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Speaker 1: Welcome you all to another episode of Eating Wild Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Wit and today we have special guests, actor, comedian,

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Speaker 1: writer and social media influencer. How we all know him,

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Speaker 1: best invest and best of all, Clayton Thomas is in

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Speaker 1: the building. How are you good? Okay? What do you

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Speaker 1: have us eating today? This is called under twenty? Got

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Speaker 1: boneless skill with chicken thighs? We have broccoli and that

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Speaker 1: is going to be that with our former gree of course,

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Speaker 1: which is not under thirty dollars, but this is how

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Speaker 1: you get it done? You so, is that what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna call this? This under twenty? Under twenty? I love

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Speaker 1: that James and George Foreman. I haven't seen sold just

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Speaker 1: backstory and George Foreman. So I went to my husband.

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Speaker 1: I said, um, we needed George Foreman girl. I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen one of those forever. And then I was like,

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Speaker 1: do you think we have one? And he was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Check the cabinet, and I go on

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Speaker 1: my cabinet. Though I have never in my life used

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Speaker 1: a George Foreman girl, I had to. I had a

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Speaker 1: mini one and this one and shout out to all

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Speaker 1: the roommates that I had in my lifetime that left

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Speaker 1: George Foreman girls in my house. Here's the question, why

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Speaker 1: are you not familiar with because even now Glory be

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Speaker 1: the guy that success, I still own a Foreman. Do

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Speaker 1: you still use it? Though I used one weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, I put it out of the garage. I

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Speaker 1: was like, I want some chicken because my wife is

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Speaker 1: plant based, so she doesn't cook any meats. Are gonna

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Speaker 1: outsource my meatballs, so I had to go get me,

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Speaker 1: uh my former girl to garage. It's definitely smaller, right, No, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm bigger. Oh luxury brand. Well, here's the thing. First

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Speaker 1: former grill, um, can we say everything on it? You

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Speaker 1: could say whatever you want. So the first former grill

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Speaker 1: I had, I was smashing this older chick ground Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course. I think if you have a former girl

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Speaker 1: and you don't have roommates and it doesn't it doesn't

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Speaker 1: make sense, right, make sense. I got my rice cooking

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Speaker 1: from my roommates. But the former girl smashing his older

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Speaker 1: chick and she knew I was going through it. She

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Speaker 1: was like, you need a former girl, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: because I don't know how to cook. I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm breakfast, I'm eggs, all of that. I

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Speaker 1: don't do the baking because the grease pop. But she

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Speaker 1: gave it to me and I kept it right until

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Speaker 1: I got with my wife and she heard the story

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Speaker 1: how I got the former grill and then she was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you can't head at my house. And I was like, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, So I got rid of it and I

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Speaker 1: end up buying another one separately that was brand new,

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Speaker 1: so she couldn't, you know, play anything. So we got

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Speaker 1: the nice one. When you got it, okay, damn, I

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Speaker 1: want to see what that puppy looks like. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna bring it. I was like that she needs me

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Speaker 1: to bring and I was like, oh great, but he

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Speaker 1: had a seating. But it's the chicken tis broccoli. Now.

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Speaker 1: We talked about seasons, so I see you got the

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Speaker 1: crowber brand. I did, but I, like everybody knows what

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Speaker 1: this weird topics? We ain't go ahead. Low Rees is

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Speaker 1: in the building. If you're not making chicken with Laura,

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Speaker 1: is this my camera? This you have both cameras is

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Speaker 1: a staple in the black music. You understand me. If

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Speaker 1: you ain't gonna Larris, you're not cooking chick. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what you make it. Actually put larries on everything.

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Speaker 1: Then we have the ground pepper and black pepper. Then

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Speaker 1: we have my garlic powder. This is what gives you

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Speaker 1: the pop. You understand me? Now, perfect, you got it.

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Speaker 1: So this is the poultry season. The chicken poultry season

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Speaker 1: is what you also add for flavor. Not interestingly enough,

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Speaker 1: I put this on the chicken and I put this

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Speaker 1: on the broccoli, because it gives flavors when you're tasting

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Speaker 1: them both separately. Okay, yeah, I actually personally went shopping

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Speaker 1: for the seasonings, and then a part of me was like,

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Speaker 1: we'll go cheap. It's eating while broke. But then on

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Speaker 1: the poultry seasoning, I don't think I had an option.

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, they's best shure, but yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I cleaned the chicken thighs for you. I can honestly say,

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Speaker 1: I don't remember the last time I cooked chicken thighs.

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Speaker 1: What did you eat while you were trying to I'm Jamaican,

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Speaker 1: so even my husband's gonna laugh at me all day.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't really cook with Lorry's until my husband

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Speaker 1: and he based everything in Lorry's. I'll be having salt

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Speaker 1: poisoning every dish. It's bad, it's salty. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: using less lorries if you can. People think, But here's

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Speaker 1: the things you gotta understand. Laws gives you the flavor

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Speaker 1: and the los is what we grew up on. Lows

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Speaker 1: is h Oh, you're gonna put it on that, okay. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I should have brought you a cutting board. It's okay,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have to throw the camera. So you gotta

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Speaker 1: eat this too, I understand. Don't bring me the good thing.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of laws for all y'all listeners. He

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Speaker 1: is putting pulled the chicken thighs out um, and he

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Speaker 1: just completely coded it in lawr's. Now I'm deeply concerned

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Speaker 1: because my husband does the same and usually I can't

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Speaker 1: even taste anything besides salt. But okay, so he put

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Speaker 1: the lawries in the pepper. Okay, got the gary powder.

