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Speaker 1: I had the right. If I would have did the

427
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: movie I wanted with the Honeymooners, I would have had

428
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,160
Speaker 1: nine of them by now. When I let somebody else

429
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:56,480
Speaker 1: kind of ConTroll it because I wanted to get the money,

430
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 1: that's a lesson you learned, Like because I took the money,

431
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: and then the movie was just I and it came

432
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: out and it was just I and it went away

433
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: and that was it. We never did the sequel. We

434
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,440
Speaker 1: didn't get to go and do like Fast and Furious.

435
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 1: I gotta be on Honeymoon of nine by nothing, I'm over. Okay,

436
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: Well I'm not gonn saying I'm over to Fast and Curious.

437
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:23,400
Speaker 1: Get that check, Get that check. I will say two lessons, yeah,

438
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,399
Speaker 1: like y'all your money. I will say two things that

439
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:27,400
Speaker 1: I think I just took away from that. For personally,

440
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: sometimes the money it's not worth the money. Sometimes you

441
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 1: don't know that though until you experience, right, we don't

442
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 1: know that. It's hard to walk away. I don't know

443
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: anybody's gonna say, let me not get his bag. People,

444
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,760
Speaker 1: it's a tough one. You've got the best deal is

445
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,719
Speaker 1: the one that's on the table though. That's you know

446
00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 1: when people try to tell you what you can and

447
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: you shouldn't do. Of course, as matters of you know, principle,

448
00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 1: like if you got hardcore principal, and like if it

449
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,760
Speaker 1: was something that like they was asking me to wear

450
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 1: black face or something like that, then you know, like, now,

451
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,320
Speaker 1: but you want me to raise a dog, Okay, I'm

452
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: gonna do the dog race and shall I. I don't

453
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,679
Speaker 1: believe this the one, but that's what y'are paying for

454
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: I And you know, in in into a degree, it

455
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,040
Speaker 1: was a great experience that allowed me to live out

456
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: the country for the first time. We shot the movie

457
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: in Ireland. You know, I was able to read my

458
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: family over there and bring my fins. You know, we lived,

459
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,119
Speaker 1: I got a house. It was different. You know. He

460
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 1: was like, well, that life experience was worth it, even

461
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 1: though I didn't get the outcome I wanted. And there's

462
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,399
Speaker 1: always still more, I said, like you like, there's just

463
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,280
Speaker 1: there's so many. There's third and fourtant fifth acts for you.

464
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: Talent never, in my opinion, true talent never ever finds

465
00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,200
Speaker 1: stuff on the show when they have already shown their

466
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:50,680
Speaker 1: their worth. Um, that's always a tough decision because you know,

467
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 1: when I ever was like what do you do? Wh Yeah,

468
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,920
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I would that we that would

469
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: definitely apply to you in my opinion right the way,

470
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 1: because ruff Away, you're such you're such a superstar over

471
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: there and you know, uh, and so for you to

472
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: walk away, it was one of these things you're like, oh,

473
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: she's literally at a point where it's like she feels

474
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: like she got to make a move. And that's one

475
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: of those things that life. And and yet you know,

476
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: I still feel like you you find yourself always being relevant,

477
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: always being in the moment, and and and I'm sure

478
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 1: right now just more comfortable being exactly who you want

479
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: to be without you know, the shenanigans that come along

480
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 1: with because you know you served this purpose. I always say,

481
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: like you said you had, you had some good experiences.

482
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: Its service purposes. It made me a name, it made

483
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,240
Speaker 1: me known the people in different audiences, and it served

484
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: its purpose. It may not have been the end the

485
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:50,160
Speaker 1: game for me because it had never always it never

486
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:53,120
Speaker 1: was the end game. But then now I find myself

487
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: and you know I can say this because it's the

488
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: deal is closed. You know. So now we have a

489
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,400
Speaker 1: show on CNN, and so you have to go through

490
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 1: this journey where you look for where you want to be.

