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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ n V Jess hilarious, charlamage to God.

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Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest

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Speaker 3: in the.

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Speaker 1: Building, the legend Bruce Bruce. Let's cracking baby, Welcome.

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Speaker 3: How you feeling.

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Speaker 1: Everything's good, man, everything is good. Yeah, man? Why are

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Speaker 1: comedian is always so early? Man, that's something we noticed. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm always prompt on everything, man. That's just why I

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Speaker 1: was read.

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Speaker 3: I was early, Bruce Bruce.

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Speaker 1: Man, that's why I'm doing. My grandfather say, if you're

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Speaker 1: on time, you're late. Damn.

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Speaker 3: That's fact.

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Speaker 1: So you got to be on time. But then the

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Speaker 1: traffic here is a monster, that's true. Nobody drives in

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Speaker 1: the lane up here. Nobody, the buses, police, nobody. They

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Speaker 1: just drive like they want to. And what's crazy, They

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Speaker 1: got lanes, some of them got their own lanes. Right. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now, this is the first time Bruce Bruce has been

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Speaker 2: on the showf And I want to you know, when

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Speaker 2: I when sometimes when when somebody comes to the first time,

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Speaker 2: I want to start from the beginning, right, Okay, Now

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Speaker 2: I know your story because I've been studying you.

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Speaker 3: I've been following you.

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Speaker 2: But for people that don't know, how did Bruce Bruce

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Speaker 2: get into comedy? And I want you to explain your

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Speaker 2: job before comedy.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I used to be a chef. I

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Speaker 1: can cook like a mug and you know, everywhere I go,

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Speaker 1: I used to always be funny. So I hired this

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Speaker 1: guy one time. I was running a barbecue restaurant. He's

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Speaker 1: an older guy, old guy, and he said he used

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Speaker 1: to watch me in the kitchen when I first start,

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Speaker 1: when he first started, and he's watching. He said, you

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Speaker 1: need to go, you need to go on stage. And

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Speaker 1: I ain't paying to his to He said, imnna bring

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Speaker 1: you something tomorrow. He brought me this album, you know,

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Speaker 1: back in the day Yet album. He was a comedian,

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Speaker 1: but he was ex Navy. He was an alcoholic. He said,

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Speaker 1: I waste your time on this job and you need

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Speaker 1: to go on stage. And know what I did. I

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Speaker 1: quit because I had a family. I was young, man

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Speaker 1: had three kids, and man I went and started working

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Speaker 1: for Freedo, a potato chips, selling potato chips. And the

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Speaker 1: whole time I'm selling potato chips and on the doc

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Speaker 1: I'm just funny, acting crazy. So good old white dudes say,

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Speaker 1: you know you need to go study. That's a year

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Speaker 1: every morning, you know, study you fronny, I look comedians

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Speaker 1: every frauds there or not, you know, and he gonna stay.

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Speaker 1: And when I took that step, man, I knew that's

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Speaker 1: why I should have been my whole entirelight. And what

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Speaker 1: made me take that step. I was going through a divorce,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And my x yfe said

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Speaker 1: you would never make it. I'm like, what why did

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Speaker 1: you tell you that? So I just looked at it

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Speaker 1: and say, I see you on TV. You know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. And it's been gone there. I've been doing

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Speaker 1: it now thirty five years.

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Speaker 3: And what made you? What made you get married? If

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Speaker 3: she wasn't supportive because you said.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're young. I was young, you know. You

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Speaker 1: know I'm from Atlanta, Georgia in the South. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get a girl pregnant, you know you got to

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Speaker 1: marry all this crazy something. And I did the same thing.

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Speaker 1: My oldest son is forty three, man, my baby boy's forty,

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Speaker 1: didn't pull out games till you know what I'm saying

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Speaker 1: And that's what we need to start doing as older

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Speaker 1: guys and let him know, Man, this ain't no game.

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Speaker 1: Who taught you how to cook? My uncle?

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Speaker 1: Man? He was like five yeah, Uncle Paul, he about

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Speaker 1: five feet tall, a by the ninety eight in the waist.

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Speaker 1: You hear me playing like egg better on, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He was my pocket, though bad and

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Speaker 1: He taught me about how to treat women. He taught

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And he was he was

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Speaker 1: real superstitious. I never did believe in that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the bed. Oh no, you can't do that sweeping street.

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Speaker 1: You gotta spit the brew. You know, he was rated superstitious.

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Speaker 1: Don't never let a woman touch your wallet. You know

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Speaker 1: believing in that woman buy shoes? Oh yeah, your life.

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Speaker 1: Watch you know, you know the time is out your life?

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Speaker 1: You know. Oh, he was real superstition. But other than that, man,

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Speaker 4: You remember the first dish that you learned to cook?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man, stay was I can stak make a

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Speaker 1: joke of cry white supposed to be clapping? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: my white fos to be clapping. Black people be hollering, yay,

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Speaker 1: how you get the capital for the barbecues? But well

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Speaker 1: I was. I started down with Joah, I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you how my mother. It's just me and mother. I'm

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Speaker 1: an area called Bluff it was, and man, let me

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Speaker 1: tell you man, she needed some help. So I went

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Speaker 1: and apply for this job. This guy knew worked at

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Speaker 1: I was seventeen. I was fourteen, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So I was working, man. I was clean up. So

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Speaker 1: I had been there about three months and this old

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Speaker 1: He was the man. He said, how old are you really?

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Speaker 1: He said, you work good and everything. He said, but

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Speaker 1: He said, why are you working? I said, well, I

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be our little secret. You know. He kept

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Speaker 1: I knew how to cook him. My uncle had been

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Speaker 1: I was running the pit. Man. I was cooking barbecue

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Speaker 1: and everything at like sixteen years old. Oh so you

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Speaker 1: didn't own it. No, No, I was working there man.

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Speaker 2: Now you also mentioned that you were an only child.

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Speaker 2: Only child, your father left at the age of five.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was four or five. He was in Air

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Speaker 3: Was it important to mend that relationship before he passed

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Speaker 3: or I did?

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Speaker 1: I did? My mother said, I just wanted to know

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Speaker 1: I remember him. My mama said, what you looking for

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Speaker 1: She was just ring him off and she was off

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Speaker 1: monster man. You know what did you say that?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 1: I just like, man, this dude is cool. He was

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Speaker 1: That's why I tried to tell all these young girls,

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Speaker 1: You don't see what I'm saying. If you got a woman,

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Speaker 1: know how to trut a husband. But a woman that

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Speaker 1: when she said, I think I'm going to get a divorce,

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Speaker 1: and when she went to do it, said you already divorced.

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Speaker 1: No uncontesta. You put it in the newspaper for thirty days.

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Speaker 1: You don't answer the ad, Bam you divorce. He was

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Speaker 1: already gone. He was gone. He was gone. And I

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Speaker 3: So he knew who he was.

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Speaker 1: He knew exactly who I was. He knew exactly what

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Speaker 1: I looked like. No, my son looked like him. Though,

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Speaker 1: my baby boy looks just like him. But it's funny

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Speaker 1: how I dip over, you know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 1: years ago. My mother passed away fourteen years Wow, you

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Speaker 1: and your mom ever have to talk? Did you ever

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Speaker 1: have to stay in my mom? It was you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Those old UDEs she used to go with

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Speaker 1: named Dave, you know, had platform shoes with taps on.

