Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning, Everybody's Steen j n V Jes Hilarius
Speaker 2: Charlamage the guy.
Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest
Speaker 3: in the building.
Speaker 1: He's the dream killer. Ladies and gentlemen, bigger than big
Speaker 1: backs ladies gentlemen. First of all, that's not true. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying like because people, you know, everybody when
Speaker 1: they see me, like, man, you know you lost Wait,
Speaker 1: you look good what you're doing. And then I started
Speaker 1: listening things off, like yo, I stopped drinking, I did this,
Speaker 1: I did that, and then they just be staring at me.
Speaker 1: So now I'm just really honest. So a big dude
Speaker 1: just asked me the hallway, you know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I told him. They just still looked at me because
Speaker 1: I can see the grease staying on the jack SyES,
Speaker 1: and I was like, well, you ain't gonna do it
Speaker 1: what you said? He just let Man, I could tell
Speaker 1: it hurt, but it was. I mean literally, I was
Speaker 1: like therapy. I stopped drinking. This is a lifestyle I
Speaker 1: started five years ago. Consistently, Dude. I literally get up
Speaker 1: every morning, no matter what time, I gotta get up
Speaker 1: at least go to the gym for hour. I got
Speaker 1: stuff set up in my house. I go boxing three
Speaker 1: times a week. It's like when you tell them, they
Speaker 1: be like, oh, you really doing it? Doing it? So
Speaker 1: you work work yeah, because they want you to say
Speaker 1: that you got the shot. That's true, that's what that's
Speaker 1: that's it. Are you doing the ozempic. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: I can't, and it's no distant nobody you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But it's funny because people roast you with
Speaker 1: the ozimpic thing, even though it's commercials for like people
Speaker 1: will go to my page like and say, I do
Speaker 1: workouts in like ozmpic. That's all they're saying, Like, oh
Speaker 1: I didn't do it, but okay, brother, I gotta hurt.
Speaker 2: Though, because you actually did it, like you talk about
Speaker 2: your process and now they throw ozipic on you like
Speaker 2: I just told you, you know, three times a week,
Speaker 2: and it used to hurt, but it don't anymore because
Speaker 2: I don't understand how that's a roast and they have
Speaker 2: commercials for it that say that is what it's supposed
Speaker 2: to do. It's just like if I ship, it's like,
Speaker 2: oh you go penicillin or pep the bismo, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And I've seen you over time and you didn't just
Speaker 4: wake up like you have gradually.
Speaker 1: You've seen it. It was a process. It wasn't like overnight,
Speaker 1: I guess, like and then I don't know, it was
Speaker 1: funny that didn't happen in the hallway. But just I'm
Speaker 1: proud of myself. It's the most proud of, like happiest
Speaker 1: I think I've ever been.
Speaker 5: Like, be proud of black people. Because back in the day,
Speaker 5: you say, damn, reroll on crack.
Speaker 1: They still say stuff like that. Damn they still go say,
Speaker 1: you know, crack. But then I don't even understand what
Speaker 1: this like, you know, after the chat, would think you
Speaker 1: would just think people would just leave people to funk
Speaker 1: along life for real, Like you don't know. But if
Speaker 1: I look happy, damn, but people are so sad, so
Speaker 1: they be like and it.
Speaker 4: Does a lot of happy crackheads. So like if the crackheads.
Speaker 1: Crackheads was always skinny, Like it was a dude named
Speaker 1: Johnny Cash on the West Side of Chicago who had
Speaker 1: the biggest cap. He was just athletic, the most athletic
Speaker 1: crackhead because he walked every fucking day. Most crackheads in
Speaker 1: my era were in shape. Yeah, yeah, they really were.
Speaker 1: They was picking up ship, they were shoveling, they were
Speaker 1: doing all the type of ship to get the crack money.
Speaker 1: So they was in shape. I never see the fat
Speaker 1: crackhead though. You ain't never see the fat one. And
Speaker 1: then the skinny ones was the ones, you know, I
Speaker 1: think they had to be kind of all ready a
Speaker 1: little skinny and then it was out. I don't know
Speaker 1: what we tell you.
Speaker 5: I have never seen a dead one.
Speaker 6: All the crackcads that I knew growing up still right
Speaker 6: now to this day, still to this day.
Speaker 1: Because crack, well crack and cocaine, right, so it's the
Speaker 1: cheap ship.
Speaker 5: Well crack is fried cocaine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's like the cheap it's the cheap version
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, that's what snowfalls are we talking about?
Speaker 3: How do we get.
Speaker 5: Crack is what we need?
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I think some of this ship is cracked.
Speaker 1: Like I don't, like, nobody know what zip because for
Speaker 1: diabetes and then people do it to lose well, it's
Speaker 1: fucking weird. You're a weird ass time. But people comfortable
Speaker 1: talking about it. Yeah, so I'm like, y'all got people
Speaker 1: that's saying they're doing it like I still picking on me.
Speaker 6: I won't say this though I met you a long
Speaker 6: long time ago. I had to talk to on m TV.
Speaker 5: Came on there. You never looked fund up to me.
Speaker 5: Like the way people acting they act.