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Speaker 1: Always you you feel. It ain't a measuring cups. You

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Speaker 1: feel what you think your food needs right now. Interestingly enough,

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Speaker 1: when you're doing this, I was coming from a place of,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, I had only had the twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: and I spent on the food like this is when

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Speaker 1: I just got into l A in a roommate scenario,

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Speaker 1: bear room because where'd you move from? Yeah, coming from

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Speaker 1: the Troy. Interestingly enough, when I came from Detroit, I

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Speaker 1: moved here right for my twenty first birthday, Um, I

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Speaker 1: to with my mother. I want to go to l

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Speaker 1: A to follow my dreams. But in order to get

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Speaker 1: to New York Chicago in Atlanta to perform and make

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Speaker 1: go to la so for my birthday. Yeah. So I

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Speaker 1: started doing stand up at eighteen years old. Actually, the

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Speaker 1: first time was in my high school auditorium because a

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Speaker 1: comedy show came to the school, kool Aid Legendary Rest

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Speaker 1: in Peace, Melvin Bender, Martez Jackson, and Chanelle simply Chanelle.

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Speaker 1: And my dream was to be a comedian. There was

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Speaker 1: a little boy and I just never knew how I

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Speaker 1: would get into it. Watching Martin on TV, I wanted

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Speaker 1: to be Martin Lawrence. And the way that it end

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Speaker 1: up happening was I walked up to the comedians and say, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: I would love to perform with y'all. And he was like,

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Speaker 1: and he's like yeah, and I'm like, uh, okay, right.

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Speaker 1: So I get on stage. You actually did it? Oh okay?

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Speaker 1: I get on stage in front of my entire school.

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Speaker 1: Was that your first time or first time? I wasn't bullets.

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Speaker 1: I was scared as fun. And I get on stage

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Speaker 1: very large man. And I said, yeah, man, he chased

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Speaker 1: Everybody laughs hard because they knew him. And I was like,

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Speaker 1: all right, we look at this, y'all going y'all? And

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Speaker 1: I brought the comedian up, and after I brought him up,

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Speaker 1: the rest with history. Do you need to plug the

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Speaker 1: sub forman grilling O? Thank you? Okay, I forgot it

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Speaker 1: wasn't so um. Fast forward two years. I tell my

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Speaker 1: so do you think my birthday comes? She gives me

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars and she said, go follow your dreams, go

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Speaker 1: straight to l A. So I moved to l A.

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Speaker 1: Oh so you ended up skipping? Did you skip New York? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Well I got there later as I was in later,

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Speaker 1: but I didn't have to go because she gave you.

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Speaker 1: The thousand dollars ain't a lot. Let me tell you something. So,

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Speaker 1: so what happens, I'm carus to happen? Now. I want

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Speaker 1: to hear how you how you manage this thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: So my mom made me make her a deal. She said, okay, um,

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Speaker 1: I should have sleeping on at once, but I got

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Speaker 1: to try anyway. So my mom said, how long do

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Speaker 1: I said, huh, I'll be on TV and six months

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Speaker 1: this is me. And she was like, oh okay, well

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Speaker 1: by an opening the ticket and by your return ticket

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Speaker 1: for six months from now, so that'll be by Christmas.

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Speaker 1: And if you're not don't TV by Christmas, you have

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Speaker 1: to move back home and go back to school. Because

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Speaker 1: So I came to l A and uh. I reached

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Speaker 1: out to Corey Holkam. He's the first comedian who I've

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Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, when you get the l A,

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Speaker 1: just hit me up. So I came to l A.

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Speaker 1: I had met him a laughing loser down the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: eight months prior, and he was like, yo, I'm in

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Speaker 1: floor for like a week? And how are you getting around?

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Speaker 1: L A, you don't have a car, right, Oh you

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Speaker 1: really gangster? And I've been let me tell you something.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna interrupt you. I love the story already because

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Speaker 1: I've been to your how this beautiful. It's fantastic and

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Speaker 1: I would love to live on your couch. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: if you just know like how he's living now, this

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Speaker 1: is an amazing story, so continue. Sorry. So, um, so

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Speaker 1: I'm homeless. I'm at Reel's crib. I'm like, I got

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Speaker 1: get up really early. I would get to this group

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Speaker 1: we turned to a month, and at the end of

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Speaker 1: that month, he's like, yeo, man, I'm going out of town.

