WEBVTT - GODFREY THE COMEDIAN - Duality of Flavor and Journey, Wings up, Roots Down 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.520 Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:18.919 I'm your host Coley Wait, and today we have a 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.760 very special guest. I pitched him, locked him in myself, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:23.080 comedian God Freason. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.240 How are you good? I'm good man. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.120 I'm really excited to have you. I thought for a 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:31.760 second I wasn't gonna get you. 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:33.519 Oh really, yeah, because it went. 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:35.400 I was texting and then went silent, and then it 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.600 said notification silenced. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.120 I don't know silence. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.520 I don't even know it's I did that. My stuff 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:44.720 hits my pocket. I go, oh, you did this too. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.080 I don't know why is my phone unanswering? It's yeah, but. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.560 It made my day to see Yo. And I said, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:52.120 oh my god. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.200 Oh yeah. I was like yo, and I got off 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:57.800 the plane. I came straight here from the airport. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.240 Really okay, okays me feel better. You're gonna cook a 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.000 good dish. What are you gonna have me eating today? 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:11.520 Real simple, poor man's poor woman's food, black beans, chicken, rice, plantains. Yeah, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.200 that's always it's poor people's food, man. But being Nigeria, 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.600 and that's come on to go to you be a Jamaican, 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:18.520 go to rice beans. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.000 We know all that rice. Yeah, rice su beers and 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.839 it's the full meal and it's healthy. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.120 It's healthy. That's why the only thing you're missing is 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:27.160 some kind of vegetable. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.120 Oh, green beans would have been cooled, like green beans 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.399 and peasco I would have had simple you can boil 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:34.160 them cool. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.920 But our producer back there, Jared, was asking, He was like, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.720 how much does a meal like this cost? And I 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.160 was like, honestly, this is the great thing about this 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.280 dish is just for anyone curious how that this dish 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.440 runs ten dollars. Just about it, like twelve dollars, twelve dollars. 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:50.040 And depending on the type of chicken you get. If 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.640 it's quality chicken, you're trying. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:51.880 To get that. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.640 But if you're and you're struggling, twelve dollars and. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.280 You make a bunch of it and you can save 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.120 it for a couple of days. You like a pot 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.200 of stuff, then like we would do it in my house, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.559 my parents do it. You make a pot of stuff, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.240 put it in refrigerator, takes them out to eat it. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:06.240 Boom, that's it. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:08.560 Yeah, And it's twelve twelve dollars, and I'd say it's 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.359 at least four to six servings for twelve bucks. If 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.160 you're out there and you're trying to figure out what 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:18.079 to do for dinner, black beans, chicken, plantains, and your combination. 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:19.640 Every once in a while you get a little burger 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:23.880 from Wendy. Everyone around you have those little cheap little combos. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.880 You gotta you gotta combine, a little hump, a little 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.160 survival tool. Right there, I'll get a little outside food. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.000 You eat it said, whatever you gotta do. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.120 Man, So what are you seasoning all your chicken with? 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.000 Oh? Man, I just use basic like salt, garlic. You got, 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:40.520 you got garlic, salt. That's good. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.000 You gonna put oil in that pot? And God told 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.640 us that you are only olive oil, right, Yes. 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.359 I tried olive oil avocado. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.080 Okay, we have both a grape seed. Yeah, we just 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.880 discovered grape seed on this shows. 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:55.440 Oh really, yeah, I been. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.880 I thought it had some hidden he elemented the guest. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:04.040 Coadles best as far as heat heating, you know, olive oil, 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.000 it's not bad, but alvocados is like the best. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.399 But I'll use those. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.520 Three crying if you're crying. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.400 Cocon and oil, olive oil, avocado, But coconut and grape seed. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.399 Those are the ones for like frying and stuff. That's 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.520 what I do. But I don't deep fry. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.600 It's like a salt tape. Now I do a thing 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.440 where it's fry a little bit boil. It's like I'll 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.200 pour water to combine it and it works. 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.560 Yeah, man, I got Well you do it over and over, 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:33.840 you start fighting rays. 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:35.800 This is a little better. I don't want to fry 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.480 it too hard. Like in between, I'll throw some water. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.240 Boil and water don't mix. But yeah, you can put 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:42.240 a top over. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:47.400 It works. Yeah, but the water a little bit a 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.000 little bit. Yeah goo, Wait what is this one? Let 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:52.560 me make sure I get to turn this so on 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:57.720 turn all right? All right, all right, all right? 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.680 So is this a childhood dish? 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:00.680 Chop? 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.240 Childhood I'm saying, like, is this something that your parents made? 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:05.720 Growing up? 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.440 My parents made Nigerians so we had food food, We 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.000 had gari, we had ebba, we had all we had. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:14.320 Not Nigerian food was the major thing. We had jel 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.599 off rice, moi moi chin just all. My mother could 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.239 burn all Nigerian West Africans. But then we had American 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.039 food like swedeti and regular stuff. But Nigerian food was 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:29.359 the main thing a goosey, okra soup, pepper soup. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.240 It was all and yeah it's great, so it slide me, 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:33.920 but it's amazing. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.440 Yeah, yeah, that's a very But now Nigerian food is 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.240 popular now and people know about okra. A goosy is 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.560 my favorite. Goosey is like a mixture of spinach and 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:46.440 melon seeds. 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.320 It's like a soup, but it's my favorite. Man. 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.320 They have a place out here Aduka over there not 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.200 too far from the airport, a Duka's Nigerian cuisine. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:57.279 Fans we. 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:01.039 I'm gonna try that. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.599 I think it's a duke of Nigerian cuisine. It's she 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.719 Her stuff is fantastic. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.000 But what's the name of the sup again? 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.479 A gusy e g u s i ay And you 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:15.600 all know jel off because you have Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal. 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:17.880 They're all battling and who has the best jel Off rice? 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.279 I eat all of them? Senegal got I think Senagal 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:25.560 is the original. I think Senegalese food is unreal. It's 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.880 tebu gen tibi yap if they got fish and this 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.600 lamb debu yap and their jelly rice is fire. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.320 Like really, Oh yeah, food making me hungry. Yeah, it's 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.000 good stuffs. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.719 And then we couldn't get you to cook ment of 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.920 that for us. Okay, shout out to God for again. 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.760 Now I said, you could have cooked any of this 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:46.719 for us today. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.240 You know what Nigeria food. It takes a lot. There's 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:52.279 a lot of ingredients. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.440 My mother would cook all day and and the problem is, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.479 like I never my me and my brother never got 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.400 to go to the kitchen and cook because my parent 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.600 fathers like man doesn't come in and kidchen women do. 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.320 It's very chuvelistic ship. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.200 And then when I got when on my own, my 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:09.760 father was like you know how to make stuff? I go, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.240 you didn't let us in the kitchen. How am I 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.000 supposed to know how to make the Nigerian food? And 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.120 it's a process. Yeah, it's a process man. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:17.760 Some stuff. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.240 There's a thing called puff puff right like fried dough 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.440 almost like I think I've seen it. Puff uff is 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.760 Nigerian like Zeppel's. Italians have something similar. That's why we're 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.040 all so related. When ever you see cuisine pop up, 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.000 you go, wow, they eat that too, right, puff up? 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.680 But it takes a day. It's like a dough, a yeast. 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.800 You got to put in a refrigerator and wait a 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.440 whole twenty four hours. So my mother do all kinds 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:39.680 of news. 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.960 I've seen it online, like where they like roll it 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.040 in the soup or whatever. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.360 Oh that's that's that would be. Yeah, have you tried? 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:47.000 That is a good? 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.680 Yeah, all that food is, That's what I cream up with. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:54.359 That's really I'm just wondering about that texture. That really. Yeah, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.400 I had to go to a Nigerian restaurant with you. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.839 Yeah, you should know a word. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:01.440 I feel like it would be fun. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.680 Yeah, it's good stuff, man, I love all that stuff. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.840 And being Nigerian first a generation, just always eating foreign 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.720 food was just always normal to me. Growing up in Chicago. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.640 I lived in an area where everybody was immigrants. But 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.920 even though Chicago's the most segregated city in the country, 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:27.400 still all my friends were like Vietnamese, Cambodian, Filipino, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Polish, Russian. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.720 Yugoslavia when it was Yugoslavia. 0:07:29.400 --> 0:07:34.160 Haitian, jew, Jewish, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian Jew. 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.360 So everybody was foreign. Everybody had that's all we ate. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.239 My next door from Cambodia, so I was eating food 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.600 from Cambodia, layouts and Vietnam. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.960 So these are my friends fresh off the boat. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:48.600 Yeah yeah. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.200 And then you had American food, but we had our. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.360 When you ate the American food didn't even come close 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:55.960 to comparing. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.640 It was good. We liked it too. It was just 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.880 two different types of We loved hot dogs. We ate 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:05.000 hot dogs and amberg. We loved all that. But then 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:06.800 we loved our food tea. 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.760 We would throw down on our stews and our oxtails 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:15.160 and our fish and our yeah man and tripe and 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.920 the tripe, and it's like Jamaican food, you're Jamaican. 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.120 I love Caribbean. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:25.560 Fred I'm an oxtail what No, you can't oxtail jerk chicken. 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.880 K But I'm also a snob because I don't think 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:28.960 everyone makes it. 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.959 Of course, now, my mother was so good, and we 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.400 were very snobby about other Nigerian because we were like, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:36.760 that's not as good as my mom's. 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.439 And I was just about to ask you do you 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:44.280 think it's because it's our mom's conditions. Jamaican is so 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.080 good that every restaurant I go to, I'm like, eh no. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.480 I have a friend whose mom couldn't cook for ship 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.679 and she heard it was trash. My mom was dope 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.480 because we would taste other people to go nah man, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.080 and people would come over our house. 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.840 They knew my mom was making stuff like hell. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.160 Yeah, yeah, that's how I am. One of my homegirls 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:07.160 are aunt cooks like that. And anytime it's a holiday, 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.480 you already know. I'm pulling up, save me a plate. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.400 But you got to get there fast because that food 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:12.839 run out. 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:14.520 Oh yeah, whoa, this is popping? 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.440 Is the second is done? It's gone? 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:17.240 Oh yeah. 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.120 But take me back to what was going on in 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:23.839 the era of beans rice and chicken beans rice. What 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:24.880 you're making us today? 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.439 When I was coming up, yeah, take me bad. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.959 So when were you making this dish to survive? 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:33.840 Oh? Man? 