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Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guest actor Omar Gooding in the building. I'm very

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Speaker 1: excited to have you, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You, happy to be here.

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Speaker 3: I'm not as excited about the dish you're gonna make

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Speaker 3: me eat.

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Speaker 2: Copy that come.

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Speaker 1: Traditionally I ban rahmen across the board unless you're doing

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Speaker 1: something crazy with it, but go ahead. You could tell

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Speaker 1: our listeners what you're gonna have me eating today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, no, I mean it's it's funny because

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Speaker 2: we were talking about the old fashioned cup of noodles,

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Speaker 2: how it's in a styrofoam cup, and we weren't even

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Speaker 2: supposed to put that in microwave as they say now,

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Speaker 2: but we didn't care. We didn't care. You know, back

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Speaker 2: in my I used to call it my college years

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Speaker 2: when I had a lot of roommates. I never went

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Speaker 2: to college, never went to college, but you know, cause

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Speaker 2: I was an actor since I was nine years old.

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Speaker 2: So when I was like in my twenties, I just

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Speaker 2: did a movie called baby Boy. So I had a

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Speaker 2: lot of roommates, you know, house full of house full

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Speaker 2: of house full of fellas. And I remember I was

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Speaker 2: eating a couple of noodles one day and my guy

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Speaker 2: was like, yoh man, you don't put the egg in

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Speaker 2: the noodles. And I said, what you what you on bumper?

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Speaker 2: He said, yeah, man, the cup of noodles. All you

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Speaker 2: do is you crack an egg right over the top

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Speaker 2: of the cup of noodles after you pour the water in.

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Speaker 2: But don't pull the water all the way up to

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Speaker 2: where that line is. Just pull it up. Pour it

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Speaker 2: up to the top of the noodles right right, can

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Speaker 2: you Right when you can see the water, you crack

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Speaker 2: a raw egg, set it right on top, throw that

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Speaker 2: bad boy in there for three minutes, and watch it cook. Now.

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Speaker 2: We did this before we got on air, so I

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Speaker 2: remember you were looking at all. Is it gonna be running?

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Speaker 2: Is it gonna be cooked? Bro?

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Speaker 1: I was watching you like a kid that has never

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Speaker 1: seen this project. I literally was like, oh, war like,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have to come over and do this because

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna mess this up. But I watched you do

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Speaker 1: this and I'm terrified.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're taking a look inside.

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Speaker 3: So we did it. Omar did it.

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Speaker 1: He taught me how to put an egg in a

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Speaker 1: cup of noodles.

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Speaker 3: I okay, now this egg.

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Speaker 1: My biggest concern, and I was kind of annoying you

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Speaker 1: with this, was what the texture of this egg is?

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Speaker 2: But a cook But look at that. Look at that

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Speaker 2: that may got mine is a little running. Now, if

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Speaker 2: it's a little running, you just dip it into that

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Speaker 2: hot water and then you just steer it up and

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Speaker 2: it'll cook. It'll all cook.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this looks.

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Speaker 2: See the more the more you stir it up, the

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Speaker 2: more it'll cook. Now the key ingredient, because you really

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Speaker 2: got to let it sit. I think we did. We

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Speaker 2: let it sit long enough.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yours sat mindset a little bit longer.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, usually once you take it out of the microwave,

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Speaker 2: you got to start chopping it up and stearing it

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Speaker 2: and making that thing happen.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so it's supposed to be thoroughly mixed in there.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't just like eat the

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Speaker 2: raw egg off the top of the thing, like what

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Speaker 2: does that? No? No, no, no, do you have to make

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Speaker 2: sure that the egg After.

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Speaker 3: You learn this with the noodle, do you make all

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Speaker 3: your eggs with a microwave?

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Speaker 2: No, not a chance, No, no, no, this is just this

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Speaker 2: was this was the back end the day thing. You know,

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Speaker 2: when we was lazy, We wasn't cheffing it up, you know,

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Speaker 2: and having women cook for us and then figuring out

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Speaker 2: how to do it ourselves and so forth and so on.

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Speaker 2: We was like, okay, look, we need to eat. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna be drinking tonight. Grab me that cup of noodles.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. Get you a get you

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Speaker 2: an egg, set it on top. And then the key

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Speaker 2: ingredient is the hot to the sizzauce. You gotta have

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Speaker 2: hot to the siss ace.

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Speaker 3: You're originally from La.

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Speaker 2: I'm from La. Yes, born and raised. My parents were

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Speaker 2: born in Harlem. My, uh, you ain't gonna do that. Oh,

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Speaker 2: you're really risking it down because hot sauce is the

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Speaker 2: only reason I said yes to this. You can't do

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Speaker 3: Well, that's why I said you're from LA, because I

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Speaker 3: feel like La is all about the hot.

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Speaker 2: It's all about the hot to the sissauce. Yeah, you can.

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Speaker 3: I put a drop in there, a drop.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, don't drop the noodle the egg when

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Speaker 2: you can get down right? All right, here we go,

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Speaker 2: we go break the diet on.

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Speaker 3: He's on a diet guy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a you know, you do the interimnute fast

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Speaker 2: and you know that's how it is nowadays. You gotta

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Speaker 2: stay right. You never know what that phone call is

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Speaker 2: gonna be for the next project. Shirt off. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: I've been eating a couple of noodles for the last week.

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Speaker 2: Now you can do that. You want to booge it up,

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Speaker 2: put it in, put it in there. Oh yeah, let's

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Speaker 2: make it fancy. Hunh Yeah, noodle, gourmet egg noodle. What's

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Speaker 2: a cup of noodle? Now it's bowler noodle? Okay, man,

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Speaker 2: you know you mix it up a little bit and

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Speaker 2: depending on how many noodles you want.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to try it with the egg peace.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta get a little pee, get adventurous.

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Speaker 3: Here we go. I'm gonna try it.

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Speaker 2: You're I'm gonna watch you when you dry. You just

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Speaker 2: kept straight faced. Okay. We don't know if she's wincing

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Speaker 2: because it's hot, or she's horrified. Look at the face.

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Speaker 2: Look at the face. You ain't got no chase around

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Speaker 2: or you see you got the UHU just in case,

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Speaker 2: gonna get you some uh You can't do it. I

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Speaker 2: haven't done this in about ten years, so I'm a

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Speaker 2: little nervous myself. Let me try it.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's what I remember.

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Speaker 2: So you didn't put enough hot sauce on it.

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Speaker 3: I was sucked on a cough drop before.

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Speaker 2: Are you just trying to sabotage my whole meal?

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Speaker 1: I do it because all our listeners complain if I

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Speaker 1: have a little bit of a cough, They're like, oh.

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Speaker 2: But we're close to that pandemic still.

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Speaker 3: So it's I'm gonna be honest. Yeah, the egg is

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Speaker 3: not is.

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Speaker 2: Not doing it for You're not an egg person.

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Speaker 3: Not in my noodles.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, this is taking me back. I'm about to

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Speaker 2: call the homies up and started start a dice game.

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Speaker 3: Look, this is a terrible way to come off a diet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah no, this is right. This is shocking to here.

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Speaker 2: I jog home. I ain't even gonna drive. This is it.

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Speaker 2: Let me get one.

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Speaker 1: Moment, right, So, yeah, your dish, I wouldn't. I would

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Speaker 1: probably never do this in my free time. Again, So broke, I'm.

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Speaker 2: You can afford a little bit more than the noodle.

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Speaker 2: But see the color in the texture of mind. The

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Speaker 2: more you mix it, the better it gets you know what,

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Speaker 2: just just look like regular little noodles with without no

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Speaker 2: hot talk.

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Speaker 3: But it has like an egg flavor to it because

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Speaker 3: you just took.

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Speaker 2: A straight by to the egg, right into the egg.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why you've bit the egg like that.

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Speaker 2: Let's all mixed together like you have fried rice. Do

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Speaker 2: you fish out the egg or you don't really eat

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Speaker 2: fried rice? I love?

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Speaker 1: I think it's just me mentally knowing that the egg

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Speaker 1: was a little runny is messing with my brain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. See, but if you know, the more you mixed

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Speaker 2: that jone up, so you gotta constantly have your hands

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Speaker 2: moving at all times because the hand moving keeps mixing

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Speaker 2: the flavor. Because there's flavor in there that you have

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Speaker 2: to get to see that.

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Speaker 3: See how look, Yeah, you can barely see your egg.

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Speaker 2: You can't see the egg it's got you know, it's

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Speaker 2: in there in the broth. See your broth looks a

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Speaker 2: little pale too. I don't know why your broth looks

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Speaker 2: so pale. Well, let's seit my broth. Look at that thig.

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Speaker 3: That's because you have hot sauce.

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Speaker 2: Get your hot sauce in there. That is the point

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Speaker 2: for the message hot to the sissauce is the bisaus.

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Speaker 2: You understand me.

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Speaker 1: Take me back to what was going on in your

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Speaker 1: life during this time when you're so.

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Speaker 2: This time, you know, it's it's like it's bachelor life.

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Speaker 2: It's bachelor life. It's it's quick meals and push ups.

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Speaker 2: And you in your twenties, so you ain't got to

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Speaker 2: worry about your weight. You know, you don't do none

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Speaker 2: of this in your forties with two young kids. This

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Speaker 2: is nah, this is two bites and that's about it.

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Speaker 2: I can feel my stomach saying what are we doing already,

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Speaker 2: I can feel it saying what are we doing? So

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Speaker 2: I'm just I think I'm eating enough for the program. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, it was it's about twenty years ago. Twenty

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Speaker 2: years ago. Like I said, I was explaining to you

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Speaker 2: now behind my wife makes noodles. When we say, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know, let's have some some noodles. With the way

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Speaker 2: she does it is we take the ramen, we take

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Speaker 2: two packets and no, but yeah, you're two packets of noodles.

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Speaker 2: You take the spices out of each one, so you

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Speaker 2: have two packets one cup of noodles. Throw it in there,

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Speaker 2: you know, boil the water, put the noodles in It's funny.

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Speaker 2: I made this the other day. It's crazy you say

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Speaker 2: this and then while it's cooking, you only cook it

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Speaker 2: for like, I think, two minutes. Same thing like it

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Speaker 2: in here. Then you crack the egg, throw it right

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Speaker 2: on top, and then you just keep stirring it, keep

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Speaker 2: stirring it, and the egg cooks right there in the broth.

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Speaker 2: But it's in that chili broth, so I don't have

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Speaker 2: to add hot sauce to it, because.