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Speaker 1: You gotta find worse to stakes. My roommates don't want

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Speaker 1: you hear without me, all right, So I uh, I

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Speaker 1: was hanging out with Corey one night, Corey Oakum and

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Speaker 1: there's another comedian, Vanessa Grad, and he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: why don't you just stay with Vanessa? She ain't got

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Speaker 1: no man. And I was like, you know right, And

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Speaker 1: I wasn't trying to smash. I just really just needed

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Speaker 1: for a couple of months, and I just I was

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Speaker 1: in l A. And she was one of those women

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Speaker 1: that we were so tight at friends. I had no

425
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,920
Speaker 1: choice but to be myself with her, right. And what

426
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 1: that means to a lot of people is when you're

427
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 1: friends with a woman and you're just friends, even though

428
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,240
Speaker 1: I was trying to smash with day one, you are

429
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 1: you are honest, right. She knows the real me, She

430
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: knows that I love women, she knows of how I

431
00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,639
Speaker 1: am right. So she had that honesty and then she

432
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,439
Speaker 1: still shows that to be with me. So from that,

433
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,840
Speaker 1: she helped me become who I am. I would not

434
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 1: have gotten eight percent of the blessings that I've perceived

435
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 1: had it not been for her in my life and

436
00:22:54,280 --> 00:23:14,239
Speaker 1: in my corner. So yeah, wow, my problem problem. So

437
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:19,119
Speaker 1: we're back from commercial break with some nice smelling chicken

438
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: um and uh just just kind of tailoring off to

439
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: where we left off in regards to your wife being

440
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: your rock everything pretty much. She um. My wife's name

441
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,400
Speaker 1: is Tangerine. She is a very successful actress and producer.

442
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: She was doing this when she met me, right like

443
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:40,680
Speaker 1: she was already. She had like two movies coming out

444
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: when she met me. I think one of the first

445
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 1: ones when I got super excited about was Miss March

446
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,479
Speaker 1: and Love for Sale because I love quest comedies, like

447
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: you know, like a journey film, like you watch a

448
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: road trip like that. I love those types of and

449
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,640
Speaker 1: that's what Miss March was, and the Love for Sale

450
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: was just an incredible comedy as well. But she had

451
00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: these movies coming out as I met her as my friend,

452
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: and as time went on, my first real television opportunity

453
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: to become a writer on like real TV. Like something

454
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: I'd written before before wasn't really credited, right, it was

455
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: like it was credited but nobody. They didn't go to

456
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: to air because of my wife. She introduced me to

457
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: one of my childhood heroes, Billy Kyle Evans. I know,

458
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,120
Speaker 1: the Evans family. Mart we need to have them on here.

459
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna do that. We're gonna have them so Bentley

460
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: changed my life right. Badley and Stacy Ethers Morgan his

461
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 1: sister also an amazing producer and writer, and now Evans,

462
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,719
Speaker 1: the Evans family. Without them, I wouldn't have a career.

463
00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: And that goes to say so many of what they

464
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,400
Speaker 1: had done for me. Nile first, because during that dark

465
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: point in my life I was mentioned to you, Nile

466
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:55,479
Speaker 1: had just reached out to me. I didn't even know

467
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: he knew me right, Like, I was just doing comedy

468
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 1: in clubs and he reached out to me and he

469
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: sent me a message and said, this too shall pass. Right,

470
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,200
Speaker 1: anytime you're going through a dark moment, I always remember

471
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: this too shall pass, because it will, whether that be

472
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: time randomly and uh. He was doing the Twitter TV

473
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: show called The Twitter was doing videos at this and

474
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: it was called Trending Funny and Trending Funny. If people

475
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 1: looking at it, you probably still find it. Trending Funny

476
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 1: was all of these hashtag topics that I would make

477
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: jokes from that he wrote and it would just be

478
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,240
Speaker 1: on camera. It was fun. And from that Bentley saw that.

479
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: After I got to talk to Bentley because of my wife,

480
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,199
Speaker 1: she was working on the show called The Rev and

481
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: I met him and I was like, I'm a writer

482
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: and he was like all right, and I was like

483
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: I'm a writer and he was like, okay, okay, this

484
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: is tonight. So Bentley, I told him I was a writer,

485
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: and I said, are you having uh? Are you staffing?

486
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: Like I would love to be on your staff right

487
00:25:58,080 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: And he was like, look, man, I don't really have

488
00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:05,640
Speaker 1: a traditional staff writing staff, but uh, you know, if

489
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,520
Speaker 1: you write a spec script of one of the shows

490
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: and I check it out and I was like, all right, man,

491
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:10,960
Speaker 1: I read a spec script and he kind of waved

492
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: me off like he didn't believe it. And I was like,

493
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: I write four spec scripts. And it was a Tuesday night.

494
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: I remember it was the red carpet for Family Time

495
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: Season one. Remember that? So Rick our Family Time Season one.

496
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: My wife is on the red carpet, Angel Conwell, Omark Gooding,

497
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: uh and Bentley and I sudn't write four scripts by

498
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: Friday of that week by noon, and he was like, oh,

499
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 1: all right, you know you told him you were going

500
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: to do it before he didn't. Okay, so this is due.

501
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 1: That's a lot of pressure because unheard, but he can

502
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:48,920
Speaker 1: write four scripts in that amount of time, accept your boy.

