1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,639 Speaker 1: It's a purpose when I'm here and what I'm going through. 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: This is just this is just gonna make my story 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: sweeter or whatever. And you know, I just keep going 4 00:00:09,240 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: because of the goal. The goal is to keep rocking 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: and making people happy. Every four years, this is a 6 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: new audience. That that number that that number four is 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 1: something we're talking about. You're graduating four years from school, 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: you graduate, presidents, go through terms for four years. It's 9 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: about the four years. It's every four years you almost 10 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: get a new life. The way you you can, you 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: can do it all over again. So you do as 12 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: much as you can in the four years that four 13 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: years up. You's fulfilling those years while being the best, 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,440 Speaker 1: being the most original and funny and making people laugh. 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:52,320 Speaker 2: And your reward is the feeling that you geteling at you. 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 3: What if I told you there was more to the 17 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: story behind game changing events? Getting ready for my new podcast, 18 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 3: That Moment with Damon John will jump into the personal 19 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 3: stories of some of the most influential people on the planet, 20 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,319 Speaker 3: from business mobiles and celebrities to athletes and artists. 21 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 4: So I'm sitting here with my guy, Dion Cole, and 22 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 4: I'm just gonna give you a couple of accolades, NWCP Award, 23 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 4: Screen Actors Award, got an Emmy, right nominated, nominated for 24 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 4: an Emmy. All right, all right, he's he's a comedian, 25 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 4: actor and writer. 26 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 5: Uh you know, you see him on Blackish. 27 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:38,600 Speaker 3: He's also written for Conan O'Brien and so many other 28 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 3: things that we can learn from him. Before I lay 29 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 3: it all out, I want you to think think about this. 30 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 3: I was shooting one day Shark Tank with Jeff Foxworth 31 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 3: and he says something to me fascinating. 32 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 5: He said, you know, it was a comedian. It's probably 33 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 5: one of. 34 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 3: The hardest jobs in the world because you got to 35 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 3: earn every single laugh. 36 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 5: You got to earn every single thing. And you know, if. 37 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 3: Michael Jackson was alloted to that, he could sing beat 38 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 3: It for the next one hundred years, and everybody's gonna 39 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 3: sing beat it with him. 40 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 5: Once I tell a joke, it's over. 41 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 3: I got to earn, you know, the laughter from each 42 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 3: joke over the course of an hour or whatever the 43 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 3: case is, and then I can never tell that joke again. 44 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 5: So think about that. 45 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 3: Also, think about all these people that we see in 46 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,840 Speaker 3: show business and entertainers. 47 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 5: Everybody thinks they can write. 48 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,800 Speaker 3: Everybody thinks they can tell a joke, everybody thinks they 49 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 3: could sing, So you don't have an actual commodity that 50 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 3: is tangible and you can feel I have a shirt, 51 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:31,359 Speaker 3: you can at least. 52 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 5: Tell that it costs five to ten or. 53 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 3: Twenty dollars to make, and if you don't want it, 54 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 3: I can discount it or sell it someplace else. If 55 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 3: you don't get the gig, I don't know how you 56 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 3: discount it or whatever whatever the case is. And there's 57 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: a million other people that think they can do the 58 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 3: same exact thing. So now you got to face all 59 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 3: these challenges, get rejected a million time, and still try 60 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 3: to find a way to feed your family. So I 61 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 3: just want to set that up for everybody who thinks 62 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,679 Speaker 3: that it's just cool to get on stage and sing, 63 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 3: dance and or. 64 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 5: You know, make a joke. 65 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 3: Right, So, let's get into you, Dan, Let's get into 66 00:03:02,160 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 3: you know, tell me, tell me a little bit of 67 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 3: about your story. 68 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,519 Speaker 5: What was your family upbringing? Where were you born? Will 69 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 5: you raised? 70 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: South side of Chicago, outside Chicago, outside of Chicago? 71 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 2: Only child? Uh? Me and my momil Yeah, me and 72 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 2: my mom. Yeah. 73 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 5: I was the only person. I was the only person 74 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:24,079 Speaker 5: got in trouble. 75 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, my imagination the only person. 76 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 5: Had to work and bring home money for the family. Hu. 77 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 2: Imagination is fierce, that's how Yeah. 78 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know when I did something wrong on my 79 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 3: imaginary brother, but I was the only one who got 80 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 3: my my butt whips. I got all the attention, unlimited whippings. 81 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 1: So you know, south Side came up, gang infested, drugs, 82 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: all that same story, different well, same whale, different realm. 