Speaker 1: Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: This is one of those rare moments where the guest
Speaker 2: actually knows what's happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he can freestyle and it's really good.
Speaker 2: Ah boy, No no pressure, No pressure on Wayne Brady,
Speaker 2: there's no right, no pressure.
Speaker 1: Let's go with it.
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Speaker 1: Role called friend of Foe. Yeah, which is which?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Questlove the choker bitch call Suprema.
Speaker 4: Su su Suprema roll let me go get Suprema so
Speaker 4: Supreme with regrets.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah I digress. Yeah that corny rhyme scheme was
Speaker 1: a hot mess.
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Speaker 1: My name is Fante. Yeah, I'm with my bros. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hose day yeah Day.
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Speaker 1: My name is Chuck.
Speaker 3: Yeah just wait and see. Yeah, I'm the big prize
Speaker 3: behind door number three.
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Speaker 6: I'm unpaid, Bill, Yeah, let me explain. Yeah, fuck the eclipse. Yeah,
Speaker 6: one hundred percent chance of Wayne.
Speaker 4: Oh car supreme set so supreme for roll call Suprema
Speaker 4: sub Sun Suprema roll call.
Speaker 1: My name is Wayne. Yeah when it comes to improv, Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the thing I do. Yeah, it's a great
Speaker 1: up suprema. So so let me go again because y'all
Speaker 1: take my good.
Speaker 5: Enough brave roll call on Downpreva su subprivo roll call
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, that you really thought you were going
Speaker 2: to have to you were trying to choke a bit
Speaker 2: on your first one.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no. But it was so
Speaker 1: nice that you guys all gave me little nods that
Speaker 1: I wanted to do something that that kind of uh
Speaker 1: encapsulated everybody else. So rust me. If you've heard, oh god,
Speaker 1: the amount of car crash that was perfect. Well, I'm honored,
Speaker 1: so thank you so much. That was thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I need a rerun on mine. I missed You're good man.
Speaker 3: You know you got me out a character by calling
Speaker 3: me Steve instead just mean.
Speaker 1: All right, So.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm I'm sorry. I feel
Speaker 2: bad for disrespecting Sugar. He wants me to now refer
Speaker 2: to him to the nickname.
Speaker 3: You're always telling me to, you know, to embrace your brand.
Speaker 1: You know that's embrace your brand. Here, I am all right,
Speaker 1: well now in twenty twenty four, so give me my flowers.
Speaker 2: Yes, some fifteen years after I tried to kill you
Speaker 2: know how he got his nickname Sugar Steve?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wayne Brady knows how I got my next name.
Speaker 1: Pretty much.
Speaker 2: No, he had moved to Philadelphia, like Steve has been
Speaker 2: on a long time engineer on like a lot of
Speaker 2: those records Common and DiAngelo and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Back of the Electric ladies.
Speaker 2: So when we tried to kill me, right when we
Speaker 2: left New York to come back to Philadelphia and he
Speaker 2: was my engineer, let's just say that Steve just quickly
Speaker 2: adapted to my very unhealthy eating lifestyle basically days and
Speaker 2: I invertently gave this be a diet beadies. So so
Speaker 2: you got the sugar, the sugar, yes, prayer and got
Speaker 2: you got what we'll see, I.
Speaker 3: Got the sugars and the itis.
Speaker 1: At this point yes, I don't think you're allowed to
Speaker 1: say itis though with the jury's out, that is he
Speaker 1: allowed to say, well, was he ever allowed to go
Speaker 1: to the cookout? Because if he's been to the cookout,
Speaker 1: then I guess he could say he's.
Speaker 2: An engineered to Erga Badu records, uh into D'Angelo records.
Speaker 1: So I think he has a.
Speaker 2: Quasi Well, we ain't in the church, is what we ate?
Speaker 2: Not right, but you know, getting invited to the barbecue
Speaker 2: is a whole nother thing. Wait, ladies and gentlemen, the
Speaker 2: barbecue after all this time.
Speaker 1: But that's a term. When you get a pass to
Speaker 1: the barbecue, that means that you are right.
Speaker 3: I guess if I don't know what that term means,
Speaker 3: then I don't deserve a passion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't use it. You'll see.
Speaker 2: I get it, you know I got I can tell
Speaker 2: already why he is really gonna miss this show. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this this of course love Supreme and we are in
Speaker 2: person a New York shout out to everyone. This is
Speaker 2: rare for light you to step out for cigarettes this time.
Speaker 2: You know she'll be back in future episodes. But I
Speaker 2: will say that we tried to make this episode happen
Speaker 2: I think maybe eight years ago in twenty sixteen. I
Speaker 2: forget what happened, but something went a ride the last minute,
Speaker 2: but suffice to stay. We're extremely glad that our special
Speaker 2: guest today a multi hyphen guest of ours. He is
Speaker 2: an Emmy Award winning, five time Emmy Award winning comedian
Speaker 2: and actor, a singer, a host, a hell of a freestyler,
Speaker 2: I mean, a real artist, a real creative, and of
Speaker 2: course I will say he is pretty much part of
Speaker 2: the production of one of the play in the movie
Speaker 2: that has been so much to my childhood. He's playing
Speaker 2: the I don't know you're you're the title character.
Speaker 1: I'm the titular whiz. Right, Yes, you are, indeed the whiz.
Speaker 2: Let's also shout out Deborah Cox and she's a glad
Speaker 2: and uh melody really.
Speaker 1: Get her downtown. There you go, we did what different cause, man,
Speaker 1: that would have been awesome different man that she's amazing,
Speaker 1: that that cast is amazing, So so shout out to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, so let me see you. What your
Speaker 2: name is, Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Wayne Brady. Okay,
Speaker 2: let me just say this much. I had one particular
Speaker 2: plan for this episode, but I ran across our Dave
Speaker 2: Matthews episode, which one of my favorite ones. So I
Speaker 2: think because the thing is, I do want to know
Speaker 2: his craft and his journey, but I feel like it's
Speaker 2: better suited that we just get to know him as
Speaker 2: a p There's a rare opportunity because I feel like
Speaker 2: people don't know you as a person, like they always
Speaker 2: of course say the same thing, like it's such a
Speaker 2: talented Everything.
Speaker 1: That you've done is amazing.
Speaker 2: People know that your your Steph Curry levels of just
Speaker 2: shoot it and it goes in. I don't know, it
Speaker 2: seems effortless every anything you do. I don't think is
Speaker 2: there any talent that you are struggling.
Speaker 1: In the juggle? No, I can't juggle those things. You're
Speaker 1: making bees yeah yeah yeah, make bees yeah yeah, produced some.
Speaker 1: But do you live by yes? And like yes, I
Speaker 1: try to. Even if you can't do it, you'll say
Speaker 1: like okay, oh yeah. One time on stage, many many
Speaker 1: years ago, I think it was like twenty eight, I
Speaker 1: was doing a show and someone in a scene I
Speaker 1: got challenged to do a backflip because just came up.
Speaker 1: But it was so fast, because you know how an
Speaker 1: improv scene could just go off the reilt you doing
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. This thing happened. Someone says this, but
Speaker 1: and then they're like, oh yeah, we'll give it to
Speaker 1: And I said, watch this before I could, I watch
Speaker 1: this and I did a backflip. A very ugly but
Speaker 1: I did a backflip off of the stage and I
Speaker 1: landed it the first and only time in my life.
Speaker 1: And that happened. I was like, that is that's the
Speaker 1: Oh shit, I did it. Yes, And and I look
Speaker 1: at that whole thing for kind of a metaphor for life.
Speaker 1: You know, how to just go through you have to
Speaker 1: embrace things. Yes, and really is a way to get
Speaker 1: things done? Now you can't yes and everything, mind you,
Speaker 1: but really trying to challenge yourself.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you had a successful backflip. Yeah, ready for
Speaker 2: this fact duplicated again. I was like, stall the stall,
Speaker 2: the oh it was, oh yeah, that's exactly what would happen. No,
Speaker 2: you would not get ass over tea kettle. Will not
Speaker 2: happen right now? No, no, no, what was that feeling
Speaker 2: like this? I'm actually envious.
Speaker 1: I dream of it. It happened so fast that I
Speaker 1: didn't give my time. So the feeling was in real time.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, yeah, watch this because I'm still
Speaker 1: like that if someone says, oh I bet you can't
Speaker 1: or can you? Or yes, I spend my life in
Speaker 1: watch this mode. So at that second I didn't even
Speaker 1: get the feeling until afterwards. I just did it and
Speaker 1: then went, oh, I could have died, but it was great.
Speaker 1: It was great. Wow. Okay, all right, I like that answer.
Speaker 2: So basically, I'm gonna ask you just a series of
Speaker 2: random questions and if that causes us the rabbit.
Speaker 1: Hole further, then of course it's west supream. So we
Speaker 1: always do that. Number one, what famous person has your birthday?
Speaker 1: There is someone hold on June? Second, you're a Semini.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my grandma Elsie.
Speaker 1: Famous. But okay, there got me famous. She's famous in
Speaker 1: her town, right, she's famous to me, right? All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of weird, man. No, it's actually very much
Speaker 1: on brand brand for me, because it's like the reason
Speaker 1: that I can do what I do and I'm on
Speaker 1: stage and camera blah blah blah, is because there's that
Speaker 1: part of me that is the the machine that can
Speaker 1: get up and do that thing, and then as soon
Speaker 1: as I walk off stage, I will be happy to
Speaker 1: just blend into the background. I don't talk to anybody,
Speaker 1: So there's a reason why a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: know things about me, which I've started sharing in the
Speaker 1: past few years. But I'm very much hey, look over here.