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Speaker 3: The chili flavor, the chili.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the chili, not just oh any old rama. No, No,

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Speaker 2: the chili. That's the only one we use. We use

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Speaker 2: two chili packets. And that that that's goodness. That's it,

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Speaker 2: doesn't It tastes way better than this I had, And

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Speaker 2: the egg is more Cooked're right. It doesn't look like

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Speaker 2: the white. You don't see the white fleshy parts of it.

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Speaker 2: It looks more like a scrambled egg.

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Speaker 1: I think when Tim Chantarrong suit taped with us, I

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Speaker 1: want to say he put egg in it, but he

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Speaker 1: put peanut butter in it, damn well, And it was

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Speaker 1: it was Tim Chantarong suit bless. And the one thing

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Speaker 1: that I did like about his was that he chose

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Speaker 1: a Thai flavored ramen, which I never think they had,

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Speaker 1: and they put like corn and onion. And let me

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Speaker 1: tell you something, I went home and try to remake

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Speaker 1: it a couple of mons, and I never saw peanut.

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Speaker 2: He was eating broke.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was like a tie. They got different

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Speaker 1: flavored ramins. I never noticed that, but it literally changed

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Speaker 1: the game.

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Speaker 3: Peanut Butter. I was like, peanut butter, Peanut butter.

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Speaker 2: I won't even pretend to act like I'm gonna try

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Speaker 2: Uh No, not at all. And I said, like that

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, So how was your mom able to quit her

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, they don't put the entire money and there

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Speaker 2: I've I've had a long career, especially in television.

433
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Speaker 4: You know.

434
00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,359
Speaker 2: I finished a series called Family Time. We did ninety

435
00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,240
Speaker 2: one episodes of that for Bouncing Network. I just signed

436
00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,359
Speaker 2: a deal with Disney I got a show called Saturdays

437
00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:27,320
Speaker 2: that's on Disney Plus right now. We did one season

438
00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:28,600
Speaker 2: of that and then that strike hit, so I don't

439
00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,240
Speaker 2: know about the season two, but the season one is

440
00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:35,439
Speaker 2: still going. Season one is still airing on on Disney Plus.

441
00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,240
Speaker 2: You can live stream that. And that's a cool show

442
00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,520
Speaker 2: man because it's about the roller skating culture in Chicago,

443
00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:41,919
Speaker 2: so I had to learn how to roller skate. I

444
00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,840
Speaker 2: was out of Chicago for about six months in the summer,

445
00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,280
Speaker 2: so I didn't freeze my butt off.

446
00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,840
Speaker 3: Chicago in the summer is amazing.

447
00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it was. It was amazing. It was real.

448
00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:52,400
Speaker 2: Chicago's a real town. It's a real town. I mean,

449
00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,560
Speaker 2: you know, it's everything that that that they tell you about,

450
00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,080
Speaker 2: from the pizza, the food, the culture, the people, u

451
00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,760
Speaker 2: the danger you know. I was seeing. I mean I

452
00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,439
Speaker 2: literally came out of my apartment one day and walked

453
00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,080
Speaker 2: to the store and everything was roped off and the

454
00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,680
Speaker 2: cop said, oh man, you look familiar. Man, you out

455
00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:08,800
Speaker 2: of here doing the movie? I said, yeah, so what's

456
00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,120
Speaker 2: going on over here? Somebody just jumped off the building. Yeah,

457
00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,720
Speaker 2: they died, But listen, can I get autographic sensitized? Like

458
00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,000
Speaker 2: he didn't bother him. I was just like, I'm getting

459
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,320
Speaker 2: the buck back inside. But it was, you know, it

460
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,399
Speaker 2: was a beautiful town other than that, you know, and

461
00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,800
Speaker 2: it was fun. And then, you know, during the pandemic,

462
00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,720
Speaker 2: I kind of spun into stand up comedy, which is

463
00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:30,120
Speaker 2: interesting because I've always been funny and I've always done sitcoms.

464
00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,200
Speaker 2: So I hosted a room before the pandemic actually hit

465
00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,199
Speaker 2: in Hollywood, and it started off as, why don't you

466
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,480
Speaker 2: just put your name on this comedy show and we'll

467
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Speaker 2: do the rest. So it's all mar Gooting presents such and.

468
00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:45,800
Speaker 3: Such, and you're just hosting.

469
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,359
Speaker 2: And I'm not even hosting. I'm just presenting. So I

470
00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,240
Speaker 2: would just show up at the beginning, welcome everybody, crack

471
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:52,679
Speaker 2: a few like, hey, how's it going all? Look at

472
00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,120
Speaker 2: this dude over here? Things for coming right? Here comes

473
00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:55,840
Speaker 2: your host, and then I just sit back and collect

474
00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:57,960
Speaker 2: the job, you know what I mean so that just

475
00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,600
Speaker 2: evolved because once you put a mic in front of me,

476
00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:01,680
Speaker 2: I can't just you know, do nothing, you know what

477
00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:04,520
Speaker 2: I mean. I remember one time before that happened. I

478
00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:05,920
Speaker 2: actually think it was during while I was doing that show.

479
00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,159
Speaker 2: I said, hey, man, once you come down on my

480
00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,080
Speaker 2: comedy show. I said sure, and he said, I'll send

481
00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:10,680
Speaker 2: a limo for you. That's all right, fine. He sends

482
00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,520
Speaker 2: the limos out in Redlands. So it's a long drive,

483
00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,560
Speaker 2: and you know, he's got champagne and liquor in the limos,

484
00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,280
Speaker 2: so you know, I'm drinking and whatnot. And we get

485
00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,920
Speaker 2: there and we're watching the show and the show's great,

486
00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:20,359
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh man, it's a good show. And

487
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,040
Speaker 2: then the owner comes over. He says, you mind getting

488
00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 2: on stage, maybe just saying hi to everybody, you know,

489
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,280
Speaker 2: just just let him know you here. I was like,

490
00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:26,879
Speaker 2: a little weird. I don't think I've ever seen that

491
00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:28,240
Speaker 2: in the middle of a comedy show, but sure, I

492
00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,240
Speaker 2: don't care. So we're watching, you know, another maybe fifteen

493
00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,959
Speaker 2: twenty minutes goes by, and then I hear the whole say,

494
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,679
Speaker 2: coming to the stage, you got a very very very

495
00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,280
Speaker 2: funny comedian. You guys are gonna love him. Oh, he

496
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,480
Speaker 2: is just outstanding. You've seen him, you know. He just

497
00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,159
Speaker 2: happened to be in the building. So he's gonna come

498
00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:44,880
Speaker 2: up here and give y'all a little taste. Man, he's really

499
00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,480
Speaker 2: really funny. Are y'all ready for that? And I started

500
00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,000
Speaker 2: looking around, like, man, I can't wait to see what

501
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,680
Speaker 2: this is. You know, I like surprises. You know. He's

502
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,359
Speaker 2: like I've seen him in Hanging with Mister Cooper. You've

503
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,880
Speaker 2: seen him in Smart Guy, You've seen him in Baby Boy.

504
00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:56,320
Speaker 2: I was like, I must know him. He's been in

505
00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:58,120
Speaker 2: half the stuff I've been in. Who is this dude?

506
00:19:58,280 --> 00:19:58,639
Speaker 2: He's been?

507
00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:01,119
Speaker 3: Was your wife with you?

508
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,600
Speaker 1: Was she looking at b This was before that, before

509
00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:06,240
Speaker 1: I even got married.

510
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:07,360
Speaker 2: That's so long ago. It was and it was fun

511
00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:09,119
Speaker 2: and then she he called me up. And when I

512
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,159
Speaker 2: got on stage, you know, I just it was a

513
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,400
Speaker 2: ham So I just I just started talking about stuff.

514
00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:14,760
Speaker 2: The light was bright. I was like, damn, it's right

515
00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 2: up here. What is an interrogation? You know? People start laughing.

516
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,280
Speaker 2: And then I got on a roll and I'm feeling

517
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:20,960
Speaker 2: good and they kept laughing. And then I hit that

518
00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,960
Speaker 2: wall because I said, man, I'm surprised y'all to laugh

519
00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 2: with all these hicks in here. I adn't think nobody

520
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,040
Speaker 2: be laughing. And it looked like and it got quiet

521
00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 2: like that, and I was like, anybody see baby boy?

522
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,680
Speaker 2: And it was like, yeah, we started cheering. I jumped

523
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Speaker 2: off stage.

524
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Speaker 3: Okay, so nice, say nice, you know what I'm saying.

525
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,480
Speaker 2: So everyone's like, why'd you get off? I was like,

526
00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 2: that's not what I do. I just you know, I

527
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,119
Speaker 2: just tried it. But now it's it's evolved, you know.

528
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,199
Speaker 2: I would when I do stand up or when I

529
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 2: do regular comedy, like I mentioned I did a family

530
00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,880
Speaker 2: time uh for Wolf ninety one episodes, I would bring

531
00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,960
Speaker 2: up punch up writers who were stand up comedians because

532
00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:55,639
Speaker 2: we would film without a live audience, and when you

533
00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,120
Speaker 2: don't have a live audience, you you still need that energy, yeah,

534
00:20:58,160 --> 00:20:59,800
Speaker 2: because you don't want to tell a joke and then

535
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Speaker 2: me go to the next joke. You need to like

536
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,120
Speaker 2: you need to leave room for the laugh tracks, right,

537
00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:08,160
Speaker 2: So I like, I would have comedians help me come

538
00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,520
Speaker 2: up with new punchlines for every joke, you know what

539
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:12,920
Speaker 2: I mean? So if we did we do a scene

540
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 2: we're talking about noodles in this and that boom when

541
00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:16,440
Speaker 2: I say something Tommy's noodles a nasty and everybody laughs.

542
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna do it again. When I say

543
00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 2: noodles would laugh nasty. No one's gonna laugh because they

544
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Speaker 2: just heard that. So I need something fresh for the

545
00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,959
Speaker 2: next joke, for the next take round and we do

546
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,680
Speaker 2: take after take after takes. So anyway, so I got

547
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Speaker 2: used to writing jokes and writing new punchlines and so

548
00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 2: forth and song.

549
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Speaker 3: But so you weren't just acting, you were writing too.

550
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 2: I was writing. So I was a producer and a

551
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Speaker 2: writer on that show. Yeah, exactly. So so that was

552
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 2: a that was that was my first voya into producing.