503
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: I wrote those scripts and I finished the last script

504
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: at eleven am that Friday, and I sent it off

505
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: to him right before noon. He responded back. He said, listen, man,

506
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: I don't care about anything but the fact that you

507
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 1: sent this just like you said you would. You and

508
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: I are going to work together because you just reminded

509
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 1: me of me is in an email. Time goes by

510
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: also to be prepace this. The scripts are not formatted

511
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: properly at all, like not format of scripts that I

512
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: was brand new as a writer. But they were funny.

513
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: And about six months goes by, I'm getting angry because

514
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: I ain't heard nothing prevently and down Yeah, I'm kind

515
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: of propt up. Thanks. So I see Stacy of his

516
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: Morrigan comes to the comedy store to see Bricia Whip

517
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: and Bricia of course is uh is their family's well

518
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: because I love that girls, the show that she was

519
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 1: one of the stars of. So I'm angry when I

520
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,080
Speaker 1: see her. I'm like, hey, I sent your brother then scripts.

521
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: I ain't hear nothing, and she was like, hi, I'm doing.

522
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 1: I was so out of I God bless Stacey because

523
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: she saw something in me. She said, hi, um, send

524
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: me the scripts and I was like all right, I

525
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: said to the scree And three days later she gives

526
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: me a call and she says, our regis scripts. You're

527
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: a great storyteller and you're very funny. The formatting isn't there,

528
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: but I see you you have something. Would you be

529
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: interested in pitching some ideas for I love that girl

530
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: this season? And I was like yes. She's like, okay,

531
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: come up with about two or three ideas and come

532
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: pitch them to me in Bentley And I was like,

533
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: done right. I showed to Bentley's home at this time.

534
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: This is about a couple of days later. Showed the

535
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: Bentley's home and when I get there, there's so many

536
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: writers in a circle in his in his house is

537
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: like one of the guest rooms, and everybody's pitching these ideas.

538
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: And he gets to me and she told me to

539
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: pitch two or three ideas. Already know you came up.

540
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:47,760
Speaker 1: I came up with twenty ideas and just started rattling

541
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: them off, and everyone like after each one, I was like,

542
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: how does that thing? He's like, we got something something?

543
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,479
Speaker 1: All right? I got another one, and I got another one,

544
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: and I just kept going and I get the call

545
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: later that night that they accepted one of the ideas

546
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: and we're gonna give me script. What I did not

547
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: know was how much money I was supposed to be making,

548
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: because the previous writing gears that I had I made

549
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: like fifteen hundred dollars a week writing scripts, right, and

550
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I was the industry norm. However, tell me,

551
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: tell us, however, what is it? At this point, I

552
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: didn't have those roommates. I had moved into a studio

553
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: partment that Tangerine helped me get. Are you guys dating

554
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: officially at that? Okay, okay, this is studio was my

555
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: first apartment. Everybody, how much was it? Come on, I'm

556
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: trying to let me so this, uh this through your apartment?

557
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: I was sprushing and I had basically given furniture like.

558
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: I had a bed for my guy Michael the bag,

559
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: I had a couch, a TV like, and but I

560
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: didn't know how I was gonna pay this rent because

561
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 1: this rent was a couple more hundreds than I was

562
00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: used to make it uh paying? So I asked randomly

563
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: to the writing system. I got Alex Skubutski. I said, hey, man,

564
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: just out of curiosity, how much am I getting paid

565
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,560
Speaker 1: for the script. I'm thinking it's gonna be like two

566
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,719
Speaker 1: or three grand because I made before and this is

567
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: you know, TV one. This is about to be great.

568
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,239
Speaker 1: I'm so excited right now. And he was like, oh,

569
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: it's playing ten grand and I was like, all right, cool,

570
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: thanks right, So Tam Grant, I had never seen this

571
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: type of money. Yeah, of course, how old are you? Like, No,

572
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: I'm twenty four, right, this is two thousand eleven. I'm

573
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: eighty six. I want winning. That's twenty four. I don't know,

574
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I get ten graham. I'm super excited.

575
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. I was gonna have been there. Yeah,

576
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: so I get the ten graham from that. Um. And

577
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: here's the even more quick story. Like I said, my

578
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: wife was a plant base. I've always struggled with eating

579
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: healthy and not eating healthy. Weight been up and down,

580
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: but I say it's for a reason. So we were

581
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,560
Speaker 1: we had gotten to a relationship because got me on

582
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: this radio show called Chocolate Up Live, which was ran

583
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: by this guy who's this health food gurgle guy, and

584
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: I would get paid every week. Anyway, that company, the Herbs,

585
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: started a weight loss challenge between myself and this this

586
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: cool little white girl, cool little white girl, and the

587
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: first person who could lose twenty pounds the fastest would

588
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: get a thousand dollars, right, So I just got to check.

589
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: From that from uh, I Love that Girl and then

590
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: I won the weight loss competition. I immediately want to

591
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: go buy a truck because I was like, I had

592
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: a car, but it got to an accident all that,

593
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: so I went in bar truck and my rent was

594
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 1: taken care of for a while. And uh. From that point,

595
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,719
Speaker 1: after Love That Girl, a show called My Crazy Roommate

596
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: came up that Thatly was doing, and after Badly did

597
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: that show, I was like, oh, man, maybe I can U.