491
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: I already knew what I ultimately wanted to be. Like

492
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: I see, I saw the career sports was great, and

493
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to have the intersection. I wanted to have

494
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 1: sports and politics, and I wanted to make sure we

495
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,199
Speaker 1: could talk talk Colin Kaepernick fairly or Kyrie Irving fairly,

496
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't just be on the eight Show with

497
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: stephen a right like he was the only one allowed

498
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: to talk about to talk about it. And so as

499
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: if we didn't have the skill set exactly. Hey, everybody

500
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:32,719
Speaker 1: on the other side of the break, we got more

501
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,199
Speaker 1: with Cedric the entertainer. Do not go away, you know

502
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,400
Speaker 1: how I do. I need to pay these bills Chappian

503
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Speaker 1: and care Every CHAPPI has to be a champion, a

504
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: champion and carry Chappion and carry Chapian a Chappion and

505
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: carry Chappion and carry chappiraids and sports and then the

506
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Speaker 1: tam making make it work. Every Chappion and carry champion

507
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: is to be a Champian, a champion. They carry Chappi

508
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: and they champion, they carry Chappion and carry chappies and

509
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Speaker 1: sports and then the welcome back Cyric the entertainer has

510
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: not left. He's still here. I'm still giggling and keep

511
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: king just me. He's just giving me facts um and

512
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: a lesson. But when we talk about skill set and

513
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: what you've been able to do, I think kinds was

514
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,719
Speaker 1: amazing because now I see you as someone who can

515
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: do it all. Like you just hosted the Emmys and

516
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: I thought that was stus. It had to be nerves racking.

517
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 1: You were stupendous. Thank you so much. Yeah, it turned

518
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: out really great, And it was one of those moments

519
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: because you get you get an opportunity like that and

520
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 1: it is this this it's probably you know, more than anything,

521
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you realize that failure

522
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:49,479
Speaker 1: could be catastrophic, right, So that's what goes in because

523
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: it's not like any other kind of like miss you recognize,

524
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,479
Speaker 1: like everybody gonna be for the most part, watching is

525
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: if you if you if you blow it, it's catastrophic, right,

526
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: And no pressure, right, so none at all, and then

527
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: you know you gotta go out there and make it pop.

528
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 1: But you know, I was. I was surrounded by a

529
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: great team, you know, cool producers, people that I knew,

530
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: Reggie huddling and buying, people that I've done things with before.

531
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: Then I put my writing team together and we just

532
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: like just kept growing the idea why I was having

533
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: a good time and and not. And then you know,

534
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm inside myself now too, like I'm a

535
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,199
Speaker 1: I'm a grown ass man. I'm not. Yeah, I'm not

536
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: literally getting ready to be handled. So at this point,

537
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: like I'm doing this show the way I want to

538
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: do it, and you know, everybody trusted me, and that

539
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: was good. So that's what I really loved about the experience.

540
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: You know, when you brought to that, you know what

541
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 1: you brought to that, when you just talked about how

542
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: you said how Robin Harris influenced you, how you want

543
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: to tell those comfortable jokes, how you want to be that.

544
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: I was so comfortable watching I loved it. I watched

545
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: it for the entertainment, how you sometimes we watch for entertainment.

546
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,800
Speaker 1: I don't need you to be a way and make

547
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: these points, and it's not all the time, because there's

548
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: a way. I was interesting. You were great. You gotta

549
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: have you know, because that's the other thing, Like everybody

550
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: know those shows are known for the cutting edge, cutting

551
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: edge jokes and the kind of the sharp quips and

552
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: people and you know, everybody was like, who you gonna get,

553
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, that's a that's something

554
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: that's oh, that's not what I do. I do celebration.

555
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: I do family reunion. I'm I'm here for the party,

556
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, mere for the like let's turn up, let's

557
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: love each other, let's have a good time. And that's

558
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: what I mean. That's how I That's how I deliver

559
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: a comedy. That's how I feel, That's how I walk

560
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: around every day. I'm not really here to shoot at people,

561
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: like I don't really care, you know, if you you know,

562
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: whatever happened in your life, I'm not here to highlight

563
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: that and be like, oh, everybody, let me get this

564
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: joke off on you because you just had this epic

565
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: failure and I think this is funny. What was the feedback,

566
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: the honest feedback you have positively back, but the feedback

567
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: that really stuff. Uh, you know, the feedback was everything.