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Speaker 1: You remember platform, He had taps on platform shoes. He

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Speaker 1: come up the steps, clock out, how your mama doing?

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Speaker 1: And then he'll tell me, hey, come in, let me

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Speaker 1: give a few dog go down and get your cocola,

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Speaker 1: you know something like that. I know what you're finna do.

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Speaker 1: Finna get his some tail, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So he gets you, gets you, I run right out

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Speaker 1: I don't want no food, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But he was cool. He was cool to me. He

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Speaker 1: treated me very nice. But she had this one boyfriend

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Speaker 1: she's just crazy about. I don't know what's up with

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Speaker 1: ain't nothing. I mean, man, he wasn't nothing. Man. He

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Speaker 1: dogged my mama. Man, he was he was married. She

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Speaker 1: didn't know he's married. She's older. He's over there every

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Speaker 1: day every day eating. Yeah. Yeah, God is a good guy.

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Speaker 1: You know how I'm yeah, God is a good gul

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Speaker 1: And wan tell you what happened. When I was in

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Speaker 1: high school, four of us used to hang together and

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Speaker 1: we saw him in his truck and my buddy say, man,

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Speaker 1: that called you. You're my my boyfriend with your mom.

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Speaker 1: I said no, I said, that's my mom boyfriend. That's

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Speaker 1: not my mom. It was another lady. So I got

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Speaker 1: out the car, looked at him and say, hey, you

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Speaker 1: know I see you right? He said, oh, hey, how

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Speaker 1: you doing? Play it? Come on to my mom house.

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Speaker 1: I told my mother seeing him with another woman. He

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Speaker 5: Wow, how were you able to translate your funny to

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Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. My uncle Paul was just scared

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Speaker 1: they let the first show run over. These people are

427
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Speaker 1: coming to the show at ten o'clock outside waiting. So

428
00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,320
Speaker 1: that's the piss they pissed, you know. So you got

429
00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:25,560
Speaker 1: to really go to work to make them laugh, you know,

430
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Speaker 1: or go and or say something like this, say y'all

431
00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:30,080
Speaker 1: have been at working, they want to be there. They like, yeah,

432
00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,760
Speaker 1: I say that's why I feel now you know what

433
00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:34,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So when you break the ice with them,

434
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Speaker 1: you got them. Once you get them, you got them.

435
00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,040
Speaker 1: But you got to run the clubs on time. And

436
00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:40,879
Speaker 1: it's hard dealing with us. It's black people. It's hard

437
00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,600
Speaker 1: to deal with a lot of black people, man. But

438
00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,000
Speaker 1: the white clubs they be on it bam, damn, damn

439
00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,560
Speaker 1: because they realize the money they can make in the

440
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Speaker 1: short length of time. Why is that with us, man?

441
00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:52,959
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, it's hard to doing business

442
00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,840
Speaker 1: with us. I had one dude at the club man

443
00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,080
Speaker 1: was it was in November and it was cold and

444
00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,680
Speaker 1: he had people outside. I say, man, people are standing

445
00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:02,760
Speaker 1: outside the show's suppos to start an hour ago. He

446
00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,240
Speaker 1: looked at me and he said, I don't give a

447
00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,840
Speaker 1: what they do on I said, I'm like what, so,

448
00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,040
Speaker 1: matter of fact, I don't even do his club anymore

449
00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,640
Speaker 1: because you don't have respect for the people. But we're

450
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Speaker 1: the one working hard for it to make him laugh,

451
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Speaker 1: because it's hard to get black people to laugh. You know,

452
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Speaker 1: when they're mad, they better be funny. It better to

453
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Speaker 1: be funny, especially when they're mad. You know, white people

454
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Speaker 1: laughing at anything. Oh, he's hilarious. He's great. You could

455
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Speaker 1: be terrible. You know you're good. You're going to be

456
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Speaker 1: great because white people have a different way of saying no,

457
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Speaker 1: Like when you auditioned for a show, like how did

458
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Speaker 1: you like him? Well, he's a good looking guy. He

459
00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:42,840
Speaker 1: has great hair. That's a no. See, people don't realize

460
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Speaker 1: that when they want you, they want you to get

461
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Speaker 1: you checks the sign. But when they breathe hard. You know,

462
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Speaker 1: I was looking at him and smart guy, smart guy,

463
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Speaker 1: But no, I'm like, we do it. That said no,

464
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Speaker 1: and that's what we all got to realize.

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Speaker 5: You know you, just maybe you think about when it

466
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Speaker 5: come to doing business with black people and white people.

467
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Speaker 5: Because I love doing business with with with my people, right,

468
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Speaker 5: but I don't think we often look at it as

469
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Speaker 5: a business like it should be a personal transaction.

470
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Speaker 1: Right. It's always because people people call my manager and

471
00:19:16,680 --> 00:19:19,240
Speaker 1: be like, man, Bruce, go back fifteen. I don't even

472
00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,439
Speaker 1: know this brother. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, I

473
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Speaker 1: met him at the gas station. End up, you don't

474
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Speaker 1: know me. Bro. Maybe I come across like you do

475
00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,520
Speaker 1: know me, but you don't know me. They'll call and

476
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Speaker 1: be like, we discussed the deal and he said he

477
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Speaker 1: would do it for this. That's not true because I

478
00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:36,960
Speaker 1: don't discuss money at all with anybody. But they always

479
00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:38,840
Speaker 1: think it's like a partner thing when it should just

480
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Speaker 1: be business.

481
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Speaker 3: Do you remember your best show and you remember your

482
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Speaker 3: worst show?

483
00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:45,439
Speaker 1: Yeah? Man, I can remember a lot of them, but

484
00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 1: the people don't know it. I know it. I can

485
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,760
Speaker 1: remember my first I mean, I come off sat Temp

486
00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:52,400
Speaker 1: a guy like that show. Well, people thought it was great,

487
00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,560
Speaker 1: but I'd be like, I didn't like that show.

488
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Speaker 2: What was your what was your worst show? Because they

489
00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,680
Speaker 2: said you don't write things down, it's just awful.

490
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Speaker 1: Come out a couple. One time, I was in Houston, Texas,

491
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,240
Speaker 1: and uh they I was doing this show and I

492
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,359
Speaker 1: was joning everybody out, and this dude came up and

493
00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:10,080
Speaker 1: jooned me and he was funny. But he said, go

494
00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,440
Speaker 1: up there, you know, go up there and jone. He said,

495
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,200
Speaker 1: I look like a pickle jaw, you know, And I saw, like, damn,

496
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,560
Speaker 1: that's funny. B I said, I'm gonna keep that, you know.

497
00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:20,639
Speaker 1: He sell me like a pickle jaw. I was like,

498
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,679
Speaker 1: oh my god, that's funny. But the crowd loved it

499
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,160
Speaker 1: because I took it so well. I didn't go off,

500
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:28,760
Speaker 1: you know, I exactly. It was really funny when he

501
00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:30,840
Speaker 1: said it. And I ended up seeing him like ten

502
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:32,680
Speaker 1: years la. He said, you remember game on stage? Man,

503
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Speaker 1: I saw you, so you love pickle jo I said

504
00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,960
Speaker 1: that was you. Let me take a picture with you. You

505
00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,560
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But it's cool. But the best

506
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Speaker 1: show I ever did, it was years and years and

507
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,639
Speaker 1: years ago, is when Bernie Mack was red hot. Bernie

508
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 1: Mack was super hot. And it's a it's a part

509
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Speaker 1: of Georgia called Macon, Georgia, and it's about an hour

510
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Speaker 1: from Atlanta and Bernie was performing. He had ten five

511
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,159
Speaker 1: thousand seater and the feature didn't show up. And the

512
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,080
Speaker 1: guy said, hey, man, my feature did't show Can you

513
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Speaker 1: come down opening up for Bernie Mac? I said, yes,

514
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Speaker 1: you know I had been in the ain't there about

515
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,320
Speaker 1: five years? Yes? And I drove down as quick as

516
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,239
Speaker 1: I could, and I was on stage, and I can

517
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 1: remember Bernie Mack had his arm folded looking at me.