598
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: I can audition for it because I know he knows

599
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: I'm an actor. You can remember in the city, people

600
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,719
Speaker 1: aren't always up to date with were gifts, so I

601
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: had to audition. I booked it, and um, but I booked.

602
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,479
Speaker 1: I wanted to book a series regular role on that

603
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: show because it was like all these twenty somethings. I

604
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: was sunning something. I'm ready and I didn't get that role,

605
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: but he gave me a guest star on the show.

606
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: I was kind of blown, but I killed it anyway.

607
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 1: Now at that point, did you want to transition away

608
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: from writing because you were trying to do the acting

609
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: or where are you trying to do both? I was

610
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: trying to do both, but I've always been more interested

611
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: in being on camera when writing came easier to me

612
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,480
Speaker 1: because I'm a storytelling so they're great storytelling. That's very kind.

613
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: Do you say so? Um? What d up happening was?

614
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: I didn't book that role. I booked the guest star role.

615
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: I got the guest star role, and I really wanted

616
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: to be on that show because everybody was so young

617
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: and just like me, And that show end up getting canceled. Wow.

618
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: Family Time, which is from earlier that my wife was

619
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: on season one, they were bringing that back. I was

620
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: in the writer's role for Family Time. I wrote a character.

621
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 1: First of all, this is about to be full circle

622
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: because Corey Howkin was one season one of the Family

623
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: Time court. Holim was shooting Black Jesus. He couldn't do

624
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: Family Time season two, so we broke his character into

625
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: two people, cousin Dave and Donnie. And with this character Donnie,

626
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: I brought in all the comedians that I knew was

627
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: Bailey Loves comedians. I was bringing all my friends. I'm like, yo,

628
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: just go kill it. And midway through the audience, but Donnie,

629
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: I looked at Bailey, I was like, can I read this?

630
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: Things like yeah, but you gotta go in after all

631
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: your friends, and I was like, oh, my friends were

632
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: bringing that heat. Yeah. So all my friends go. I'm

633
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 1: hearing laughter outside of the room. I'm like, man, I

634
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: don't know how I'm ana follow this. And then I

635
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 1: go in. I do my audition. I'm throw myself conscious

636
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: because I'm like, man, I don't know if I'm gonna

637
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: be as funny as my friends. Like this backfire right.

638
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: So I get a call later that night and Bentley said,

639
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the role of Donnie because you

640
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: earned it. You were funny, and I was like, what

641
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: cut two. We ended up filming seven more seasons of

642
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: my character as value. So when I say sometimes blessings

643
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,040
Speaker 1: are in disguise, I wanted to be on Crazy Roommates

644
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: So Bad and Regular, and that show got canceled. And

645
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: I was a writer and an actor on Found the

646
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: Time Craze season Wow, and in uh, how much money

647
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: were you making at that time? If you don't mind

648
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: it went up every season. Um, but initially was it

649
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: as much as writing. Oh, the writing was great and

650
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: it was good money. It was a little less that. Okay,

651
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: let's keep in mind, uh TV one's budget was for

652
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: that script, right, instead of just being on staff. So

653
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: when you're on staff, you get a weekly amount of line.

654
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 1: When you are just turning in a script, you get

655
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: a set little rate. So I had that set rate

656
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: for um, Love that Girl, Family time. I made a

657
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: little less as far as just the script, but I

658
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: was able to write more and more episodes and I

659
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: got more seasons of episode the right, so it made

660
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: a lot more and then I was getting any acting

661
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: check as well, which was great. It was like, you know,

662
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 1: I've never had anything, so you're looking at me being

663
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 1: and you're sag at this point, right, Yeah, I don't

664
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 1: know all the rules, but yeah it's but uh so

665
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: you're looking at a kid who had nothing. And because

666
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: of my wife's introduction to me to Billy Kyle Evans,

667
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,440
Speaker 1: I was on TV show for eight years, and in

668
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: the middle of the eight years, I worked on other projects,

669
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: like uh, I was able to be a consultant on

670
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: Wilding Out was Nile because that relationship pretty ironically. So

671
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: Nile and I have known each other since I was

672
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: like one. He came up here and he taped. You

673
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: have to see his episode when he taped guys. Y'all,

674
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: y'all haven't We haven't released it yet, but now is

675
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: definitely a breath of fresh air. But my whole crew

676
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: was how you and now came up in here. The

677
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: energy shifted because now it's almost like a mentor to me.

678
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: So it's like he came up in and he had

679
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 1: his directory, was like do this, tweak this, tweak this.

680
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: I had to send Nile an email afterwards assuring him

681
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: that we had to run a show written out because

682
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,440
Speaker 1: he was concerned, and I even he even offered for

683
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: me to come out to his house because we don't

684
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: live far from each other so he can help me,

685
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: which I do need to rereach out to him. But

686
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: Nile and I I freaking love now. I worked with

687
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon for a long time, and I remember I

688
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 1: was like literally going broke trying to produce this company,

689
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: and he was like, Nick's opening a studio, just moving.

