just just running the men's track team. And if they
Speaker 1: don't unless they are just phobic, but they don't identify
Speaker 1: as a man, and that would be unfairly because what
Speaker 1: are you gonna dos? Track one of that? That's it.
Speaker 1: I think that's the solution. I don't think we have
Speaker 1: to get a transtract team. I think that there's something
Speaker 1: else to maybe we can do. Because you guys brought
Speaker 1: a testosterone and estrogen and things like that. Listen, what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is I mean very true, but I think
Speaker 1: that there should be a happy medium that still I
Speaker 1: think we can. I think there's a happy medium. I
Speaker 1: think that there's a way that maybe you can test
Speaker 1: levels of estrogen and testosterone to see in the body.
Speaker 1: I do because otherwise you're going to get into a
Speaker 1: situation of you get on stop stop. This is this
Speaker 1: is what Flame has been talking about. The LGBT is
Speaker 1: being a little ridiculous. Get on the your you run
Speaker 1: like a man, Get on the It's like, you know
Speaker 1: what it's like. I ran track varsity when I was
Speaker 1: a sophomore. I was running as fast as the upper class,
Speaker 1: so they put me on there. They go, well, you're
Speaker 1: running as fast as them, so they move you up.
Speaker 1: You need to be running with the dudes, playing as
Speaker 1: simple because you're first of all, you're it's not like
Speaker 1: you're a chick and you happen to be running as
Speaker 1: fast as the men. No, you're a guy, and you
Speaker 1: you're you're you're a trans woman, but you're a trans
Speaker 1: woman meets you're a guy, and you and your and
Speaker 1: your times, you're you're leaving people by thirty yards. Hello, dude, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think they should call it
Speaker 1: a transtract him. I think it should be calling it
Speaker 1: should it should be called an identity track team, because
Speaker 1: they might say, identify some bitch I identified as an
Speaker 1: a team wheel truck. I will roll your answer, and
Speaker 1: that's all identify. I'm thinking all these identities ship I
Speaker 1: passed biology with the seen either then or this this
Speaker 1: or this which if the if? And every time you
Speaker 1: want to shooting, you're not shoot. How you identify, go
Speaker 1: pee because you're gonna pass or shake. I'm just asking
Speaker 1: for a free Basically, basically, those trans, those trans guys
Speaker 1: are just shitty track and field runners. And that's not fair. Now,
Speaker 1: I gotta pushback on your player. That's not true. That's
Speaker 1: not true. No, they were not Let me let me
Speaker 1: talk because I was the seventeen year old queen too.
Speaker 1: But I want to run no, damn track. I was
Speaker 1: playing girl kiss a girl, and I was always the girl,
Speaker 1: and I always got caught. Like the white bitches in
Speaker 1: the b Rady movies, I always got caught. I fail
Speaker 1: on purpose. Anyway. Anyway, it's not fair because if they
Speaker 1: identified as females and wait a minute, listen to me now,
Speaker 1: I'm speaking from the LGBT party, but part of me
Speaker 1: now and when I was seventeen in high school, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to run track and be openly
Speaker 1: a trans girl because I would have got my ass
Speaker 1: handed to me. I would have got beat up and
Speaker 1: locked in the locker stuff like that. So there are
Speaker 1: reasons for not doing that. Also, on the on the
Speaker 1: other hand, okay, what happened, Okay, I also I also
Speaker 1: do not agree. I think that it is not fair.
Speaker 1: I think that the meat the guys are physically stronger
Speaker 1: than the girls, and that's not fair. But I do
Speaker 1: think that they should create their own lane. So that
Speaker 1: should be their own lane created, and that way, if
Speaker 1: there's more trans girls that want to come out and
Speaker 1: want to run track but they're afraid to because of
Speaker 1: these kind of conversations, they will have a place where
Speaker 1: they could feel comfortable. Well, you can have alternative races.
Speaker 1: Is like in within within the meat, within the track meet,
Speaker 1: you can have an all race, which is cool. That's
Speaker 1: because it's you have to call it alternative because you go, guys,
Speaker 1: listen this situation. You're calling yourself a woman, but you
Speaker 1: have the strength of a man. What do you want
Speaker 1: us to do? Either gonna run on a men's team
Speaker 1: or you're gonna do We're gonna have a special race
Speaker 1: for you got your your your category. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: saying special. That's you you that ain't you. I have
Speaker 1: full bars what you understand where I'm coming from, because
Speaker 1: you cannot, you cannot be on the women's track team
Speaker 1: because you are leaving people. And the Dutch. Remember Florence
Speaker 1: Griffith Joyner. Remember remember because I was a big track head.
