WEBVTT - Ep. 140 "The Miss Pat Interview" 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.760 When I writ y'all all across the USC conton Mottes 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:10.720 Bake to l A from on the California the Valley. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.320 We represent that Kelly County. So if you're keeping it 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.119 reil on your side of your town, you tune into 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:22.880 Gangster Chronicles. The goals are gonna tell you how we go. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.440 If I line my nose will girl like Pinocchio. We're 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:28.360 gonna tell you the truth and nothing but the truth, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:33.440 the chronic goals. This is not your average show. You're 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.120 now tuned into the rail m c A, Big James 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:47.080 and Big Stairs from the Streets. Hello, Welcome to the 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.000 Gangster Chronicles podcast, the production of My Heart Radio and 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.159 Black Effect Podcast Network. 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She used 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.080 to work with them sex if you out there getting 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.680 the sling on her hustling work at the second to none. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.840 Not only is she a highly respected comedian, she's a 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.080 shirt topping author and record setting actress with her own 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.520 TV show based on her life, and she has her 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.160 own Netflix special This out now, y'all want to hear 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.720 something crazy? We got miss patting the house. What's up 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.560 with you? Miss pat? A lot of damn not a 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:47.040 damn thing. Uh. I want to tell you. I was 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:48.960 sitting up looking at your stuff and you have me 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.240 laughing like like a motherfucker because you want of those 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.720 home girls like this from the neighborhood. That's just funny 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.640 as a motherfucker. You can't argue, you can't do none 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.680 of that, and that reminds me of you right there. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.840 That's me. You ain't gonna arguement. I can tell you 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:11.840 probably about better shooting me. What were you and you 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.400 and James get along fine? Now? I noticed you from 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:19.040 Atlantic Georgian and what impressed me about you was that 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.960 you had a shout at the age of fifteen. You 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.200 went out to hit the corners and started slinging crack. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.360 Let's talk about that a little bit. I had my 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:33.480 first shot at fourteen, okay for fourteen and fifteen, so 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.480 I'm off my bad. That makes it even more powerful, though, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:41.480 because look where you are today. Yeah, I just you 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.360 know young. Um. I grew up in that crack empidemic, 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.160 so you know, um, the streets was everything that was survival. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.880 I had two kids by mayor man and so I 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:55.680 was too young to get a job, and he was 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.040 selling drugs. And once he was a prison I started 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.080 selling drugs and I think I was I think I 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:06.880 was a lot better edit than him. I telling this. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.840 I made way more money than he did. And um, 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:12.960 and I did a couple of years. I did a 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.520 year in prison for selling drugs. That shot a couple 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.640 of times, you know, Uh, dude, the same ship everybody 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:25.760 was doing around nineteen to early two thousands. Said you 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.280 got shot a couple of times, like it was no thing. 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.639 It ain't thet it I survived. It was a thing 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:37.800 back the Yeah I heard you said one of your 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.160 little skits that the second time you glad you didn't 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.240 get shot in Uniple because you didn't want to land 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:49.760 poison in like I shot in the boo. Uh yeah, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.000 I got shot in my right breath with a forty five. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.800 So so what made you feel like you had to 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.040 change your life getting shot or getting hit by a 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:05.560 dump truck. I have fucking kids to live forward, and 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:07.960 I didn't want my kids to go through what I 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.080 had went through. So you know, I figured, nobody really 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.520 gave me a chance. I need to straighten up my 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:17.279 cheet so I can get my kids a chaine. So 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.320 that's what I did. I started, you know, looking at 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.159 when I went to jail. When I went to jail 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:24.039 for that year, Uh, it made that was the only 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.080 time that was slower in my life. So it made me. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.920 Gave me an opportunity to really state down and think 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.080 about the ship that I was doing. I was shocking 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.919 myself while I was sitting at jail, like what the 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:36.520 funk is wrong with me? You know, when you surviving 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.479 life passed by fans, you know, people see us being 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.400 crazy or whatever. Deep down inside, all you want to 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.120 do is survive, and that's what I was doing. I 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.120 had two kids and dropped out of school in the 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.680 eighth grade. I had to get it, and so that's 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.320 what I was doing. I was into anything illegal, you 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.080 could think. Yeah, so you got out, You get out 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.600 of jail, and you start going on the path to 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.400 