553
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 2: And uh so what happened is I would always I

554
00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 2: wouldn't really practice my jokes. I would just save them

555
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 2: and then spring them on everybody so that they were fresh.

556
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:50,159
Speaker 2: So as I transitioned into stand up, I realized that

557
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:52,240
Speaker 2: you need a team. I always think about Kevin Hart

558
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,920
Speaker 2: and the Red Cup Boys, how he has his group

559
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 2: of guys and I'm sure they run jokes past each

560
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 2: other and that you know, he has a team that

561
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Speaker 2: helps them. The last time that I saw Kevin Hart

562
00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 2: was before he really really took off and he was

563
00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,119
Speaker 2: at I believe it was the comedy store, and I

564
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 2: saw him out the lobby and we were talking with

565
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 2: just me and a couple of fellas, and we're all laughing,

566
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 2: and he's getting ready to go on, and he just

567
00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:16,720
Speaker 2: starts talking about things and bringing up certain things, and

568
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 2: everything you're saying was just funny. We were all just

569
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 2: laughing at it. That out he's all right, man, I'm

570
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:21,360
Speaker 2: about to get on stage. It's all right, man, good luck.

571
00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,959
Speaker 2: And then twenty minutes later he gets up and everything

572
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,439
Speaker 2: he said on stage was all of the stuff that

573
00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 2: he was practicing with us before he got on.

574
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Speaker 1: Wow.

575
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 2: So he was rehearsing his jokes and running them by

576
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Speaker 2: us to see if they were funny and if it

577
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 2: don't work, and then.

578
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,920
Speaker 3: In a regular conversation, in a regular.

579
00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,520
Speaker 2: Convers and I said, Oh, that's how you do it.

580
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 3: So that's different. I never heard a comedian doing that.

581
00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean, you trust me, they do it

582
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,719
Speaker 2: and you don't know. So if you see a comedian

583
00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 2: before he's about to go on and he's just shooting

584
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 2: the breeze with you and talking and stuff, and he's

585
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 2: gonna be funny, he's a comedian, you know. Plus he's

586
00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,280
Speaker 2: getting ready to go on stage, so he's working out stuff.

587
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,359
Speaker 2: He's working jokes out on you, and I'm like, oh,

588
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 2: that is brilliant. So my sister, who shout out to

589
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 2: April Gooding this was about, oh goodness, is probably about

590
00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 2: seven years ago, she tells us. Because she wasn't in

591
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,919
Speaker 2: the business, she kind of did like a role here

592
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 2: or there. I think she everybody hates Chris and a

593
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,840
Speaker 2: couple other little sitcoms whatever, And she said, I'm gonna

594
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:11,919
Speaker 2: start doing stand up and me and my brother were terrified,

595
00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 2: like are you kidding me? Like you're funny, but don't

596
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 2: just jump in the stand up. She's like, no, trust me,

597
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 2: come support me. I have a show at the Improv.

598
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 2: And we're like, oh my god. So we were just

599
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,160
Speaker 2: nervous as hell, and we sat there the whole show

600
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 2: and everybody that got up was okay. And then she

601
00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 2: got up and she killed it. We were like, oh,

602
00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 2: thank god. And she was so funny. And then after

603
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 2: she got off, the next person up with Seinfeld. I

604
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 2: was like, girl, you opened up for Seinfeld on your

605
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:36,880
Speaker 2: first time, Like, how the hell did you do that?

606
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 2: And she told me. She took a class and in

607
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 2: this class they showed her how to build her set,

608
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 2: her comedy set.

609
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 4: Wow.

610
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 2: So like the first week of the class, she would

611
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 2: come up with five jokes. I got a joke about

612
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:48,479
Speaker 2: rom and I got joke about sage a noodle, something

613
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 2: about eggs. You try every joke. The ones that work

614
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 2: you keep, and then the next week you start with

615
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,240
Speaker 2: some new ones. Okay, right, you try those new ones,

616
00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 2: and it's just process of elimination until you build yourself

617
00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,439
Speaker 2: a whole set. So you know, that's what I've been

618
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:03,919
Speaker 2: doing over this last during the strike, which is funny.

619
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,439
Speaker 2: I had started, Uh you heard about the Montgomery brawl. Yeah, right,

620
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: that happened with the dude with the hat. He threw

621
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 2: the hat in the air and everybody came fighting and

622
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 2: jumped in the water and all that. Oh my god,

623
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 2: it was brilliant. You gotta you guys haven't seen it.

624
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,440
Speaker 2: I don't know where you've been living, but you gotta

625
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 2: go google the Montgomery I s. Yeah, yeah, So I

626
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 2: did this bit where I walked him. Remember he had

627
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 2: on a white shirt and on some black shorts and

628
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,040
Speaker 2: and and and a hat. So I did a bit

629
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 2: where we started our scene where we started our show.

630
00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,399
Speaker 2: We had a white guy. First, white guy opens up

631
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,159
Speaker 2: and he does his set and he's great and he

632
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 2: finishes all you guys, makes no noise for omar goodding,

633
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 2: and okay, hey, all right, I have ever seen me do

634
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 2: standard hords that they're curious And I walk out and

635
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 2: I whisper and I tell him you got to go

636
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 2: that way, and he goes, no, I want to walk

637
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:06,960
Speaker 2: this way. No, no, no, bro, you got to you

638
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 2: gotta walk on that way. He says, no, I want

639
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 2: to go this way. I said, cut the music, and

640
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 2: I take my hat and I throw it in the air.

641
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: So when I threw it and everybody fell out laugh

642
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 2: and he walks off the stage. And then I start

643
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:16,920
Speaker 2: my routine. So once you know, hit him in the

644
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 2: mouth off jump, it was easy. And then I talked

645
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,760
Speaker 2: about the narrator in the video and so forth and

646
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 2: so on and all that stuff. So that was the

647
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 2: beginning of my set, you know what I mean. And

648
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 2: then I also have a show. So I do a

649
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 2: show every other Wednesday called Funny AF Comedy Show. So

650
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 2: right now it's at the Culture Lounge in downtown La. Yeah,

651
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,880
Speaker 2: so it's every second Wednesday of the month, So today,

652
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 2: the twenty ninth, I on the win this air or

653
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 2: if they're watching it live or whatever the case is.

654
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 2: But yeah, come on down and check it out and

655
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,680
Speaker 2: you'll see now it's evolved too. I have my host

656
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 2: do his whole thing. We run through the whole show,

657
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 2: and then I just close it like a headliner. So

658
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 2: I'll do like ten fifteen minutes at the end, and

659
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 2: I'll just you know, I'll spend the night picking off jokes,

660
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 2: you know, doing the old Kevin Hart getting getting some material,

661
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 2: you know what I mean saying, some live, fresh material,

662
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 2: because I'm also good at improv. And that's where's at.

663
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 2: And I also have a tour that I'm doing called

664
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 2: the We out Here Comedy Event, which started in San Antonio.

665
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 2: That's the one that I told you about where I

666
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 2: did the hed of Here. We did four shows out there.

667
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 2: We did another four shows in Atlanta. I just came

668
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 2: back from Arkansas. We did some shows on the ninth.

669
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 2: We will be in Come on, brain, don't fail me now.

670
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 2: Not Midland is in Midland, Texas well. Anyway, if you

671
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,360
Speaker 2: follow me online Omar Gooding, you can check the link

672
00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 2: in my bio and I have all my show dates

673
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 2: and now how.

674
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,520
Speaker 3: Are you juggling your comedy with your acting?

675
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just I'm scatter brained.

676
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 4: I need it.

677
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 2: I'm adhd. I'm just it's you know, also do music.

678
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 2: I dropped the album, I be writing, you know, I'm

679
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 2: producing a new film that we're filming out in Atlanta.

680
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,439
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be one of the leads in that. So

681
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 2: it's just a schedule. It's just, you know, I just

682
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:50,199
Speaker 2: put it on my calendar and try not to forget it.

683
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 2: I'll do this, we'll finish this interview, I'll get a

684
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 2: power nap, and then I'll get ready for my show tonight.

685
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 2: Over the weekend, I got a one day gig and

686
00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 2: what is this? I think we're going to be in Glendale.

687
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: And it's just, you know, it's just one thing after

688
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 2: another for me. I've been doing my whole life forty

689
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 2: seven years old, started at nine, So it's not it's

690
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 2: not difficult to try to figure out with that whole journey.

691
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: Was there every any points where there was dips like

692
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: dips or struggles?

693
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 2: Definitely, And there was definitely struggles, just the lulls, and

694
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 2: it one just staying relevant. You know a lot of people,

695
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 2: especially if you start off as a child actor nine

696
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 2: years old. You show a picture of me nine, people

697
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 2: always say you don't age. Yeah, right, show up picture

698
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 2: of me at nine, side by side with me at

699
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 2: forty seven with a couple of gray hairs. Pop up.

700
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 2: I may a shaved and I look young or youthful

701
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 2: or whatever. But just reinventing yourself, staying current without pushing

702
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,239
Speaker 2: it or looking like you're trying to just keep up

703
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 2: with everybody, you know what I mean. So I found

704
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 2: a way to just kind of stand my lane, you

705
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like a lot of actors feel

706
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 2: like they have to do certain roles. They have to,

707
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,160
Speaker 2: for lack of a better example, put on the dress,

708
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 2: so to speak, you know what I mean. So like

709
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: with me, is I know which roles I can do.

710
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,359
Speaker 2: I know which lanes I can stay And people said, well,

711
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 2: damn me, like you do havey You played the thug,

712
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,400
Speaker 2: I played a doctor, I played a dad. I played

713
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 2: the sun. Like you can do just about anything, just

714
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: about you want to know what an actor is? My

715
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 2: brother Cuba Gooding Jr. Now that man can play any

716
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 2: damn thing. That's why you can see him in snow

717
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: Dog's Boat Trip, Radio Men of Honor, you'd I mean,

718
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 2: that'll be five different things. I've tried just about everything.

719
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 2: Just about that, I said, oh, you know, like something

720
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,920
Speaker 2: like radio mentally challenging. I tried it, but it wasn't

721
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 2: in my wheelhouse. When I left the audition room, they

722
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,959
Speaker 2: were laughing. I'm like, this wasn't a comedy. Why are

723
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: they giggling? You know? And I knew to stay off

724
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 2: that path, you know, so I pretty much just no

725
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 2: my land.

726
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: Someone told me recently at a party this past weekend

727
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,320
Speaker 1: that acting requires like so if it's like a comedic

728
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: rom com, it's a certain style acting. And if it's

729
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 1: there's like certain styles of acting within each genre.