Speaker 1: I remember it was it was ash I'm Evelyn Ashford,
Speaker 1: Chanda Cheeseburrow, it was all the women's track and field,
Speaker 1: and I was a sprinter, and I remember when Florence
Speaker 1: Griffith Joyner used to get her ass handed to her
Speaker 1: man and then one year, you know, in the Olympics
Speaker 1: she was leaving everybody. Everybody was like what's going on.
Speaker 1: She was taking steroids. She was taking testosterone. That's why
Speaker 1: she passed away from a heart attack. She was taking
Speaker 1: steroids and she started winning, but she was leaving people
Speaker 1: by like two yards, and she was always coming in third.
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, remember when Ben Johnson beat
Speaker 1: Carl Lewis, he was taking ship it was it was
Speaker 1: the testosterone. My point is, you're you're a man, and
Speaker 1: those gives you, that gives you strength. You naturally have that.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is in the meat in the
Speaker 1: track meet, they should have a category, which is not
Speaker 1: hard to do for that because you can't be on
Speaker 1: the women's track team. It's not fair. It's not fair.
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's all. That's the only solution
Speaker 1: that I could think of. And I mean, and they
Speaker 1: have and there's something like that that exists, like the
Speaker 1: Special Olympics. You know, it's for those who can't compete
Speaker 1: in regular Olympics. They have a disability. So there's a
Speaker 1: whole entire Olympics created for them, and and and but
Speaker 1: but the l g B t Q can't get supersensitive
Speaker 1: about every It's like, what do you want us to do?
Speaker 1: You can't cheat like that. You gotta be you gotta
Speaker 1: be open to go, oh yeah, you're right. I'm calling
Speaker 1: myself a transgendent woman and it is a little different.
Speaker 1: So just be open. So you can't just be complaining
Speaker 1: and binging and expect people who are heterosexual to go, well,
Speaker 1: what do what you want us to do? And then
Speaker 1: they want to throw in phobia funk that It's like, no,
Speaker 1: you can't cheat, dude. You feel me, watch your pronouncia attitudes.
Speaker 1: Let me come through this motherfucker, let me go LGB godfriend,
Speaker 1: you don't want's funny to me? No, coffy and I
Speaker 1: love my sisters. I'll tell you some of my sisters
Speaker 1: be tripping. But you know what's funny to me to
Speaker 1: ever see the videos when the queen's walking down street
Speaker 1: and we do have some lovely passible trans women. We
Speaker 1: got some girls that's so beautiful that you wouldn't never understand.
Speaker 1: But we also got some bitches that look like Herbert
Speaker 1: with a wig. So I'm just saying, bitch, if you
Speaker 1: know you're looking like Herbert with a wig on, and
Speaker 1: you walk down the street and something guy walked past,
Speaker 1: you would say, what's up? Dude, what's up? Man? Then
Speaker 1: you get mad, y'all going back and forth, back and forth,
Speaker 1: back and forth. Then you finally snatch your wig off
Speaker 1: and say, don't disrespect me. I'm still a motherfucking man. Well,
Speaker 1: and how an argument I started. You should have just
Speaker 1: rolled with it from jump and just come. But it's
Speaker 1: so funny how people are just walking on contradiction. Like
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember in the West Village of New
Speaker 1: York there was just lesbian shack. You know, she looked
Speaker 1: like a dude. She walked in. I remember this ship
Speaker 1: walked in like a guy. Like she was looking for
Speaker 1: like some some drink or whatever. I'm sitting there and
Speaker 1: she was stealing something. It was she was trying to steal,
Speaker 1: right and this little Korean man saw her, so she
Speaker 1: was trying to run out. That Korean dude caught her
Speaker 1: ass like said, you'll you'll try to take, you'll have
Speaker 1: to pay. So she's like, I'm thinking she was a
Speaker 1: dude because she looked like a guy. And so the
Speaker 1: Korean man had her and was stronger than her, and
Speaker 1: he and she goes, he goes, you you can steal.
