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Speaker 1: Hey everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome to Work in Progress. Hey friends,

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Speaker 1: we are back on Work in Progress with perhaps the

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Speaker 1: best guest ever.

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Speaker 2: The iconic Leslie Jones.

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Speaker 1: It's so interesting to me because you know college contest

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Speaker 1: and you won, and of course that tells you something,

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Speaker 1: and like, we all know how hard this industry is.

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Speaker 1: Comedy careers are tough to travel, trying to get time,

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Speaker 1: trying to get up on stage. You hear about the

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Speaker 1: setbacks and then like Chris.

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Speaker 2: Rock helped you get into the SNL.

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Speaker 3: Or a bit like how well, how did you go

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Speaker 3: from college to the hei?

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Speaker 4: Fernanda, Fernanda, bring me that article I had the article.

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Speaker 4: They wrote an article on me when I did the contest.

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Speaker 4: Kelly Clarkston found it. The thing with Chris Rock was

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Speaker 4: it was so weird because every time I would see him,

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Speaker 4: I was like, you know how funny I am. The

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Speaker 4: only way I'm gonna make it is if you help

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Speaker 4: me make it like you helped me make it. Like

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Speaker 4: it's gonna have to be a guy. I hate, Hey,

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Speaker 4: that article that's right there in my office, the article

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Speaker 4: that Kelly Clarkson got me.

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Speaker 5: It's right there in the office. I think it's in

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Speaker 5: a frame anyway, And I'm like Chris. Every time I

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Speaker 5: woul see him, I'd be like Chris.

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Speaker 4: I mean I would literally run out to his car

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Speaker 4: with him and be like Chris, Chris, what the fuck?

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Speaker 4: And I remember him saying you're not ready. Now he

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Speaker 4: tells the story saying they not ready, And I was like, nah, motherfucker,

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Speaker 4: you used to say it to me. I was like,

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Speaker 4: how are you talking about I'm not ready? How are

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Speaker 4: you talking about I'm not ready? I am ready? Yes,

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Speaker 4: this is so crazy. So this is the article.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, that they wrote.

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Speaker 4: Now. Wow. You know what kills me is that when

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Speaker 4: they when they interviewed me, I said, I think a

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Speaker 4: good comedian this is this is me at nineteen. I

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Speaker 4: think a good comedian should be able to relate to

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Speaker 4: the audience and talk about things in a natural way.

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Speaker 2: Is that person?

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Speaker 5: Who the fuck is that person? And where did I.

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Speaker 4: You know, come? And and the jokes I had literally

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Speaker 4: would work.

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Speaker 5: Now. I told a joke about my mom wanted me

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Speaker 5: to be famous. She wanted me.

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Speaker 4: She wanted me to be famous so bad that she

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Speaker 4: would leave me in the grocery store so then they

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Speaker 4: would put me on the back of a milk carton

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Speaker 4: you remember when they.

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Speaker 6: Used to put the mistic kids on the milk I

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Speaker 6: did somebody say, have you seen me?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, have you seen me? Have you seen this little girl?

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Speaker 5: And she said that.

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Speaker 4: I said that when somebody go, girl, I saw your

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Speaker 5: Be like, she's moving up.

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Speaker 4: That was literally my first joke, and I I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 4: so I know what it's supposed to be about, right,

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Speaker 4: I know what comedy and I'm thinking jokes. Then I

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Speaker 4: go back, I leave college, I go back to LA

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Speaker 4: to start trying to do comedy, and I'm not doing

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Speaker 4: good because I'm not understanding that comedy is jokes, yes,

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Speaker 4: but comedy is also what you said, the natural way,

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Speaker 4: it's it's don't talk about shit that don't have nothing

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Speaker 5: So that's why I saw.

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Speaker 4: I opened up for Jamie Fox did terrible, And the

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Speaker 4: story is that I got my friend to you know,

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Speaker 4: you know, like you're gonna have to take one for

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Speaker 4: the team, like you know. I superend that the guy

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Speaker 4: who was best friends for Jamie like he liked her,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, you have to take one for

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Speaker 4: the team. Because because I need to, I need to,

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Speaker 4: you know, talk to Jamie. So talk to Jamie is

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Speaker 4: that if we can hang out with them. So she did.