pick your of life together. What was the first thing 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.839 you did? Find me a black man with a job 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:11.640 that didn't hit a bit and on Friday. Now, now, 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.240 let's talk about your husband in one second. Right. You know, 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:16.960 you get out of jail, you doing your thing, and 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:20.040 then at nineteen, you received custody of your sister's kids 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.400 because of her drug addiction. You already got two of 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.400 your kids on and you just recently married. Yeah, I 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.960 have well, but yeah I got I got my sister 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.279 kids that it was four kids and nineteen and he 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:39.800 this man didn't have any kids. So I'm nineteen. He one, 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.080 and he got a bitch with six kids. People, his 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:50.520 mama thought he was crazy. He stayed Yeah, he stayed 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.960 down with you. That's the hell of a man. I'm 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.560 still with him. It's almost Yeah, that's the hell of 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:57.960 a man. That's what I'm saying. Y'all still together, And 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.039 that's the power, and that's the beautiful. Ain't about the relationship. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.480 Because you're supposed to hold each other down. Yeah, you're 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.240 supposed to hold each other down and when people telling him, like, 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.480 why wou't you stay with somebody who's got six kids 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.840 and ain't none of them yours? Because I think we 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.840 was geting, like eight years before I had my first 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:18.719 child by him, and you know, he he just became 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:23.560 a father to everybody. Never complained, you know, other than 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.320 the first time when he told me don't get my 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.320 sister kids. That was the only time he really tried 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:29.880 to leave. And I was like, well, I can't choose 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.559 between you and these babies. And he just stayed around 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:36.279 and help me fucking raise him. And when I became 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.120 a comedian, I told him, I said, one day I'm 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.039 gonna have my own show and you didn't even have 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.760 to work no more. He was like, you're get your 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:46.360 ass out of my face. So he retired about four 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.760 months ago. That's a beautiful thing. Shout out to him, 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.280 because we hear so much bad stuff about brothers relationships 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.880 messing up. But when I read that, I was really like, like, man, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.479 that's a good brother right there, because he really held 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:03.239 you down, he encouraged you when he pushed you. Well, yeah, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.680 because I tell people I tell I had to tell 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.279 him that too. I said, you know, when things started 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.320 to take off, I said, do you understand it? I 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:13.240 probably wouldn't be here had you not let me mess 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.880 out mix out of all your critic cause take your 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.320 paycheck for fucking dreams. Because it was a dream. Who 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.360 knew it was gonna end up to a TV show 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.120 spacial you know, real money. I just felt like it 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.080 was something there. And every time I was like he 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.320 I've been playing t he was like, you ain't making 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.800 no fucking money. I said, it's something here. Just just believe. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.760 I don't know how long it's gonna take, but I'm 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.120 the one day makes the money for me ship he 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.800 would he would fuss, And you know, we got bills 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.640 better like the bills I need to go out here 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.160 and maybe two hundred dollars, but the playing ticket will 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.680 see something dollar. Sometimes that's necessary in order for the 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.600 dream to work. Well, they say dream teamwork made the 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.040 dream work. So uh it it took. I tell you, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.440 this comic career really rock my marriage and my relationship. 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.320 I was gone all the time for the kids, and 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.640 he was at home even after I had his two 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.480 kids and my sister came making got her keys. He 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.920 was I was never really there because I was out 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.480 here trying to grind for a career, and you know, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.400 at the at the realized I was serious about it. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:22.040 He never really complained that's real dope, that that's real dope. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.800 You know. I think we all have those moments in 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.040 our career. They kind of encouraged us to keep going on. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.520 I remember mine was I was in the studio with 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.920 Sugar Free and I did the song for him, made 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.280 a beat for him, and the guy gave me a 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.560 thousand dollars that night. And you know, it was just 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.800 a thousand dollars. But I came home and I showed 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.120 my wife because I've been going to these studios, have 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.640 been making beats for people for years, and it would 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.480 usually wind up somebody to take my ship and claiming themselves, 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.160 you know what I mean, and I'll never getting the money, 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.720 no credit. But I brought that money home and it 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.000 seemed like it was reward. I said, we are now, 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.320 I said, these don't actually paid me a thought that 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:01.920 was for beat? Now that ain't si, you know what 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.080 I mean. But when they did that, What was your 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:11.440 moment in comedy? My moment was um when I went 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.280 to go open for Cat Williams, and we had just 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.840 moved to Indiana from Atlanta, and I think my husband 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.320 thought I was gonna kind of quit because I was 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.600 no longer in Atlanta and he failed, like I didn't 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.240 have all those clubs to go to, and he thought, 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:27.800 maybe she just gonna sent her down and let this 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.400 comedy ship go. And I think about two years into 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.560 living in the Indiana, he called me, I gotta. I 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.719 got a call from Cat waiting to come open for him. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:43.360 And I literally got paid, um, five thousand dollars a show, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.640 and I think it was at that moment, for five 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.800 thousand dollars for fifteen minutes. My husband said, well, maybe 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:57.040 some money in this ship, because that was my biggest 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.079 pay they You know, I was running around opening for 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.760 people six hundred all not no, not really, not no 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:07.200 real money sometimes just breaking even. And when Cat called 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.680 and I went on that that Catapocular tour, I think 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.200 that's with my husband and kicked in him to save 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:18.880 this bitch might have a career. That's dope. So Cat Williams, 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.160 he gave you that break right there. Well, he that 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.920 was the first real real money that I had made. 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.480 You know, I was getting like six eight hundred dollars 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.760 here and they're nothing real. And you know, and that 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.320 wasn't just no one time five thousand. I think it 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:41.640 was a fifteen city tool maybe and I was up, yeah, 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.800 we had just I just talked to my husband about 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.520 the house in Indiana and he swore was out of 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.120 our meeting, and I'm like, look, dude, we paid six 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.319 hundred four apartment. We could pay this for housing, and 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.600 when the house was only like I mean, I think 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.240 it was two hundred and eighty thousand dollar. At our 0:10:58.280 --> 0:10:59.880 house we moved out of, it was like a hundred 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:02.280 of something, I mean like seventies something. So that was 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.840 like way out of his league, just one income, and 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.720 he couldn't get it. And I was like, just trust me, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.400 we can do this, and cat, will you call? And 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.040 we got that. We started making that money. I was 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.840 able to pay for sheet in the basement and we 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.080 couldn't afford and I was like, see, I told you 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.000 something here and and then I just kept grinding, because 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.480 you know, ship went back to normal. After I left Kid, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.000 I started opening for d Ray, I was opening for 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.559 rn s J. It was hard, you know, if you're 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.719 in the industry, it's hard to get a manager in 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.679 the agent. But and I just told him, I said, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.280 if you just keep supporting me, it's something here and 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.120 then eventually crack. But I'm the type of person that 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.080 I truely I don't start nothing with. I kind of 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.480 know if something is there for me, So I try 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.000 to finish everything I do, you know how, because comedy 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.640 entertainment will make you give the funk up. You gotta 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.400 be wrong for entertainment, motherfucker said. You know they still 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.600 from you backstaff I've been. I mean, it's the most 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.800 dirt other than prostitution. It's the most dirtiest ship you 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.360 can do. I think that's every business though, like anything 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.480 that's worth having because you know another thing too, because 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.440 people don't look at which like if you're in the comedy, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.200 if you were in the acting, if you were in 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.360 the podcast, anything, anything that's other than the regular job. 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.959 People kind of look at it like, well, you can 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.760 pay a lot of money, you ain't gonna do is 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.679 like bullshit. This is hard than any job I've ever had. Yeah, 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:36.560 everything is struggle, though. Everything is a struggle. Yeah. I mean, 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.640 if it if it's if you believe in it, you 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.600 just you gotta keep working harder. And everybody ain't gonna 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.520 understand it. Let me tell some my other to not 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:48.240 understand this comedy ship. He did not understand it, and 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.840 I was like, if you just listen to me, I'm 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.360 telling you something there. And you know when the TV 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.600 show came out last year and it it fucking came out, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.840 just bust out and we ended up getting the second season. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.200 And then, um, I just told him. I said, hey, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.800 I know you've got another few years before you can retire, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.560 but you can retire earlier. He looked at me like 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.520 I was fucking crazy. I'm like, dude, I got you. 