568
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, Yo, that was just a really enjoyable night.

569
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: I had a great time. You show it flowed, it

570
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: was fast, it was you know, it was entertaining, and

571
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, people loved it. They that you know, you know,

572
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: they was like, can you host next year. I'm like,

573
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm not. It's not on you know, it's it's not

574
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: up to me. But yeah, I'm definitely, Yeah, you gotta

575
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: come back. Did you know that you were a dancing

576
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: machine at a young age or was it when you

577
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: start doing comedy, because you always dance with your comedy

578
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: And then he was there, I was like, yeah, yeah,

579
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: I mean you just got a natural thing to you

580
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: that you can ask. Yeah. Yeah, that was like that's

581
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: a little family thing. Like I used to dance when

582
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: I was young, and I remember I used to want

583
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: to go to one of those performing art schools because

584
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 1: I could dance and I could sing, and I would

585
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,040
Speaker 1: want to be in plays and you know, I I

586
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: could play sports, but I would never really cared about

587
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: it because I guess because I had you know, my

588
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: mom was my primary person. So I was more like

589
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,800
Speaker 1: into like the arts and so and so. I remember

590
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: I used to want to go to like a performing

591
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: arts high school and it was way on the other

592
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,800
Speaker 1: side of the town, and you know, I would had

593
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: to take the bus. My mom was like, nah, you're

594
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: just gonna have to go to regular schools. So uh so,

595
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: but I always had that dancing, that kind of that

596
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,479
Speaker 1: that dance and this usual how I used to get

597
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: into clubs too, Like back when when the clubs started popping,

598
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: like the bigger nightclubs, they would let dancers come in

599
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: for free, so that the party would always look like

600
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: it's a party. So if you were a dancer, they

601
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,239
Speaker 1: would bring you in on the side and you you know,

602
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: so whenever the DJ was rocking, as opposed to people

603
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: sitting sitting around being cued with wildflowers, they had a

604
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: group of people that was always in a way on

605
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 1: the dance floor so that you can make the dance

606
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: with a pop. And I found out he was letting

607
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: the dances in free, so I would like used to

608
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: go and be a dancer. So that's how I started

609
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: going to the clubs. When was this, heck, no, when

610
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: was this? Who knows? When this? This is? This? This

611
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: was like in the early nineties when you know, like

612
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: the kind of the bigger clubs started to pop off,

613
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: and this was like that move where you you use

614
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: that right, was that here in l A Louis Louis,

615
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: because I was about to say, Um, I want to

616
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 1: talk to you about that, because well, first of all,

617
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: I knew you could get You do it like you're

618
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: having fun, but you could tell you got rhythm and

619
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 1: beat and it's in your light on your feet. I

620
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: know this sounds crazy, the observations that I've made, but

621
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: I pay attention to everything, and I'm like, oh, you

622
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: can dance, Okay, I see you move with it. Then okay,

623
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: I got I can't. So I have to ask you

624
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: about a couple of things you have done so much.

625
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: I'm looking over the body of work. We got five

626
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: pages of what you have been doing in UM who

627
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: wants to be a millionaire? You've done that like you're hosting.

628
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: You know you do that effortlessly. You Um, you have

629
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: so many TV shows. Dam cc you look. I mean,

630
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: good grief. You never not work and you have the

631
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: neighborhood which a friend of mine was working on as

632
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: a writer a long time ago. Um, you have a wine.