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Speaker 4: She took one for the team and I and Jamie

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Speaker 4: told me exactly what I need to hear. He said,

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Speaker 4: He was like, I know you think you have stuff

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Speaker 4: fucking uncle and and Bill Cardon. That shit don't even

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Speaker 4: sound real. He was like, and even if it was funny,

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Speaker 4: you're not You're not experienced enough to tell the joke.

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Speaker 4: He was like, go out and have a life. Go

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Speaker 4: live your life, Go get your heartbroken, go break some hearts,

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Speaker 4: go get jobs, go get fired, go have a life

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Speaker 4: to come back. And I was I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's exactly what I did.

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Speaker 2: Advice.

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Speaker 4: It was absolutely great advice. And just like you said,

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Speaker 4: it found me in the first place, it found me

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Speaker 4: again after that. In ninety three, I got into an

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Speaker 4: argument with the girl, the girl that we were living together,

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Speaker 4: and we got into this argument and she was like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: and you always talking about you want to be a

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Speaker 4: just like, I went upstairs and I called the Comedy

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Speaker 4: act Theater Michael Williams, and and he just so happened

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Speaker 4: of the club, and I said, hey, how do you

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Speaker 4: How do you do comedy? If I wanted to be

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Speaker 4: a comedian, Like what would I do? Like how would

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Speaker 4: I get time? And how would I do that? And

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Speaker 4: he was like are you funny? And I was like, man,

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Speaker 4: I really do think I am, but I just don't know.

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Speaker 4: I've never really been up. He was like, all right,

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Speaker 4: come down seven thirty. Wow.

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Speaker 5: I was there at.

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Speaker 4: Seven o'clock sitting in the in the in the parking lot,

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Speaker 4: trying to talk myself out of doing it.

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Speaker 5: I was like, what the fuck are you doing here? Wow? Like,

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Speaker 4: This is I don't know if this is going to

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Speaker 4: work out like it And I was just so petrified.

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Speaker 4: And I remember going inside and there was three comedians there.

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Speaker 4: And this is my first lesson in comedy is they

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Speaker 5: And I was like, oh, I got about this this

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Speaker 5: and then they was like somebody else already got those jokes.

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Speaker 5: And then It was the.

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Speaker 4: First lesson that, and it was always something because what

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Speaker 4: people didn't understand is I came from the hood, like

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Speaker 4: I came from like crackheads, crack dealers, you know. I

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Speaker 4: be smart anyway. So like it's like taking the street

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Speaker 4: to the street knowledge that I have told me. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they trying to fuck with me. But why are you

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Speaker 4: talking to me? Why if I'm not nothing, then why

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Speaker 4: you're talking to me? You must be nothing too, because

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Speaker 4: you here at seven o'clock. Because if you was something,

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Speaker 4: when you be here when the club.

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Speaker 2: Is you know, yeah, wouldn't you be here at ten?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I wasn't stupid, right, So I was like, all right, whatever,

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Speaker 4: And I remember performing that night and I didn't.

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Speaker 5: Get booed, and it was people were laughing.

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Speaker 4: So when I came off stage, the manager, not the

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Speaker 4: manager I talked to, but the manager that runs the

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Speaker 4: room sharing who today I really feel like every club

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Speaker 4: needs to shareing. She was, she was a gatekeeper. She's

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Speaker 4: the one to go, don't come back to my club

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Speaker 4: unless you're funny, Like, don't come back here. But she

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Speaker 4: came up to me, she said, oh, you got potential.

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Speaker 4: You got a lot of it. She was like, keep

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Speaker 4: writing and keep coming back, keep coming back time for you.

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Speaker 4: So I was like great, and I started getting better

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Speaker 4: and better. And at three months I won a contest.

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Speaker 4: I beat like veterans. I beat veterans. So you know,

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Speaker 4: at three months you're thinking, you know, you're a little cocky,

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Speaker 4: and you're like, oh shit, I must be. This is

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Speaker 4: what you know, Hey, this is how I did it.

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Speaker 4: I bet you rich why I did like this, and

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Speaker 4: it's just lessons you got to learn. I remember meeting

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Speaker 4: David Schapelle and at that time too, I was, well,

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Speaker 4: I was a hot bitch. Oh I was hot.

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Speaker 5: I was.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying I'm not hot now, but

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Speaker 4: I'm saying I'm a different type of hot. I was

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Speaker 4: my god, Like I said, I'm so glad I came

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Speaker 4: from the street because them comedians, some of the lines

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Speaker 5: Give me in I was.