Speaker 1: But then I quantumly don't want to be be noticed,
Speaker 1: you know at a certain Oh oh absolutely, I can
Speaker 1: turn it on and turned off. I walk into a room,
Speaker 1: you can bring an energy that folks are like, oh shit,
Speaker 1: that's it. And then if I want to, I'll sit
Speaker 1: there in the corner and you will never know, and
Speaker 1: I will sit to sit there and watch it.
Speaker 2: In a social study, I've seen Wayne Brady make entrances
Speaker 2: in rooms and literally like you know, because some people
Speaker 2: know how to use and utilize their MPH or that thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you're saying that you could also do the opposite.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, but it's turning it on, as you put it.
Speaker 7: Did you consider that at the core of all the
Speaker 7: things you do, like that skill of being able to
Speaker 7: turn on a room or to like make people happy,
Speaker 7: let's say, lack of Yeah, the word yeah, is that
Speaker 7: kind of what you're most naturally gifted at.
Speaker 1: That's a thing because you know, like I kind of.
Speaker 1: I think it goes back to child childhood, like a
Speaker 1: lot of like all of our things, I was always
Speaker 1: a shy kid. I had a very pronounced stutter at
Speaker 1: one point because of they call it what you now,
Speaker 1: we'd call it a social anxiety or stress or whatever,
Speaker 1: and so I never wanted to talkalk a lot. So
Speaker 1: I was very good at pulling my energy back so
Speaker 1: you didn't notice me. And I was very socially awkward.
Speaker 1: I'm still socially awkward if I just let myself really be,
Speaker 1: which is why I don't talk to people, because when
Speaker 1: I approach people that I'm an admirer of or a fan,
Speaker 1: I immediately have already played the conversation of me. I
Speaker 1: have to rehearse sometimes, and this is one of the
Speaker 1: first times I've ever talked about this. I have such
Speaker 1: anxiety and never wanting to go back to the kid
Speaker 1: that stutters and never want to be made fun of.
Speaker 1: So when I talk to somebody a lot of time,
Speaker 1: I know exactly, Hey, quest, I'm a fan, I know
Speaker 1: such and such and such great, now I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: I don't even want a conversation to go any further.
Speaker 1: Even if you said, Wayne, let's hang out, you play
Speaker 1: your exit already, I'm already gone, because if I go,
Speaker 1: then I have not given you an opportunity to either
Speaker 1: go a fuck off kid or to want to talk
Speaker 1: to me more. Then I actually have to stand there
Speaker 1: and have a conversation with you and the vulnerable and
Speaker 1: be vulnerable. So it's best for me to just dip out.
Speaker 1: So that's why I say, like, when I can turn
Speaker 1: that thing on, I know when I'm going on stage
Speaker 1: in the room, I'm like, okay, tag Wayne, you're in,
Speaker 1: and that Wayne can go in and get get the
Speaker 1: job done.
Speaker 2: So okay, I'll ask you. This weekend, against my own will,
Speaker 2: I went to a karaoke party.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing that sounds like hell to me, right,
Speaker 1: And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: All my friends were excited, But my friends don't make
Speaker 2: a living going on stage to perform YEP, So I
Speaker 2: said to them, karaoke is only fun when I hear
Speaker 2: a car crash, like if everyone sings like bismarcky or
Speaker 2: old dirty bastard.
Speaker 1: To me, karaoke's fun.
Speaker 2: But if I'm in a room with like nine people
Speaker 2: and they're really trying to kill shit, like it's just
Speaker 2: it's weird to me. Tell right now, the thing was,
Speaker 2: it actually wound up being exactly but I wound up
Speaker 2: enjoying myself anyway.
Speaker 1: Good. Maybe I had an adult fruits you. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it could be. Maybe maybe I had an adult
Speaker 1: fruits YOUO.
Speaker 2: But I was explaining on the way home because they
Speaker 2: were all worried about like my perception, like all right,
Speaker 2: we know you hate these things in the mirror, but
Speaker 2: did you have fun?
Speaker 1: Did you have fun? And I actually did have fun.
Speaker 2: But I was explaining to them that in doing my craft,
Speaker 2: it's easy for me to do it in front of
Speaker 2: like a thousand to five thousand to sixteen thousand people
Speaker 2: because it's impersonal, right, But if I'm performing in a
Speaker 2: room with just like ten people, I hate that, Like
Speaker 2: I'll freeze.
Speaker 1: It's super exposed. Yeah, you are the most exposed, because
Speaker 1: if you're doing something super intimate, then it's it's a microscope.
Speaker 1: So do you hate fresh junkets? Once again, I let
Speaker 1: the machine do it, you know, I let that part
Speaker 1: of me take take over. I don't know anybody who
Speaker 1: enjoys press junkets, but I know that I can do
Speaker 1: them and get through them and have have the answers
Speaker 1: I need, and on top of it, because I don't
Speaker 1: want anyone to think that I'm being Disingenuinue. It's it's
Speaker 1: not that I don't like these things, they just it
Speaker 1: just it just causes me such stress to the point
Speaker 1: of palpitations that I have to to this day, to
Speaker 1: this very day. Oh damn. So I have to separate
Speaker 1: and let the me that can do that do it.
Speaker 1: And that guy, oh, he'll talk all day the press
Speaker 1: and have an answer be this and he has fun
Speaker 1: doing it. He has fun doing it. This Wayne still
Speaker 1: can't have fun because I know what it's like to
Speaker 1: open your mouth and have this thought. Oh I'm a
Speaker 1: talk Oh shit, I can't do like. I know that
Speaker 1: thought process that guy, and that's the thing that brings
Speaker 1: me that So so over the course of my career,
Speaker 1: I've learned, well not even career, just life. I've learned to, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is you were going to be in this setting.
Speaker 1: Now boop, okay, I'm there, and now you can leave.
Speaker 1: My daughter makes fun of me because she says, Wayne,
Speaker 1: you'd be friends with so many more people and celebrities
Speaker 1: and folks that you work with if you weren't so
Speaker 1: socially awkward and dipped out. I don't keep in touch
Speaker 1: with anybody. So I'm there with you. Do you desire
Speaker 1: to have?
Speaker 2: Like you know, I have a life coach or whatever
Speaker 2: that's found the weakness of me, and that's being friends
Speaker 2: with people I don't work with. And so I'm being
Speaker 2: challenged by October to make friends with at least five
Speaker 2: males is very specific, Yes to whom aren't on payroll
Speaker 2: or work with. Now ninety five percent of the time,
Speaker 2: I'm hanging with you with the roots, right, Like I
Speaker 2: consider Steve one of my closest friends. I consider my
Speaker 2: DJ manager Rue one of my closest friends, but they're
Speaker 2: also on payroll, so it's like we're working together. But
Speaker 2: I do find that I'm off. I'm very resistant to
Speaker 2: people that have nothing to do with my life. Like
Speaker 2: it's already bad. I got to remember seventy names of
Speaker 2: just managers and co workers and that thing. So but
Speaker 2: I'm being challenged to find five people that have nothing
Speaker 2: to do with my life that I trust it.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling like a mavu. But I'm hard if you
Speaker 1: can do that, not if, because I'm gonna give it
Speaker 1: to you. That you're going to be able to do it.
Speaker 1: But I can appreciate how that can be hard because
Speaker 1: much like in dating, even friendships are all relationships, right,
Speaker 1: so if things are if those relationships are done with
Speaker 1: a common bond, I think it's hard for those of
Speaker 1: us in a certain profession to you're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: somebody else unless that person is a certain type of
Speaker 1: person personality wise, what do you have in common? What
Speaker 1: do you have? And that makes it hard, especially if
Speaker 1: you are known, because then you have to ask yourself, well,
Speaker 1: is that person being genuine in this interaction right now?
Speaker 1: And so that is hard.
Speaker 2: There's one thing that I and this is gonna be
Speaker 2: the weirdest example I'm gonna give of me breaking that
Speaker 2: wall down. So I'm working on a project right now
Speaker 2: that's basically requiring me to watch a lot of Norm
Speaker 2: McDonald's material. And I've never seen a comedian embrace failure
Speaker 2: the way that Norm McDonald was. And he revealed on
Speaker 2: one of these podcasts that he was on they asked
Speaker 2: him about he you know those roasts they do on
Speaker 2: Comedy Central. So one time for Cloris Leachman, Norm McDonald
Speaker 2: did probably one of the greatest displays of a roast
Speaker 2: to Cloris Leachman, which was basically he decided he was
Speaker 2: going to eat it, you know, because every comedian comes
Speaker 2: there like all right, I gotta make a splash, I
Speaker 2: gotta win. I gotta make sure that you know people
Speaker 2: are going to social media clip like everyone's thinking met
Speaker 2: and he decided, not only am I going to tank
Speaker 2: this set, but he's going to tank in a way
Speaker 2: that doesn't offer a wink, like you know, a guy
Speaker 2: like Will Ferrell will purposely do something fucked up, but
Speaker 2: it comes with the wink like I'm doing this on purpose,
Speaker 2: calculate you know that I'm good, but this is kitch nah,
Speaker 2: Like for twenty minutes, everything that Norm McDonald did was
Speaker 2: from this joke book of nineteen forty, but like really
Speaker 2: corny jokes. Hey, Cloris Leachman, you're like a bumblebee in August. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because uh, you're wearing yellow. So watching Norm McDonald fell
Speaker 2: like that in a Daredevil away almost gave me inspiration
Speaker 2: to like, Okay, anything that's awkward. I'm just like Tracy
Speaker 2: Morgan has that, but almost in a provocatory way, like
Speaker 2: he'll say.