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.120 We're straight and you went and did it. Now, let's 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.560 let's talk about the Mispatch Show because I think that's 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.720 dope because it's based on your life. How did that 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.920 come about? Um, Actually, it came about through a podcast. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:29.280 I did uh Mark Marin podcast and back when, like 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.880 many people, wasn't even in the podcast, especially in black phone. 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.559 I don't think you can find a black podcast back 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:41.920 when I was doing Mark Marion and Joe organ Fair beginning. Yeah, So, um, 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.760 I did his podcast and he released it and I 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.720 was in the middle of a pitching a book. I 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:51.480 have a book called Rabbit Autobiography and he dropped that 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.160 podcast and I got like six calls to come to Hollywood, 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.439 and I'm talking to different studios and stuff, and one 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:02.520 of them was run Howard Studio UM called Imagine with 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.160 Brian Grayson. At the time, they had just it was 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:09.400 the first season the Empire and things didn't work out, 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.560 and then I ended up coming back and Lee Daniel 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.160 was like, I want to give a black woman a show, 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.280 and so they brought a producer hurt me on the 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.480 podcast and brought me to lead Daniel And it took 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.680 five years. Yes, sometimes sometimes to take five years, and 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.280 you know, not not believe in those blessings from God. 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.040 I really believe in the power of prayer. And I 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.280 think sometimes God to take you two things just to 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:39.080 test your faith Canada, Yeah, and and sometimes to give 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.080 you a story. Because I was like, how the hell 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.720 I get to go through all of these crap and 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.040 Vator laugh at I never would have thought I saw 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.000 all of these stories that we're doing there on the show, 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.240 these things I've been through in life. You know, like 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:54.600 when when like when the first season come out, they 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.200 was like, what the hell this thick come come from 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.640 this ship? Like, you know, like a real black mama, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:00.400 like a real mama they talked to. They're having a 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.160 real conversation. You know, when you close your dog, you're 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.920 not having no fucking cookie from the conversation. You say, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:07.720 what the hell you feel? And that's what we do 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:12.480 on the Miss Pat shop. That's real, that's real. One 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:16.560 thing E was that now you're making money, y'all. I'm 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.640 pretty sure your crib laid out. Y'all ain't struggling and everything. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.080 How do your kids react on this because they didn't 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.480 have to go through the struggle that you went through. 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:28.520 How as your kids acting? Um? I four kids, so 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.440 I was said, I call the Medicaid kids and glucose blush. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:37.680 Your kids the Medicaid kids, so dope with me. All 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.640 the dope was in their pample. Now your kids, oh, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.240 they ain't with no funkers, bruggers. They nobody stick no 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.680 thumbs or their ads. Ain't nobody pre kidnap them. They 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.880 had it They had it good. You know what, most 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.640 most time parents are proud of their kids. I would 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:57.320 say this, My kids are really proud of me, you know, 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.240 especially my first thick because they know the strug that 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.440 I went through as a young mom, you know, uh, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.240 dropping out in the eighth grade, trying to survive with 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.640 two kids by married man, and even my second set 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.280 of kids, you know, to see their mom you know, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.400 because I did a lot of neglecting to the second 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.920 set of kids with this fucking comedy career thing, always 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.800 on the road. But you know, they always tell me 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.240 how proud they are of me, and and they've always 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.960 been the reason why I pushed so hard to get 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.560 where I'm at today. It's my immediate family, so they're proud. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.040 Now let me ask you this, how is it How 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.760 important is it education? Fathers being on the shame, You're 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.280 having your own show and all of that. I mean, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.800 did you go back and get your education? And in 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.800 between times I gonna make you out a g d 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.760 My daughter, Uh, I have a daughter. Two of my 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.400 daughter went to college and mother daughter, I think she 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.360 got like two three degrees. I was like, look here, 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.480 no more fucking degrees. Let's go right. These shows way 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.320 more money and you ain't got listen to bullishit cover. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.159 My daughter, one of my daughter is a writer on 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:15.320 the show. Yeah, my other daughter does make up and 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.240 then my mother, my son does something else. So it's 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.959 a family thing around here. So you know the greatest 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.760 part about all of this. I always told my kids. 