1 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, mm hmmm. 2 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: Welcome back. All the smoke coming to you from Dallas. 3 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 3: Man. 4 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 2: We got somebody who is obviously a legend in the 5 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 2: comedic space, but you know, someone we've been chasing down 6 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 2: for a minute. 7 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 4: I've been trying to talk to him for a while 8 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,280 Speaker 4: now because one of the funniest jokes told about me 9 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 4: came from you. 10 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 3: Know, I talked to him about it. Were gonna get that? 11 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: Just went up and started swinging for no reason. Hey, 12 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: welcome to the show, the legendary, said Danner. Taking appreciate you. 13 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: So you got you got the travel buddy. 14 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 3: Got right with you? 15 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, man, yeah, all right, brothers separated at birth man, 16 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, he said, you see right. Said what's going on, man, 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 2: how's life? Any new projects you're working on right now? 18 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 3: Man? Yeah, I got a lot of stuff popping. Man. 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,480 Speaker 1: I got like the seventh season of The Neighborhood that 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 1: I'm on. So this show has been on CBS for 21 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 1: seven seasons. Rare air for TV shows produce it sorr 22 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: and and then I'm also producing the show for Tracy 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: Morgan on Paramount Plus called Crutch that will come on 24 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: in the spring. So really building my production company a 25 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: lot a lot of TV shows. Got the show called 26 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 1: Johnson that's on Hulu right now that we shop or 27 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:35,320 Speaker 1: Bounce that's in season four. 28 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 3: So you know, just just steady, really growing at the 29 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:39,199 Speaker 3: production company. 30 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 2: How long you been on the producer side. 31 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: Very early on in my career, like you know, I 32 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: started producing movie Johnson Family Vacation. Uh you know Cod 33 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: named the Cleaner, all those movies and then and so 34 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: then from television side, once I left, I did a 35 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: show called Said the Heading Presents. It was like a 36 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: sketch show before like Chappelle them and all that, and 37 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: then and then soul Man with niece Nash and now 38 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: The Neighborhood. 39 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 3: So I wish you would have kept doing Said in 40 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 3: Time of Presents. Me. That was one of my favorites 41 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: right there. Man, You know it sketch sketch comedy characters 42 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 3: and all that. It was dope. I had the chef 43 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,120 Speaker 3: Reverend and we had a bunch of little fun characters 44 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 3: on there. 45 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: But think about sketch comedy, man, you gotta be able 46 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: to have the second season. Like a lot of times 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: you just don't have that opportunity. We were on Fox 48 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: that was early on and they had just got American 49 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: Idol or something like that, and that show was out there. 50 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 1: So then I showed just kind of Fell in the 51 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: Shadows or something like that. They started putting it on 52 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: like every night. 53 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: So nearly forty years in the game at this point, 54 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 2: what still drives you? What still clicks inside? 55 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I mean it was interesting. I 56 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 3: think we was in here that was on the shirts. 57 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: One man talk about like when you like a legend 58 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 1: or something and you do it, it's still in you 59 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: no matter what, Like you know, the idea of like 60 00:02:55,280 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: being the best at it, Like that's not really the motiveation, 61 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: but the fact is is that you know that you 62 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:03,839 Speaker 1: could do it at a high level, so you wake 63 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,799 Speaker 1: up really wanting to just do that part. Like you know, 64 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: like I'm not here to compete with nobody, but I 65 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: know that I know how to do this, So I 66 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: just I just get up and enjoy that that aspect 67 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 1: of entertaining, you know what I'm saying. So I love creating. 68 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: I love putting people on. So you know, with with 69 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: the with the ability of being being able to produce, 70 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: I'm able to put on like a lot of comics 71 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: as writers and get them get them some real money, 72 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: Like you know, like you can be a stand up 73 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: and be great, but if I show you, you'll be like, well, 74 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 1: thank you sir, Like I bought a house, you know 75 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: what I mean. So, so we've been able to do 76 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: those kinds of things, and that's the thing I really 77 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: really start to enjoy the most at this stage of 78 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: my career. 79 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 3: And at the same time, man, I still like to 80 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 3: go on stage. 81 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: I got a residency in Vegas with Tony Braxton and 82 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: we do that at the Cosmo. So I'm able to 83 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 1: get up on stage and steal rock, you know, and 84 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: entertain at a big high level. 85 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 4: Uh. 86 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 3: And then and then and at the same time do 87 00:03:59,160 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 3: the TV shows. 88 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: So that's what I love, man, Just the idea like 89 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: waking up, being creative and just being a part of 90 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: the the whole circle of life of what's going on, 91 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: anything that's popping up. 92 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:13,119 Speaker 3: Hyb yeah, yb. Yeah, Like I'm like, all right, what's 93 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 3: what's up? 94 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: Yeah? 95 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 3: TV showing this? Yeah. 96 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 2: I mean I love your versatility though, from where you 97 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 2: started to where you're at now. Yeah, when did when 98 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: did you know in the comic space that you would 99 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,360 Speaker 2: kind of not only made it, but you had the 100 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: ability to cross over and start doing more than just 101 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 2: stand up man. 102 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 1: It probably had to go back to the butt light 103 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: commercials like you know. So it was interesting back in 104 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,839 Speaker 1: I guess this early late late ninety early two thousands 105 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: was I was trying to do but but wise. It 106 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 1: was headquartered in Saint Louis. I was trying to get 107 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:51,200 Speaker 1: some money to just do a tour like with some people. 108 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 1: I saw somebody, a country singer with a tour bus 109 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 1: with his face wrapped on it. 110 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 3: That's all I wanted. So I was like, we go 111 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 3: to bud Lights, see if they'll do this bud light 112 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 3: to it so I could have a tool bust with 113 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 3: my face on it. And then they did that. 114 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: They did that and then offered me the commercials, and 115 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: so I did a Super Bowl commercial to one where 116 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: I shake up the beers. 117 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 3: And and it won. It won, like the super Bowl. Yeah, 118 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 3: a long time ago, but it won. 119 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: And then you crossed you you know, you wake up 120 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 1: the next day and it's like you're walking through the 121 00:05:18,279 --> 00:05:20,800 Speaker 1: airport and a whole nother fan base like your. 122 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 3: Boy and shake up mirrors. Ain't you I tell you 123 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,920 Speaker 3: what you get just shakeing them? Goddamn like what's your name? 124 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 3: But you realize it's a whole new fan base. 125 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: And so that's when that's when you kind of you know, 126 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: because you know, we take great pride like I, you know, 127 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: I was the host of Comic View, So I became 128 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: black famous before I was you know famous with other 129 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: people like you the in the hood. 130 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 3: Because I was the host of Comic View and I 131 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 3: was on every night. 