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Speaker 1: My inner child cried in front of me last night watching.

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Speaker 2: The Indiana Pacers come back from I believe fourteen points

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Speaker 2: Had one of the gloomiest, gloomiest days in their history.

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Speaker 2: The guy went totally crazy on the Indiana Pacers. Nie Smith,

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Speaker 1: I know that it must have been orgasmic.

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Speaker 2: For Reggie Miller to see Tyrese Halliburton reenact and Indiana

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Speaker 2: And then we went to overtime and we lost the game.

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Speaker 1: We were done. We didn't even need to go to overtime.

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Speaker 2: And the memories, the bad memories flooded back into my brain,

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Speaker 2: the bad memories of the Knicks versus the Pacers, with

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Speaker 2: And yes, it was only one game, and if we

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Speaker 2: For that to happen in Madison Square Garden and for

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Speaker 2: Indiana Pacers come back from I believe fourteen points down

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Speaker 1: It was terrible. And I thought about.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Ewing's finger roll in nineteen ninety five and Game

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Speaker 1: I thought about Reggie Miller.

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Speaker 2: What was it nine points in eight seconds or eight

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Speaker 1: This is where we are.

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Speaker 2: And I'll just say what other strong, smart, proud Jewish

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Speaker 1: We've seen it all, we have heard it all.

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Speaker 2: Just stay loud, stay proud, and never ever ever doubt

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Speaker 2: that the Jews are going nowhere, Israel's going nowhere, and

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Speaker 2: the unbreakable spirit, the unbreakable light in Jewish people is real.

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Speaker 2: It's more real than ever before.

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Speaker 3: Podcast.

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Speaker 2: All right, Ricky Smiley joining me on the Iron Rapport

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00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 2: stereo podcast. It's funny having somebody who I know is

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00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 2: so versed in radio, podcasting, and media for twenty twenty five.

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00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 2: I'm excited to talk to you. I appreciate you coming

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Speaker 2: on the show. I'm excited about.

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Speaker 1: Your new Hulu.

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Speaker 2: Stand up comedy special, which is going to be premiering

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Speaker 2: May thirtieth.

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Speaker 1: You're prolific. You do all sorts of stuff. You're an author,

447
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: you're a comic, you're.

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00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 2: A radio host of a ginormous, ginormous syndicated radio show,

449
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 2: the number one morning show in the country, which is

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Speaker 2: crazy Ricky Smiley on the Iron Wrap or stereo pockets.

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Speaker 1: How you doing, man?

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Speaker 4: Man, it is a pleasure to meet you. I've been

453
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Speaker 4: a fan of yours for years. Man and h and Man,

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Speaker 4: you'd be sending people straight.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 4: I absolutely love you, and thank you for being a

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Speaker 4: stand up guy when it comes to very very important issues.

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Speaker 5: And thank you for having me on your show.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying. I'm trying, man, I appreciate it. I just

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Speaker 2: want to jump into it.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I'm sorry for your loss.

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Speaker 2: You've been very public, you've been very open, wrote a

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Speaker 2: great book about the loss of your son, Living with

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Speaker 2: loss and moving forward with faith. How were you able

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Speaker 2: to transition from such a tragic, unprecedented situation and pivot

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Speaker 2: and pull off a special which again is premiering on

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Speaker 2: Hulu May thirtieth. How were you able to transition from that?

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, thank you for your condolences.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: My son was a comic. My son was a headliner.

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Speaker 4: We did shows together. We do it together. Yeah, I

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Speaker 4: had my son on stage since he was almost eight

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Speaker 4: years old, first time he walked on stage, so we

474
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Speaker 4: had been doing so I have to do it for him.

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Speaker 4: Brandon absolutely loved comedy. He loved stand up. He loved

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Speaker 4: my comedy. But he liked Faison Love and Roy Wood Jr.

477
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 4: And Eddie Ribbon. He liked them more than he liked me.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it happens. It happens.

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Speaker 5: But he did have certain jokes that I would do

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Speaker 5: that he'd liked.

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Speaker 4: And I just have to do it for him because

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Speaker 4: it always feels like we're on stage together because we

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Speaker 4: always work together.

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Speaker 5: We have so much fun doing what we did.