Speaker 1: Like I was like I was Lavell Crawford and Bruce
Speaker 1: fucking Don, Dela Weed, I was out shopped Damns weight
Speaker 1: to break this said, that's what I need. I need
Speaker 1: to show up and do more ship for people. We
Speaker 1: got no movie man. Now, this children's movie the Kids
Speaker 1: dog Man Man about dog Man is amazing, cartoon based, amazing,
Speaker 1: but it is kind of dog Man ain't dark, but
Speaker 1: it's because you know, they put their head together with
Speaker 1: the man and but it's a really funny and fun movie.
Speaker 1: I got a chance to do a Pete Davidson and
Speaker 1: kids are loving this movie and it looks like it's
Speaker 1: tracking to do really well. So I'm excited to be
Speaker 1: in that space where we do those cartoon movies that
Speaker 1: that really killed the box office, and I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be one of them.
Speaker 5: Is the box office back?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for certain stuff, I think family stuff is doing
Speaker 1: well one of them days. I'm proud of what that's doing.
Speaker 1: I'm in that too, and that's good for comedy to
Speaker 1: comedy movies. And they did a good job of that too,
Speaker 1: cause they did a good job of casting and just
Speaker 1: making it funny because a lot of stuff just hasn't
Speaker 1: been really funny funny for real again. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm doing about. Like when I leave here, I
Speaker 1: start directing my first movie that I'm starting in and
Speaker 1: Tiffany's in it, and uh, I guess what I could
Speaker 1: do them? Yeah, I mean, I mean, we ain't got
Speaker 1: o pr budget, so I might.
Speaker 3: As well just say to start now.
Speaker 1: So Carlos Miller got Carlos King Batch, Tony Baker. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is gonna be it's gonna be fun, Like
Speaker 1: I believe, like it's time to start casting comedians for
Speaker 1: real in these comedies again it's comedy horror.
Speaker 2: There's one comedian you ain't named that be getting busy
Speaker 2: who wreksa.
Speaker 3: Just yeah.
Speaker 6: Before I ain't going I'm not doing that.
Speaker 5: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Just chances. Also, just like if it was something I love, Jess,
Speaker 1: So I know we're gonna work again. So yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I love all the time over this and you are
Speaker 1: like great, Like I'm surprised, like people not begging you
Speaker 1: to do more sitcoms that your timing and everything was
Speaker 1: just natural and perfect.
Speaker 6: But it's not a loot of sitcoms of black people nowadays,
Speaker 6: I mean, not always what you call a two camera
Speaker 6: what they call it.
Speaker 1: Uh multi cam yeh, yeah, no it's not. It's I mean,
Speaker 1: but you still got like the Miss Pat Show, the Upshells. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think I just think we just got to
Speaker 1: like we just gotta do it. I mean, Bounce got
Speaker 1: a bunch of but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you say, nobody watching Bounce, but you can create
Speaker 6: something that maybe somebody will watch on it.
Speaker 1: No, I think it's time to like start downplaying those
Speaker 1: places like the Bounces and all these different places, like
Speaker 1: let's go there, let's bring out material that we're trying
Speaker 1: to get to these other spots. Go to the place
Speaker 1: it's gonna accept your material.
Speaker 6: But it's the money thing too. I agree with you,
Speaker 6: But you know, we can't just go to these places
Speaker 6: and do charity. They got to have the budget.
Speaker 1: Well, the budgets ain't that great for the other stuff,
Speaker 1: the big stuff neither they cut everything, so you might
Speaker 1: as well go to a place that's gonna let you
Speaker 1: creatively do what you're supposed to do, do what you
Speaker 1: want to do. That's why, like two Bees a Lick,
Speaker 1: I love to know. I'm oh, no, no, don't proudly
Speaker 1: say you got a.
Speaker 5: Joke about Yeah right, it's smart.
Speaker 6: I don't think there's no better comedy on the planet
Speaker 6: than to be but the unintention So.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine if they had a really good meeting
Speaker 1: with them, And that's one of the things I approached
Speaker 1: them about. Like it's like because I don't want to
Speaker 1: just give them content. I'm like, yo, I want to
Speaker 1: be let me be an executive over here. Let me
Speaker 1: help with your literally let me be let me run
Speaker 1: your comedy, help bring the stuff in there. But I'm
Speaker 1: trying to give them my special. I just shot you know,
Speaker 1: I did a comedy festival last year and I shot
Speaker 1: my special there. So I feel like two Bees a
Speaker 1: Lick Man.
Speaker 6: We got ninety four million, ninety million monthly viewers or
Speaker 6: something crazy number, like.
Speaker 1: They got the viewer Like that's why it's trying to
Speaker 1: really like, if they're smart, just you literally could do
Speaker 1: what Netflix did just start taking in really good content
Speaker 1: like w B it ship.
Speaker 6: I want to do a breakfast club murder mystery on
Speaker 6: to be one of my favorite shows on.
Speaker 1: I want to do a breakfast club murder mystery.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because I like this show called just what was
Speaker 6: on it called I Got a Story to Tell an
Speaker 6: ology series? Yeah, man, that ships so good. You seen
Speaker 6: the Gastation Pill episode.