Speaker 1: And then they were like, what's going on? What's going
Speaker 1: he tried to steal? And then she goes it turns around, goes,
Speaker 1: I'm a girl, let me go oh, And everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: now you're a girl. Oh now you're a girl. Now
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I'm like, yo, you now
Speaker 1: you want to be a girl because you got caught
Speaker 1: and this guy stronger than you. I just see so
Speaker 1: many contradictions. That's why I don't get involved in a
Speaker 1: lot of these conversations because people sit up there and
Speaker 1: purposely not trying to understand stand. People have to understand
Speaker 1: the heterosexual's confusion sometimes like okay, so what do you
Speaker 1: want me to do? What do you want me to call?
Speaker 1: I mean, like, stop getting so mad. Like I understand,
Speaker 1: heterosexuals were the bullies. The heterosexuals were the bullies. I
Speaker 1: get that. But in this new day and age where
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be open the people that are complaining,
Speaker 1: you gotta be open to my confusion, Like, okay, so
Speaker 1: what do you want me to what do you want
Speaker 1: me to call you? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know what's up? Don't get mad at me because
Speaker 1: I get the term wrong. I mean, are you're fucking
Speaker 1: kidding me right now, as long as I let you
Speaker 1: be who you want to be, don't get mad because
Speaker 1: I got one term off. Now you're fucking getting too picky.
Speaker 1: You feel what I'm saying because I want to be
Speaker 1: able to todd to address you the proper way. But
Speaker 1: don't get upset because I don't remember, because I've been
Speaker 1: living on this planet for this long and I use
Speaker 1: these words and now all of a sudden, I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to learn it one day. Stop. You know that is
Speaker 1: why I take my compliment from you guys, because I'm
Speaker 1: very coming. Let me tell you where it starts. That
Speaker 1: it starts with you, Godfrey kind. Nobody called me now thing,
Speaker 1: and it affects me if I know that's not who
Speaker 1: I am or what I am. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you call me, and I know that takes time, especially
Speaker 1: when you y'alling depend on how you were brought up
Speaker 1: or where you are y'all know, governing the projects. I
Speaker 1: was hard core thug as nigga anyway, but my feelings
Speaker 1: will still get hurt being called names and woo woo.
Speaker 1: You have to learn to separate what it matters to me.
Speaker 1: You know, somebody walking past me especially if you don't
Speaker 1: mean nothing to me and I don't know you. I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna never see you again. You a stranger, Well,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you? I'm not gonna even answer you,
Speaker 1: because nigger, I don't know you. But if it's somebody
Speaker 1: I know love and care about, and they hurt my
Speaker 1: feelings because I do have feelings. I know you don't
Speaker 1: think I do, but I really do have, and that
Speaker 1: bothers me because I'm like, you talk to me. I
Speaker 1: am such an open, transparent person and God, get on
Speaker 1: the road with me. You can talk to me about anything,
Speaker 1: and it's great because you keep it real. That's why
Speaker 1: I get. I get better at it because I go.
Speaker 1: And you know what I do. I use you. I
Speaker 1: use you as as a as a as a rapper.
Speaker 1: I go. Flames said that. Flames said it, So don't
Speaker 1: you fucking tell me. She broke it down to me,
Speaker 1: and I know what I'm talking because because I'm not
Speaker 1: into offending peace, I don't. I don't want to do.
Speaker 1: I don't. I want to know what. Okay, what do
Speaker 1: I need to know? Okay? Cool? Thanks, okay, thank you?
Speaker 1: Just tell me not just go off and enough and
Speaker 1: respect this respect don't even have to be demanded if
Speaker 1: you treat yourself a certain way. When I when I
Speaker 1: meet people, I don't walk in on my head down
Speaker 1: like I'm scared to talk. I'll walk in the room
Speaker 1: like I own the damn room, and people treat me accordingly. Now,
Speaker 1: if you cross the land, I don't know how to
Speaker 1: cross the land back. But is it worth it to me?
Speaker 1: Is it even worth it to me? You know what?
Speaker 1: What is it? What is the old fable? When it's
Speaker 1: two people are they don't know which one is the food?