633
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: You listen, proud family, louder and prouder. I'm going down

634
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: the list, guys. If you if you're listening, he's never

635
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: not working. Do you get tired. Really, I mean, I actually,

636
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: I actually I actually love it. Like if ever, I

637
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: have like moments where I'm not doing anything, I get

638
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 1: pretty restless fast. Like of course, like anybody you will

639
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: have like that schedule or is just going going going

640
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: like a right cool, let me decompressed for a week

641
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: or whatever. Two weeks and then you know, you settled

642
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: down and then it's like, all right, I gotta I

643
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 1: gotta be busy, man. I mean, depend ademic was one

644
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: of the weirdest times for me because you know, since

645
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: I started this, I traveled every weekend doing shows. I

646
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: have a TV show, I'll leave on Friday, go do

647
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: a live show Saturday, do another live show in a

648
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,919
Speaker 1: different city, fly home Sunday, go to work Monday. Loved it, right,

649
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know you have like maybe

650
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: one week off where you just kind of like do

651
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: the whole family johnts and make sure the kids know

652
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm like daddy, you know, like, okay, you are a

653
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: person that we should know, like yes, your father. Yeah, yeah,

654
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,759
Speaker 1: like I know y'all see me like going in and

655
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: out of here, but yeah, I actually live here and

656
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: care about your well being. So one thing I hear

657
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: about comedians a lot is that you all love that

658
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: lifestyle being on the road, but it's also a grind

659
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: and it's physically and mentally hiring. Is it true? Is

660
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: that true? You know, yeah, it's it's a combination, and

661
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: it's definitely you know, it's an addiction to a degree,

662
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: like you know, we're we definitely have to have it

663
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: like that, that that that that vein where you with

664
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: a live audience, you with people that's not Hollywood folks.

665
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: You know you you in Charlotte's, you know you in Burminham,

666
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: you with the folks you know, and so and it's

667
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: a vibration to that that gives you life, you know.

668
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,839
Speaker 1: And at the same time, you know, you know, you

669
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,279
Speaker 1: can't really get the Burminham without connecting through Atlanta, so

670
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 1: you gotta be on a connecting flight. And now those

671
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: things start to be hard, right you start to be like, man,

672
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: you know, you know, you gotta everybody, you gotta can't

673
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: be Kevin Hart. If we just if we could just

674
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,439
Speaker 1: g five it around here everywhere and be all right,

675
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: I think I think maybe every now and again you

676
00:35:53,040 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: could do that. I appreciate very select if I pull

677
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 1: it out but um, have you ever as a comedian

678
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: battled with depression? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know again it is.

679
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: It is a thing like I had a you know,

680
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: like a low period like where things were like going

681
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: on the super up trajectory, had a couple of things

682
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: that didn't work, a couple of things drop out. You

683
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: started to take it personal. You you you, you get

684
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: a little embittered by you know, the business the world,

685
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 1: and so therefore there is this kind of you know,

686
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, this sucking of your spirit, if you will,

687
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: like you kind of like you're not yourself. And so yeah,

688
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: that is that is a space where I felt like,

689
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely was. It was not me. I

690
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: never Luckily, I didn't have any you know, kind of

691
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: a personality where I just was you know, a drinker

692
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: or you know, drug dude or anything like that. I

693
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: just was the one that I just you know, it

694
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: was quiet, It didn't really care, you know, a little

695
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 1: more argumentative about things, you know, and you know, couldn't

696
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: take a compliment, you know, you know, like I just

697
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,600
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it, so you know, and then

698
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: you and then you know, you you you you know. Luckily,

699
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: for me, it was a short lived period, and I

700
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: was I was blessed to you know that, like not

701
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: have a great, great family, great wife that held me down.

702
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: That was like y'all, you know, and then you you know,

703
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: you find your life and then you just start to

704
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,320
Speaker 1: trust that even more so. So now you know, the

705
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,800
Speaker 1: highs and lows don't really take me there of this business.

706
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: I just gotta, you know, keep keep generating and keep

707
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: trying to be fresh. You said something really wise there

708
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: the highs and lows every business, my business, every business,

709
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: if I worked to McDonald's, there are highs and lows, right,

710
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: and you always have to be you always have to

711
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: stay even you have to stay in the middle because

712
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: that can't determine how you feel about who you are.