518
00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,800
Speaker 1: He said, who's that dude? Right there? They said, as

519
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: Bruce was. He said, he is funny. But Bernie went

520
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 1: up and ripped it. And I worked with Bernie twice

521
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:20,639
Speaker 1: in my whole entire life. May couldn't. And then I

522
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,920
Speaker 1: worked with in Columbia, South Carolina on time. That's it.

523
00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:27,120
Speaker 1: But Bernie was a bad dude man, And people don't

524
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Speaker 1: realize when he did I'm not scared of you on

525
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Speaker 1: death chair. He made that up right then because everybody

526
00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 1: was coming up. They was having a car a hard

527
00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:39,080
Speaker 1: time here in New York. Damn jam. They was getting

528
00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,439
Speaker 1: it to him. You know, New York. You know, they

529
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 1: don't hold no punches, you know. And Bernie said, man,

530
00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,280
Speaker 1: I ain't scttering them. And he went up and did

531
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Speaker 1: him and Capri went together on it and he ripped it. Man,

532
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 1: Bernie was.

533
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Speaker 3: A bad Was that the funniest comedian you have worked with?

534
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,160
Speaker 1: No, man, I know some funny comedians now, like Tony

535
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 1: Robinson is stupid funny. Tony makes me laugh. You know

536
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 1: who Tony Robbers? Oh my god, Tonor Robbins told me

537
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,200
Speaker 1: he used dated girl. Her breath was so bad it

538
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 1: smelled like a horses hiccups. So who think of that?

539
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,760
Speaker 1: Who think of a horse's hiccup? You know what I'm saying.

540
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,919
Speaker 1: He makes me laugh. Mike Capps, Mike Capps is one

541
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 1: of the dude I trained back in the day. Mike

542
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:19,439
Speaker 1: used to be on the road with me. Mike moved

543
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,600
Speaker 1: from Indiana to Atlanta, and I used to take him

544
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Speaker 1: on the road with me. And then he moved to

545
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Speaker 1: New York and he called me one day, said, man,

546
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Speaker 1: they want me to audition for Fridays. And I said,

547
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: what you waiting on? I said, looking for somebody like you?

548
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 1: And he called me a week later. I got the part.

549
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 1: I said, you're on your way day. They that's my man's.

550
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you said something earlier when you talked about the

551
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 5: pickle Jos joke. You said, I'm gonna keep that. Yeah,

552
00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 5: so comedians do cover jokes.

553
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I didn't keep it. I just told

554
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,240
Speaker 1: him that. But no, you like I taking comedians, just

555
00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,240
Speaker 1: take bits and pieces of other comedians jokes. If you

556
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 1: do that and I see it, I know exactly where

557
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: you got it from. I've been in this business so long.

558
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you got. I know who said

559
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Speaker 1: and how they said it, and when you said it.

560
00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,920
Speaker 1: But no, I don't use anybody stuff of mine. Because

561
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 1: I saw Bernie.

562
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Speaker 5: It was a video circulating to Bernie Bernnie Mack and

563
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 5: he was saying, don't say your joke around or have

564
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:08,560
Speaker 5: you a new comedian?

565
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: And see a lot of comedians now the veterans will

566
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,919
Speaker 1: look at the new jacks and take that stuff. And

567
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:19,840
Speaker 1: then it looked like the new jack stole it from them.

568
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: But that's not cool. That's not cool to do. Now.

569
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Speaker 2: We've seen Cat Williams pulled out his chop a couple

570
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,800
Speaker 2: of months ago. He was fired at everybody. What was

571
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 2: your thoughts because you know a lot of that stuff

572
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 2: was inside that became outside.

573
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Speaker 1: Well, I Cat just told how he felt man And

574
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 1: what's been going on in his life for real, and

575
00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: he just got fired up with it. You know when

576
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:45,040
Speaker 1: people when people dog you out, let's just say this.

577
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 1: I used to tell people. I had a club in Atlanta,

578
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,119
Speaker 1: It's called Club five five nine, and I used to

579
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: tell my securities. I said, listen, when you have an

580
00:23:55,440 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: altercation with a guy, be careful because they don't forget you.

581
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,440
Speaker 1: You don't be forgot about them. So if you throw

582
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: them at the club, throw them on their head and

583
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: they'd be like, I'm not gonna forget that. They won't

584
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: forget you. But you forgot who that was. And you

585
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: had to go store with your woman shopping, you run

586
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: up all you remember me. You're like, no, you have

587
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: to be careful. So Kat just went through some things,

588
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,400
Speaker 1: stuff that he never forgot that was done to him,

589
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: and he's coming back retaliating and he just told it

590
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Speaker 1: like it was.

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Speaker 5: I feel like, I mean, there's a lot of different

592
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,400
Speaker 5: things you could take from that conversation. But the thing

593
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Speaker 5: I took from it that I appreciate it. It felt

594
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 5: like it put black comedy in a a in a

595
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 5: new light. Yeah, like people started paying attention to the

596
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 5: old geez like yourself.

597
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 1: Tony Robbers like they. I don't know. I just felt

598
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: like it just shine earthquake and shine the light on

599
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: the on the people who've been doing it, and people

600
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 1: got to understand something about Kat Williams. Kat Williams is

601
00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 1: not a dummy. He is very smart. He's very smart.

602
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all remember when he had altercation

603
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: in Atlanta with one of the smill f one v

604
00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: one O three if you ever noticed it, never lost

605
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,679
Speaker 1: his composure. He stood there and drunk his coffee and

606
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: he was killing her the whole time. And he's just

607
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,120
Speaker 1: cool like that. He's very smart. He's a smart guy.

608
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 5: Now we always talk about the role at L played

609
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 5: in rap? What role did it play in comedy?

610
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. You like rap? You said rap?

611
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 1: You know, I thought you were gonna say with with

612
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,760
Speaker 1: outcasts and you know I did videos. They liked my

613
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: little homies. I'm like they og They called me O

614
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 1: G and with too short, made the song shake that

615
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 1: monkey with a little jung gun and then no it

616
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: was too short, and then Little John came back with

617
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,400
Speaker 1: the Yin Yang Twins. That's because it's just love. Everybody

618
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 1: show love in Atlanta, Everybody show love like when I

619
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 1: did the movie I had Awhile with Outcasts. It was

620
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: gave to me. You know, it wasn't a movie I

621
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: had to audition for. And then I did the movie

622
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Speaker 1: Who's Your Caddy with a big boys, a role that

623
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 1: was gave to me because they just have that kind

624
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: of love for me. You know what I mean. We're

625
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,639
Speaker 1: all cool and I stay in my lane. Man, I

626
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: don't get out. I don't do crazy.