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not even worth giving somebody a clap back,
Speaker 1: like Nigga, I don't know you fuck you. You're broke
Speaker 1: as you know, and you maybe you know I'm Netflix Nigga,
Speaker 1: I ain't no brovery Netflix player. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: gonta be. Sometimes some things don't even want like what
Speaker 1: you like, like what you were saying that out the
Speaker 1: black comedians going after each other, going Athleachi, What is
Speaker 1: that profiting us as comedy? We both comedian. We might
Speaker 1: be on the road on a tour together. You never
Speaker 1: know who you're gonna get thrust with. You got we
Speaker 1: gotta get past some of that ship so we can
Speaker 1: all work, So we can work. My friend even said,
Speaker 1: he white comic, very very funny dude, and we are
Speaker 1: very honest. He goes, Leon Roger, Who Leon Rogers shout town,
Speaker 1: Oh Leon, Oh that's my dude. Where lay out as Leon?
Speaker 1: Check got yo. Let me tell you something. I had
Speaker 1: a white my my white comic friend. He's always on
Speaker 1: my live talk and ship. He said, what is up
Speaker 1: with the black comics? All you gotta ship on each other?
Speaker 1: All that? Every time I'm with some black you're shooting
Speaker 1: on another black comic. I just sit there going, what
Speaker 1: the funck? Like? All you got? What is that? And
Speaker 1: I and he kept it real. I said, Man, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you, Adam and ship is whack. He goes,
Speaker 1: he's like white guys. I mean, we may not like
Speaker 1: each other, but we'll be like work with each other. Right,
Speaker 1: We're gonna fuck because we know we have a purpose.
Speaker 1: I go, I'm trying to get that into the fucking
Speaker 1: I said, but that Tiffany Hatters who boy, she changing
Speaker 1: the fucking what she's gonna change, She's gonna change the
Speaker 1: whole the playing field. Really, I think as far as
Speaker 1: her thought thought, people's thought processes, and Tiffany told me
Speaker 1: she got some hater ship. I'm not naming the person.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you off. Don't do it, don't do it.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do anything but that. Godfrey, I want
Speaker 1: to hear, why are you doing what you're doing. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you a question, Godfrey, as a male comedian,
Speaker 1: because I was looking at the thing this morning, I
Speaker 1: wanted to pose this question to you about some male
Speaker 1: comedians saying that they would never wear a dress for
Speaker 1: a show, or for or for a skit or for
Speaker 1: a bit. How you feel about that? As a straight
Speaker 1: black man, how do you feel about the whole dressing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't wear one because it's not about and people
Speaker 1: want to go home and no, no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking that. No, I don't know. I'm just talking
Speaker 1: in general. It's not about that. It's about symbolism. Black people,
Speaker 1: African Americans, Caribbeans, their roll and same vote. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of we have a lot of repair that
Speaker 1: we need as far as our as far as what
Speaker 1: people see us. As you know, it wasn't that long
Speaker 1: ago that we were wearing black face and we were cooning,
Speaker 1: and we had to do this step and fetch it.
Speaker 1: Louise Beaver's ethel Waters. All the black folks that tried
Speaker 1: their best to show dignity had to be servants. We
Speaker 1: I mean, we're still on this cream of weak box. Bro,
Speaker 1: We're still We're still on. We're still on Uncle Ben's
Speaker 1: were stay. We still got black symbols on fucking food.
Speaker 1: So wearing a dress has nothing to do. People want
Speaker 1: to say, oh, you're what's wrong? We're in a dress.
Speaker 1: I say, you're not understanding see yet, because you're not
Speaker 1: educated on this ship. And I know the history. There's
Speaker 1: a very good book you should read called um The
Speaker 1: History of Blacks and Films, Mulatto's Cools, Bucks, Mammi's. It's
Speaker 1: by Donald Bogel. It's our it's our image, black manhood.
Speaker 1: It's very important to me, all right, very important to me.
Speaker 1: You have to understand that this country has always tried
Speaker 1: to destroy black manhood. Is there a reason? Is there
Speaker 1: an accident that black men are in jail, incarcerated, with
Speaker 1: a lot of them not even doing the crime? Is
Speaker 1: there is is it? Is it? Is it an accident
Speaker 1: that majority of black men are in fucking prison? Is it?