132 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: Even in Hollywood standards, I was way more famous, you know, 133 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: like in the like Dallas, down here, Houston than anybody 134 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 1: would me out there before before I hit. So so 135 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 1: I would go in meetings and you know, people wouldn't 136 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: know who I was at all, and you know, but 137 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: I came with this kind of like you know, this 138 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: kind of sense of grandeur from the assistance and. 139 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 3: The secretary of everybody, like why he's so excited to 140 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 3: see you? That was like early day. 141 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: They'd been like before, like how people are about YouTube 142 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: stars now, like you know, you know, as adults were 143 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: like I don't know who that person is, no, you know, 144 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: but if you know, you're like, yeah, that. 145 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 3: One he owns something right now. So that's what it was. 146 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: So I think that you know, from there, I recognized 147 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: it and then it just kind of just kept staying 148 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 1: on my hustle like that. Always kind of also been 149 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: very outside of business. You know, me and my partner 150 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 1: Eric Eric Grohen, we've been together like my whole career 151 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: of forty years, and we don't really we got you know, 152 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: we kind of operate in the agency situation, but we 153 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 1: never really like tried to be like in the inner 154 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: circles of people and just kind of like walk around. 155 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 3: So what I'm saying this, I wasn't at no Diddy parties. 156 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,360 Speaker 3: One party, guys, just one. I mean my lawyer's dealing 157 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 3: with that. Yeah, one time. 158 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say, always get around and trying 159 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: to get yourself out of this shit. 160 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 3: Like yeah, I know you're gonna see the picture, but no, 161 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 3: that was at a church convention. Yeah, I was only 162 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 3: there for twenty minutes. 163 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 4: Was there any moment in your career where you felt 164 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 4: like you wasn't reaching your potential, you was a failure 165 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 4: and you almost gave up? 166 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 3: Man? I mean, you know it's had like shake back. 167 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: You know, Hollywood is a place where it is ebbs 168 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: and flows to it in in a you know, in 169 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: a real way where you hot, everything popping and h 170 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: let me see, I did, like I did, like a 171 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: couple of movies that I was really you know, I 172 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:52,720 Speaker 1: had ambition for and then you know, many circumstances, for 173 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: different reasons, they didn't pop, right, the movies that rop 174 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: and then you drop, you know, you lose your you 175 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: lose the cachet and yeah, and it was gone and 176 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: it was like some shit where you're trying to figure 177 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: out how to get it back, and you know, yeah, 178 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: it just feel like Hollywood they check it for you. 179 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: You just have to learn how to Luckily, you know, 180 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: I always say for stand ups, that's how really our 181 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: saving grace, the fact that we can go on the stage, 182 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: go around anywhere in the country, around the world, and 183 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: still make a living, like we don't have to depend on, 184 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, the business. 185 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 3: So that was really the saving grace. 186 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: But when you when you kind of hot, you got 187 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: that it factor and then you not like getting the calls, 188 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: that's a really that's a hard space to you know, 189 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: to kind of live in as a young person. So luckily, 190 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,199 Speaker 1: I even feel like my career started a little late though, 191 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: Like I went to college, I had graduated. I didn't 192 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 1: even really start doing coin it till I was like 193 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: twenty seven twenty eight, which was kind of later late 194 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 1: for people, you know, and then I popped, you know, 195 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,640 Speaker 1: in my thirties and so so I was a little 196 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: mature for it and had worked. 197 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 3: In corporate, so it didn't scare me. 198 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: Scare me, but I definitely was shook that, you know, 199 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: what was once like this super fun private jet life 200 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: was back to that. 201 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, what's up? You know? Think that's me too. I'm 202 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 3: too b I used to. I used to be an 203 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 3: all jet life you know change you all right good, 204 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 3: you realize you're good, You're back to jet life. I've 205 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 3: been on a couple of. 206 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 2: Ad been on a couple of inventions. 207 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, jet life all right back. 208 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: But that that is one of those things I always 209 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 1: tell young young people that too. You just got to 210 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: enjoy the ride more than anything, like because it is 211 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: an ab and flow to any you know, any business 212 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: when you hot, and you know, you definitely feel like 213 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 1: this always your spot and you try to like, you know, 214 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: kind of respect that. 215 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,959 Speaker 3: But then the littlest thing can change. 216 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: And so like these movies didn't hit like like I 217 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 1: thought they was, and that was it, Like, you know, 218 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: you like, damn, so you fight, you pivot, you fight, 219 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: I pivot. That's when I changed the television and it's 220 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: been really a great saving grace. So you know, a 221 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: lot of times you don't have that with TV. You 222 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: don't get if you're not on the IT show like 223 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: you know whatever, you know, fifty producer or whatever, these 224 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: kind of it shows. But you know, my show been 225 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: on seven seats, like it might not be everybody cup 226 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: of tea, but it's CBS top networking world in the 227 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:28,719 Speaker 1: in the checks reflect that. So god, damn right, I 228 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: don't really care if you don't watch. Yeah, actually, ground 229 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: about me. I bet you nana know. 230 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 3: Who I am. I'm good with that. Hey you doing 231 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 3: missus Johnson? 232 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 4: How is it working with Toshina that she that's my sister, 233 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,559 Speaker 4: that's my little sister acting. Who is I don't know 234 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,280 Speaker 4: who ste is either, she called me, I don't know everybody. 235 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, she literally one of the greatest you know, 236 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: you know, African American female comedians actors that we have, 237 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 1: Like when you think about every show Tea ever been 238 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: on Pop, she killed it pop. Yeah, and she's like 239 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: she's such a pro and we she was such a 240 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: you know, a lucky gift for me because like we 241 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:23,719 Speaker 1: was getting ready cast somebody else and they told me 242 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: she wasn't available, and some reason, you know, just kind 243 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: of waited like one more two more days or something, 244 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: and on random like her people called me, was like, 245 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:34,800 Speaker 1: you you're still looking for a wife for your show. 246 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: I was like, is she available? I was like, you 247 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,800 Speaker 1: don't even have to come in this dones I called him. 248 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: I was like, no, she that's who I want. 249 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:43,000 Speaker 3: That's it. 250 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 1: Don't even worry about it. But she is literally one 251 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: of the greatest fun you know. Shoot, I told her 252 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 1: she'll get show. Really like, she really stylish. Man, Like 253 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people don't like, don't know that she 254 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,079 Speaker 1: be fly because she just always be on TV most 255 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: of the time you see it. But she's one of 256 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 1: the most stylish people in the business and just a 257 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:02,760 Speaker 1: great person, great human being. 258 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 3: Man. So it's been a blessing to have her around. Yes, yeah, 259 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,520 Speaker 3: did you ever sacrifice the bag for authenticity a couple 260 00:12:09,559 --> 00:12:10,040 Speaker 3: of times? 261 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: You know, Probably one of the greatest ones I would 262 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: say would have been for a barbershop. Was the first 263 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,719 Speaker 1: barbershop I had an opportunity. Again, I was in the 264 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: Hey they had opportunity to do a bigger movie with 265 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: a bigger check to it, and and then but the 266 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,199 Speaker 1: character in Barbershop was somebody that I knew saw felt 267 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 1: like this message needed to be said, like and actually 268 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: playing that old man was a character choice, Like it 269 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: was so many things that that movie, like you know, 270 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,319 Speaker 1: to your point where I like, I went for the 271 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:49,240 Speaker 1: authenticity over the other choice because it was more more 272 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: money offered. That role was a small role at first. 