690
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, you think, so you think I can do?

691
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: He was like, bro He's getting the keys on this day,

692
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: you better go ahead, and yeah, I made the phone call.

693
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: Nick was like we wanted. I was like, thanks, Niles

694
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: freaking incredible. Yeah, he has that and that that brother energy, right,

695
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: but I love that. It's it's it's your story is

696
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: so incredible. Um. I you know, we take a lot

697
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: of shows on eating while broke, but nothing gets me

698
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: more cited then like hearing these types of like damn,

699
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: you went through it to make it and we didn't

700
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: even get to the internet. That's what's so crazy. Oh

701
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: so we ain't done yet. I mean, we're gonna go

702
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: over time, guys. Um, but so so, now that we've

703
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: seen your TV and your writing journey, you're acting in

704
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: your writing, how did you end up becoming a social

705
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: media influence? Sir? Because that that's a tricky transition. Tell

706
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: me to tell me the t Interestingly enough, remember the

707
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: name Jehan Jones. Johan Jones had been um. I had

708
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:33,759
Speaker 1: known it since he got to l A right from

709
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: the East Coast, and he had been asking me to

710
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: shoot sketches with him for years. And I'm like, man,

711
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: I'm an actor. Brother, I don't sketches. You know, I'm

712
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: on TV. You don't know if you've seen the show, right,

713
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: and he's like, no, it's cool, man, but you know

714
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: you should come shoot with me as great. And I

715
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: never wanted to do internet honestly because I was scared.

716
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: I was scared that that comment section and people, you know,

717
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: if you're not funny, people say something crazy to you.

718
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: And I was just afraid that I wouldn't be as

719
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: funny on the Internet as I was on stage, and

720
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: that it would hope that it would hurt me. Um.

721
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: Even more interesting was the fact that when you do

722
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: online content compared to television at that time, it was like,

723
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: people aren't gonna respect this. I'm not gonna get roles whatever.

724
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: And to be honest, I was afraid to fail. I

725
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: was afraid to start something over because at this point,

726
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,839
Speaker 1: Donna stand up, I have been doing it thirteen fourteen years.

727
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: At the time of you know, doing the videos and

728
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,200
Speaker 1: then acting, I was already becoming an even better actor

729
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: because I had put my years in right, So I

730
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want to start something brand new

731
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: on such a wide scale anyway. During the course of

732
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: family time and while and now I had also started

733
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: doing all these other game shows, I'm writing on them

734
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: one of the game shows UM. I met a brother

735
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: who run the Company's changed names now, but it was

736
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 1: fifty one Minds at the time. Kristen Sharapia great guy,

737
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: super cool. We have worked on a h one show

738
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: to that role. And after the show finished, I say, hey, man,

739
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: I want to pitch you some shows that I wanna do,

740
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: like this make some money. He's like, come on in.

741
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: I go in. I go pitch to him. Marlon Willams

742
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: has a company. I talked to Marlin and I said,

743
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: hey man, I want to pitch some stuff and he's like, yo,

744
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: come through. I pitched him stuff to his company. Both

745
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: companies told me, look, man, we like you. You're a

746
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: great guy, but you don't have the numbers. If you

747
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: had a million, all the numbers, we'll be doing it

748
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 1: with you right now. But you don't have the numbers,

749
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: and you want to be the star of these shows.

750
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,399
Speaker 1: Would be different if you were just trying to sell

751
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: them like here, let else do if you want to

752
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,360
Speaker 1: be a part of it. And I was like, I understand.

753
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: I leave. I'm still not thinking about doing the Internet.

754
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: My my brother BT Kingsley is doing UM a Comedy

755
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: Central special right thirty minute Comedy Central special produced by

756
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: Kevin Hard. He had just done the Heart of the

757
00:39:56,239 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 1: City show with Joey Wills. I go this taping and

758
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 1: this is great, but this is this is January and

759
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,919
Speaker 1: I am stagnant. I'm feeling like, man, I'm not where

760
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: I want to be in my career. I'm like, I

761
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: got the TV show, but I'm not selling out comedy shows.

762
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: I'm not on tour and you're still doing comedy in

763
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: between stand up but I'm not getting the stand up

764
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: love right And I'm like, man, what am I gonna do?

765
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 1: And is your casual still smooth? At this point it

766
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,759
Speaker 1: was cool. It was like you know, when when the

767
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: season is over, if you spent that money for another season,

768
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: and glory to Guy Bentley kept me working on all

769
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: these shows, writing and I'm acting on Families time. But

770
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: I were right on in The Cut and his other shows.

