WEBVTT - Bruce Bruce 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.920 I had a g stranging sounds of a jump rope. 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:06.200 Let me tell you it was actually breathtaking because when 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.880 I put it on, it actually took my breath. 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.879 But look I had fun doing it. Man. You know 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:11.400 what I'm saying. 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:17.280 All my life, grinding all my life, sacrifics, hustle, p Price, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:18.599 Want a slice? 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.439 Got the Brodeys Swatt? 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.440 All my life, IOP be grinding all my life, All 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.000 my life, grinding all my. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:30.200 Life, sacrifights, hustle, bat Price, one slice, doctor brother of 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:31.200 Geist Swatch. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:35.400 All my life, IOP be grinding all my life. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.840 Hello, Welcome to another additional Club Shahe. I am your host, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.600 Shannon Sharp. I'm also the propriet of Club Shashe and 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.880 the guy that's stopping by today for conversation on the 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.440 drink is one of my favorites. 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.640 He's a multi dimensional comedian. 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.240 Actor, author, and his bio says he's a Crispy Krean connoisseur. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.440 He's the rock stunting double in the businesses for over 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.160 thirty five years. He's the mayor of Comedy, the legend, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.920 the homie from Atlanta. Now, but if you really know, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.880 you know you got Cascade Roll, You got College Point, 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:05.000 you got East Point, you got Doug and then you 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:07.200 got the Swaps. But this man is from none of those. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.120 He's from the blook, my homemade, the big homemade. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:11.480 What's up. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:13.160 How you doing, man, Bet? I'm good. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:13.920 How you being? 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.199 I'm gonna be. I feel so sexy today. You feel sexy? 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:17.959 Oh my god? 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:19.280 This is so sexy to me? 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:19.800 What is it? 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:20.360 La? 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.400 I mean leaving the A coming too, la. That's what 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.240 makes it cause it feel sexy. Man, you don't like 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.280 like when I used to strip. Let me tell you something. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:29.800 When I was stripped. The reason I stopped. The church 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.280 members came down so hard they came on your home. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:33.560 But they was at this show. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.360 Got whoa, whoa whoa. 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.480 I was getting in too him, Get into him, you 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:38.800 get it to it. I had a g straight and 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.800 signs of a jump rope. Let me tell you it 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.039 was actually breathtaking because when I put it on, actually 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:45.720 took my breath. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.280 But look I had fun doing it. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:48.520 Man. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.400 You know what I'm saying. Man, Man, look here you. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:54.560 Like I said, I used to come see you all 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.160 the time, all the time uptown comedy. You don't have 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.320 a problem make in fun of yourself when it comes 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:01.600 to weight. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.560 Wow, Man, I just I just can't, man, because and 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.920 then when I do make fun of myself and I 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.320 do see a big dude out there, I'm gonna make 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:10.120 fun of both of us. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:10.320 Right. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.440 He don't realize it's really about him, right, but yeah, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.359 it's really on him. Right, I'm a big dude. You know, 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.720 we ain't gonna believe I work out, believe it or not. Man, 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.040 I don't you know, I don't know what's happening, but 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.880 I ain't. Nothing happening. But I do work, I gotta train, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.120 I do everything. But we have fun. But you just 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.919 got to be comfortable within yourself and believe in yourself. 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.880 Because most big people won't even go anywhere because they big. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.680 You know what I'm saying. They won't go to church 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.280 because they'll sit there and look at it on the internet. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.040 But get out and do something. Don't care about you, 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.919 get up and walk. I do everything. I got to 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:44.440 the age. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.880 I got grandkids, you know, and I just, man, I 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:48.880 just be everywhere with them. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:49.040 Man. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.239 But at one point in time, you were heavier, you 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.720 lost the weight, and then you you rebound it and got. 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.760 It back some somehow it came back. I don't know 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.120 way it came from. So so why did you who 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.240 the wait to start with just just doing See? Can 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.639 I do it? See if you do? And I'm gonna 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.240 do it again, I'm gonna do it again. I'm doing 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.240 it now, man, I am for real. I just got 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.679 to cut out, you know, the snickers and and the 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:12.800 hershes with almonds. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:13.720 But other than that. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:14.360 But I'm not a. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.799 Junk eater that much. I love vegetables. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:20.800 I tried vegan. It didn't work, man, it's so much 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.440 sugar and vegan. You be eating that vegan food. Either 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.440 they eat chicken that it tastes like chicken. 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:25.880 No, it don't. 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.639 It do not taste like chicken. It tastes like some 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:30.839 fruit with some sugar on it, you know what I'm saying. 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.360 And you done Friday and try to make it look 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.640 like chicken. So you just got to do the right thing, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.520 you know, eat the vegetables. You gotta eat your salads, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.200 and then you gotta be careful with salad dressings because 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.200 most salad dressings is full of sugar. You gotta use 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:43.960 the low calorie. I had to learn all that, you know, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.960 because the only thing black people is French dressing. That's all. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:47.600 We had our French. 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.600 We didn't know that about no blue cheese, that French dress, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.120 and it got more sugar. It's like ketchup. They got 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.840 more sugar in anything. So you have to learn these 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.560 things as you go along on how the most important 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.800 thing going to the doctor, and then the doctor will 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:03.280 educate you. 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.240 Look, we need to cut this act right because I go. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:06.280 I don't like to go, but I go. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.200 I do. I don't like to go, but I go. 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.240 So you go to the doctor and the doctor says, Bruce, 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:14.280 you're love to have your side. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.160 We need you to lose fifty We need you to 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.560 lose one hundred pounds over say the next year and 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:18.960 a half. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:20.160 I do it. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:20.800 I do it. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.200 And I got a female done. And she don't play 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.480 no games. She don't play no game. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.400 But it seems like she want to check me every 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:30.160 time I go in for this prostact thing. You know, look, man, god, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:31.480 I got a problem with that finger. You know what 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:31.920 I'm saying. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.840 And you know, and we don't the way she do it. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:35.720 We ain't. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.120 She ain't asked me how to eat or nothing. She 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.440 just you don't go in it. And it's y'all. 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.719 Oh, yeah, yeah, that feel good. Twist her hand ground. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.200 I said, wait a minute, if if you put both 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:47.960 hands on my shoulder, it's gonna be a problem in it. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.640 You understand, let me say that it's gonna be a 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:52.440 problem in this room. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:54.760 I said, But but she said, I feel good, and 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.520 she told me what it was because I asked questions 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.839 and she said, I be feeling for lung pol ups 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.719 and she says smooth, and I like when it's smooth. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.720 I said, okay, long, I said, cause I thought it 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.719 was something you back to Holland, Oh yeah, this feel good. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.760 I say, this don't feel good to me. Now. It's 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.680 this pressure. And they put so much jail right, Oh 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.760 my god. I get to the counter. Man, Look I'm loosening. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.040 I can't even stand straight. Come, my butt's so loose. 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.120 They think I'm up there to counter hunching the people 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.000 sitting in, you know, waiting to see what you do. 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.240 I'm not hunting. I'm trying to move that jail from back. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:31.880 And I thought I hadn't got it all out, you know. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:34.080 Then I get in the car and I just slide 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.400 down to seat. Man, so much jail, but it's important 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.040 to go, you know, I didn't like to go on 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.839 and I tell every man, Now you know, I'm sixty 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.480 years old, right, you know what I'm saying. And you 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.240 got to going it's changing your body. How long did 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.120 it take you to get comfortable with being this? Have 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.520 you always? I didn't even realize it, you know, like 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.320 I was so active and I'm still so active now. 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.320 I didn't realize I got big into one. My daughter said, Daddy, 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.560 she seen the picture, say who's that leaning on the 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:05.200 back of your car? 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:06.920 And the picture I was leaning. 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.840 I said, that's me. And I didn't realize how that big? 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.520 You know, you know what I'm saying, and she it 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.280 kind of brought something to my attention, and that's what 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.600 made me just start watching on everything that I do. Man. 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.560 You know, but I'm good. You You're healthy. You feel good? Yeah? 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.400 Healthy feel Were you a big kid? No, not at all. 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.960 Used to call me little Bruce, Little Bruce Man. I 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.000 used to mess with everybody. See when I was a kid. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.280 See, kids don't know how to have fun. 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.560 Of mine. I had fun, right, you know, I was 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.159 ten years old, eleven years old, A little bitty dude. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.880 Dudes be on the corner trying to see you know, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.040 anywhere you go somebody who I used to run between 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:39.920 them and slap off for them. You know what I'm saying. 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:42.440 She got because I want them to run at me, right, 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:43.880 you know what I'm saying. And they beat me up, 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:45.200 but I didn't care. They didn't beat me up to 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.040 hurt me. They just beat me up. But I didn't 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:48.719 care because they knew it. They said, oh, he come, Bruce, 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.600 we know something that right. And as a kid I 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.280 was just looking at when I graduated high school, I 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.360 was gorgeous, dropped the head, gorgeos dropped head. Yes, sir, Yeah, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:58.760 you knew you're gonna be a movie. Oh my god. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:06:59.360 You know. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.560 I didn't know what I was gonna do. I knew 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:02.520 I had to help my mother. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.479 And I was my mother. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.120 I was the only child she ever had, and we 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.360 just I'm not gonna tell you it was homeless. We 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.320 wasn't homeless. I'm not gonna tell this. Everybody tell the 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:13.160 story I was when. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:13.520 We went home. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.760 We just lived in the hood, didn't have nothing, and 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.400 we just had to make do. So only thing when 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:18.600 I got out of high school, I had to make 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.080 sure we was okay. You know what I'm saying, and 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.200 I knew my mother was going through something. She didn't 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.240 tell me. But when she sit up in that apartment 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:26.920 and just sit down all day, all day, she was 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.480 going through something, you know. But I understood that and 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:32.840 I just helped my mother and then God just made away. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.480 When you were growing up, what did you want to be? 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:36.560 Did you play sport? 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.880 I mean every day I did everything, play sports. I 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.360 joned everything I did. I joned everybody everything, and were 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.640 on the football field. I'm joning somebody the basketball field. 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:46.400 I'm joning somebody. 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.560 I got beat up. I had a girl beat me down. 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.720 I didn't I did a girl beat you because I 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.680 told her she had a ponytail about that and look 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.840 look and they had a rubber band around. So I 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.080 walked behind and say, how did they do that? She 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.160 didn't do what I said, make that little oxtail right now, girl, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.120 I'm gonna kick your tail. And man, I said, you 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.760 ain't gonna do that. Man, that girl beat me now. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.000 I was laughing, but I didn't care. And then she 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:11.880 made me her boy She said, you're gonna beat my boyfriend. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:13.600 So I had to be her boyfriend and carry her 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.520 books every day. After she don't beat you that she 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.560 don't beat me now, I mean she put them hands 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.680 only too, right, But I didn't care. Right. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.320 So you played sports, were you? 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:21.520 So? 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.880 You said you joned everybody? So you always were funny always? 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:27.800 Is that how you made friends? 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:31.160 Yeah? I was always fun I had an uncle man. Okay, 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.040 my uncle was a He was a baker. He taught 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.280 me how to cook years ago. He was about five 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.000 two five one by this wife like humplety dump. He said, 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:41.559 teach something gonna stick with you for the rest of 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.320 your life. He was the funniest man of a man 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.400 in my life. He was so funny. And he make 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:49.839 wedding cakes for people. And people come over and say, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:51.840 we want to get married and everything. They pick out 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.120 a wedding cake and then he look at him, say, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.079 why the hell y'all want to get married? Right? You 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.520 look like he trying to talk about it. But he 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.160 was joking. But at the same time he was serious. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:00.000 You know what I'm saying. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.839 And he said, well, I'm gonna make this cake for you. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:02.079 You know. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.040 He was the baddest dude. He used to go by 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:06.760 the name of the Sweet bread Man, and he was 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.720 a bad dude. Man and he was just the funniest 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.160 dude I ever know. And that's who I kind of 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.280 mimic after my uncle because he raised me. My dad 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.439 left when I was five, and my uncle said, you 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.400 ain't got to worry about your dad. You got our uncle, right, 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.360 And I never thought about my dad, you know what 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.559 I'm saying. Did you ever reconnect with you? When I 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.000 was forty? I found him when I was forty. Was 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.200 he in He was in a he was in there, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.240 he was I knew he was extra military. He was 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.319 in the Air Force and he was a medic. And 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.480 then but I found he was an NC geologist, he 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.240 was a doctor, and we we connect and he was 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.319 on the defense. You know when I met him, he 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:41.640 was on the defense. I met him down the Gladys 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.160 Chicken and Wall and you remember that. And he looked 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.160 like he was just ready for me whatever I want 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:47.600 to throw at him. 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.520 He was ready. I said, man, how you doing good 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:50.960 to see her? Just did he know who you were? 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.360 He knew exactly who I was, And I said, I 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:54.800 just want to see I said, I got three kids, 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.920 you got three grand kids. So I came at him 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.839 in a way. Yeah, he thought the situation man, yeah, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.040 and then I can see him just getting relieve. He 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.280 just he said, Man, I'm so proud of y'all. Don't 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.280 know what to right, man, I said, I just wanted 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.720 to see you. Man, I just wanted to see didn't 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.760 want nothing, you know what I'm saying. 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Not 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.599 only can I eat, I can cook it. You know 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:25.000 what I'm saying. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.480 What I was eighteen, I hired this guy. Okay, I'll 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.760 never forget this. That's why I'd be telling people. When 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:33.880 you believe in God, God will put people in place 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:34.520 for you. 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:36.000 I hired this guy. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.439 And older guy he said he used to work for 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.760 the company years ago. It was a barbecue restaurant. So 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:42.280 I'm in the kitchen clown and I'm in there with 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.400 the dishwaser on clown. I'm gonna manager the youngest man. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.640 He kept staring at me. You have to look at 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.880 me all the time. And I said, what's wrong? He said, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.839 you need to go on stage like that. I like 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:53.960 go say, he said, I'm telling you so he said 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.240 im gonna bring you something tomorrow. He brought me an 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.599 album and it was him. He was a commedie what 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.120 and he was a community with another guy. He went 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.280 by Reverend Mule, and the other guy went by Doctor Arrowhead, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.559 and it was called Reverend Mule and Doctor Arrowhead and 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.400 the name of the animals called so you want to 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.000 know baseball? And you standing there with a tree in 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.439 his hand like a baseball bat right, and Aaronhead was 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.719 in the catcher's position, and he said, I'm telling you 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.120 he was ex Navy. He said, don't waste your life. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:23.240 He said you can get away from me, and he 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.120 said you need to go on stage. And that's when 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.760 I knew it was time for me to make me. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.520 And he wrote my first set for me. Really, he 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.000 wrote my first set. And his name was Revermue, but 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:37.200 his real name was Willie Dismute. And I'm talking about 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.840 to extremely frond it. He said, don't stay around his restaurant. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:41.760 He's gonna say. He said, you're gonna be owning off 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.400 a planes. I can see it already, and and my 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.600 life is here. So you were you nervous? Of course 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.720 I'm nervous now. Really, Oh, I'm never gonna go on now. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.920 But once I hit that stage something happened. Oh my god. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.240 Some I'm just clicking my mind. 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.920 I just enjoy performing in front of people and make 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.000 and people that some people, a lot of people you're 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:05.880 not going to please, especially when you change your style 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.200 a little bit. You change the style when people get mad. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.680 Lady got mad at me and fort out of there 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.440 a couple of weeks ago, and I but I did. 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.520 We reached out and I apologize. I said, I'm sorry, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.880 but it is what it is, right, you know, So 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.640 I'm sorry. But she was fine. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.559 She just I think she just wanted me to give 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:20.760 us some. 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.319 So where was the first one? What was it like 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.280 when you got up there for the very first time? 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:26.720 You say you're nervous? 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:27.800 Did you like? Man? 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.959 I sure hope they don't, do I hope they like? 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:32.800 Oh yeah, oh yeah, you go through that. 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.679 Man. When I first started going on stage, I was 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.640 going to a comedy club in Atlantic call the Comedy 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.719 act Theater. It was on p Street and eighth that 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.360 condos are now, and it was they had this host 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.000 that he never ever liked me. You know, he looked 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:45.920 at me when he first saw me. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:46.880 He just didn't like. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.200 He never would put me up. We had to come 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.719 in and you signed the list one through ten. You 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.880 do five minutes each and then the feature come up, 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.679 then the headliner right, and they'll be like, hey, we'll 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.400 be here all week. So I signed number four. You 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.520 skip over me every every week. This went on for 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:03.920 like six months. He skipped over me. I went to 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.199 him and say, hey, man, I come here every week 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.199 and signing this, why don't you put me up? Now? 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.120 I'm working a job. I'm working at Freedom a potato 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.920 chip driving the truck down there. Then s bowl to 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.480 drive the truck down there. I got the truck parked 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.839 out of the front of the cover club because from 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.280 a car broke right and Doun carry said, I don't 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.760 know who's driving that potato chip truck and death they 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.800 gonna find your ass, you know, oh DC. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.920 And this dude never would put me up. 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:30.120 Man. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:31.360 I went to him like a man. 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:34.520 I said, you never put me up? What's wrong? Man? Yeah? Man, 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.520 what's up? And everybody come in. He just brushed me off. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.000 He said, look, am, I gonna have to go to 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.800 the man on you because I'm coming to you as 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.600 a man. So what he did. He waited till they 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.040 put the ten comedians up. Then the featured in the 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.560 headliner to feature. The headliner did about five minutes each. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.960 Then everybody got ready to go. He say, hey, we 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.360 got this fat dude coming up here. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.560 Come on, broke god. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.520 I said, wait a minute. Say he got a hundred 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.160 buns in his pocket, all killing me. When I came 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.200 in and stated, he killing me right, And so I go, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.560 I say, I walked to said, I said, everybody, don't 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.280 leave it only it's like four hundred people there. They 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.160 came back and said that. And he used to go 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:11.080 by this name of the Chocolate Hippie, and and uh, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.000 I say, man, because nobody would never jone him back. 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.280 I always joned it back. But I challenged. I came, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.400 I said, man, you know you go by the chocolate Hippie. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:21.160 I said, I'm looking at you. I'm from this bluff 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.400 right here on bank here, you like a chocolate sister 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:28.720 to me, like whoa? Because nobody had never challenged him. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.880