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.560 When I was doing comedy, Man, when you're living on 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.200 your own. When I started living on my own in Chicago, 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.400 when I after college, I was like getting into comedy 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.360 and stuff. And then I got I got up. I 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.120 booked a commercial, like a McDonald's commercial, and then I 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.400 got all this money. I was like, I can move 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.600 out now. My father's good. You can find your own spot. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.640 And then I know, and of course they supplied me 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.040 with silverware and pots and bands and shiit. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.400 Anything you need? Yeah? 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.120 Yeah, And then I started, Okay, what do I think 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.080 I know I could make? I don't know how to 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.880 make Nigerian food. Yeah, I'll just go get it from 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.160 my mother and bring it to the crisis. 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:10.800 Smart. How far did you move from them? 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.360 Oh man? About twenty minutes away? Oh yeah, good because 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.280 I had a little I had a little studio. Okay, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.800 but it was nice to be on my own. 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.080 And how old are you at this time? 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:21.920 I'm like twenty two or something. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.280 And my my father was like, it's good that you 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.880 live on your own. That's good because your mother wants 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.560 you to stay forever. Yeah, and because moms always wanted 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:31.640 to want their kids. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.720 And my father said, I'm telling you, I mean, you 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:36.360 live on your own, You're gonna see the difference. And 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.840 he was like, I was like, he was right. He goes, 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.280 you're gonna want to be able to come in and 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.360 go in as you want. Yeah, you don't want your 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.480 mother to wait? Where are you in this office? Yeah? 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.080 So it was smart. 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:48.320 Yeah, Pops was right. 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.360 Pops was He ain't never been wrong. He was never wrong. 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.000 My father was never wrong. Even though I pissed you off. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:54.800 When you're telling you. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.720 Like what and then you're like, damn, he was right, yeah, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.280 and he says I lived the life too. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.079 I was a kid too. You're talking about it. I'm 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.199 not lying. I'm gonna lie to you. You know what 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:05.120 I'm saying. I don't know. 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.160 So you're in your apartment and you're cooking this chicken. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.240 Rice and beans, vegetables because I want to feel healthy. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.000 And where are you calling your mom back? 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:14.280 Hey? 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:14.480 Mom? 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:15.240 How do I do this? 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.720 Not really because I was getting it. And then you 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.000 start some women you bring over, they know how to 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.000 do shit. They go, now you do this that that. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.480 I'm like, cool, Yeah, I handle that. 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.200 Oh you're like, yeah, I started the heat. 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.080 Now you just take care of the rest of that, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:31.800 you know what I mean. 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.800 And then beans, I'll take kidney beans, black beans, what 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.160 was the other? The pento beans? That's always easy, that's feeling. 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:40.600 You just get the starches in the. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.120 Yeah, and then I knew how to do the plantains. Well. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:45.880 When I first asked you, it was looking rough. You 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.560 were like ramen some chicken. 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.679 But I remember having in college because I didn't know 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.079 what spirit he meant, broke broke in career wise. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:58.600 But yeah, college was Robin and the funny because Robin 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.640 had three flavors, but it was all tastes the same. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:05.320 It's disgusting. It was disgusting that little pat Do. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.520 You want to know something I learned on eating while broke. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:08.600 There's different romans. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:10.439 What do you mean? 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.600 There's the company we had that was the wrong at 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:14.560 the top as. 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:19.040 A bullshit, but they got the Thai ramen and let 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.240 me tell you something, the other ones. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:24.400 Way better, way better. Wha. But we did. We were 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.800 exposed to that. You wait, there's ten robins for a dollar. 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.360 Yeah none, yeah, and you doctor it up your own way. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:38.600 Doctor it up like you right there, sprinkle show and 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.679 then the worst after taste. It was the worst after 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.439 taste you think so disgusting. It was disgusting, but that 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:51.280 got us through. We survived with that. And then in college. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:52.240 I went away for college. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.959 So we would go to a cafe. 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.640 There was a cafe we all hang out in like 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.640 different world. Yeah, they we had something orange and so 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.600 we come there and my buddies worked at the cafe, 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.520 so they'd be like, yo, my shift is at this time, 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.400 So yo, you're going if you all you do is 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.240 spend like five dollars, but I'm gonna give. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.320 You more than that. Make sure you get my stuff 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.719 and then we'll meet at the door and later. So 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.000 we was we was trying to beat the system. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:25.120 I like getting burgers, mad juices, I like that waters, sodas, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.080 you know what I'm saying, Extra fries, extra. So it 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.480 was a combination of ramen at the crib that nasty 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.760 ass cafeteria food because we survived off of that because 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:39.320 the cafeteria food was true rash. You're like at a 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.480 big university like this, and we would make our rice Chrispies, 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.800 our own little homemade rice Chrispy joints. You just get 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.479 the marshmallows, put the right put it in the microwave, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.360 and we all just got eat it up. 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.360 The It's amazing how you survived it. 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.480 Yes, Now, did you know when you were in college 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:56.840 that you wanted to pursue comedy? 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.080 Third year Tommy Davidson came to my college and we 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.240 showed he we showed him around campus and all that, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.439 and when he performed, I was thinking about du I 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.040 was like, I think I want to do that. I 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.120 think that's what I want to do. And the girl 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.200 I was dating at the time, she was like, yeah, 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.559 you should do it. You always holding court in the cafeteria. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.800 You're funny as hell. And not funny because just funny 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:19.880 because my friends were funny too. It was because I 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.560 was very militant in college. Yeah, I was very pro black, 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.320 very African American studies. We started a group to the 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.840 chagrin of the president of the university, Stan Ikenberry, racist bastard. 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.840 We started a group where we wanted to learn about 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.880 pre slavery and post slavery. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:43.200 We wanted to learn about us. And we started a book. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.640 Club on our own, and we were able to bring 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:50.360 in speakers, Native American speakers and Latin speakers, historians Africanism 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.360 to teach us stuff. And so I became that dude 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.840 like militant, like school days like it was militancy. And 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.000 then we're and then at the time, you're listening to 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.240 hip hop KRS one, Public Enemy, you listen to Brand New, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.280 but you're listening to Day You listening to a conscious 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.280 rap Queen Latifa was a conscious rapper, but he listened. 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.320 So we was militant, so I could I was able 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.320 to be funny talking about racism, talking about Oh yeah, 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:16.120 I was dope with it. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.240 I would talk like that. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.680 Imagine Malcolm X as a comedian, like if he was 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.160 just you know how sometimes they can be really funny. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.160 But I'm yeah, I was like that. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.280 I wasn't as like serious, but I was like silly 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:29.760 with it, but I was talking about real shit. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.400 And that's why she was like, this is definitely because I. 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.360 Remember my friend. She the girl like Dais her name was. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.240 She was a rebound check from my other girl that 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.680 was on campus. But she was like she wrote one that. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.240 She wrote down everything on a yellow legal pad. I 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.280 was just talking and she goes, I wrote down most 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:46.760 of the shit that you were so funny. 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.000 I wrote it down. We woke up. I said, what 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.120 the hell is all this this shit? You said yesterday? 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.880 Can you want to be a comedian? And now on 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:56.000 Club Shaysha, I brought her name. Her name was Toya 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.920 Dixon and I brought her name up and. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.520 Her she was like, Yo, everybody's calling me, say you 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.320 brought my name up on club ship because you it's 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:06.120 the truth. Wow, you wrote that thing. And I said, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.600 all right, when I get back to Chicago. I went 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:09.680 to the University of Illinois. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:10.600 Yeah, so when. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:13.560 I get back to Chicago. I'm gonna go for open mics. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.520 And that's how that shit started. 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.560 Now did you take the material that she had written down? 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.000 And I don't even remember where it was, but I said, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.200 I'm going to start doing comedy. And I started in 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.400 a comedy team with another guy for a year, and 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.240 then from there I did. I wasn't really digging that 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.080 because he wasn't as passionate as. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.760 I well, and I was gonna say, what's a comedy team? 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:39.240 Team? You're doing sketches, Like yeah, I was right, this. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.440 Is this is but this was before sketches was a thing. 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:43.280 No sketches have been around before me. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.200 What I'm saying, you were doing it stand, but you 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:46.520 were doing it in the stage. 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:47.040 We do that. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.080 We'd have my sketches like okay, and it was cool man, 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.440 and we had little costumes and dumb ship like that. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.240 And then after that I was like this. I was 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.120 disgruntled about it because he wasn't as passionate as I was. 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:00.280 You have to be insane. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.840 And I remember talking to Steve Harvey at this club 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.000 in Chicago called All Jokes Aside, and I was in 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:08.359 the hallway kind of pissing it. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.439 Steve was like asking meuse, like, why what's up? 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.680 I was like, yo, I'm tired of Steve's not as 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.720 passionate as I am, he seems like. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.119 And he goes, how much you're getting paid for it? 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.000 I said, we're getting like a hundred bucks. 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.800 And he goes, are you tired of? Are you tired 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.520 of splitting that ship? I remember he goes, cut his 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.760 ass and he just walked away that Steve Harvey said, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.120 cut his ass. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:28.520 I remember that ship. 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.800 And then at the time to Steve was Steve was 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.760 a headliner, Steve from County for a long ass time. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.120 Like Steve was like a big dog, like as far 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.480 as the comedy scene, not super famous, but he was 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:42.120 a big dog. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:42.639 Me. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.919 I was just starting I wasn't even doing solo shit yet. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:49.440 So he told me cut him you should you say 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:50.160 you got. 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.800 The skills, man, And so that's when I started doing 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.119 the solo shit. Wow. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.199 Now did you have to meditate on it for a 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.040 minute or did you just know? 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.359 The next week, I was already because I was already 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:01.439 writing shit on the side. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.000 In case this goes, no good goes left. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.200 I'm going to start doing stuff on my own. So 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.000 I started doing open mics by myself. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.840 Okay, Now, did you ever have a moment within that 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.800 window of I don't know if this is for me? 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.040 Did you ever a bomb or? 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.040 As soon as I hit I was like, yeah, I'm 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:18.440 doing this. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.360 I don't care if you no bombing comes with it. Yeah, 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.960 but I know what I want to do. Yeah, you 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.600 know it? Yeah, yeah, I'm doing this. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.680 Once you got a taste, I was like, oh. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.800 Yeah, because I'm like, how I need I want to 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:30.560 be able to talk shit? 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.960 Now, how do your parents perceive this at the time? Yeah, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.119 I'm really I thought you were going to. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.800 Do psychiatry school. You're a pre met psych major. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.840 I thought you gonna pre med psychic comic. Oh my goodness. 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.680 I don't think it's not a big stretch because a 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.440 lot of comedians were astrophysicists, lawyers, doctors. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.440 A lot of people were like real professional. 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:52.000 Yeah. 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:53.200 I had another buddy. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.520 He's passed, But Greg Giraldo was a fantastic comedian. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.560 His son does comedy in New York now, Greg Giraldo Junior. 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.800 But he was amazing. He was a Harvard lawyer. 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:06.960 Wow, and then he'd gotten a comedy. So there's film majors. 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.480 There's a lot of people have degrees in comedy. 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.080 But from a parental perspective, parents. 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.600 Were like, no, make sure you have something to fall 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.280 back on. I go, I'm falling back on this. 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:18.200 I love that. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.679 Okay, but my father, that's cool, but make sure you 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.480 finish your studies. 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:23.840 And did you finish. 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.240 Yeah, psychology degree. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.800 And I think I've learned more about psychology living in 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.639 New York than any You don't need to go to 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.720 any psych ward or anything. 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.080 You just live in New York and a big psych 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.120 war and just. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.359 Doing comedy is so Psycholog's so many psychological things in 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:43.760 comedy on why people laugh. I even had a book 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.480 about Freud and the Jokes in the Subconscious, which is 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:50.119 a little weird of a read. But I there's reasons 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:53.600 why people laugh. There's nostalgia, there's pain, there's there's relation, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:54.800 there's all. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.760 Kinds of shit. Oh. 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.440 I used to always I used always think it was 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.040 just like if someone can relate my favorite comics or 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.840 the comics that I can relate to. So I always 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.480 say my my toxic comics, like you're bil Bird, I'm 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.239 gonna call them Bilberd Sebastian like anyone that has the 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.119 toxic childhood. I'm like, those are my favorites, you know. 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:15.040 Yeah, if you can relate to them, it's great. 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:16.960 So I just assumed it was relatability. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.960 Relate. First of all, you're gonna be who you are. 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.080 If someone doesn't get you, they don't get you. You can't. 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.320 Just as people, we don't get along with everybody. Some 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:29.280 people we click with, some people, some people we just don't. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:30.600 That's the same thing with comedy. 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:32.400 It's like, some people ain't gonna fuck with you because 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:33.639 you say things they don't like. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:34.639 Oh bye. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.200 But that's the thing about comedy. Go find someone else. Yeah, 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.800 check the schedule. There's a whole bunch of other comedians. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:44.840 But if you're gonna come in my show. 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.800 And then open your mouth because you don't like something, 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.760 you're gonna get smoked. Yeah, you're gonna. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.720 I'm gonna dust you off real quick. My thing is, 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:53.679 you don't have to laugh, you just sit there and go. 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.240 You don't have to I don't give off funk if 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:56.760 you don't laugh. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:20:59.760 Wow, Because how long did it take for you to 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:00.919 get to that point? 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.240 About when I got to I was in New York 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:06.359 in Chicago two three, years. Then I moved to New York. 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.840 That's when I think, yeah, five six years in. When 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.120 you go New York is a different attitude because it's 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.840 like you're around really dope, because I was around Chappelle, Seinfeld, 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:19.520 Gray Ramone and Bill. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.640 Me and Bill came up, Bill Burr me Bill. 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:25.360 When Bill had hair red hair, I was, that's how 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:29.400 long I've known Bill red hair because me Bill, it was, 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.280 it was Robert Kelly, Keith Robinson. It was a lot 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.960 of us there, just a big group of us. Tracy Morgan, 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.600 we can keep going, Jimmy, I think. 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.679 New York comics when I go to LA. Not talking 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:46.119 smack about LA, but New York and LA are uncrible comparable. 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:49.200 New York's Landslide. New York is I'm sorry, we dusted off. 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:51.040 I think it's because you guys get more reps. 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:52.680 Of course it is, And. 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:56.520 I think I think that it also helps that New 0:21:56.680 --> 0:21:58.440 York cheats comics better than LA. 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:02.240 I think that I think it's the international thing too, 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.360 because in every almost every show there's we're from Scotland, 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.280 We're from Ireland, We're from the Netherlands. We're from Sweden, 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:14.119 we're from Norway, we're from Germany where I had Yester 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:17.040 the other Italic we're from Italy. 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:23.560 Oh my god, you have to come to It's always international, Canada, Australia. 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.800 It never failed, and it's always like that. You get 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.600 foreigners all the time and they like honesty. H the UK, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:35.199 they go man. But it's the American ones that be bitching. 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:39.200 It's always, and it's mainly white women. They're always fucking 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.080 up comedy. They fuck comedy up. And this is me 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:46.919 not categorizing on them, but white comics, Latin comics, women comic. 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:49.840 I go, whenever we have a complaint, I said, who 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.520 was she white? Yep, it was a white girl. White 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:57.480 girl tears, white girls interrupting. It's usually ninety percent of 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:01.800 the time it's a white woman bitching about what you're saying, complaining. 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.480 About the privilege. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:06.360 It's the privilege and white girl tear bullshit. 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:08.760 Because I had a white girl wanted to fight me 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:12.200 the other day, she I go, She was like, motherfucker. 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.399 I go, I don't hit women, so get out of 0:23:15.400 --> 0:23:17.879 my face. I get a girl and can fuck you up. 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.440 I'll knock you the fuck out, But I don't hit women. 0:23:22.200 --> 0:23:24.239 My father didn't hit my mother my father didn't even 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.720 raise his voice to my mother. I don't hit women. 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.040 I never understand the concept of dudes hitting women. Now, 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:30.000 I only get me wrong. 0:23:30.520 --> 0:23:32.920 I want to smack shit out you, but I'm not 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:33.600 gonna do it. 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:35.800 She heckled me and said, wow, you just move on. 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:38.400 I go, no, bitch, you don't tell me to move on. 0:23:38.640 --> 0:23:40.760 You shut the fuck up and listen. That's how this goes, 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:42.720 you know, I remember. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:43.920 So don't they kick him out too? 0:23:44.040 --> 0:23:46.720 Sometimes you really got it because the bouncers there. He 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.119 can't wait to yoke people up. Big giant African, French 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:52.399 African dude. He'd be like, he'd be like, you have 0:23:52.480 --> 0:23:52.720 to go. 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:55.760 Took it too much if you don't listen and her 0:23:55.760 --> 0:23:59.639 boyfriend is there letting her talk, because it's like pussy 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:02.159 whip that yo, tell you girl, like if I'm with 0:24:02.240 --> 0:24:04.080 a chick, she's not gonna she don't have class. 0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:06.520 You're yelling shit out. She doesn't have to like. You 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:10.120 don't have to like us. It's okay, I watch. 0:24:10.000 --> 0:24:11.640 But it's a show. You're supposed to be quiet. 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:13.520 I watch shows. I may not like them, but I'm 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:15.359 not gonna go I'm not gonna say nothing. 0:24:15.480 --> 0:24:16.120 Yeah. 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:18.280 But and then and it's like. 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:20.440 I always get a lot of women hecklers all the time, 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:22.480 always women always yelling at me. 0:24:22.880 --> 0:24:24.959 They just say stuff and I go, Yo, I get it. 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:26.560 My fate is tirer than your boyfriends. 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:29.960 I understand. I get it. You're upset, don't I know 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:32.919 you like me because you're interrupting me. It's too much. Stop, 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:34.520 you know what I mean. My fate is tight. My 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:36.040 sneakers is way doper than his. 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.280 I get it. Yeah, I'm in decent shape. I get it. 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:40.720 But you're in great shape. 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.000 But when you talk to me, and then when I 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:46.159 burn you, now you're victim. Now now you're victim. But 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:47.040 you I don't see. 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.679 First of all, I don't fuck with the audience. I'm 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:51.920 not a crowd dude. I don't. I have ship to say, 0:24:52.000 --> 0:24:54.600 and if something naturally happens, I'll address it. 0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:57.360 But I have no interest in whether you're dating or fun. 0:24:57.440 --> 0:24:58.520 I don't give a fuck. 0:24:58.640 --> 0:25:01.800 I got ship to say material. If they had a 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:05.080 fence and the crowd was fifty feet away, I have material. 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:06.480 I don't need to go yo. 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.320 Yeah, you don't need to do crowd work none that shit. 0:25:09.600 --> 0:25:13.080 That's just my style. Yeah, and yeah so, and I'm 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:15.879 not in my as a commedian. 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:18.919 I love edge. I love the edge. I like to 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:21.880 push the envelope. I like my Klan jokes. What would 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:23.280 it be like to be a member of the Klan? 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:25.960 You know, I tried to join. They didn't let me, 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:29.080 and I said, good, I'm testing you. Yeah, because if 0:25:29.080 --> 0:25:30.240 you would have let me in, I'd be like you 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:32.800 slipping the h Yeah, you slipping supposed to be about 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:33.560 that white supremacy. 0:25:33.560 --> 0:25:35.280 How you're gonna let me in? This bitch? Fuck wrong 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:37.680 with you? You know what I mean? Diversity and shit? Man, 0:25:37.720 --> 0:25:39.119 how are you gonna be a clan member and not 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:40.040 stick with your shit? 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:44.080 I love going there because to see white people go 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:47.080 the Klan because I'll say klu kukx. 0:25:46.840 --> 0:25:49.960 Klan, I go, people go, wait a minute, oh I go. 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:51.160 We mean awe. 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:55.040 What's so different about a clan member calling us niggers 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:55.679 and say. 0:25:55.560 --> 0:25:56.720 You niggers got our neighborhood? 0:25:56.720 --> 0:25:59.880 Then you being upset at a black neighbor or being 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:03.040 assive aggressive to a black neighbor. What's the difference? Yeah, 0:26:03.560 --> 0:26:06.520 you still are You're the same. You're doing the same thing. 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:10.359 It's like instead of pouring acid in your face in India, 0:26:10.400 --> 0:26:12.320 like some of them. Some people in some parts of 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:16.000 India they pour acid in women's faces foods that get rejected, 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.080 and that's like going, that's terrible. All we do is 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:21.960 we punch our women in the face in America. 0:26:22.200 --> 0:26:25.359 That's no, it's still abuse, it's still abused. 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:27.480 So I like to talk about those things. 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:28.240 Yea, yeah. 0:26:28.320 --> 0:26:31.640 I like to talk about spirituality and people going on retreats. 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:35.000 I go, that's your problem. You're always retreating? Yeah, you always? 0:26:35.240 --> 0:26:38.160 Who the fuck can't go into the mountains and meditate? 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:42.080 That ain't shit. Now, when you practice your spirituality, how 0:26:42.119 --> 0:26:44.240 about when a dude in New York on the train 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.920 bumps you by accident, do you elematically call him a 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:49.000 spick or a nigger, a chip or whatever, or do 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:51.200 you go, that's all right, he didn't mean it. That's 0:26:51.200 --> 0:26:54.080 when you practice your spirituality, when you can in front 0:26:54.119 --> 0:26:55.640 of people, not in the woods. 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:59.920 You paid ayahuashka, you have some shaw men in the wood? 0:27:00.119 --> 0:27:01.880 No fuck that. What do you do in New York 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:04.600 on the subway when the motherfucker's screaming at you? How 0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:05.399 do you handle it? 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:08.879 So I like to address all those the idiot. What 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:12.480 is it the idiot ship that goes on with human beings. 0:27:12.280 --> 0:27:14.840 And the women are still triggered. You don't forget to 0:27:14.840 --> 0:27:15.280 turn it on. 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:22.400 I got to help him. But yeah, he said, women 0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:23.199 get triggered by me. 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:26.840 Yeah, you said they get triggered. They get triggered, Like 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:28.600 how you cut this planting? 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:31.760 Sorry, you can be on anything, you know, he can 0:27:31.840 --> 0:27:32.439 be on anything. 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:35.800 Women get triggered by because I'm not doing my comedy 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:37.560 for women to be I just want you to be 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:38.960 a fan of comedy. 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:42.960 I'm not trying. There's some comics that appease women because 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:45.159 you're saying, I go, I just I'm just being funny. 