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Speaker 1: Sorry, so, Steve, you've been trending, you know, but nothing

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Speaker 1: too serious, nothing too bad right now. It's stemmed from

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Speaker 1: your appearance on the Black Comedy in America docu series,

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Speaker 1: when you sat down with your fellow Kings of Comedy,

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Speaker 1: Dale Hugley and Cedric the Entertainer, and you addressed rumors

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Speaker 1: that you were beefing with the late great Bernie Mack. Bernie,

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Speaker 1: of course, died sixteen years ago from sarkadosis. When talking

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Speaker 1: about the so called beef, I love, love love that

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Speaker 1: you said Bernie was a man's man from the South

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Speaker 1: Side of Chicago, so there was no way to mistreat him.

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Speaker 1: So I got to ask you, do you feel like

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Speaker 1: it was time to set the record straight on this

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Speaker 1: subject once overall?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, look over the years, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's a lot of stuff being said about me falsely,

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Speaker 2: and a lot of stuff about me and Bernie's relationship

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Speaker 2: and me and the Kings. We've all talked about it.

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Speaker 2: We'll go, damn, don't what are they getting this stuff from? Man?

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Speaker 2: You know, only beef we ever had between us was

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Speaker 2: let's do your time. That was all we ever talked about.

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Speaker 2: The Kings was a well oil machine, and I just

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Speaker 2: felt like, you know, and it's unfair in this brother's

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Speaker 2: demise that he's not here and people constantly talking about that,

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Speaker 2: and it don't make no sense to me. And so

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Speaker 2: I just felt like, you know, we were talking there

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Speaker 2: and Chris Spencer did a great job with the special

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Speaker 2: and just some of his questions, and so it was

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Speaker 2: just just the time I was sitting there with the

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Speaker 2: two kings. See, when you sitting there with the other dudes,

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Speaker 2: it's kind of hard to lie when everybody right there.

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Speaker 1: Yes they were there, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They were for the whole time. So I just felt

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Speaker 2: like then was a good time, you know, to clear

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Speaker 2: the air. Here's something I've never told anybody, but the

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Speaker 2: day Bernie passed was the early two point thirty in

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Speaker 2: the morning, the morning of the Bud Billickin Parade. I

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Speaker 2: was in Chicago to do the Bud Billicin Parade as

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Speaker 2: their host. That afternoon, I was going to the hospital

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Speaker 2: to see Bernie. Al Sharpton came down to have breakfast

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Speaker 2: at the Peninsula Hotel and said, hey, man, what's going on.

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Speaker 2: I said, I'm going to do the bud Billikin and

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Speaker 2: then afterwards I'm going to the hospital to visit Bernie.

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Speaker 2: He said, you ain't heard. He said, Bernie passed this morning,

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Speaker 2: two thirty eight. That's how I found out.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Then I had to call say it and he said,

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Speaker 2: called their Oh, and that's how it happened. So, you know, man,

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Speaker 2: for people, tonot know all of it. Yeah, it's just

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Speaker 2: how people run with stuff, you know, and want to

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Speaker 2: and they want to get cliques, likes, and they just

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Speaker 2: want to keep mess going. I don't even know. You

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Speaker 2: don't matter. I don't know what's happened to us as

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Speaker 2: a culture. But we we used to cheer for each other.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I actually remember when black people cheered for

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Speaker 2: one another, that we were excited to see a couple

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Speaker 2: married and stay married and be happy for their family.

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Speaker 2: I remember that rooting for Yes, something has happened now, man,

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Speaker 2: in this very sick culture that we're in, where we're

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Speaker 2: not cheering for each other any money, we always try

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Speaker 2: to find a way to tear one another down. And

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Speaker 2: I just I'm just not going to be a part

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Speaker 2: of that. Man, I'm just not going to join in

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Speaker 2: with that because I mean, look, man, you know it

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Speaker 2: serves you no good like this one. I don't want

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Speaker 2: to get into that. But there's one guy that then

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Speaker 2: set up and took a bunch of my words from

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Speaker 2: other interviews and put them together, like like he's interviewing

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Speaker 2: me on his podcast and he's taking clips of the

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Speaker 2: morning show and interviews. Like he's asking me questions, he's

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Speaker 2: interjected the answer he wont to fit the questions. And

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Speaker 2: first of all, why would I be on his podcast?

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Speaker 2: There's nobody else, dude, Because if I want to say something, look, look,

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Speaker 2: look what I have. I have a real platform for him. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: So anything I really want to say, I have an

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Speaker 2: opportunity to say it. For this dude to spend all

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Speaker 2: that time put these words together I said in different interviews,

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Speaker 2: like he was interviewing me, and it's all destructive towards

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Speaker 2: my family. See now, when I find his ass, then okay,

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Speaker 2: what can I just ask you this? Since when did

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Speaker 2: you start having beef and show up and speaking at

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Speaker 2: people's funerals? When did you start doing it? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: And and Bernie's wife had us there. Yeah, yeah, if

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Speaker 2: it was so bad, you gotta be you speaking at

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Speaker 2: the funeral, bro, I'll tell you something else. Bernie's wife

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Speaker 2: Rolanda and I. They are in the process of doing

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Speaker 2: a documentary on Bernie's life. Okay, I'm the coed co

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Speaker 2: executive producer of it. As we questioned by orlandon.

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Speaker 1: Wow, see people out of question You.

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Speaker 2: People be talking, man, and they don't even know the

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Speaker 2: real deal. They just be talking, man. And it's sad

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Speaker 2: and I hate it. And you know, I try. I

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Speaker 2: try to never address it because Bernie's gone, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean, just leave it alone. But people keep on. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it's just like I said, it's just sad, man,

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Speaker 2: that we don't cheer for each other the way we should,

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Speaker 2: you know. Like I'm like, I'm cheering for Mike ELPs.

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Speaker 2: I'm cheering for Kevin Hart. I'm cheering for Dave Chappelle.

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Speaker 2: I cheer for Chris Rock. I'm cheering for Earthquake. I

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Speaker 2: think one of the funniest cats out there right now, man,

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Speaker 2: is that Damn Deon Cole. Dion Cole's comedy. Man is

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Speaker 2: so spot on, you know, I mean, dog, I cheer

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Speaker 2: for these cats. So man, that's the lane. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's the lane I'm gonna stay in. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: be up in here, man, And if you see somebody

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Speaker 2: who is not cheering for they brother, you gotta question

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Speaker 2: that person. Yeah, you gotta go, man, what is the

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Speaker 2: motivation behind that? Because if you ain't cheering for them,

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Speaker 2: what you hating on them for? Be because you are

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Speaker 2: jealous and envious of the position the ina And I'm

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Speaker 2: just not that way, Mad.

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Speaker 1: I'm just glad you got a chance to finally put

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Speaker 1: it to rest, hopefully and address it.

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Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what was great. Bernie when it

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Speaker 2: came to the Kings with Bernie was rough, Mad, Bernie

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Speaker 2: was rough boy on that stage. We all pulled up

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Speaker 2: a chair to watch Bernie mac because we said, what

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Speaker 2: he gonna say tonight happen that boy right there was

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Speaker 2: never the same twice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah again, thank you for addressing that, Steve. Now, coming

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Speaker 1: up at twenty minutes after the hour, singer Loomis has

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Speaker 1: apologized for butchering the national anthem and then cursing. We'll

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