83 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: You know, my mom's moved me to the suburbs because 84 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: it was getting so bad and I was really plugged 85 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: on the South Side, Chicago with my cousin. 86 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 2: He was really feared. 87 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: And then he started selling the dope he was started 88 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: using the dope he was selling, and then people weren't 89 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: scared of him no more. 90 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 2: So then it was like coming at us. 91 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,160 Speaker 1: And my mother was like, yeah, we're gonna move the suburb, 92 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,919 Speaker 1: move me to an all white suburb culture shock. But 93 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have it no other way because when I 94 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: got out there, I started learning through this white dude 95 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: I was hanging with and started learning about like led 96 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: Zeppelin and the Doors and yeah, and I'm like. 97 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: Man, what's this? You know what I mean? 98 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: But in return, I would turn him on the public 99 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: enemy in l L and KRS, you know. And so 100 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: it was just it was great being out there, but 101 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: I fought more out there than I did in the 102 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 1: city because I started fighting for racial equality. These white 103 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 1: boys was whooping, whooping everybody ass out there, you know. 104 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 1: And so it was crazy how I was like fighting 105 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: out there so much, you know. But more black started 106 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,240 Speaker 1: moving out, then more we started like teaming up. 107 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 2: Yo that too. 108 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 1: But at the same toga we we ended up fighting, 109 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: and and then that led to me going to school 110 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 1: and didn't stay there long about a year. 111 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,279 Speaker 2: Left, came back to Chicago. 112 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 5: And found comedy. 113 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to Philanders Smith in Arkansas. Yeah, I 114 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: went down there for a semester. And that was around 115 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: the time. Remember that show on HBO Banging a Little. 116 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 5: Rock YEP, when they showed how bad Little Rock was. 117 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: We was in the middle of that. Yeah, yeah, they was. 118 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 2: They were shooting at us and our kind of stuff. 119 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 2: So we left. 120 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: It was a weird time because at the same token 121 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 1: that they was down there banging like that, we were 122 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 1: also working with Bill Clinton right before he became president, 123 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: like and like like good friends would do, like when 124 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: he won the presidency. It blew my mind that man, 125 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: mister Clinton, mister Clinton won like it was crazy, you know. 126 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: But he loved us because he loved blues and from Chicago. 127 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 2: So she used to always call us shot. 128 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,440 Speaker 1: Time, and we always talked about music and I would 129 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: make up. I knew about Coco Taylor and Muddy Water 130 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:28,599 Speaker 1: and all them, but I didn't really listened to her, 131 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 1: but I would live to say that in order to 132 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 1: talk to him, you know what I mean. But yeah, 133 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 1: and then it just and then after that I came 134 00:06:34,839 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: home and found comedy and start doing well. 135 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 3: I think that there's one thing that I think we 136 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 3: haven't well, a couple of things in common. Obviously growing 137 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 3: up o with children, having a strong mother who was 138 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,359 Speaker 3: willing to take the risk and go out of the 139 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 3: comfort zone to save us. 140 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 5: But also, you know, my mother didn't move me to 141 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 5: the suburb. 142 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 3: However, every every summer she would send me away, send 143 00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 3: me to Hawaii, or send me some. 144 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 5: Place to be around other cultures. 145 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 3: Now, somebody may say, well, man, your mom has gotta 146 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,599 Speaker 3: like that to send you to white. No, my mother 147 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:08,799 Speaker 3: had a girlfriend who lived on a Navy base, so 148 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 3: she knew I could stay there for free. 149 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,360 Speaker 5: She bought the ticket four years. 150 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 3: In advance, so it was a seventeen connecting flight to Hawaii. 151 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:19,679 Speaker 3: I left on you know, I left in you know June. 152 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 3: I got there in July, all the fans because of 153 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 3: the standby. 154 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:24,840 Speaker 5: But no matter what I got to see. 155 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 3: I got to see how other cultures live later on 156 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: equipment in life, to not be afraid, not think that 157 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 3: they're better, not think that they're worse, to just understand 158 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 3: a little bit more value the people. Now you're fighting 159 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 3: with someone, but on the flip side, you'll bring public 160 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 3: enemy them. 161 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 5: And they were teaching you about led Zeppelin. 