627
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,439
Speaker 2: You talk about something about but before we go, how

628
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 2: did you feel about all these artists mentioned you and

629
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 2: their songs.

630
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, But you have.

631
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,400
Speaker 3: A surprise that you here before when you heard let

632
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 3: Bruce Bruce hit it.

633
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 1: That God, I just hate when dude said it. You

634
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like we let Bruce bro You

635
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 1: should be saying that your girls should say it, but

636
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: not not me, not you.

637
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 5: Brother said that on the text this morning. Did it

638
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,240
Speaker 5: because our producer was like, man, Bruce Bruce.

639
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 4: Is already we were on the way, yeah, and so

640
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Speaker 4: he goes.

641
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Speaker 1: Well, entertain them and let Bruce Bruce hit it.

642
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Speaker 3: I was joking.

643
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Speaker 1: I forgive you, that's what he said. I forgive you.

644
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 3: That's inside stuff.

645
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 1: Man. I just I just thought it was stupid, you know.

646
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 1: He I felt he felt we cool.

647
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Speaker 5: So he just told me and our producer told him

648
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Speaker 5: that was he was going to h.

649
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: It's that breathe hot. Why did you do that?

650
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 3: Why did you? Yeah, Biggie, Biggie mentioned you and hypnotime.

651
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, the first time you heard what happened?

652
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: What happened. I was in Jacksonville, Floyd. I never forget this,

653
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: and I wanted to meet him so bad because I

654
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: was a fan of Biggie, you know. And man, he

655
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,719
Speaker 1: came in and I was on stage cloud and I

656
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: was joning people. I mean, I asked to do it.

657
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: I said that shirt sill because it's I say, is

658
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: it's silky behind it too much? You know, something like that.

659
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 1: He walked in, he said, just due this funny because

660
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: if you ever really pay attention to Biggie, he didn't

661
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 1: really smile that much, you know what I'm saying. He

662
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: just always had that look like this nun should look.

663
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,160
Speaker 1: He smiled on the video when he was on the boat.

664
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,679
Speaker 1: When he was on the boat and he started smiling,

665
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: he said, wanna put you down for it? And when

666
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: I heard it, I'm like, what what was like? That

667
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: was People were debating whether he yeah, what did he

668
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: say that? Yeah? It was like Bruce, Bruce, who do

669
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: something to us? Talk goes through us? Girls do us

670
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: one of those screwls who meet Poppy and and Puff.

671
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: It was just love he show. But he was a

672
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: cool guy man. And I actually saw him smile and

673
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: laugh because I never saw him smile. He just always

674
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: had this like heart look, like you know, he read

675
00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: the fight. But he was really funny. It was fun

676
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: to be around.

677
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 4: So he told you he was going to put you. Yeah, okay, okay,

678
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 4: that's how you know.

679
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: It was Yeah, but I heard him like what I thought?

680
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: I heard you know what you did on the rate.

681
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, and Shorty show. They called me the comedian

682
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: Church he said, Man, Biggy just said your name, and

683
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, I listened to it over and though I

684
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,399
Speaker 1: just kept coming back, I just I just kept repeating it.

685
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: Listen to it on. That was love. That was real love.

686
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 5: I guess you answered the question because when I said

687
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 5: what role did atl play in comedy?

688
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: For you, like, what role did Atlanta play in the comedy?

689
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:31,439
Speaker 1: Oh my god, everything, I think that's it. Well you

690
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: know who did it?

691
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 3: Well?

692
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: Who started. It was Chris Tucker and Chris Tucker when

693
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: he did Friday's first of all, he didn't do Friday's first.

694
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: He did house party. Yeah, when he came to it,

695
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: he's the same time, man, you're gonna give you the money,

696
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: the same time it was. It was it immature. The

697
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: group called immature and he went to the door to

698
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: get some money. I'm looking for such and such. Man.

699
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: He just had that one scene at the door, and

700
00:28:56,320 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: then he did Fridays, and Fridays took off way better.

701
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: And they thought it thought it would. It took off

702
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: way better than they thought it would. And Chris, he's

703
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: a good dude too. Man, he's a good guy. I

704
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: used to be on the road with him. But he

705
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: fired me though, man, you know, he fed me. He

706
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: didn't fire me, but he fired me like if I

707
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: was on the road with him back in ninety four

708
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: ninety five. And then he said, man, I'm gonna take off.

709
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come off the road for about three months

710
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: because their presidents get ready to come out, you know.

711
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: And that's when that's okay. When he went back on

712
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 1: the road, he just didn't bring me back here. So

713
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: that's that's firing ass. You know what I'm saying. But

714
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: then cool, it's still my body. But he did come

715
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: back in the policy say hey man, I didn't do

716
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: that right, and I'm sorry, and I'm like, cool, man,

717
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm good, I work, you know, I get down.

718
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 4: And you said you was a salesperson for FREEO label.

719
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they used to make you tell jokes when

720
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: you know everybody on the dock, you know, you know,

721
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: we used to. I used to sell potato chips, you know,

722
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: go from soda store deliberations. So we delivered. We were

723
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: on the dock. I'm joning everybody. I didn't care who

724
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: they was. And we had some good old boys. Y'all.

725
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: Ain't got no good old boys. I'm trying. Yeah, you know,

726
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: I know you're from Greenville, right, y'all. Monk's going up.

727
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: But I was born to y'all. Okay, But you know

728
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: we got the ma. You're a comedian. We love it.

729
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: You know, we got divorce. Like they'd be so impressed.

730
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: So you're a commeledian. Oh yeah, we love that's their word.

731
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: But we had but one thing about good O balls.

732
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: When they like it, they like it. When they don't,

733
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: they don't, and it ain't a black white thing. It

734
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: could be a white white thing. If they don't like it,

735
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: they don't like you, you know so. But I don't

736
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: seeing racism everywhere. Man, It don't bother me.

737
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 4: You remember your sales pitch, my sales pitch.

738
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: On the potato ye oh yeah. Man. Let me tell you.

739
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: I had a Walmart. They had just opened this Walmart,

740
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: and in order to I wanted to dress up as

741
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,479
Speaker 1: Chester Cheatah, remember the Chester Cheeta Tiger. In order to

742
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: do this, you got to you got to sell this

743
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: huge display, to get the carstume, the costume. You know

744
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Because the company was charging different branches

745
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: money to use cars. I was the biggest Chester Cheetah

746
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: they have ever said that. Like, look, man, I was

747
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: the fattest. One guy said he must do eight dollar Cheetos.

748
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: This is bitch as big as a house. But I sold,

749
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: like I think it was, if I'm not mistaking, like

750
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in Cheetos. That's why they sent the

751
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: uniform to us. And it was great, and it was

752
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: a Walmart and it was a guy managed to wal

753
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: My name James Pike, White dude, the matter he gets

754
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: the lord he talked, so you know, he said, when

755
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: I tell you to do something, you'd be like, what

756
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: what did you say? But he was cool. Everybody thought

757
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: he was old red Nick, but he was really cool.

758
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: He ran that store. But he let me bring ten

759
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: dollars war Cheetos in that store. That was my man. Hey, man,

760
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: just me being funny. I walk in and I say, man,

761
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: I need to seals. I need to sell some chips.