730
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: Sure, sure yeah. I mean you know it's funny too

731
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 2: when you say that, because when I started, I did

732
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 2: sitcoms in the nineties and it was more like vaudeville.

733
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 2: It was more animated. Everything was super funny and doing

734
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 2: these facials hold on this, no, no, no, blah. But then

735
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: as it evolved, you know, I always give my hats

736
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 2: off to John Singleton because he helped me turn the

737
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 2: corner in that regard. There was you know, we were

738
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 2: talking about struggles initially in your question, And I always

739
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 2: wanted to do movies. I always wanted to be taken

740
00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 2: serious and serious roles. But even though if I auditioned

741
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 2: and I did well in the audition, they would look

742
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,719
Speaker 2: at my credits and my name, what I'm known for,

743
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 2: and the producers would go, now we'll go with somebody that's,

744
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 2: you know, already known for drama. So once I did

745
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 2: Baby Boy, excuse me, I was then taken serious for

746
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 2: serious roles. For lack of a better word, you know,

747
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: so comedy, my comedy has evolved into just being more natural,

748
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So back in the day,

749
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 2: it was, like I said, it was more animated and

750
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 2: comedic and you know and arkle and that type of thing. Yea,

751
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 2: And now it's just just natural comedy. And you say

752
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 2: something and then you laugh as opposed to here comes

753
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: a joke.

754
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 3: Yeah.

755
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 2: So you know, there is that. There's the sitcom actor.

756
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 2: There's plays, you know, dramatic where you have to project

757
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 2: and acting you kind of you ham it up just

758
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: a little bit more. But you also want to be natural,

759
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. There's dramas I did a

760
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: during the I bring up the pandemic a lot, because

761
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's a big deal recently obviously

762
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 2: changed everyone's lives. But during the pandemic, right before it started,

763
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 2: I negotiated to do a film called Am Radio Right

764
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: And when every time I posted about it, people thought

765
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 2: I had like an AM radio talk show and I

766
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: was like, no, it's a movie about a recluse that

767
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 2: started in FM radio and he had a meltdown and

768
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 2: then you know, was given a second chance on AM radio.

769
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 2: So it deals with mental health, being alone, feeling alone,

770
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 2: and it's also a love story and I really got

771
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 2: to hone in on my serious acting, you know what

772
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: I mean. So it's a drama for sure, but it's

773
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 2: also funny because I can't do anything without making a

774
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 2: joke here there. And we scaled down the budget all

775
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 2: the way so that we can just film it with

776
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 2: a skeleton crew. A shout out to Ricky Burschell, who's

777
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 2: a film director out of Tennessee who is phenomenal. And

778
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 2: he came up with the script that he had actually

779
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: wrote for another actor. But during the pandemic, this and

780
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 2: that happened, the guy couldn't do it, and I said,

781
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 2: I'll do it. I'm ready to get out the house

782
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 2: been too much. So we went out. I flew out

783
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,040
Speaker 2: to Tennessee and we filmed it in like two weeks

784
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 2: and it was brilliant. Man. You know, if you ever

785
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 2: get a chance to watch it, check out AM radio.

786
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: Can we get it?

787
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 2: You can see it on I'm sure it's on two B,

788
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 2: It's on Amazon Prime, it's pretty much everywhere streaming is. Now.

789
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 3: Were you you were also producing on it or just act.

790
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: I'm a producer as well on there. I helped with

791
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 2: the editing, you know, it was it.

792
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 3: Was it was fun being helped with the editing.

793
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 2: The editing.

794
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 3: I mean, they said, you were actually editing.

795
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 2: I didn't like push the button. I gave my input

796
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 2: put it that way. So they sent me like they

797
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 2: would send me the first raft and I said, can

798
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: we change this? And we moved this scene? Maybe you can,

799
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,479
Speaker 2: you know, because there was something in there that I

800
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 2: just I felt like it was just going to make

801
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: people think about the movie in the wrong way. And

802
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 2: we actually edited it out and replaced it with like

803
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 2: a flashback. And it was fun. It was fun, and

804
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 2: it was it was just fun to be on that

805
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 2: side of it and giving my input after being in

806
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 2: the business for so long, and that's what started me saying,

807
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 2: you know, I have to be on the produce the

808
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: production side of every film that I'm in because sometimes,

809
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 2: and this will happen a lot too. People call me

810
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 2: the King of two B right now because people will

811
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: call me and say, yo, how much what's your day rate?

812
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 2: All can I get you for a day in my

813
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: film out here? And blah blah blah, Like h sounds

814
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 2: like an easy job. You fly out of town, you know,

815
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 2: first class accommodations, They give you what you want, pay wise,

816
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 2: your film for one day and then you're done. But

817
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 2: then when people go on to B they say starring

818
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 2: Omar Goode and they think I'm all through the film

819
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: and it's like one or two scenes that they shot

820
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 2: in that one day. And then I look at the

821
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 2: film and the quality of the film and I'm like, man,

822
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 2: I should have pushed to be a producer on the

823
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 2: film so that I can give my input. Let me

824
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 2: see the final product before this thing is released to

825
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 2: the world, so that I can help you out, you know,

826
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 2: you know, just just just the transitioning, maybe the music,

827
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 2: scoring a little bit everythingcause there's so many things that

828
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: go into to making a successful film.

829
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 3: Wow.

830
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: Wow. So where do you see yourself comedy wise now

831
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: that you're entering Well, you've been in the comedy arena,

832
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: But like most comics, I think it takes like an

833
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: average of like ten years before they're really where they.

834
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny. It's kind of

835
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: like it depends on where it goes opportunity wise, because

836
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: there's so many things that you can do. I mean,

837
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 2: I think the top everyone I was, Oh, you want

838
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 2: your special. You know you're a one hour special on Netflix.

839
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 2: You know you say an hour and I go, damn

840
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 2: an hour. You know, a long five minutes is of

841
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 2: stand up comedy. That's a lot, you know. When I

842
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 2: went on stage, and it's funny because what I would

843
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 2: always do. I started off as a presenter, right, which

844
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 2: was like something that I invented. I felt like because

845
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 2: I just I walk out. I think about Russell Simmons

846
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 2: when he would just come on at the end of

847
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 2: Death Comedy gen and say thank you will come and

848
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 2: God blessed good night. Right, So that was gonna be

849
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 2: my role. But I started at the beginning of the

850
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 2: show rather than at the end. Now, if anybody knows

851
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,120
Speaker 2: anything about stand up comedy, the hardest part is the beginning. Yeah,

852
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: because people just getting there ain't nobody full of liquor.

853
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 2: You know, they want to laugh, but they're just say, man,

854
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 2: I'd be warmed up just yet. So to get a

855
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 2: crowd ready to laugh, there's a tough spot, you know.

856
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 2: That takes a special skill in itself. I was just

857
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 2: jumping out trying that at first, and then I transitioned

858
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 2: into hosting, which was also fun because it's the same

859
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 2: idea where you welcome people there. He told them what's

860
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 2: going to go on a joke over here and there.

861
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 2: But it's easy. You kind of have a safety net

862
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 2: because if you run out of material or if you

863
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 2: feel a little stale, you just say, all right, let

864
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 2: me bring your first comic cup. Yeah, and then you

865
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 2: jump off stage. Yeah, you know, and then in between

866
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 2: comics it's the same type of thing. How you guys

867
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 2: feeling that guy was funny? Right? Do you talk about this? Yeah?

868
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 2: That is crazy? All right, let's bring your next comic cup?

869
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 2: You know. So I did that in San Antonio. I'm

870
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 2: a man, Charles Allen. I got a shout out, you

871
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:33,799
Speaker 2: got to shout out Charles allen Man because he's He's

872
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 2: really the reason why I do stand up now. He said,

873
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 2: why don't you try just doing a set at the

874
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 2: end of the show. And my initial response was hell no,

875
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 2: Like that's.

876
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 3: A lot of pressure and how long was the set

877
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 3: that he was saying?

878
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 2: So he said, do do a set? You know, because

879
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,480
Speaker 2: when we did the when I did the hosting the

880
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 2: first night, I did the hosting, so I was up

881
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 2: for maybe six minutes at the beginning, and then I

882
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 2: do maybe a minute and a half in between tween

883
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 2: each person. But it was new material, you know. I

884
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 2: would come up and I'd look at my jokes that

885
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 2: I wrote, and I said, I'm try this one. I

886
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 2: come on, hey, what's up over anybody married? I do

887
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 2: a marriage Joe? Oh, that pandemic was crazy, right, you

888
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 2: couldn't call froun nobody el yet. But I'm gonna try that. Joe,

889
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 2: try that joke. And he said, just put them all

890
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 2: together and do a set. So I said, I'll try it,

891
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: and boy, it was nerve wracking. I've been nervous in

892
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 2: about thirty years. But I got up there and I

893
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 2: felt like it went fast, and I got off. I said, man,

894
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 2: I only did ten minutes. He said, bro, you was

895
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 2: up there for eighteen minutes. I was like eighteen minutes.

896
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 2: He said, yeah, I got the footage, watch it back.

897
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 2: And then when I watched it back, I realized I

898
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 2: was speaking fat. I was talking real quick. I said,

899
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 2: a bunch of line and go right to the next one,

900
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 2: you know. And he's like, man, if you learn to

901
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 2: breathe and calm down and space out your jokes in

902
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,320
Speaker 2: between you, you probably got thirty forty minutes of material.

903
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 2: And I did, so moving forward, that's what I did.

904
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 2: So we also, like I said, we were on tour now.

905
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 2: So I have a couple of show dates coming up

906
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: and I'm doing the headline thing now, so I'll come

907
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 2: at the Deana. I got like four shows in Indiana

908
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: coming up, which is also fun because I do adult comedy.

909
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 2: But they said, can you do a clean show for us,

910
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 2: no cursing? And I was like, ooh, I'll try, you know.

911
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 2: So I've been working on that, and you know, I

912
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: have to march to uh to kind of perfect my set.

913
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,479
Speaker 2: Like I said, I've got my show every two weeks,

914
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,279
Speaker 2: so I just work out new stuff and then just

915
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 2: keep building and building for comics.

916
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a lot of pressure right now

917
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: because there's cancel culture, and I have a very my

918
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: positioning on it is that comics need to not be

919
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: afraid of cancel culture, because you know, comedy is laughing

920
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: at real life, right and different perspectives on it. But

921
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: once these comics start to get more filtered, I mean,

922
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: can you really be funny. I've seen a couple of

923
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: specials that dropped that I thought were like, okay at best.