162 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 3: You were learning the theory and hopefully that probably as 163 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 3: we talk about it, that empowered you to move forward 164 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 3: into this big world of la in Hollywood. Now where 165 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 3: did you find comedy and how did you decide to 166 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: be on the back end of it? 167 00:07:57,720 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 5: First of all, being a writer or the not seen 168 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 5: the end of it. 169 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: Well as far as writing, that led for me doing 170 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,239 Speaker 1: stand up And I know it was no funny dude, 171 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 1: And I never was funny, Like I'm always People that 172 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 1: know me they know that I'm super chill really, you know, 173 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: But I wasn't funny. It was just my outlook on things, 174 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: the way I looked at things. If somebody tripped and 175 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: fail in front of me and my friends, everybody be laughing, 176 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: I'll be the only person like, why did they fall? 177 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: Let's investigate why they fail and going to depth about 178 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: why they fail like that would be me all the 179 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 1: time with everything. And so that comedy led to me 180 00:08:42,920 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: starting to be in a world of comedy that really 181 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 1: didn't fit. But I was a black comic and it 182 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 1: was different and it was unique. Ended up getting on 183 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: Death Jam and Deaf Comedy Jam. Yeah, I went on 184 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:01,680 Speaker 1: TV show and I went on tour. Only had fourteen minutes. 185 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: I did seven minutes on death Jam, meaning I had 186 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: another seven left. 187 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 2: I went on tour and I was getting boomed fourteen minutes. 188 00:09:30,920 --> 00:09:33,439 Speaker 1: I did seven minutes on death Jam, meaning I had 189 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: another seven left. I went on tour and I was 190 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,440 Speaker 1: getting boomed like left and right, or wasn't nobody laughing 191 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: like I think? I did like four cities and then 192 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: they sent me home. I remember sitting in the airport 193 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 1: with my Death Jam hat jacket, just sitting there like 194 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:54,439 Speaker 1: humiliated that I was being sent home from the tour. 195 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 5: You know, who were at that time too. 196 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: No, No, I was working. Yeah, I was doing like 197 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: shows around in the city, but I. 198 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 3: Was doing it. What were you doing to pay the bills? 199 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:04,319 Speaker 3: Purely commine? 200 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I stopped Yeah after I did Death Jam. Because 201 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,360 Speaker 1: before Depth Jam, I think I was doing. My career 202 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: took off really quick. I was doing comedy like like 203 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: probably like eight months before I got on Depth Jam, 204 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: so everything went really quick. I was working a space 205 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: called leather Makers right before while I was and then 206 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 1: leather Makers closed and that's all. 207 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 2: I started doing was comedy. 208 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: So I was just making money ends meet by doing 209 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: little shows around the city and stuff. 210 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 2: But Depth Jam give. 211 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 3: You the what But what gave you the confidence? If 212 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 3: you felt already listen, I'm not really funny. I just 213 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 3: analyzed a different way. What gave you the competency even 214 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 3: applied to do stand up anywhere? 215 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: I think it was the fact, well, me first, when 216 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: I first started, it wasn't even me. It was a 217 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,719 Speaker 1: friend of mine who bet me fifty dollars. He was 218 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: like something happened and he was like, dude, you should 219 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: do stand up like you are right, you're so twisted, 220 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: like you should do stand up. When I was like, 221 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: I ain't doing no stand up because I just went 222 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: into that. Plus I was into some other like like 223 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: ill shit, and so I didn't want that kind of 224 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: attention on me. 225 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 2: And he was like, man, I bet you fifty dollars. 226 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: And I went on stage and I remember again standing 227 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: ovation at first time off of five minutes that I did, 228 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: and I knew that my life changed, but I still 229 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: didn't like the attention. I didn't like being on stage 230 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: because of all of the shit that I was into. 231 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: And I remember my death jam Are. I remember when 232 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:35,319 Speaker 1: like the next day I was at the gas station 233 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: and people roll up on me and be like yo, 234 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: and I'll run, really because I didn't I would. 235 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 2: I didn't know what I wouldn't. I didn't think. 