273 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,440 Speaker 1: It definitely didn't have to save money on it. Nobody 274 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,559 Speaker 1: wanted me to be the old man, and I was like, no, 275 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,640 Speaker 1: I know this character. I know exactly who he is. 276 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: And so it was like one of the opportunity and 277 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:07,120 Speaker 1: it changed my life like that that movie went from 278 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 1: the first Barbershop went from you know, like a you know, 279 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,559 Speaker 1: four digit number two. By the time they did too, 280 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 1: it was like seven seven did It was like a 281 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: whole move, Like it was like, damn, just by. 282 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 3: Just by making that pick, it changed to everything. 283 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: And so I really appreciated that kind of choice at 284 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 1: the time, not knowing that's what it was, but the 285 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: fact that I had the kind of integrity at that 286 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: moment in my life that's a hindsight kind of thing 287 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:34,720 Speaker 1: right where you go like, damn, I don't know if 288 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: I was thinking like that, but I do know that 289 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: I much. 290 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 3: Rather had done that movie than the big movie. 291 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: Like I was just like, now I'm gonna make this choice, 292 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: and I remember my agents and everybody like, come on, 293 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: come on, this is a blockbuster im Like, I don't 294 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: see it. When you read it, You're like, I don't it, 295 00:13:57,200 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: don't feel it, don't feel real, like. 296 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 3: I don't like this. Hey, I'm Ley Le Brown. Nice 297 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:09,199 Speaker 3: to meet you. Low blow. That's right. Yeah, did you 298 00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 3: did you add the the the pool thing when you 299 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 3: stepping in the pool? 300 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,079 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that wasn't in the script. Oh yeah, Joseph, Yeah, 301 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: yeah that was funny because no no, no. 302 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 4: No, no no, when you outside argum with Queen Latifa. 303 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 3: Oh oh yeah Barbita too, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 304 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:31,680 Speaker 3: Is there m J Kobe Lebron comedy? M J Kobe 305 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 3: or Lebron? You know who are those comedians in NBA terms? 306 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: Well, definitely, you know, I mean you gotta you know, 307 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 1: it's always those top dogs, like I mean, you know, 308 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: depending on the area that you grew up in. But 309 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: you know, I'm an Eddie Murphy guy, like we come 310 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: from that whole Eddie Murphy. Now, I definitely consider Richard 311 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:55,920 Speaker 1: prior with the King, but he also was a little 312 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,960 Speaker 1: bit for me that age before Eddie Murphy was the 313 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 1: guy that you identify with like more like this. 314 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 3: I got right right, and then you know, then it's 315 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,360 Speaker 3: Martin Uh, you know, and then. 316 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 1: Chappelle like he's improved to be just as solid as 317 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: they come, like consistently as solid and so. 318 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 3: Then and then there's then then there's a bunch of 319 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 3: guys that you love. After that point, there's just like 320 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 3: you know, you got your matter of taste. 321 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: But you know, but Robin Williams, it's so many people 322 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 1: that I would throw in there, Like these guys they 323 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: the goat ghosts, you know that that can they can 324 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: go get a joke, They can give you crazy thought, 325 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: you know, George Carlin, you know these guys, they just 326 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: give you the way they presented a joke. 327 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,040 Speaker 3: You're like, all right, them them some of the best 328 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 3: they've ever done. 329 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 4: They're like for real, for real. So but I saw 330 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 4: a different side of Robin Uh. I watched the old 331 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 4: Richard Fowl ROAs h Yeah, six bro. They are brutal 332 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 4: with how they talk to each other. They throwing all 333 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 4: their business out there like that was brutal. Yeah, what 334 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 4: they was saying, know they them roads right then, tol 335 00:15:58,320 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 4: Paul Mooney. 336 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 3: Miss thing and they say everybody on the stage knows it. Yeah, 337 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 3: it's just crazy. 338 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: That's like, yeah, it would be that kind of humor 339 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: right now. But he was like fun while and they did. 340 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: They hung out together and was wilding out. Yeah, the 341 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: types of energy that would come out on the on 342 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,480 Speaker 1: the stage like that, I'd imagine. But yeah, you know, 343 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: comedy is one of the things very subjective because you know, 344 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: like they'll do the like top fifty lists. Yeah, do 345 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: y'all ever be like you know, because they'll do like 346 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: lists or whatever, and you're always trying to see if 347 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: you own it. 348 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 3: This bullshit? Yeah, make this ship. Yeah, you be trying 349 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 3: to act like you ain't talking about yourself. You got 350 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 3: shunky ducky on, act like you ain't talking about yourself. 351 00:16:52,680 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna have a list, you know, doing each 352 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 4: other jo say that after every joke, shuck it, nugget. 353 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 3: From here. We started to get the same time, shut 354 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 3: from here. Bring your ass back up. God damn shuck it. 355 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,680 Speaker 1: Why talk about Red Fox one of my favorite Red 356 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,920 Speaker 1: Fox again Man, one of these guys, you know, for 357 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,760 Speaker 1: me coming from Saint Louis, he always was branded as 358 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:23,959 Speaker 1: being the Saint Louis guy. So that was also one 359 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:25,520 Speaker 1: of the people that you know, when you come out 360 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: of the city like that and then make it you 361 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,639 Speaker 1: always wanted to be, you know, you want to have 362 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: that Red Fox day again Man sad for his son 363 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 1: probably the most where I knew him from, you know, 364 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: and then you would hear the albums when I was younger. 365 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,959 Speaker 1: But you know, cutting edge, stylish. That's what I used 366 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: to love about Red Fox more. He was different than 367 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: his sad for his son character, Like on stage, That's 368 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: what I always loved. 369 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,400 Speaker 3: That's the thing I try to emulate. He was waly, 370 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 3: wouldn't know junk yard drip. 371 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:58,680 Speaker 1: He had the drill and the velvet jacket, you know, 372 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,160 Speaker 1: and we get them. 373 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 3: With the orange, with the orange and red tint. 374 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 2: That's what he got to find it very. 375 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 3: He had big words too. 376 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:12,640 Speaker 1: He's kind of like early finding very, you know, precautious, 377 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: have all these big ass words. 378 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 3: He would use the ship boys. 379 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 4: People don't know if you watch, if you watch the 380 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 4: show samplersn he was really activist because a lot of 381 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 4: stuff he was saying in that show, like he was 382 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 4: talking about what was going on and speaking up on 383 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 4: black issues, but. 384 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 3: He was making them as jokes. 385 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 4: Yeah, but in the end, you know what I'm saying, 386 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,439 Speaker 4: the end of the show, it all come all come 387 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 4: back to all serious. 388 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 3: And he did that a lot in the show. Yeah, No, 389 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 3: he was. He was. 390 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: He was like that as a personality to no nonsense. 391 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: When he came to the business side, it was it 392 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: was unfortunate, like when you kind of find out like 393 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: he didn't really like pass with that royalty, like with 394 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 1: the money that he had, because he did stand up 395 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: for a lot of people, like you know, and how 396 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: to get people paid. 397 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,720 Speaker 3: Even remember the story about to get the guy from 398 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 3: Karate Kid, Pat Burridy. You want to check. You brought 399 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 3: him a nice check and helped him out. At one 400 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 3: time that type of person that Red. 401 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:05,879 Speaker 1: Fox was, Yeah, and he would do that like getting 402 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,959 Speaker 1: like makeup artists paid and are people that like especially 403 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: for black shows. These people weren't even allowed him in 404 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 1: unions and at the time and Red would be like, 405 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: we ain't doing nothing if they ain't getting the same 406 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: union money all that stuff. So that kind of thing, 407 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,880 Speaker 1: you know, you wish like those kind of credentials led 408 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:26,679 Speaker 1: to walking out, walking out the game on some raw 409 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 1: T shirt. You know what I'm saying, Like, Yeah, that exactly. 