924
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, obviously we have the icons like

925
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy, and we have you know,

926
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,919
Speaker 1: we have so many good icons where you can watch

927
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: that same tape one hundred times and be like, this

928
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: is amazing, But then the news.

929
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 2: To watch it now, I feel like an old I

930
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 2: still think they're funny. I mean, during this cancel culture,

931
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 2: we would people if you if they released any of

932
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 2: that old stuff now, people would be like, oh my god,

933
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 2: they'd be outraged. Oh it is. It is a challenge.

934
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 2: I remember I was on I was on set a

935
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: Harmless Mistake. We were trying to rehearse our lines and

936
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 2: there was a that's funny. I've never told a story

937
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 2: on filming because this happened who about six months ago

938
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 2: and there was a person female gender that was Sam.

939
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 2: So I'm still trying to figure out how to say this.

940
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 2: She was the DP, which means she was setting up

941
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 2: the shots and trying to figure out how to film us.

942
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 2: But we were going over our scene. So we're going

943
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 2: when when when actors, when when the director says and

944
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 2: action and we start our lines, it needs to be

945
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 2: this quiet. If we hear anything going on, it'll throw

946
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 2: us off. And we're guys, we gotta be you guys

947
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:44,439
Speaker 2: be quiet on set, please, because we're trying to rehearse

948
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 2: and we shouldn't have to say that. That should be

949
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 2: an ad saying quiet. You guys got to be quiet.

950
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 2: My actors are trying to rehearse their lines. It's hard

951
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 2: enough to do this job and remember all their lines,

952
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 2: and they're blocking and their placement and the lighting and

953
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 2: all this and that other. They got enough on their minds.

954
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 2: Please just be quiet while they're rehearsing. Right, So anyway,

955
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 2: so we're going over our scene and that's what was

956
00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 2: just keep out of years and I was just like

957
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 2: I couldn't stand it. I said listen, you guys gotta

958
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 2: be quiet when we're rehearsing our lines. I know this

959
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 2: isn't the most professional production, but it's good enough to

960
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: where you guys need to respect your actors. And they said, well,

961
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 2: you want to look good, then you need to let

962
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: us talk this out. And I'm like, listen, I've been

963
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 2: in this business for thirty years and I've never been

964
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 2: told that I need to be quiet or that I

965
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: need to ignore you when I'm trying to do my

966
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 2: you know. And they wound up going into it back

967
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 2: and forth, and then another person joined in and said, well,

968
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 2: you need to let her do da da da da da.

969
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: Let them do blah blah blah. And then a friend

970
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 2: of mine said, hey, hey, young lady, listen, we're trying

971
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 2: to put and she said, oh my god, that's not

972
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 2: even the right pronoun you know. And then I said, oh, damn, okay, hmm.

973
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 2: I mean it's respectful as for him to say, young

974
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 2: lady that in our generation, all right, that's about the

975
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 2: nicest thing you can say to a female, you know.

976
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 2: And not to know that I had to go the

977
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,760
Speaker 2: right pronoun or I should have looked at this person

978
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 2: and known that they didn't want to be referred to

979
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 2: as a young lady, a woman, or her or she

980
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 2: at all. Like I have to filter all that in

981
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,359
Speaker 2: in an instant while trying to do my job here,

982
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 2: and I was just like, wow, we're we're on a

983
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 2: slippery slope. And you know, in comedy, I kind of

984
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 2: feel like if you lead with that, you may be okay,

985
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 2: you know.

986
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 3: Lead with what the disclaimers.

987
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, you know, for one, I think I

988
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 2: think if you're gonna get canceled or if you're going

989
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: to get upset with something someone says, then it should

990
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 2: be a someone that you believe should know better. So

991
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,959
Speaker 2: if you're in I don't know, your twenties and under,

992
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 2: that's about the end of the No better is in

993
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 2: my opinion, maybe thirty. But if you're forty fifty years old, Like,

994
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,520
Speaker 2: if my mom walks in the room and says something

995
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 2: crazy about somebody, everybody's gonna be like, it's okay, she's

996
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 2: you know what, she's seventy eight, Yeah, you know what

997
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 2: I mean, she's sixty says, They're like, all right, like

998
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 2: you know what she means. She didn't mean it like that,

999
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 2: or maybe she did in her age, and you you know,

1000
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,360
Speaker 2: you'd be fine. Well, there's got to be some latitudes

1001
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 2: given to people that are that grew up in a

1002
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 2: certain era. I mean, I was in trouble for saying

1003
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 2: and the F word and not the U because I

1004
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 2: was but I was referring to a man who had

1005
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 2: two women with him and I was just angry in Vegas.

1006
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 2: So I didn't mean him to be a homosexual in

1007
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 2: any way. Yeah, yeah, I was just using that word

1008
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 2: because I was angry. We were liquored up and I

1009
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 2: wanted him to try to do something, you know. And

1010
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 2: then the next morning I had to my Bubba. Sis

1011
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 2: was like, hey, you're gonna have to apologize if people

1012
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 2: are outraised dat dad down. And it's like, what I

1013
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 2: can see if I was talking to a person that

1014
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 2: was gay, yeah, you know, and I tried to slander them,

1015
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 2: that would be one thing. But then again, like I said, slippery, So.

1016
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 3: We're definitely a sensitive world.

1017
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: It just sucks because a lot of these actors, comics

1018
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: or people in front of the camera already have It's

1019
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: already such a hard gig as it is to get

1020
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,439
Speaker 1: in and to stabilize, and then you have to now

1021
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,439
Speaker 1: walk on eggshells because of society. I don't know where

1022
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: the pronouns meets disrespect. Like you know, if I see,

1023
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: you know, someone and they look like a woman, I'm

1024
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: gonna say female, But then like now off camera will

1025
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: be like, whoa am I supposed to say female?

1026
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 3: Like what you know, which is it's a weird. It's weird.

1027
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: But we're definitely from a different air, you know, we're

1028
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 1: from the era of you know, tomato is a tomato?

1029
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1030
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's it's it's definitely tricky. I mean,

1031
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,879
Speaker 2: it's like talking about the N word and who can

1032
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 2: say it? When you said and how are you supposed

1033
00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: to say it? The B word? Same thing two women

1034
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,839
Speaker 2: like yeah that oh ship, Now I'm in trouble, you know. Yeah,

1035
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 2: so it's it's tough. I don't I don't think it's

1036
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: it's you know, I think personally, I think comics would

1037
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 2: have it it easier in the sense of like, okay,

1038
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 2: obviously he's just making a joke, so he might get

1039
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 2: let off the hook, you know, but other people doing

1040
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: interviews and you know, talk show hosts and people and

1041
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 2: you know, in your job, you know, it's you know,

1042
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 2: good luck, good luck to do a podcast. No, I

1043
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 2: shouldn't know.

1044
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 3: Oh, I say things on here.

1045
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: I get calls from uh one of my cousins shout

1046
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: outs to Heather, she listen to my podcast, and I

1047
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: get a text pretty often from her like I can't

1048
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: believe you said this on your show, And I'm like,

1049
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: I still can't believe you listened.

1050
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 3: To this show.

1051
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 2: Thank you for the comment.

1052
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, But yeah, I've said stuff on here. I

1053
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: don't care about being canceled at all.

1054
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 3: I like.

1055
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,399
Speaker 1: I like the hate attention. I don't know why I

1056
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: like it. I like it more than I like the

1057
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: nice attention.

1058
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 2: I know, I remember you said something about that. I'm

1059
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 2: sensitive in that regard, but I'm easy. I'm quick with

1060
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 2: the block button. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. If you call

1061
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 2: me too much, text me too much, you'll be blocked.

1062
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 2: If you're online and you say something crazy, you know.

1063
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 2: I'll let that first comment go. But if I feed

1064
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: into it and start giving this person block, that block

1065
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 2: button is awesome hat oh yeah, and they'll be like, oh,

1066
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 2: leave those comments on there. That's how people know you're authentic. Authentic,

1067
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 2: my ass. I don't want to read that block block

1068
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 2: block block. I won't report them, but I'll block them

1069
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 2: and they'll be like, I can't find this dudecause you're blocked.

1070
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: I block friends all about my mama once.

1071
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: Okay, well I did block one fan from our show

1072
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,959
Speaker 1: because he was disrespecting one of the guests on my show.

1073
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 1: He was like in my DMS in the in the

1074
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: eating while broke DMS on, like, are YouTube like any

1075
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: form of contact to me? And he was like talking

1076
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 1: so derogatory about this guest and I was like, had

1077
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: he actually listened to full episode, he actually would have

1078
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: had more respect for her. But like, you know, for

1079
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: whatever reason, but he was like stalker level and I

1080
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: ended up reaching out to the guest and was like, yo,

1081
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: I think there's something unsafe here, you know, And she

1082
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, I put a restraining order on him.

1083
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 3: Could you keep all those records?

1084
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: I was like he knew like everyone in her camp,

1085
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: and I was like, he's like after Charlemagne, And I

1086
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: was like, yo, so I let the black effect know,

1087
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: like you know what there is there's a problem, the

1088
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: mental health issue, because they'd be really invested. You'd be like, dude,

1089
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: they don't.

1090
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 3: Really know you. You don't know that you know you're

1091
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 3: really losing sleep over here.

1092
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 2: It's funny too, you know, and I work with the

1093
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 2: comedian shout out to damn, can I shout him out.

1094
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:05,439
Speaker 2: I'm about to get this story.

1095
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 4: I won't, but he's he was being heckled by this person.

1096
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 2: It's funny. Everyone at the show and it's funny. It

1097
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 2: was an all black room. You know, do mostly these

1098
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 2: black shows and U but there was you know, I

1099
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: have white fans and a couple of you know, a

1100
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 2: couple of white fans showed up and they were just

1101
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 2: just completely drunk, like he was just three sheeted away

1102
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: and he was completely a mess. And every time he

1103
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 2: said yeah, homeorko, it's come up, he and he's like

1104
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 2: right up front. So every comic was kind of being

1105
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 2: bothered by him, but the more seasoned comics knew to

1106
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 2: just ignore him, maybe give him an okay guy all right,

1107
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 2: and then relax. But this one comic got up there

1108
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 2: and he was like, you know, close to our headliner,

1109
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,800
Speaker 2: and he has a whole routine and it's a rhythm

1110
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 2: and a it's all about you know, the first joke,

1111
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 2: and it all kind of snowballs from there, and this

1112
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,080
Speaker 2: guy started yelling and he just started engaging with the guy.