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Speaker 4: So and then you have to do it for people

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Speaker 4: that have suffered also, you know, you have to think

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Speaker 4: about the mothers and the people that have lost kids,

488
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 4: do the violence with absolutely no resources, and people that

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Speaker 4: have lost more than one kid. Much as given, much

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Speaker 4: is required. You know, my son died on a Sunday. Wednesday,

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Speaker 4: I was back on the air. The funeral was on Saturday.

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Speaker 4: But I don't have nothing to do between five a m.

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Speaker 4: And ten am. Get up, get on the show. You know,

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Speaker 4: we have a duty to serve, to help the community.

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Speaker 4: There's important issues out here, and I can deal with

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Speaker 4: my son's death after I get off the air, So

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Speaker 4: it just have to be done. And remember, at the

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Speaker 4: end of the day, all of this stuff is only

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Speaker 4: a test.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes God allows you to go through stuff to see

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Speaker 4: how you're gonna handle the situation. Is it gonna are

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Speaker 4: you gonna make it about you or are you gonna

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Speaker 4: continue to serve or whatever?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 5: Wild we grieve but still serve.

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Speaker 1: No, I understand, I understand.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, your book, Living with Loss and Moving

509
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 2: Forward was heavy. Obviously, stand up comedy is supposed to

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Speaker 2: be funny, but so much of great humor comes from pain.

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Speaker 2: In your special that you have coming out, do you

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Speaker 2: talk about the loss of your son? Are you able

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Speaker 2: to sort of use the really really real tragic situation

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Speaker 2: and somehow pull off anything funny out of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I wasn't able to. But here's the good news.

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Speaker 5: At the end of my.

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Speaker 4: Special, you can see a clip of my son's performance,

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Speaker 4: so as the credits rot is a split screen, so

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Speaker 4: as the credits rolling on my side, there's my son

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Speaker 4: and I on stage together performing and he comes out, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: and do about seven minutes, and it's good to see

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Speaker 4: him move around, to hear his voice and express himself

523
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Speaker 4: and do his jokes or whatever.

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Speaker 5: In the whole special was dedicated to him.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I kind of stay away from it on

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Speaker 4: stage because I don't have the material.

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Speaker 5: I can't think of anything.

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Speaker 4: I can think of funny things and people, how weird

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Speaker 4: people was you know around the funeral and stuff like that.

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Speaker 5: I just haven't. I haven't put that together yet. But

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Speaker 5: I was.

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Speaker 4: I was able to dedicate it to him, and you

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Speaker 4: can actually see him on stage with.

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Speaker 5: Me, so can we. Yeah, hey, man, listen, I don't

535
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Speaker 5: bragg on my stuff. I don't.

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Speaker 4: I've been doing comedy special Comedy Central.

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Speaker 5: You don't remember, I was hosting comic view on B E. T. Man.

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Speaker 4: This is my best work right here, and it was

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Speaker 4: funny from beginning to end to the end. I never

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Speaker 4: saw it until last night. I did a premiere in

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Speaker 4: Atlanta here in Atlanta last night, and I saw it

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Speaker 4: for the first time, and I was actually shot. Dave

543
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 4: and Land Talbot really put this stuff together and made

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Speaker 4: it happen and it will be a classic forever and

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Speaker 4: shot on film in a while.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, man, it looked really good.

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Speaker 4: The pages of Hulu has put a page up so

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Speaker 4: you can go and watch clips now. So I'm just

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Speaker 4: grateful for the opportunity to perform, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 2: You've been doing stand up for so long, you know,

552
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 2: and the business of stand up has changed.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we're in a stand up comedy boom,

555
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Speaker 2: which is great. You know, there's so many platforms to

556
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Speaker 2: put out you know material.

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Speaker 1: Obviously everybody puts up clips, and you.

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Speaker 2: Know there's Hulu and there's Netflix, and there's YouTube. And

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Speaker 2: how has it changed for you in terms of you know,

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Speaker 2: having those outlets of you know, putting up clips you

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Speaker 2: I mean, and you know, getting a special on Hulu, Like,

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Speaker 2: how has it changed for you since you first started

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Speaker 2: in the business as a stand.

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Speaker 4: Up Well man, it was like the older comedes from

565
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 4: the nineties, we had to learn how to catch up

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Speaker 4: to the Internet, and the younger convicts had to learn

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Speaker 4: how to catch up to being a live performer, you

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00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 4: see what I'm saying, Like like the guys the new

569
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Speaker 4: Internet comedian, they had to learn how to perform, but

570
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Speaker 4: we had to learn how to perform.