Speaker 1: Something uncomfortable and just living it. Knowing that it's awkward.
Speaker 2: But I think this year I've gotten over my will
Speaker 2: people talk shit about me, that sort of thing, and
Speaker 2: I'm like kind of enjoying doing things that previously would
Speaker 2: have scared me.
Speaker 1: But I'd love to hear that. That's what I've started
Speaker 1: to do too. In the past few years. I still
Speaker 1: have that fear and that awkwardness, and my awkwardness is
Speaker 1: so weird because I will like, I've known Bill for
Speaker 1: years now, but I don't call Bill all the time.
Speaker 1: I could call Bill, I could call Lynn, I could
Speaker 1: any of our friends, but I have this story in
Speaker 1: my head. I was like, no, he's probably busy. Why
Speaker 1: would I don't want to bother anybody. So everybody's like, no, Wayne,
Speaker 1: Wayne doesn't talk to anybody. And then so the person
Speaker 1: that wants to be left alone really then goes, but
Speaker 1: why doesn't anybody by me to a party? I want
Speaker 1: to go to a questlove party. I want to go
Speaker 1: to see if you said, But then it was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do so I decided to try
Speaker 1: to stop that a couple of years ago, so I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not gonna do it anymore. So that's
Speaker 1: why I've got to read a docu series that's on
Speaker 1: Hulu and free Forms starting I think in June or July,
Speaker 1: based on my family, and like, it's the first time
Speaker 1: that I let people really into my life. And that's
Speaker 1: why they see backstage. They see my blended family, you know,
Speaker 1: they see every facet of my life because I wanted
Speaker 1: to do something super uncomfortable. I'm like, the most uncomfortable
Speaker 1: thing for me is to let people see me. But
Speaker 1: on stage, I don't mind embracing failure. I love that
Speaker 1: because that's part of the yes. And I love to
Speaker 1: suck on stage and then flip it and turn it
Speaker 1: around and do I'm a daredevil on stage and life
Speaker 1: is where I'm very much I'm gonna play this safe
Speaker 1: and put it down. So I've been trying to do
Speaker 1: that myself and I found that in doing that, it's
Speaker 1: made me an even better actor or a better improviser,
Speaker 1: and to be able to take more chances, which I
Speaker 1: thought I was taking chances before. Now I just don't care.
Speaker 1: Now I really have reached a place where let's go.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll do this thing.
Speaker 2: I don't care because as long as I do it,
Speaker 2: and I feel good. That's what matters, all right. What
Speaker 2: is your mourning routine? Like the first twenty to twenty
Speaker 2: five minutes do.
Speaker 1: You have a morning?
Speaker 5: Ut?
Speaker 1: Easy? But I get up and I make my bed
Speaker 1: first thing. Really I hate that?
Speaker 2: Why because you start with success, you complete we from
Speaker 2: my reality. I feel like I just up so psychologically
Speaker 2: that's important to do.
Speaker 8: Absolutely you start you and for me at the end
Speaker 8: of the day, I like coming back to a room
Speaker 8: that's made.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That does for me? That
Speaker 1: does wonders.
Speaker 6: Does that come from somewhere? Like as a kid you
Speaker 6: have to make your bed? Was that because I had
Speaker 6: to make my bed as a kid, But for whatever reason,
Speaker 6: as an adult, I find it to be Yeah. But yeah,
Speaker 6: well like when I get up, Yeah, like when I'm
Speaker 6: out of bed, Yeah, my first thing is me and
Speaker 6: my wife.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we make the bed like that's just row pillows
Speaker 1: and everything. The whole line. Smooth it because you set
Speaker 1: I make my bed for two reasons. One, you set
Speaker 1: an attention and I learned that in therapy years ago
Speaker 1: about about if you the first place that you have
Speaker 1: to start is your bed because then when you pull outwards,
Speaker 1: if your bed, if your room, if your closet, if
Speaker 1: your bathroom, if your house, if you so is your
Speaker 1: house is your life. So if your house is messy,
Speaker 1: then get my friends real fast. That's plus my dad.
Speaker 1: You know, I come from a military household, so it
Speaker 1: was also you know, not like in a great Santini way,
Speaker 1: but like in a hey make your bed. That's how
Speaker 1: you because that's what you do. You make your bed
Speaker 1: and you leave your space clean, so that, like you,
Speaker 1: I can come home at the end of a day
Speaker 1: and I don't worry about it. I know that I
Speaker 1: am in a weird place or I've spiraled if I
Speaker 1: come home to a miss because I am I'm I'm so,
Speaker 1: I'm so clean, I'm so clean. Making beds first, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I gotta well, I mean.
Speaker 3: Not before the first couple of cigarettes.
Speaker 1: Then you make the bed. Yeah, do you do you
Speaker 1: smoke in bed? No?
Speaker 2: You don't say that's that's actually a cool movie scene.
Speaker 2: Now that you say that, I mean, I hate to
Speaker 2: say that. Even at this age, my crib like, if
Speaker 2: left alone, my my room would look like a a
Speaker 2: frat house. Hid it And I mean I'm not holding
Speaker 2: shame back. Yes, I don't have time to do household chores.
Speaker 2: So every other day I'll have the housekeeper in the crib.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I do loathe getting home and seeing that
Speaker 2: slobby bed that I didn't make. That's my lowest point
Speaker 2: of life when I get home on those two days
Speaker 2: that I did, I don't make my bed and I
Speaker 2: just walk into it, you know, my pajamas on the floor.
Speaker 1: See, because it takes away from the things that you
Speaker 1: did accomplish throughout the day. It takes you, yes, because
Speaker 1: it's a small task. Because if you look at the
Speaker 1: bed as a wind, right, so like we want to
Speaker 1: start the day off with the wind. If the world
Speaker 1: kicks me in the nuts when I leave the house,
Speaker 1: at least I came back look at my bed. That
Speaker 1: bed is so and I folded it. I tucked tucked
Speaker 1: the edge there. And then I've got the military thing,
Speaker 1: the thing I can bounce a coin, I've got the
Speaker 1: throw pillows, fold a blanket, and then I leave it
Speaker 1: on the edge. Like sometimes, come on, man, I love that.
Speaker 2: I got a confession. I'm so lazy with making up
Speaker 2: the bed that I don't even sleep, you know, like
Speaker 2: you know, to pull the covers back and get in
Speaker 2: the bed and then like burrito yourself under the covers.
Speaker 2: I'm so lazy, like I've been in my apartment for
Speaker 2: sixteen years. To me one of my faith why are
Speaker 2: you laughing at.
Speaker 1: Me, Steve like he's been so from laughing on the inside.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite covers of all time.
Speaker 2: I mean, you ever go picnic like I go to
Speaker 2: Target and get those like soft ass yes blankets like
Speaker 2: basically put on top almosto a crasher, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I've spent so much time like crashing in
Speaker 2: the front lounge of the tour buster, crashing in the
Speaker 2: back lounge of the tour bus, or so I'm not
Speaker 2: a must be in bed type person, like where I
Speaker 2: leave my hat is my home is where I sleep.
Speaker 2: But even though I'll sleep in my bed, I mostly
Speaker 2: sleep on my bed and we'll just grab my two
Speaker 2: my rotation. I have like a rotation of ten of
Speaker 2: those like blankets that I love. So you don't have
Speaker 2: to make the bed really just because you just pulled
Speaker 2: that on top.
Speaker 1: But it's still junky because look at me.
Speaker 2: Of course if I turn, if I turn once, and
Speaker 2: even the that like my bed looks like half made,
Speaker 2: so that's even worse, like it's basically six year old
Speaker 2: version of a mirror is like of a made bed.
Speaker 1: So but it's a win, like that's the only reason
Speaker 1: that that sticks in my head that that's a win.
Speaker 3: So do you do anything after you make the bed?
Speaker 6: Or is that the end?
Speaker 1: That's just? And I go back to, you know, make
Speaker 1: the bed and then I brush my teeth. I call Mandy,
Speaker 1: my ex wife, slash my business partner. I call her.
Speaker 1: We catch up for the day. We have projects down
Speaker 1: the pipeline. I check in with with my dog because
Speaker 1: she goes to LMU, so I try to catch her
Speaker 1: before she leaves leaves for school, and we get coffee,
Speaker 1: we hang out, and then it's whatever craziness comes from
Speaker 1: the rest of the day. But I have to start
Speaker 1: my day off that way to give myself some sort
Speaker 1: of a routine, because I need a routine the way
Speaker 1: my mind works. If you leave me off the leash
Speaker 1: and I don't have a routine, I'll get up. I'll
Speaker 1: play video games till two o'clock in the afternoon. If
Speaker 1: I don't have worker meetings, I will drink my sprite
Speaker 1: or lemonade right out the bottle. Because I live by
Speaker 1: myself I'll be in my underwear, I'll play my Xbox
Speaker 1: until two, I'll get on the phone, I'll do I'll
Speaker 1: basically be the sixteen year old version of myself if
Speaker 1: he had an apartment in the poorhouse, in a job
Speaker 1: of money and.
Speaker 2: Money yeah right, And even as a success, do you
Speaker 2: still get on yourself if you're not.
Speaker 1: Get up and go daily daily? When I tell you,
Speaker 1: how hard is it to take vacations and not do nothing?