236 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: I didn't know what fame was, and I just always 237 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 1: was on the lookout, you know what I mean, Like 238 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 1: always like paranoid. Anytime somebody came up to me, I 239 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 1: would run. And it was weird even at shows, like 240 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: I wouldn't even I would like try to go through 241 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: the back door just to go on stage, and then 242 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 1: I'll go out the back because I didn't want to 243 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 1: be around nobody. But that paranoia had me like really 244 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: really tripping or whatever, which led to like me doing 245 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 1: a lot of weed, which led to me forgetting a 246 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 1: lot of my jokes, which led to me it may be, 247 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: but it created this fantastic bit that I still do 248 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: to this day, which is I take this notepad on 249 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: stage with me, and I like do my jokes from 250 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: this notepad. But that actually came from a condition that 251 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 1: I was having at the time. I was so scared 252 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: on stage and so paranoid that I would just read 253 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:41,560 Speaker 1: the jokes off the paper and people would laugh because 254 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: I would just go, Yo, I gotta do these jokes, 255 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: and I gotta go And I would read these jokes 256 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 1: and people would laugh and they would laugh, and they laughing, 257 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 1: I'll go, all right, I'm out of here, and now 258 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:50,559 Speaker 1: I would leave. 259 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 2: I wouldn't even rememorize them. I would just write them 260 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 2: down and then go. 261 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 5: What was What was what was the allure or the 262 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 5: passion or drive to keep doing it? 263 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 3: You know, you're somebody who didn't like the public, you know, 264 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 3: seeing you're paranoid. 265 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 5: Or just the you're opinion, the bills off of it? 266 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 2: Was it that? It was? It was? 267 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 5: It was a curiosity what was going on? 268 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 2: It was. It was the it was the fail. 269 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: Comedy has a feel that's that's very unique. It's nothing 270 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 1: like it sex, money, it's nothing like this feel to 271 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: go into a room and stand on the stage or 272 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: a microphone and say what you think and and and 273 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: get it across to a room full of people that 274 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: you've never seen before, and to get them to go, yeah, 275 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: we get that, Yeah we agree with you. Yeah, that's funny. Yes, 276 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: we understand what you're saying it. 277 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 3: I mean, because I'm thinking you get on stage, everybody's 278 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 3: sitting there with their mouth open like this, like hurry 279 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 3: up and make me laugh, and then people start going you. 280 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,680 Speaker 1: But that's but that's but see, that's how great the 281 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: feeling is. The feeling is so great that you will 282 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: risk being booed by hundreds of thousands or ten people whatever. 283 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,079 Speaker 1: You will risk that in order to chase that feeling. 284 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: That's how great that feeling is. 285 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 3: I don't think there's any difference in that and business. 286 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:18,080 Speaker 3: You can make a product and or something, you send 287 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 3: it out to everybody you think that they have. You 288 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 3: know they're gonna understand. They send it back and say 289 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 3: it sucks, and you're like, maybe you didn't get it. 290 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 3: But I'm telling you I can make you feel good 291 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 3: with this, with this product or this lotion, with this cake, 292 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 3: with his T. 293 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: Shirt right right, It's the same thing. But this feeling 294 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 1: is like it I can't even really describe it. It's 295 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: like it's almost like a conquering type thing in a sense. 296 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,920 Speaker 1: And it also gives you this sense of accomplishment as 297 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: well as helping people. You know, man, you wouldn't believe 298 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: how many people in hospital beds, prisons that it came 299 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: up to me and told me that, Yo, they seen 300 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: me on TV and my joke helped them. It's people 301 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 1: that told me that a family member then died and 302 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: they just wanted to laugh and be happy until. 303 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,480 Speaker 2: They until they last days. 304 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: And so when you hear that, like you go wow, 305 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: you know, you understand your purpose and then you go 306 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: even further and further with what you do. 307 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 5: That is that an empowering feeling. 308 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: It's almost a feeling that you never get rewarded for, 309 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like agents, agents, book people 310 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 1: don't to me, people think they agent like that, Like 311 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: they just take the gig and they mad at you 312 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: for not getting them to gigs and then when you're 313 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: getting then when you get one, it's yours and you 314 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: get all the glory. So it's almost like that. It's 315 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: just I don't know, man, I don't know. Maybe somebody 316 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 1: I still cannot describe that feeling. I just know that 317 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 1: I've never felt nothing like it, you know. I mean, 318 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: I've been in front of five people on stage, and 319 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:02,680 Speaker 1: I've been in front of thirty five thousand, and it's 320 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,480 Speaker 1: it's it's feeling that I leave. I always have to 321 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: kind of digress when I get off stage, even with 322 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 1: five people, I have to digress. 323 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 3: And now you know, you're you've been in front of 324 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 3: the camera often as well as in back of the camera. 