Speaker 1: Is it an accident that whey or fail. In order
Speaker 1: for a well fair mother to get money, the black
Speaker 1: the black man has to be out of the house.
Speaker 1: I mean, is it an accident that white cops kill
Speaker 1: us right on the spot? Is that an accident? I mean,
Speaker 1: black women get killed too, And I don't want to
Speaker 1: leave you all out, but is it an accident that
Speaker 1: we are always at at risk? Black men? So when
Speaker 1: I say Denzel Washington is my hero, that's I mean
Speaker 1: that ship. Denzel will never do no ship like that.
Speaker 1: You can, and and and for the guys that do it,
Speaker 1: it's an Artistically, if you're an actor and you want
Speaker 1: to do that, that's your business is. But I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that because I can do a lot of work.
Speaker 1: I can be funny without putting on a dress. I
Speaker 1: don't feel comfortable doing that. I'm I'm I'm real head
Speaker 1: of sexual It has nothing to do at home before me.
Speaker 1: It's me as a symbol. I have nephews. I'm Nigerian,
Speaker 1: by the way, and they all watch what I do.
Speaker 1: African men watch what I do and they say, man,
Speaker 1: we're proud of you. I'm from the Congo, I'm from Ethiopia,
Speaker 1: I'm from what you do for us. The pride that
Speaker 1: you show black manhood is a bane. It's a thorn
Speaker 1: in the society's eyes because it's fear and which is sad.
Speaker 1: I should be able to be black man proud. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't intimidate somebody else. That means you're the weaker person,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I don't put on
Speaker 1: a dress because of those reasons, because symbolically it's like
Speaker 1: me doing um like like look at so plain when
Speaker 1: I did sold Plain right, okay? And I remember I
Speaker 1: remember when we auditioned for it. Nobody was working then.
Speaker 1: People to talk about soul playing. But I remember a
Speaker 1: lot of people auditioning for it because black people, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times they leave us out of ship.
Speaker 1: So I went in into the audition room and I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, guys, I read the script is ghetto
Speaker 1: as fun. But Snoop Dogg is the pilot who doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be next to Snoop Dogg. I said, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change it. I'm gonna be African in this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be African. I'm gonna be I know I'm
Speaker 1: the co pilot, but I'm gonna be African. They said, really,
Speaker 1: I said yeah, because everybody's doing the ghetto ship. I
Speaker 1: think if I'm an African, I can add a little
Speaker 1: bit of dignity to this ship. And I could be
Speaker 1: and and the African American African thinking that, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know how Africans and African Americans made fun
Speaker 1: of each other. And so I've always no matter what
Speaker 1: I did, I always tried to find some kind of
Speaker 1: humanity and some kind of dignity and always trying to
Speaker 1: preserve my fucking manhood. Man, That's just what I'm about.
Speaker 1: But there's nothing wrong with that. It shouldn't be a
Speaker 1: fucking not at all. But I want to ask you
Speaker 1: a question, guy, because now you open up my man,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, I'm feeling that I'm listening to
Speaker 1: you talk. So how do you perceive me? GoF because
Speaker 1: and I'm telling you removed that we know each other,
Speaker 1: how do you perceive me? I just perceive you as
Speaker 1: you know. You're a transgender, a confident transgender uh performers
Speaker 1: who don't give a fun But I'm still a Yeah.
Speaker 1: But you are a black man. But that's you. But
Speaker 1: that's it's different. It's different with you because I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a heterosexual dude that you're not heterosexual. See, well
Speaker 1: wait a minute, now, hold on playing, hold on you.
Speaker 1: But I don't. I don't know you completely. I think
Speaker 1: you're mixture of everything. See that's what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: want to get the terms right. So I'm talking about
Speaker 1: a black man that wants to wear a dress because
Speaker 1: they're gonna make it. Oh, if I do this, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make it. You see, they do that. There's a difference.
Speaker 1: Let's say Let's say let's say I was already famous
Speaker 1: and I'm doing well, and I decide I think I
Speaker 1: want to play. I'm gonna play a female because it's
Speaker 1: our histic and I want to see I want to
Speaker 1: I want to stretch out. But a lot of times
Speaker 1: they make us do it in order to get to
Speaker 1: a level. It's like it's like a rite of passage. Well,
Speaker 1: you need to do that in order to get that.