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something? And I'll share share this
Speaker 1: with with all my brothers here. I'm so excited. When
Speaker 1: I finished my run of the Whiz, I think I'm
Speaker 1: out of the show, maybe June tenth. So you say
Speaker 1: you all got to get your tickets to catch okay,
Speaker 1: June tenth and then knock on wood and all this.
Speaker 1: I hope to be here for the Tonys. Then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the first trip. Now I'm fifty one years old.
Speaker 1: I've never and I repeat, I've never, because there was
Speaker 1: a point in my life when I went places with
Speaker 1: my grandmother, but you know those are family trips. And
Speaker 1: then when I was old enough to start working, then
Speaker 1: I'm working in hustling. And then when when you get someplace.
Speaker 1: Then I'm hustling, hustling, hustling, and still going. I've never
Speaker 1: taken a trip in my life just for fun. I've
Speaker 1: never gone. So when we finished, this same person, I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem. I'm taking my trip on my
Speaker 1: I'm taking an Eat Love Prey trip, Julie Robins, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Do you know you're de the nations yet?
Speaker 1: I've got a couple I think I may want to
Speaker 1: go to I want to go to Thailand or Bangkok,
Speaker 1: or I want to see Costa Rica, So it depends
Speaker 1: on one of those, or Tokyo because I want to
Speaker 1: go to one of the Disneylands. All right, if you
Speaker 1: I got a hook up for you in Tokyo. Okay.
Speaker 1: Maybe I've taken four forced vacations in my entire lifetime.
Speaker 2: Wow, Because the thing again, if you are in a
Speaker 2: band and you're on the road two hundred days out
Speaker 2: the year, like traveling is not my thing because that's
Speaker 2: all I do, right, it's work, Yeah, like not doing
Speaker 2: anything and just laying around being lazy in the house.
Speaker 2: Like I just got used to that maybe a year
Speaker 2: and a half ago. But when we first joined Fallon
Speaker 2: everybody was like planning vacations, and I felt all bad.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, all right, I want to
Speaker 1: do something special. Oh, I know, I'll be a hobo.
Speaker 2: So then I got a train ticket from Pittsburgh and
Speaker 2: traveled all the way across to San Francisco, like by train,
Speaker 2: by yourself, by myself, and it was awesome.
Speaker 1: Now those four trips where they by yourself or with
Speaker 1: a significant other family. The first time was by myself.
Speaker 2: And then I befriended Shep Gordon, who is the guy that,
Speaker 2: like you want to know, the most connected guy, like
Speaker 2: he was a rock star manager Luther vandros Rick James,
Speaker 2: Alice Cooper and Murray like everybody. He kinda is your
Speaker 2: portal to like if you're the guy that's an over worker,
Speaker 2: doesn't prioritize life, he's the guy you want to know,
Speaker 2: and he'll force you to take a vacation. So he
Speaker 2: has like an open door policy in Hawaii. So the
Speaker 2: other three times have been there.
Speaker 1: What I mean, that's the thing is I've never taken
Speaker 1: a trip. So I'm going to take this trip by
Speaker 1: myself because I'm single. So I'm like, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: by myself. I want to find myself. It's never too
Speaker 1: late in life. And I've kind of adopted this mantra
Speaker 1: of look, man, if you kill it on stage, and
Speaker 1: I've made made some money and I've been in this
Speaker 1: for a long ass time now. Before I leave this earth,
Speaker 1: I want to have fun. I want to enjoy myself.
Speaker 1: I think that my thing is I have not allowed
Speaker 1: myself to enjoy anything, to take joy, to take joy
Speaker 1: in which is which is that due blessing of? And
Speaker 1: then we all have the thing. If you can bring
Speaker 1: joy to people, and not to sound like the sad
Speaker 1: clown shit, but you bring joy to people, that's been
Speaker 1: my joy. I'm like, oh good that audience like that great,
Speaker 1: I'm good. Or I took care of my family, y'all
Speaker 1: are straight good. If I go to the karaoke party,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that everybody the karaoke party
Speaker 1: is cool. And I'm just gonna sit back here because
Speaker 1: if you guys are cool, but I have no joy
Speaker 1: in any of those things that have happened. Oh you're
Speaker 1: not a You're not expected to sing at any karaokee party.
Speaker 1: Come on, no, no thank you, no no thank you.
Speaker 1: Because I don't look like an asshole. I don't want
Speaker 1: to that's pecause you don't want to flex that you're
Speaker 1: because we do it for real. As soon as you
Speaker 1: get up there and do it, then it's like cook
Speaker 1: at home. See all right?
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm definitely if you didn't plan it yet.
Speaker 2: I got people who have done solo trips and they're
Speaker 2: they're the best planners ever.
Speaker 7: Panna love vacations. Date in the hotels, they make the
Speaker 7: bed for you. You don't have to do that in
Speaker 7: the morning.
Speaker 1: Would you believe me if I have stopped the maid
Speaker 1: from making my bed because because I think I can
Speaker 1: do it better. I can make my bed better than.
Speaker 2: I'm stuck with people that want to clean the house
Speaker 2: first before the person comes in to clean it, or
Speaker 2: clean the hotel room.
Speaker 1: Yo, those people that's me.
Speaker 8: Wait you yeah, man, because I think it's just a
Speaker 8: part of like you can't y'all ain't about to see
Speaker 8: me living like this. It's a pride thing, you know
Speaker 8: what I'm saying. Surprised, Like when I go to the
Speaker 8: dnnist like mid like the day before I.
Speaker 1: Go to another dentist to get the cleaning that's primary dentist.
Speaker 1: It's like double dentist.
Speaker 2: I like that, Yeah, like it what time do you
Speaker 2: go to sleep? How many hours do you get? What
Speaker 2: time did you go to sleep? Sleep time?
Speaker 1: If I'm on my game and my mental health is
Speaker 1: on point, then back in La, I try to be
Speaker 1: in bed now by like ten thirty so that I
Speaker 1: can get up at six. I had to train train
Speaker 1: myself because I've got to feed my dogs, and and
Speaker 1: i was taking my daughter to school, and I never
Speaker 1: got out of the habit of when I was taking
Speaker 1: her to high school, So so I was up at
Speaker 1: six promptly. Now I have a hard time. I really
Speaker 1: don't go to sleep maybe until one one, one thirty,
Speaker 1: and then I get up at at six. Still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, to rewarm me about that and said, because
Speaker 2: you know, I think there's the thing like once you
Speaker 2: get out of high school, you think that part of
Speaker 2: your life is over. Like now live a life where
Speaker 2: I'm always on the first flight. So I am waking
Speaker 2: up at four in the morning. But you know, Tarik's like,
Speaker 2: you think you're done the routine of the dread of school.
Speaker 2: But He's like, when you become a parent, it becomes
Speaker 2: worse because you got to be up before they are
Speaker 2: up and prepare stuff for them and make sure they
Speaker 2: get dressed.
Speaker 1: And don't make them. That's then then you're shitty parent
Speaker 1: who hasn't made their bed. Ye all the way around.
Speaker 2: So quancy Jones explained this whole idea of alpha time
Speaker 2: to us. Alpha state, alpha state, there's there's five states
Speaker 2: that your brain's in alpha, beta, uh, gamma data, and
Speaker 2: in delta.
Speaker 1: Yes those yes, actually you're being sarcastic, but no the.
Speaker 3: Answers, I'm assuming it's our beta delta ga, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one more so, nice job, sugar.
Speaker 2: I'm all right, at what time, Because creativity is such
Speaker 2: a major anchor for you, at what time do you
Speaker 2: feel like is your most creative moment.
Speaker 1: Right as I'm going to sleep. It's right as I'm
Speaker 1: going to sleep. So many things have come to me
Speaker 1: in my sleep that I immediately get up and I
Speaker 1: have to write it down or I text the person
Speaker 1: that I'm doing the thing with. Those are the times
Speaker 1: that's when I feel the most fruitful. Is when I
Speaker 1: should be sleeping. But my mind is fueled by don't suck,
Speaker 1: don't fail. You'll go broke, your family, get thrown on
Speaker 1: the street, You'll be horrible, better I'm fight is with
Speaker 1: me all the damn times I wake up like this.
Speaker 1: This idea will keep you in your house. This will
Speaker 1: be a good one. That is crazy. Okay, that's the
Speaker 1: So what is your go to order at Starbucks? It
Speaker 1: is a caramel oat milk latte with four pumps of
Speaker 1: caramel inside, caramel around the rim. You should probably get
Speaker 1: some caramel. Oh see your caramel, Cara caramel, I see sugar.
Speaker 1: You're from a different place than I am, so so
Speaker 1: needless to say. I don't like coffee, but I like
Speaker 1: sweet stuff, so you know we are the same person.
Speaker 1: I hate that I've been saying sugar. I will dround
Speaker 1: it in sugar into and everything else because I do
Speaker 1: like that. Once again, eighty AHD is real, like I
Speaker 1: don't know for for you know, folks, I never believed
Speaker 1: in it, but I understand now and I'm my medication
Speaker 1: the whole nine. I get why coffee doesn't work on me.
Speaker 1: I get why sugar does. I get why those things
Speaker 1: and the mood things. So so I'm trying to wean
Speaker 1: myself off of that. But I love Starbucks in the morning,
Speaker 1: and you will not believe me. You can ask my
Speaker 1: daughter the one who calls me socially awkward. She for years,
Speaker 1: for years, I've said, you know, I think that Amir
Speaker 1: and I would be friends because.
Speaker 3: He's looking for friends.
Speaker 1: See you doing your thing or or an interview where
Speaker 1: you talk about the songs and the movies you said
Speaker 1: and said, that's my fun, humba, what the hell does so?