713
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 1: But everyone that happens that easier said than done, like

714
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: saying everyone can do. Um, I just find that I

715
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: hear you. I hear that your business in particular is

716
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: tougher on the spirit because of what you said earlier,

717
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 1: like you always got to have a new joke. You

718
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: can't be Bobby Brown as they sing with me, right yeah,

719
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: and and that that challenges you in a way that

720
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: you know that if you know you you can actually

721
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: be intimidated by it. I always feel like there's certain

722
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,120
Speaker 1: comedians that are big time stars and you'll go like,

723
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: well they ever do stand up again? Or why they

724
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: start doing stand up? You know, because you can reach

725
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: certain heights and then you feel like you can't do it.

726
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: You feel like you judge yourself from from the level

727
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: of what world is going, you know, like like you know,

728
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: everybody guy here are guy. But Chappelle literally is on

729
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: some magical stuff as a comedian right now. Like he's

730
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: so magical that you start to doubt that you could

731
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: do it, Like and it's a weird thing, like you know,

732
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: and that would be the least thing that he would

733
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: want from you. Like if Chappel else see you, he

734
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: gonna want you to be you. He loved comedy. But

735
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, because you're watching him be so like just

736
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: just like you know Jordan's you know, like he just

737
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: Jordan right now, You're like, yo, like I need to

738
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: step my game up, and I don't know if I

739
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: can go out there and be that honest stuff. I

740
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: don't know, And you know, and it's weird. It's a

741
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: weird thing that happens to comedians until you get on

742
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: stage and then you just go and then yourself. Will

743
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: you mentioned him. I wasn't even thinking about that guy.

744
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought him up. You excuse me. He

745
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: walks away from all of that money at the time,

746
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: of what seemed to be a lot of money at

747
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: the time. And I remember listening to other comedians that

748
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: you and I both know saying things about he should

749
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: have got his mind right. My family would pull me

750
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: aside and said this that third and I don't know

751
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: what he did. And and it takes such an incredible

752
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: intestinal fortitude to walk away one from the money, because

753
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: you and I talked about that. But he has come

754
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: back more unapologetic, more honest, and like you said, but

755
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: the comedy is is so enlightening, whether you get it,

756
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: whether it's offensive, whether you I almost felt like, especially

757
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: this last special in the Closer, I felt like he

758
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: was like taking the l for all comedians, like can't

759
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: we we can't say anything anymore. I'm gonna say everything

760
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: because we should be allowed. There is this rule that

761
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: this is what we do. Don't take this away from

762
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: what we do. That's how it came across to me. Yeah, No,

763
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: it was that, And you know it was it was

764
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: so prolific in the way he did it. And again,

765
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: like I said, people you know wanted to be offended.

766
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: But you know, my biggest thing when people would ask

767
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: me about that, it was like he was telling the

768
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,959
Speaker 1: personal story. So no matter what are you talking about,

769
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: you trying to group You're trying to group a group

770
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: of people in on somebody's personal story and act like

771
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: they're saying something negative. Not when I'm talking about something

772
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: that personally happened. It's a personal story. So you know

773
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: what what you do and now is trying to cancel

774
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: me over some nonsense because you didn't. You didn't, you're

775
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,839
Speaker 1: not even talking about what I'm talking about. So um,

776
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: I really thought that there was brilliant in the sense

777
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: that it did allow people to talk about subject matter

778
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: that comes out of your point of view, right, And

779
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: so you know, like you said, you know, one wants

780
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 1: to be intentionally offensive and you wanna, you know, hurt

781
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: people's feelings. I mean there's certain comedians that's like that,

782
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: like they don't really give a damn, but but intentional

783
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: that ain't the intent when you're trying to make people laugh,

784
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: when you're trying to make a group of people laugh,

785
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 1: so you know you usually you're just trying to speak

786
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: something that you feel like can resonate, and therefore it

787
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: caused us thought. It causes laughter, even if you disagree

788
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: with it, you're like, yo, that's why. And then you

789
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: know that's enough reaction that anybody can happen life that

790
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 1: helps them, you know, move on. Now you got opinion,

791
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: and at least you know you got one. Yeah, yeah,

792
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: I I admire it because I think what he's doing,

793
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: not only like you said, gets you motivated, but it

794
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: gets people motivated to Saturday truth. They still tell their

795
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: personal experience. It will be so much better. People was

796
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: more truthful right now, right right, correct, It would be

797
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: better for everybody who's naked emotionally. Yeah, oh that's what

798
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: the show is. I was waiting for you to do.