762
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: If not, I'm gonna start back stripping. And if if

763
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: I started back stripping, the church mumb is really going

764
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: to be hard on me about this. I said, you

765
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 1: don't want to see me naked. Trust me when I

766
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: tell you that, you know what I'm saying. And their

767
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: bus I laughing got.

768
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 3: Him in order. He wasn't really atrip.

769
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: No. If I was my stage name be stretch Marks.

770
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying,

771
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: then you know. But if I was stripped today, I

772
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: go by heart Candy, hard Candy. This is a good name,

773
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: hard Candy, asking I don't want to hear why heartcare

774
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: like something behind it, like you know the church, old

775
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: lady in the church with hard candy Church, that'll be

776
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: living pound cake I'd be limiting living.

777
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 5: Pound now out of Depth, Comedy Jam, Showtime May the Apollo,

778
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 5: and Comic View.

779
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: Which one had the most impact on you? Coming view

780
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: Depth Jam first, Depth Jam was the start, and come

781
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: on that we gotta give it to Russell Simmons, I

782
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: mean big up for him. Depth Jam was good. But

783
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: when I did Comic View, see Comic View started out

784
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: as coast to coast. I don't know if you'll remember

785
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: that they used to go. They used to come out

786
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: to your city and come to a club and film

787
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: you and then take it back. And d L was

788
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: the host and he was like, look, went all the

789
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: way down to Atlanta at a club called the Comedy

790
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: Act Theater, and we've seen this guy, Bruce Bruce and

791
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: then showed me and I did the coach co when

792
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: they first started. But I never forget the year that

793
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: I host. It was probably the best year for me

794
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: that I have ever experienced in my life. They went

795
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: from ten ten million viewers to twenty million viewers and

796
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: it was great for me. It was it was good.

797
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 1: I made some money. They gave me money for wardrobe.

798
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: That's why I dressed in all them suits because I

799
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: thought I was a pimp, you know what I'm saying.

800
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: I thought I was a straight up pimp. How'd you

801
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: get to gig? They called me. I mean I had

802
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: been doing comany like seven eight years, and go I

803
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: say call me one day, say I would you like

804
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: The host comed view said I would love that because

805
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: I wanted to do it and I wanted to do

806
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: it before then, and it just won my time. But

807
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 1: when my time came, it was perfect. It did well,

808
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: It did very well.

809
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,280
Speaker 2: Was that the moment that you know that that was

810
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 2: your big break, like, oh this is really going to happen.

811
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: And I knew it was gonna happen and it was good. Man.

812
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: Then we did. I did more shows than anybody. I

813
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: did like four to five shows a day, so I

814
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: was changing suits, changing suits, and I was working five

815
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: days a week, so on the days and it was

816
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: off Sunday Monday, so I was shooting commercials for them.

817
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,760
Speaker 1: And I did this one commercial. I like gatas alligator

818
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 1: skin shoes. So I told his capture, I take me, man,

819
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: I need to get me some gators and he took

820
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: me to a real creek with alligator's walls. That was

821
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: the joke of it, and he dropped me off, and

822
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, what wait, man, this is a real alligator.

823
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 1: It was real alligators coming out of the water. And

824
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: it was really really funny. That was a scene that

825
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 1: I wrote, but yeah, it was. It was fun. So

826
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: I still wear gata shoes. I'm old school man, you know,

827
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: I'm like the old player. So y'all can still wear

828
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: suits with ten and shoes. I can't do it now.

829
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: I can't do it, player, I can't do it.

830
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 5: I never felt like Apollo was good for comedy, man.

831
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: It's just I think what it was with Apollo. Those

832
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: people are there all day sitting, so the first two

833
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: shows you're gonna get love. But like the third, fourth,

834
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 1: and fifth show, they wore out. They boo and everybody.

835
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: They booed me the first time, and I didn't care.

836
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: I just started talking about people. It was a dude

837
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: in the front, dressed like a I don't know what

838
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: the hell was going on him. I said, bro, what

839
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: is your problem? Yeh? He was just like a woman

840
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: and a man on one side. A woman on the

841
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: side said, break are you slow before time? Yeah? And

842
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: before the time, but it was it was and jo

843
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: on them. They laughed, But then I went back and

844
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 1: did it again, and then it went, well, y'all did

845
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 1: it with Mark Curry first and then back with Steve Harvey.

846
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 3: Is it too sensitive now for comedy?

847
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: Depending on what subject you touch on, because if you

848
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: if you don't, like, let's just say gay people, you

849
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 1: can't you can't touch on that. You can't say anything disrespectful.

850
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't say anything disrespectful. You know. When I

851
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: was coming up, my uncle called him sweet Pickles, you know,

852
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: so we'd be riding these that go sweet Pickle. I'm like, well,

853
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: well we knew what it was. We were like, what

854
00:35:55,800 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: the world you know? But but the thing is, I

855
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: mean I don't do any bashing of anything of sorts

856
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: like that, but I see them all the time. Like

857
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: I remember one time I was doing the show at BT.

858
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: It was in California, and the makeup artist is two

859
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: of them. They did makeup and hair and they was gay,

860
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: gay dudes and everything. So you know, one dude walked in, man,

861
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: hold on, no bags, do it my makeup? They do

862
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: got really emotional, so sick, so tat I don't like

863
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: to tell you start packing and stuff, go and leave.

864
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: So I walked in the room. I closed the door

865
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: on them. He looked at me, like what I say, Man,

866
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I said. If you're comfortable

867
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: with who you are, I said, be that. I said,

868
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: but if you walk out on this show, they're gonna

869
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: blackball you. You won't work for NBC, CBS, TBS, nobody. Who

870
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: want to work for nobody? I said, jill out, dry

871
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 1: your tears up and this, I said, do my makeup.

872
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I said, but if you

873
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: walk out, they're gonna do it. I said, nine time

874
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: out of ten. At the end of the night, that

875
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: same dude to be hollering at what if you would

876
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: have said I had run out of that. I had

877
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,320
Speaker 1: to run out of that. I had to run full speed,

878
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But then after the end

879
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: of the night, he was like, he said, thank you,

880
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: thank you so much what you did because he was

881
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: GEMM ready to go. He was emotion and everything, and

882
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: the dude like, man, I thought, I wanted to talk

883
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: to the dude. I said, Man, chill out and don't

884
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: do that. You know they got feelings too, that's just

885
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: who they are.

886
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 2: Why do you help so many comedians? Comedians talk about

887
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 2: that you helped someone so many comedians in their in

888
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 2: their career and their life. What gives you the energy

889
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 2: because a lot of people be like, I ain't helping

890
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 2: him because he might get bigger than me. But you

891
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,760
Speaker 2: you talked about so many communities.

892
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Yeah, but so many helped me. I

893
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: never forget when I first when I was in the

894
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: comedy act there in Atlanta, and John Witherspoon came to

895
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: Atlanta and he looked at me and he say, you

896
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: got it. He said, you really got it. He said,

897
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: I like you. So he started telling me what to

898
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: do and what not to do, and he helped me.

899
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: He took me u from his Wien Rinaldo. Ray did

900
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: same thing. He helped me in on BT when he

901
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 1: was my calls. People don't realize that Ronald Ray was

902
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: a college professor before he started doing comedy. He was

903
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: extremely smart. And he would tell me sometimes he said,

904
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: turn your body to the right a little bit. When

905
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: you tell that joke, it'll work better. And I'm like,

906
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: how's that gonna work better? And it worked better. And

907
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: then the last of the Mohicans who really told me say,

908
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: you won't have to find them and they will find you.