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Speaker 4: I always knew, never get high on your own supply.

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Speaker 4: It's the same thing. Never ship where you don't fuck

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Speaker 4: people you work with, right.

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Speaker 2: I already had the rule hard way.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, no, we all do.

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Speaker 4: But but I fucked this dude, uh and and I

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Speaker 5: I could have sucked the dude next door.

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Speaker 4: The same guy, so I know, you know you learn that,

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Speaker 4: but that you know the immediate Yeah, if you you

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Speaker 4: could come on the road with me, but you gotta

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Speaker 4: have sex with me, like you know you the.

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Speaker 5: Land this ship that people would say to me.

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Speaker 3: Men are so embarrassing I and I and I would

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Speaker 5: I wouldn't fuck you with my enemies. Pussy go away,

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Speaker 5: you know. I was just like, you know, and I

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Speaker 4: You're never you know what I'm saying, you have to.

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Speaker 4: It's just so many things that I was learning in

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Speaker 4: me to be like the funniest bitch? Because I really

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Speaker 4: wanted to be funny. I made a prayer to God

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Speaker 4: before I started. I said, if I'm not funny, then

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Speaker 4: if I don't want to be a comedian, if I'm funny,

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Speaker 4: i want to be it. If I'm just pretend funny,

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Speaker 4: and it's like to work into it. And he told me,

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Speaker 4: get all the shit out. He was like, first three years,

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Speaker 4: And he was like, that's that's the two or three

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Speaker 1: Like you know, right, you have to mature as a comedian,

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Speaker 1: as a storyteller.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta be. You gotta learn how to be

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Speaker 4: You gotta learn if you're gonna have a drink on stage,

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Speaker 4: if you're going to hold them, you gotta learn all

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Speaker 4: that stuff. He was like, your fourth and fifth year

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Speaker 4: is when you start kind of making money off of

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Speaker 4: your shit.

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Speaker 5: He said.

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Speaker 4: It may be a little earlier because you are funny.

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Speaker 4: He was like, but you still gotta pay dues. It's

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Speaker 4: just you just gonna pay them. You know, you got

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Speaker 4: go through Heckler's I went through all the stages of it,

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Speaker 4: for you as an entertainer or for your audience. You're

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Speaker 4: They loved me because I was their audience. Seriously, I

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Speaker 4: And that's how I play, and that's how I act,

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Speaker 2: You know, it's incredible.

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Speaker 2: You know what I think about that a lot.

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Speaker 1: Like you know, I have not been in that world yet.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm like we are at a show, like how's

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Speaker 4: Okay, he came and started performing for me at my

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Speaker 5: But by the end of that night, everybody was out.

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Speaker 2: Though everybody had the time of their life, didn't they?

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Speaker 5: Shit, I have the.

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Speaker 4: Most fun, yes, because you know you, like, I've had

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Speaker 4: You could either be fucking a bum and just be

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Speaker 5: Is be lifing and you better life life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you better give it right back. Can I

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Speaker 6: But I think about that, but I didn't at that time, Sophia.

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Speaker 2: Like, he's fucking harmless, Like he's a mosquito. Why who cares?

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Speaker 5: He's the fucking apprentice? What the fuck? Oh god.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know he was dangerous until the host mail

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Speaker 4: I said, Tarran, I think I'm supposed to kill this

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Speaker 4: and get it to go, and then whatever you need

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Speaker 4: to do. Because and I always think back to that,

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Speaker 5: And everybody was like, no, it's okay.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's okay that you didn't murder.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I also love that you'll just say it like something

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Speaker 4: You know, he fucking thinks it, and they know what

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Speaker 1: All the years that I've been a fan of your work,

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Speaker 2: Has that ever caught Stu?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Do you ever get scared? I mean, shit's cost me

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Speaker 4: like you have to Like I could be real, and

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Speaker 4: I usually am very real. But what I learned is I,

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Speaker 5: Bit just for brothers.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So sometimes I can be Sonny. But sometimes if

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Speaker 4: like you said, Blunt, what the fuck? Why is this

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Speaker 4: so Sonny can't come out. So sometimes I'm afraid of

442
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Speaker 4: very vulnerable and like okay, but I don't understand why

443
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Speaker 4: this can happen. Like okay, okay, okay, I'm just telling

444
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Speaker 4: y'all right now that this is what I that's fraid Oh,

445
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 4: Michael is the motherfucker that just patient and he says

446
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 4: what he wants and he doesn't repeat it because you

447
00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 4: heard me the first time. I don't have to repeat

448
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 4: what it is. We've worked with me before. You know

449
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,840
Speaker 4: that I don't take no bullshit. Go talk to my

450
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,320
Speaker 4: manager like he would send him to Tom, his lawyer.