Speaker 5: With young Jockeys?
Speaker 1: That was that was? That was good. Ronnie Jordan was
Speaker 1: really good and hilarious.
Speaker 6: Jock to have asked you to play an ugly person
Speaker 6: like Broll, we needed to play what the in the
Speaker 6: show had to be a he was his character was
Speaker 6: supposed to be ugly.
Speaker 3: But start with that.
Speaker 1: Never said was that the character description?
Speaker 5: Like, seriously, have you seen.
Speaker 1: I mean just that he they called him. I ain't
Speaker 1: never been asked to play an ugly person. Well, maybe
Speaker 1: I had asked Kat Williams. He said I'm ugly, so
Speaker 1: maybe I have say that call me ugly? He called
Speaker 1: me the ugliest nigga. He's like, man, you go to
Speaker 1: the mall in Atlanta, ain't nobody gonna talk to you.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's weird. Like I did well in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: When I was single with with what you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I was in the streets. What I'm saying with men
Speaker 5: women in Atlanta, Jesus, charm no real nowadays identify arlam.
Speaker 1: You I'm not talking about.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about specifically asked me, yes, the internet, because
Speaker 6: I don't want them to take this out of context.
Speaker 3: He wanted to know what you forever.
Speaker 1: Take it out of context? Did you make it context? Man?
Speaker 1: Like you made a context? What did you do? Man?
Speaker 3: He just called you ugly?
Speaker 1: Want to know what you call you? Identifying everything? Use
Speaker 1: those and Jesus surprised.
Speaker 5: You just trying up and down?
Speaker 1: You can jump? You didn't go that far? I mean
Speaker 1: you you you took it. I mean, come on. Some
Speaker 1: of the stuff was a conversation were about the crack era.
Speaker 1: He said, I was on crack. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But I've never seen you with the man. I would
Speaker 2: never ask, hey, when you was Atlanta that you did
Speaker 2: the man a woman I was.
Speaker 1: It was only the ladies Atlanta. Atlanta is full of
Speaker 1: gorgeous black women. When I was in my single days,
Speaker 1: it was I used to have good times out there.
Speaker 5: How much did how has being engaged changed you.
Speaker 1: I'm cool, I'm chilling, you know. You just I'm not
Speaker 1: in no thirsty place, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: I was like that before I even proposed her. I
Speaker 1: just got to a point where I was just like,
Speaker 1: I just want to chill. I'm grown, I'm not you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I like, literally just love being
Speaker 1: around my girl. That's it.
Speaker 4: And it's your second time I getting married both of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's both our second time around. So and we
Speaker 1: you know, we ain't diddy everybody when you're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: We possibly may have a reality show, and so we
Speaker 1: may wait to do it and shot it on the show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, do you want to do that?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Because what I want to do is actually people
Speaker 1: to see the real conversation about because I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: want to win, so she does. So we've actually stopped
Speaker 1: talking about it so we could save it for the show,
Speaker 1: so people could really see what this real conversation is.
Speaker 1: Why don't you want to wedd I think it's overrated.
Speaker 1: I think I talked about that at one time.
Speaker 5: By the way, that started a real conversation.
Speaker 3: I just don't lie.
Speaker 5: But just in everyday life, people was talking to me
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 3: I think you said the wedding of the marriage was Yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Gotta prepare what you gotta prepare for marriage. I think
Speaker 1: you should be focused on the marriage, but also we
Speaker 1: should be I think we should treat out of visaries
Speaker 1: like weddings, but how we gonna celebrations. It's like it's
Speaker 1: like for kids start school right here, freshman, we give
Speaker 1: them the graduation this freshman year. You don't know if
Speaker 1: this nigga gonna stay in school the whole four years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what I said. I think we should take
Speaker 1: out of virtuaries, make those the big celebrations are not
Speaker 1: the weddings.
Speaker 2: Now, when you say it like that, it's like you
Speaker 2: spend all this money on the wedding and you don't
Speaker 2: know how long it's gonna last.
Speaker 1: Y'all, I ain't been through nothing. It ain't nothing to
Speaker 1: really celebrate. I think anniversaries deserved that energy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 6: I like it when you said it last time, like
Speaker 6: put put the nobody puts the thought and the emphasis
Speaker 6: into the marriage.
Speaker 5: What is this marriage?
Speaker 1: What does marriage gonna be like? And then like, especially
Speaker 1: if y'all got through a tough year. Yes, I want
Speaker 1: you motherfuckers to celebrate me, right, we went through a
Speaker 1: tough time, like celebrate make anniversaries bigger, spending all this
Speaker 1: money on these ways because now everybody break up so
Speaker 1: quick too. It looks just crazy.
Speaker 6: But how would that affect you? I guess the times
Speaker 6: are so different now you could do whatever you want.
Speaker 6: I was about to say, how would that affect you
Speaker 6: doing reality TV and still doing film?
Speaker 5: But I guess it don't even matter, I.