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:47.080 I don't. I have jokes that are clean, jokes that 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:49.800 are but I don't. I'm not worried about a girl 0:27:49.880 --> 0:27:52.480 not liking me because I'm doing what the fuck I want. 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:55.679 I'm a man. Yeah you that means you ain't for me. 0:27:56.640 --> 0:27:59.800 I like women fuck with me because I'm a fucking dude. 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:03.639 And if you can't separate that from jokes to my 0:28:03.920 --> 0:28:06.200 MEA is eleven and fuck you, yeah out of here. 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:10.200 Because I've had situations where after a show groople girls 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:12.440 they didn't like what I said, and then the dude 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:14.320 that's next to me, the comedy exst to me. They 0:28:14.440 --> 0:28:17.040 liked what he said, so they'll be like, we liked you. 0:28:17.119 --> 0:28:18.879 I go, that's nice. Bye. 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:20.760 Yeah, I don't. 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:24.160 I like when I'm not like sometimes it's okay. That's 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:25.120 why I'm doing the right thing. 0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:27.240 Because I knew not everybody's going this one. 0:28:27.480 --> 0:28:29.879 Yeah, and if you don't like me, I'm like, what 0:28:30.000 --> 0:28:32.480 am I in grade school? I can't come play with 0:28:32.560 --> 0:28:36.359 you in the sandbox? Fuck out of here. This is comedy, 0:28:36.480 --> 0:28:37.760 this is freedom. 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:39.479 You New York at way. 0:28:39.560 --> 0:28:41.520 But yeah, I've been in New York for twenty one. 0:28:41.560 --> 0:28:45.360 Years, and now what prompted the move to New York reps. 0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:46.680 And just a better quality of I wanted to be 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:48.640 a damn good commut I would say, comedy is. 0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:49.680 Going to keep me in the game. 0:28:49.840 --> 0:28:53.440 And to me, stand up comedy is like a magical power. 0:28:53.440 --> 0:28:56.480 To me, it's magic because to make people laugh you 0:28:56.480 --> 0:28:58.720 don't even fucking know, just come in a room and 0:28:58.800 --> 0:28:59.400 have them rolling. 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:03.480 That is a level of emotion. It's a level It's. 0:29:03.360 --> 0:29:05.480 Like when I make a baby laugh. To me, it's 0:29:05.520 --> 0:29:07.040 the greatest shit in the world. To make it an 0:29:07.120 --> 0:29:10.120 infant laugh infants. Baby's always looking to laugh, they always 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:13.080 want to be To make a baby laugh to me is. 0:29:13.240 --> 0:29:16.480 Just a level of It's the best shit in the world. 0:29:17.040 --> 0:29:20.840 A baby's laugh I laughing. It's you wouldn't look at pets. 0:29:21.560 --> 0:29:23.600 When dogs get around babies, they do the. 0:29:23.560 --> 0:29:26.960 Thing they do stuff. The cats do crazy shit. That's 0:29:27.040 --> 0:29:29.040 that's a whole nother spiritual level to me. 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:32.880 To make a baby laugh and the pets, No, they 0:29:32.960 --> 0:29:34.160 do silly shit. 0:29:33.960 --> 0:29:36.400 And the baby's like cracking up. The dogs running around 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:36.959 in a circle. 0:29:37.360 --> 0:29:41.320 Even the dog knows yeah, and you as a human being, 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:44.200 you mad, could fuck you dog for real. 0:29:44.800 --> 0:29:47.280 So just to backtrack just a little bit, you said 0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:49.960 that early on you had booked a McDonald's commercial. Now 0:29:49.960 --> 0:29:51.920 this is before you decided that. 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:53.840 You were going to pursue No, I was in comedy. 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:54.720 Oh you were. 0:29:54.680 --> 0:29:56.840 Because the agent I had saw me at a comedy 0:29:56.840 --> 0:29:59.760 show and so, hey, man, you're really talented. You can 0:29:59.800 --> 0:30:02.440 do voice stuff, and just that you got it, you 0:30:02.480 --> 0:30:05.280 should come to my It was a Phoenix Talent some ship. 0:30:05.600 --> 0:30:07.720 It was a black agency, and that was the first 0:30:07.720 --> 0:30:09.320 time I was auditioning for commercials. 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:10.400 See how I slice it. 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:12.200 My mom would do it like, oh, that's how you 0:30:12.240 --> 0:30:14.240 do it. Oh, so I definitely butchered your slic. 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:17.000 Sometimes they cut it. I like it when my mother 0:30:17.000 --> 0:30:20.680 would do it like this, like that, like flat. 0:30:21.120 --> 0:30:21.360 Yeah. 0:30:21.680 --> 0:30:23.880 Yeah, even though these are green ones, this would be 0:30:23.920 --> 0:30:25.840 like the thons, like with the Latinos. 0:30:26.360 --> 0:30:28.640 When it's green, it's those thorning. Then when it's sweetest, 0:30:28.680 --> 0:30:29.080 my dudo. 0:30:29.560 --> 0:30:32.520 Yeah, that's how my mom would do it too. 0:30:32.840 --> 0:30:33.040 Yeah. 0:30:33.520 --> 0:30:37.600 With the Haitians it's banana. We call it dodo or plantain. 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:42.120 The Caribbeans called it planting. And then if you're in 0:30:42.400 --> 0:30:46.880 I'm good. And then if you're in Amsterdam, these people 0:30:46.880 --> 0:30:47.680 would look like me and. 0:30:47.680 --> 0:30:48.800 You, but they speak Dutch. 0:30:49.120 --> 0:30:51.680 It's a Dutch colony. Suronam is a Dutch colony. So 0:30:51.720 --> 0:30:54.960 the Dutch people came and fucked everybody, and it's it's right. 0:30:56.280 --> 0:31:00.120 It's by South America and Surinamese people are living in 0:31:00.480 --> 0:31:05.000 Holland because they slavery and just rape pillaging. So everybody 0:31:05.000 --> 0:31:08.560 came out real cool looking. And so the Surinamese they 0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:10.440 speak Dutch. They're the black people of. 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:12.400 Holland. 0:31:12.520 --> 0:31:15.320 And so I went to a Sernamese restaurant because I 0:31:15.320 --> 0:31:18.560 was performing in Amsterdam. No in Holland in twenty eighteen, 0:31:19.000 --> 0:31:20.560 but I did Dutch comedy for ten years. 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:23.320 So I was like, So we went to a Cernamese restaurant. 0:31:23.360 --> 0:31:27.000 The food was banging, and then I see a big 0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:28.360 ass banana come out. 0:31:28.800 --> 0:31:30.240 I go, so, y'all. 0:31:30.000 --> 0:31:33.120 Eat it too, huh? And I said, what's it called bacabana? 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:35.720 Oh okay, yes, all this are all. 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:38.640 Connected with the banana. That's why I when like Dominicans 0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:40.560 and Puerto Ricans be like, I know black, I know black. 0:31:40.640 --> 0:31:43.320 I'm like, yeah you are. Why are we? Why are 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:44.400 we eating fried bananas? 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:44.720 Yeah? 0:31:44.760 --> 0:31:46.680 I know black, Papa, I know black, I Dominican. 0:31:47.000 --> 0:31:48.800 Yeah, I'm a fuck. Why do you have this in 0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:52.280 your dish? Why do Nigerians eat this and Ghanaians eat this? 0:31:52.760 --> 0:31:58.560 Why are Trinidadians and Jamaicans eating It's stupid, Maduro Storny. 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:02.800 We got that dodo like that you actually say this 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:03.480 and stuff to them. 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:06.720 Yeah, I said, look at the big banana, buddy. 0:32:07.400 --> 0:32:11.560 If Asians don't eat this unless they're Chinese Jamaicans, the 0:32:11.680 --> 0:32:13.800 Chinese Jamaicans eat it because. 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:17.360 The China Chinese have been there since the sixties. And yeah, 0:32:17.520 --> 0:32:20.280 they've been in Jamaica since the sixties. Now they're in Nigeria. Now, 0:32:20.800 --> 0:32:22.920 Chinese are in Ji. When I was in Nigeria last year, 0:32:23.360 --> 0:32:27.360 they're there. They're fixing the infrastructure NIGERI all, it's gonna 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:31.800 be Chinese Jamaicans. There's Chinese. They're gonna be Chinese Chinese Nigeria. 0:32:32.360 --> 0:32:34.160 Hey, then then Chinese Jamaica's next. 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:36.200 There's gonna be Jamaican and they're gonna be nice. 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:39.440 And you're the chicken. You're positive, I don't think so. 0:32:41.200 --> 0:32:42.560 Oh yeah, this is great. Cool? 0:32:43.000 --> 0:32:43.760 You want off? 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:44.720 All right? 0:32:44.720 --> 0:32:46.480 Cool? One dishdown, two dish down. 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:50.080 He has bread, beans and rice. 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:53.640 Yep. The only thing we're waiting on is the plantains. 0:32:54.080 --> 0:32:57.680 All right, cool cool cool? Yeah, uh huh okay. 0:32:57.760 --> 0:32:58.880 So we're in your story. 0:32:59.200 --> 0:32:59.360 Yep. 0:32:59.480 --> 0:33:01.640 You get that advice you break up with your partner, 0:33:02.040 --> 0:33:04.800 my partner, my partner solo. 0:33:05.200 --> 0:33:07.719 Then I moved to New York after about two years. 0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:10.800 Moved to New York driving a U haul truck twenty hours, 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:12.920 twenty something hours and U haul truck pack all my 0:33:12.960 --> 0:33:16.280 shit and with my friend Bernadette, who was in the 0:33:16.360 --> 0:33:19.000 movie Love Jones. If you ever saw Love Jones, you 0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:21.680 ever seen Love Jones. Loved Jones with Lorenz Tate who's 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:25.200 also from Chicago. Lorenz and his brothers Lamar, we're all 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:28.840 Chicago people. And my friend Bernadette who was in love Jones, 0:33:28.840 --> 0:33:29.320 who I went. 0:33:29.200 --> 0:33:31.000 To high school with. She drove with me. 0:33:31.080 --> 0:33:32.960 She goes, Hey, I said, I'm going to New York 0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:35.400 I'm driving. She goes, you know what, I'll come with you. 0:33:35.520 --> 0:33:37.160 And she came with. She's now a director. 0:33:37.200 --> 0:33:39.320 She does a lot of really great ship and so 0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:42.000 we drove all the way to New York City. And 0:33:42.040 --> 0:33:44.280 if you know who Wood Harris is, Yep. Wood Harris 0:33:44.320 --> 0:33:45.000 is Chicago. 0:33:45.000 --> 0:33:46.960 For some reason, I've had a crush on him since 0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:49.880 I was like, that's amazing, isn't that weird? Since I 0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:53.520 was a little girl. He was like good, an adult man, 0:33:53.560 --> 0:33:54.440 it's a weird. 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:56.400 Thing, right, Yeah, it's like it is what it is. 0:33:56.600 --> 0:33:58.480 It is weird though, because it was like a sick 0:33:58.560 --> 0:33:59.840 confession a little kid. 0:34:00.360 --> 0:34:03.960 He is a Chicago guy like and we used to 0:34:04.000 --> 0:34:06.880 go to poetry Slab in Chicago, and I remember when 0:34:06.880 --> 0:34:10.280 he got accepted to Tish and Yu and I remember 0:34:10.280 --> 0:34:13.759 the street. We were on Kinsey Street, downtown Chicago. He's 0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:16.160 outside he goes, Yo, god, man, check it out. I 0:34:16.200 --> 0:34:18.520 got accepted to tish Man. 0:34:18.680 --> 0:34:21.479 Yeah. Man, I just got accepted. I said, damn, that's cool. 0:34:21.560 --> 0:34:23.279 I said, you know what, I'm moving to New York 0:34:23.760 --> 0:34:26.279 next year. I'm planning on doing that. He goes, yeah, man, 0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:27.560 I'm leaving a few months. 0:34:27.600 --> 0:34:27.799 Man. 0:34:28.080 --> 0:34:30.360 So I see you over there, bomb, He's over there. 0:34:30.760 --> 0:34:33.759 So I long story short, I'm driving twenty hours. I 0:34:33.800 --> 0:34:35.480 get to New York City. Bam. 0:34:35.520 --> 0:34:38.560 I'm on sixth Avenue, York, sixth Ave and third Ave 0:34:38.560 --> 0:34:41.640 where we perform in the village. And it said the daytime. 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:43.040 So we tired, and. 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:46.000 I see Wood Harris walking right in front of my 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:47.600 truck going to class. 0:34:48.200 --> 0:34:50.920 This is a year later. And I hanked my horn 0:34:51.000 --> 0:34:54.359 and would I go. He goes, what the fuck? I go, Yo, 0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:57.719 I'm here, bro, I'm here. He's going to class. Shit. 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:00.640 And so we keep driving because I'm supposed to my 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:03.759 managers at the time. I got managers. They're telling me 0:35:03.840 --> 0:35:06.040 guiding me where I should go. They got we got 0:35:06.040 --> 0:35:06.640 you a place. 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:09.960 Oh that was gonna be my next question, like how 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:11.160 are you where are you living? 0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:14.080 I'm living at one hundredth in West End because my friend, 0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:16.200 this guy t. K. Kirkland, who's a comic who's gonna 0:35:16.200 --> 0:35:18.040 be on Club Shasha, and a couple of K T 0:35:18.239 --> 0:35:19.640 to the motherfucker K in July. 0:35:19.760 --> 0:35:20.359 You'll see them. 0:35:20.719 --> 0:35:22.480 He got me my manager because I used to open 0:35:22.520 --> 0:35:24.200 up for him in Chicago. He said, you need to 0:35:24.200 --> 0:35:26.400 come to New York. I got some good managers. If 0:35:26.440 --> 0:35:29.640 anybody knows who Anthony Michael Hall is from Breakfast Club, 0:35:29.680 --> 0:35:32.799 the original Breakfast Club, the movie The Little Blonde Kid, 0:35:33.160 --> 0:35:37.520 his pops was my manager, his dad, Tom Chista, David Kleingman. 0:35:37.640 --> 0:35:41.880 They had John Ley Guizamo, Sandra Bullock, they had Mike Apps, 0:35:41.880 --> 0:35:44.759 a whole bunch of people, and I was another added edition. 0:35:44.800 --> 0:35:48.200 Wow, that was like, yeah fresh when you first get 0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:48.880 into New York. 0:35:48.800 --> 0:35:50.120 Yeah, I have managers. 0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:52.840 So then they take me to this apartment complex. It 0:35:52.920 --> 0:35:56.080 was as a four bedroom place. It was all theater people. 0:35:56.360 --> 0:35:58.200 They said, you're gonna meet somebody. They're gonna meet you 0:35:58.239 --> 0:36:00.399 at the door one hundredth in West and so it's 0:36:00.440 --> 0:36:04.200 almost it's like nighttime, eight, nine o'clock whatever. We get 0:36:04.239 --> 0:36:09.160 to the place and Viola Davis opens the door. She's 0:36:09.200 --> 0:36:12.480 at Juilliard. She's at Juilliard at the time, and she goes, hey, 0:36:12.480 --> 0:36:14.520 you're God figure. I go, yeah, I'm Viola Davis. 0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:15.280 My name is Viola. 0:36:15.680 --> 0:36:18.120 I'm at Juilliard right now doing a play called Seven 0:36:18.160 --> 0:36:20.560 Guitar Go. I said, oh cool, all right, my bren 0:36:20.719 --> 0:36:23.040 is my friend Burna Dad. So he's okay, I'll show 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.279 you to your room and stuff, and showed me to 0:36:25.360 --> 0:36:27.680 my room and then we're unpacking our shit. 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:30.520 Right. So this dude, I guess he's he's an actor too. 0:36:30.640 --> 0:36:33.440 White guy comes out and I'm thinking he must be 0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:35.920 the other roommate. So he's asking me like, Hi, you're 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:39.520 the new I said, yeah, from Chicago. So he comes 0:36:39.520 --> 0:36:41.719 at me like, so what are you going to be 0:36:41.800 --> 0:36:43.440 doing when you're here? Are you going to be like 0:36:43.520 --> 0:36:46.680 having women? He's just being real crazy with me, I said, 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:48.440 And I look at Bernadette. 0:36:48.719 --> 0:36:49.279 Is he talking to me? 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:50.040 Yeah? 0:36:50.080 --> 0:36:53.160 And I said, that's none of your fucking business. How 0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:53.600 about that. 0:36:54.239 --> 0:36:57.520 You remember, I'm already militant as fuck because in Chicago 0:36:57.560 --> 0:36:59.680 I used to go see Minister Farrakhan live when I 0:36:59.680 --> 0:37:01.520 was eighteen, and I would go to Savior's Day. So 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:04.759 I'm down with this FOI and the Nation Islam. I'm 0:37:04.800 --> 0:37:08.000 not enjoying them. But I'm I go she farakhon live. 0:37:08.280 --> 0:37:10.359 I can only imagine what that guy was thinking when 0:37:10.360 --> 0:37:10.840 you said so. 0:37:10.920 --> 0:37:12.160 I was like, who the fuck are you talking to? 0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:14.160 I said, you can't say hi to me, none of that. 0:37:14.600 --> 0:37:16.160 I said, Oh, I'm not in the mood for that 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:19.399 white dude shit right now? Racism is like when when 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:19.960 does it end? 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:21.200 Is it all the time? 0:37:21.360 --> 0:37:23.480 I was like yeah, I said yeah, man, I said, man, 0:37:23.520 --> 0:37:24.560 get the fuck out of my face. 0:37:24.600 --> 0:37:26.239 Man. I just told him, I said, Yo, get the 0:37:26.239 --> 0:37:27.040 fuck out of my face. 0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:29.040 So he goes, I just right to go, my man, 0:37:29.120 --> 0:37:31.480 I'm telling you, I don't I'm not in the mood 0:37:31.520 --> 0:37:33.440 for this. I don't know who the fuck you talk 0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:35.560 to that, but I will get in you. I will 0:37:35.600 --> 0:37:37.320 hit you in your jaw. I'm just gonna punch you 0:37:37.400 --> 0:37:39.719 right in the mouth. The fuck out of here. And 0:37:39.840 --> 0:37:42.680 Viola broke us up. Viola broke us up and then 0:37:42.800 --> 0:37:44.839 pulled me to the room. She closed the door. 0:37:44.880 --> 0:37:48.000 I can't make this shit. Oh, she closed the door. 0:37:48.080 --> 0:37:49.160 She goes, you know what it is. 0:37:49.120 --> 0:37:52.400 Right, Viola's always been pro pro black. That's what I 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:54.759 love about her. She's always been that way. She goes 0:37:54.800 --> 0:37:56.920 you know what it is, right, I said, yeah, man, 0:37:56.920 --> 0:37:57.719 she goes, you come in. 0:37:57.840 --> 0:38:01.080 He was. It was me, his girlfriend and him, so 0:38:01.200 --> 0:38:02.960 he was the white dude of the rule. 0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:04.799 And he goes and here you come, handsome black dude 0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:07.360 coming here, and now he's being threatened. I go, I 0:38:07.440 --> 0:38:11.279 know that white dude shit. That threatening bullshit, and he 0:38:11.320 --> 0:38:14.439 wanted to have everybody. That's what they want. They want 0:38:14.480 --> 0:38:16.920 the black girls and all that. They're the dudes that 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:18.960 be like, why is he with Why are you with him? 0:38:19.400 --> 0:38:22.440 They actually ask people why are you with us? Want 0:38:22.480 --> 0:38:24.239 me to give you a fucking list. 0:38:25.000 --> 0:38:25.480 I said, the. 0:38:25.440 --> 0:38:28.439 Reason why they with you is because of systematic shit. 0:38:28.880 --> 0:38:30.840 That's why they're with you. You ain't got no game. They 0:38:30.840 --> 0:38:33.160 ain't got no game. Anytime I see one of us, 0:38:33.160 --> 0:38:34.920 go with you because you ain't got no game, or 0:38:34.920 --> 0:38:35.719 they're mad at us. 