451
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 4: Go talk to Tom. You don't need You don't get

452
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:30,440
Speaker 4: to talk to me unless I want to be present, right,

453
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:34,679
Speaker 4: So so that's how sometimes you have to handle the business.

454
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 4: And everybody has a Sonny. Everybody has a Michael, and

455
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Speaker 4: I love about my writer Lenny.

456
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Speaker 5: He'll go, I need you to be Michael. I need

457
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 5: you to be Michael to wow, I love that. Okay, good, okay,

458
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,000
Speaker 5: and then he'll I love it.

459
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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: The Three Boys from the Godfather and the Three Ghosts

461
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Speaker 1: of Christmas Past.

462
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Speaker 2: We really covered some shit today.

463
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Speaker 5: This is what I'm.

464
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,199
Speaker 4: Saying, so Fie, when you listen to stuff like this,

465
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 4: right and you hear this right, we as humans, we

466
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:10,679
Speaker 4: know what right and wrong is.

467
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 5: We know what right and wrong is.

468
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,719
Speaker 4: Now there's a such thing is that if you don't know,

469
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:21,240
Speaker 4: then that's we'll give you the plausible you know, deniability.

470
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,000
Speaker 4: But you do better when you know better, and stop

471
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 4: fighting your conscience. Your conscience is trying to tell you

472
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:31,440
Speaker 4: to grow, and it's okay to grow. You guys always

473
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:35,479
Speaker 4: think of things like this painful. It is suffering. Oh

474
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:40,320
Speaker 4: I'm going through No, you're growing, You're growing. Your mind

475
00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 4: doesn't want fuck shit no more. Your mind is telling

476
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 4: you I want to grow, and you keep feeding me shit.

477
00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 4: And there's a lot of us that fight that because

478
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,639
Speaker 4: a lot of us think I just want to be

479
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 4: a normal person. I just want to go to work

480
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:54,960
Speaker 4: every day. I want to pay my bills. I want

481
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 4: to come home and watch TV. I want to do no, no, no, no, no.

482
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Speaker 4: No one is normal. No one is is fucking normal.

483
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 4: No one is excluded from what it is that your

484
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 4: fucking faith and your job is, even if it's just

485
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 4: being the teacher, even if it's being a crossing guard,

486
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 4: even if it's just getting up and fucking giving people

487
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 4: compliments every day.

488
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 5: You have a job.

489
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 4: You are a specific piece of art that was made

490
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Speaker 4: by God, and you have one purpose in life, and

491
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 4: that is to be you. Stop trying to be other

492
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,479
Speaker 4: people because that you're fell in the mission.

493
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Speaker 5: Be you.

494
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Speaker 4: You are special. There's something about you, something about you

495
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Speaker 4: that you're supposed to be given to someone. And that's

496
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Speaker 4: what I always tell everybody. The only way that we're

497
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Speaker 4: gonna beat what's going on right.

498
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Speaker 5: Now, it's very obvious.

499
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Speaker 4: The only way, the only way that this gets beat

500
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 4: is that everybody has to start digging, digging deeper into themselves,

501
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,960
Speaker 4: digging deeper into themselves, because the only thing that's gonna

502
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 4: beat this much hate is love.

503
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I promise you don't want to hear that.

504
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 4: But that's the only thing that's gonna if we fights

505
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 4: between the races. The Asians now hate the Blacks, and

506
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 4: then the Mexicans hate the Asian. All that shit is

507
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,159
Speaker 4: for a reason to keep us bundled up so we

508
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 4: don't fight.

509
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 5: What the fuck is really right there in front of us.

510
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Speaker 1: If we're busy fighting each other, we're not fighting the

511
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Speaker 1: top of the power structure.

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Speaker 5: That hard that part.

513
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Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what has to change. That is what

514
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 2: has to change.

515
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it starts to drive. It starts inside. It starts inside.