Speaker 1: Think nowadays because it's not just it wouldn't just be
Speaker 1: more or less the folks to be on her because
Speaker 1: I think she's amazing and on like blending our families
Speaker 1: and things like that. So like also too, it's some
Speaker 1: fun to watch the way I'm moving in my career too.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's a lot of things people don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I really, man, I really been on my business
Speaker 1: this season for me, this is the season of business
Speaker 1: for me. So and that's why I did a festival,
Speaker 1: That's why I'm directing, That's why I'm producing and doing
Speaker 1: all this stuff. I'm in boss mode now.
Speaker 5: In Hollywood.
Speaker 1: You know what's fun? I don't I think everything is Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Something I wish somebody would say, because I always hear like,
Speaker 1: like I shout out to my homeboy Country Wayne, but
Speaker 1: he always kind of talking about like going against Hollywood.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, bro, you in Hollywood, Like you're you're filming,
Speaker 1: making movies. That is Hollywood. I think we keep thinking
Speaker 1: Hollywood is a place and it's an industry. I don't
Speaker 1: care if you put stuff on content on Instagram. You're
Speaker 1: part of Hollywood. You know what I'm saying, That's that's Hollywood.
Speaker 1: So like I just I just think we I think
Speaker 1: people love to just say I'm not a part of
Speaker 1: this thing, but damn, Hollywood is Hollywood. As long as
Speaker 1: you're making movies and TV even skits and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: episodic stuff, that's Hollywood.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I actually feel like the traditional Hollywood is kind
Speaker 6: of behind the eight ball because you got these people
Speaker 6: like the Country and Drew Skies whoever. They just like
Speaker 6: they doing all of these kids and sketches every single day.
Speaker 5: It's like watching the TV show every day.
Speaker 1: Well, it don't exist. I mean it don't exist in
Speaker 1: a good way. It's actually embracing more people. That's why,
Speaker 1: like you know, we're talking about too b I do
Speaker 1: love that we are embracing these other filmmakers, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Like it's just it's coming from everywhere.
Speaker 1: It's not like I think we just be so full.
Speaker 1: It's just feel good. I guess to say, Hollywood, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: they don't even shooting a La for real, no more.
Speaker 6: Yeah about you about to be out here in Jersey
Speaker 6: your life? You said what you're gonna be out in Jersey?
Speaker 5: Lot? They got the Lions.
Speaker 1: Shoot, we're shooting at Detroit, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: But we're shooting that, so like it's it's I mean,
Speaker 1: hopefully La honestly work on his tax credit because especially
Speaker 1: with the fires and everything, you want to see that
Speaker 1: community get built back up, and so hopefully work on
Speaker 1: these tax and centives because there's nothing being shot in La,
Speaker 1: which is yep.
Speaker 3: Were you affected by the fires at all?
Speaker 1: Yeah? No, we only had to evacuate one time, and
Speaker 1: that's because of the kind of fires which was really
Speaker 1: close to us, like we can see it, and but
Speaker 1: it was only going for one day. But I couldn't
Speaker 1: sleep that whole first week because you didn't you know,
Speaker 1: the phones was going off. I was watching the news
Speaker 1: the whole time, making sure the fan was good because
Speaker 1: you didn't know when you had to pick up and leave,
Speaker 1: and you had to have the mindset of all, it's
Speaker 1: a chance all this stuff is gonna be gone.
Speaker 2: Did you pack up what you wanted just in case,
Speaker 2: Like I'm gonna put this right here in the car,
Speaker 2: just in case we gotta go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just took Honestly, I was okay with losing
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff. I was more, let's just
Speaker 1: all the papers and stuff there reporting papers. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I didn't even think I was like all these Jordan's
Speaker 1: is gone. Yeah. I was like, yeah, that is, it
Speaker 1: is what it is, but it's it's That was one
Speaker 1: of the craziest things I've been and I'm, you know,
Speaker 1: from Chicago, but like this that fire thing and the
Speaker 1: ambers was flying everywhere. I ain't never seen them because
Speaker 1: it was so windy. It was like two days where
Speaker 1: it felt like like Hurricane Wins. It was. It was
Speaker 1: frightening and they couldn't stop the fires because of that,
Speaker 1: Like the fire departments and and shout out to like man,
Speaker 1: the firefighters, like they got all those young people that
Speaker 1: you know that's in jail that came out as they
Speaker 1: did most of work. It was crazy.
Speaker 6: So what's the point of being in La now if
Speaker 6: you're not from La? Like with everybody who's from LA,
Speaker 6: because they're people who like, really love La. That's they
Speaker 6: wrap it in a real way. They don't even think
Speaker 6: what y'all do, what we're doing. We go out there and.
Speaker 1: Really law like, yeah, y'all transplants exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So what's the reason for you to be out
Speaker 5: did that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how long we're going to
Speaker 1: stay out there, to be honest with you, but I
Speaker 1: love La, you know, and you just talk because wife
Speaker 1: people was talking. We had it was a real conversation
Speaker 1: about it because I don't know. I'm just I'm not
Speaker 1: in a rush to leave, you know what i mean?
Speaker 1: Because I like La and I'm from Chicago. I think
Speaker 1: you should live outside of where you grew up at.
Speaker 1: You know, if we moved, probably gonna to Mississippi though,
Speaker 1: Missippi that's where she's from. You know, people got a
Speaker 1: bunch of land out there, So I'm like, dude, we
Speaker 1: might as well go down there and build something.