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:38.880 You ain't got no game. Saw trauma bro. 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:42.279 I was telling him that they're mad at us. 0:38:42.520 --> 0:38:45.440 Yeah, black women, Yeah, they're mad at us most of 0:38:45.480 --> 0:38:47.279 the time percent of time. 0:38:47.840 --> 0:38:49.120 I'm t give you that. 0:38:49.160 --> 0:38:50.879 I know it. I give you because I know ones 0:38:51.000 --> 0:38:53.680 that have admitted it. I know it is fed up. 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:55.560 That's the first thing they said when they get mad. 0:38:55.600 --> 0:38:56.400 They'd be like, that's it. 0:38:56.960 --> 0:38:59.560 I'm gonna go to the oppressor. That's what I'm gonna 0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:02.160 go do. And then he opens up. Then he opens 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:04.040 up and says, calls you a nigga. Now you stuck 0:39:04.400 --> 0:39:06.600 because it happened to Halle Berry, who I love to death. 0:39:06.760 --> 0:39:07.319 Happened to her. 0:39:07.440 --> 0:39:10.400 Her husband called it a n word. But now she 0:39:10.520 --> 0:39:13.200 was stuck. Now she's paying this motherfucker eighteen thousand a month. 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:16.799 You talking about So I'm just saying, and Halley's with 0:39:16.960 --> 0:39:17.759 Van Hunt. 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:19.200 Now, which is dope as fuck. I love it. 0:39:19.440 --> 0:39:22.480 But I'm saying though I'm not saying, listen, I'm not 0:39:22.560 --> 0:39:25.719 saying you can't love a person because of who they are. 0:39:25.760 --> 0:39:29.000 But a lot of times it's agenda. Nobody talks about 0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:32.439 that part. Nobody goes there. They just oh, no, it's luck. 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:34.840 Why can't love me? Like I said, yeah, that's a nice. 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:36.920 Hallmark card, but keep it one hundred because I know 0:39:36.960 --> 0:39:39.120 people in relationships that have come. 0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:40.839 To me and told me and said, my boyman called 0:39:40.840 --> 0:39:41.239 me a nigga. 0:39:41.239 --> 0:39:44.080 I said, yeah, of course he did, what you think. 0:39:44.560 --> 0:39:47.080 Of course he called you that, and now you're stuck. 0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:49.719 Now he called you that because that's how he sees you. 0:39:49.880 --> 0:39:53.440 He's not seeing you your humanity. If he never used that, 0:39:53.440 --> 0:39:55.520 that means he really loves you. But yeah, you've kissed 0:39:55.560 --> 0:39:58.640 him off. That's the true test. That's the true test. 0:39:58.880 --> 0:40:00.520 Now you come to me telling me he said that 0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:02.600 to you, I go, what are you gonna do? I 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:06.080 noticed shit when Trump was running in twenty twenty. You 0:40:06.120 --> 0:40:08.839 know how many people flipped. They were like, I can't 0:40:08.880 --> 0:40:10.120 believe my girlfriend. 0:40:10.200 --> 0:40:13.000 She's my brother, but I said, you love white women, 0:40:13.239 --> 0:40:14.600 and now she flipping on you. 0:40:14.800 --> 0:40:17.680 Now she talking at Trump. Shit, what do you think 0:40:17.800 --> 0:40:20.479 was gonna happen that? That dynamic is there. 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:23.600 That's why you got to make sure you ask them questions, man, 0:40:24.040 --> 0:40:26.560 because a lot of times it's fetish she bullshit, and 0:40:26.600 --> 0:40:30.080 they'll play the role just so they can so they 0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:30.360 can be. 0:40:30.400 --> 0:40:33.400 Horizontal with you. But nobody wants to talk about that. 0:40:33.600 --> 0:40:36.759 No, no, it's all facts. So violent pusy into she goes, 0:40:36.800 --> 0:40:37.040 you know. 0:40:37.000 --> 0:40:39.560 What it is, and boom and from there I was cool. 0:40:39.600 --> 0:40:41.600 I stayed there because I had to call my managers 0:40:41.600 --> 0:40:43.399 at the time, all of them. I said, Dave, Tom, 0:40:43.400 --> 0:40:45.120 I'm about to smack the shit out this dude. Oh 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:47.240 my goodness, and then little old Jewish guys like, don't 0:40:47.239 --> 0:40:49.560 do it, God, listen, don't do anything. 0:40:49.600 --> 0:40:51.480 We're coming over there, all right out. 0:40:51.520 --> 0:40:54.920 And I said, no, man, and Tom is Italian, and 0:40:55.320 --> 0:40:57.520 I said, Dave Man. Dave was, when I tell you, 0:40:57.640 --> 0:40:59.880 the nicest human being one of the night. 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:01.279 They're all they've passed away ago. 0:41:01.440 --> 0:41:04.200 But Dave, little Jewish guy, one of the smartest men 0:41:04.200 --> 0:41:07.200 I've ever met in my fucking life. He knew about 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:10.880 the Nigerian civil he knew everything. He was the kindest 0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:15.080 man I've ever literally never said anything crazy out of 0:41:15.080 --> 0:41:20.560 his mouth. Was never like racially, none aside ship. He 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:24.000 was very honest. Yeah, he never whispered when he said 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:24.560 the word. 0:41:24.360 --> 0:41:25.960 Black like that. 0:41:26.000 --> 0:41:28.399 He was just very honest and just love it. He's 0:41:28.480 --> 0:41:31.279 just a good dude man, seriously a good guy man. 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:34.720 And he cared about people and and yeah, man. 0:41:34.640 --> 0:41:39.200 So they talked you off the ledge, Yeah. 0:41:37.920 --> 0:41:40.840 Because five minutes in you're you're really coming at me. 0:41:40.840 --> 0:41:42.480 And this is a house that you all got to 0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:42.799 live in. 0:41:42.960 --> 0:41:45.160 Yeah, And he stayed away after that night. 0:41:45.200 --> 0:41:48.120 I was like, you know, I'm almost imagining this is 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:49.600 like a house like the real world. 0:41:49.920 --> 0:41:52.400 Something like that. But we were gone like I was. 0:41:52.760 --> 0:41:53.759 Everybody was doing their own thing. 0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:56.640 Was headed to Montreal Comedy for that next two days. 0:41:56.640 --> 0:41:59.799 I was gone and Viola was gone. She was doing 0:42:00.680 --> 0:42:01.160 and when I. 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:01.880 Read her book. 0:42:01.920 --> 0:42:04.759 When I read her book, which is by the way, fabulous, 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.759 she wrote it over to COVID her autobiography, there's a 0:42:07.800 --> 0:42:12.080 part where she's living in New York and a certain 0:42:12.360 --> 0:42:14.520 doing this hurtin plan. I was there at the time, 0:42:14.560 --> 0:42:16.719 and I'm reading, I go. I was around and then 0:42:16.760 --> 0:42:19.239 I see bio. Like three four years ago, I saw 0:42:19.360 --> 0:42:22.239 Viola at the ninety two y there's a ymcre where 0:42:22.239 --> 0:42:25.160 they have a stage they have like interviews with celebrities. 0:42:25.200 --> 0:42:26.799 So I went and paid my money. My friend told me, 0:42:26.800 --> 0:42:28.839 by all, who's going to be at the thing, because 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:31.160 she's an egoch now she has all the different awards. 0:42:31.320 --> 0:42:31.839 I said, I'm. 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:33.600 Gonna go, and I'm gonna try to meet her. See 0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:37.400 if she remembers me this year's later. And so I 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:39.480 go and then all the security dudes know me. 0:42:39.520 --> 0:42:41.799 They're like, yo, man, what's good man? Yo? If you 0:42:41.840 --> 0:42:43.560 want to meet her, man, Yo, what got you? I 0:42:43.600 --> 0:42:44.960 was like, yeah, I want to meet her. 0:42:45.400 --> 0:42:47.520 As soon as I walk in, she goes what's up, roomy? 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:49.720 As soon as I walk in her and her husband. 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:52.320 Now, I'm just confused. Why did you think she wouldn't remember? 0:42:52.440 --> 0:42:54.960 I don't know, man, I know. Motherfucker's that dude a 0:42:55.040 --> 0:42:56.920 tampon commercial and act like they don't know me. 0:42:57.040 --> 0:42:59.960 Oh, you got to get a napkin. No, I'm just 0:43:00.080 --> 0:43:02.760 going to try and oh you use the napkins under. 0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:06.080 The forks, because if you've got a paper child. 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:09.440 Yeah, just for now, you're gonna make shift it. Okay, 0:43:09.480 --> 0:43:11.319 makeshift it, make shift it right here. 0:43:11.600 --> 0:43:14.279 Okay, yeah, I just do that, lay it out so 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:15.640 I can it absorbs the oil. 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:20.080 Are you eventually gonna have to eat with me? 0:43:20.320 --> 0:43:23.480 Okay? I know, I just want to So what are 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:24.160 you gonna say? 0:43:24.560 --> 0:43:27.239 So you didn't think for you? It's just interesting because 0:43:27.239 --> 0:43:29.319 when you talk about roomies and stuff, it's like such 0:43:29.320 --> 0:43:31.840 a unique it's like a kindred sister brotherhood. 0:43:32.080 --> 0:43:36.040 But our business, this business is full of phonies and 0:43:36.120 --> 0:43:38.160 people when they do when they get a little bit, 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:40.120 like they say they do a little better than you, 0:43:40.160 --> 0:43:41.319 all of a sudden, they don't know you. 0:43:41.760 --> 0:43:43.759 All of a sudden, they're not calling you anymore. And 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:45.480 you've been through the trenches with people. 0:43:45.840 --> 0:43:47.919 And I didn't even know Violin like that. I didn't 0:43:47.960 --> 0:43:50.560 stay that long. There was there a good half a year. 0:43:50.680 --> 0:43:53.080 I was there for a little bit. And it's not 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:55.680 like we hung out and ate together. 0:43:55.760 --> 0:43:57.080 No, we're roommates. 0:43:57.680 --> 0:44:00.680 And the fact that when I walked in, she goes, 0:44:00.680 --> 0:44:02.800 what's up, roomy and we started laughing. I got photos 0:44:02.800 --> 0:44:06.040 with it, man, it's amazing. I'll show you after she 0:44:06.600 --> 0:44:08.759 and I goes, do you remember that fight me? And 0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:12.080 she goes, hell, yeah, broken up? She goes, I ended 0:44:12.160 --> 0:44:13.640 up fighting that motherfucker too. 0:44:14.000 --> 0:44:15.080 No way, yep. 0:44:15.280 --> 0:44:18.359 That's funny because he was like his girlfriend and girl 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:20.400 he was dating at that there were four. She was 0:44:20.400 --> 0:44:22.440 an alcoholic. I think she had passed away. It was 0:44:22.480 --> 0:44:24.680 just a lot of real raggedy shit. So I was 0:44:24.760 --> 0:44:27.719 just running into a he was having problems with his chick. 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:29.759 He was taking it out on It was just I 0:44:29.800 --> 0:44:32.239 didn't know. But I was just like, who's this. 0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:35.880 Guy talking to I'm like, fucking yeah. So I was 0:44:35.960 --> 0:44:38.239 like one of those dudes. And I was like militant too. 0:44:38.320 --> 0:44:41.480 I'm like and I'm still like that, but I'm not 0:44:42.840 --> 0:44:45.160 even my white friends go, I understand, I said, pro 0:44:45.200 --> 0:44:48.359 black don't mean anti white, brother, pro white means anti black. Yeah, 0:44:48.680 --> 0:44:51.120 I said, I'm not anti white bro. I'm just proud 0:44:51.120 --> 0:44:53.640 of what I am. I'm proud of what the fuck 0:44:53.719 --> 0:44:56.680 I look like. I'm proud of our ship because we're dope. 0:44:57.080 --> 0:44:59.440 You know how I know because you copy us, your 0:44:59.600 --> 0:45:03.600 copy us. Every step you can't live without black people. 0:45:04.840 --> 0:45:08.120 Every TikTok is copying us. You either pop, locking, your 0:45:08.200 --> 0:45:12.239 DJ and your fucking d Everything the lexicon changes because 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:15.200 of us. Oh that was lit, that's us, that was this, 0:45:15.320 --> 0:45:17.759 that was dope, that's us. Your handshakes as us. 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:20.040 We bring you in and go, whoa, what up? Man? 0:45:20.160 --> 0:45:22.480 What's good man? You do the same shit as we do. 0:45:22.800 --> 0:45:24.880 You copy us, and then you get mad when we 0:45:24.960 --> 0:45:27.640 ask you where the origin is? The origin is us? 0:45:27.640 --> 0:45:29.040 Now you go, why does it got to be about? 0:45:29.080 --> 0:45:30.440 What do you mean? What does it gotta be about? 0:45:30.640 --> 0:45:33.399 It is about that because you don't see us as 0:45:33.560 --> 0:45:36.480 human beings. You see us as some fucking amusement park. 0:45:36.960 --> 0:45:40.160 You were like a Niggaville to you. And we get 0:45:40.160 --> 0:45:43.239 on a ride because we're like a ride to you. 0:45:43.320 --> 0:45:45.360 I'm being like, we're like fun to you. Hey. But 0:45:45.400 --> 0:45:46.720 then when we ask for humanity. 0:45:46.760 --> 0:45:50.000 Now, oh no, Now you guys just want to so 0:45:50.360 --> 0:45:54.000 you just want product from us, and we can't receive humanity. 0:45:54.320 --> 0:45:57.480 We're asking for humanity. You're making billions. 0:45:57.040 --> 0:45:59.760 Off of black culture. You want to talk about basketball 0:45:59.760 --> 0:46:01.040 for but you want to talk about all that shit. 0:46:01.440 --> 0:46:03.319 We're the ones changing the culture, not you. 0:46:04.640 --> 0:46:05.160 So do you. 0:46:05.120 --> 0:46:09.040 Think by any chance that you being quote unquote pro 0:46:09.200 --> 0:46:13.120 black the reputation of militant? Sorry about these mics. 0:46:13.400 --> 0:46:13.879 It's so good. 0:46:14.080 --> 0:46:15.880 It's the way we designed the table. 0:46:16.480 --> 0:46:18.960 It's not being pro blacklat Do you think. 0:46:18.840 --> 0:46:20.799 At times that that has hindered you? 0:46:22.360 --> 0:46:24.799 I guess though, But I just think me being black 0:46:24.840 --> 0:46:26.439 has hindered me because beans and rice. 0:46:26.719 --> 0:46:28.759 I think that being black has hindered me because there's 0:46:28.800 --> 0:46:29.760 just racist. 0:46:31.440 --> 0:46:33.959 Because there's black people. I think there's they choose. We're 0:46:34.000 --> 0:46:36.040 like action figures. They choose what they want to be 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:36.520 played with. 0:46:36.719 --> 0:46:38.680 Yeah, I was gonna say that to me. There's such 0:46:38.680 --> 0:46:40.319 thing as the quote unquote safe black. 0:46:40.360 --> 0:46:41.360 There's the safe black. 0:46:41.480 --> 0:46:43.400 One day, I did a whole thing where I watched 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:45.399 a whole like a couple of hours of safe Black 0:46:45.400 --> 0:46:46.120 people on TV. 0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:49.080 There was a thing a Safe Negro Day. It was 0:46:49.120 --> 0:46:50.120 my safe Negro day? 0:46:50.400 --> 0:46:51.279 Is that a thing for real? 0:46:51.520 --> 0:46:53.440 No? I just for myself. I said, I want to 0:46:53.440 --> 0:46:55.839 watch these black people that work all the time. I 0:46:55.880 --> 0:46:57.160 want to see what the difference was. 0:46:57.360 --> 0:47:02.239 I go, Wow, maw, chicken, you guys are fucking safe. 0:47:02.440 --> 0:47:03.120 God damn. 0:47:03.960 --> 0:47:07.640 Who like Denzel I relate to fishmur and I relate 0:47:07.680 --> 0:47:08.560 to Samuel Jackson. 0:47:08.600 --> 0:47:10.799 I relate to because they talk their shit. Yeah. 0:47:10.920 --> 0:47:13.280 I relate to them because they balance it out. They'll 0:47:13.360 --> 0:47:16.680 say stuff, but in a certain way. But I don't 0:47:16.719 --> 0:47:19.960 fuck with the people that just never say anything about anything. 0:47:20.239 --> 0:47:22.360 But have you seen it on the behind the scenes? 0:47:22.400 --> 0:47:23.160 It hinder you. 0:47:23.960 --> 0:47:27.560 I don't think no, because I don't go around doing that. 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:29.680 Hook it up. 0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:31.480 I don't go around doing that. 0:47:31.680 --> 0:47:34.319 Every You're asking me a question and I'm just, but 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:36.520 I don't go around. I don't treat people wrong. I'm 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:39.360 very nice to people. I'm very because I love myself. 0:47:39.840 --> 0:47:43.360 When you have knowledge of self, when you love yourself, 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:46.759 you treat people. You emanate the same thing. I hurt people. 0:47:46.840 --> 0:47:50.120 Hurt people, man. I don't treat people. My friends that 0:47:50.200 --> 0:47:51.600 are white men, I treat them. 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:54.800 I care about them. I've had my friends drunk white 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:56.600 One of my best buddies. 0:47:56.640 --> 0:47:59.120 Chad white dude drink a lot, all kinds of shit 0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:01.640 him out of all his stupid man. 0:48:01.640 --> 0:48:04.279 I got him the exercise because I care about him. 0:48:04.320 --> 0:48:07.960 Many I don't care. But the problem is the people 0:48:08.000 --> 0:48:10.919 who cause the oppression get mad when you're just trying 0:48:10.920 --> 0:48:12.960 to find a little dignity in yourself. They find it 0:48:13.000 --> 0:48:13.520 as a threat. 0:48:13.560 --> 0:48:16.120 That's weird, I think, just the mere acknowledgement of it, 0:48:16.160 --> 0:48:18.480 because goes through it. Now, let's judge your food. Let's 0:48:18.520 --> 0:48:18.920 judge it. 0:48:18.960 --> 0:48:21.719 Okay, let's see it. 0:48:22.120 --> 0:48:23.359 Did you flavor of the beans at all? 0:48:25.160 --> 0:48:30.480 But garlic and salt on it? Not bad? It's good, right, 0:48:30.920 --> 0:48:36.040 I like, not bad, not bad for a brokeness, I know, broke. 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:39.320 Okay, now, let's trust your wings broke. 0:48:39.080 --> 0:48:44.200 Clean, crunch, eat and good ad. That's right. I didn't 0:48:44.440 --> 0:48:48.560 go crazy with the seizing, but I like it crunchy. 0:48:49.719 --> 0:48:52.799 Impressed with the crunch though, I love it crunching. Yeah, 0:48:52.840 --> 0:48:54.680 but I don't know how you did it. You did 0:48:54.680 --> 0:49:01.040 a really good job. How did you do that? Do 0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:03.400 you like the soft inside? That's the boiling? 0:49:04.719 --> 0:49:09.360 That's good? Yes? How much of that is? Man? 0:49:10.200 --> 0:49:11.400 I'm impressed with the crust. 0:49:11.800 --> 0:49:12.840 Yeah, I love the crunch? 0:49:13.239 --> 0:49:22.160 How would you do that? High heat? Tell me there's 0:49:22.160 --> 0:49:27.279 some there's some listener out there like just jar. I 0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:30.200 know it's olive oil, But how did you get the crunch? 0:49:31.080 --> 0:49:33.960 Is it the cover? Yeah, it's just yeah, the cover. 