Speaker 1: But I'll never call you. So you guys, are your
Speaker 1: kids roots are and stuff? Are you? My daughter's a
Speaker 1: musician and she knows, Oh she knows what's up for real? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yeah. Well thanks, No, I believe it too. I
Speaker 1: would normally avoid all right. I did have a theory. Good.
Speaker 2: I had a theory which was I'm mostly afraid of
Speaker 2: approaching people from my same ilk, okay, because I always
Speaker 2: think that I bring the value down.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: So there was someone that was that was sort of
Speaker 2: in it. We were kind of in a similar bucket
Speaker 2: together and on the critical angle, this person got panned
Speaker 2: in a way that was a little humiliating, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. I mean, it wasn't a takedown article,
Speaker 2: but it's something that they were passionate about and they
Speaker 2: got panned. And I knew about it, and as a
Speaker 2: person who always prioritized.
Speaker 1: A record review or any review, a concert review.
Speaker 2: I wanted this person to not take it so serious,
Speaker 2: but I almost felt like I either overextended, like I
Speaker 2: felt this person felt that I was judging.
Speaker 9: Them in terms of like, oh, yeah, encouraging them, right,
Speaker 9: you saw me at my lowest, Yeah, you saw me
Speaker 9: their thing, so they they have an issue, right, and
Speaker 9: so we were close.
Speaker 2: And then in order for this person to turn there,
Speaker 2: they had to like sort of rebrand themselves. And I
Speaker 2: think hanging with me was bad for the brand, because
Speaker 2: what world is hanging with you bad for the brand?
Speaker 2: It's hilarious, but I you know, but I also know
Speaker 2: there's a lot of that, like a lot of a
Speaker 2: lot of you as what I saw in that person.
Speaker 2: And now that you're saying this stuff, now I'm not
Speaker 2: taking a person like, oh, they didn't want to hang
Speaker 2: because I just think it is a socially awkward thing
Speaker 2: or whatever. But now I'm desperate to gather the tribe
Speaker 2: together to let us all know like, okay, we kind
Speaker 2: of need each other, Like this is the longest I've
Speaker 2: gone without a movement, like even the myth of the
Speaker 2: soul Aquarians.
Speaker 1: But there was a good.
Speaker 2: Eight year period where I'm yeah, my daily interaction was
Speaker 2: with di'angelo and Erica and Most and Dyla and even
Speaker 2: the even the outside circle like Tip and dead Press
Speaker 2: and Blow and like we were we actually lived up
Speaker 2: to the myth.
Speaker 1: Of what people thought we were.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 2: And then the day we found out, the day that
Speaker 2: someone gave the marketing away, I eve that Vibe magazine
Speaker 2: photo of all of us, That's the day it went
Speaker 2: to shit. And ever since then, I've just I've never
Speaker 2: gone this long without like just somebody to bounce off of,
Speaker 2: like Common and I I mean, I I guess I
Speaker 2: can give it away so Common. I'm not gonna say
Speaker 2: any day now, but Common's basically.
Speaker 1: What I predict.
Speaker 2: He's probably gonna drop the LP that his fan base
Speaker 2: has really been waiting on. So he went to do
Speaker 2: a project with Pete Rock. Wow, and they just hold
Speaker 2: themselves in this studio together, like you know, in Pete
Speaker 2: Rock's basement and.
Speaker 1: No lie like wrote each other to glory.
Speaker 2: Like I think that most Common fans will say, like
Speaker 2: this is gonna be his best, like of his eleven albums,
Speaker 2: this will be in the top five, like.
Speaker 1: That sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Like this is gonna be somewhere between and I'm talking
Speaker 2: about like and I'm talking about like resurrection one day.
Speaker 2: It all makes sense fans like pre chocolate common like
Speaker 2: this is he made that. He made a nineteen ninety
Speaker 2: six record where you know, Pete Rock all his scratch
Speaker 2: references are either going to be like this or yes,
Speaker 2: indeed right.
Speaker 1: And so I kind of came in just on.
Speaker 2: I came in on the eleventh hour just to like
Speaker 2: Rosh wanted me to come in and give it the
Speaker 2: like water for chocolate treatment. So I had to put
Speaker 2: the songs in order and the interludes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So this is gonna feel this is like and just
Speaker 1: an amazing thing.
Speaker 2: So this is like the most talking and interaction and
Speaker 2: idea of bouncing that he and I have done since
Speaker 2: like two thousand and four. And I just like I
Speaker 2: missed that level of camaraderie, you know, like I like
Speaker 2: growing and you know I've done food stuff and books
Speaker 2: and but.
Speaker 10: See, he's not a good friend. You should reconsider the
Speaker 10: does stay in touch with people anyway? Seven what is
Speaker 10: your favorite junk food of all time?
Speaker 1: Damn, my favorite junk food of all time? If you're
Speaker 1: talking candy, because I really don't eat candy, but you're
Speaker 1: talking to candy. Peanut eminem's, specifically the peanut eminem's, because
Speaker 1: I crack them open, I take off the top and
Speaker 1: I take out the through layers and take out the
Speaker 1: nut and then I just got it and I'll just
Speaker 1: throw away the chocolate. Sometimes weird whoa what? Because I
Speaker 1: like how the peanut takes disc with the chocolate. I
Speaker 1: like it's infused, but I don't like all of the
Speaker 1: chocolate that's on the thing. Someone how it tastes. I
Speaker 1: want to see how influenced you are.
Speaker 2: Do you remember there was an mm's commercial, like maybe
Speaker 2: in the late seventies in which this guy, it's like
Speaker 2: a magician guy and he gets an M and M
Speaker 2: and he he takes it out and it's another color
Speaker 2: and then he breaks the minem Like do you remember
Speaker 2: that commercial?
Speaker 1: I absolutely remember what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: So I also, I think it's a waste to take
Speaker 2: eminem's and just eat them straight.
Speaker 1: Because there's so much there. It's a little gift. So
Speaker 1: let me find out, y'all. K cat a kit cat? Now,
Speaker 1: how do you do your cat? What's your cat? You're
Speaker 1: like French, you have to break break it open to
Speaker 1: get the layers. I don't eat it like I.
Speaker 2: Did the chocolate first, and then once the cookie is
Speaker 2: left and.
Speaker 1: I eat the cookie. Yes, yeah, yeah, like I take it,
Speaker 1: take it, take it aside chocolate and now it can
Speaker 1: eat the cookie because they just eat the whole thing.
Speaker 3: Do you like the Japanese kick casts?
Speaker 1: Like the Lion of Japan is amazing.
Speaker 2: There's this spot in Brooklyn that I recommend. There's there's
Speaker 2: a there's a Japanese uh kind of supermarket in Williamsburg
Speaker 2: that has like ghost pepper kit cats, uh Green Tea
Speaker 2: kit cats, strawberry kit casts, like all the kits cats
Speaker 2: that you will find in Tokyo. Oh, there's a ghost
Speaker 2: pepper tags Yo.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's like, are you even meant to enjoy that?
Speaker 1: It's just like.
Speaker 2: It's a challenge of surviving. My favorite thing is going
Speaker 2: on YouTube and looking up. You remember when that one
Speaker 2: potato chip that's allegedly supposed to put you like in
Speaker 2: the ground, like it's it's one ghost pepper chip. But
Speaker 2: you know, people do the tasting challenge and then there's
Speaker 2: normal it's not hot to me and then five minutes later,
Speaker 2: they're like writing their will out.
Speaker 1: We did it during the pandemic. And when I say we,
Speaker 1: wasn't me, it's Mandy's. I didn't do it. Mandy's partner, Jason.
Speaker 1: He did it because we were bored. It was the
Speaker 1: freaking you know, we're locked in the house. He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is I love hot stuff. And I'm like, are
Speaker 1: you sure? Oh? Fine, And then I saw that man
Speaker 1: devolve from into milk and water and then crying, and
Speaker 1: then the pukan and the crying some more and then
Speaker 1: some more milk. I was like, yeah, so I'm very
Speaker 1: well acquainted with that ship.
Speaker 2: Wait, what food is your hometown famous for.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that I don't know on this one
Speaker 1: because I was raised in Orlando, Florida. I'm I'm from Orlando,
Speaker 1: so I don't really. I don't think Orlando has a
Speaker 1: culture life raised in Alando. I was raised in Orlando.
Speaker 1: What is it like to grow up in a.
Speaker 2: Kind of yeah, in the town where like everything's a
Speaker 2: amusement park.
Speaker 1: Well, when I was coming up, it wasn't really that
Speaker 1: way yet that so many things were were focused around
Speaker 1: Disney because Orlando was a smaller town. But the first
Speaker 1: thing that folks didn't know is that or Orlando has hoods, right,
Speaker 1: So so you have the places where you think, oh, Disney,
Speaker 1: that are if this is Disney. There's a ring and
Speaker 1: there's a place called Simi, you know. So so you're
Speaker 1: either a redneck that you live out here, or you're
Speaker 1: very wealthy Windermere Bayhill, all these places where, you know,
Speaker 1: once the basketball team came came in, and Disney and
Speaker 1: engineers and folks with money, and then out here you
Speaker 1: had my my place, TAngelo Park or Carver Shores, basically
Speaker 1: any place that was named after a president or a
Speaker 1: or a citrus fruit. It was all black. And so
Speaker 1: my experience growing up was very different from I guess
Speaker 1: someone that might be growing up there now because there
Speaker 1: was such a division.
Speaker 2: Of so he didn't have a fresh off the boat
Speaker 2: experience new version of Orlando.