771
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: But you know, time, you know something like and I

772
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: needed to do something. And at that tape in John

773
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: was there and we were backstage of BT stress Room

774
00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: if he gets off stage and uh Jehan was like, hey, man,

775
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna come shoot with us man? And I was like,

776
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: fucking man, when do you shoot bro Like, I'm at

777
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,359
Speaker 1: the point my way ain't working, so I'm just want

778
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: to learn. I go to sketch House. It's ran by

779
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,479
Speaker 1: KP and I'm be More and Johan at this time,

780
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: which Johan had a million followers, beautiful women all around,

781
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: other content creators. Everybody's just creeping this content. I'm trying

782
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: to learn what to do right. Anybody shooting with their

783
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: phone and I had KP teach me how to edit

784
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: on my phone, followed me to shoot these quick at

785
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: that time, one minute videos. So you're you're on the Instagram.

786
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: You're like after vining, after Instagram. So I started doing it.

787
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: King Karen was there my first day and was just

788
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 1: sitting around on this phone and I was like, hey, man,

789
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: could you hop in the sketch. I was like, yeah,

790
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:43,320
Speaker 1: all right. Shot my first two sketches. The first sketch

791
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: went viral. I'm talking about. The sketch was when a

792
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: joke doesn't work. It was myself young easy, King Karan,

793
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 1: k Johan uh step like that my boy Ti read.

794
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: There was so many people in this sketch because I

795
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 1: was like, if I get all of them in my video,

796
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna go viral. Right, um, but that doesn't work. Well,

797
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: actually works, it's funny. I did the video when the

798
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: joke doesn't work, and of course I made the punchline

799
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: where I'm like, I told a joke and nobody laughed

800
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 1: and they made fun of me. It hit a million

801
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: views on Facebook and it hit um, I think a

802
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:25,240
Speaker 1: hundred thousand on Instagram that day, so I was hooked.

803
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: kN was like, hey, create you a Facebook fan page,

804
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: don't do it in your personal name. And I just

805
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: kept creating Instagram videos run on and over, and then

806
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: the aurithm changed. Um. That following year, I used to

807
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,800
Speaker 1: go from at least a million views on a video

808
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: or a couple of hundred thousand on a video within

809
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 1: a day or two two five thousand for the day

810
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: because the AURAM was trying to push you with buy ads.

811
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: So that next year, my my guy Big Job. He

812
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: was like, yo, man, why don't you go to YouTube.

813
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm like, I ain't doing YouTube and I'm trying to

814
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 1: get this Instagram pop. And he was like, if you're

815
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: making no money off Instagram, you're just getting views. So

816
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: no matter if you get a million or a thousand,

817
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: you're not getting that money. Go to YouTube, and I'm like,

818
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: all right, And I went to YouTube and I was like,

819
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 1: how long does this take? The crack man he was

820
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: telling me, and I asked him, as how long did

821
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: it take you to make some money? He was like, man,

822
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: my first check was two dollars and then my next

823
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: check it was Tim Grant. And I was like, oh,

824
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 1: ship when I sign up? Right, and he's like yeah.

825
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: I started doing videos immediately, like I was flooding the system.

826
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: I was dropping seven videos a week, one every single day,

827
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: and then from that February of two that May, I'll

828
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 1: take that back. Nope, yeah it was. It might have been.

829
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: It was. It was like, from that February to that May,

830
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 1: I grasped a hundred thousand subscribers, right, I got my

831
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:04,440
Speaker 1: plaque from YouTube and my first check was eight No,

832
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: my first check was ten thousand, my second one was

833
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: eight thousand, and it was like each but how long

834
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: did it take you to get to that first check?

835
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: So okay, So the first month that I did YouTube

836
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: videos it was that February. By the end of that

837
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: cycle of March, I had made like I was making progress,

838
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: but by the deadline, I hadn't even hit a hundred dollars.

839
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: After that deadline is when everything hit. So I got

840
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: the rest of the month like which was probably eighty bucks.

841
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: And then that next month, which all my videos had

842
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: told almost ten thousand dollars. So I got that money

843
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,440
Speaker 1: and then I just kept the ball rolling. Then I

844
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: started posting even more on Facebook, and they both took off.

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Speaker 1: IOUs like, so, I mean, it wouldn't be if you watching. Um.

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Speaker 1: The pandemic hit and I had already start seeing successful

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Speaker 1: with my sketches on Facebook, but I didn't see the

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Speaker 1: boom of followers, like hundred thousand followers. And I got

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Speaker 1: reached out to a comedy show in New York. Did

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Speaker 1: it it was? It was a success. I came back

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Speaker 1: and the pandemic hit. A couple of months later. We

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Speaker 1: have went out of the country, were having good times

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Speaker 1: and the pandemic hits, and I'm like, well, I can't

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Speaker 1: shoot sketches like I was before. I got to do

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Speaker 1: something else. I started doing reaction videos where I would

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Speaker 1: take a clip of a video and I would write

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Speaker 1: jokes to this video, like my reaction to it, but

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Speaker 1: not like five seconds, like oh this is crazy. Look

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Speaker 1: at this. It's like I would actually create a separate

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Speaker 1: video of jokes for this video. So a video that

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Speaker 1: might have been forty seconds is now a six minute

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Speaker 1: video because I put my jokes on and doing those

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Speaker 1: videos garnered me. I'm up to one point two million

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Speaker 1: followers on Facebook and millions of views on these videos.