0:49:34.040 --> 0:49:37.560 You leave it there for longer than you expect. Hold 0:49:37.560 --> 0:49:41.239 on you watch it. Great crush. You did better than 0:49:41.280 --> 0:49:42.319 a sauce boy who. 0:49:43.320 --> 0:49:46.200 I'm not gonna lie. The crust is thoroughly impressive because 0:49:46.200 --> 0:49:47.840 I've never had a crush. I've never been able to 0:49:47.880 --> 0:49:52.319 do that. Yeah, okay, good, good job. 0:49:52.719 --> 0:49:55.360 Down and it's something you can eat. 0:49:55.120 --> 0:49:59.840 No, you don't eat like this now sometimes Yeah, okay, 0:50:00.080 --> 0:50:00.560 he's like that. 0:50:00.600 --> 0:50:04.839 Hell yeah, they never going down style see it. That's 0:50:04.880 --> 0:50:05.839 a good combination too. 0:50:06.040 --> 0:50:08.719 Oh yeah, this is just so you know. This is 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:11.120 a great lunch. Did you have lunch yet? 0:50:11.320 --> 0:50:11.560 Nope? 0:50:12.800 --> 0:50:15.480 Sweat right off the plane in the kitchen, in the 0:50:15.600 --> 0:50:19.960 kitchen sweating. Now when you see all these people that 0:50:20.040 --> 0:50:24.400 you were grew up basically we're in the trenches. But yeah, 0:50:24.520 --> 0:50:27.480 some of them hit the move. How does that? How 0:50:27.480 --> 0:50:30.359 do you deal with knowing that these people were your 0:50:30.400 --> 0:50:32.200 running mates and some of them have surpassed some of 0:50:32.280 --> 0:50:32.760 them may. 0:50:32.600 --> 0:50:34.960 Not have I'm happy for a lot of people, especially 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:37.320 when they've worked hard. There's some people that go how 0:50:37.520 --> 0:50:40.200 but you could just be friends with the right person. 0:50:40.400 --> 0:50:42.560 It's all kinds of factors. 0:50:42.560 --> 0:50:44.399 So you but you do have that moment of because 0:50:44.400 --> 0:50:46.720 you deal with I'm like, shure. 0:50:46.800 --> 0:50:50.960 How you get that. That's normal. But there's healthy competition, 0:50:51.080 --> 0:50:52.000 there's inspiration. 0:50:52.520 --> 0:50:55.200 But then there's people that get to a level and 0:50:55.239 --> 0:50:57.239 there are pieces of ship George, the people that came 0:50:57.280 --> 0:50:58.960 up and I go, oh, I fuck you. 0:50:59.239 --> 0:51:02.160 Yeah, I don't play that shit. Ye I get anywhere. 0:51:03.000 --> 0:51:04.480 I don't even let it get to me like that 0:51:04.520 --> 0:51:06.799 because it's okay, that's great, but this is transient. 0:51:06.880 --> 0:51:08.360 It comes up and goes up and down. 0:51:08.600 --> 0:51:08.839 Yeah. 0:51:09.239 --> 0:51:11.520 I always wanted to be able. If I in a position, 0:51:11.560 --> 0:51:13.480 I want to bring my friends with me. Man, get 0:51:13.520 --> 0:51:14.880 that guy or that girl. 0:51:14.719 --> 0:51:16.600 She's been working. I want that. 0:51:17.040 --> 0:51:19.040 But a lot of people will pull the ladder up 0:51:20.000 --> 0:51:23.000 and not want anybody to come up, which is insane 0:51:23.080 --> 0:51:24.960 to me, because you got up there through the help 0:51:24.960 --> 0:51:25.480 of others. 0:51:25.760 --> 0:51:28.000 Yeah, you come off that way. When I first met you, 0:51:28.200 --> 0:51:30.560 of course, everyone knows who you are and you walk 0:51:30.600 --> 0:51:32.399 in the room, we know who you are. But the 0:51:32.440 --> 0:51:34.959 fact that you're so approachable and oh yeah, sure, here's 0:51:34.960 --> 0:51:38.680 my number, let's set it up. I just want everyone 0:51:38.719 --> 0:51:43.360 out there to know that, Okay, without cameras, without anything, 0:51:43.640 --> 0:51:46.000 completely who you say you are. 0:51:46.360 --> 0:51:50.080 Yeah, it's just easier. I'm going to be two people. 0:51:50.280 --> 0:51:52.200 It's hard to be in your so you wanna be 0:51:52.280 --> 0:51:53.080 another motherfucker? 0:51:53.239 --> 0:51:57.160 Yeah, that's like corny, and I've seen it, like unless 0:51:57.160 --> 0:51:59.279 something tragic happens to you and then all of a sudden. 0:51:59.040 --> 0:52:02.239 You found your humanity, Like why did that? What it took? 0:52:02.800 --> 0:52:04.239 It took a brick to hit you in the head 0:52:04.280 --> 0:52:06.279 from a building like home with that. 0:52:06.480 --> 0:52:09.239 But now it's so funny because I met someone that 0:52:09.320 --> 0:52:10.960 did that day, like went through I don't know, cans, 0:52:11.080 --> 0:52:14.960 scar something. Everywhere they went. They had the preach of 0:52:15.040 --> 0:52:16.440 Jesus before. 0:52:17.280 --> 0:52:21.120 Yeah, and I'm not perfect, don't get me wrong. Someone 0:52:21.120 --> 0:52:24.960 approached me crazy. I go, you talking to you? 0:52:25.400 --> 0:52:27.480 You're a typical New Yorker in my book. 0:52:27.440 --> 0:52:30.000 Yeah, I'm like, yo, why are you talking to me 0:52:30.080 --> 0:52:32.279 like that? Why are you talking disrespectful me? I don't 0:52:32.280 --> 0:52:33.319 come in disrespectful. 0:52:33.360 --> 0:52:34.719 I don't. I'm very nice to. 0:52:34.719 --> 0:52:37.000 People because my parents taught me that you'd be nice 0:52:37.000 --> 0:52:38.879 to be, but you don't let anybody push you over either. 0:52:39.280 --> 0:52:41.839 You stand your ground. I balance it out. Yo. 0:52:41.920 --> 0:52:43.960 You talk to me crazy, but for fuck you back 0:52:44.680 --> 0:52:47.279 now all of a sudden, I'm the asshole. You'll go, Yo, 0:52:47.400 --> 0:52:49.480 that got godfe his asshole. But you didn't tell you're 0:52:49.520 --> 0:52:52.399 part of the story. You forgot, you left that out. 0:52:52.840 --> 0:52:54.879 You were a piece of shit, And I answered you back, 0:52:55.560 --> 0:52:57.359 What do you want me to do? 0:52:57.360 --> 0:52:57.920 You know what I mean? 0:52:58.120 --> 0:53:01.640 So I but I but most of the time, everything 0:53:01.760 --> 0:53:04.120 is good, man, keep environment. I like to work like 0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:06.200 I just did my grace of God, give my my 0:53:06.280 --> 0:53:10.120 Comedy Central special. Take Comedy Special at the Apollo Theater. 0:53:11.160 --> 0:53:18.440 I just have really wonderful people raise Rachel Frasier, Amanda I, Dias, Kimberly, 0:53:18.480 --> 0:53:19.040 got just. 0:53:18.960 --> 0:53:21.240 A whole cruel women that just got it done. 0:53:21.520 --> 0:53:23.920 I got. I shot it last Thursday. I shot it 0:53:23.960 --> 0:53:27.839 on June twelfth. I shot two shows, sold out and 0:53:28.040 --> 0:53:30.320 we shot it and were and I cannot I'm looking 0:53:30.880 --> 0:53:33.520 so forward. It was so great because I've been seven 0:53:33.600 --> 0:53:35.920 years over due to shoot my next special. Because some 0:53:35.960 --> 0:53:38.520 of these networks have ignored a lot of comedians for 0:53:38.520 --> 0:53:38.919 some reason. 0:53:38.960 --> 0:53:40.920 Because you noticed that always picked the same old people. 0:53:41.000 --> 0:53:44.040 I was gonna say, there the way of selection. Some 0:53:44.080 --> 0:53:45.840 of these comics, I just some of them are like 0:53:45.920 --> 0:53:49.360 I just go yeah. I'm like, but backtrack just a 0:53:49.360 --> 0:53:51.719 little bit because there's a question. You let it there. 0:53:51.760 --> 0:53:54.200 But what was that point in your career where you 0:53:54.200 --> 0:53:56.759 were like, Okay, this is I'm picking up a pace 0:53:56.840 --> 0:53:57.800 or I'm a ride. 0:53:58.160 --> 0:54:03.160 Book seven Up. After Orlandel Jones he was a spokesperson 0:54:03.160 --> 0:54:03.719 for seven Up. 0:54:03.719 --> 0:54:06.799 As a second guy after him, I was like, okay, shit, 0:54:07.320 --> 0:54:09.880 I got I'm a spokesperson for an American product. I 0:54:09.880 --> 0:54:12.680 always wanted to that. You got the progressive lady, you 0:54:12.760 --> 0:54:14.880 got Jake, Jake from State. 0:54:17.160 --> 0:54:17.719 Consistent. 0:54:18.160 --> 0:54:19.480 I was like, this is alright. 0:54:19.600 --> 0:54:23.160 I'm doing stuff on MTV because seven up is sponsoring MTV. 0:54:23.239 --> 0:54:24.320 I'm doing spring Break. 0:54:24.360 --> 0:54:27.440 I was like, hell, I was in the culture the 0:54:27.480 --> 0:54:30.480 top culture like, I'm on MTV with Carson Daily. 0:54:30.560 --> 0:54:35.080 What the fuck? I said. 0:54:35.480 --> 0:54:37.600 I didn't think, oh, this is it. I just thought 0:54:37.640 --> 0:54:39.399 this is a stepping stone, this is great. 0:54:39.560 --> 0:54:41.560 I didn't think it's gonna last forever that this is. 0:54:41.920 --> 0:54:45.640 But this guy named rod Asa, who was running MTV 0:54:45.719 --> 0:54:47.480 I will never forget, and he looked out for me. 0:54:47.520 --> 0:54:50.120 He said, I love you are talented. I want you 0:54:50.200 --> 0:54:53.239 part of MTV. I'm looking for that guy. He was 0:54:53.400 --> 0:54:57.040 so good to me. He got me on two seasons. 0:54:57.680 --> 0:55:00.920 I hosted the spring Break. Then I did stuff, talking 0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:03.000 head stuff on MTV in the eighties. I loved it. 0:55:03.440 --> 0:55:05.440 It just merged and I was in the mix. 0:55:06.200 --> 0:55:07.960 I wasn't getting paid a gang of loop, but I 0:55:08.040 --> 0:55:10.640 was just happy to be in the culture. 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:12.239 But you were, and you were but at this time 0:55:12.360 --> 0:55:15.160 doing comedy. And there's no side jobs because I haven't 0:55:15.200 --> 0:55:18.279 heard but the whole New York journey, I haven't heard 0:55:18.320 --> 0:55:19.000 any sign No. 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:22.600 I never have one. I had jobs in Chicago out 0:55:22.600 --> 0:55:23.040 of college. 0:55:23.040 --> 0:55:24.480 I was at the grocery store when me and my 0:55:24.480 --> 0:55:26.399 brother and my sister were all grocery store kids. 0:55:26.520 --> 0:55:28.880 My sister did the register when she was in college. 0:55:29.520 --> 0:55:32.360 My brother did inventory. He stayed in the grocery business 0:55:32.400 --> 0:55:34.280 for twenty years. I did produce. 0:55:34.480 --> 0:55:37.800 I worked in produce, inventory, bagging groceries since I was fifteen. 0:55:38.520 --> 0:55:41.880 I worked at furniture stores in college when I was 0:55:41.880 --> 0:55:45.480 playing football and everything. They got us summer jobs. I 0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:50.480 was doing construction shit. I was doing telemarketing shit. I 0:55:50.520 --> 0:55:52.719 did jobs man, I had jobs, but in New York 0:55:52.719 --> 0:55:56.400 I never had a job again now but busted my 0:55:56.440 --> 0:55:58.320 ass and gigs, slept on cultures. 0:55:59.000 --> 0:56:01.520 Oh that's what you did, my man, did you did 0:56:01.560 --> 0:56:02.880 you say before coming though? 0:56:03.400 --> 0:56:06.960 Not really? I had gigs though. 0:56:07.520 --> 0:56:09.160 And to go back with your parents, To go back 0:56:09.200 --> 0:56:11.400 to the conversation with your parents. Are you calling bluff? 0:56:11.400 --> 0:56:13.360 Are you lying? Are you like? Oh, everything's great? 0:56:13.480 --> 0:56:13.680 You know. 0:56:13.800 --> 0:56:16.319 I said I'm making it and they were like, yeah, 0:56:16.320 --> 0:56:18.120 I mean I don't have all the money in the world, 0:56:18.160 --> 0:56:21.600 but I'm on a couch, but I'm getting gigs, doing 0:56:21.600 --> 0:56:22.360 the urban circuit. 0:56:22.400 --> 0:56:24.280 I was getting money cash in my pocket. 0:56:24.520 --> 0:56:28.279 And were they in sorry, were they in support of it? 0:56:27.600 --> 0:56:31.080 Yeah? It was a survival thing and you are you surviving? Okay? 0:56:31.400 --> 0:56:33.560 And then when they see I was getting things here 0:56:33.600 --> 0:56:34.120 and there. 0:56:34.440 --> 0:56:35.520 They start seeing you on TV. 0:56:35.840 --> 0:56:38.600 Oh man, When I was talking about my dad on TV, 0:56:38.680 --> 0:56:40.680 that was one of my most famous jokes. 0:56:40.719 --> 0:56:43.560 Like everybody was calling my father. My father was like, 0:56:43.640 --> 0:56:47.880 I like this commity thing. This is really good because 0:56:47.880 --> 0:56:48.560 he loved anything. 0:56:48.960 --> 0:56:53.800 He's very Really he's a comedian, I said, Dad Cosby 0:56:53.880 --> 0:56:54.920 is not Doctor Huxtable. 0:56:55.200 --> 0:56:59.120 Bill Cosby is a comedian Jerry Sipo is a comedian. 0:56:59.239 --> 0:57:02.000 They're a comedian. He was like, oh, this is good 0:57:02.360 --> 0:57:04.399 because I was surviving. He said, yeah, if you were 0:57:04.480 --> 0:57:06.879 like in Psychiago, one would know you. This is good. 0:57:07.160 --> 0:57:07.640 He loved that. 0:57:07.960 --> 0:57:11.120 Now, did your parents did anyone catch on early on 0:57:11.160 --> 0:57:14.480 of your impersonations and all that I used. 0:57:14.320 --> 0:57:16.320 To do muhama leave when I was living, Nobody really 0:57:16.360 --> 0:57:16.960 thought about it. 0:57:17.000 --> 0:57:20.720 I didn't really do impersonations a lot until later on 0:57:20.840 --> 0:57:23.320 in my career because my manager told me, the guy 0:57:23.440 --> 0:57:26.760 that the little Jewish guy, David Klingman, he told me, 0:57:26.840 --> 0:57:31.080 don't do your impersonations right away. Make sure you build 0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:34.560 your material, and then when you bring in your your impersonations, 0:57:34.560 --> 0:57:37.840 it'll add to the arsenal. He was right, He was 0:57:37.920 --> 0:57:39.760 right on point. He said, don't do it too much 0:57:39.800 --> 0:57:40.840 because you look corny. 0:57:40.920 --> 0:57:41.880 But they knew about it. 0:57:41.920 --> 0:57:45.360 Everyone. Oh yeah, I could do accents that your languages quickly. 0:57:45.400 --> 0:57:47.360 I can just spit it back at you. 0:57:47.720 --> 0:57:49.640 And I was good at in mimicking people, so I 0:57:49.720 --> 0:57:51.920 was like, okay, I'll save it. So then when I 0:57:51.960 --> 0:57:55.000 got I don't even have to do impersonation. Some guys 0:57:55.240 --> 0:57:56.400 have to do an impersonation. 0:57:57.280 --> 0:57:59.280 So you built up your talent in this other area 0:57:59.320 --> 0:58:01.280 because he already knew you were strong in this. 0:58:01.280 --> 0:58:06.040 Other And during COVID is where everybody was like, yeah, 0:58:06.440 --> 0:58:08.200 I didn't know you could do all them voice. 0:58:08.040 --> 0:58:10.240 I said, I was never on a TV show. SNL 0:58:10.320 --> 0:58:12.960 rejected me. I didn't get on Mad TV. No, So 0:58:13.080 --> 0:58:15.400 all the sketch shows never picked me for so it 0:58:15.520 --> 0:58:18.640 was what it was. But yeah, so I said, now 0:58:18.640 --> 0:58:21.760 we got this thing called the phone, and social media 0:58:21.800 --> 0:58:22.640 has changed the game. 0:58:22.680 --> 0:58:23.800 Ain't nobody fucking with TV? 0:58:23.920 --> 0:58:24.080 Really? 0:58:24.160 --> 0:58:26.440 There're more phones than people. 0:58:27.200 --> 0:58:31.280 And I was watching Dame Dash on a live during 0:58:31.320 --> 0:58:33.320 COVID and his friend is you don't have that, you 0:58:33.320 --> 0:58:33.880 have the box. 0:58:34.320 --> 0:58:35.760 And his friend's talking and was like, Yo, so what 0:58:35.800 --> 0:58:37.560 you're gonna do? Man? During COVID he said, Man, what 0:58:37.600 --> 0:58:38.760 you think I'm gonna do? Man? 0:58:38.760 --> 0:58:41.400 We gotta create? Man, Fuck that man, everybody is sitting 0:58:41.440 --> 0:58:43.439 at home doing nothing. He said, if you're an artist 0:58:43.480 --> 0:58:46.400 and you ain't creating, you stupid. And I said, okay, 0:58:46.560 --> 0:58:48.480 got it. And I just said, let me turn this 0:58:48.560 --> 0:58:50.480 phone on. It's doing Steve. 0:58:50.560 --> 0:58:52.880 Hey, I'm gonna tell you this right now. Steve Harvey 0:58:53.320 --> 0:58:56.480 five Top five answers on the board. Here's the question 0:58:56.520 --> 0:58:59.760 I was on it Trump. I was like, this is 0:58:59.880 --> 0:59:03.320 the very good show. It's show great. Can you believe it? 0:59:03.760 --> 0:59:07.520 We're here cooking because I'm broke. I've never been broke, 0:59:07.600 --> 0:59:09.840 So she's broke, but I'm not broke. But it's a 0:59:09.880 --> 0:59:11.880 good show. I'm very proud to be about this show. 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:15.640 A lot of people that are broke because of my presidency. 0:59:15.760 --> 0:59:19.320 I'm all about money. 0:59:19.480 --> 0:59:21.240 So all right, you got to do one Jay though, 0:59:22.480 --> 0:59:22.840 jay Z. 0:59:23.280 --> 0:59:28.080 Everyone does Z crazy Yo. Yo, it's over, Yo, it's 0:59:28.120 --> 0:59:30.240 over because I'm eating. Well, I'm broke because it ain't 0:59:30.280 --> 0:59:30.720 no joke. 0:59:30.800 --> 0:59:33.640 Oh shit, yo, making the chicken, Oh the shit, his 0:59:33.760 --> 0:59:36.160 finger licked, got the platinum in the rice. 0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:38.240 Everything nice. 0:59:38.960 --> 0:59:41.760 So you did that and that Now you're killing social 0:59:41.800 --> 0:59:44.000 media too. How does that make you feel though? To 0:59:44.040 --> 0:59:46.880 be able to dominate, to just literally pick up on 0:59:46.920 --> 0:59:47.440 a platform. 0:59:47.440 --> 0:59:48.920 And and now I want to give a shout out to 0:59:49.000 --> 0:59:51.520 King Batch, Renny D Storm and his. 0:59:51.600 --> 0:59:53.800 Crew, a good friend of mine by oh. 0:59:53.760 --> 0:59:56.120 Yeah on the social media people that I did sketches 0:59:56.160 --> 0:59:58.400 with that went viral as ship, thank you for letting 0:59:58.400 --> 0:59:59.280 me into your world. 0:59:59.440 --> 1:00:02.439 Join me. How you guys can share and everybody can win. Yeah, 1:00:02.680 --> 1:00:05.240 that's not my era. My era was everybody hog up 1:00:05.240 --> 1:00:07.320 everything insecurity and all that. 1:00:07.400 --> 1:00:10.800 I'm just keeping in one hundred. But they were like, Yo, 1:00:10.920 --> 1:00:13.000 this is what we do. Get in a sketch, get 1:00:13.040 --> 1:00:14.840 in with us. They're all eating. 1:00:14.880 --> 1:00:15.040 Now. 1:00:15.040 --> 1:00:16.200 How did you meet that group? 1:00:16.920 --> 1:00:19.840 Through Rennie who looks like me and he's a Haitian 1:00:19.880 --> 1:00:22.720 kid out of Queen's We started doing stepfather son shit 1:00:22.920 --> 1:00:25.080 and that went viral and then I said, hey, man, 1:00:25.080 --> 1:00:26.320 I want to link up with King Batch. 1:00:26.880 --> 1:00:28.479 He called Batch, came to New York. 1:00:29.240 --> 1:00:31.720 We did a sketch Safari was there were in the 1:00:31.800 --> 1:00:36.120 hotel room Hotel Knickerbocker. Batch goes, Yo, I'm in New York. 1:00:36.160 --> 1:00:38.600 I said, Yo, I'm coming over there. So the one 1:00:38.640 --> 1:00:40.360 of the most famous sketches I did with them was 1:00:40.400 --> 1:00:43.000 the Noisy neighbor joint. I come in, I go, yo, 1:00:43.360 --> 1:00:46.080 could you keep it down? I come back, Yo, who's showering? 1:00:46.120 --> 1:00:48.840 Man? Turns the shower down it. Then I come in again. 1:00:48.880 --> 1:00:50.240 I go, yo, who's doodoing? Yoyo? 1:00:50.280 --> 1:00:52.960 Doodoos is mad loud man, they're splashing, man, Yo, let 1:00:53.000 --> 1:00:54.560 the duodos hit the side of the bowl. 1:00:54.600 --> 1:00:54.800 Man. 1:00:55.000 --> 1:00:58.120 I'm trying to sleep Man, Your dudos was mad heavy yo. 1:00:58.680 --> 1:01:01.000 When I did that, sketch made it up ten minutes. 1:01:01.000 --> 1:01:04.880 We shot it the next day. This is one thing 1:01:04.920 --> 1:01:08.240 about New York when when city workers stop you, that's 1:01:08.280 --> 1:01:10.640 when you know you're doing well. They don't give a 1:01:10.640 --> 1:01:13.560 fuck about nobody. These niggas in a garbage truck like, yo, 1:01:13.640 --> 1:01:17.520 my men, your doodles is mad loud baby, And I 1:01:17.600 --> 1:01:19.160 was like what, And I didn't think about it. 1:01:19.200 --> 1:01:20.960 I was like, you're talking, Mike Goes, nigga. 1:01:20.960 --> 1:01:24.160 You don't know your ship's firing on Facebook, son, we 1:01:24.520 --> 1:01:25.480 crying right now. 1:01:26.080 --> 1:01:28.080 And then bus drivers like you want to run, yo, 1:01:28.120 --> 1:01:30.040 Your doodoles is mad loud baby. 1:01:31.240 --> 1:01:34.400 And that's when I knew, God, damn, I'm reaching everybody. 1:01:34.560 --> 1:01:37.640 This is international too. And when I was doing another schedule, 1:01:37.720 --> 1:01:40.520 King Batch and his crew we were in Times Square. 1:01:40.600 --> 1:01:43.720 There were people from all over the world going, King Badge, 1:01:43.760 --> 1:01:46.560 I watch all yours and I knew. I said, oh, 1:01:46.600 --> 1:01:48.760 this is it, so King Batch is good. It's one 1:01:48.760 --> 1:01:51.040 of my little bros, King Badges, my little bro. Renny's 1:01:51.040 --> 1:01:51.560 my little bro. 1:01:52.040 --> 1:01:53.360 So I fucked with them. 1:01:53.400 --> 1:01:57.160 They really really got it. They guided me very well. 1:01:57.480 --> 1:01:59.680 They guided me to to the utmost. I always thank 1:01:59.760 --> 1:02:01.840 them for that too, and and I and I, and 1:02:01.840 --> 1:02:04.520 it's my it's a new point of relevance now. 1:02:04.640 --> 1:02:07.080 Yeah, it's like that's what That's what I'm saying, like 1:02:07.120 --> 1:02:09.800 for you to dominate on the stage, for you to dominate. 1:02:09.640 --> 1:02:13.919 And in social media and podcasting, and yeah, man, Joe 1:02:13.960 --> 1:02:17.920 Rogan changed the game. Joe Budden's changing the game. Charlotte 1:02:17.920 --> 1:02:20.480 Mayne's changing the game. Yeah, Andrews. A lot of these 1:02:20.480 --> 1:02:23.160 guys changing the game. And Bill Urd with his pocket. 