325 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 3: Is there you know, like in black Ish, right, is 326 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,720 Speaker 3: there a difference in regards to being in back of 327 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 3: the camera writing for somebody else to you know, you 328 00:16:25,480 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 3: gotta be you got to embody that person. That person 329 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 3: has to embody the materials, and then you're in front 330 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 3: of the camera. I don't know, when you're in front 331 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 3: of the camera, like on black and some of those shows, 332 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 3: other people are writing for you, correct, is there a 333 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 3: difference in that? 334 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 1: Well, when I'm when I'm in front of the camera, 335 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: I'm escaping. I'm becoming somebody else, and I'm doing things 336 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: that I wouldn't normally do myself, and I try to 337 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: do it through this character. Even things that I think 338 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: I wish I could do that I don't, I try 339 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 1: to incorporate it in that character. Me writing for someone else, 340 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: it's more of me keeping my chops up, But it's 341 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: also learning to adapt. If I wrote something for you, 342 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: it's like this, the way you are with your mother 343 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,399 Speaker 1: ain't the way that you are with your kids, And 344 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: the way you are with your kids ain't the way 345 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: you are with your woman. The way you are with 346 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: your women ain't the way you are out with your boys. 347 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,120 Speaker 1: So it's adapting and this knowing these environments and then 348 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:25,199 Speaker 1: learning these environments and then writing for that environment. You 349 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. So, yeah, that's that's the difference 350 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 1: to me. 351 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 3: Basically in between that time from starting to where you 352 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,159 Speaker 3: are today, be on the road door slamming your face, 353 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 3: not knowing if you're gonna be able to, you know, 354 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 3: pay the rent the next day. I mean, it didn't 355 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 3: sound like you a trust fun baby. You know what 356 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 3: did you do during that time? Because how long was that? 357 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 3: How long was the stretch of period time since you 358 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 3: started in comedy, and today. 359 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: This October would be twenty six years. 360 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 2: Twenty six years a long time, ye quarter? 361 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,919 Speaker 3: And what happened those times when it got dark, when 362 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 3: you were put back on a plane from in the 363 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 3: middle of depth dam tour. You were a crappy ass 364 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:13,479 Speaker 3: hotel in the middle of West Virginia. Not that everything 365 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 3: in the middle of New York whatever, Right, we have 366 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 3: crappy ass hotels everywhere. And then you got booed, right, 367 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 3: and you were you know, did you have a question? 368 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 5: Why are you doing this? 369 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 3: And what made you keep going for twenty six years 370 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 3: with no promise of anything and probably the first or 371 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 3: eighty percent of that time. 372 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 1: Right, I think it's I think it's it's the fantasy 373 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: of what could what could be looking at other people's 374 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: career and seeing what they did, and looking at their 375 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: trials and tribulations, and then looking at. 376 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 2: Mine and going, it's not that bad. You know. 377 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: Bernie Mack used to take the train from Chicago to 378 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: LA to do a show to open for Gladys Knight 379 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,400 Speaker 1: and get right back on the train and come back. 380 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 3: You know what I mean, You don't you got a 381 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,919 Speaker 3: second guess yourself to say maybe he was just funnier 382 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 3: than me, or like a model will say, maybe somebody's 383 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 3: more handsome me or somebody stronger than me. 384 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: No, but we're talking about determination. What keeps you going 385 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: when when I hear these stories and I see what 386 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:17,679 Speaker 1: he did, it makes me go and I'm complaining about 387 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,720 Speaker 1: flying first class somewhere and the show is late, you know, 388 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: like these are these are these situations that put me 389 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: in tune with what's going on and what's what I'm 390 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 1: here for. 391 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 2: The purpose of what I'm here for is for the people. 392 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 3: Every day you got knocked down, you look at somebody 393 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 3: else and say, you know what, they got knocked down too. 394 00:19:36,359 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 6: And yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, that's that's powerful. 395 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 3: Actually really powerful. I think I'm gonna use that one 396 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 3: day and I'm not. 397 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,080 Speaker 2: Please do it. Thank you. 398 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:14,800 Speaker 5: The life of a coming. So what's next? Human? 399 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 2: Oh man? 400 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: So we're just right now shooting Blackish and Grownish. We 401 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 1: got a couple of shows that I'm I'm I'm writing 402 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: and about to produce right now to get on get 403 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: on air. Great great material, great content that's about to happen. 