909
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: His name was Paul Mooney. Wow, the legend Paul Mooney.

910
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: He told me that Rdney Winterfield, y'allmer rightningy Winfield, that

911
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,279
Speaker 1: my man took me. And he said a lot of

912
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: these juggles don't like you just because you're funny. He says,

913
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 1: keep being funny. You're gonna be alright to call me

914
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: do shows with him. You know, you know back in

915
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,919
Speaker 1: the day, man, somebody say, man, we got to show

916
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: paying three hundred dollars. I'm like, let's go. You know

917
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: these new kids now he say, Man, I got a

918
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: show for you. How much you're paying? Hold it? Play?

919
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: Hold it. You ain't been seen walking by TV much

920
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: less on TV. So what is you talking about how

921
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: much they're paying? If I tell you about the show,

922
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure you get paid. Just that something

923
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: you think social media helped the Hurt Comedy, Oh, it

924
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: helped it. I wish, Charlemagne, I wish I had social

925
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: media thirty five years ago. The only thing we had

926
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: was going this city early do radio, try to do

927
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: TV to get people in there. Social media is a

928
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: platform that really helped a lot of young comedians now

929
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: now veteran comedians like myself. They get pissed because all

930
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: the new young comedians are coming up faster. I've been

931
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: doing comedy for twenty five years, thirty years, and he

932
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 1: ain't been doing coming with three months. I tell him

933
00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 1: like this, you can't beat them joan and then winning,

934
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: so you might as well fall in the footstep they

935
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: are winning.

936
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 5: But that's why them young comedians feel like. That's why

937
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 5: they're asking how much? Right, because they following.

938
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, But then the only thing about Charlamagne is when

939
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: they do get booked, the only thing they got to

940
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: say is what they did on social media. You got

941
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 1: to bring out more than that, right, you know you

942
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: got that. That's seven minutes, you got oh, it's five,

943
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: But what about this other twenty minutes they need you

944
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,320
Speaker 1: to do. You can tell when a person is bombing

945
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: because they start talking real positive. You know, we need

946
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: to take care of these kids, man. You know, hey man,

947
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: support these women, man, hey man, these women need to support.

948
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: They need your respect. They're bombing like hell, they're trying

949
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: to get positive.

950
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 5: That's a favorite part of a commeds show. It is

951
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 5: I like, I like you know what it is. I

952
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 5: like to see somebody trying to dig themselves out of

953
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 5: a hole. Oh my god, if you see me laughing

954
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 5: really hard, it's probably because.

955
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: You up there thinking. Because I remember seeing you, because

956
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: I watch you guys all the time. I remember seeing

957
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: you on Ridiculousness. Right and Chanelle West Coast, she made

958
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: her so mad. You was coming, you say, I never

959
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: seen you on anything. I never seen you rap with.

960
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: I rapped stip, she got, they went to commercial. I

961
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: think it happened twice right now. I was the one.

962
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: That's what she was. But do she wrap? Yeah? I

963
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: think she did. Okay, okay, but I didn't know it.

964
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: But I looked at you, and I'm like, oh my god,

965
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: she's pissed. She got pitsed. She moved that hair back

966
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: the commercial commercial, and she came back. She was gonna come, yeah,

967
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: we're back here, trying to tossed her. I never seen

968
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: your nothing. I never seen you snoop, I never seen

969
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: too short. I never see you. She was pissed. I

970
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: laughed so hard. A dad, that was so good. How

971
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 1: do you feel about the rebooting? Rebooting comic view? I

972
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: just I like it, but I think they're trying to

973
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: do a new way. I think they should have rebooted

974
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: and did it the old way. I think they should

975
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: have had the host and introduced the show like we

976
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: used to do back in the day. Because if you

977
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: remember when that show was on, everybody watched it from

978
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: your mom, your mom, your dad, your dad, your grandma

979
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 1: and your granddad uncle. You know, I saw your DV.

980
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 1: They love it. So I think we need to go

981
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: back to that platform. They doing a new thing now

982
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,280
Speaker 1: where you know they wanted all hip hop and all that.

983
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: That's cool, but we need to go back to the

984
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 1: old way.

985
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 2: Now, you were a huge car enthusist. I am in

986
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,399
Speaker 2: classic cause yeah, we got you into that. And how

987
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 2: many cars you have back.

988
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: In about twenty seven. I collect buicks buicks. I like

989
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: buick buicks. Man. My granddaddy told me, say, look at

990
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: you buy nothing but a Buick. You know, Old Joe

991
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: he's have a road Master with three speed on the column.

992
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: I thought he was a genius. When you change the

993
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: gears on the column. He was a bad dude. You know.

994
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 1: He put it down the first, then go to second.

995
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: He looking at you talking, then he go to third.

996
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: Get your buick, baby, you know. So I always like

997
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: buicks and I like Skylight's Buick was a really good

998
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: muscle car too. People don't realize it. I got like

999
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 1: I got a seventy Wildcat convertible. I got a seventy Rivera.

1000
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,280
Speaker 1: I got a sixties Rivera. I got a sixty nine Rivera.

1001
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: I got a six a Duce on the quarter. I

1002
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: got a six eggs Skylart convertible. I got a six

1003
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: egg Skyllart full speed. Got a sixty five Skylight convertible.

1004
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 3: So that's your addiction.

1005
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like for Trump. I love Ford Trunk.

1006
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 3: So you don't drink, you don't smoke.

1007
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: I used to. I let it go when my baby

1008
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: boy was born. He's forty. I stopped forty years ago.

1009
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: I used to get so drunk, man nvy. I used

1010
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:14,399
Speaker 1: to get so drunk when I when I get home,

1011
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't walk to I have to crawl. I used

1012
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: to knock it in the bottom of the door. And

1013
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: my exife say it gon be me and the alcohol.

1014
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,280
Speaker 1: One of us has got to go. And I showed it, misser.

1015
00:43:24,360 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 1: I did. I missed the hell out of her. Who

1016
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: got a better couselection? Oh J got the car. But

1017
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: you know my man MB got some car I got.

1018
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: I've had everything for what ever made, from the Lincoln

1019
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: Blackwood truck to the duel Is to the saline truck.

1020
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: I got a saline truck. I got two Lightnings, I

1021
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: got a Rapture, I got a super Snake truck. I

1022
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: don't have the Ford GT. You know, the one like

1023
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: a Ferrari. I had all that. You yes, sir, really yeah?

1024
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: I did you know why I sold it?

1025
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 3: Because you couldn't fit it.

1026
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: No, I fit in. I'm gonna tell you why I

1027
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,160
Speaker 1: sold it, because when I did get in, it felt

1028
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: like four people sitting in there with me.

1029
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 3: Michael straight had had it and asked Michael Straan why

1030
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:16,720
Speaker 3: he got rid of this. He said, because I couldn't

1031
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 3: finit it.

1032
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: No, I could fit in it. But it was tight.

1033
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: But when I sold it, it was it was six

1034
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: When I sold it, it didn't have but twenty two hundred

1035
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:27,800
Speaker 1: miles on it, and I had it for seven years.

1036
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: So when I.

1037
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:31,800
Speaker 3: Said, she ain't selling that, because if you sold that

1038
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 3: a triple quad.