1:02:23.240 --> 1:02:24.960 It's just it's Mark Maren. 1:02:25.200 --> 1:02:27.680 Yeah. I did Marens twice. I did his podcast. 1:02:27.840 --> 1:02:29.000 I love Mark Maron. 1:02:29.240 --> 1:02:31.920 And I know Mark. I started out knowing Mark. When 1:02:31.920 --> 1:02:33.280 I first got to New York. I was always on 1:02:33.320 --> 1:02:35.400 the same lineup as Mark Maren. Yeah, with all his 1:02:35.520 --> 1:02:38.600 sarcasm is yeah, I started out with Mark Maron. 1:02:38.640 --> 1:02:40.520 I shot a pilot with Mark Maren. Yeah. 1:02:40.560 --> 1:02:43.080 Man, his interviews on this show is one of my favorites. 1:02:43.280 --> 1:02:46.040 He was very vulnerable, like very good. 1:02:46.760 --> 1:02:47.880 He's been through something. 1:02:48.000 --> 1:02:50.120 He's been through stuff, but to take the time and 1:02:50.320 --> 1:02:51.080 really opened up. 1:02:51.080 --> 1:02:51.320 It was. 1:02:51.520 --> 1:02:52.720 Yeah, he's a favorite. 1:02:52.920 --> 1:02:54.800 Even though his fans are brutal. 1:02:54.640 --> 1:03:00.680 They're brutal. Ship Mark's brutal, very critical the bank. They 1:03:00.800 --> 1:03:01.920 was like they were going off on. 1:03:01.920 --> 1:03:03.480 Him, They're going off more on me. 1:03:04.600 --> 1:03:05.080 I don't know. 1:03:05.520 --> 1:03:07.320 People find the reason to complain. 1:03:07.040 --> 1:03:09.800 Sometimes welcome, you know what I mean? Yeah, that's yeah. 1:03:09.880 --> 1:03:12.480 So I've been through just being at Bernie Max Club. 1:03:12.560 --> 1:03:14.800 I started at Bernie Max Club also as a soloist. 1:03:14.840 --> 1:03:17.000 I was on I lived on the North side of Chicago. 1:03:17.000 --> 1:03:19.120 You know the different sides of Chicago, Sights, south side. 1:03:19.720 --> 1:03:21.120 I was on the North side and I would go 1:03:21.160 --> 1:03:23.920 this Bernie Max Club. Bernie Mack had open mic on Monday's, 1:03:23.920 --> 1:03:26.840 a variety show, and I would go there with my boy, 1:03:26.880 --> 1:03:29.800 Evan Lionel, who actually changed Bernie Max's life. He's the 1:03:29.800 --> 1:03:32.400 reason why Bernie became what he was because of Evan Lionel, 1:03:32.480 --> 1:03:35.240 my big brother. So it was me Dion call Us 1:03:35.480 --> 1:03:38.920 d ray De Office would go to Scotton Club. That's 1:03:38.960 --> 1:03:42.600 how I met Mike Epps and Cedric entertainer, Bertie Mack. 1:03:43.440 --> 1:03:45.680 Bernie I knew Bernie Man, knew Bernie knew him, you 1:03:45.720 --> 1:03:48.840 know what I'm saying. So before he got yeah, when 1:03:48.880 --> 1:03:51.000 he was deaf, jam, I ain't afraid of you. Motherfucker's 1:03:51.000 --> 1:03:52.720 that that was when I was around. 1:03:53.000 --> 1:03:55.960 Yeah, man, so you've had an incredible journey. 1:03:56.200 --> 1:03:59.880 Yeah, man, crazy Simbat and new Simbad's too bad with 1:04:00.000 --> 1:04:00.760 happened to sin Bad? 1:04:01.200 --> 1:04:03.120 I like to see him. I liked that he was 1:04:03.160 --> 1:04:04.280 in the Straw movie recently. 1:04:04.400 --> 1:04:06.320 Yeah, and that's good. Did you see Straw by the way, 1:04:06.400 --> 1:04:07.440 I haven't seen it. You liked it? 1:04:07.920 --> 1:04:12.360 I loved it, and I'm not. I haven Tyler Perry, 1:04:12.400 --> 1:04:15.880 but the way that was. I knew this when I 1:04:15.880 --> 1:04:18.760 saw the promos. It rarely airmark a date mentally for 1:04:18.800 --> 1:04:21.560 anything television, but I was like, June sixth, June six, 1:04:21.640 --> 1:04:25.120 June six, Taraji is great. But the writing on it. 1:04:25.160 --> 1:04:28.480 When I said I didn't see the ending coming, I said, oh. 1:04:27.480 --> 1:04:30.360 Yeah, right, I gotta watch it because I did Tyler 1:04:30.360 --> 1:04:33.600 Perry film last year with Tika Sumter. It's called Sisters 1:04:33.640 --> 1:04:36.200 in Italy. It's coming out at some point, met on Netflix, whatever. 1:04:36.200 --> 1:04:39.200 It's a rom com. So I played boyfriend at Dumpster. 1:04:39.480 --> 1:04:40.800 I'm dark skin villain. 1:04:41.080 --> 1:04:46.920 Yeah, shout out to Tyler. It was fantastic. He was 1:04:46.920 --> 1:04:49.920 treated me great. I asked everybody I was on his studio, 1:04:50.040 --> 1:04:52.760 that massive studio. I asked everybody, what's it like work, 1:04:53.280 --> 1:04:55.480 like he's amazing, like the. 1:04:56.720 --> 1:04:57.240 Stories. 1:04:57.320 --> 1:05:03.040 Yeah, he's great. It's fun. We had fun. I had fun. Man, 1:05:03.080 --> 1:05:05.160 he paid me nice. I was like, when am I? 1:05:05.200 --> 1:05:07.480 When do I need to show up? I was it 1:05:07.520 --> 1:05:09.880 was fun. It's a comedy. Yeah, I did what I 1:05:09.880 --> 1:05:11.720 did my comedy. He and he was like, you know 1:05:11.720 --> 1:05:12.680 how it work? Hard work? 1:05:12.680 --> 1:05:19.240 I go yeah, because he goes, oh fast, we're moving on, dude. 1:05:19.360 --> 1:05:23.800 They told me they shot Straw on seven days. I 1:05:23.800 --> 1:05:25.560 said seven days and they said me. 1:05:25.720 --> 1:05:28.760 Like this, thank you all right for real? 1:05:29.040 --> 1:05:31.520 Because but the beautiful thing is with comedy, I can 1:05:31.520 --> 1:05:33.760 do that shit in my sleep. So he would be like, 1:05:33.920 --> 1:05:37.200 because the first scene was I'm going to a funeral Antika. 1:05:37.280 --> 1:05:39.640 I'm in the car with Tika, and I'm like, she's 1:05:39.680 --> 1:05:42.960 like a real straight laced and her sister's emotional. She's not. 1:05:43.240 --> 1:05:44.400 And I'm a boyfriend and I go. 1:05:44.480 --> 1:05:47.320 So we're going to this funeral and Tyler's driving the 1:05:47.320 --> 1:05:51.000 car and directing us in the cameras. You're not gonna 1:05:51.000 --> 1:05:54.680 cry there crying your mother because WHOOPI Goldberg, isn't it 1:05:54.840 --> 1:05:55.240 your mother? 1:05:55.440 --> 1:05:55.720 You're not? 1:05:56.720 --> 1:05:58.600 I think, she goes, what do you mean cry? Has 1:05:58.600 --> 1:06:03.520 it nothing? Just try just go squeeze your like, try 1:06:03.680 --> 1:06:05.880 just squeak. I'm trying to tell her how to do it. 1:06:06.280 --> 1:06:09.919 I'm like this, you gotta be like and Tyler's keep going. 1:06:10.000 --> 1:06:10.840 So we're inner. 1:06:10.920 --> 1:06:12.200 Were why he's driving a car? 1:06:12.520 --> 1:06:14.680 Yeah, he goes there, you go keep going. Now do that? Now, 1:06:14.720 --> 1:06:17.360 now stop that. Do that. He's driving and directing at 1:06:17.360 --> 1:06:19.400 the same time. We do it and we have It 1:06:19.440 --> 1:06:20.040 was fun. 1:06:22.440 --> 1:06:23.680 There was no pressure under that. 1:06:23.640 --> 1:06:24.800 Type of I didn't. 1:06:24.840 --> 1:06:28.600 It's one of those things where you just you're here action, 1:06:29.080 --> 1:06:31.640 you gonna do it, even sometimes the fear is there. 1:06:31.800 --> 1:06:33.760 You've been doing it long enough, you go bam. 1:06:34.000 --> 1:06:37.600 And he was so just chill man, He's just like, yo, ready, 1:06:38.120 --> 1:06:39.040 you know how I do it. 1:06:39.320 --> 1:06:43.280 He was funy ship and I'm like, dude's cool. It's yea. 1:06:43.640 --> 1:06:45.560 And then the scene I do where I'm breaking up 1:06:45.560 --> 1:06:47.560 with her, there's a funeral scene that's funny as hell, 1:06:47.680 --> 1:06:50.920 and I think it's he works fast and he paid me, 1:06:51.200 --> 1:06:53.000 treated me well, gift baskets. 1:06:53.040 --> 1:06:54.240 We're all. Everybody was chilling. 1:06:54.880 --> 1:06:58.240 I you sign up for the next one, and I said, hey. 1:06:58.080 --> 1:07:00.520 Man, hope to work with you again. He goes, oh, no, 1:07:00.600 --> 1:07:02.840 you will. That was fantastic. I said, thank you man. 1:07:03.160 --> 1:07:05.640 You know, hey man, it was cool man. 1:07:06.880 --> 1:07:10.040 Yeah, yeah, I heard an amazing story and I was. 1:07:10.000 --> 1:07:13.040 Doing what I love to do, comedy. I was having fun. 1:07:13.160 --> 1:07:15.320 It wasn't no weird ship. It was just me being 1:07:15.400 --> 1:07:17.840 a quirky ass boy. And he even said it was funny. 1:07:17.840 --> 1:07:22.000 As they go, hey man, we're gonna have to take 1:07:22.040 --> 1:07:23.440 out the line in your head. We don't want you 1:07:23.520 --> 1:07:26.120 to look too cool. You look too cool. You gotta 1:07:26.160 --> 1:07:28.640 be a little bit quirky. They're like, you look too 1:07:28.720 --> 1:07:30.840 Did you do what you did? Yeah, they just did 1:07:30.960 --> 1:07:31.600 a little making. 1:07:32.560 --> 1:07:33.800 I like the line you said. 1:07:33.640 --> 1:07:37.560 You look too fly? I go, what you look too fly? Okay? 1:07:37.600 --> 1:07:39.720 So I was like, I have to break up. I 1:07:39.800 --> 1:07:43.080 just can't. It's just I just can't. I can't go. 1:07:43.720 --> 1:07:45.160 That was one of those he goes, you bring it 1:07:45.200 --> 1:07:45.440 up with me. 1:07:45.520 --> 1:07:49.640 I was like, yeah, but you know what, now that 1:07:49.680 --> 1:07:51.960 you do the role, I can see why the line 1:07:51.880 --> 1:07:57.520 had the second you said, yeah, that's nothing, that's nothing. 1:07:57.600 --> 1:07:59.000 Yeah man, that's like I said. 1:07:59.200 --> 1:08:02.520 I just like when I'm talking about my milities, I'm 1:08:02.520 --> 1:08:05.320 not doing anything to rule. I want to who doesn't 1:08:05.320 --> 1:08:07.920 want to put food on the table around I want 1:08:07.920 --> 1:08:10.600 to be successful, to be successful being treated like a 1:08:10.680 --> 1:08:11.200 human being? 1:08:11.800 --> 1:08:14.800 I want to Why can't I like myself? Why is 1:08:14.800 --> 1:08:17.439 it a threat to you that I like myself? That's weird? 1:08:17.479 --> 1:08:20.880 You're savage? Why can't a woman be like I don't 1:08:20.880 --> 1:08:23.639 want to be over sexualized? Why can't I make it 1:08:23.640 --> 1:08:24.559 out you touching me? 1:08:25.040 --> 1:08:25.920 What's wrong with that? 1:08:26.080 --> 1:08:28.519 Now you're mad because you don't want her to She 1:08:28.560 --> 1:08:30.360 don't want to take her pants in front of people. 1:08:30.800 --> 1:08:33.000 That's insane to me. That's insanity to me. 1:08:33.439 --> 1:08:35.240 Why can't you have a sex scene where we know 1:08:35.280 --> 1:08:37.880 they had sex, close the door, and then we go 1:08:37.920 --> 1:08:40.280 to the next scene. Why do they gotta be they're 1:08:40.400 --> 1:08:43.400 kissing little normal, little shit? But why does it got. 1:08:43.360 --> 1:08:44.080 To be right? Why? 1:08:44.640 --> 1:08:46.080 Yeah, I don't understand. 1:08:47.240 --> 1:08:50.800 I'm just saying I don't understand. I'm like, yo, I 1:08:50.840 --> 1:08:53.280 watched Born Hill because but I know what it's for. 1:08:53.400 --> 1:08:56.040 But why, I'm just you know, why if a woman's 1:08:56.040 --> 1:08:57.200 asking for a humanity? 1:08:57.760 --> 1:09:00.160 What is wrong with that? Why are you upset that 1:09:00.479 --> 1:09:02.280 she don't want you to treat her like shit? I 1:09:02.400 --> 1:09:03.320 just hush. 1:09:03.600 --> 1:09:07.000 You shouldn't be But let's talk specials. Yes, let's get 1:09:07.040 --> 1:09:10.360 into the lane of specials. Yes, first special to the 1:09:10.360 --> 1:09:11.000 specials Now. 1:09:11.120 --> 1:09:13.920 My first special was I did a half hour special 1:09:13.960 --> 1:09:17.160 I did. It started off with Comedy Central Premium Blend. 1:09:17.360 --> 1:09:19.080 That was a really good series where you do seven 1:09:19.120 --> 1:09:21.400 to ten minutes. And Tommy Davison was my. 1:09:21.360 --> 1:09:23.880 Host, which is so. I saw him in college and 1:09:23.880 --> 1:09:25.160 I didn't know he was going to be my host. 1:09:25.160 --> 1:09:27.800 And when he saw him, he goes, yo, I was 1:09:27.840 --> 1:09:29.880 in your college camp. I said, yeah, I'm doing comedy now. 1:09:29.880 --> 1:09:30.240 He said OK. 1:09:30.520 --> 1:09:33.479 He is so supportive. So then there was that. Then 1:09:33.479 --> 1:09:35.519 I did a half hour special. Comedy Central was treating 1:09:35.520 --> 1:09:37.040 me really well, and then. 1:09:37.000 --> 1:09:39.559 There was a per lady producer that was really liked 1:09:39.560 --> 1:09:41.599 me and got me in. That was great. And then 1:09:41.640 --> 1:09:44.160 I did my first hour special was Comedy Central. 1:09:44.680 --> 1:09:48.000 It was called Black by Accident. I was twenty twelve, 1:09:48.040 --> 1:09:49.760 then it was twenty seventeen. 1:09:49.840 --> 1:09:53.240 I did one called regular Black because that's what they called. 1:09:53.040 --> 1:09:54.640 Me when my friends found out I was Nigeria. And 1:09:54.680 --> 1:09:56.040 it's like, we thought you were regular black. 1:09:56.680 --> 1:09:58.960 So I did that sounds like such a thing. 1:09:59.000 --> 1:10:00.280 Black people was saying, I. 1:10:00.200 --> 1:10:04.920 Thought you was like regular black, like you like niggle, right, Nigeria, 1:10:05.640 --> 1:10:08.400 it's only one g in that but and it's soft, 1:10:09.800 --> 1:10:13.600 so yeah that and then I just shot my like 1:10:13.880 --> 1:10:18.240 my third one finally seven years later, which was long wait, 1:10:18.280 --> 1:10:21.720 but I did Tiffany Hattish's They Ready second season that 1:10:21.840 --> 1:10:24.479 she got me in on the little Netflix thing. Shout 1:10:24.520 --> 1:10:27.559 out to my little sister Tony Hattish, and I just 1:10:27.600 --> 1:10:30.200 shot at the Apollo through. 1:10:30.760 --> 1:10:34.559 Donations through will I Am Will. 1:10:34.400 --> 1:10:36.559 I Am as one of the major donators, they gave 1:10:36.560 --> 1:10:38.760 me money. Who was a big fan from Black Eyed 1:10:38.760 --> 1:10:40.680 Peas Shack is the one that kicked me, called me 1:10:40.720 --> 1:10:41.479 and said. 1:10:41.439 --> 1:10:43.880 It's time for you to do the show Man. You've 1:10:44.000 --> 1:10:46.320 been waiting too long, but you needn't do special right. 1:10:46.840 --> 1:10:48.960 Shaq kicked me off my butt and said you gotta 1:10:49.000 --> 1:10:50.040 start doing go and do it. 1:10:50.600 --> 1:10:52.759 Also, so how did you end up raising the money 1:10:52.800 --> 1:10:53.160 to do it? 1:10:53.200 --> 1:10:55.599 I raised the money from fans like another fan like. 1:10:55.560 --> 1:10:56.640 You were just open about it. 1:10:56.720 --> 1:10:58.599 I just said, hey man, and my fans said, once 1:10:58.720 --> 1:11:00.120 you start to go fund me they told me so. 1:11:00.160 --> 1:11:02.960 I raised them a fifty grand wow. And from there they. 1:11:02.920 --> 1:11:04.599 Said, we're going to send you my head, all right. 1:11:04.680 --> 1:11:05.920 I don't ask people for shit. 1:11:07.080 --> 1:11:10.520 Then through my cash app from just doing stuff online. 1:11:10.880 --> 1:11:14.120 From that my friends. They was, well, I am a 1:11:14.200 --> 1:11:16.679 big donation. I was like, what, he don't even remember 1:11:16.680 --> 1:11:18.000 giving me the money. That's how much money? 1:11:18.000 --> 1:11:18.320 He asked. 1:11:18.560 --> 1:11:25.840 I did no, I'm good, damn so I am rich. 1:11:25.920 --> 1:11:28.320 So now that you tape it, what's the next one. 1:11:28.400 --> 1:11:30.360 I had another guy, Rodrigo, big time. 1:11:30.400 --> 1:11:33.920 He was a venture capitalist, paid me a boatload of 1:11:33.960 --> 1:11:37.720 money and we got it done and I chose the 1:11:37.760 --> 1:11:40.040 Apollo and did two shows and it. 1:11:40.160 --> 1:11:45.760 Was fantastic and all of the cheering was real. It 1:11:45.800 --> 1:11:48.719 wasn't fake. I love that, and the jokes were hitting. 1:11:49.560 --> 1:11:49.880 It was. 1:11:50.280 --> 1:11:53.839 It was the standing ovation. Everything was just not forced. 1:11:54.040 --> 1:11:56.160 It was and they were and I felt how happy 1:11:56.160 --> 1:11:57.559 they were for me. That's what I felt. 1:11:57.560 --> 1:11:59.200 They were like, it's about fucking time. 1:12:00.040 --> 1:12:00.559 I like that. 1:12:00.640 --> 1:12:02.080 Yeah, it felt good. 1:12:02.280 --> 1:12:03.519 So where do people watch it? 1:12:03.720 --> 1:12:05.599 I don't know yet. We're now we got to edit 1:12:05.640 --> 1:12:06.920 it down and prepare it. 1:12:07.000 --> 1:12:09.360 So the good thing is I got it and I 1:12:09.400 --> 1:12:10.880 will definitely be letting. 1:12:10.960 --> 1:12:11.919 I'll be on outlets. 1:12:12.120 --> 1:12:14.320 But now, do you at least know a timeline? 1:12:14.960 --> 1:12:16.880 I would say that I don't know. I don't, I 1:12:17.040 --> 1:12:18.280 really don't. 1:12:18.520 --> 1:12:20.880 I will definitely be announcing it, though, because I don't 1:12:20.880 --> 1:12:21.960 want to say something. 1:12:25.080 --> 1:12:25.720 Lying and move. 1:12:26.800 --> 1:12:28.840 I saw that you were taping it. Yeah, but now, 1:12:29.320 --> 1:12:31.479 but I'm guessing that it would be within the next 1:12:31.520 --> 1:12:32.280 six months. 1:12:32.720 --> 1:12:33.439 I would think sothing. 1:12:33.479 --> 1:12:38.200 Okay, cool, cool, So this episode will drop. We're going 1:12:38.280 --> 1:12:40.759 to try and drop it alongside. So the promos heavy. 1:12:41.520 --> 1:12:44.519 That's great. Cool, but yeah, and. 1:12:44.400 --> 1:12:46.880 What can people expect when checking out the smissa, what's 1:12:46.920 --> 1:12:48.000 the name of it? Have you come up with the 1:12:48.080 --> 1:12:52.479 name of it? No, that's what's always Yeah. 1:12:51.960 --> 1:12:54.360 Our current know what it's all about. Live We've been 1:12:54.439 --> 1:12:54.760 lied to. 1:12:54.840 --> 1:12:58.479 It's all about being lied to about capitalism, and we 1:12:58.640 --> 1:12:59.559 lie to make money. 1:12:59.560 --> 1:13:02.240 It's all money and lies. It's called that's what's This 1:13:02.439 --> 1:13:04.439 theme is that I stopped believing in a lot of shit. 1:13:04.640 --> 1:13:06.639 And it's an hour said. 1:13:06.760 --> 1:13:09.080 The first show was our ten, the second was our forty. 1:13:09.160 --> 1:13:13.360 So yeah, it depends what you cause, maybe I'll do Yeah, okay, 1:13:13.439 --> 1:13:15.639 I like that. And then, just while we're talking about 1:13:15.640 --> 1:13:17.320 this stuff, how do you feel about the state of 1:13:17.360 --> 1:13:18.559 some of these specials on Netflix. 1:13:19.160 --> 1:13:20.320 I think a lot of them are trash. 1:13:20.600 --> 1:13:23.760 Yeah too, because not because there's a hater thing, but 1:13:23.800 --> 1:13:25.160 as a critic a critique. 1:13:26.320 --> 1:13:28.440 A lot of people are on there that are not ready. 1:13:28.680 --> 1:13:31.640 You can see it. They're not prepared for that. But 1:13:31.720 --> 1:13:34.360 I do think that not like the Chappelle's who know 1:13:34.439 --> 1:13:36.280 what you're doing, Bill Burdos what he's doing. 1:13:36.600 --> 1:13:39.880 But those are real comics that have been like George they. 1:13:39.760 --> 1:13:43.680 All know what they're doing, Blunell ever Quit. They know 1:13:43.720 --> 1:13:46.639 what they're doing. They have the time, they have the hours. Yeah, 1:13:46.760 --> 1:13:49.479 they have the stage time. But there's a lot that 1:13:49.560 --> 1:13:53.360 I go, what am I watching? Yeah, this is insane. 1:13:52.800 --> 1:13:54.639 That I've had somewhere I can't even make it past. 1:13:55.160 --> 1:13:57.160 But I will say this, there's one in particular that 1:13:57.360 --> 1:13:59.840 really stands out. Not going to say the person's name. 1:14:00.320 --> 1:14:02.720 It was so bad that I, when I say, was 1:14:02.800 --> 1:14:05.519 forcing myself and still couldn't make it till their minute 1:14:05.520 --> 1:14:08.800 thirty and then but the hype around them, because of 1:14:08.840 --> 1:14:11.840 the world we live in was like still hype. I 1:14:11.920 --> 1:14:14.839 was very confused. But I think that the more Netflix 1:14:14.880 --> 1:14:19.120 does these wax specials, the less I'm me personally. Yeah, yeah, 1:14:19.160 --> 1:14:21.519 I'm not clicking on it anymore. Yea, even when I hear, 1:14:21.600 --> 1:14:23.840 especially if I hear the buzz online and I've done 1:14:23.880 --> 1:14:27.120 it again and another comic not saying names, who is 1:14:27.200 --> 1:14:30.400 really huge right now. People love them, and I'm just 1:14:30.439 --> 1:14:32.439 like no, And that's why I'm like, maybe it's me, 1:14:33.080 --> 1:14:35.680 but I just don't see it. Yeah, but I think 1:14:35.680 --> 1:14:37.120 it's also TV. Sorry to cut you off. 1:14:37.120 --> 1:14:39.559 When you have a machine behind you, they can get 1:14:39.560 --> 1:14:40.519 anybody to believe. 1:14:40.880 --> 1:14:42.519 I forgot what the name is called. It's not called 1:14:42.600 --> 1:14:43.200 Softis Street. 1:14:43.240 --> 1:14:46.000 There's a name where you can talk and where you 1:14:46.040 --> 1:14:48.519 can lie and make it believable. If you keep talking 1:14:48.560 --> 1:14:52.120 about something enough, I believe it for it. There's a 1:14:52.200 --> 1:14:53.719 name that what it's called. 1:14:53.760 --> 1:14:55.680 I don't know if it's so or it's just if 1:14:55.720 --> 1:14:57.719 they have a show or some pick up on social 1:14:57.800 --> 1:14:59.880 media automatically. 