Speaker 6: If I'm not mistaken, there's always been a connected like
Speaker 6: a lot of people who who came to Mississippi back
Speaker 6: in the day migrated to Chicago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a whole. I think that's why me and
Speaker 1: her hit it off, to be quite honest with you,
Speaker 1: because it's I love a country, country, southern black girl
Speaker 1: and she's a black girl because people love to call
Speaker 1: her not black.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: I be let me tell you this is what I catch.
Speaker 1: I catch it for losing weight, and I catch it
Speaker 1: for like, yeah, cat said, you got them light skin,
Speaker 1: You got your light skin. They gave you, They gave
Speaker 1: you that light skinned girl around, they gave Hollywood gave it.
Speaker 1: I was like, what do they do this? What the
Speaker 1: fuck are y'all talking about? They don't be giving out people.
Speaker 5: Did the motivate you to lose any of the weight anyway?
Speaker 1: Nah? I was. I was more or less like when
Speaker 1: I saw Get Out. I didn't like the way I looked,
Speaker 1: but and it wasn't necessary the physical part. It was
Speaker 1: just like, you know, you could see how I know
Speaker 1: it was a great moment, but I could see how
Speaker 1: sad I was. Even when I was doing a real show,
Speaker 1: I was still trying to figure things out. It wasn't
Speaker 1: until I went to therapy for real, Shola man, And
Speaker 1: it was like, Damn, I really buried so much ship
Speaker 1: that I didn't even know that was buried. And then
Speaker 1: you come from the crib from Chicago. Even some of
Speaker 1: the stuff that I grew up seeing, I normalized it,
Speaker 1: and that ship was affecting me. So until I went
Speaker 1: to therapy and really talked this ship out, I didn't
Speaker 1: realize I had all that shit going on.
Speaker 4: I really didn't that you can speak to that because
Speaker 4: you were you were very reserved on set, like it
Speaker 4: was quiet you just like there was.
Speaker 1: A lot of pressure on me on that set, man.
Speaker 4: And I didn't know you as well as you know,
Speaker 4: like your friends knew you and all that type of stuff.
Speaker 4: But I could still see you know, it was definitely
Speaker 4: did you had your kids with you out there. It
Speaker 4: was a lot of things that you had to do.
Speaker 1: Also to you, I'm trying to make a show to
Speaker 1: impress black people, which is so fucking tough to do. Lord,
Speaker 1: have mercy, you know. I learned a big lesson from there.
Speaker 1: You just gotta creatively do what you do because you're not.
Speaker 1: Everybody always gonna find something wrong with something, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So, like I learned a lot from
Speaker 1: doing a real show. It's even just learning to like
Speaker 1: delegate better. You know, a lot of times you saw
Speaker 1: me because I was always thinking about what I had
Speaker 1: to do. So I learned a lot. I mean, like
Speaker 1: betwe once again, between therapy and then owning a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, like I do everything so much better. I'm
Speaker 1: a better person on every set I own. I bring
Speaker 1: better energy. Even that sometimes I was overdoing my blackness sometimes,
Speaker 1: like on sets like yeah, you ain't gonna take me
Speaker 1: what to say, you know, and all that shit, and
Speaker 1: it's like, well, you're doing too much. So going to
Speaker 1: therapy made me literally overanalyze myself and own a lot
Speaker 1: of my bullshit.
Speaker 3: You want to do?
Speaker 6: Was sad too, That's that's a very specific word.
Speaker 1: Now I was. I was hurting because I was going
Speaker 1: through a divorce, like rou Don't Get Out was Carmichael show,
Speaker 1: and so going through a divorce trying to figure out
Speaker 1: you know, I think most dads don't talk about this,
Speaker 1: but when you know the kids are with your mom,
Speaker 1: and they was with the mom and they was with
Speaker 1: you and now you by yourself. Man, that's an adjustment.
Speaker 1: And most men don't talk about it, you know, because
Speaker 1: everybody think, are you out here back? You know, because
Speaker 1: most you know, the baby mom's like are you here
Speaker 1: living it up? And then it like no, I'm like
Speaker 1: laying in their rooms because I miss them. I'm sad
Speaker 1: as fuck because I don't have that energy around anymore,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So I was really I
Speaker 1: was really sad and I had to really when I
Speaker 1: talked to my therapist about it, I had to open
Speaker 1: up about stuff that I didn't even know that was
Speaker 1: buried like that, and to.
Speaker 6: The outside world, that was your moment, like you know,
Speaker 6: you was having your big break get out, you know.
Speaker 1: But that's what kept me alive though Charlemagne was the
Speaker 1: art performing kept me alive. Like if I had to
Speaker 1: deal with what I was truly thinking about myself, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure you learned this in therapy. They say that,
Speaker 6: you know, staying busy as a response to trauma.
Speaker 5: That's what I learned. So and I don't I never
Speaker 5: saw you take a break.
