WEBVTT - CT IS DOPE – Under $20 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:03.880 Welcome you all to another episode of Eating Wild Broke. 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:08.680 I'm your host, Colleen Wit and today we have special guests, actor, comedian, 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.959 writer and social media influencer. How we all know him, 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.159 best invest and best of all, Clayton Thomas is in 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.599 the building. How are you good? Okay? What do you 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.960 have us eating today? This is called under twenty? Got 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.159 boneless skill with chicken thighs? We have broccoli and that 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:30.480 is going to be that with our former gree of course, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:32.639 which is not under thirty dollars, but this is how 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.000 you get it done? You so, is that what we're 0:00:35.040 --> 0:01:01.520 gonna call this? This under twenty? Under twenty? I love 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:05.280 that James and George Foreman. I haven't seen sold just 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.080 backstory and George Foreman. So I went to my husband. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.680 I said, um, we needed George Foreman girl. I haven't 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.920 seen one of those forever. And then I was like, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.840 do you think we have one? And he was like, 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.200 I don't know. Check the cabinet, and I go on 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.960 my cabinet. Though I have never in my life used 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.000 a George Foreman girl, I had to. I had a 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:28.000 mini one and this one and shout out to all 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.120 the roommates that I had in my lifetime that left 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.520 George Foreman girls in my house. Here's the question, why 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.640 are you not familiar with because even now Glory be 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.800 the guy that success, I still own a Foreman. Do 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.240 you still use it? Though I used one weeks ago. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.000 Oh okay, I put it out of the garage. I 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.720 was like, I want some chicken because my wife is 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.440 plant based, so she doesn't cook any meats. Are gonna 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.440 outsource my meatballs, so I had to go get me, 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:58.520 uh my former girl to garage. It's definitely smaller, right, No, no, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.400 I'm bigger. Oh luxury brand. Well, here's the thing. First 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.320 former grill, um, can we say everything on it? You 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.359 could say whatever you want. So the first former grill 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:13.560 I had, I was smashing this older chick ground Yeah, 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:17.480 of course. I think if you have a former girl 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.280 and you don't have roommates and it doesn't it doesn't 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.040 make sense, right, make sense. I got my rice cooking 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.160 from my roommates. But the former girl smashing his older 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.200 chick and she knew I was going through it. She 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:26.800 was like, you need a former girl, and I was like, 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.400 because I don't know how to cook. I didn't know. 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.919 I mean I'm breakfast, I'm eggs, all of that. I 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.440 don't do the baking because the grease pop. But she 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.480 gave it to me and I kept it right until 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.400 I got with my wife and she heard the story 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.359 how I got the former grill and then she was like, oh, 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:43.919 you can't head at my house. And I was like, okay, 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.600 all right, So I got rid of it and I 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.079 end up buying another one separately that was brand new, 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.720 so she couldn't, you know, play anything. So we got 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.440 the nice one. When you got it, okay, damn, I 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.000 want to see what that puppy looks like. I was 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:56.359 gonna bring it. I was like that she needs me 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.320 to bring and I was like, oh great, but he 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:03.080 had a seating. But it's the chicken tis broccoli. Now. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.080 We talked about seasons, so I see you got the 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.639 crowber brand. I did, but I, like everybody knows what 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.120 this weird topics? We ain't go ahead. Low Rees is 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.440 in the building. If you're not making chicken with Laura, 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.840 is this my camera? This you have both cameras is 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:21.480 a staple in the black music. You understand me. If 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.720 you ain't gonna Larris, you're not cooking chick. I don't 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.680 know what you make it. Actually put larries on everything. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.400 Then we have the ground pepper and black pepper. Then 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.480 we have my garlic powder. This is what gives you 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.160 the pop. You understand me? Now, perfect, you got it. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.800 So this is the poultry season. The chicken poultry season 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.480 is what you also add for flavor. Not interestingly enough, 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.280 I put this on the chicken and I put this 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.160 on the broccoli, because it gives flavors when you're tasting 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.160 them both separately. Okay, yeah, I actually personally went shopping 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.920 for the seasonings, and then a part of me was like, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.360 we'll go cheap. It's eating while broke. But then on 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.480 the poultry seasoning, I don't think I had an option. 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.560 I said, oh, they's best shure, but yeah, go ahead. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.480 I cleaned the chicken thighs for you. I can honestly say, 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:10.720 I don't remember the last time I cooked chicken thighs. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.760 What did you eat while you were trying to I'm Jamaican, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.600 so even my husband's gonna laugh at me all day. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:23.240 But I didn't really cook with Lorry's until my husband 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.760 and he based everything in Lorry's. I'll be having salt 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:33.760 poisoning every dish. It's bad, it's salty. Shout out to 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.560 using less lorries if you can. People think, But here's 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.960 the things you gotta understand. Laws gives you the flavor 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.000 and the los is what we grew up on. Lows 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:50.200 is h Oh, you're gonna put it on that, okay. Oh, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.480 I should have brought you a cutting board. It's okay, 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.200 we're gonna have to throw the camera. So you gotta 0:04:56.200 --> 0:05:00.480 eat this too, I understand. Don't bring me the good thing. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.560 That's a lot of laws for all y'all listeners. He 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:09.279 is putting pulled the chicken thighs out um, and he 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:13.640 just completely coded it in lawr's. Now I'm deeply concerned 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.160 because my husband does the same and usually I can't 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.640 even taste anything besides salt. But okay, so he put 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.240 the lawries in the pepper. Okay, got the gary powder. 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.040 Always you you feel. It ain't a measuring cups. You 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:34.280 feel what you think your food needs right now. Interestingly enough, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.359 when you're doing this, I was coming from a place of, 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.040 oh my goodness, I had only had the twenty dollars 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.360 and I spent on the food like this is when 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.120 I just got into l A in a roommate scenario, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.480 and I had four other roommates. I had to master 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.440 bear room because where'd you move from? Yeah, coming from 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:57.120 the Troy. Interestingly enough, when I came from Detroit, I 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.760 moved here right for my twenty first birthday, Um, I 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.200 to with my mother. I want to go to l 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.560 A to follow my dreams. But in order to get 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.440 to l A, I need money. So I'm gonna go 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:12.000 to New York Chicago in Atlanta to perform and make 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:13.760 some money. I'm gonna save that money and I'm gonna 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:18.560 go to la so for my birthday. Yeah. So I 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.240 started doing stand up at eighteen years old. Actually, the 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:26.000 first time was in my high school auditorium because a 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.080 comedy show came to the school, kool Aid Legendary Rest 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.839 in Peace, Melvin Bender, Martez Jackson, and Chanelle simply Chanelle. 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.039 And my dream was to be a comedian. There was 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.680 a little boy and I just never knew how I 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:41.160 would get into it. Watching Martin on TV, I wanted 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.160 to be Martin Lawrence. And the way that it end 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:47.560 up happening was I walked up to the comedians and say, hey, man, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.480 I would love to perform with y'all. And he was like, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:52.360 you're gonna open up and I was like right now, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:57.360 and he's like yeah, and I'm like, uh, okay, right. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.600 So I get on stage. You actually did it? Oh okay? 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.160 I get on stage in front of my entire school. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.000 Was that your first time or first time? I wasn't bullets. 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.400 I was scared as fun. And I get on stage 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:11.200 and I said something about a security guard that we 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:12.800 had at our school. He was also the head coach, 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:16.320 very large man. And I said, yeah, man, he chased 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:17.679 some people. He can't even make it down the hallway. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:20.560 Everybody laughs hard because they knew him. And I was like, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.240 all right, we look at this, y'all going y'all? And 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.480 I brought the comedian up, and after I brought him up, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.280 the rest with history. Do you need to plug the 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.200 sub forman grilling O? Thank you? Okay, I forgot it 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:36.440 wasn't so um. Fast forward two years. I tell my 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.600 mom that story about my plan and she says, great, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.960 so do you think my birthday comes? She gives me 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.720 a birthday card and a get certificate inside for a 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.680 thousand dollars and she said, go follow your dreams, go 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.960 straight to l A. So I moved to l A. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.520 Oh so you ended up skipping? Did you skip New York? Yeah? 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.320 Well I got there later as I was in later, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.280 but I didn't have to go because she gave you. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.320 The thousand dollars ain't a lot. Let me tell you something. So, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.680 so what happens, I'm carus to happen? Now. I want 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.480 to hear how you how you manage this thousand dollars. 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.600 So my mom made me make her a deal. She said, okay, um, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.520 I should have sleeping on at once, but I got 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.560 to try anyway. So my mom said, how long do 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:20.840 you think it will take you to get on TV? 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.040 I said, huh, I'll be on TV and six months 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.160 this is me. And she was like, oh okay, well 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.040 by an opening the ticket and by your return ticket 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.080 for six months from now, so that'll be by Christmas. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:33.800 And if you're not don't TV by Christmas, you have 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.280 to move back home and go back to school. Because 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.880 I was in college and I deal. So made the 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.160 deal because I'm believing myself and you only had a 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.600 thousand dollars. Thousand dollars okay, I like this three hundred 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.800 and forty bucks round trip at that time, and then 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:53.360 she asked me by the place to stay. I said yes, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.240 of course I was lying because I didn't want her 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:56.880 to not let me go to l A. So I 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:00.559 came to l A and you'r how old it this time? Anyone? Okay? 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.959 So I came to l A and uh. I reached 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.040 out to Corey Holkam. He's the first comedian who I've 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.560 been a fan of, dude since I was a kid, 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:09.880 and he was the first comedian that I had seen 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.400 in Detroit that lived in l A that would help me. 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:13.800 And he's like, yeah, when you get the l A, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.120 just hit me up. So I came to l A. 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.640 I hit him up and he got me on at 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.880 the Comedy Store on a Tuesday night, which was one 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.679 of the most popular nights in the city, and I 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.880 was able to showcase We're got around town and I 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:30.120 was funny and I started performing everywhere else right I 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.720 was homeless. I'm like, you know, my friend real battle 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.000 really big. Now he's on a peak out shows some boy. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.000 I had met him a laughing loser down the Atlanta 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.439 eight months prior, and he was like, yo, I'm in 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.600 l A. I'm like cool, hey, man, can I leave 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.880 my suitcase at your carib and maybe stay on your 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.000 floor for like a week? And how are you getting around? 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.719 L A, you don't have a car, right, Oh you 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:56.160 really gangster? And I've been let me tell you something. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.200 I'm gonna interrupt you. I love the story already because 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.280 I've been to your how this beautiful. It's fantastic and 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.880 I would love to live on your couch. Okay, So 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.880 if you just know like how he's living now, this 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:11.319 is an amazing story, so continue. Sorry. So, um, so 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.640 I'm homeless. I'm at Reel's crib. I'm like, I got 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.760 my suitcases there, and I wouldn't got a gym membership, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.319 so I could say showers at the gym, so I 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.440 didn't overstay my welcome in his crib. So I would 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.320 get up really early. I would get to this group 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.520 really late at night, so that way you didn't even 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.600 notice that I'm there, so I can stay longer. So 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.520 we turned to a month, and at the end of 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.959 that month, he's like, yeo, man, I'm going out of town. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.600 You gotta find worse to stakes. My roommates don't want 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.800 you hear without me, all right, So I uh, I 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:40.000 was hanging out with Corey one night, Corey Oakum and 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.520 there's another comedian, Vanessa Grad, and he was like, yeah, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.000 why don't you just stay with Vanessa? She ain't got 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.560 no man. And I was like, you know right, And 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.520 I wasn't trying to smash. I just really just needed 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.800 to live. And she let me stay on her floor 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.200 for a couple of months, and I just I was 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.200 a floor sleeper. And then so were you doing the 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.480 same thing where you're like out early and and like 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.760 just sleeping on the floor and night were trying to 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.520 get her. I was just there all the time. I 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:10.560 was like, I'm here now. But uh so my friends 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.560 from high school were in town and we go to 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.560 the movies, and we go to the movies. He was like, yo, man, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.959 um Man, I wish you lived out here because we're 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.559 looking for another roommate, and I was like, I live 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.559 out here. We were talking about and they're like, oh, wow, 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.640 maybe you could be the fourth room where your friends 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.400 from high school come to visit the same visit. No, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.439 so one of my friends from high school was coming 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.719 to the other friend had already lived out here, but 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.439 I didn't know he was living here. Uh So they 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.000 were talking to my other friend who was visiting, and 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.600 they're like, man, we wish you lived out here, and 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.200 I'm like, I live out here and they're like really. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:49.680 I was like, yeah, I don't even know you lived 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.920 out here. And we had this big moment that we 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.520 were shocked, and then w story short, I became the 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:59.280 roommate that we're looking for. Look at God. So I 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.040 moved in there at the roommates and at this point, 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.960 the only way that I'm making money is I had dpds. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.880 I filmed a DVD of my own in Detroit before 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.240 I moved out to l A. And I was like, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.640 worst from the worst. I can sell this DVD and 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.480 make money, right, So my share of the rent was 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:25.600 only two hundred and eighty seven dollars because there were 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:29.400 four of us, and that was my share to renting rooms. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:31.719 No no, no, there were two bedrooms and there was 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.840 the living room. So in the very beginning I stayed 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.160 in the living room and the other guys stayed in 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.720 you know, different really broke okay, we really, we believe 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.400 this now. So one of my buddies, even when I 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.000 first moved in, he was always with his girlfriend. Right, 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.680 So after a while, he just stopped living um. He 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.160 stopped living in the apartment with us, so I took 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.160 over his room. But we needed people to make the 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.880 rent of so a couple of comedians rest in peace, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.000 my guy Kwan and John and he ended up moving in, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:06.439 and I moved another guy and named RT and Uh. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.120 One of them lived in the living room, the other 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.160 one shared the other room with the other guy, and 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.560 I was in the main bedroom. Bed room I mean, 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.040 bad room. Attested. The bathroom felt incredible. I would bringing 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.000 girls there and they loved it. Seem like I lived 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.679 by myself even though I had these roommates. And because 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.360 my rent portion was so low, all right, two seven 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.440 dollars and fifty cents, I need to sell thirty DVDs 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.280 a month and that's how I make money, right, So 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:36.680 I was, Oh, I love it only doing comedy, and 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.800 I would do comedy at night especially, and I would 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.040 be extra funny. My goal I had to be so 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.960 funny that I can sell at least ten DVDs per 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:50.240 show We're five or whatever. And I made my rent 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:55.280 that way so many months just by you know, performing 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.520 and selling thirty DVDs a month outside of doing other shows. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.560 Girl would make some money. Right, But this is a 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:04.400 huge testament to Ends Mitchell of the Comedy Union, which 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:07.720 is no longer around closed during the pandemic, Ends Michell. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:13.360 The Comedy Union would pay us a spot, right, and 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.040 with that twenty dollars of spot. I would perform there 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.280 and get twenty dollars once a week, right, so actually 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.440 twice a week, so I would get forty dollars per weekend. 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:24.480 And then I would take twenty those dollars and buy 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.880 my groceries. My groceries with a bone was chicken. This 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.280 down to twenty down to twenty, okay, so not usually 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.760 make sure. Yeah, I had this money sped around, so 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.360 I will buy broccoli. I will buy me some chicken, 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.440 and I would get Uh. I had a gallon of 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.680 water that I kept refilling like a quarter. You don't 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:47.720 have to cook that. Well, you're chefing it today. Gone. 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:53.840 So so um, That's how I would survive pretty much. Right. 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.400 I have a rent paid phone bill my sister in Detroit. 0:14:57.520 --> 0:14:59.200 I would be like, hey, did you please take here 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.280 my phone bill? And my sister took care of my 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:05.360 phone bill for years, like just off of like at 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.680 one point she just stopped letting it be a barrow, 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.000 and she was like, I'll just pay your phone bill 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.080 and tell you good for yourself. Thank you, because as 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.680 a comedian and your phone is your most prized possession, 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.200 you gotta be able to pick the phone of being 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:21.040 to get um. Fast forward back to Ends Mitchell. Now 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.520 we're in December, right, this has been a whole six months, 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.520 and I'm like, man, I gotta figure something out because 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.240 I'm supposed to be going back home because I'm not 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.320 on TV yet. Ends Mitchell calls me in his office 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.160 and he says, listen, man, I think that you are hilarious. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.160 And I was like, thanks, man, and he's like, uh, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.840 We're doing a TV show called Tony Rocks the Funny Spot. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.920 It's gonna be on TV one. Would you be interested 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.080 in doing it? And I was like when does the film? 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.320 When does it film? And he's like, uh, in two days. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.600 So it was December. The film December twenty two. Wow, 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.880 Saved by the Almost had the return to Detroit flight. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.640 So I called him like I didn't know. My mom 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.240 only got announced. I called my mom right after I 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.680 filmed it and I said, my I'll be home for Christmas, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:09.360 which my flight was leaving on there, so I called 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.040 my mom and say, listen, I'll be home, but I'm 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.320 coming back to alcause I just put my first TV appearance. 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:19.360 So I kept on and uh, that was the very 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.960 beginning for me where I started to really see things happen. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.640 I would catch the bus two spots. I would leave 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.120 in enough time to get to the place, and I 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:29.680 would leave in enough time to get back home because 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.680 they must stop around eleven thirties twelve o'clock. And I 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.920 always tell people, if you believe in yourself, things are 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.920 gonna happen. Like there was no And what I mean 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.560 is not just believing in yourself, but I always walked 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.200 by faith and not by sight, not getting religious, but 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.760 it's just like I knew that there was no other 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:54.240 ending other than success for me. I wasn't going back home. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.000 I was not going to give up, and no matter 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.760 what I mean, at no point, so the only option 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:05.320 was success and that's what happened. Wow, your story is incredible. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:10.160 That's very sweet. It's like watching a movie. So when 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.840 you made that phone call, I just kind of want 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.200 to know like the emotional state and you were feeling, 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.160 like because that's got to be an incredible feat. Oh 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.600 it's crazy, Like what were you thinking, Like, I can't 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.679 wait to make this phone call to my mama? And 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:27.520 he did it smooth like you planned it too. Yeah, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.840 because my mom. You know, I'm a mother's baby, so 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.160 when you're the baby, your mom is always worrying about you. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.439 She's never thinking that you're okay. And I tried to 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.600 call home for money, like not at all because I 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:47.760 didn't want her to think the wrong decision. And it 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.120 was it was very nerve wracking because obviously it's great 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.720 to talk about now, but when you're in it, you 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.000 don't see that, Like you just see the grind daily 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.359 of what you're going through. And I never wish that 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.320 on anybody. But at the same time, I knew then 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.320 what I know now, which is everything is a journey. 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:09.160 The journey is the story. You gotta focus on where 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.920 you're headed and that you know things will get better 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.680 instead of focusing on the negative. At any point, I 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:16.639 could be like, man, I don't want to bush. I 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:18.639 got an air mattress, but girls were still coming to 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:20.720 the career in the air mattress and I was like, well, 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.040 I think in your twenties is different. I think guys 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.440 in the twenties is like the best time to come 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.280 up on women because women's standards are just like Netflix 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.320 and Chill. It's fine, that's not really you think women 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:35.160 in their forties are like Netflix and Chill. Yes, I 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:40.560 think from personal experience and that women go after driven men, right, 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.080 So it's not so much about I'm about to deal 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.920 with this broke guy, this Netflix and Chill guy. I'm 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.160 dealing with this guy because he's going to be more 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.000 than this air mattress. He's going to be more than 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.520 this bus rat. He's going to be more than not 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.479 being able to afford to take me anywhere. Um. So 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.560 those were the women that I have always attracted, Women 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.040 who weren't the materialistic women, but also women who could 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.480 be materialistic. You just like you don't want me to 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.199 buy you anything, like I can buy everything. God bless you. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.760 But there are a lot of women in the world 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:19.080 who are in their thirties and forties who would never 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:20.800 even deal with the guy in their thirties and forties 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.879 that don't have what they have. But I was very 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:27.160 lucky to find women my age and older who saw 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.359 the bigger picture and man nice. Now I love that 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:34.960 your faith driven and I can be pretty headstrong, but 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.240 and it could be the girl in me. But you know, 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.439 we're in a gender you know, gender equality, age whatever 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.439 in me. Um, but um, even when my faith is 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.440 the strongest, there have been points in my career where 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.040 I was like, oh, ship, I'm bat you crazy? Why 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:55.840 the heck? It's like victim, you know, you go through 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:59.200 the victim phase, like why why do I think I 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.159 can do this? Any ways? And like, who the was 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:07.600 there ever a point during that journey where you were like, dude, 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.720 there was that doubt where it poured and heavy, like 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.199 was there a particular incident where you were like, you 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:18.520 guys shook a little bit? Yes? Um, well one. In 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:20.800 my mind, I've always been star and this is this 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:23.359 As I was a child, I can think back to 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:25.720 a time in Detroit where I did a comedy show 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.560 a Cocost House of Comedy, and Martes is back to 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:32.199 the first story. He was one of the comedies at 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.919 that school. He told my sister, He's like, yeah, your 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.920 brother is funny, but uh, you know, he's arrogant. He's lawyer, 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.480 and when his comedy meets his arrogance, he's gonna be great, 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:45.320 and my sister said something I remember says that she 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:48.720 laughed and she said, my brother would be this way 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.560 if he worked at McDonald's. And that's the that's the 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:55.760 guys on his truth. I have always been this way. 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:59.160 I've never been a cocky person. Cocky is what people 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.600 call you in the words of kool aid, when your 0:21:02.040 --> 0:21:06.960