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Speaker 5: First and then learn how to work the phone in

572
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 5: the apps, right, you know what I'm saying, So you

573
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 5: know it.

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Speaker 4: It is definitely different from the nineties and nineties was

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Speaker 4: a hot era where comedy club owners with coach comedians.

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00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 4: Nobody's coaching comedians anymore and give to them techniques and

577
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 4: coaching them when they make mistakes on stage, like we

578
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 4: got coached in the nineties. You know, Bernie macdeal you be,

579
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 4: said Steve, George Wallace, Carl Strong. Somebody will pull you

580
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Speaker 4: to the side and make a critique that will help you.

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Speaker 5: You don't see a whole.

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Speaker 4: Lot of that now, lads. But the camaraderie with comics

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Speaker 4: back in the nineties was the best. You remember Death

584
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Speaker 4: Comedy Jam and Yeah and showtime at the Apollo and

585
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 4: all that stuff.

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Speaker 5: You know.

587
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Speaker 4: In our era when we were just getting our feet

588
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Speaker 4: wet or whatever it was, it was the best.

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Speaker 5: It was like a fraternity.

590
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Speaker 4: It was like a brotherhood, especially the New York comics I.

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Speaker 5: Have I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Being from Alabama, I had a special bond with the

593
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Speaker 4: New York comics, the ag White and I just remember

594
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Speaker 4: them taking me out, Tracy Morgan and taking me out

595
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 4: for pizza, and we writing jokes and working on stuff,

596
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 4: trying to get on Uptown Comedy Club, trying to you know, audition,

597
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,880
Speaker 4: heiting there, whoever had a room, And it was like

598
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 4: a freaking fraternity back then, and our comics stuck together,

599
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:46,280
Speaker 4: and if there were beefs, they were private and they.

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Speaker 5: Were dealt with behind closed doors.

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Speaker 4: And I just really missed the nineties, and I just

602
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 4: hope that we can all get back to what comedy

603
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Speaker 4: was in the nineties, because it was the best.

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Speaker 1: Do you find that you're not like a vulgar?

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Speaker 2: You keep it like PG. Third, You're not like dark

606
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 2: dark dark. But in general, with cancel culture, you know,

607
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 2: so many things could get taken out of context. You

608
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: could say the wrong thing on the wrong night, it

609
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: could get posted, you could say the wrong thing on

610
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 2: the radio, and you know.

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00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: All hell could break loose.

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Speaker 2: Do you find cancel culture message with your flow and

613
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Speaker 2: things you want to say, not say, I mean, you

614
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 2: keep things above the belt. But in general, what is

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Speaker 2: your take as a comedian on cancel culture?

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Speaker 4: They sub they too sincident all I need to play

617
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 4: little league football. It tupping up a little bit. I

618
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 4: don't care what they say. They're not gonna change my

619
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Speaker 4: game because I have a fan base. I have to

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Speaker 4: stop worrying about can I'm glad you asked that question.

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Speaker 4: I had to stop worrying about cancel culture and play

622
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Speaker 4: to my bass. There are people that like my comedy

623
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Speaker 4: and like the stories that I tell, and if it

624
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 4: hurts your feelings, I don't know what to tell you.

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Speaker 5: It's comedy. I talk about myself.

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Speaker 4: I talk about black people, white people, fat people, scanning people,

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00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 4: tall people, short people or whatever. Everybody gets on, you know,

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00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 4: and people can't have selective outraged. You know, some things

629
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 4: you get outraged about, other things you okay with it,

630
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 4: and all that stuff is crazy. If something is funny,

631
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it. I don't give a damn what

632
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 4: they think. And that's just I'm sorry. You know what

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00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 4: I'm saying. So I just really ip man. You go

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00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 4: back and look at Editie Murphy's delirious and Edie Murphy's

635
00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 4: wrong and Richer Pride and Chevy Chase on Saturday Night Live.

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00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 4: You'll really be damn upset or whatever. And I really

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00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 4: missed that. I missed that in the game and I

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00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 4: want it back.