Speaker 1: Nope. Yeah, I mean if you think about that time
Speaker 1: I was doing, like I mean, look, this is about it,
Speaker 1: Like I don't get enough credit, Like I'll be looking
Speaker 1: at it like I was literally talking to I was
Speaker 1: doing the interview yesterday. I was talking about how I
Speaker 1: saw one of those pictures with all the comedians on there,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know these and I'm like, how
Speaker 1: the hell I'm never owned these lists? Like I to
Speaker 1: get out, I did like thirty movies. How many stand
Speaker 1: up comics have done that? Which specials and had a sitcom?
Speaker 1: So I can't make none of these lists.
Speaker 5: We'll tell me who the list is first.
Speaker 1: Now you know what it is. It's the same people.
Speaker 1: It's the picture with with the greats on there, Eddie Richard,
Speaker 1: the King's all those guys, Chris Dave Kevin, Eddie Griffith,
Speaker 1: I saw Jay Farrell and there they had Gerard on there, Martin.
Speaker 1: You know the list. But it's like, if you think
Speaker 1: about it, when you look as totality as a resume,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many of those guys, even the
Speaker 1: ones who's great, match it with my resume.
Speaker 3: Why do you feel like they don't put you on
Speaker 3: the list.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. Sometimes I feel like either
Speaker 1: either I've made it look really easy because I mean
Speaker 1: like I'm still a beast on stage, like it ain't
Speaker 1: like any audience person to come see me, lie, because
Speaker 1: sometimes I always surprise my audiences because some of them
Speaker 1: only see me in movies and they be like, damn,
Speaker 1: you're hysterical. I'm like, yeah, I'm a really good stand
Speaker 1: up comic.
Speaker 2: Too, is it because sometimes they look at you, possibly
Speaker 2: as a loner, Like when you see these comedians, you
Speaker 2: see comedians with each other.
Speaker 3: We always see real by himself.
Speaker 1: I mean, but shit, Eddie Griffin, don't be hanging out
Speaker 1: with nobody.
Speaker 6: I know that you've been doing it for a long time,
Speaker 6: but to the general public.
Speaker 5: It hasn't even been ten years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but think about this, if you truly look at
Speaker 1: I literally did it in such an old school, like
Speaker 1: I would at least think my people will at least
Speaker 1: push because I, like, I came from the chilling circuit.
Speaker 1: I did it literally step by step. I was on
Speaker 1: Comic View.
Speaker 2: You know, create people don't remember that.
Speaker 5: But if you didn't a plan.
Speaker 1: But then but that's what I'm saying, like even that, like,
Speaker 1: but they still put them on these lists, Like I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: it has to come from the other comedians, right, And
Speaker 1: I've never from the other comics, Like comics that text me.
Speaker 1: I have comics that would never tweet or instagram. They
Speaker 1: love my specials, but they'll text me, And that to me,
Speaker 1: that's the part of that. Like weird, it is a
Speaker 1: clickie thing. Some of this stuff is a little clubby,
Speaker 1: but like I don't know, I think. And also to
Speaker 1: it's on me a little bit where when I had
Speaker 1: the heat on me, like like extremely on me, I
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily want to press for it. And that's because
Speaker 1: I was in a place where not necessarily just sad.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, I just didn't feel I didn't
Speaker 1: want them to see me. That's that's real shit. I
Speaker 1: didn't want that because I wasn't I didn't like the
Speaker 1: I didn't like how it felt, even though things was
Speaker 1: going great, because think about that we get out, dude,
Speaker 1: I should have been on some magazine covers. I could
Speaker 1: have did that stuff. I was just like, let the
Speaker 1: work speak for itself. Let me just stand it back.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 6: Culturally though, like culturally I felt like, you know, that
Speaker 6: character't get Out was a big deal.
Speaker 1: I've done some culture things like even just being on
Speaker 1: and secure that's a big culture thing, even like doing
Speaker 1: movies like Judas in the Black Messiah, like being a
Speaker 1: part of I've been a part of some really powerful moments,
Speaker 1: like even when Jay did his four four four album
Speaker 1: and that and when we did that we did that
Speaker 1: music video the Black Friends, and it was me eas
Speaker 1: Like I've been a part of some really cool things.
Speaker 1: I just never participated in hyping myself up like I
Speaker 1: should have.
Speaker 6: It is interesting, right, and I'll be having these conversations sometimes,
Speaker 6: like when I look at like you and Gerard called Michael,
Speaker 6: y'all had everything right, Like y'all had the sitcoms, the
Speaker 6: HBO specials, the big movies.
Speaker 5: But then it's still don't.
Speaker 6: Cut through like connect like a eighty five South show
Speaker 6: or a Duvall or.
Speaker 1: Well that's true and not true. It's just spaces for everything, right.
Speaker 1: And so like you think about Carmichael Show, that's still
Speaker 1: a very well loved show, like so many people still
Speaker 1: talk about it and still like approach me about it.
Speaker 1: But once again, Girard is kind of like me too.
Speaker 1: I think until we saw like Gerard, we're seeing I'm
Speaker 1: coming to his own too. Now he's a lot more
Speaker 1: open about everything than he's ever been. You know, we
Speaker 1: saw that by the time we got to Rock Thaniel.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, That's why he had his moment,
Speaker 1: That's why he wanted in me. That's why you saw
Speaker 1: him getting more attention with that. And so I think
Speaker 1: that might be my season now, to be quite honest
Speaker 1: with you, cause now I'm like, you know, some like
Speaker 1: I'm such a nerd as shit. I purposely did everything
Speaker 1: I did so I could be one of the greatest.