Speaker 1: No, because theirs was slightly after mine. So the strip
Speaker 1: malls started in like the late eighties, early nineties. I
Speaker 1: was already a teenager at that point. But when I
Speaker 1: watched Fresh off the Boat when he would go to
Speaker 1: the Florida Mall, That's where I used to go when
Speaker 1: I was you know, like sixteen, so it started to
Speaker 1: get better then. So I don't think that we really
Speaker 1: had a cultural food. Orlando's not known for anything really.
Speaker 1: Its identity is kind of want Want. Did you ever
Speaker 1: work at Disney or absolutely? Yeah. Started off as a
Speaker 1: character because my whole dream was to be a Kid
Speaker 1: of the Kingdom, which was one of the singer dancers
Speaker 1: that would sing and dance out in front of the castle.
Speaker 1: So my way in was I auditioned for the Disney
Speaker 1: Christmas Parade and I got cast as a toy soldier
Speaker 1: and then I trained as a character, but that was
Speaker 1: merely so I could get in the park and audition
Speaker 1: as a singer and a dancer. So I did that
Speaker 1: for about six months. And a weird side side note,
Speaker 1: Jennifer Lopez's ex ex husband Chris Judd was my was
Speaker 1: my best friend, so we like back in the day,
Speaker 1: we danced together and the whole thing before he became
Speaker 1: a janet dancer and became a successful choreographer. So I
Speaker 1: worked at Disney at that point, and then I finally
Speaker 1: got cast to to do a show called Rap and
Speaker 1: Roll where I was going to be the lead singer.
Speaker 1: It was like this is it and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do da da. And then I came in on my
Speaker 1: day off because Chris didn't want to mess up his
Speaker 1: hair and put on a Tigger outfit. And long story
Speaker 1: made short, I got involved in Someone accused Tigger of
Speaker 1: pinching their kid. I was like, I can't pinch your
Speaker 1: kid because I got on and I got into it
Speaker 1: with this supervisor, so I think it was a whole thing.
Speaker 1: She tried to bully her way to the front of
Speaker 1: the line, and as Tiger, I was like and and
Speaker 1: and say. She's like, I'm gonna ticker, kicker. Do you
Speaker 1: know who I am? Was like, nope, I don't know you.
Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. So then she's like, we'll
Speaker 1: see Ticker, We'll see. But two, I get called into
Speaker 1: the supervisor's office. Wayne, We've had a report that a
Speaker 1: child was pinched, that you pinched him and you stopped
Speaker 1: him from getting in line. It's like, that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: What happened was this other supervil. I'm afraid that we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to put you on leave, and you know
Speaker 1: that that's just code for as soon as you go
Speaker 1: on leave. And I was so pitiful. All I wanted.
Speaker 1: Was that one job in that wrap and roll show?
Speaker 1: I said, I said, but but, but, holding the tears back,
Speaker 1: But but but tell tell me something. Please, If if
Speaker 1: I go on leave and you do your investigation, will
Speaker 1: I still be able to start rehearsals on Monday? Oh
Speaker 1: no No, So I lost out on that chance. So
Speaker 1: I did work at Disney. But then getting fired from
Speaker 1: there was a blessing. Fire from your dream job. It
Speaker 1: was a blessing because then I got hired at Universal
Speaker 1: and I did every show a Universal, the Beatlejuice Rock
Speaker 1: and Roll Show and all this stuff, and that gave
Speaker 1: me enough money to head out of Orlando. Fast forward
Speaker 1: years later when I got Who's line. I was part
Speaker 1: of this Disney parade experience and they fly you down.
Speaker 1: You know what they do, They do it big. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: The person who was assigned a guide, the person who
Speaker 1: was assigned as my guid when I got into the park, Hello, Wayne,
Speaker 1: It's name redacted because I don't want embarrass her again
Speaker 1: because I've told the story before. She's like, Wayne, We're
Speaker 1: so proud of you. I went and I turned to Mandy.
Speaker 1: I was like, Mandy, remember that story I told you
Speaker 1: about when I was sixteen. I'm petty as hell. Remember
Speaker 1: that story. This is the lady who had me fired.
Speaker 1: She's like, oh it was like, yes, Oh, it's so
Speaker 1: great to be back.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Lead us on show me the park. Wow, sweet, I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 3: That's Sweetavenge, I love it.
Speaker 1: That is so crazy? Are you tigers were a bit? Well?
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask.
Speaker 2: Because for those that follow succession on the pilot, cousin
Speaker 2: Greg had to go through that where you know, kids
Speaker 2: are and that's the thing I don't think about, like
Speaker 2: how kids can torment you when you're in those costumes
Speaker 2: and want to kick you and all those things.
Speaker 1: The stories I have Oh really?
Speaker 2: So oh yeah, you think that's just gonna be a
Speaker 2: thing like your Mickey So to be Mickey Mouse or
Speaker 2: something like, you gotta have literally balls of steel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you punched and kicked. And at least for me,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the job because for me, it was
Speaker 1: an opportunity to work on my improvisation. So I would
Speaker 1: come up with scenarios and talk to the other characters
Speaker 1: before we went out onto Main Street or wherever your
Speaker 1: set was and say, hey, so so in this one,
Speaker 1: you find find a tourist, and my job is I'm
Speaker 1: the secret Service, so I'm gonna protect her. Your your
Speaker 1: job is you're trying to assassinate her. So we would
Speaker 1: spend the whole set acting these things out, and so
Speaker 1: I was using it for that. So I liked it.
Speaker 1: Even though kids would pull on the PVC pipe tail
Speaker 1: because the tigertail used to be strapped with a little
Speaker 1: belt around your back, and it's a PVC pipe, it's curved,
Speaker 1: and kids would go, oh okay, and it was a dip,
Speaker 1: so kids would either jump in the dip and sit
Speaker 1: on it, and you can't see anything because your world
Speaker 1: is here. Your world is here, and so you can't
Speaker 1: see if a kid is like take it, take it
Speaker 1: and you look and you fall back and you bust
Speaker 1: your ass, or they take the tail and they crank
Speaker 1: it and they either break it. So sometimes to clear
Speaker 1: a path. Occasionally if they were grabbing onto me, I
Speaker 1: would reach back, excuse me, and just keep it moving
Speaker 1: and just keep Sometimes you'd have to do that not
Speaker 1: to hurt and hurt anybody. But just like the door,
Speaker 1: the door stopped.
Speaker 2: What television show are you currently binging?
Speaker 1: Currently? I'm binging the Gentleman on Netflix. Guy Richie is
Speaker 1: the genial like it. I like it.
Speaker 2: I'm nervous because I feel like, if you got to
Speaker 2: put your name.
Speaker 1: In the title, it's better than the movie. And I
Speaker 1: like the movie. But but it depends on if you
Speaker 1: like Guy Richie because he has a thing, right, So
Speaker 1: I like Guy Ritchie. It's written really well, the cast
Speaker 1: is awesome. It's yeah, it's it's it's great. I love it.
Speaker 1: So I'm binging that. And and I just binged Invincible
Speaker 1: because because I'm also animation, that's invincible. Invincible what is it?
Speaker 1: It's super violent, like it's based on you know The Boys, right, yeah, so,
Speaker 1: so it's still in that same world of these superheroes,
Speaker 1: but Invincible. His father is from another planet, Vimite a Vitrumite.
Speaker 1: He's like Superman. So think of Superman, powerful man, like
Speaker 1: the most powerful dude, and everybody loves him. Everybody loves him.
Speaker 1: He's also a member of this league, the Guardians of
Speaker 1: the Globe. Everybody loves him. He's the most powerful guy
Speaker 1: in the world. Blah blah blah. Come to find out, Well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it. Well, it's not really
Speaker 1: really a spoiler because you look it up. He really
Speaker 1: the Vitromites really there. Their whole thing is domination. So
Speaker 1: he was sent there to Earth to take over one
Speaker 1: Victromite and take over the whole planet. So he impregnated
Speaker 1: a human, fell in love with her, and was waiting
Speaker 1: for their son, who now is a teenager and upon
Speaker 1: his sixteenth birthday. So dads, just like, do you have powers? Yet?
Speaker 1: You have powers? The empowers? You have powers, and the
Speaker 1: powers happened. He's like, you've got powers. So you think
Speaker 1: it's a coming of age story of this boy Mark
Speaker 1: who is coming into his own greatest American hero style. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't fly, wobble everything. And then it turns into
Speaker 1: great son, You've got your powers. Time to kill everybody.
Speaker 1: He runs ragged through The Guardians image animated, Yes, anime
Speaker 1: based on the the graphic novel the comic, and it's
Speaker 1: on Amazon, Amazon Prime Video. It's amazing, all right, I
Speaker 1: am on it. I will watch that. What other non
Speaker 1: musical jobs have you had in your life? Well, well,
Speaker 1: I haven't had a lot, but they were formative for
Speaker 1: a couple of months because I wanted the discount. I
Speaker 1: worked at a place called KB toy stores. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I worked at KB. A friend of mine from a
Speaker 1: high school named Kenny. Shout out to Kenny got me
Speaker 1: the job there. It was right after high school, and
Speaker 1: I was working at Disney part time. But it was
Speaker 1: right after high school, and my mom made me get
Speaker 1: a civilian job because she didn't leaving the acting thing.
Speaker 1: And I'd already turned down a few scholarships to a
Speaker 1: bunch of schools and the opportunity to audition for like
Speaker 1: the Yale School of Drama and a bunch of other stuff,
Speaker 1: because I said, no, I just want to do this,
Speaker 1: and I was hard headed. I hated school. I said
Speaker 1: I want to do this. I got great grades. Buy
Speaker 1: him out, she said, And my folks are from the
Speaker 1: US Virgin Islands, you know, so island folks. She was like.