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.760 You know, one thing I learned about raising kids so 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.320 so hard. You can't push keys into something that they 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.320 don't They don't want, and a lot of time isn't 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.960 is this country say they tell you gotta go to college. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.560 I said, no, sometimes you can make just as much 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.080 money with the talent is in your heart than the 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.160 motherfucker who went and got a college degree. I do 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.600 what makes you happy. And you know, one of my 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.199 daughter does make up that's what the fund make her happy. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.639 So I always told my kids, you don't owe me 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.679 ship but the high school to plumb them because I 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.760 never was. I never got one. I got a g 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.960 D and all four of them graduating. So I feel like, hey, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.600 I'm complete drop out. There not criminals like me. They're 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.159 not convicted feeling. I don't have no problems out of 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.560 They totally opposite then the way I was raised. Yeah 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.439 it is. And that's one thing about being a convicted feeling. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:20.720 You know, when you were black, a female, and have 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.920 a felling on your record, it's almost impossible to put 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.879 together a decent life unless you're going to entertainment or 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.000 sothern some other field that's outside the normal realm or 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:38.119 doing things you know, um with your background, do you 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.040 talk to a lot of other women that were in 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:47.800 your similar position? Not unlesstand in the comedy audience. You're 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.960 probably an inspiration to a whole bunch of people that 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.560 were They are presently going through the situation that you 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.080 were in before. They may be young women that have chids. 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.359 They maybe they may have a lot of talent, but 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.000 they may figure because they got I got these kids. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.280 Now the dad ain't about ship, So I have to 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.040 do this, so my life is over with. What would 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:07.840 you tell those sisters? I mean, I tell people what 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:10.640 you know, man or woman. You gotta you gotta believe 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:12.960 you gotta you gotta believe in your and nobody's gonna 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.119 believe in you like you believe in yourself. So you know, 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.200 nothing wrong with getting knocked down. The problem comes when 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.879 you don't get up, you know. I always tell people 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:24.240 my biggest thing out live about it. I can't dwell 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.040 on ship. I don't have control over what you're crying for. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.600 Get the funk up. One of the biggest I tell 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.080 people all the time. One of the songs I listened 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.440 to the most was about outcasts, get up and get 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.800 get up and get out and get something. Don't lit 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.080 the days of your life pass you by. You know, 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.560 when you're winding about what the motherfucker did you? You 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:45.359 wasting time? You know, time is precious. I mean, I 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.440 had a friend would still be crying about somebody shot her, 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:50.560 or still be crying about sip happened to her ten 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:52.080 years ago. I'm like, well, when you're gonna let that 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.439 ship go and move on, you don't share your tears 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.000 when this ship happened. What you're gonna do back today? Bitch? Okay, 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.080 you can't just keep on letting the past hold you, 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:03.840 damn And I don't. I don't rock like that. You know, 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:06.680 people like you find I laugh at every fucking thing. 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.320 You know, I can't. I don't give a funk how 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.399 you treated me. Look at me now, you know you 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:14.159 keep on telling me what the motherfucker did you? And 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:16.879 a eight? So what that ship is old? What the 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.640 motherfucker did you yesterday? Is? Oh what you're gonna do today? 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:22.800 You're gonna let yesterday him to today, not me. I'm 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:33.520 going to get it. That's real ship right there. Ms 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:35.640 Pat you seem like the home girl like you've seen, 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.680 just like one of the home girls from around the way. 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:40.520 Now tell me this. How much love did you get 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.000 back in the hometown of Atlanta. Oh, hella loves me. 0:20:44.040 --> 0:20:45.800 I'm on the morning show if you one on three 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.840 here with Big Tigger, and it's you know, this is 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.240 my city. I worked really hard to do back here 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.840 and we just recently hold on, shut up, I got 0:20:55.960 --> 0:21:01.120 kids love it. You know what is the two realist 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.399 people in the entertainment? Because James Green said, I'm surprised 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.159 Lining brought this badass out of here year because you 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:08.720 will be in the middle of the show. I don't 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.679 care if it's shack when that motherfucker whoever Linaa come 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.320 out there and jump right to build the thing. James, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:14.880 if you don't take your ass back in the thing. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:19.280 Because James raises his grandson, I gave you just Chies 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.280 just phoned back today so I can do this without 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:29.119 him bothering me. How it is? He fine. I have 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.679