Speaker 1: I wanted to sit KWN with my name on it
Speaker 1: on Network TV that all that shit was done on purpose.
Speaker 1: Even just the way I did the movies, it's based
Speaker 1: off like what Bernie Mack did. Like if I get
Speaker 1: one small role, it's like Bernie, I killed any role, Okay, real,
Speaker 1: make sure even if it's small, be memorable, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, but now I'm in a place
Speaker 1: now even just like even just having a great PR
Speaker 1: team I have. Now, this is the most I've ever been.
Speaker 1: But I feel good, I'm happy, and I believe in
Speaker 1: myself for real. So maybe I'm comfortable showing people who
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But I also think it's like you said, is
Speaker 2: being seen right if you think of some of the
Speaker 2: comedians that you name, Yeah, see them all the time.
Speaker 2: But it's not just see them on billboards. You see
Speaker 2: them at the game, you see them at these events.
Speaker 2: You see them all the time, and you picture and
Speaker 2: you see them all the time. Even in the newspapers.
Speaker 2: You see them all the time.
Speaker 1: Well, that's why I've been participating more. It's so funny
Speaker 1: because like I did that Jennifer Hudson walked in and
Speaker 1: came out yesterday and people have been fucking.
Speaker 5: With but that.
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying. That's a part of I know.
Speaker 1: But it connect because I feel good though, and be
Speaker 1: like I'm telling you, I'm really confident and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy because almost like I feel I'm excited about letting
Speaker 1: people feel my energy. But at that time I didn't,
Speaker 1: and almost some of that stuff I didn't know if
Speaker 1: I felt like I deserved.
Speaker 5: It in pasta syndrome.
Speaker 1: Yeah I was. I was in a weird place, and
Speaker 1: I could be honest about that. At the time, I
Speaker 1: could even admit to that, even when like Gerardine could
Speaker 1: tell someone was going on and I couldn't articulate it
Speaker 1: to my friends what was going on yet because I
Speaker 1: didn't understand.
Speaker 2: I'm about to ask for earlier, do you do a
Speaker 2: couple of theapees with your fiance.
Speaker 1: We're thinking about it. She thinks we should do it,
Speaker 1: but let me say this. I think we should do it.
Speaker 1: But for me, it was like, I want her to
Speaker 1: go to therapy consistently on her own first, because women
Speaker 1: love to do this couple of ship but won't work
Speaker 1: on their personal ship. You know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: I love therapy, then you should love therapy. And we
Speaker 1: both consistently going therapy. Cool. We could go talk to
Speaker 1: somebody together because we know how to do therapy right.
Speaker 3: She has to find the right person for her though
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean she had, she's where she who she's
Speaker 1: talking to now? She she absolutely loves. So we'll find
Speaker 1: like And it's interesting with couples therapy because I'll be
Speaker 1: watching like shows like like Shrinking is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite shows. I love. Damn I love that show. Watch Shrinking.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple of so good and so like.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because you know, most couples go to like
Speaker 1: the pastors, and I don't know, it's interested to find
Speaker 1: who I couples therapy personally.
Speaker 6: It's what you're saying is interesting because it's hard enough
Speaker 6: to start seeing yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when you and your.
Speaker 6: Partner to get together and y'all start feeling back them
Speaker 6: lazers and you thought one thing and she thinks another,
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: You wrong with just you.
Speaker 1: But I mean, but even though we don't go to therapy,
Speaker 1: we do that a lot and it's been beautiful. Like
Speaker 1: even one day, I think a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: she was like, we need to communicate better. I'm like,
Speaker 1: we're actually doing it. We just not agreeing.
Speaker 5: That's real.
Speaker 1: We talking about it. And I think that's maturity too,
Speaker 1: being able to have a conversation and not agree, like
Speaker 1: nobody has to win this when you get.
Speaker 3: Dead, that's good. That's when your relationship is good. Because
Speaker 3: first couple of years, like I said, most people mind,
Speaker 3: is you fighting win? You just want to win.
Speaker 2: When you realize now we got two different opinions, all right,
Speaker 2: let's keep it moving.
Speaker 3: That's that's when you've established them.
Speaker 1: No, it's that's where we're at too, And I actually
Speaker 1: love that, Like I love the way I don't know
Speaker 1: man even with that right, like to be legitimately in
Speaker 1: love and appreciate what love really is and a partner man,
Speaker 1: that's his next level. I like really appreciate her, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like I love talking to it
Speaker 1: and not once again, even when we don't agree. It's
Speaker 1: so interesting because she'll sometimes she'll get really on ten.
Speaker 5: I'd be like, all right, you love it like you
Speaker 5: love your kids. They always say, they always.
Speaker 6: If you love somebody the way you love your kids
Speaker 6: and you you're really in love.