Speaker 1: If she didn't time from St. Thomas and Saint Croix, damn,
Speaker 1: I used to live in Frenchman's Reef oh long ago. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got family there. I got family. So so I
Speaker 1: was like, well, then you get a job, whether then
Speaker 1: you're going to take it as and get a job,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna go to school pot the pot time
Speaker 1: until something happened. So I said, okay, fine. I worked
Speaker 1: at KB toy store because there was also I forget
Speaker 1: that's when the Nintendo first came out. So I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I worked there. Kenny got me the job.
Speaker 1: I work there, and I'll get the discount and maybe
Speaker 1: I can do it. But there was a buddy of
Speaker 1: mine who I have to admit, for ten seconds, I
Speaker 1: had a larcenous thought. He was like, yo, you work
Speaker 1: at KB. Come that new Nintendo wid You ain't coming. Now.
Speaker 1: What you can do is do you do the stock? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do the stock. You dropped that ship around back,
Speaker 1: dropped two of them ships. I'm gonna go around back.
Speaker 1: I'll pick them up. You you claim it as a loss,
Speaker 1: as a theft, Like, no, I'll give a bit of that.
Speaker 1: That's insurance. I said, that's what insurance. I almost did it.
Speaker 1: I got the job so I can get the discount.
Speaker 1: And then I had a thought about taking a Nintendo.
Speaker 1: Never took it, dude, couldn't get a Nintendo. Didn't happen,
Speaker 1: but I felt so bad that I told Kenny it's like, look, man,
Speaker 1: I can't work here because I think if I stay
Speaker 1: here like another week, I might steal a Nintendo. Now
Speaker 1: I'm just being real, I might take it because I'm broke.
Speaker 1: So you were there for Nintendo, I was there, it
Speaker 1: was later. I was there for the Tickle Me l molds, right,
Speaker 1: the same story. That's hilarious.
Speaker 8: It was that it was insanity, bro Yeah it was Yeah,
Speaker 8: that shit was crazy, man.
Speaker 1: It was South squareballing Daryl, Wow Baby Toys.
Speaker 2: Someone gifted me a Tickle Me Elmo this year for
Speaker 2: my fifty third birthday.
Speaker 1: They still make it no, you know.
Speaker 3: Like between Wayne and that you only need two more friends.
Speaker 2: We are closing the gap, I mean great Frog. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a very random gift to give me. But
Speaker 2: this person is like a vintage toy collector or whatever.
Speaker 2: And oh remember it's like some posts I put on
Speaker 2: an OK Player, like back in two thousand and one,
Speaker 2: two thousand and two. Whatever about tickle Me Elmo and someone.
Speaker 1: That's gotta be worth something now, it'd be worth something now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they they went all out for this one KB. And
Speaker 1: the other job is I worked at at a place
Speaker 1: called Malibu Grand Prix and Video Games, not Malibu here
Speaker 1: but in Orlando, which basically means nothing. Because it was
Speaker 1: just to make make it sound fancy. So I cleaned
Speaker 1: the bathrooms, I made hot dogs and hamburgers and fries,
Speaker 1: and I checked the video games and I serviced them.
Speaker 1: What do I know about servicing video games? And I
Speaker 1: would give you tokens if your tokens were lost insurance insurance.
Speaker 1: I'd be the guy that now that one, that one scam.
Speaker 1: One did have a system scam. We're like twenty odd
Speaker 1: years like more like that that was in the great
Speaker 1: spirit is going yeah, so so yeah, so customer, Oh
Speaker 1: you know, I lost two coins and zus it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you did four, thank you, and then then you have
Speaker 1: coins to pay. Okay, you mentioned video games earlier. Man,
Speaker 1: what's you run? What's what's what's you run? Right now?
Speaker 1: Call of Duty Modern Warfare three. I'm on a team.
Speaker 1: We're not very good. So I spend most of my
Speaker 1: time playing playing zombies and uh and I played Destiny
Speaker 1: on my PS five and I've just gone back to
Speaker 1: old school Halo. You first person shooter? Oh, first person shooter?
Speaker 1: All day? All right? Do you journal? Not like I should?
Speaker 1: I'll start to and then it's too much, like I
Speaker 1: don't want to write down all of my thoughts, so
Speaker 1: I don't want folks to know. But instead of journaling,
Speaker 1: I do voice notes. If you check my phone in
Speaker 1: that voice note app, I've got all these voice notes.
Speaker 2: That it's my that is my audio journal and unknown
Speaker 2: like do you are you too lazy? I'm too lazy
Speaker 2: to mark.
Speaker 1: I trust the fact that if it's a song idea,
Speaker 1: I'll be like great, and they'll say Santa Monica Hills
Speaker 1: eleven thirty or like oh yeah, that was two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I was on the showers, so that'll be this one.
Speaker 1: That's why they do that. Okay.
Speaker 6: Also, he doesn't text. He just he sends long voice
Speaker 6: memos to you. So if you send him a text,
Speaker 6: he'll respond with a really long voice.
Speaker 1: Memo or a video because texting is I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't hey, hey hates me? What's what's your prefer form
Speaker 1: of communication? Texting? Calling or face time? FaceTime and and
Speaker 1: voice memos? Face time? All right?
Speaker 2: That means you have kids, because I feel like FaceTime
Speaker 2: was really invented for your kids and for hookups spouses
Speaker 2: to prove.
Speaker 1: Where they are spouse's proof, and for hookups. Let me
Speaker 1: see you see your face okay, huh oh click, all right?
Speaker 2: Who is your best celebrity impression.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, off the top of my head. I can't
Speaker 1: think because I know I do do some, but they
Speaker 1: come up in the moment. Okay, I'll do one that
Speaker 1: I guarantee you that no one on your show has
Speaker 1: ever done. I have a super unique impression. This is
Speaker 1: an impression of if you've ever seen Mary Poppins, it's
Speaker 1: an impression of her own cool, the one that would
Speaker 1: float away. Now do you guys know who I'm talking
Speaker 1: You're talking about in the movie. Now on top of that,
Speaker 1: just picture me in my hood, which is why I
Speaker 1: think I kept my mouth shut because I got tired
Speaker 1: of fighting folks my weird ass. That's the stuff that
Speaker 1: I was watching. And Kats are watching Star Skin Hutch
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about Mary Poppins or Masterpiece Theater.
Speaker 1: So so this is and Alison, I'm alistair dude. I Caesar,
Speaker 1: the Julius Caesar thing and upstairs downstairs changed my life.
Speaker 1: That that's where I learned to do a British accent.
Speaker 1: And okay, so so I digress. So this is the impression,
Speaker 1: boys and girls, if you haven't seen Mary Poppins, just
Speaker 1: just fast forward to this. The only brother, who does
Speaker 1: this impersonation?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: Hit me? Thank you?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: How did you know you had that one? Anyway, it's
Speaker 1: because of improv right, Like I never got asked the
Speaker 1: impressions before whose line or something? But when you get
Speaker 1: thrown something all of a sudden, you realize, oh, I've
Speaker 1: got that in my back pocket. Yeah yeah youah backflipp
Speaker 1: once Now I tried for for the Whiz. I was like, whoop,
Speaker 1: didn't work out? Why is Wayne not in the show?
Speaker 1: Long story? Were you a Monty Python? I go at
Speaker 1: all did you? Did you? Yes? Monty Python came in
Speaker 1: my mind. It was like a junior year when I
Speaker 1: started hanging out with all of the white kids in
Speaker 1: the drama department. Yeah, and I discovered Monty Python on
Speaker 1: PBS Monty Python and another Bent Towers, Benny Hill, Faulty Towers.
Speaker 1: There was a sketch group called the Goodies, and that's
Speaker 1: where I learned a lot about sketch and an absurdist
Speaker 1: humor from from watching Monty Python. Where you you to
Speaker 1: your sketchy missed the show? Did you all day? Okay?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can I tell you all right? Four days ago.
Speaker 2: Was David Cross's sixtieth birthday, and they organized a live
Speaker 2: Mister Show reunion across Odin Kirk like the main the
Speaker 2: main five of the show. They just got on stage
Speaker 2: and just and it wasn't even planned.
Speaker 1: But do you know if it's true because I kind
Speaker 1: of know this guy's name, but I forget I did
Speaker 1: a show with him once years and years ago before.
Speaker 1: Who's line called uh called quick Wits based out out
Speaker 1: of Chicago. There's one guy who was in the Mister
Speaker 1: Show cast, so I forget his name. So if you
Speaker 1: know the Mister Show line up, tall dark haired guy,
Speaker 1: the real tall one, real tall. He was supposedly right,
Speaker 1: like I'm saying, allegedly because this was what was going
Speaker 1: around and they posted his picture he was at January sixth. What. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's why I say, that's why we got to look
Speaker 1: that up because I'm not said because I don't want
Speaker 1: to go everything. It's like, well, Wayne Brady said, assume me.
Speaker 1: You know what yo? I read that in Huffington Post. Yes,
Speaker 1: maybe three weeks ago or a month ago or something
Speaker 1: like that. Because they are right, because they're persecuting all
Speaker 1: of those cats like they they're actually going through the
Speaker 1: rolodex and I remember being so shocked because you know,
Speaker 1: in our little world of arts and actors and singers
Speaker 1: were liberal and we love and so we're so foreign
Speaker 1: to know that I sat down and broke bread with
Speaker 1: and we made funny and said stupid jokes together would
Speaker 1: be at the capitol like burn it down. I was like,
Speaker 1: what does that have to do with the jokes you
Speaker 1: made on mister show.