516
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 4: Everybody needs to think about what it is that they

517
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 4: are as a person, what it is that they receive.

518
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,840
Speaker 5: How do you receive love? Start there, because you can't

519
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 5: get what you don't have, you can't.

520
00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 4: Give, and if you look inside yourself, you will look

521
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 4: and see that you haven't. Like I tell people all

522
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 4: the time, whenever somebody to be like, oh I'm just

523
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 4: so fucking stupid, don't say that.

524
00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 2: Stop talking about yourself like that.

525
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 4: Don't talk yourself doesn't know when you're fucking joking yourself

526
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 4: don't know.

527
00:25:57,359 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 5: It just takes it in and it.

528
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 4: Builds that that little bad thing that touches on you.

529
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 4: And now you got that shit. Stop doing that. Yeah,

530
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 4: like like when you've done something to be like, oh man,

531
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 4: I can't believe I did that.

532
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 5: Well, let's not make that mistake again.

533
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 4: Do that?

534
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 2: Yes, you're right, do that?

535
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 5: Because would you tell your friend that?

536
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,159
Speaker 4: Would you say to your friend you're a dumblit Yeah,

537
00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,440
Speaker 4: you're so funny stupid? Why would you make that. You

538
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 4: wouldn't talk to your friend like that. You wouldn't talk

539
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 4: to your kids like that. Why you talk to yourself

540
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 4: like that? You go to sleep with yourself, you see

541
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 4: yourself in the morning, you eat with yourself. You're pissed

542
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 4: with yourself, You're shit with yourself, You're sick with yourself.

543
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 5: You better start licking yourself. That's your best friend. Yah,

544
00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 5: stop it stop.

545
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:40,560
Speaker 2: Can't wait.

546
00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: I can't wait to click that audio and make it

547
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Speaker 1: my ring tone. Thank you for the pep talk, and

548
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: now a word from our sponsors who make this show possible.

549
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: I want to talk with you all day and I

550
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: also want to pump up with me too.

551
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 5: We be friends.

552
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 2: Do you even know for real?

553
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 5: What have I seen you on?

554
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 4: I recognized that mold. I don't know what I've seen

555
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 4: you on? What have I seen you on? I recognize

556
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 4: that mode? You look you look like if you mail

557
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 4: but not Kristen.

558
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: Bell, if you like cop stuff. Did you watch Chicago Patty.

559
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: And like SVU?

560
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've seen your face.

561
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 5: I don't forget a face to feel. Oh, I'm excited

562
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,440
Speaker 5: and I'm gonna you are gorgeous.

563
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 2: You sweet sweet.

564
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,359
Speaker 6: I mean the whole ponytail with the perkut the middle

565
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 6: because my hair is you got the rings.

566
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 5: You got the rings on? Like you about the popa

567
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 5: bitch in a face?

568
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: Listen you want to you talk about the Godfather. I'm like,

569
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,239
Speaker 1: I was joking this. I got to host the View

570
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: last week and I'm like sitting there talking shit with

571
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: whoop be In Sonny and you know, I was like, look,

572
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: things are crazy.

573
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 2: I don't know.

574
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 1: All these people need to go to jail. Like Michelle

575
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: Obama says, when they go low, we go high. Like

576
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: my mom was raising the Bronx. When you go low,

577
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to meet you in the fucking gutter.

578
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 2: I'm done.

579
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 5: When you go low, I'm going to hell. Yes, but when.

580
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: Sonny goes, Sonny goes, I'm going to the core of

581
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: the earth. I said, Okay, that's the mood for twenty

582
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: twenty six.

583
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 2: But it's like for you, you're out.

584
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: On a stand up tour right now. Yeah, And I

585
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: think about this because obviously you're talking to people in

586
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: cities all over the place about what's going on. You're

587
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: making it funny, but you're giving people pep talks, and

588
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: you are also traveling around the nation, like some places

589
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: you go are going to be less receptive than others.

590
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 5: Now, what what's like the.

591
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: Core of the tour? Where are you going? How are

592
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: you thinking about talking to people in twenty twenty six?

593
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 4: I go everywhere, I go everywhere, and you know what's

594
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 4: amazing my and see you could tell by a media

595
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 4: and their audience.

596
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 5: My audience is so amazing.

597
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 4: They they tip, they're nice, they're polite, they're they're there

598
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 4: for comedy.

599
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 5: Uh, it's a great audience. But you know what's so crazy.