Speaker 1: I think your partner is a whole other level of
Speaker 1: that too, though, because I remember, like when my dad,
Speaker 1: you know, when my mom passed and just we're trying,
Speaker 1: we were trying to figure out his pain because he
Speaker 1: did lou he lost somebody who was his best friend,
Speaker 1: who he like decided they made that decision together. That's
Speaker 1: a whole other type of love and relationship. So I
Speaker 1: just think it's different.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that you feel like she should get therapy for
Speaker 4: herself first, Like what are some things that you that
Speaker 4: you see that she needs to work on, you know,
Speaker 4: individually before a couple don't get in trouble.
Speaker 6: Nothing.
Speaker 1: No, she's working on She's working on everything. I mean
Speaker 1: we both are like and I ain't gonna put her
Speaker 1: personal stuff because we do really talk about it, but
Speaker 1: she's working on it. Like that's why she goes out
Speaker 1: there like Danella is so it is crazy. It's really
Speaker 1: the stuff she's working on is all it's going to
Speaker 1: do is make her even great her and like for me,
Speaker 1: I see her and that's one of the things like
Speaker 1: sometimes when I kind of get on her about things,
Speaker 1: it's because I see I can see the great dis
Speaker 1: in her, you know what I'm saying, And like when
Speaker 1: somebody really see like I mean, honestly, I tell her
Speaker 1: this all the time. I stopped drinking because I had
Speaker 1: the right woman. It was something I wanted to do
Speaker 1: for a long time but I couldn't. I don't know. Whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever I needed, she was able to provide for me.
Speaker 1: And it was from this, like I know you want
Speaker 1: to get better, and I'm not gonna even like poke
Speaker 1: at you about it. I'm gonna just cover you and
Speaker 1: pray for you, and man, I'm gonna be there for
Speaker 1: you and I'm gonna let you know I'm proud of
Speaker 1: you when you're doing And that's what she did. And
Speaker 1: I literally just told her that, like it's like one
Speaker 1: of our weird emotional crime because that's where I'm at too,
Speaker 1: like the tears come down there, like like some days
Speaker 1: I wake up and I just be like, I like
Speaker 1: can't believe. I'm like, you saved me, Like she literally
Speaker 1: to me, saved my life. Yeah, well I got to go.
Speaker 5: You got to go. But what got you to a
Speaker 5: place of worthy?
Speaker 1: Mm oh that's a good question. Wow, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's that at first I didn't feel like it because
Speaker 1: you know, you go through. It's so funny that happened
Speaker 1: with the fires too a little bit, where like I
Speaker 1: kind of felt guilty that I placed it catch fire
Speaker 1: in a weird way because I felt bad for everybody,
Speaker 1: like people lost everything. I'm like, dang, why do I
Speaker 1: feel guilty about being kind of blessed in a way
Speaker 1: because it didn't happen to me. But it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It was, like, you know, when I felt when I
Speaker 1: felt worthy for real, Charlotte Mane, it was really here
Speaker 1: we yo. It was one of the therapy sessions, right,
Speaker 1: And I remember my therapist was I was trying to
Speaker 1: explain to I don't know what I was saying to
Speaker 1: maybe acting like I didn't deserve some of the stuff.
Speaker 1: I couldn't understand why. And that's when we started doing
Speaker 1: that exercise to talk to little me, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like, yo to the kid who had the dream,
Speaker 1: who was on the West side of Chicago watching the
Speaker 1: TV right like, dang, I wish I could, Like it
Speaker 1: didn't seem realistic. Like even when we say Hollywood from
Speaker 1: where I live, I'm like, what is that a real place?
Speaker 1: It felt like os But then like she was like,
Speaker 1: talk to little you, because you actually did it. And
Speaker 1: so that's when I had that moment like oh shit,
Speaker 1: I went back and told little me, like, dude, we
Speaker 1: made it. We made it in that movie theater where
Speaker 1: like you, you would sit there for hours and watch
Speaker 1: back to bad movies, cause it was just taking you,
Speaker 1: you know, away from whatever you you made it inside
Speaker 1: the TV like you and the thing you're You're part
Speaker 1: of this beautiful, great up dream you had and you
Speaker 1: worthy of it, like you earned it fan, and I
Speaker 1: was like, damn. And that's really when I felt worthy.
Speaker 1: And that's why, like I love that, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the biggest compliments I do get more than anything.
Speaker 1: It's like, dude, you just seem happy and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so comfortable and just even though not just being real,
Speaker 1: Like even my relationship with God is on the whole
Speaker 1: other level, you know what I'm saying, Like, it's just
Speaker 1: the conversations I have with God now, be so honest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so like lately, I'll say it again, like this's
Speaker 1: probably been the most emotional I've ever been in my life.
Speaker 1: I just wake up sometimes with a new praise every
Speaker 1: single day, and I'm loving what I do more now,
Speaker 1: even just like you know, promoting dog Man and I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm in this animated movie that's one of those big movies,
Speaker 1: and I get a chance for a book that the
Speaker 1: voice has never existed and the first time a kid
Speaker 1: hears Chief talk, it's me. That's so cool. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm literally enjoying every aspect of this now more than
Speaker 1: I ever have.
Speaker 5: Gratitude.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wake that ass up Earth in the morning.
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