Speaker 2: Wow in air quotes one of the projects I'm working on,
Speaker 2: like all, the common denominator of all the projects I'm
Speaker 2: working on is all my interview subjects are like over
Speaker 2: the age of seventy five, And some of them will
Speaker 2: stick to the subject for which I'm asking them, and
Speaker 2: then some will somehow use the question i'm asking to
Speaker 2: pivot into other areas. That one particular guy was just
Speaker 2: burning to let me know that, you know, when I
Speaker 2: started blah blah blah blah blah, Yeah, you know, I was.
Speaker 2: I was a liberal Democrat, but you know, after so
Speaker 2: many years of making fun of Ronald Reagan, then suddenly boom,
Speaker 2: like you know, I'm proud to say I'm maga and
Speaker 2: all this stuff and just it just it when he's
Speaker 2: super rogan. I was like, No, I just wanted to know, like,
Speaker 2: did you like grilled cheese sandwich?
Speaker 1: Well? I liked him when America was great. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: when I liked it. Tasted so much better. Nobody ever
Speaker 1: burnt their toast that wasn't black. Yes, sneaking across the border,
Speaker 1: trying to jump in my soup, making racist analogies to food,
Speaker 1: any reason to go there? Yeah? So, what, in your opinion,
Speaker 1: is the best cereal of all time? Easy cinnamon toast crunch.
Speaker 1: But now it is here?
Speaker 2: Here is my Wait, you're a Semon tooa'st crunch guy.
Speaker 2: I love cinnamon toa seach everyone that I asked this
Speaker 2: question to. For me, there's two generations of the seventies.
Speaker 2: I'm a seventy one guy, so I feel like i'm
Speaker 2: the I'm seventy two, right, so you're supposed to be
Speaker 2: on my side of the fence. Every Semon Toast crunch
Speaker 2: guy person I know is post seventy six, Like, well,
Speaker 2: what's your cereal? I'm a Captain crunch person. Okay, not
Speaker 2: crunch berries, just captain. Oh really, I'm peanut butter. Captain
Speaker 2: crunch peanut butter. Okay, see you said the best.
Speaker 1: Now if you would have said, Wayne, what's your pantheon
Speaker 1: of cereals? I would have said, that's a big word.
Speaker 1: They like stand up up here would have said cinnamon
Speaker 1: toast crunch. I feel seen because I love the hack
Speaker 1: that I eat cinnamon toast crunch with with with lucky
Speaker 1: charms or sugar frosted. Oh, I mixed cereals. You feel
Speaker 1: like a genius. All of the cereals that my mom
Speaker 1: either couldn't get me or couldn't afford. I made the
Speaker 1: decision when I moved out of the house at the
Speaker 1: age of twenty, I will always buy my cereals. I
Speaker 1: have a cereal thing open. I can open you see
Speaker 1: what's happening to do all I want to do? Man,
Speaker 1: this this this old Jacob and saw in the in
Speaker 1: the good years. Is incredible that before they went down
Speaker 1: here before the tiff, right right before this, can you know?
Speaker 1: And there and you need to find the third brother
Speaker 1: a friend Snap Peanut butter Captain Crunch. It's the best
Speaker 1: one because of how it made the milk. I couldn't
Speaker 1: eat crunch beerries because it was too much of it
Speaker 1: was too much of a berry taste. So I like
Speaker 1: to mix all of the cereals. We're the same person, man.
Speaker 2: Like when I first started touring, the Beastie Boys taught
Speaker 2: me everything about touring and so at Rock and Mike
Speaker 2: d taught me how to like give them a rider
Speaker 2: ride give it to you. And they told me, like,
Speaker 2: when you get a writer, make sure you get toothbrush
Speaker 2: and toothpastes. Every city, always get a liquid soap. Get Like,
Speaker 2: they told me everything to get, and they said especially
Speaker 2: ask for like food items that aren't backstage food stuff
Speaker 2: so you can eat on the tour bus. And dude,
Speaker 2: the level like I now know how I ballooned up
Speaker 2: to four hundred and thirty pounds back in the day
Speaker 2: is because I would come home with at least seventy
Speaker 2: boxes of cereal intact, Like I just I took it
Speaker 2: to the wrong level.
Speaker 1: So that's what I call being grown, is the fact
Speaker 1: that I can eat whatever cereal that I want to.
Speaker 1: That is such a joy, that joy. Yep. Wow?
Speaker 2: All right, can you name me your childhood bully?
Speaker 1: Wow? That? Yes, these are random questions.
Speaker 2: This is good.
Speaker 1: This is good, okay, because I always get caught up
Speaker 1: in do you say names? Because you don't want folks
Speaker 1: to get mad but I'm not saying you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything that isn't true, and it's my
Speaker 1: recollection you don't want to name.
Speaker 3: He's gonna come kick yours.
Speaker 1: No, not now, not now. We're both too old to
Speaker 1: be fighting. B I'm strong as hell, and see I
Speaker 1: got lawyers, so d fuck y'all. So so so yeah,
Speaker 1: Actually this is a two part question. Okay. The real
Speaker 1: question is talk ship to your child of bullies for
Speaker 1: ten seconds.
Speaker 5: Yo.
Speaker 1: All right, So it depends on Okay, so physic. I
Speaker 1: wrote this whole story that I've done on stage stage
Speaker 1: about one girl named named Tisa, and I don't believe
Speaker 1: that she she's no longer with us, So I'm not
Speaker 1: speaking ill of the dead. I'm just no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, not Tisa. Nicki named Nicki.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: She lived had a corner. Tisa lived across from me,
Speaker 1: Tisa Grady lived in the other house, and uh and
Speaker 1: Niki lived over here. Nicki was one of those girls
Speaker 1: that she was just an exceptionally tall girl at an
Speaker 1: early age, but even when we were teenager, she was
Speaker 1: still I was like, oh you you are bigger than me,
Speaker 1: and did so for whatever reason, I didn't fit into
Speaker 1: this this one thing, and it was popular to make
Speaker 1: fun of me because I had my grandparents accent and
Speaker 1: so and yeah and so. At that point, the Jamaicans
Speaker 1: and Haitians were coming over to Florida, and so they
Speaker 1: would sing the uh oh, Wayne, you're Jamaic make and
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not Jamaican about Jamaica. Funk, that's
Speaker 1: what and do all this ship and add out fighting
Speaker 1: and blah blah blah. Know, the best way to make
Speaker 1: a bully happy is to talk back, so they have
Speaker 1: and excuse to fight you. Nicki was a bully. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying Nicki was a bad person. We were kids.
Speaker 1: I will say that, Hey, it's okay, y'all were kids.
Speaker 1: Nicki would fight me becuz, hey, I'm gonna pick on
Speaker 1: the smaller kid because I was also small form age
Speaker 1: until to land'm like growth spurt. So she would like
Speaker 1: to fight me until the day when she chased me
Speaker 1: up into my yard into my door. Mama Mama let
Speaker 1: me in, and my grandmother looked outside. She said, no, Wayne,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? Mama? Nicki's fighting me. He said,
Speaker 1: you run back outside and you beat to us. So
Speaker 1: I was like, and up until that point, they never
Speaker 1: hit a girl. You don't fight, it's beneath you don't fight,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But now she's telling me to fight.
Speaker 1: So that was the first time that I got and
Speaker 1: I took a stick and the fight ended. Because I'm
Speaker 1: so glad that, yeah, because I'm not good because even
Speaker 1: in real life, who anybody's like, come on, bro, I
Speaker 1: got if you are threatening my life, then we need
Speaker 1: to end it quickly so I can go back to
Speaker 1: my family. So Nikki bullied me. We had an issue.
Speaker 1: There was a dude named Anthony. Anthony also bullied me.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: He would say, all sorts of ship try to and
Speaker 1: a dude named Alan try to push me up against
Speaker 1: the locker. Alan Alan Anthony the Preacher's kid.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Julian Julian the Julian was trying to make up for stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, because Julian was light skinned, so Julian had
Speaker 1: to act always the light skin dude. He's like, but
Speaker 1: you so, so I remember Julian tried to fight me
Speaker 1: when I got off the busk of somebody.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 1: You said, Joe, mama, Oh you said, my mama. I
Speaker 1: didn't his as he says, I'm gonna beat you. Julian,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do this. I have to do this,
Speaker 1: and then we got into a fight. So Julian, to
Speaker 1: those guys and now here's the ten seconds of talking ship.
Speaker 1: I forgive you because we were kids. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: This is that they knew who you are now. Oh yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, like Tangela Park Yeah oh yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So look, the thing is, I don't hold one piece
Speaker 1: of a grudge against anybody who was a childhood bully,
Speaker 1: because I've now learned everybody was going through their own thing.
Speaker 1: So I hope that each of you we're all in
Speaker 1: our fifties now, I'm still younger than y'all because I
Speaker 1: skipped the great because I'm smart as hell. So so
Speaker 1: I wish you all the very best, and I hope
Speaker 1: that your lives have been awesome, and that when you
Speaker 1: talk to your kids, your friends, hey, I know that
Speaker 1: dude on TV, remind them that you were the dude
Speaker 1: that shoved me up against the locker, that made me
Speaker 1: want to become successful, that I left Orlando for, that
Speaker 1: have moved out to LA that I kicked ass and
Speaker 1: now I do what I do, so thank you very much.
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