410 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 1: Dick Gregory another another one. 411 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 3: Gregory. 412 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 1: So mat You're just funny though, because he like a 413 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: guy that's like, you know you have been around Dick Gregory, 414 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 1: like he had a lot of conspiracies, like he know 415 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: a lot of information, Like so he knows so much information. 416 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:51,240 Speaker 1: But he was like again, another dynamic personality that like 417 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: led talk. But every time you saw him, You're not 418 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: getting ready to get away with Dick Gregory with no 419 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:58,359 Speaker 1: small conversation. 420 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 3: It ain't gonna be there you doing, Dick, how I'm doing? 421 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:03,800 Speaker 3: How you doing? 422 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 1: Think about the whole think about the whole trajectory and 423 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: the financial student stocker walking at this time, you like, 424 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,479 Speaker 1: my man, I got to but he would he can 425 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: go on and on. But you know he was mad 426 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: at me on the Barbershop movie. Know that was the 427 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: only time he was like d L hughlet got this 428 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,840 Speaker 1: one thing about because he's like nobody really ever talked 429 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: bad about you said but then there's a thing on 430 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: the internet with Dick Gray was mad at me about 431 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: the barbershop. 432 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 3: He was like that saying that. 433 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: I was like, but I think that just was the 434 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: moment he was in because he didn't like the he 435 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,240 Speaker 1: didn't like the wartin Luther King joke, and he didn't like. 436 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,879 Speaker 3: He ain't like none of that ship. He didn't like 437 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 3: the Rosa Parks part. He was mad about all man, So. 438 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 2: I'm talking about these people. 439 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,440 Speaker 3: I was like, a character, Man, that's not me. The 440 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 3: character said, didn't say that, bro. He was mad at 441 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 3: you know. That was the only thing. So it was like, dah, 442 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,120 Speaker 3: I was like, oh man, I love this. I ain't 443 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 3: nobody didn't like your man. 444 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,159 Speaker 2: Obviously, comedy has changed drastically over the years, and we 445 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 2: had to discussion with Kevin Hart how he said some 446 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,360 Speaker 2: of the you know, the eddies and some of those 447 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 2: guys from back then probably couldn't survive because of the 448 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 2: way they presented in the types of jokes. They told how, 449 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 2: first of all, what do you think about that? And 450 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 2: how has your stand up changed over the years with 451 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,680 Speaker 2: the increased sensitivity around whatever you say? 452 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 3: You know, I think it's a lot like music though, 453 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 3: I think that people really just adapt. 454 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: To the circumstance that's in front of him and me. 455 00:21:43,600 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: As an entertainer, you're gonna do what you know wherever 456 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: the status quo is. I think that you know anything 457 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 1: that's publicly acceptable, and you know where the lines are, 458 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,399 Speaker 1: you decide where you're gonna do. And people who are 459 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: really good at being on the edge, say somebody like Chappelle, 460 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: like that can be you know, controversial and still be 461 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 1: for the masses, you know what I mean, Like you know, 462 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:07,480 Speaker 1: those those people know how. 463 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 3: To find the line of what it is that you do. 464 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 3: And you're gonna have a. 465 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: Group of people that's gonna be, you know, totally against that. 466 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: But I think that as a as an orator any type, right. 467 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 3: You gotta y'all do that. 468 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: You take these chances when you on the show like 469 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: this and you wake up every day, you gotta speak what's. 470 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 3: On your mind. 471 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,960 Speaker 1: You take the chance on not knowing where that one 472 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: little group of people that's gonna be like, ah, you 473 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: said that, and you be like, well, I ain't say 474 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,080 Speaker 1: it like that. You're putting a lot on that, you know, 475 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: So as a stand up you gotta kind of trust 476 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 1: that part like you know, if you're going to go out, 477 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: which is unfortunate, like cause you know, people be bringing 478 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 1: the phones in. 479 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 3: And we definitely, we definitely work in a like a 480 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 3: free flowing kind of business. 481 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 1: Like when you writing a joke, it's not the joke, 482 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 1: Like it's not the joke that you you know that 483 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 1: you're gonna finally deliver if you allow me to get 484 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: to it, Like I might have a kernel of an 485 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,119 Speaker 1: idea that I might try somewhere and if you if 486 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: you hear it at this stage, it might sound you know, it. 487 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,280 Speaker 3: Was ain't aphobic or you know, misogynistic, but. 488 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:10,920 Speaker 1: I ain't quite got what I was trying to say yet. 489 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: Let me give me me fo times on stage and 490 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 1: let me get this jont right. But if you taping 491 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: it and you put it out there the first day 492 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,359 Speaker 1: I tried it and it come out wrong, now, you know. 493 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 1: So that's what I really, you know, really don't necessarily 494 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 1: like about that part of the business. But what I've 495 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: learned is, you know, my mother was a school teacher, 496 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: and so when I first started, I used to actually 497 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: be kind of branded as a clean comedian, like people 498 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: didn't think I cursed at all, Like and I still 499 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: actually carry that like I carry uh you know, if 500 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: you think about my image, it don't seem like I'm 501 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 1: I'm you know, vulgar vulgar, right, And it's because of that, 502 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 1: Like it's because like my mother basically put in me, 503 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: like you don't have to say it, then don't. But 504 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,880 Speaker 1: if I need to, then say it, right. So that's 505 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: what I remember, like just kind of trusting that. So 506 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: if I don't have to go up there and insult 507 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: nobody to tell a joke, then't why do it, like, 508 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: you know, but if if I feel like I got 509 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: to say it, then say it then, you know, and 510 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: be glad to be what it is and and go 511 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: with that. 512 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 3: So that's what I really trust about it. 513 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 1: So I've never really been one to feel like the 514 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: cancel culture of it all, you know, in a way 515 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,880 Speaker 1: applied to me. So I just because I've always been, 516 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: you know, like kind of a citizen of the world, 517 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: and comedy when I go on stage is literally not 518 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,480 Speaker 1: about me up here trying to you know, offend nobody. 519 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 3: Have you ever met somebody from the cancel culture and 520 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 3: the cancel culture? Who are the who is that? Oh man? Yeah, 521 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 3: people that look like Jim. Yeah, a lot of jobs. 522 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 2: He's so close to us, man, what I mean. 523 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:57,200 Speaker 3: That's not right. Come on, I'll just get some week 524 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 3: from later on. Yeah, you know what I did. I 525 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 3: had that. I had this happened one time. 526 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 1: I remember I used to have this whole joke of 527 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: you know, damn, I don't even know about say that 528 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: ship now because it's super casl culture now, you know. 529 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: But it was it was kind of like it was 530 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,200 Speaker 1: early on and I was just talking about you know, 531 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,040 Speaker 1: it was a joke I used to have about the 532 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 1: gay Jean. I was like, it ain't no gay Jean 533 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,920 Speaker 1: because it'd have to be in animals too, like because 534 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 1: people were like, I was born this way, my special. 535 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: I was like, that means you got you gotta you know, 536 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: it's a gay kangaroo, like hopping around like what's in 537 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:27,120 Speaker 1: my pockets? 