799
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: We both gonna take our shirts off right now. Are

800
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:37,320
Speaker 1: you ready? You say you're ready on account of three? Okay?

801
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: Bad bad? I truly and I'm not and I'm not

802
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: just saying this. I enjoy you, and you know that

803
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: I have been the biggest fan. You make me smile

804
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 1: and you make me feel better when I'm around you.

805
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: That is an incredible talent that you have. Please never

806
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: take it for credit, because everyone feels that way about you,

807
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: like they just want to smile. You may not understand

808
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: that while it's happening, but you make people happy that Now.

809
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I knew you in that way,

810
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: but being around you and you talk and watching the comedy,

811
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: I'm just immediately, even if I don't even think it's

812
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: funny yet, I'm just like, Okay, that's the effect you

813
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: have on people. And I'm sure you've heard that before,

814
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be smiling even more with this wine.

815
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: About this wine we got coming out before I let you. Yeah,

816
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: oh yes that a uh, yeah I did. My mother's

817
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: name was Rosetta and so uh she you know, she

818
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: passed a few years ago, but she just was my

819
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: greatest inspiration. Uh. Mostly the fundraising and everything I do

820
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: is like really dedicated to her. So I got a

821
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: hospital in St. Louis, a women's pavilion with her name

822
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: on it. We got an educational center inside the house

823
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: with her name on it. Um uh and then um

824
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: so we had this opportunity to do something for literacy.

825
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: She was a reading specialist and loved to teach people

826
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: to read. Kids adults, anybody. And so I had an

827
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: opportunity to do this wine, and so I decided to

828
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: create the wine and then donate a portion of the

829
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: proceeds to her Red Rose Reds Foundations. So that's what

830
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: we're doing with it. And so it's a beautiful Napa

831
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: Valley blend. Uh. You know, we get mainly cabernet, but

832
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: it's a merlough with a sad and it's a beautiful wine.

833
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: It's I took my time, like you know, cultivating it,

834
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: going back and forth to Napa, having us in in

835
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 1: a great vendor of Uh. Smith and Devereaux they do

836
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: a number of ones, uh several wines in the marketplace

837
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: and then so we're partnered with them, and uh it's great.

838
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: It's coming out on our birthday on January four. I'm

839
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: doing I'm doing a few giveaways. I'm giving away some

840
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving, it for Christmas so people can have it

841
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: and celebrate with their families and uh so but yeah,

842
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: you can go to Smith and Devereaux and log on.

843
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: People can get can you know, be a get line

844
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: up and get the early to get the early bottles

845
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: right now. So if you go to Smith and Debeaux

846
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: dot com. You can then go to Zetta and then

847
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: uh be in line to grab. So if you if

848
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: you rock with your boy, I rock with your boy.

849
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,280
Speaker 1: I rock with you like that. No COVID the clearing

850
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: of the throw. You can't clear your throat in America,

851
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: America nothing. Um. I will get some of that. I

852
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,439
Speaker 1: promise I will to support you. And just basically because

853
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: I like wine, like to drink um. But I had

854
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: something else I wanted to ask you. Did you did

855
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: you step on the grapes, because if you didn't step

856
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,479
Speaker 1: on the grapes, I don't want it. Yeah, I did,

857
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: not the ones that you'll be getting, but I did

858
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,360
Speaker 1: the early ones, yeah, because that was you know, that

859
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: was a part of the thing. I actually was there,

860
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: you know, like you know, because the grapes are from

861
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: eighteen so you know, you you but you you're there

862
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: when they like kind of pulling them. You go through

863
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 1: the barrels, you do the smell and you do the

864
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: test thing. You see what the acidic thing, you know,

865
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: all the you know kind of acaid that they you

866
00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: know what you're looking for. And uh so yeah, I

867
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: was very involved in that. But you know, yeah, they

868
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: don't really step on great anymore. Okay, we did the

869
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: traditional traditional one because I used to watch I Love Lucy.