1113
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 2: Now it just ruined his whole set because he's going

1114
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 2: back and forth. And then somebody else came to his defense,

1115
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 2: actually believe it or not, and was like, heah, he's

1116
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 2: not the only white guy here, so who you mean

1117
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 2: by white people? And he's like, oh my god, somebody

1118
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 2: did it. And then he was just going back and

1119
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 2: forth with these people. I had to yell at him like, bro,

1120
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 2: finish your set, we love you, ignore them, you know.

1121
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 2: And then when he got off out to tell us, well,

1122
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 2: you can't engage with them, you know. And it's sounded

1123
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 2: the same thing with these trolls online. As soon as

1124
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: you give him a little life now, they're like, I

1125
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 2: got it. They're just seeking attention. That's all they want

1126
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,439
Speaker 2: they need. And then you see, I've seen I've made

1127
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,760
Speaker 2: a comment or I've made a post, and then somebody

1128
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 2: will comment positive, and then someone will comment negative, and

1129
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 2: now these two people are going at it on my post,

1130
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:42,959
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I got to block both of these people,

1131
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 2: like I don't hear any of this conversation. Can y'all

1132
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 2: take that somewhere else or go to her page or

1133
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:49,439
Speaker 2: his page, whatever the case is Yeah, it gets great.

1134
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: I am curious before we close out your situation with April,

1135
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: your sisters. She started going on our comedy journey, where like,

1136
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: what does your relationship with her look like in regards

1137
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: to you now joining comedy.

1138
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. I mean she's kind of taking a

1139
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 2: step back to because she had she had a day job,

1140
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 2: you know, a day job because she wasn't a full

1141
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 2: time actress. She do it here and there, and she

1142
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: worked actually at an airline, and then there was an

1143
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 2: incident towards the end that was very traumatic for she

1144
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 2: was actually attacked leaving the airport and she's never like

1145
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 2: fully recovered from that. So it's like, you know, with

1146
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 2: the pandemic and then kind of being pushbom. So she's

1147
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 2: taking a step all the way back. I actually threw

1148
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 2: which actually got me really jump started my stand up

1149
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 2: comedy career, is that I threw her a party at

1150
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year because she said she wanted

1151
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,959
Speaker 2: to just be around it again and she just wanted

1152
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 2: to laugh. So are you gonna go up? She's like,

1153
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 2: oh no, I'm not ready for that yet, but I'll

1154
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 2: come and have a good time. And I brought five

1155
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,880
Speaker 2: or six comics out shout out to comedian Warren V

1156
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 2: and a couple of his friends, and we had a

1157
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 2: terrific show because her birthday is January second, and so

1158
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 2: is my brothers because.

1159
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:59,760
Speaker 3: They're born Yeah, same day exactly.

1160
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 2: Part so you know, it was funny. I always throw

1161
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 2: a party for it and be like, yeah, keep a

1162
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 2: good a junior's coming back. Yeah, you know, and he's like,

1163
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 2: I don't go to parties. But anyway, So, so she

1164
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 2: still hasn't got back all. You know, she hasn't got

1165
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 2: back off the sale, and I keep trying to eat

1166
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 2: so edger on, but she's very supportive. I'll come and say,

1167
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 2: you know, she's come to everyone, well not everyone, she

1168
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 2: comes to a bunch of my shows, and then we'll

1169
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 2: talk about it afterwards.

1170
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: Now, all three of you siblings are very close, I

1171
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: would assume, right, And then when have any of you

1172
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: guys hit a low pocket and then you had to

1173
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 1: pull one out?

1174
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously your sister went through that one.

1175
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 2: Yeah that happened my brother. My brother's more guarded, you know,

1176
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 2: so all the things that happened with him, he kind

1177
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 2: of you know, we're like, are you good? I'm good man,

1178
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 2: I'll be all right, all right. I was like, bro,

1179
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: I'm telling you we upset here. We were ready to

1180
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 2: you know, rush in know, go Craze. He's like, nah, nah,

1181
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 2: can everybody be cool. I'm gonna trust the system. And

1182
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 2: I said, a man, you know, and he's a different

1183
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 2: breed than me. I'll tell you right now, they've been it.

1184
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 2: Don't come after omar because if I got anybody had call,

1185
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 2: I would be like, yeah, you want to do something, Yes, yes, yes,

1186
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 2: I'm outside, Yes, help, I need help. I'm not doing

1187
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 2: do this by myself.

1188
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:06,959
Speaker 3: I'm more like your brother.

1189
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, let's wait until the last, last final moment

1190
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: before I push that red button.

1191
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 2: Yeah no, I'm quick, like I told you a block

1192
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 2: of you need something? Yes, yes, me over here. I'm outside.

1193
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 2: The address is two two five note seven. Yeah no,

1194
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 2: but that's happened. I mean, I've had emotional times and

1195
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 2: I had to call him both and we all showed

1196
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 2: up and then when hung out and been like, yeah, man,

1197
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 2: is this going on? And that going on? And you know,

1198
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 2: and especially since I started having kids late in life.

1199
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 2: You know, I started at forty. My brother had already

1200
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 2: had two or three kids. So I'd love to call

1201
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 2: him up just pick his brain about women and children

1202
00:48:39,560 --> 00:48:42,560
Speaker 2: and kids and just being that family man type of thing. So,

1203
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:44,839
Speaker 2: you know, I've kind of I've had my father who

1204
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: wasn't around and my brother who traveled a whole lot

1205
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:48,880
Speaker 2: because he was so successful when he had his kids.

1206
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 2: So then I took that as like what not to do,

1207
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 2: but also how to stay engaged and then still try

1208
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 2: to stay relevant. So it's tough to juggle at all,

1209
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 2: but you know, there's there's opportunities that I've definitely kind

1210
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:01,839
Speaker 2: of said, nah, I don't want to do that because

1211
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 2: I had to keep me await form my kids for

1212
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 2: too long. Like when I had to do this thing

1213
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,359
Speaker 2: in Chicago was brutal, and I brought my kids out

1214
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 2: for like a month, and one of them got really

1215
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 2: sick and we had to go in hospital, and it

1216
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,720
Speaker 2: was it was just a lot. It was so much.

1217
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 2: So you know, the strike was, you know, it was

1218
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 2: important because there's a lot of things that needed to

1219
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 2: be addressed. I mean, I know we're closing, but I

1220
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 2: can go on and on about that strike. It's in

1221
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,960
Speaker 2: my comedy set. So I'll wait and I'll wait and

1222
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 2: talk about it. Then but you know, if if if

1223
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 2: the Chicago, if we don't get a season two, I'll

1224
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 2: be fine with that because it was a lot. It

1225
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 2: was a lot. But I did love the culture and

1226
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 2: I did love being out there. But you know, my

1227
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 2: kids are too young. They need daddy.

1228
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: And then what did you do to avoid the plague

1229
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: that happens with young talent?

1230
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:43,359
Speaker 2: Yeah? That one.

1231
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 3: Or do you think your mom played a role?

1232
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 2: My mom definitely played a huge role. I mean, I

1233
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 2: have a praying mama. You know, I watched her pray

1234
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 2: things in New Existence, from poverty, from a better job

1235
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,360
Speaker 2: for herself to an apartment for us, from living in

1236
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 2: a car to living in an apartment. She prayed me,

1237
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: you're going to get a series. One day that happened,

1238
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 2: you know. Not when I say pray, she need to

1239
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 2: say one prayer and then oh it just happened. No,

1240
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 2: every single day it was a mantra. She would pray goodbye, this, hello, this,

1241
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 2: and we would sing it driving in the car over

1242
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 2: and over again till these things happened. And it was

1243
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 2: just you know, I know that God is real and

1244
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,240
Speaker 2: I've seen his power work. So it's it's it's faith

1245
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 2: first and foremost, and then having people around you that

1246
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 2: want the best for you as opposed to that are

1247
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 2: just leeching off you, or just happy that you're paying

1248
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 2: the rent, you know what I mean. And I had

1249
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 2: gentlemine people saying, nah, bro, we don't need to do that.

1250
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:31,880
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you sure? Yeah? You know I

1251
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 2: I do music too, And I have a line where

1252
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 2: I say I'm tired of watching peers raising peers, you know,

1253
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 2: but that happens.

1254
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 3: Wow, that's such a deep statement. Raising peers.

1255
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is. It hadn't happens all the time,

1256
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 2: you know. And I remember my father. I loved him

1257
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 2: to death, but he would he said something to me,

1258
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 2: and most of the time I'd be like, yes, absolutely,

1259
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 2: But you know, I got in trouble and talked about

1260
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 2: having guns and whatnot. And remember he's like, yeah, you

1261
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 2: got one of those. You gotta give me that gun, bro,

1262
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 2: And I was like, not a chance. If anything, I'll

1263
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 2: get rid of it, but that's not going to happen.

1264
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 2: And my friend was there and always said not give

1265
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 2: it to him. And that was when I went seriously,

1266
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 2: all right, cool, and I gave it to him. And

1267
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 2: it's like I'm not a follower by any means. I've

1268
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 2: always been a leader in every aspect of my life.

1269
00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 2: And that was the one time that I remember, not

1270
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: too clearly to this day. I remember my friend said it,

1271
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 2: and I went, huh, all right, fine, and then he

1272
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 2: kind was like, yeah, man, we can get another one.

1273
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know how deep it was, but

1274
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 2: it's still okay. Near dad, you know, he was like, yeah, okay,

1275
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 2: and my son's listening. But I was like, yeah, it's

1276
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 2: only because my friend said it, because initially I was

1277
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 2: just gonna fight him on it and be like, yo, man,

1278
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 2: I got this. I'll figure it out on my own,

1279
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:35,719
Speaker 2: you know. And it's tough, you know, especially raising kids now.

1280
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 2: And I remember had a conversation with my friend with

1281
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 2: a guy that I just met when I was out

1282
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 2: in Chicago, and he said how his son is very

1283
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 2: successful as a very successful athlete, gifted athlete, but he's

1284
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 2: having problems following the rules. You know, he loves girls

1285
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 2: too much and he's getting trouble this, in trouble with that,

1286
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 2: and he's trying to tell his son things. But what

1287
00:51:56,520 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 2: he does is he appeals to his son's friends and

1288
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 2: he takes them all out here, treats him to this,

1289
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 2: talks to them directly because he knows they'll have a

1290
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 2: bigger influence.