1039
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,840
Speaker 1: But it's like six hundred thousand four now. But what

1040
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: I saw, I bought it for two hundred thousand. I

1041
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: sold her for two hundred and fifty thousand, and a

1042
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: guy in England bought it. It was canary yellow black stripe. Yeah.

1043
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: And when I tell you it had the power, it

1044
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: had the power. Wow, that thing would run. That's the

1045
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: one you wanted to hold on to. The No, I

1046
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: don't miss it. I can get another. I don't miss it.

1047
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 3: I wanted to know what it sold for, like six

1048
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 3: seven hundred thousand.

1049
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I sold it for two fifty back then, but

1050
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: I could have got five six h if I kemp it. Absolutely.

1051
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 4: How big of a deal is it now for a

1052
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 4: comedian to have a special does?

1053
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: Well? Let me you know, it's funny you said that, man,

1054
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: specials are good. I just got signed for Netflix specially okay.

1055
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: And the reason, the reason I just took it, I

1056
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna do. I was gonna do it myself, like fimit.

1057
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: Make them buy you know what I'm saying. But they

1058
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: offered it to me. We're gonna do it. We're gonna

1059
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: do it. I think around August so in Atlanta. No, no, no, no, no,

1060
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna go somewhere else. I want to go somewhere

1061
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: somebody to think I'm a superstar. You know what I'm

1062
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: saying in Atlanta, I'm just average man, you know, and

1063
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: see me. But I'll go somewhere like Chicago, Texas. Oh

1064
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: my god, that's why I want to go. You know.

1065
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,359
Speaker 1: In Atlanta, it's my city. I love it. I still

1066
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: live there. And uh, I had a place in l

1067
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: A for like thirty years. And La just La. You pay,

1068
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: They make you pay for the weather, you know what

1069
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: I mean. Everything is just so high. It's just ridiculous.

1070
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: But it's high here in New York.

1071
00:45:58,400 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 3: It is.

1072
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: You especially don't need one.

1073
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 4: It's not I mean, it don't validate you in no wise.

1074
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna do it, man, because I want to.

1075
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: I want to do a tour myself. I'm always on

1076
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: somebody else's tour. I want to do it too. I

1077
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: got two guys that open up for me who is hilarious,

1078
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: and nobody know them. So I want to introduce them

1079
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 1: and bring them out and then they can start out

1080
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,800
Speaker 1: doing their own thing. That's what it's all about. Man.

1081
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: There used to be a kick for comedians.

1082
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 5: You needed a special, like an HBO special sitcom Like

1083
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 5: I don't feel.

1084
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: You need none of that no more.

1085
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 5: Some people who got them, they can't sell out.

1086
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: Can't sell a ticket. You know what I'm saying. They

1087
00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 1: can sell people in the garage, but they can't sell

1088
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,760
Speaker 1: a ticket. You know, back in the day before Kings

1089
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,640
Speaker 1: of Comedy, that's what you had to get. You know,

1090
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: you do real good, then they offer your sitcom, then

1091
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: you do your sitcom, then you go on tour. And

1092
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:51,439
Speaker 1: Bernard Mack was like the only comedian that could sell

1093
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,719
Speaker 1: out by hisself. He was about, now, Kat Williams could

1094
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: do it. Kevin Hart can do it. Kevin Hart is

1095
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,439
Speaker 1: a good guy. But Cat can do it. Like when

1096
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: he did that interview, that podcast went crazy. He just

1097
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: started saying everywhere and well he got something to say,

1098
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: and I think he should said, I agree he doing.

1099
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 4: They're doing a live Netflix special with Cat.

1100
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: But you know what they Cat made everybody get on

1101
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: their toes. Though people like I thought, you're gonna say

1102
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: something about you. I never had any conflict with Cat.

1103
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: We always been cool. He called me one time he said, man,

1104
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: I want you go on the road with me, and

1105
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 1: I said this exact word. I said, I would do it.

1106
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: I said, but why do you need me on the

1107
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: road with you? I said, you got it. They're coming

1108
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: to see you. He said, well, it's a big crossover.

1109
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: You got a crowd. I got a crowd. But cat

1110
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: is he's a smart dude, and he take care of

1111
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: his people. That's what I like about it, said, he

1112
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,720
Speaker 1: take care of his people, and that's what it's all about.

1113
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: Can't keep the money, man, You just think you're gonna

1114
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: work people to death and not pay him. You got

1115
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: to pay these people. We got families, we got kids.

1116
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: You know, I got grand kids, and I mean, you know,

1117
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:58,479
Speaker 1: grand kids. That's who I work for. Now. They're cool.

1118
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 5: You've been getting money for a long time, been in

1119
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 5: the game thirty When did you start seeing the like

1120
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 5: that real real money that you know?

1121
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: When I when I when when I when a joker

1122
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 1: was giving me a thousand dollars a show. I thought

1123
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 1: he was crazy because it was so easy to me

1124
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars to be on sage for ten to

1125
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. Oh this is where I need to be.

1126
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: Take the trip. Trump got to go. I tell you

1127
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: how I quit my job. I took a leave of

1128
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,279
Speaker 1: absence and I told him. I told my supervisors. I say, man,

1129
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: I said, I'm going through divorce. Man, I say, I

1130
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: just need some time and get my head together. Can

1131
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: I get a thirty day leave absent? He got it approved.

1132
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: When he got it approved, we was inventory in the truck.

1133
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: He said, man, you're coming back. I said, I want

1134
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: you to look at me real good. And next time

1135
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: you see me, I'll be on TV. And I left.

1136
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: And what's crazy?

1137
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 3: You know?

1138
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: Back in the day we had beepers anybody I left.

1139
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: I had my cousin and picked me up. On a Friday.

1140
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: I said, man, take me by the back and I

1141
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 1: got twenty dollars in the bank. That's all I had

1142
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: in the bank. I went and got the twenty dollars

1143
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: out to give him for gas. And as soon as

1144
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: I gave the money, my beeple went on and I said, stop, man,

1145
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: let me used to pay for him and I called

1146
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: it was the club owner in the COMMUNYCT Theater in Atlanta.

1147
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: He said, Man, what you doing tonight? I said, I'm

1148
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: working for you. I ain't look back.

1149
00:49:20,360 --> 00:49:23,879
Speaker 4: You do a lot of manifestation, Bruce. You will see

1150
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 4: me on TV.

1151
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: Yeah. He's telling man, you got to speak stuff. You know,

1152
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: when people don't realize you have to speak stuff into

1153
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: your life. And when people be speaking the wrong stuff

1154
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: in their life. The wrong stuff is gonna come. Oh,

1155
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: I'm sick as a doll. Okay, we're gonna be sick

1156
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 1: as a doll because you're gonna be sick as a dog.

1157
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: I love her depth. She'd be dead about three months,

1158
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: so you can't. You know, you got to love her

1159
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 1: a life. Whatever you speak, the tongue is very powerful.

1160
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. What I'm saying. So people

1161
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 1: hollering by church Ford, but they be telling the truth.

1162
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You know you say you're

1163
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: gonna be rich, You're gonna be rich. Just just keep

1164
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: you got to believe it what you I'm saying. So

1165
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 1: I've always told peop you'll see me on TV. I'm

1166
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: not gonna work this truck all my life. I'm not

1167
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: gonna be delivering chips all my life. I'm gonna be

1168
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 1: doing stuff I.

1169
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 3: Like to do.