538 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 3: Gay cow somewhere, moove, gay duck, aflat big and so there. 539 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,679 Speaker 3: So and I did that. There was a gay couple there, ladies. 540 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 3: It was a did the joke. It was a gay 541 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 3: couple there. They were ladies, and I mean they couldn't 542 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 3: wait till I got off stage. They was in my 543 00:25:56,040 --> 00:26:00,480 Speaker 3: young now you know, I was like you joke, you know. 544 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: And that was the first time I ever had to 545 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 1: deal with someone like just really adamant and mad about it. 546 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:08,680 Speaker 1: And I was just like, you know, let me do 547 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:16,720 Speaker 1: some research. Maybe there's a gay duck out there. Gotta 548 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,639 Speaker 1: go out here and talk to the gay duck and 549 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 1: be like I didn't. 550 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:26,560 Speaker 3: Well you're well, you're paddling under their water. Know that 551 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 3: it's different for you. 552 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: Have you had any outside of that, like, you know, 553 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: there was a there was a while where people were 554 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,919 Speaker 2: running up on stage and dressing comics. I was at 555 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 2: the one actually at the Hollywood Bowl with who was 556 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: it was? It was it Dave Chappelle. Ran got his 557 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 2: asked were you there? 558 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 3: No, I wasn't a dog. 559 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 2: They beat the ship out of that dude broke his 560 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 2: arm and everything beat the dog ship. That's a good one. Yeah, yeah, 561 00:26:55,800 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 2: crazy fan interactions or off the stage early in your days. 562 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah. And I had had a couple of nights, 563 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:05,160 Speaker 3: not necessarily booed. 564 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: Off, but I definitely had some nights where it was like, 565 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you scraped up, you know, defin we're 566 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,240 Speaker 1: gonna need some real spoiling. 567 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 3: Oh, you know, like you walk up this day, like. 568 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 2: That very good game tonight. 569 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:26,880 Speaker 3: Shit, might want to get that job at Jiffy Loose, 570 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 3: like what you need a thirty way certain God damn. So. 571 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 3: But I remember, like earlier in my career, like I 572 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:39,800 Speaker 3: was hot, Like I was in Saint Louis and I 573 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:40,200 Speaker 3: was hot. 574 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,720 Speaker 1: I had it popping out. So I tried to do 575 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: me a night and I did a night and you know, 576 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 1: so I was charging people twenty dollars to come see me. 577 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: You know, we packed joining out and I walked on 578 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: stage and just thunk up the place. 579 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: Man. 580 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: I mean whatever whenever I'm saying was not working. So 581 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: then it's like one of these moments were you're like, damn, 582 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: you know this this not going well, like in the middle. 583 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 3: Of it, like fuck, like you know. And the thing 584 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,560 Speaker 3: about stand up is you the mic and the people, 585 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:12,520 Speaker 3: you know, we get, yeah, we get. Give us some 586 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 3: good time, man, ki kick some love. 587 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,400 Speaker 2: Ain't no time out? 588 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 3: Yeah what up? 589 00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:28,959 Speaker 1: So I had to offer the people. They running back, 590 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, you know, like it's love. You know, 591 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,400 Speaker 1: it's the crill, like you know, anybody want their money back? 592 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I appreciate y'all, you know, 593 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 1: it's just one of them things, you know, they lined up. 594 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, there's three of us, like line they. 595 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 1: Lined they lined up when they little loop back. So 596 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 1: that was a hard one right there, for sure, you know. 597 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: But definitely, you know, it's that that challenge of getting 598 00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: and knowing that you're the only person up there on 599 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 1: the stage trying to make it happen at that time. 600 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: And if you lose them, it's like trying to like 601 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: like what's what's like like a bunch of horses, like 602 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: you got you gotta you gotta hold them all, like 603 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: eight nine horses. That's what a crowd is like that, 604 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: like just because people one of them go this way 605 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: is over. So this that kind of thing, you know. 606 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: So and that's a very tough thing to do in 607 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: this business. And then you know you have shows like 608 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: Kings of Comedy when you're going up and this dog 609 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,719 Speaker 1: got the dog like you know, somebody go up there 610 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: and they just boom Bernie killing them ship. You know 611 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 1: in the movie Bernie Go Last, but in real life, 612 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: Bernie lad in the middle. In the middle he always 613 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,160 Speaker 1: wanted to be called a da hammock. He didn't really 614 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: want to go last, So you know, you have to 615 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: go up nights after. 616 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 3: You get hit the stage. 617 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 2: Let's jump to that. And we were we were we 618 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 2: were gonna get to that a little later. But talk 619 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 2: to us about that. I mean that King's of Comedy 620 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,880 Speaker 2: kind of set it off and set the tone for touring. 621 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 2: But obviously we know, being hoopers and traveling and being 622 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 2: with your dogs all the time, like most of the 623 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,920 Speaker 2: time off the stage is the funniest shit, fucking around, 624 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 2: playing cards, drinking, just talking shit. What were those what 625 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 2: was that tour like? And how'd that come together? 626 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 3: That came together? It was a guy. 627 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: There was a guy that was doing a tour with everybody. 628 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: He used to do was all individual as kid walked 629 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: to Latham. So he used to do me and DL 630 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 1: because we had both host a comic view. So we 631 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: had a tour that we would go out. Then he 632 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: did Steve individually, did Bertie and then and then he 633 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: had the idea of doing the Super Show like basically 634 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: where everybody all together and we do arenas and you know, 635 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: other than like some one offs like Eddie had done 636 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,240 Speaker 1: an arena tour. 637 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,040 Speaker 3: I think Andrew, Dice, Clay. 638 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: And Martin who was the only people that had done 639 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: Arenas as a comic. So so when he put this 640 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 1: tour together, it was like just like like a superfest night, 641 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 1: Like it felt like, you know, all your favorites coming 642 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: at once, and so it was just a crazy phenomenon. 643 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,400 Speaker 3: At the time. Like so you're right, man, we had 644 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 3: the blast. 645 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: Man, it's like you know, and I was like the 646 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,080 Speaker 1: young one on the tour at that time without and 647 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: I wasn't married when we first he was. 648 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:07,720 Speaker 3: Acting man, hold up, streaks stopped, you had to stop. 649 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 3: So yeah, that's crazy. So yeah, that's wild. But we 650 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 3: have yeah. 651 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 2: Vegas they said that gummy just kicking. 652 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 3: Vegas ship dog. 653 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: But I remember, like probably you know, one of my 654 00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: first times, like Bertie used to come in, come in 655 00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: my dressing room. 656 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 3: Like again, like I said, I was a young dude, 657 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 3: so I would have I would. 658 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: Have like the drinks and smoke and the girls and 659 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: in my room be packed like every time, like I 660 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: go and get everybody, like come in my room. And 661 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: Bertie came to my room and a couple of times 662 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 1: but he would do a show, like he would come 663 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 1: in and just start talking and doing jokes and ripping 664 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 1: it dogs. So you know, my room we ended up 665 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,960 Speaker 1: being this kind of like famous after party room. So 666 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 1: you know, so we had had many epics on you know, 667 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: he forty coming there. One night, I remember Jamie Fox 668 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 1: and Chris Rock showed up in New York. Like it 669 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: was just you're writing, We're just sitting in the back, 670 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 1: and it's that that that that camaraderie that's just like 671 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,479 Speaker 1: flowing and just epic energy and everybody. 