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Speaker 2: You know, you mentioned something about beefs, and you know,

640
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 2: like if people have beefs and comics have beefs. You know,

641
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 2: like since you came into it and now being on

642
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 2: the radio and the internet and you you know, you

643
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 2: have a huge following on social media, how do you

644
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 2: personally balance dealing with with so many people that you know,

645
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,879
Speaker 2: like your radio show, you know, in the morning, people

646
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: want to key key there's so much fucking gossip going on.

647
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 2: There's so much content, there's so much you know, fake news,

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00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,799
Speaker 2: real news. How do you balance? You know, I read

649
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 2: something you said about clicks over cloud. How do you

650
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Speaker 2: balance you know, doing that because in the morning on

651
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Speaker 2: your radio show, you got to talk.

652
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Speaker 1: About the shit that's going on.

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Speaker 2: Like I was listening to you guys this morning, you know,

654
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Speaker 2: to get my head in your flow. How do you,

655
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 2: guys balance where you don't want to take things too far,

656
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 2: but you want to talk shit essentially because everybody.

657
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: Every I don't care who you.

658
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 2: Are, what your religion is, what your faith is, especially comedians.

659
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: Everybody likes to talk shit. How do you find that balance?

660
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 4: You know, we'll read the story and we'll just kind

661
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 4: of but we never attack anybody on our shows as

662
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 4: life totally attack and tear down people or whatever, and

663
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 4: you know, allegedly, here's what happened, here's the news, and

664
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 4: we try to go more funny than just attacking somebody

665
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 4: or attacking somebody's character. Unless they did something to women,

666
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,920
Speaker 4: or unless they did something to kids, or unless they

667
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 4: did something to senior citizens, that's when we'll go in.

668
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 4: Anything outside of that, we don't go in. We report

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Speaker 4: the story. We talked about saying, well, if that was me,

670
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 4: I would have done something different in that situation, and

671
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 4: then we started making jokes about what we would have done.

672
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 4: Nobody ever feels uncomfortable coming on our money show or

673
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 4: coming on our morning show to confront us about something

674
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 4: that we have said, so we don't do the controversial.

675
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 4: So I would never ask any question to any guests

676
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 4: that would make them feel uncomfortable, because I would like

677
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Speaker 4: for my guests to come back.

678
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you I think it's rude to do

679
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 2: that to people, because, like you said, you want them

680
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 2: to come back. It's like inviting somebody over to your

681
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 2: house and then asking them to take out the trash,

682
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 2: or you know, sort of bamboozling them, you know, Ricky.

683
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 2: In the last seven days, I have heard the word

684
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 2: freakof and baby oil more times than I need to

685
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 2: hear ever again in my life.

686
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear freakoffs, baby oil, baby oil, freakoffs, lotion,

687
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: astro glads.

688
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 2: How are you guys breaking down and dealing with every

689
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 2: single day of the Puffy trial.

690
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, we don't.

691
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 4: Really talk about it that much, Alfreda's just read it

692
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 4: in the news and read whatever's the trending report is,

693
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 4: and we just kind of keep it moving because there's

694
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 4: so much other stuff to talk about because I think

695
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 4: everybody's having freak off fatigue, you know, freak off fatigue

696
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 4: right now, you know what I'm saying. The funniest thing

697
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 4: Plaide said was I thought.

698
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 5: I was freaky. He said, I thought I was handling business.

699
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 4: He was like, dang, but I feel bad not only

700
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 4: for Cassid, for any women or women in this country

701
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 4: and all around the world that has been abuse's been treated,

702
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,520
Speaker 4: taking advantage of sexually assaulted, all of that stuff, man,

703
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 4: And I just hope that something good comes out of

704
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 4: all of this stuff and make people more aware of,

705
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 4: you know, things that's going on with sexual assault and abuse.

706
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Speaker 4: And I just hope that we all learned something from it.

707
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, because this is this is crazy, and I agree

708
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 2: the freak all fatigue is real. I mean, but just

709
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 2: the amount of coverage and the amount of TikTokers and

710
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 2: social media. Now everybody's a courtroom report. I mean, like

711
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 2: in the last week, everybody's a courtroom report. I've never

712
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 2: seen anything like that obviously, you know, with social media,

713
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 2: anybody could get involved. What are some of the other

714
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 2: things that you guys have been sort of following on

715
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 2: the show that you're having fun with?