404 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,720 Speaker 1: Shooting the Netflix special in November very excited about that. 405 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: It's my second special actually like third in the sense, 406 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm just excited excited about that and just 407 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:52,160 Speaker 1: keep it going and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I'm on tour 408 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: right now. I'm doing my tour U and I'm doing 409 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 1: the tour with Martin too. And I also created this 410 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:03,080 Speaker 1: hair product, this hair tool car Easy Scratch. So becoming 411 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and doing that, it's crazy dabbling with that. 412 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 2: Man. Man, all I know is. 413 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: If I'm comfortable, I mean, I ain't elevating because elevation 414 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: ain't comfortable. 415 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 3: So what would you say is the is the number 416 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 3: one source of or or things that empower you? How 417 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 3: do you use things around your life or your mentality 418 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 3: to empower yourself every day today? 419 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,920 Speaker 1: I think just being around people that are successful and 420 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,480 Speaker 1: that have paved the way and have done things and 421 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 1: seeing how they do things and incorporating every little bit 422 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: that I get from from everybody and applying it to me, 423 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: you know, and just you don't have to be big lessons, 424 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: neither could be little lessons that that I can learn. 425 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 2: One time I was with Conan. We was on uh. 426 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 1: One is like this private jet that he had and 427 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: we were touring and he was on there with like 428 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: all these different execs and stuff. And I jumped on 429 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: the plane. I had like Gucci backpack, Gucci, a garment bag, trolley, Gucci. 430 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: I'm hopping on Gucci glasses. I'm hopping on it on 431 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,960 Speaker 1: the PJ like yo. We outs soon as I get 432 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 1: on coning and them sitting there and they was like, hey, 433 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,040 Speaker 1: what's going on? And I was like, man, ready to roll. 434 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: And they was like this, that's a nice luggage. I 435 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:29,600 Speaker 1: was like, yo, that's that's that's that's yours. And I 436 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:33,000 Speaker 1: started looking at them. Each one of these dudes one 437 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:38,399 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars apiece, fifty million whatever. Garment bag looked 438 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 1: like a garbage bag right here. This bag is just 439 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,800 Speaker 1: like a little roly trolley. 440 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 2: And I was a lie. 441 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: I was just like, now, somebody loaned this to me, 442 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,360 Speaker 1: and you know that's and I'm gonna give it back 443 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: after we're done. And they was like, oh yeah, make 444 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: sure you give it back to them, you know. And 445 00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool, that experience right there, just 446 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: let me know that, you know, these dudes are filthy rich. 447 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,480 Speaker 1: Not one Gucci belt nowhere, you know what I mean. 448 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: But but these the story. The point I'm making is 449 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 1: being around these people allow me to go, yo, I 450 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 1: don't have to be this way. This is why I 451 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: could be. Don't don't get me wrong. We black, so 452 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna be fresh, but we don't have to be 453 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 1: over the top like that, you know what I mean. 454 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,280 Speaker 1: So it's just being with certain people whatever. I've been 455 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: around you before and you just said certain stuff, and 456 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:31,000 Speaker 1: I'm a sponge. 457 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 2: I just don't say nothing. But I took it. 458 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:37,119 Speaker 5: I learned. It's a long time ago as well. You know, 459 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 5: I learned that lesson. 460 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 3: And you know, I came in a room with the 461 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 3: diamond out rolelegs and everything, and I was in a 462 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 3: room where there was probably about six billionaires in the 463 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:49,040 Speaker 3: room and they didn't they didn't have anything on them, 464 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,439 Speaker 3: and you know, they, you know, they looked at people. 465 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 3: There's certain people like you come to the room and 466 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,120 Speaker 3: you're looking for attention, especially when you're somebody who's trying 467 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 3: to get people invest in you. They really believe that 468 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 3: you now going to spend your ears responsible, you're financially irresponsible. 469 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 5: And they kind of move on. 470 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 3: A lot of people think due diligence starts when you 471 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 3: give somebody, you know, a prospectus or an investment document. 472 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 3: Due diligience starts when they pick up their phone, look 473 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 3: at you on Instagram, or when when you when you're 474 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 3: walking on the plane with a bunch of. 475 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 5: Gucci and they're like, man, don't give this to the check. 476 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 2: Don't give him a check. Is he gonna blow it off? 477 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: So it's that it's that a parent, it's those little 478 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:27,919 Speaker 1: nuances that are that are way bigger than a cent. 479 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: And then then like a seminar, you sitting up with 480 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: somebody and they drilling something in your head or whatever. 