1170
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,839
Speaker 1: What's your manifested nine? What do you My key thing

1171
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: now is to make sure I make enough money and

1172
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: save enough money to leave for my grandkids when I'm gone.

1173
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: I don't plan on going anywhere right now anytime soon,

1174
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 1: but you know, I just want to make sure they're

1175
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: straight when I leave because that's where it's supposed to be.

1176
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: I know a guy now, he's been married, white dude.

1177
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: He got married in nineteen sixty two. His mother and

1178
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: father gave him a house that he still live in.

1179
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:43,880
Speaker 1: He never paid a house note because the house were

1180
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: paid for, didn't and then the property was on like

1181
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: sixty acres with three lakes. So he living the life.

1182
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: They're lefting money. That's where it's supposed to be. You

1183
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: always leave your family and position where they don't have

1184
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: to suffer and be in a strain. That's why we

1185
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: need to get insurance. Oh my god, you have see

1186
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: somebody to die. They do gofund me. Then the brother

1187
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: in law take all the money, He take everything but

1188
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:12,399
Speaker 1: sixty dollars. They had already thirty thousand. They didn't give

1189
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,120
Speaker 1: us sixty dollars. Man, you know they left more than

1190
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,280
Speaker 1: sixty dollars. And that's what we should be. We should

1191
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 1: always put ourselves in a position to live a good life.

1192
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: Also leave a good life for our family. I've got

1193
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 1: a couple more questions. There's a stigma about black comedians

1194
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: wearing dresses to be funny, having the wear addressed to

1195
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: get to that next level. What's your thoughts on that? Well,

1196
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be honest with you, man, I

1197
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 1: did it. I did it. It's funny you said that

1198
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:39,960
Speaker 1: I did. I did a TV show that I take

1199
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: one time, never came out. It's called Bruce Bruce Bounty Hunters,

1200
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: and we did this scene. I was a bounty hunter.

1201
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,439
Speaker 1: I played a bounty hunter. I played a preacher called

1202
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: Reverend Get Money. It was Reverend Get Money. And I

1203
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: played a mother named Mother Marshall, which was crazy, but

1204
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: Mother Marshall was a real lady in my church that

1205
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: I mimic. I cop it off for and I also

1206
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: played I did it in Indianapolis, and I did not

1207
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 1: feel comfortable in that dress, you know what I'm saying

1208
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: at all. And some people could do it, some people

1209
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: if it worked for you. Flip Wilson did it when

1210
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: he did Jeraldine. You know, because Flip Willson show was

1211
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: a variety show, which I love because it wasn't a

1212
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: black show. It was a show for everybody, and that's

1213
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 1: what people got to understand. But if they want to

1214
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: dress up in a dress, do you think you know?

1215
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,760
Speaker 1: But that's not my thing. Yeah, But you know, Tyler

1216
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: Perry made it big. He's one of the best. But

1217
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: to me, I love Tyler Peerry, but Joe is funny

1218
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: than Tyler Peerry, than my deal. When he plays Joe Joe,

1219
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: it's funny. Joe had an oxygen tank, smoking weed, coughing,

1220
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,799
Speaker 1: and I say, thank you Jesus. You know what I'm saying.

1221
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: So when he plays Joe, Joe is the funniest dude.

1222
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: You know, that's just me. I think. Yeah, I love

1223
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: my dear, but oh my god, Joe's.

1224
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 5: And see back then when we used to see people

1225
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 5: in the dresses or even see like when they used

1226
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 5: to do men on film on a living color, it

1227
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 5: was just funny.

1228
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,359
Speaker 1: Thought nothing of it. Men on film was the thing

1229
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: when they talked about Moby Dick, Moby Dick that gets

1230
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: two snaps and the kids and around about yeah the twist. Yeah.

1231
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 5: How would you define this point in your life professionally

1232
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 5: and personally?

1233
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: Oh well, I want anybody to know, professionally and personally,

1234
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: this is me and this is how I do business.

1235
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 1: I don't act, I don't put on So if you

1236
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 1: see me on and off stage, this is Bruce Bruce,

1237
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: and I'm the same every day man. You know, I

1238
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: have problems just like everybody else. I have. I get

1239
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 1: a cold like everybody. You know, everybody. Everybody think when

1240
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: you're in the entertainment, things are just perfect, noise or not,

1241
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: and your family members and your friends are the worse.

1242
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: The Bible speaks. If it ain't your family, watch your

1243
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 1: closest friend, they gonna get you. I got a cousin now. Oh,

1244
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 1: I'm just going through so much. I said, keep having

1245
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: some birthday, You're gonna go through some more shit. You

1246
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. What I'm saying, But they expect

1247
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: you to rescue them and fix them and not pay

1248
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: you back. Who thought of that one?

1249
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1250
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:21,960
Speaker 1: I don't know who thought of that one. I don't know.

1251
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: They don't think. But if it was Flip, if I

1252
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,279
Speaker 1: owe them now, y'all know he owns money. He ain't

1253
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: gave me my money yet. But when you owe me,

1254
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 1: I saw to be able to understand when you got it. Yeah, exactly,

1255
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: I'll be telling you. I told m I ain't seeing

1256
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: a rich man with extra money. Never. Why do you

1257
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: have to say your name twice? I call my Mommy

1258
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 1: just called me twice. My mama said, if I call

1259
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 1: you the third time, I'm gonna kill you. So my

1260
00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: mother said, if I call you three times, you're gonna

1261
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: die today. And my mother was a little one about

1262
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: one forty. I mean, she was just but loving and

1263
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 1: knew how to make a way out of no way.

1264
00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: Most mothers do. That's why it's always good when you

1265
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: do get successful and you start making money, make sure

1266
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 1: you take care of mom. And one thing you got

1267
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: to realize it don't take much like you think it does.

1268
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: People think like, well, I got to do it. Your

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Speaker 1: mama don't want that much. She just want to make

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Speaker 1: sure she's okay, she's comfortable, and she got a little money.

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Speaker 1: My mother last twenty years of her life. I made

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Speaker 1: sure she was straight, didn't pay no bills, nothing. But

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Speaker 1: it didn't take much, you know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 1: then when your family members found out about it, they

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Speaker 1: started trying to use you too. You know, my mom,

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Speaker 1: I'm going through something. Well that's your mother, this one

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Speaker 1: is mine. Books. We appreciate you for joining us, no,

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Speaker 1: thank you, and you're going to do it right now

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Speaker 1: right yeah, yeah, I'm gonna show tonight and you know

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Speaker 1: next week I'm in town. But we got that I'm

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Speaker 1: in Tacoma, Washington. We got through that. I mean, Raleigh.

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Speaker 1: I'm booked every week. If I'm not booked every week,

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Speaker 1: somebody gonna lose their job. Ain't nobody gonna be sitting

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Speaker 1: at home drinking lemonade when I'm sitting at home. I

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Speaker 1: need to go to.

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Speaker 3: Work, That's right. Yeah, well, let you have it. It's Bruce, Bruce.

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Speaker 5: We've been trying to get Bruce Bruce up here for

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Speaker 5: a minute, man, because you know, I've always just respected

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Speaker 5: you as a.

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Speaker 1: As a comedy legend. Man, trying to give you an icon.

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Speaker 1: So salute you, Bruce, Thank you for coming. Respect.

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Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass up

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Speaker 3: in the morning.

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Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club.