1291
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 3: On Okay, you know what I mean.

1292
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 2: So he has a real good relationship with his son's

1293
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,439
Speaker 2: friends and they're helping him stay on the right path.

1294
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:16,359
Speaker 2: And I thought that was very deep.

1295
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 3: Someone once told me that too.

1296
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,799
Speaker 1: They said, uh, you know, part of raising a kid

1297
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: is who their friends are, like being mindful of who

1298
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: their friends are. I know, growing up, my mom used

1299
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: to always be like, show me your friends and I'll

1300
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: tell you who you are.

1301
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 2: That.

1302
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: It was her basic like every time she was around us, like,

1303
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: let me see what your friends are looking like.

1304
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,400
Speaker 2: That's it was funny my mom. We always said to

1305
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,760
Speaker 2: where'd you learn that from? Who taught you that? Where'd

1306
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 2: you get that from? And I'd be like, what, nobody,

1307
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 2: I probably saw it on this and that. I always

1308
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:44,799
Speaker 2: would get offended, you know, as like a young man

1309
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 2: like I don't follow nobody. Everybody says, oh, Mark, what

1310
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 2: are we doing today or where we're going or what's

1311
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 2: the next move? They come to me, I don't follow nobody,

1312
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 2: you know. But now that I have sons, like a

1313
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 2: young boys, I see when son comes on with and oh,

1314
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 2: I want to hear this song. Where's you hear that?

1315
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 2: Oh Bobby said this? He was get it all day.

1316
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 2: Oh Bobby does it? Who the heck is Bobby. It

1317
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 2: was like, now I got to talk to their parents

1318
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 2: because they're now raising my son because he's coming up

1319
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 2: with new stuff and new things. You know, he meets

1320
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,359
Speaker 2: his cousin and he teaches him how to armpit fart

1321
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 2: or something like that. You know, now he's doing this

1322
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 2: at the table. I'm like, look, boy, you have to

1323
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:15,480
Speaker 2: find out, you know what I mean. So I'm like,

1324
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 2: who is this? And always cousin taught him that. Now

1325
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 2: I want to talk to their parents, like yo, for real.

1326
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 2: So they're like, oh, let's all have a play date

1327
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I don't know about this play date stuff.

1328
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 2: You know, it's cool when you want to go hang

1329
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 2: out or whatever or meet some people and you know

1330
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 2: they see him at school and want to hang out,

1331
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 2: but you got to be involved. You can't. You definitely

1332
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 2: can't leave in the front of no iPad.

1333
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 3: No more, no, no, that's over.

1334
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 2: Well that's I thought it was cute when they can

1335
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 2: just as soon as they learn how to scroll on

1336
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 2: their own. It's like, all right, okay, let me see

1337
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: what we're watching. No headphones, no, no, I'm listening in

1338
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 2: and what is that now? Oh? Ad came on? Because

1339
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 2: they're real sneaky with these ads. I'm watching that one.

1340
00:53:46,719 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 2: I'm scrolling all of a sudden, How did I get

1341
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 2: down this rabbit hole. I'm not following none of these people,

1342
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 2: but I've seen all these reels of stuff that I

1343
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 2: didn't really necessarily want to know about. Now then've found

1344
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 2: out about all type of things going on. I'm depressed,

1345
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,839
Speaker 2: I'm nervous. I'm scared about all type of shit because

1346
00:53:58,840 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 2: I don't.

1347
00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 3: I try hard to stay off the socials as much

1348
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 3: as possible. It is terrible. I wish we could go

1349
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,839
Speaker 3: back to like my era where we just had aim.

1350
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 2: Yes, right, no business. It's been there. My wife be like,

1351
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 2: am you on the phone, Like no, you're you're scrolling

1352
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 2: memes and then sending me something that you found out

1353
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 2: about the spoons and the forks and all this craziness

1354
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 2: that you can't No, no, no, I'm actually it's business.

1355
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 2: Every time I post, then I go on my DM

1356
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 2: it's new job opportunity, so I have I'm talking every time, like,

1357
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 2: oh man, you look at good. So how much is you? Hey?

1358
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 2: Can I get you on that? I said, yeap, call

1359
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,319
Speaker 2: my agent Neil set it up every I'm talking every

1360
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 2: single time, so I have to check on it. Wow,

1361
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? That's be blocking.

1362
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 3: I needn't get my MS popping.

1363
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:41,319
Speaker 2: I know.

1364
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,720
Speaker 3: We have a we have a but we get a lot.

1365
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: Of requests for talent from people trying to pitch talent

1366
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: on the show. But we I use application so I

1367
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:53,720
Speaker 1: don't have to do it manually.

1368
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,760
Speaker 3: From my phone. Like literally, it's like a calendar.

1369
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 1: It's called later and we just put all our socials

1370
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:02,720
Speaker 1: in a calendar and it drops it like in advance,

1371
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: so like whether I touch my phone or not, something's

1372
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 1: gonna drop today. So it looks like and it's all scheduled,

1373
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: and then they'll like set parameters like best time of

1374
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,240
Speaker 1: day to post or whatever. Between that and chat GPT,

1375
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: we do the whole caption and drop or whatever, and

1376
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: then we have a clip team that just generates clips.

1377
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 2: So yeah, so does that happen if you're on TikTok?

1378
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1379
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 2: When you went there yet I tried it, I said, Wow,

1380
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 2: this is a lot you have to be engaged constantly,

1381
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,439
Speaker 2: but you get way more traffic than Instagram. But I'll

1382
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 2: go live on Instagram to be like one hundred people.

1383
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 2: I go live on ig with like I got about

1384
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 2: three hundred thousand on Instagram. I go on TikTok, I

1385
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 2: got maybe fifteen hundred. But then I go live and

1386
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 2: it's like fifteen hundred people are watching you right now.

1387
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 3: I don't even know TikTok had a live feature.

1388
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: You have a lot, But I will say that TikTok

1389
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:54,240
Speaker 1: does give a good interaction, Like I'll go on TikTok

1390
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: and it'll be like, compared to Instagram, a video will

1391
00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:01,360
Speaker 1: probably get like one hundred thousand or eighty thousand years.

1392
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 2: I thought it was a joke. I was like, what

1393
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:03,279
Speaker 2: are you talking about?

1394
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 3: I want to I'm.

1395
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 2: Telling you I went on live a couple of times.

1396
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:07,959
Speaker 2: And then when you're on live, they'll put the little

1397
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 2: hat on you and the glasses while you're talking and

1398
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 2: like what is this? And then it's over. It's like

1399
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:12,840
Speaker 2: you've made fifty dollars. I'm like, what do you mean?

1400
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 2: I made fifty dollars? I look on every time they

1401
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 2: put one of those hats they buy it. It's called

1402
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 2: a badge. I believe, no, buy a badge? Who I

1403
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 2: want to interact with him? I thought, hat and I'll

1404
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 2: be like, oh, thanks for the hat, such and such

1405
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 2: dot whatever whatever, and TikTok on TikTok your life.

1406
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 3: I'm just try and do that.

1407
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's crazy. I'm like, look a, where

1408
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 2: does the little fifty dollars come from? People just keep

1409
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 2: tacking on a dollar here. Dollar. There's crazy. It ads up.

1410
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 2: I said, well, that's smart. I don't know if people

1411
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:35,839
Speaker 2: know about that.

1412
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:40,879
Speaker 1: What would be your main piece of advice for the

1413
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,200
Speaker 1: longevity you've had in your career, in addition to the

1414
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 1: pivots to people trying to get into your position.

1415
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, the longevity part for me is it's it's it's

1416
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 2: about it's called compromise, not compromising. Don't feeling that you

1417
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 2: have one shot and you have to compromise either your

1418
00:56:59,320 --> 00:57:03,720
Speaker 2: beliefs or your sexuality or your you know, your religion

1419
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,319
Speaker 2: or whatever the case is, and and go all in

1420
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 2: on like one role. Because I've seen people take the

1421
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 2: wrong role and then you never hear from him again.

1422
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 2: I've seen people be you know, their career was going

1423
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,360
Speaker 2: pretty well, and they said, you know, I gotta do this,

1424
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 2: and then that was it for them, or they got

1425
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 2: discouraged because of the backlash they took for that role.

1426
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 2: You know, you gotta be careful too, you know, you

1427
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 2: don't don't feel that you have to do something and

1428
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 2: then don't do something that you're not going to be

1429
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 2: able to live with. Like I'll you know, I always

1430
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 2: take I'll be honest, I'll take like the hero role

1431
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 2: or the macho role of the role that I know.

1432
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be at the bar and someone gonna say, hey, man,

1433
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 2: you that dude that I saw in this such and

1434
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 2: such role. I said, yeah, I was. I was that one.

1435
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 2: And if it's something negative that I'm not gonna be

1436
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 2: able to respond to, and I'm not taking that role.

1437
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 2: You know, I have a fan base, you know, and

1438
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 2: they're always proud of what I do. And then they said, well,

1439
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,440
Speaker 2: every actor does this, and every actor eventually blah blah blah.

1440
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 2: Denzel Washington is my favorite actor of all time, next

1441
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 2: to my brother. And I've never seen him letting me

1442
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 2: down once. I haven't seen him come up anything. I said, Damn, Danzel,

1443
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 2: you see his name, You're gonna enjoy yourself. That's you

1444
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 2: know what I mean.

1445
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 3: I didn't think Fences was that great.

1446
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 2: I you know what, I thought it was a lot

1447
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 2: I was, but I was it was impressive. I was

1448
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 2: you memorized all that, like that ship was impressive to me.

1449
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: That's all I was doing as an actor. I was

1450
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 2: just watching him, going, look at this man. I said,

1451
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 2: he didn't take a breath, they didn't cut nowhere. I

1452
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 2: could tell he memorized all that, And I'm sorry that

1453
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 2: him self, to me is a lot. That's a big

1454
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 2: deal for me. Then the acting, you know, you kind

1455
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 2: of get you know what you're gonna get. He's already

1456
00:58:26,880 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 2: done everything, so it's just one of those like, well

1457
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 2: it's gonna be what to be. But I'm just talking

1458
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 2: about the choices. There's nothing that's like, maybe go I

1459
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 2: can't look at him if again, I don't I don't

1460
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 2: like him. Yeah, you know what I mean, nothing nothing,

1461
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 2: nothing is wrong anyway.