672 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 3: Sometimes you would rather hear that than national comments. 673 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah, because right, this is something that 674 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,960 Speaker 1: happening outside that room, you know what I mean. Yeah, 675 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:32,920 Speaker 1: you can't even yeah, you can't even explain somebody. You 676 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: try to tell somebody what happened, they be like, yea. 677 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 3: Be there. 678 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, talk to us about the great Bernie mac rest 679 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 2: in peace. Incredible comment obviously one of your brothers. But 680 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 2: talk to us about just what he was about his aura. 681 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 2: I felt like he had. I never met him, felt 682 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 2: like he had an aura. 683 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you know, b Mack was like really, you know, 684 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,720 Speaker 1: you know, like you know that that Chicago dude like 685 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 1: like like kind of like you're envision them if anybody 686 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 1: know them, like a man's man kind of dude. 687 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 3: But all so always kind of like solid in his skin. 688 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 3: Like he would always had these catch phrases or walk along, 689 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 3: you know, I want to fit the yard line, but 690 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:19,440 Speaker 3: it's first in gold. He had a lot of un 691 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 3: He would just do that and be like all right, okay. 692 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 3: But he was like one of those kind of He 693 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 3: was just one of those kind of dudes. And but 694 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,880 Speaker 3: you know, I remember, like you know, like it was. 695 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: It used to be this thing called the Miller Genuine 696 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 1: Drive in Chicago and now came from Saint Louis, so 697 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,960 Speaker 1: you had to y'all would drive up to Chicago to 698 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: be a part of it. And so the first time 699 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 1: I met him was there. He saw him and he 700 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,680 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you are right, You're all right, you 701 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: can be all right. So then when I saw him 702 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,600 Speaker 1: in New York the first time I was doing deaf comedy. 703 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,880 Speaker 3: Jam, I was nervous. 704 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 1: I just remember New York was one of the places 705 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 1: you know when they tell you, like dad, they'll like 706 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 1: your ass up. 707 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 3: Ain't good. 708 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: Well and Bernie, but this was his second time doing it, 709 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,040 Speaker 1: and this is the when he did that famous I 710 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: Ain't scared of you, motherfucker show. 711 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 3: But he was telling me. 712 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: We went to lunch that day, and he was just 713 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: telling me like, man, don't be don't let them challenge you. 714 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: You know, you know who you are, Like, go ahead, 715 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,399 Speaker 1: just be yourself, go be be great. Don't let them try. 716 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: They kind of shook me the first time I was 717 00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: up here, so said, I'm gonna let you know, I 718 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:17,720 Speaker 1: ain't scared. 719 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:18,440 Speaker 3: Of him, like you know. 720 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:21,360 Speaker 1: And then it was supposed to be like one little statement, 721 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,440 Speaker 1: and he literally turned it into the most famous eight 722 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:24,240 Speaker 1: minutes of comedy. 723 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,319 Speaker 3: Like I was like, that's how you do it, right there. 724 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 2: I ain't scared of you, motherfuckers, big NBA fan. Yeah, 725 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 2: where's your passion for basketball? 726 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:34,359 Speaker 3: Car? 727 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting too because growing up in Saint Louis, 728 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,959 Speaker 1: we never had a basketball team. We didn't have a team, 729 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: but you know, of course, you know that was that 730 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: was the sport everybody played like in the hood, like 731 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: you know, and I played like junior high school, high school. 732 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,319 Speaker 1: I never really got you know, like got got tall enough, 733 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: and you know, like and and I was. I was 734 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: raised in a single parent household, and I don't think 735 00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:59,000 Speaker 1: I really had to discipline to. 736 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 3: Like stay in sports like that. 737 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,239 Speaker 1: My mother was just like, you know, like she could 738 00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,440 Speaker 1: rather come get me and go with her as opposed 739 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: to stay at practice and all that. So I never 740 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,680 Speaker 1: really liked it. But I was a pretty decent athlete though, 741 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,839 Speaker 1: so so I loved the game from there. And then 742 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: of course, you know in the heyday when when m 743 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,880 Speaker 1: Jden was playing, you know, the great eighties Bulls teams, 744 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,840 Speaker 1: Saint Louis was our Vegas. It was the quick southwest 745 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: flight you could pop up going for the weekend kick here, 746 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: you know, So we would do that, and me and 747 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,720 Speaker 1: my boys, like, you know, we get our little money together, 748 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 1: get a little van or something. We go to Chicago 749 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,920 Speaker 1: for the weekend, come out, go to the game. So 750 00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,160 Speaker 1: I ended up being a big Bulls fan doing that run. 751 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,359 Speaker 1: And then of course my family is all Laker fans. 752 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: I only all my even my Missouri family so many, 753 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: so we came out here then, you know, once I 754 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 1: moved out here, then it was just like easy transition 755 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,400 Speaker 1: become a Lakers fan, like just because they was the 756 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: team close. 757 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 3: And then I'm with court Sirae a lot. So I'm 758 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,879 Speaker 3: just out there. I like that name. Of course, baby, 759 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:00,719 Speaker 3: you gotta pull up. 760 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 2: We got a clip right here. Let's watch this clip 761 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:05,200 Speaker 2: real quick. 762 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:10,160 Speaker 3: N b A is fantastic trip. 763 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,480 Speaker 5: You know, it all started because the little melee that happened, 764 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,719 Speaker 5: and you know in Detroit last year, everybody remember the 765 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 5: big melee that ron I tes lost. It ran up 766 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 5: in the audience and people thought that was wrong. Me personally, 767 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 5: I loved it. 768 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 3: You know. I'm a cheer leader for coolishness like that. 769 00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 3: You know, I like Noah Sense especially, and that was 770 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 3: my favorite dude because he ain't had nothing to do 771 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 3: with the fight. 772 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,800 Speaker 6: Fight over there, get him a hit in. He just 773 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:44,160 Speaker 6: looked and saw the fight. He didn't think nobody saw him. Like, dude, 774 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 6: there's one hundred cameras in here. 775 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:45,799 Speaker 1: Man. 776 00:36:46,560 --> 00:37:06,320 Speaker 3: They showed it back to we saw you, We saw you. 777 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:10,240 Speaker 1: You know ship That's how that's a little too Steve 778 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: that as you was wilding out. 779 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 3: And when I saw that, man, I was crying. That's 780 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 3: so funny. I was crying. 781 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:17,399 Speaker 2: They have to take away from some of the pains 782 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,239 Speaker 2: and that money was Oh yeah, motherfucker, at least respect me. 783 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's funny because because both of y'all like god 784 00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 3: like real dude. 785 00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 1: Images as far as like tough guy in it like, 786 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,919 Speaker 1: and the both of y'all have that thing like people 787 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:37,880 Speaker 1: respect y'all and dog boss basketball players like real go 788 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,360 Speaker 1: get us. But I remember, like it's something to have 789 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: that kind of energy where people think like, oh, like, nah, 790 00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,399 Speaker 1: don't run up that it's not gonna be a good move. 791 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 3: I love that, you know. So when y'all had this 792 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,360 Speaker 3: show again, I was like, that's an interesting combo like that. 793 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,319 Speaker 1: Because it because but like I mean to know you both, 794 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,600 Speaker 1: it's not that that's y'all really not your go to 795 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,799 Speaker 1: it's not like who you are, like, but I love 796 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 1: the fact that people you know, you know, anybody you know, 797 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,040 Speaker 1: you walk in the streets of any world. You want 798 00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: people to have that that kind of automatic respect that 799 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,879 Speaker 1: you somebody to be respected, right, And then I think 800 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,080 Speaker 1: that that's a very interesting quality for a man to have, 801 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,640 Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. So that was something 802 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,880 Speaker 1: I always loved about, you know, Stackling, because he just 803 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,240 Speaker 1: had that kind of like he was a ball baller hooper, 804 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,080 Speaker 1: go get it. But you know you also knew like 805 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 1: I don't run. 806 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 3: Up like and I'm the nicest guy ever. Yeah, I 807 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,800 Speaker 3: mean you know I met you many years. 