1:15:00.160 --> 1:15:02.559 Behind you, bringing everybody you can sell. What is they 1:15:02.560 --> 1:15:05.920 even sell water? You can sell water to a fish. 1:15:05.960 --> 1:15:08.320 You do it the right way. Yeah, But I go 1:15:08.439 --> 1:15:10.519 and I watch, and I go as a purist, as 1:15:10.560 --> 1:15:11.800 a community purist. 1:15:11.520 --> 1:15:13.920 And people that I know that deserve, I go, what 1:15:13.920 --> 1:15:16.680 what is? What the fuck are we watching? What are 1:15:16.720 --> 1:15:17.160 we watching? 1:15:17.200 --> 1:15:17.519 That's me? 1:15:17.720 --> 1:15:21.640 I know it's numbers. I get that, of course, I 1:15:21.760 --> 1:15:24.920 know it's the numbers. Yeah, it's a business. But you 1:15:25.040 --> 1:15:27.439 put up somebody that's whack. Why don't you put somebody 1:15:27.439 --> 1:15:31.280 that's funny because people will go, oh, to just see this. 1:15:31.920 --> 1:15:34.960 It'll be because comedy, I believe has to be done 1:15:35.040 --> 1:15:36.960 properly for people to want to see that. 1:15:36.960 --> 1:15:38.120 That's what I think. I don't know. 1:15:38.320 --> 1:15:40.439 I think personally that the real comics are going to 1:15:40.479 --> 1:15:42.200 have to start staying away from Netflix. And I'm going 1:15:42.280 --> 1:15:46.120 to say why, because I feel like Netflix. Companies like 1:15:46.240 --> 1:15:49.280 Netflix are starting to produce really whack specials and it's 1:15:49.280 --> 1:15:52.200 almost going to become unless you like I know now, 1:15:52.360 --> 1:15:55.320 unless I know that comic, I'm not trying them out 1:15:55.520 --> 1:15:57.479 because I'm not gonna try them out first on Netflix 1:15:57.520 --> 1:16:01.200 only because Netflix has delivered so many bad especially are 1:16:01.680 --> 1:16:03.960 and this is a non comic saying like a regular 1:16:04.000 --> 1:16:08.080 person saying I've seen too many. Out of ten specials, 1:16:08.120 --> 1:16:11.880 of two of them are decent, decent you're giving yeah. 1:16:11.920 --> 1:16:14.040 And then there's some comics that, for whatever reason, are 1:16:14.200 --> 1:16:16.919 to me better in person than they are on specials. 1:16:16.960 --> 1:16:17.760 Right, here's another thing. 1:16:17.800 --> 1:16:20.320 I give people a little bit of a pass when 1:16:20.320 --> 1:16:23.240 it comes to specials. I give people a little bit 1:16:23.280 --> 1:16:26.880 of a pass because the anxiety when you're trying to 1:16:26.880 --> 1:16:30.519 shoot one is and I'm glad that because people like 1:16:30.880 --> 1:16:33.479 the build up to my special was it's just a 1:16:33.479 --> 1:16:37.160 lot of stress. But because people are so much more 1:16:37.160 --> 1:16:39.760 excited than you are, They're like, yo, man, we come 1:16:39.800 --> 1:16:40.800 into my sister. 1:16:40.600 --> 1:16:42.599 Flu and my brother flew and my cousin's fluid. 1:16:42.479 --> 1:16:44.720 And people are getting dressed in the nine, so they're. 1:16:44.400 --> 1:16:47.640 Coming and hyped, and I gotta go, this is just 1:16:47.680 --> 1:16:49.720 a set I'm doing. This is the same set I've 1:16:49.720 --> 1:16:52.320 been doing. But I got decorations on the stage. Now, 1:16:52.479 --> 1:16:55.000 now there's a thing behind me. But it's the same 1:16:55.040 --> 1:16:56.320 shit I've been doing. So I had to take it 1:16:56.360 --> 1:16:58.640 like this is just another set. But it was a 1:16:58.680 --> 1:16:59.360 lot though. 1:16:59.400 --> 1:17:01.840 It was yo, and I was doing Hot ninety seven, 1:17:01.880 --> 1:17:04.040 I was doing all the radio shows. How do you 1:17:04.040 --> 1:17:05.320 think I'm good? Man, I'm good. 1:17:05.360 --> 1:17:07.800 I was just like in my head because you want, 1:17:08.080 --> 1:17:09.880 because you want to make sure all the technical shit 1:17:10.000 --> 1:17:11.440 is right, because you do the rehearsals. 1:17:11.520 --> 1:17:13.679 I gotta do rehearsal for these jokes. I've been telling 1:17:13.840 --> 1:17:15.920 for the best, So you gotta do to make sure 1:17:15.960 --> 1:17:18.519 the cameras are right. Got to make sure nothing goes wrong, please, 1:17:18.520 --> 1:17:19.120 nothing go wrong. 1:17:19.240 --> 1:17:23.479 And everything went pretty goddamn smooth, and it was all 1:17:23.680 --> 1:17:24.280 and popping. 1:17:24.479 --> 1:17:25.479 I can't wait to see it. 1:17:25.680 --> 1:17:28.799 Yeah, I'm proud of it. Man and my camera dudes, 1:17:28.920 --> 1:17:34.160 oh my photography. Oh just everybody was just killing it. 1:17:34.200 --> 1:17:38.240 Man and Ralph Carter from Good Times, we played Michael. 1:17:38.320 --> 1:17:42.519 There was Good Times. Yeah, barely Mike, But there's Michael, 1:17:42.560 --> 1:17:44.960 little kid. He came by. He's a Brooklyn guy. He 1:17:45.040 --> 1:17:47.680 came backstage and it was just so cool. He came by. 1:17:47.720 --> 1:17:49.719 I go, we grew up on you. Man. 1:17:50.120 --> 1:17:52.960 You were a kid performer. You weren't Raisin in the 1:17:53.000 --> 1:17:56.280 sun as a kid. Like they don't understand. You're a 1:17:56.360 --> 1:18:00.680 fucking icon. Fuck what you heard? You are a. 1:18:00.200 --> 1:18:03.080 Premicon and you came to see me. And he goes, hey, 1:18:03.120 --> 1:18:04.760 can I stay for the second show? I go, what 1:18:05.320 --> 1:18:08.320 you know? What fuck you want? We having good times 1:18:08.400 --> 1:18:11.760 right now. But he went to high school. Knew went 1:18:11.800 --> 1:18:15.040 to grade school with Larry Fishburn. Oh wow, throw both 1:18:15.040 --> 1:18:15.679 from Brooklyn. 1:18:16.280 --> 1:18:19.080 He went to fucking He goes, I knew Larry before 1:18:19.120 --> 1:18:22.120 he started acting, and Larry acted at around nine ten 1:18:22.200 --> 1:18:22.639 years old. 1:18:23.600 --> 1:18:25.880 Now, how long have you been in your whole career 1:18:25.920 --> 1:18:29.080 as a comic? Now? How many years? Twenty five, twenty 1:18:29.120 --> 1:18:31.720 five years? What kind of advice would you give to 1:18:32.040 --> 1:18:36.560 people pursuing comedy and just because. 1:18:37.680 --> 1:18:41.479 I say, I didn't know if he was laughing, You'll 1:18:41.640 --> 1:18:42.160 just be good. 1:18:42.240 --> 1:18:45.000 But be good, I was gonna say, because you did 1:18:45.040 --> 1:18:47.840 dominate social too a little bit too. But what advice 1:18:47.840 --> 1:18:51.040 would you give to people getting into this game twenty 1:18:51.080 --> 1:18:54.160 five years? I said, let me consistent, And how long 1:18:54.240 --> 1:18:57.840 was your struggle period? For that twenty five struggle period? 1:18:58.240 --> 1:19:00.680 I always tell people it's easy ten but for the 1:19:00.760 --> 1:19:02.320 low average was my struggle? 1:19:02.840 --> 1:19:03.920 What was it? 1:19:04.000 --> 1:19:04.160 Was it? 1:19:04.240 --> 1:19:08.000 A it was struggle. I don't know because I was 1:19:08.360 --> 1:19:09.040 having fun. 1:19:09.120 --> 1:19:12.840 Man, I'm talking about financial struggle, like where you were 1:19:12.880 --> 1:19:14.960 like still yo, I'm still trying to clear. 1:19:15.360 --> 1:19:17.840 I think when I first got to New York, and 1:19:18.040 --> 1:19:18.760 we got to New. 1:19:18.680 --> 1:19:23.160 York that first six months. 1:19:22.520 --> 1:19:25.439 But I was on stage but getting money, yeah, but 1:19:25.640 --> 1:19:26.760 sleeping on couch. 1:19:26.840 --> 1:19:28.760 Because you had to go through all the clubs in 1:19:28.760 --> 1:19:31.280 New York. You have to pass in every club they have. 1:19:31.400 --> 1:19:33.240 That is it chitling circuit or whatever? 1:19:33.600 --> 1:19:35.920 And the main I did both, okay. 1:19:35.680 --> 1:19:38.320 But what was great is like chilling circuit page well, 1:19:38.479 --> 1:19:41.080 but then added to the mainstream. 1:19:40.600 --> 1:19:42.320 Because I could go both. It was like, oh man, 1:19:42.360 --> 1:19:47.080 I got that. Man, this is great per week in 1:19:47.120 --> 1:19:49.639 cash about fifteen or two thousand and can. 1:19:50.160 --> 1:19:54.040 Yeah, what's going on is I was surviving like in 1:19:54.280 --> 1:19:55.680 most cities don't pay like that. 1:19:55.960 --> 1:19:58.759 Yeah, so I was having money in my pocket like stacks. 1:19:58.840 --> 1:20:00.599 Is there any club in New York that was hard 1:20:00.640 --> 1:20:01.400 to pass? 1:20:01.800 --> 1:20:04.479 So it depends it was a comedy seller. 1:20:05.080 --> 1:20:07.880 But then I got in the comic strip I got in, 1:20:08.400 --> 1:20:11.720 there was a lot. They were much more strict back then, 1:20:11.760 --> 1:20:13.720 but then they've been a little more because there's so 1:20:13.800 --> 1:20:16.720 many comedians now and a lot of clubs. 1:20:16.439 --> 1:20:18.759 Are opening, so they need It's like they need. 1:20:18.560 --> 1:20:22.320 Content and a lot of people are comics because of 1:20:22.360 --> 1:20:24.880 clips and ship. Yeah, but I tell them, man, if 1:20:24.880 --> 1:20:27.439 you're in this, I hope you love it. Man, you 1:20:27.560 --> 1:20:30.680 better loved this ship because wait. 1:20:31.160 --> 1:20:34.479 It's downside. Given do you think the traveling can be 1:20:34.600 --> 1:20:35.600 considered a downside? 1:20:35.720 --> 1:20:37.360 Yeah, I could be tiring, but you got to get 1:20:37.400 --> 1:20:39.599 to places people, and I would like you. 1:20:39.600 --> 1:20:41.439 No, I'm talking about her family and stuff like that. 1:20:41.520 --> 1:20:43.840 Does that ever get like hard family for me? 1:20:44.000 --> 1:20:46.680 I don't have no kids. I have no kids. It 1:20:46.720 --> 1:20:48.080 can be, but at this point. 1:20:48.000 --> 1:20:49.680 Do you think that's hindered the kid thing? 1:20:50.439 --> 1:20:53.080 I think maybe unless you did. I had a girl 1:20:53.120 --> 1:20:55.280 that for like years that she didn't know I'm kids, 1:20:55.320 --> 1:20:58.639 so I didn't think about it. Kids. 1:20:58.800 --> 1:21:01.759 I have won, oh yeah, but I was just wondering 1:21:01.760 --> 1:21:03.160 if it hugh. 1:21:02.640 --> 1:21:03.320 To even have one. 1:21:03.720 --> 1:21:04.320 Yeah, it's not. 1:21:04.760 --> 1:21:07.800 I never I just never had. Yeah, maybe I never 1:21:07.840 --> 1:21:13.040 had baby Peou. Game was nasty like inside fastball bull one. 1:21:13.600 --> 1:21:15.439 Then next year I get a text like, oh I 1:21:15.479 --> 1:21:15.920 got one. 1:21:16.080 --> 1:21:18.799 If it happens cool, I'm not neither here nor they. 1:21:18.840 --> 1:21:20.559 I'm trying to get that fuck you money right now. 1:21:20.960 --> 1:21:22.519 I feel like I'm going to have verge like you 1:21:22.560 --> 1:21:23.800 are clear finding it. 1:21:23.840 --> 1:21:25.559 I think there's a way to get to it, and 1:21:25.560 --> 1:21:26.760 I'm around people go no. 1:21:26.840 --> 1:21:29.280 We can get to it. Just strategizing we can get 1:21:29.320 --> 1:21:31.600 to it. And so if I get that, I'll be like, 1:21:31.600 --> 1:21:33.920 I wouldn't mind kid too, But I don't know who 1:21:33.960 --> 1:21:35.479 with because it's cycles. 1:21:35.920 --> 1:21:38.360 Yeah, I think it's fool is disgusting. 1:21:38.479 --> 1:21:42.759 I think it's hard to me who have the kid with. Yes, 1:21:43.240 --> 1:21:46.080 but go back all the way back before we close out. 1:21:46.240 --> 1:21:48.880 What advice would you give to someone coming up in 1:21:48.920 --> 1:21:50.679 this game after twenty five years? 1:21:51.040 --> 1:21:54.879 Love it countless specials, love it you love. 1:21:54.680 --> 1:21:57.760 It, love, don't be up there taking up space because 1:21:57.760 --> 1:22:00.679 you think you're going to get famous a day because 1:22:00.720 --> 1:22:03.320 you see some media, because a lot of mediocrity makes it, 1:22:03.479 --> 1:22:04.679 but comedy doesn't. 1:22:04.800 --> 1:22:05.800 Is unforgiving. 1:22:06.479 --> 1:22:10.080 If you ain't ready, it's gonna show because comedy gives 1:22:10.080 --> 1:22:12.840 you results right away. 1:22:12.920 --> 1:22:16.679 Up, work at it. I'm saying, take it as serious. Denzel. 1:22:16.880 --> 1:22:17.759 I love Denzel. 1:22:17.800 --> 1:22:20.040 Denzel said something to the ladies, goes, is there any 1:22:20.080 --> 1:22:21.760 advice you can give to if you see that one? 1:22:21.840 --> 1:22:25.599 He goes, learn, shut up, turn off your phone, study, 1:22:25.960 --> 1:22:26.679 go to class. 1:22:26.840 --> 1:22:31.160 You see say that. Just yeah, practice your craft, hone, 1:22:31.200 --> 1:22:33.719 your craft, really work your craft. 1:22:33.800 --> 1:22:36.759 It's a real craft. Because even me at my level, 1:22:37.240 --> 1:22:39.599 I still see the difficulty in it. I still see 1:22:39.640 --> 1:22:42.240 if I don't get this right, I'm finished, they're gonna 1:22:42.320 --> 1:22:45.120 fucking They're not gonna laugh at this shit. So we 1:22:45.280 --> 1:22:48.759 and for guys like Jerry Seinfeld, who still does. 1:22:48.680 --> 1:22:52.800 Comedy a billionaire, that's how heavy the heart is. Fuck 1:22:52.880 --> 1:22:54.080 the money. 1:22:54.880 --> 1:22:56.599 Where you see this because. 1:22:56.360 --> 1:22:58.840 You go, oh, I'm gonna craft another joke. I gotta 1:22:59.200 --> 1:23:01.439 get that. I gotta get that laughter. Wanted to see 1:23:01.439 --> 1:23:02.400 my genius again. 1:23:02.760 --> 1:23:06.360 It's like musicians play till they're fucking stop. 1:23:08.080 --> 1:23:08.840 Stop doing that. 1:23:09.560 --> 1:23:11.960 And I just tell people just love it, don't just 1:23:12.040 --> 1:23:14.760 take up Get the fuck off the stage. If you're 1:23:14.800 --> 1:23:18.800 just taking up space, have some humility about the fucking craft. 1:23:19.000 --> 1:23:19.439 All right. 1:23:19.560 --> 1:23:21.680 Just because you did two cool shows don't mean you 1:23:21.760 --> 1:23:24.120 equal to like these vets, So don't. 1:23:23.880 --> 1:23:26.160 Stick And for the same for the social because there's 1:23:26.200 --> 1:23:29.040 a lot of social media influencers and also. 1:23:28.880 --> 1:23:31.719 You people are on social media. Sketches not the same 1:23:31.720 --> 1:23:34.040 as stand up. You better you're gonna find out real 1:23:34.160 --> 1:23:35.880 quick just because. 1:23:35.600 --> 1:23:39.240 You do funny sketches has nothing to do with stand up. 1:23:39.760 --> 1:23:41.800 Now that speaking of that, just and I'm meant to 1:23:41.800 --> 1:23:43.760 cut us short. We got it. We were over time. 1:23:43.760 --> 1:23:46.439 But batches now doing stand up? Have you seen that? 1:23:46.600 --> 1:23:49.040 Actually yeah, I've seen him. I've seen him. I've worked 1:23:49.080 --> 1:23:52.559 with him. He's with Joe Koy and so he's actually learned. 1:23:52.800 --> 1:23:54.320 He's on Rower. 1:23:54.880 --> 1:23:57.519 And he asked me questions all the time, so he 1:23:57.680 --> 1:23:59.200 actually cares about it. 1:23:59.560 --> 1:24:02.160 But he's still amazed because you'll see me. I'll be 1:24:02.400 --> 1:24:04.240 in New York. He goes, Yo, what you doing? 1:24:04.280 --> 1:24:05.840 I said, I just got on stage. I'm about to 1:24:05.880 --> 1:24:08.080 go on another stage. Wait, how many you got tonight? 1:24:08.160 --> 1:24:11.519 For all in one day. I go, yeah, so you 1:24:11.560 --> 1:24:13.400 get good at it, you gotta do it all the time. 1:24:13.880 --> 1:24:16.800 He goes, damn, yeah, yeah, you. 1:24:16.840 --> 1:24:19.519 Gotta do the in Betweens, man, you gotta I gotta 1:24:19.520 --> 1:24:20.080 show tonight. 1:24:20.400 --> 1:24:23.920 I remember when Ego first got into a man. He'd 1:24:23.920 --> 1:24:26.000 be out all night and then I'd come to town 1:24:26.040 --> 1:24:28.240 and he would I'd be like, just wake me up 1:24:28.280 --> 1:24:30.200 and bring me a chop cheese and a snap on. 1:24:30.240 --> 1:24:31.560 He was so sweet. He would always bring me a 1:24:31.640 --> 1:24:34.400 chop cheese and a snap on. I knew he would 1:24:34.439 --> 1:24:35.200 be out all night. 1:24:36.840 --> 1:24:38.439 That's right. I've been on shows with him. 1:24:40.200 --> 1:24:42.439 I got him on wiling Out because I said, he's 1:24:42.479 --> 1:24:44.200 really funny, he's smart, he's quick. 1:24:44.520 --> 1:24:46.360 And then he did it. He and my thing is 1:24:46.360 --> 1:24:47.920 didn't mean he was going to get on. He had 1:24:47.960 --> 1:24:48.759 to prove himself. 1:24:48.800 --> 1:24:50.599 He definitely had to prove and then Nick. 1:24:50.479 --> 1:24:52.840 Was like, your man, God told us about you. And 1:24:52.880 --> 1:24:54.840 then I said, but I said, Nick, Ego, you gotta 1:24:54.880 --> 1:24:56.040 do it. You gotta do the work. 1:24:56.439 --> 1:24:57.960 And he did it, and he let me tell you 1:24:57.960 --> 1:25:00.800 something now, So there was no there was a part 1:25:00.840 --> 1:25:03.000 where let's kick you off. There was a part where 1:25:03.120 --> 1:25:06.880 Eagle was a little nervous. He was like, just temperature 1:25:06.920 --> 1:25:09.920 chech now and I was like no, And now had 1:25:09.960 --> 1:25:12.519 told me he said he waited the whole camp for 1:25:12.720 --> 1:25:15.360 my phone call to come through, just so he could 1:25:15.400 --> 1:25:18.280 reject it. He said, he just he said, I knew 1:25:18.280 --> 1:25:20.160 you was gonna call and I didn't. And he was like, 1:25:20.200 --> 1:25:22.800 I was impressed that you didn't, but I wanted your 1:25:22.840 --> 1:25:25.200 brother to know that he did it on his own. 1:25:26.000 --> 1:25:27.760 And he says, so nobody, you can never be like 1:25:27.840 --> 1:25:29.200 you a big sister or whatever. 1:25:29.479 --> 1:25:29.720 He did. 1:25:29.880 --> 1:25:32.439 He called because he called. He said, man, I'm gonna go. 1:25:32.520 --> 1:25:34.519 I think I'm gonna go to go for Wilding Out. 1:25:34.880 --> 1:25:37.600 He said, oh you are He said, yeah, Man, I 1:25:37.600 --> 1:25:37.920 don't know. 1:25:38.160 --> 1:25:40.479 It was his third time, third or four times like Nick. 1:25:40.920 --> 1:25:44.040 And then I went, I said Nick personally, I called him. 1:25:44.240 --> 1:25:47.760 I said, I got a guy eagle Wick. He's coming it. 1:25:47.840 --> 1:25:50.240 And then when he went into the room, Nick said, 1:25:50.479 --> 1:25:52.000 Godfrey told me about you. 1:25:52.280 --> 1:25:52.800 I love that. 1:25:53.040 --> 1:25:55.360 Yeah, and I said, and he goes, we I fucked 1:25:55.400 --> 1:25:58.040 with his opinion because a Nick had begged me to 1:25:58.040 --> 1:25:58.800 come on wilding Out. 1:25:58.880 --> 1:25:59.040 Yeah. 1:25:59.160 --> 1:26:01.679 He was like, you've done a couple of spots though, Yeah, 1:26:01.720 --> 1:26:02.080 I was on. 1:26:02.200 --> 1:26:04.559 I was at Nick's house in Jersey, and I was like. 1:26:04.640 --> 1:26:06.639 He was like, because I was doing his doctor Sebbi 1:26:06.840 --> 1:26:10.080 documentary and he goes, yo, man, so what's up man, 1:26:10.080 --> 1:26:11.200 You're gonna do well on the web? 1:26:11.200 --> 1:26:13.720 Man, I said, it's because it's popular. Don't mean I 1:26:13.760 --> 1:26:14.320 need to do it. 1:26:14.600 --> 1:26:15.920 Did he lock you in a room to get you? 1:26:16.160 --> 1:26:18.240 He was like in his kitchen like, man, come on, man, 1:26:18.760 --> 1:26:19.639 come on man. 1:26:20.400 --> 1:26:22.519 I said, okay, how are you going to cater I'm 1:26:22.520 --> 1:26:23.719 gonna I want you to do voices. 1:26:24.000 --> 1:26:26.240 We're gonna cater it for you to do what you 1:26:26.360 --> 1:26:28.240 do best. I said, all right, mother fucker. 1:26:28.360 --> 1:26:31.000 So I did three seasons and I got a lot 1:26:31.040 --> 1:26:32.400 of great ship off of that. 1:26:32.560 --> 1:26:34.880 So yeah, I did it. And then I ended up 1:26:34.920 --> 1:26:37.320 writing on his daytime talk show for seven months. That 1:26:37.400 --> 1:26:37.720 was cool. 1:26:37.720 --> 1:26:40.639 I never written for anything, but yeah, Nick has always 1:26:40.680 --> 1:26:42.920 looked out. Now he has a he has a Spade show. 1:26:43.600 --> 1:26:44.360 I like that show. 1:26:44.520 --> 1:26:46.360 Is it good? Getting the clips of it? 1:26:46.479 --> 1:26:48.639 Yeah? I just like the idea that he did something 1:26:48.680 --> 1:26:49.560 that creative. 1:26:49.520 --> 1:26:51.160 Because I know they called me for it, but I 1:26:51.160 --> 1:26:51.760 don't know to place. 1:26:52.360 --> 1:26:53.080 I don't know how to place. 1:26:53.840 --> 1:26:55.240 I should have learned. Friends. 1:26:55.520 --> 1:26:57.080 You should tell him that and just ask him if 1:26:57.120 --> 1:26:58.680 he'd be willing to switch it up for you. But 1:26:59.000 --> 1:26:59.960 you should totally do the show. 1:27:00.439 --> 1:27:01.240 No, I'm gonna. 1:27:01.040 --> 1:27:04.479 Because I I did his Council Culture show too. I 1:27:04.520 --> 1:27:08.200 did that with Neo, so I did that one and 1:27:08.280 --> 1:27:09.559 then yeah. 1:27:09.600 --> 1:27:13.080 Because they sent me a thing to do it overtime. Yeah, 1:27:13.400 --> 1:27:14.479 you damn I know. 1:27:14.560 --> 1:27:16.920 I'm sorry, I know, and I said an hour. Thank 1:27:17.000 --> 1:27:19.120 y'all for tuning in on how can everybody keep up 1:27:19.160 --> 1:27:20.120 with everybody? 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