870
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: She remember when she was the episode she stepped on

871
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: a great Okay, but you're here to hear some allies.

872
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: The city needs this and the acids and the well

873
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 1: I learned. I learned all this stuff about making the wine.

874
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't know that stuff too. I'm

875
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: like most people. I'm like popular bottle. Yeah, it was

876
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: good because you're nice. It's good right here, um Cedric

877
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: the entertainer, constantly entertaining and just just to all around

878
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: great human being. I'm such an honor to know you,

879
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: and thank you for coming on naked. I appreciate it.

880
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: Oh indeed a pleasure, man. I know we've been trying

881
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,280
Speaker 1: to do this. It's great you're doing your think. Congratulations

882
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: on your new deal. I'd say the same thing. And

883
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 1: you carry whatever you know. I see you as always

884
00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 1: a pleasant, pleasant energy. You know you you are like

885
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: what I believe you to be on television, Like you

886
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: have a great fun personality with great energy and uh,

887
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: you know, just dynamic. And then we know we've had

888
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: really cool in encounters where we just get to be

889
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 1: together and laugh for a minute, and you know it's

890
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: been to be ourselves exactly. Talk talk, talk to talk.

891
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: What you gotta catch up and do. I would love

892
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: to do that soon. You can invite me to the

893
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: house for a party. I know you'd be having a

894
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on and no advice. I'd be

895
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,720
Speaker 1: seeing you and Chris Spencer the golf course and y'all

896
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: hanging out with Michael Jordan's and nobody invites carry. Yeah, yeah,

897
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta make sure you plugged in. I'm

898
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: having the last time, you know, because I did invite

899
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: you to something, he was like, I'm be gone. I

900
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I don't remember that. Well, remember

901
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: we saw each other. Okay, remember we saw each other

902
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,720
Speaker 1: in uh was it Greery? Oh yeah, yeah that was great.

903
00:47:56,360 --> 00:48:01,399
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah that was before that was okay. I'm coming

904
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: to all things. When I said I'm not living in town,

905
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: don't don't tell you personally. I'm coming to all things

906
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,439
Speaker 1: because I'm not about to be left out. I'm about

907
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: to be on this next ride where we having the

908
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 1: wine and we're having a good time. That's what we're

909
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: about to do. I'm coming to all things please thank you.

910
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: So Cedric, as mentioned, has a lot going on, and

911
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: I support all of it. I will say this year, though,

912
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: and and and host get such a bad rap for

913
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: award shows. I thought he really did an amazing job

914
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: at the Emmy's and I know he prepped for that

915
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 1: for a very long time. And the energy that he brought,

916
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,960
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is who he is. Some people say

917
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: they didn't like the show, not because et Cedric. It

918
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: was just because, you know, certain people didn't win, because

919
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: because cause no gang banging here. But Cedric really was

920
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: able to bring a very authentic energy that made me laugh, wholesome,

921
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: you know what I means, after school special but still adult.

922
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's such a two, but there

923
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 1: is in that spirit. That's what he was able to

924
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,959
Speaker 1: give me. Um And I think it's really important that

925
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: we support all of our comedians because their observations really

926
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: are smart and intuitive, and they make us think, they

927
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: make us say, they make us laugh obviously, and it's

928
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,959
Speaker 1: not an easy job. I don't think that people even

929
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: get it. We go to a comedy show and be like,

930
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: make me laugh. If you don't, show is over. And

931
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: no matter what they they perform, you know they have to,

932
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 1: and Cedric, to me, is one of those good guys.

933
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: I'm rooting for him. He's already made it, he's already

934
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: a success, um, and I was just so grateful that

935
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: he came to my podcast. You guys have to realize,

936
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 1: when I get to interview people that I loved or

937
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: admired or thought were hilarious, I get excited, just like

938
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,839
Speaker 1: I'm excited to listen to y'all. See y'all next week.