808 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,799 Speaker 1: The same insane thing with were mad, the same thing 809 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,080 Speaker 1: to super nice guy everything, but definitely had that rep 810 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 1: like you know, and it's it's harder for. 811 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:41,840 Speaker 3: You light skinned. 812 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:50,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, that pretty ass half ship. Everybody like everybody like, wow, 813 00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 1: that's a good as quality. 814 00:38:53,640 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 3: To have, like you know ship. 815 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,960 Speaker 2: Uh man, any truth, you used to gamble with m 816 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,080 Speaker 2: J and Barkley in Vegas. 817 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 1: So one time when we get that ship, get that ship, 818 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 1: very goddamn clear. They gambled on another level man. So yeah, 819 00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,640 Speaker 1: so I was gambling with Barkley. We was at a 820 00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,839 Speaker 1: uh we was at the at the roulette table. Yeah, 821 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: he liked to play roulette at that time, so he 822 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,320 Speaker 1: was at the roulette table. We're doing we just stacking. 823 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 1: I'm stacking on top of him. 824 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,719 Speaker 3: He going hard. You know, they Barkley and m J. 825 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,200 Speaker 3: They can they can do that thing. So he got 826 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,400 Speaker 3: you know, two three hundred out on the thing and 827 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:37,680 Speaker 3: I got a thousand. 828 00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:43,600 Speaker 2: He's trying and how can change for this thousand? 829 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 3: MJ comes in. M J just grab a stack. 830 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 1: He just grab a stack of Barkley's chips like maybe 831 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: maybe like one hundred and fifty thousands or something like, 832 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: hey man, what you get? 833 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:08,360 Speaker 3: You know what they said, it doesn't matter, like ya know, 834 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 3: I got you like whatever, it is, like, you tell 835 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 3: me what I got you what? 836 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,480 Speaker 1: I just don't want to go and get chips. So 837 00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,120 Speaker 1: he went over there and then so he was gambling. 838 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:21,880 Speaker 1: They was like I tried to go over there with 839 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: that game. You know, it was just embarrassing to try 840 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,000 Speaker 1: to get in there because they doing like three hundred 841 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: thousands of hands coming over here with my love a 842 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 1: hundred dollars chips, everybody like ya, hold on, wait, wait 843 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,839 Speaker 1: till the next one, wait till the next one. 844 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,400 Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I can't even get in on this, Like, no, 845 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 3: you don't need to be on this for you over 846 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,880 Speaker 3: here for golf. 847 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 1: I mean, you know he liked he liked the gambled golfing. 848 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,400 Speaker 1: So it's like that whole thing, like, you know, whatever 849 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:51,840 Speaker 1: you want to play for, it don't matter. You know, 850 00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,920 Speaker 1: I'm trying to act like, you know, I got a 851 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,920 Speaker 1: gun table thousand. 852 00:40:56,080 --> 00:41:03,359 Speaker 3: Hold I wren't doing the math. I lost every hole 853 00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,839 Speaker 3: eighteen thousand dollars. That's not a that's not one. 854 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,160 Speaker 2: I'm explaining to wife. 855 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, you just don't you know, you don't get in 856 00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:17,960 Speaker 3: the tail nigga. Yeah, Like was like, it's what it is, 857 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,320 Speaker 3: you know what I'm like, because they doing thirty thousand, 858 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 3: the whole. 859 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 1: They doing Billionaire Ship or whatever they're doing. But I 860 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,239 Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I'm like trying to act like I'm 861 00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:28,480 Speaker 1: somebody that hurt. 862 00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:30,680 Speaker 2: That fuck your whole mind. 863 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,040 Speaker 3: Course one. You know what I'm saying. 864 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,360 Speaker 1: You up there like, yo, I'm gonna get him on 865 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,600 Speaker 1: this one, man, get I'm knocked down. 866 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,399 Speaker 3: I can you know if it's going it was gonna happen. 867 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:47,040 Speaker 3: I glue ten, it's play, play yes play. 868 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,960 Speaker 2: All Star weekends. You did some comedy jams with Shack. Yeah, 869 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 2: experienced like being an all start that kind of crowd. 870 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:55,719 Speaker 1: I mean always you know, of course that one of 871 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 1: the big you know, one of the great kind of 872 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:02,000 Speaker 1: uh you know, we got big spectacles that that that 873 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,920 Speaker 1: happened in our community where you know, you got super 874 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,520 Speaker 1: Bowl weekend, you got NBA All Star weekend. 875 00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:11,280 Speaker 3: So you know, to have that and we did those specials. 876 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:11,520 Speaker 4: Uh. 877 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,960 Speaker 3: It was fun man, you know because it's like the 878 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,040 Speaker 3: energy in town, everybody there. That one was in Phoenix. 879 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,760 Speaker 1: The first one we did Legendary we didn't want in Houston, 880 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:26,320 Speaker 1: then in Vegas, but that, you know, Miami, it's always 881 00:42:26,560 --> 00:42:28,960 Speaker 1: you know, just you know, whenever the vibration of the 882 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,320 Speaker 1: like the whole country in one place for the you know, 883 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:35,200 Speaker 1: the energy of the NBA. So you got you know, friends, family, Pottinger, 884 00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,279 Speaker 1: us from all around there and then and and then 885 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: of course you got some of the best comics that's 886 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:40,959 Speaker 1: gonna be on one show. 887 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,000 Speaker 3: So that's always been a fun shock and fun loving dude. 888 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,759 Speaker 3: Always love to have a good time. 889 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,440 Speaker 1: So he really make for a great co host in 890 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:50,960 Speaker 1: that kind of environment because he he wants you to 891 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:51,880 Speaker 1: do jokes on him. 892 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,480 Speaker 3: He wanted he want to do jokes on you, you know. 893 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,799 Speaker 1: So it just is one of those kind of things 894 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,040 Speaker 1: that that that ended up being a great, great little 895 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,520 Speaker 1: partnership that ran for a ran for a minute. 896 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,560 Speaker 3: Man, that was good. Man. We actually did a Sports 897 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,120 Speaker 3: Illustrate photo shoot after that where he like this, I 898 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:08,880 Speaker 3: got a whole thing. 899 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,239 Speaker 2: He held jack one time too. 900 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:13,040 Speaker 3: Yeah that ship was embassing, man. Yeah. 901 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,319 Speaker 4: Yeah, we're playing each other, you know all we rocked 902 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,439 Speaker 4: every time we played each other. We chest bumped before 903 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,880 Speaker 4: the game start on different teams, right, and I ran 904 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,120 Speaker 4: up to him. I just ran him to a big 905 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,640 Speaker 4: fella and he just caught me mid are like man, 906 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,160 Speaker 4: if you don't put me down. Just caught me mid 907 00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:30,920 Speaker 4: out with two hands, not even his arms, just his hand, like, 908 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,880 Speaker 4: but put me down, like. 909 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,160 Speaker 3: Hut me down. The game. 910 00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:43,800 Speaker 1: I had a home, Yeah, baby man captain, Yeah, you 911 00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:44,600 Speaker 1: can't do me like that. 912 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:52,080 Speaker 3: Get you growing up, You're getting you getting So he 913 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:55,680 Speaker 3: had me like this, yeah, me like this, put me down. 914 00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,120 Speaker 3: That's funny. Ship ship. 915 00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:05,320 Speaker 4: Paint the picture of young says upbringing in Missouri, single 916 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:06,120 Speaker 4: parent household. 917 00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:10,040 Speaker 3: My mother was a school teacher. She taught English and 918 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:14,000 Speaker 3: reading elementary school. So for over thirty years. 919 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,480 Speaker 1: I had a younger sister who was also she a 920 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,040 Speaker 1: professor at Pepperdine right now, so she's been there. And 921 00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,160 Speaker 1: we were up in Saint Louis, you know, middle income. 922 00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,239 Speaker 1: You know my mother, you know, like mom, she knew 923 00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:27,560 Speaker 1: how to make it look good, like you know what 924 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying. So we you know, we had our own. 925 00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 3: Rooms, We had a nice little car outside. 