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Speaker 1: A lot of my sketches of viral. But these reaction

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Speaker 1: videos took a life of their own. So some of

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Speaker 1: those videos hit twenty two millions, some of them get

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Speaker 1: thirty million, five million, ten million, like you know, and

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people showed me love my problem,

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Speaker 1: my problem. And then I got you do Jeffredy Towns

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Speaker 1: that creator dealing with some point you get shadow band

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Speaker 1: where everybody doesn't get to see your stuff. You always

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Speaker 1: at the mercy to algorithm. But anyway, in the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: my highest month where I was like this is crazy,

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Speaker 1: I made this is let me say you four starts,

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Speaker 1: tell me something that's gonna make me stand. August of

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Speaker 1: I had made in one month sixty four thousand dollars. Shit,

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Speaker 1: I'm quit. I quitnon snap in the pandemic. Do you

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Speaker 1: know how great that is? That's six I think everyone

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Speaker 1: for everyone in the room is reevaluating. Huh, we go.

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Speaker 1: That's you want to know something though, you gotta think.

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Speaker 1: You come all the way from Detroit. You know, you're focused.

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Speaker 1: You come here with nothing, and we got to try

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Speaker 1: this dish over time. But um, you're focused, you know,

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Speaker 1: and you're coming from where we all were all familiar

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Speaker 1: with the space of like being broke, with the under

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Speaker 1: twenty dish. Um, but look how far you've come. And

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Speaker 1: even in the face of like fear, you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know about this new this new pivot. Essentially,

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Speaker 1: you take a chance on the pivot and you murder it.

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Speaker 1: And I love it. I love it. But the full

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Speaker 1: circle for the six or four thousand next month, I've

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Speaker 1: done a video. You gotta murder the pandemic because there's

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Speaker 1: a pandemic. The computer is now the person that is

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Speaker 1: reading through and watching the videos that you upload. I

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Speaker 1: had done a video usually before there are people in

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Speaker 1: office to do it. I did a video. Mm imputer

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Speaker 1: misread it. I got de monetized for ninety days. What

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Speaker 1: does that mean? Make any money days? Oh no, rock

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00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,879
Speaker 1: is a little too spicy. Let me say, all right,

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Speaker 1: you can be your own critics. But I'm going to

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Speaker 1: tell you right now, this food is delicious. It's tender, which, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's very tender. And that's not the way you're pouring

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Speaker 1: those lorries. And that I was gonna drive a hard

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Speaker 1: I've told you you were not. It's all about how

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Speaker 1: you do it. I'm not for sure it was gonna

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Speaker 1: be need salty is dish I've ever had no because

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Speaker 1: I'm not about the exaustness. But this used to be also.

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Speaker 1: And chicken thighs for rouse. You get about eight of them,

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Speaker 1: and I would do two at the time. I would

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Speaker 1: bring girls over and I would be like, yeo, it

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Speaker 1: makes a chicken. They'd be like and if I if

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Speaker 1: I made the chicken and they just wanted to have

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Speaker 1: sex before I made the chicken, I'm like, God, damn it,

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Speaker 1: you fucking made me rule. You made me use chicken.

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Speaker 1: This supposed to last me a week and you ain't

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Speaker 1: gonna eat this ship. Yeah, if you had sex before

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Speaker 1: you cooked it while I was thinking, if she'd come

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Speaker 1: over there trying to rub, I'm like, chicken, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to do Oh guys, the way guys think I

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Speaker 1: love it. We should just have a Guy Decoded show. Well, um,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately we're running out of time. We've already ran out

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Speaker 1: of time, we already ran the clock. Um, how can

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Speaker 1: people like if they wanted to get ahold of you

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Speaker 1: or wanted to support you, like, how could they keep

927
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Speaker 1: up with like your shows and what's going on besides Instagram?

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Speaker 1: Because we know you're you're in stuff famous? Or is

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Speaker 1: that the only way? Oh you're still chewing? Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead too, I'm not Instagram. I am Internet popular.

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Speaker 1: Think batch is inst the famous? I'm you see me

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Speaker 1: on the street. Hey that's but um CC is dope

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Speaker 1: on everything. Just Google ct is dope and all myself

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Speaker 1: will pop up and subscribes to everything. Would be a

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Speaker 1: great hilp. Yeah, fill them pockets up, Fill them pockets up.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming to our show and

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Speaker 1: blessing our set with amazing food. Now officially eating while

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Speaker 1: Bro cookbook has real meals in it that involves chicken.

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Speaker 1: For all y'all chicken lovers, Yes, for all y'all chicken lovers,

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Speaker 1: we are finally blessed with a chicken dish that's under

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Speaker 1: twenty bucks and this meal for under twenty dollars, serves

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Speaker 1: as at least a minimum of four meals. And if

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Speaker 1: you are afraid of the carves this this dish is

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Speaker 1: perfect for you. So if you're watching that fat in

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Speaker 1: that firm figures, this is it. Yeah. For more eating

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Speaker 1: while broke from I Heart Radio and The Black Effect,

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Speaker 1: visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever

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Speaker 1: you listen to your favorite shows.