Speaker 1: I would rather do it on my own artistic integrity.
Speaker 1: That's different. It's about the timing of it, see and
Speaker 1: the intention. So people want to throw in, oh you
Speaker 1: don't want to do it. No, no, no, we as
Speaker 1: black folks need repair. We are fucked up. Black women.
Speaker 1: They are the most educated in America, have the highest degrees,
Speaker 1: but you would never know that because you're you're regulated
Speaker 1: to a fucking twerk because of these dumbass shows like
Speaker 1: Housewives of Atlanta, because every episode you're calling each other bitches,
Speaker 1: and then you want to act like you're sophisticated and
Speaker 1: a lot of those women are very smart, candy, all
Speaker 1: of them are fucking they're fucking talented women's, but they
Speaker 1: call each other bitches every week. And then you want
Speaker 1: why everybody greets you with a hey girl and that ship,
Speaker 1: but you got a college degree. But nobody would notice
Speaker 1: that because the media does not put black women in
Speaker 1: a fucking good light. So me, as an individual, all,
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a spect on this planet. But guess
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna be a spect of integrity. That's what
Speaker 1: the funk I'm gonna be, because it's all about what
Speaker 1: you surround yourself with. And I am tired of black
Speaker 1: women going and I'm saying black women, and I don't
Speaker 1: categorize you all in one lump. But a lot of
Speaker 1: times they'll say, well I like to watch that show,
Speaker 1: says stop watching it if you're trying to demand respect,
Speaker 1: stop watching, stop fucking patronizing that ship. Stop because it's
Speaker 1: shipping on your fucking image, is what I'm saying. That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying. Well, well let's say this on that note,
Speaker 1: let the church say amen, because I think that was
Speaker 1: a word. I appreciate you explaining that and giving us
Speaker 1: the educational moment. I think we needed that. And I
Speaker 1: love flame that you asked that question because I think
Speaker 1: I think we can take away here is that flame.
Speaker 1: You live in your truth, you do each and every
Speaker 1: day and everything that you do, and Godfrey, I think
Speaker 1: that you lending the different perspective on that side of
Speaker 1: the aisle. I'll say that all these intensive purposes, I
Speaker 1: think it's needed this conversation. I love you, black ass nigga,
Speaker 1: and let me tell you why I love you, because Nigga,
Speaker 1: you ain't never changed from the moment me and you
Speaker 1: met and I was another girl, younger nigga. Y'all want
Speaker 1: to know the truth. Yes, I thought the niggas fan
Speaker 1: the nigga still look I don't know how to nigga
Speaker 1: his pies and still look like he in his thirties.
Speaker 1: But what he could never say or any other comedian
Speaker 1: in this and that she could ever say is flame
Speaker 1: pushed up on me. I never crossed the land with
Speaker 1: you all as men because I respected you all as
Speaker 1: not only as comedians and my constituents, but I respected
Speaker 1: who you were as a man. That was not my
Speaker 1: place to push up on you. When when one of
Speaker 1: the comedians want the holiday, I got notes and letters
Speaker 1: and ship yes, but I never put and I always
Speaker 1: professional and I never want you all to feel uncomfortable
Speaker 1: around me, because if I wouldn't been that you would
Speaker 1: have found. That's why I appreciate that, because you've got
Speaker 1: to understand there is people will be uncomfortable with that
Speaker 1: they don't understand, and it's their right to be uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and it's your job to go listen. Man, I ain't yo.
Speaker 1: I respect you that I funk around, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm a very You're very professional. And the thing that
Speaker 1: I like about you is that I it's like I
Speaker 1: understand it better when I every time I talk to you,
Speaker 1: I'm learned something. I go all right, bet okay, that
Speaker 1: you know, and that's important you keep it one hundred
Speaker 1: because you because you come from a head of a
Speaker 1: sexual perspective, you come from all the perspectives, but you
Speaker 1: come one a hundred. You don't go no, but you
Speaker 1: know you go. Now, I'm gonna fucking listen. It's this,
Speaker 1: this and it's this, and that's what. That's why, that's
Speaker 1: why we we hear you. You're amazing comic Godfrey, and
Speaker 1: God Godfrey has so much knowledge relation Jim, y'all have
Speaker 1: to follow god. He taught plenty of that. But he Okay,
Speaker 1: back to the what what what's the with the three
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning ship? What's that spontaneous three clock?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you where that comes from, you sons
Speaker 1: of business. Let me tell you where that comes from.