1462
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: So that's how I feel about Diddy right now. I

1463
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: mean I used to, let me just tell you something.

1464
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 3: I used to look up to Diddy.

1465
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: I was like when I was in high school, you know,

1466
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: but then as I got into the industry, I would

1467
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: hear so many bad rumors about him. But now it's

1468
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: just like, I can't even believe how much as a

1469
00:58:56,680 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: young person I looked up to this dude and to

1470
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: hear like and I one hundred percent believe everything.

1471
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 3: I'm sorry all.

1472
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 2: The Will Smith stuff that's pouring out now, and we've

1473
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 2: heard about that for years.

1474
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 1: Let me tell that I believe Will Smith stuff, so

1475
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: I don't.

1476
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 2: Look.

1477
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 1: What I've learned is some with every story, there is

1478
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: a true underline, especially in the entertainment business.

1479
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 2: Just it's just how far will those believing it take you?

1480
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 2: As far as are you still gonna watch the movies? Like, Okay,

1481
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 2: this movie comes on? Now, you're not gonna watch it again? Yeah? Right?

1482
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 2: This song is on, gonna tell him turn it off?

1483
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 4: No?

1484
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I'm sure they'll stop playing R Kelly.

1485
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,920
Speaker 2: But if I'm out somewhere and it comes on, I'm

1486
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 2: gonna still nod my head. I'm not gonna be like

1487
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Speaker 2: I'm out here.

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00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: R Kelly's situation is kind of very It sounds terrible

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Speaker 1: what I'm about to say.

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Speaker 3: Jesus, I get a call later about this, But R.

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Speaker 1: Kelly, I feel like is a is a two edged

1492
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 1: sword because he came from abuse. He came from a

1493
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: lot of you know, abuse, like sexual abuse. So I

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01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: definitely feel terrible for the victims, but I also feel

1495
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: like that is definitely.

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Speaker 3: A a like that.

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01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: It was both both victims, you know what I'm saying,

1498
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: Like R Kelly, you know, everyone's a victim of that kid.

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01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 2: Is But it's like a matter of knowing right from wrong.

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01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 3: Well, the people around you, No, no, no, he definitely

1501
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 3: knew what was wrong.

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01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: But like when you have mentally normal people and they're

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01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: like co siding, coldning and playing a role, then it's like, yo, no,

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01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: I don't care how much someone pays you.

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01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 3: You know it's wrong, right.

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01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: And so there was a person, a person like that

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01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: definitely had a room full of people that were looking

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01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: the other way. But I'm not I don't give I

1509
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: don't give nobody a past though I don't mine.

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01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 2: I'd probably get backlash for saying the fact that it's

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01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 2: I just don't think it was necessary for a man

1512
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 2: that could get pretty much any woman. You can get

1513
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 2: a woman that looks young, go to Thailand. They got

1514
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 2: the little kid, they look like girls to actually go there.

1515
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:06,800
Speaker 2: You know, when it wasn't necessary. That's that's where I

1516
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 2: have an issue with. I got two sons. I can

1517
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 2: imagine I had a daughter, I'd probably be trying to

1518
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 2: go to jail. Just be next to them for a

1519
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:12,600
Speaker 2: minute and get well.

1520
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 1: There's a lot of parents that play a role in

1521
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: a lot of the kids to minds. Like people approach

1522
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: me all the time about my daughter getting into entertainment,

1523
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 1: and I'm absolutely against it. And my main reason is

1524
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: is the industry doesn't necessarily always support those parents that

1525
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: are guard dogs, like you know, like some of those

1526
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: parents that are guard dogs get blacklisted for being guard.

1527
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 2: Allowed to say about that. And I talk to women,

1528
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 2: especially in the industry, and I think it's it's a

1529
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 2: matter of common sense and your upbringing. It's some people

1530
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 2: are far more susceptible to peer pressure than others. I mean,

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01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 2: I guess that goes without saying. For me, it always

1532
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 2: seemed obvious, it seemed easy. I'm in these rooms and

1533
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 2: they're passing around the coke and they're doing this, and

1534
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 2: they're doing that, and I'm like, look, I'll smoke some weed,

1535
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 2: I'll drink some drink, and I'll wake up the next

1536
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 2: day and have black spots like I don't remember what

1537
01:01:57,560 --> 01:01:59,120
Speaker 2: happened the rest of the night. I don't need to

1538
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 2: do anything the hell out When they're passing it around,

1539
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 2: I'd be like, no, I'm good. They're not gonna be like,

1540
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 2: get out. You know what I mean. For young females,

1541
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 2: they invite you where they invite you to the hotel.

1542
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 2: All right, go to the lobby, but don't go up

1543
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 2: to the hotel room. There's a there's a there's a

1544
01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 2: point where you know that don't but don't go up

1545
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:19,840
Speaker 2: to the room and then tell me something crazy happen.

1546
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 2: You didn't know something crazy have in a room.

1547
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: I will I agree with you, but I will say

1548
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 1: when I first moved here from New York, there was

1549
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: a couple incidents where I and my sister both put

1550
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: ourselves in positions where I mean, had us not had

1551
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 1: really solid good streets smarts, I would say we would

1552
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:41,960
Speaker 1: have definitely been compromised. But yeah, there was some dudes,

1553
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: and it's usually to be honest, for my experience, it

1554
01:02:44,080 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: wasn't dudes that were actually in the industry. They were

1555
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: like the fake industry dudes like that house skirt dudes

1556
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: walk up to you.

1557
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 3: In the mall and they're like be a.

1558
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: Model and like no, no, they you know those ones

1559
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: that are like come be me here. But I will say,

1560
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: like even in the open, like I've seen dudes with

1561
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: power that were in the industry across the line where

1562
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: I remember I was as.

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01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 3: Good as done.

1564
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:09,480
Speaker 1: I went to my uncle like I'm I'm good, like

1565
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: I'm good, like this dude touched my leg and was married,

1566
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: and I just remember being scared death, you know, like

1567
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 1: oh my god, like this is this is terrible, and

1568
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: I started making rules. But even with men in general,

1569
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: I don't I personally don't do dinner dates. I only

1570
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: do breakfast and lunch dates. I don't want to hear no, and.

1571
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,360
Speaker 3: Guys will literally like if they hear breakfast and lunch,

1572
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 3: will be like I'm good, and I'll be like, no,

1573
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 3: that's cool. You know what I'm saying.

1574
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:37,560
Speaker 2: We both on the same page, you know what I'm saying.

1575
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: But I'm not trying to walk into no setup or

1576
01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: manipulation or any misconfusion or whatever.

1577
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 3: But we will. We're on a clock.

1578
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 1: So anyways, how can your fans, our fans keep up

1579
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 1: with you?

1580
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,640
Speaker 2: Omar keep up with me? The easiest way to find

1581
01:03:55,640 --> 01:04:00,440
Speaker 2: me is Instagram at Omar Gooding period. I don't hide it, TikTok.

1582
01:04:00,520 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 2: I threw my middle name in there, Omar Miles Gooding. Yes,

1583
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:06,520
Speaker 2: my initials are O MG. And that's the easiest way

1584
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 2: to find me. Many what I would I Yes, Yes,

1585
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 2: I named my oldest son Omar Junior, because, believe it

1586
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 2: or not, when I'm out and people say, oh, keep

1587
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:19,680
Speaker 2: Gooding Junior's brother. Yeah, so his name is Omar Gooding Jr. No,

1588
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 2: that's not how it works. That's not how juniors work. People.

1589
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 2: The Omar Gooding Junior is my son and he's seven.

1590
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 2: Uh well he will be seven. And then my my

1591
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 2: my youngest son is named Miles. So I give, I

1592
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 2: give myself, like, oh you just hold on a name. Listen.

1593
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:34,800
Speaker 2: My wife's name is Mia, and I was trying to

1594
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 2: think of names for a boy. We went Michael, Miles,

1595
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 2: I have two boys. I have two boys. Yeah, yeah,

1596
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 2: that's right, you know. It's uh, that's that's where we're

1597
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 2: at with it, you know. And then it's this culture.

1598
01:04:44,840 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 2: I don't know that that's that's it's tough. You want

1599
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 2: him just to be boys and be you know, and

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01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,439
Speaker 2: I'm a manly man for man, I got to look,

1601
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 2: I gotta I'm gonna start a culture, like, can I

1602
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 2: be a man? Please? Is it okay for me to

1603
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 2: just be a man? I'm not, you know, hating on

1604
01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 2: any other gender or race or or cumul unity or

1605
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 2: whatever the case. I'm just saying I'm a man and

1606
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,840
Speaker 2: I'm raising men. So that's that. Now, something happens down

1607
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 2: the line that I have no control over, and you know,

1608
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 2: we'll have that conversation and we'll cross that road when

1609
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 2: we need to. But as far as what I'm raising,

1610
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 2: I know how I was raised. So you know, if

1611
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 2: that's what's in me, that's how I figured that should

1612
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:16,760
Speaker 2: be in them. And we'll go from there. For it's

1613
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:18,840
Speaker 2: my young my OLDESTKI cries a lot. It's it's still

1614
01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:22,560
Speaker 2: he's very sensitive. It's very sensidive. And my father said

1615
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:23,600
Speaker 2: that to my wife. He said, you know, I was

1616
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 2: worried about him when he was younger. But you're all

1617
01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 2: man now, I said, all right, he pulled out of that,

1618
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 2: he pulled, he pulled up quick. But uh but yeah, no,

1619
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:32,000
Speaker 2: but that's that's where you can find me. You know,

1620
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:33,880
Speaker 2: I got a lot on the plate. You know, I

1621
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 2: got music, I got comedy shows, I got some movies

1622
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 2: I'm doing. I even signed on to do a play

1623
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 2: in May.

1624
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: Well, we'll be keep it up with you on your socials,

1625
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,040
Speaker 1: and I will retire this dish.

1626
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, please don't here. Yeah please don't nobody try this

1627
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:48,000
Speaker 2: at home, because first of all, we shouldn't even have

1628
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 2: the style phone and the microwave as we led with

1629
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 2: you try to put it in tap.

1630
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 3: I'm gonna let you.

1631
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: I'm a save y'all fans from yourself. Okay, don't in

1632
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: the cup of noodles cup unless you're apps.

1633
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's good for a cleanse because I feel like

1634
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:05,120
Speaker 2: I'm not doing nothing for next week.

1635
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 3: All right, Peace out, guys. Peace for more eating while

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01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:32,040
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01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,200
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