716
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we talked about policies and the Trump administration.

717
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 5: Gary with the tea that's on my monitor always.

718
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 4: Talking about one of the Atlanta house Wives or house

719
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 4: Wives of Platomic or below deck. We have the brand

720
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 4: that does the hotspot WHI you talk about things that's

721
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 4: trending and hip hop and pop culture, which is a

722
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 4: great segment, by the way, great segment, you know anything

723
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 4: with Kanye West or Teathang Jamie Fox.

724
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 5: What do we have?

725
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 4: Comedian Special K on the Morning show that's a hell

726
00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 4: of a writer, Special K and comedian Riada Brint. We

727
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 4: just have a well balanced show. We've been really trained.

728
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 4: We have Morning Show boot Camp to make sure that

729
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 4: our sep is tight, you know what I mean, Sure

730
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 4: that we are tight and not hanging out on the

731
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Speaker 4: mic too long. And that's why we're successful because we're disciplined,

732
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 4: trained and we try our best to do.

733
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Speaker 5: The right thing.

734
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Speaker 1: I think that's important and I respect that.

735
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Speaker 2: Speaking of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, I don't know

736
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 2: if you know this about me, Ricky, but I am

737
00:44:55,560 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 2: a hard body, karate, big time Real house Wives fan.

738
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: I believe Porsche used to be. Didn't she do the

739
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 1: show for a while with you?

740
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 5: Yes, he did. She would come and fill in on

741
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 5: the morning show. But we started that show Dish Nation,

742
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 5: right yep.

743
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 4: And and sometime, like if Brat was out or whatever,

744
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 4: Porsche would come and do the morning show and fill in.

745
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 5: But it's been a pleasure to work with her. She's

746
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 5: really sweet.

747
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 4: I'm good friends with Porsche, good friends with Candy, good

748
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 4: friends with Shamilla.

749
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 5: We were just texting each other earlier this morning, so you.

750
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 4: Know, we all worked together in Atlanta and have a

751
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 4: good time in front of the camera and off the

752
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 4: camera or whatever. But I just wish you could be

753
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 4: in a car with Porsche, Samieah and myself. When I

754
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 4: tell you would be in that car that I would

755
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 4: dare you to drive with all three of us in

756
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 4: the car. We have a great time together. Those are

757
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 4: my real friends, colleagues and sisters. You know Tiny, you

758
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 4: know Tamika from Escape or whatever. It's just a big

759
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 4: circle of brands that just come over to the house

760
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 4: and eat a big pot of Pento beans and corn,

761
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 4: brand of smoke, Turkey Nicks like we'd be on some

762
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 4: simple stuff, having a good size.

763
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 5: So if you're in Atlanta, man, you hit me up.

764
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Speaker 1: I would love that.

765
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 2: And when you said be in a car with you

766
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 2: and Shamia, I mean with you Porscha Shami. I don't

767
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 2: think you really understand Ricky how much I love the

768
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 2: housewives and I've met so many. The reason why I

769
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 2: was bringing up Porsche because you know, I've done a

770
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 2: watch What Happens Live and I've actually never met Porsche

771
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 2: and in my opinion, she's one of the top ten

772
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 2: housewives ever. So but when all this drama is happening

773
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 2: with the housewives and for me, you know them, like

774
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 2: I even the ones that I know, I like to

775
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 2: keep it Like I love the show so much and

776
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 2: I appreciate the show as a show so much. I

777
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 2: never want to know sort of what's going on behind

778
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 2: the scenes when you're like Shami and Porsche. Based on

779
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 2: what I'm seeing now, they're having problems in their long

780
00:46:59,000 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 2: term relationship.

781
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Speaker 1: I didn't know they were friends for such a long time.

782
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: How do you deal with that?

783
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 2: But like it's playing out for fans like myself and

784
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 2: I mean rabbit fans like myself when they're having this

785
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 2: public feud.

786
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't even know they was having a public

787
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 4: kid because I'm friends with them. So I can't watch

788
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,439
Speaker 4: it because it make my freaking nerves bad.

789
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 5: Like the minute, the minute.

790
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 4: I see Candy Birds cry or something or somebody does

791
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 4: something personal to her, I have to turn the TV

792
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 4: off because, like it really mentally affects me because I'm

793
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 4: a I'm a good guy that want to help and

794
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,840
Speaker 4: see I'll get on the phone and start calling people like,

795
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 4: what's wrong? What can I do to help? And it

796
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 4: was like, hey man, we take that eight months ago.