Speaker 1: I've always stayed up late in college eighteen well, I
Speaker 1: know fun that I used to watch Johnny Carson, so
Speaker 1: my father would always get mad because I would watch.
Speaker 1: I would stay up late fourteen years old. So I've
Speaker 1: always been a night at and I went to bed
Speaker 1: early for all that. Ship. I've always been late, and
Speaker 1: so I said about three years ago, I said, now
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna start really embracing the social media. And
Speaker 1: so when I get off stage, I would be on
Speaker 1: you know, I would be on late because I was
Speaker 1: always getting off on stage in New York. We stay
Speaker 1: up late, and so I'll start using my I'll do
Speaker 1: my lives, you know, I'll be I'll be with some
Speaker 1: female chilling boom boom, you know. But this b three
Speaker 1: in the morning is normal to me. I go to
Speaker 1: bed if whatever. I'm not telling anybody. I like when
Speaker 1: people think I don't go to sleep. I go whatever.
Speaker 1: But I stay up late all the time. And guess what,
Speaker 1: why is everybody thinking? American? Do you know how many
Speaker 1: people are awaken other countries? Hi, I talked to people
Speaker 1: in the UK, Australia. People are up. We're not the
Speaker 1: only times at home. That's true. No, that's true and
Speaker 1: God free. We just have to really just thank you
Speaker 1: for coming on here, dropping knowledge bombs, talking about yourself,
Speaker 1: you being a scientist, just your background. We we really
Speaker 1: truly appreciate you. We had a great I think, authentic
Speaker 1: conversations and we're gonna get some great rave reviews on this.
Speaker 1: So but before we let you know we are, we
Speaker 1: definitely are. I'm looking at the comments talking to and
Speaker 1: he's in a hundred and ninety countries right now with us.
Speaker 1: That's one thing you want to ask you what what
Speaker 1: can we expect from you? What projects do you have
Speaker 1: coming up? Like? What what's going on? Just give us
Speaker 1: some insight. Okay, Well, I have my podcast which in
Speaker 1: Flame was on which was awesome and god Free We Trust.
Speaker 1: It's on the Gas Digital Network. Also you should subscribe
Speaker 1: use the promo code god for you get two weeks
Speaker 1: free and it's also on YouTube. You go to Godfrey
Speaker 1: Comedy you can actually see some episodes to see if
Speaker 1: you like it, press is subscribe button that the podcasting
Speaker 1: is going good. I haven't changed my goal at all.
Speaker 1: All Right, I've been. I've been even during the the
Speaker 1: the COVID. I haven't missed the live yet. I've been
Speaker 1: on LIVEE every single night because people were like, thank
Speaker 1: you for just doing that, because we've been. You got
Speaker 1: us out of this COVID just being there. So I
Speaker 1: do my lives every night. Also, um, I have a
Speaker 1: show which is on Kevin Hart's network and Pluto and Peacock.
Speaker 1: It's called in Godfrey We Trust Me and Ruben Paul,
Speaker 1: another awesome comedian, created it. It's like it's like a
Speaker 1: ranting show, a green screen virtual show, just talking about
Speaker 1: politics like his all kind of ship it's called Godfrey
Speaker 1: Trust on Pluto, Peacock and Kevin Hearts is a l
Speaker 1: L Studios Now or LLL Network, either of those go
Speaker 1: to it. It's on no streaming networks. And also um,
Speaker 1: I finished the pilot with over the Over the COVID.
Speaker 1: I finished the pilot with some people, so I got
Speaker 1: that going on. And also I still travel and doing
Speaker 1: live shows this week. If you got is this showing?
Speaker 1: This is now? This is not but we It's gonna
Speaker 1: re air on Thursday. Okay, well I'll be in I'll
Speaker 1: be in Vegas doing a laugh Factory in Vegas. And
Speaker 1: also on Sunday, Valentine Day, I'm me Zaneyes in Nashville,
Speaker 1: Tennessee for one night, two shows, one night, Nashville, Tennessee. Zanyes, Well,
Speaker 1: I just want to personally say thank you so much,
Speaker 1: Guy for for coming on and let me tell it
Speaker 1: to me, and Guy for reconnecting on the tour with Tiffany.