481 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 2: It's like, yo, just those little. 482 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: Things and being in those moments allowed me to you 483 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like, uh learn in a sense 484 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: you know? 485 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 5: So now I love it. 486 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:48,159 Speaker 3: I think that all those little nuggets, whether it's the 487 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 3: resetting after four years and the nuances and what people 488 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,280 Speaker 3: are noticing and or educating us on how you know what. 489 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 3: There's people in the hospital bed who say you made 490 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,119 Speaker 3: me laugh, you made me feel better. I think I 491 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,640 Speaker 3: think all we can take away all of those aspects 492 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 3: and think about how we're empowers us. So with the 493 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 3: point now where we have a bunch of them questions 494 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 3: here that were submitted by fellow Sharks and fans and supporters. 495 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:12,679 Speaker 3: I want you to read it out, you know, answer it, 496 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 3: and then you're gonna write your own question and we're 497 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:16,959 Speaker 3: gonna throw it in there for the next nice. 498 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,280 Speaker 2: Nice This is great sell what you got. So let 499 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 2: me say this one. Okay, what is your idea of 500 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 2: a perfect day? 501 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,879 Speaker 1: And when was the last time you have one of 502 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: these days? 503 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:43,080 Speaker 6: Perfect day, A perfect day? 504 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:53,479 Speaker 2: Plenty No, I'm just no, no, no care. So a 505 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 2: perfect a perfect day to me would be waking up, 506 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 2: creating the entire day. 507 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: Just just anything I think of is just hot hot, 508 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 1: writing down stuff, writing down stuff, writing down stuff like 509 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 1: I've had few these days. I'm not even like I've 510 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:22,119 Speaker 1: had few these days, and I'm still chasing these days, man, man, and. 511 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 2: It's just unraveled. 512 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: Like if I just keep writing the whole day, if 513 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,880 Speaker 1: I come up with a bomb joke or a TV 514 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,680 Speaker 1: show or movie idea wherever, even if it ain't for me, 515 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: just for somebody else, because I liked I like to 516 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: come up with stuff and call people be like, man, 517 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: this is great for you. 518 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 2: You should take this and run with it. 519 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: If that happened, man, that's a great day. 520 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 2: I think, so, I think the last time that happened. 521 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: Man, it's hard for me to write, man, because it's 522 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: just I can't. I can't write like just the obvious 523 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: spoon feeds you what you want to hear type stuff, 524 00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So it's hard for me 525 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:02,880 Speaker 1: to really find that groove or whatever. But it's been 526 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: it's been a while before I had an entire day 527 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,120 Speaker 1: like that. I've had moments. I have moments in days 528 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: that I go, oh, this is funny, Yeah, this is cool. 529 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 1: But ideas that I already have jotted down that I 530 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: can't really find a niche for like that, Yeah, that 531 00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: that's sent my whole day off sometimes. But if I can, 532 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,160 Speaker 1: if I can do that and write something like all 533 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,840 Speaker 1: day long, like that perfect day, perfect. 534 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 3: Day, maybe that's one of the reason why you're so successful, 535 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 3: because you don't settle with what an average day is. 536 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 5: For the perfect day, you're in search of the perfect day. 537 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: Yo, and and and and Conan told me one time, 538 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: he was like, every day can't be magical. If every 539 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: day was magical, we wouldn't have magical days. So I 540 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: have to remember that. And I also need to know 541 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: and it's also important to know that what I do 542 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: for a living. 543 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 2: It is not the yess that's the job title. 544 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,120 Speaker 1: It's the nose. For every ten jokes, I write only 545 00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: one or two work. But I have no problem with 546 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 1: writing a hundred jokes in order to get a nice 547 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: tim And it's sad, It's. 548 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:08,879 Speaker 5: All right, do you have it? 549 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 3: Special Thanks and my friend Dion Cole for sharing those 550 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:17,520 Speaker 3: special moments with us on his personal experiences and his 551 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 3: perspective on the realities of the journey to success. Also 552 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 3: shout out to Dion for spending those special times with 553 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 3: us to help us forget about what's going on in 554 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 3: the world and just laugh for a little while. 555 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 5: I'll see you next time on that moment. 556 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 3: That Moment with Damon John is a production of the 557 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 3: Black Effect Podcast Network. For more podcasts from the Black 558 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 3: Effect Podcast Network, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 559 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 3: wherever you listen to your favorite show and don't forget 560 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 3: to subscribe to and rate the show. 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