797
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 4: We're fine, you know like that, And so it's hard

798
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 4: to watch. I can't watch because I'm I'm one of

799
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 4: those type of people that avoid controversy.

800
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 5: I got you, Yeah, it gets it gets real. So

801
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 5: I had to stop watching it because they have me

802
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 5: in my feeling.

803
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 2: I got you, I'm sure because you know them, and

804
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 2: like I mean, it has me and my feelings and

805
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,720
Speaker 2: I don't even know them personally.

806
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: I just know them literally as a fan.

807
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 2: So shout out to Shamiyah and Porsche and you know,

808
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:07,840
Speaker 2: like I said, I always want to see them get along.

809
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,880
Speaker 2: How did you wind up getting the special on Hulu?

810
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,720
Speaker 2: I'm pivoting back to your special, you know, getting a show,

811
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: a stand up comedy special. What was the process of

812
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 2: doing that? Did you sell it beforehand? Did you make

813
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: it and then sell it? How did you get your

814
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 2: show on Hulu?

815
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 5: Made it and sold it?

816
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: Nice good feel, pay for.

817
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 5: It, pay for the rights to use certain music that

818
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 5: I had to use, walked it in there.

819
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 4: They say, we like it, we want it. We got

820
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 4: to put it on almost immediately. My team, their team

821
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 4: did the contract and here we are where.

822
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Speaker 2: You know, comedy is so like we were saying earlier, comedy,

823
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 2: there's so many comedy clubs. How did you build this

824
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 2: set and keep it sort of private and not get

825
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 2: you know, footage leaked? And what do you like to

826
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 2: do to sort of work out your bits, you know,

827
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,920
Speaker 2: before you you know, take it to stage to be shot.

828
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 5: You know. I would do a lot of.

829
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 4: The stuff during karaoke, And a lot of the stuff

830
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 4: that I did at karaoke came off the top of

831
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 4: my head. I was like, whoa, I could do that.

832
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 4: I could perform that on the weekend. That was funny.

833
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 5: See, I was.

834
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 4: Hosting karaoke in Birmingham at the Stardom. You know the

835
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 4: comedy clubs. Stardome. It's a big ass comedy club, probably

836
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 4: the largest comedy club in the country. It would be packed.

837
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 4: They loved karaoke. So I was in between as trout

838
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,760
Speaker 4: stuff here and there and start putting it together on weekend.

839
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 4: I did a lot of comedy clubs, you know, the

840
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 4: funny bone, the improvs and working that stuff out. And

841
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 4: I worked on that stuff for years and you can

842
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 4: look at it when you see the special that's not

843
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 4: two or three months or six months.

844
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 5: That's years of perfected material. And I did an hour,

845
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 5: thirty minutes, thirty minutes. It didn't even make the cut.

846
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 4: So I could take that thirty minutes plus some new

847
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 4: stuff doing Wow.

848
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait. May thirtieth on Hulu.

849
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Ricky.

850
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking the time, and like I said,

851
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 2: May thirtieth on Hulu, Foolish, your next comedy special. You

852
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 2: could listen to Ricky every single morning all across the country.

853
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 2: The number one syndicated radio show in the morning. I

854
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 2: don't need to say Urban, I don't care. It's the

855
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 2: number one radio show in the morning. And if you

856
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 2: want to read a book that will absolutely touch your heart,

857
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 2: you could read Living with Loss Moving Forward with Faith. Anyway, Ricky,

858
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 2: I appreciate you joining me again May thirtieth, Foolish on

859
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 2: Hulu and you can listen to Ricky every single morning,

860
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 2: the great, prolific, long time icon of Ricky Smiley joining

861
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:50,280
Speaker 2: me on the Iron Wrap Port stereo podcast.

862
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Ricky.

863
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 5: Thank you man, and thank you for being an rg mator.

864
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 5: We came up in the nineties. Baby, We're still.

865
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: Here, exactly exactly going nowhere.

866
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 5: Yes, fun, Thank you man, Thank you Ricky.

867
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Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm done.

868
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Speaker 2: Tell a friend to tell a friend about the Iron

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