Speaker 1: And we ain't gonna let the Neig get away, y'all.
Speaker 1: He man, he belonged to me. I got that. He's
Speaker 1: so great. I'm so proud of you and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy for you. You know, we love you. Over here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for this is our squad. It's like,
Speaker 1: this is our squad. We got our we got our family,
Speaker 1: our circle, and it's and it's it's and I just
Speaker 1: I just I just see and I see your your
Speaker 1: life is. You're doing so much great ship man, and
Speaker 1: so I really feel like I have a family of
Speaker 1: people now finally, like oh, I got people that look
Speaker 1: out for me. Ship this is great. I know you know,
Speaker 1: wherever I'm at, I'm gonna talk good about them. Wherever
Speaker 1: they're at, the're gonna talk good about me. And just
Speaker 1: keep that that going. That that also counts too. So
Speaker 1: your family like a motherfucking I appreciate you. You know
Speaker 1: you're the man guy. We are doing you over here.
Speaker 1: Can we get some Trump before we sign out? Please?
Speaker 1: Can I can I get that nigga Trump to show
Speaker 1: him and apologize. I need the nigga to apologize. I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. I'm very sorry. Flame. I think you're you're
Speaker 1: showing so great. You're amazing you. He we she I
Speaker 1: love him, I love everybody. Seriously, you guys are great.
Speaker 1: Tiffany is amazing. She is Tom Brady, definitely Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: because Tom Brady was a Trump supporter. Man, we love
Speaker 1: your ladies. Ready season two, please watch it on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys, please for everybody better be following me
Speaker 1: after this. Boy, now better go up. Indeed, thank you,
Speaker 1: my guy, free, good guy. That was a great tay
Speaker 1: bring the account so we can say about the nick
Speaker 1: Lady gimen. Thank you guys so much for joining us
Speaker 1: here and laugh and learned today. M this is our
Speaker 1: last day of the studio. Don't ask me what it's
Speaker 1: gonna look like next week we'll be here. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it's gonna look like, but I don't know
Speaker 1: where That is what I'm talking about. Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was It would have been a little more awesome
Speaker 1: if you would have been like, right there, No, y'all
Speaker 1: don't need me. You all definitely let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Too many too many cooks in the kitchen? What does
Speaker 1: it do? Playing washed me? Because that's something you'll do exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, listen, I want to go back
Speaker 1: because I know we need to wrap up. It was
Speaker 1: a great show. But this is what we talked about,
Speaker 1: how we always try to have guests who bring a
Speaker 1: different perspective, who make us laugh will make us learn
Speaker 1: because it's all about that engagement. The comments are going crazy.
Speaker 1: Godfrey said a couple of things that I just think
Speaker 1: it's necessary that we uh go back to it because
Speaker 1: this will definitely be in the show. We know that
Speaker 1: Godfrey talking about he's not expect on this planet, but
Speaker 1: he's going to be Uh, he's just expect on this planet,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be expect with integrity, And I think
Speaker 1: that's what we all strive for, and that just that's
Speaker 1: just one of the many nuggets that jumped out of me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think overall that it was a conversation that needed
Speaker 1: to be had, and I think what was so great
Speaker 1: about it too is that there truly was two different
Speaker 1: perspectives and although you guys were friends, you still had
Speaker 1: a very organic conversation about societal normans, stigma, and you
Speaker 1: know the variety of things. So, like I said, I
Speaker 1: think this is going to be a conversation that's going
Speaker 1: to engage quite a few different folks of different communities,
Speaker 1: different backgrounds. And that's another reason why I love I
Speaker 1: love this conversation, Lauren, and why I love playing. I
Speaker 1: never know what Flame is going to say where people
Speaker 1: think oh you all agree on I'm like, have you
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Speaker 1: it does not like something I have to say. Oh,
Speaker 1: she's gonna let me know in the moment. And that's
Speaker 1: part of I think Flame just being played. But you
Speaker 1: and Godfrey had two very different views on so many things,
Speaker 1: and you can still be friends because playing. This is
Speaker 1: what it's all about. We are not trying to get
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