600
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 4: I have fans that I don't and when I see

601
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 4: them in the audience, I go.

602
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 5: Oh, that's really cool, you know what I'm saying. But

603
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 5: I don't.

604
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 4: See what I see on the internet. I see a

605
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 4: whole different type of people.

606
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 5: They're all b.

607
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 2: This is why we need to be together exactly.

608
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 4: And even when I go out in the towns and

609
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 4: walk around like I forgot where it was we went,

610
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 4: and I was like, this is.

611
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 5: I don't see. I don't racist, I don't see, I don't.

612
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 4: See what what what it is that we're reflected on

613
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 4: the internet, And I really believe that's why we don't

614
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 4: need to be on it all the time and get

615
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 4: out and meet real people because my audience is everywhere

616
00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 4: I go. They're awesome. And I love touring. I love talking.

617
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 4: I love making people laugh.

618
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Speaker 1: Where do people get the info on the rest of

619
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:05,280
Speaker 1: the tour? Do they go?

620
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: Instagram?

621
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 5: My Instagram?

622
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 4: And also my my special that I did on Peacock

623
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 4: is on YouTube now, so yes, we got all kinds

624
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 4: of things.

625
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 5: And then the show is coming out on HGTV. Roast

626
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 5: my rental.

627
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 1: I'm so excited.

628
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Speaker 2: I want to do an HGTV so bad.

629
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Speaker 5: We got to work together.

630
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Speaker 2: We have to.

631
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 4: Yes, I think I know what I want you from. Okay,

632
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 4: my god, this could be interesting. I was thinking about

633
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 4: who could do it, and now I know, And you

634
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 4: have the perfect face for it.

635
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: From this moment, like you have so much going on,

636
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: You've accomplished so much.

637
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 4: But like.

638
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: When you're a storyteller, when you're insatiably curious. You always

639
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: want to do the next thing. What feels like your

640
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: work in progress right now?

641
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 5: I want to I want to do a drama. I

642
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 5: would love to do a drama.

643
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 4: I would love to play a serial killer actually, and

644
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 4: I would just love, like, you know, it's really good

645
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 4: when a comedian plays that type of part because it's

646
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 4: really creepy and and and.

647
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 5: I just I want to do something like that. I

648
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 5: want to love that. Yeah, I want to. I want

649
00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 5: to roll away. I'm crying.

650
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 3: We're good, you know, you know you want your Viola

651
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 3: moment eight or the best cry I've ever seen.

652
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 2: Anyone do on camera. I think about it twice a week.

653
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 5: What Vola Davis when she's.

654
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: Looking at them.

655
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: I was like, oh's so crazy and she does that

656
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 1: beautiful like her teeth are and she's Jean and the

657
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: growl and I'm just like, I worship with the Church

658
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: of Viola.

659
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 5: Like that's it.

660
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: I'm done.

661
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 6: I bat when she's oh my god.

662
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 1: One time when Angela Bassett has the moment where she

663
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: goes when she takes like the breath before she starts

664
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Speaker 1: in on you, and You're just like, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: die now. And I want to like, she's so anyway

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Speaker 1: we could talk about them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. A drama.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a killer like you wanted to be.

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Speaker 2: You wanted to be the cop.

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Speaker 1: In the Bone Collector, but now you want to be

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Speaker 1: the killer in the Bone Collector.

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Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be interesting as fuck? And then the psychopath

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Speaker 4: like I laugh.

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Speaker 2: So let's make a let's make a drama together.

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Speaker 5: I'll arrest you, you'll arrest me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you'll have to tune in to find out, listeners.

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Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with you. This was the best hour ever

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Speaker 2: with you. Thank you for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on the tour, obviously everyone's gonna jump and watch

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Speaker 1: your special. Tour dates are at Leslie Dash Jones Dash

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Speaker 1: Tour Dash.

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Speaker 2: No I'm saying that wrong, but.

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Speaker 1: That's find tour dates on Leslie's instagram, where you can

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Speaker 1: visit Leslie jonestour. Doncolm, I don't know what the fuck

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Speaker 1: I'm doing. I'm tired, Okay, send me a text message.

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Speaker 1: We have things to.

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Speaker 5: Do, yes, ma'am, we do.

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Speaker 1: And I will see you soon.

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Speaker 2: I hope.

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Speaker 5: I hope so too,