926 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,840 Speaker 1: We had cool clothes, and you know, it was just 927 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:38,160 Speaker 1: a very you know, simple, respectful household, a lot of love, 928 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,360 Speaker 1: a lot of laughter. But I was the man of 929 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: the house, so you know, it was mainly you know, 930 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,080 Speaker 1: me like kind of being the father. My dad was 931 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,879 Speaker 1: you know, they got divorced when we were really young, 932 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,400 Speaker 1: so and my dad was around, but not like that 933 00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,560 Speaker 1: like so, so it was just mainly you know, mainly us, 934 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,440 Speaker 1: but a lot you know, real fun house. I had 935 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,520 Speaker 1: a lot of you know, I had relatives that lived 936 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,880 Speaker 1: in the inner city of Saint Louis. So my my 937 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,719 Speaker 1: my mother's sister, she had like eleven kids, so and 938 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,799 Speaker 1: then they was the inner city kids. So it's like wash, you. 939 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,760 Speaker 3: Go to Saint Louis, just regular Saint Louis both side, 940 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,440 Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. But then you go down there, 941 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,759 Speaker 3: you know, to get your stripes, so you know, and 942 00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:16,839 Speaker 3: it was good. 943 00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 1: And as the boy, I spent a lot of time 944 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,880 Speaker 1: down there because that you know, it was just you know, 945 00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,560 Speaker 1: my mom just didn't know what to do with me. 946 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:24,760 Speaker 1: So I'll be down there with my cousin and filing 947 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,440 Speaker 1: out until that got too crazy and then you know, 948 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,359 Speaker 1: go back out to the suburbs and stuff. But you know, real, 949 00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:34,080 Speaker 1: you know, real dope church lady, you know what I'm saying. 950 00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,360 Speaker 1: So we had you know, we went to church on Sunday. 951 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,440 Speaker 1: You know, just some fun, dope life, you know. And 952 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,760 Speaker 1: she was really one of those people that like encourage 953 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,680 Speaker 1: you to do a lot of good things. I always 954 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,080 Speaker 1: say one of my mother's favorite thing was that your 955 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,360 Speaker 1: good name enters the room before you do and stays 956 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,000 Speaker 1: after you're gone. So that was like she she always 957 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,360 Speaker 1: talked about that being credit. She was like, that's what 958 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,200 Speaker 1: credit is. When somebody say your name is what is 959 00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:58,080 Speaker 1: it make them feel? 960 00:45:58,520 --> 00:45:59,239 Speaker 3: Do they like it? 961 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:01,880 Speaker 1: You know? So when they say your name before you 962 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,759 Speaker 1: get there is it's gonna be a good feeling. When 963 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,120 Speaker 1: you gon do people speak you speak up you in 964 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,560 Speaker 1: a good way. And I always thought that that was 965 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,120 Speaker 1: just one of the greatest piece of advices to kind 966 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,759 Speaker 1: of take in life, you know, because you know you 967 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,640 Speaker 1: don't you know you do you rode through life flowing 968 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:17,760 Speaker 1: and you don't know when you're gonna cross these bridges 969 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,239 Speaker 1: again or when when something happens. So what good is 970 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,880 Speaker 1: it to you to, you know, to have something negative 971 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,520 Speaker 1: about you in the space, you know what I'm saying, 972 00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,440 Speaker 1: if it ain't necessary. So so I really loved that. 973 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:30,600 Speaker 1: That's the kind of woman she was. And so you know, 974 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:33,160 Speaker 1: I got a wine now that I named after her, 975 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,800 Speaker 1: So I do it with my wine. Since twenty nineteen, 976 00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,560 Speaker 1: seta her name was real Setta, and so we do 977 00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:44,080 Speaker 1: that Naple valley Wine, beautiful red. You know, she was redhead, 978 00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,319 Speaker 1: so and so it's a redhead. But now I got 979 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:47,120 Speaker 1: a red and a white. 980 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,319 Speaker 3: So it's dope. Man. So I just I like them. 981 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,319 Speaker 3: It kind of She passed at twenty sixteen, so we've 982 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,000 Speaker 3: just been honored. 983 00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,520 Speaker 1: I got a I got a hospital women's pavilion with 984 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,840 Speaker 1: her name on it in Saint Louis. So that's the 985 00:46:57,880 --> 00:46:59,920 Speaker 1: kind of charitrible stuff I do. So this will take 986 00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:02,040 Speaker 1: you know, they do the kind of work for all, 987 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,880 Speaker 1: like you know, single parents and ladies and a lot 988 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,040 Speaker 1: of women's health things that they do when people don't have. 989 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:10,200 Speaker 1: You know that that helped make you know, bands go 990 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,160 Speaker 1: get folks and testings and. 991 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:13,040 Speaker 3: All that kind of stuff. 992 00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:14,520 Speaker 4: So he was in church a lot. Did you sing 993 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,560 Speaker 4: in the youth choir and the yeah, man, we all 994 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,600 Speaker 4: had you had to do it, had to do it. 995 00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:21,279 Speaker 1: Man, And you know I used to be I used 996 00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,960 Speaker 1: to really consider myself a little singer, you know. That's 997 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:28,440 Speaker 1: why I'm Yeah, that was about the first thing I remember. 998 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,200 Speaker 3: I remember being in this group man with this dude, 999 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,480 Speaker 3: like he could really sing two in the group and 1000 00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,000 Speaker 3: just one night, I remember I wanted to hit the 1001 00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,400 Speaker 3: high note and I and it was like, you know, no, 1002 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,759 Speaker 3: you got the lowest voice in there, like, don't try 1003 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:42,160 Speaker 3: to do that. 1004 00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:44,759 Speaker 1: But you know, we at the one church where all 1005 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,160 Speaker 1: the pretty girls said and you know, and I was like, 1006 00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:47,520 Speaker 1: let me. 1007 00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:50,560 Speaker 3: Get the note tonight. We was you know, seventeen and 1008 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,240 Speaker 3: sixteen seventeen or whatever. 1009 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:57,880 Speaker 1: Man know, did not come out like and I was like, 1010 00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:00,239 Speaker 1: I would should have stayed in my lane. But though 1011 00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:01,919 Speaker 1: it's like one of the things you see the little 1012 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,840 Speaker 1: girls up there was like, dog me. 1013 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:04,279 Speaker 3: Get to note. 1014 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:11,440 Speaker 1: The crazy heymen, hey man, sometimes the Lord you you 1015 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:12,200 Speaker 1: just go into it. 1016 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:18,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the Lord works with you sometimes. 1017 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:21,239 Speaker 4: I had that same story, said, but I got to 1018 00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,080 Speaker 4: I got two young sisters that used to always lead 1019 00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:24,959 Speaker 4: the songs. 1020 00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,440 Speaker 3: But they was good at hooping. I do nothing, and 1021 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:30,200 Speaker 3: they was killing it. And I just thought. 1022 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 4: I thought it was gonna transfer down the line to 1023 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:33,320 Speaker 4: me and nothing. 1024 00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:34,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, I ain't let a song. 1025 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,520 Speaker 4: I think I left the choir after that because it 1026 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,360 Speaker 4: was so embarrassing and I tried to grab it and 1027 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:38,960 Speaker 4: go straight to that. 1028 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,640 Speaker 3: Yeah it wasn't that gotta be in you. Yeah, you know, 1029 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:43,799 Speaker 3: like they had the Holy Spirit or something in them. 1030 00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:45,839 Speaker 3: I didn't. I just thought they could just transfer down 1031 00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:46,160 Speaker 3: the line. 1032 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,440 Speaker 2: I don't work like that didn't work. 1033 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I was in the street. I'd done so much 1034 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:56,800 Speaker 3: ship the night before. It's no way to hold spread 1035 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,160 Speaker 3: it on downside, Like you what are you doing? I 1036 00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:06,200 Speaker 3: know what you was ship man? I tried. Yeah, that's 1037 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:06,799 Speaker 3: that's true. 1038 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:10,239 Speaker 1: That's funny though, But I love I loved that experience. Shoot, 1039 00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:11,920 Speaker 1: like because you know, like when I came to LA 1040 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,640 Speaker 1: I ain't going to church as much, so you know, 1041 00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,920 Speaker 1: I just remember, like how you know that that feeling 1042 00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,719 Speaker 1: went to Kirk Franklin concert the other night. 1043 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,320 Speaker 3: He was out there and that that that having that 1044 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:23,480 Speaker 3: kind of really. 1045 00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:27,160 Speaker 1: Religious energy church people singing big songs, that spiritual. 1046 00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,080 Speaker 3: I was like, man, you know you kind of really 1047 00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:30,960 Speaker 3: missed that vibration. I ain't like that no more. 1048 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,080 Speaker 1: It ain't like it's like you know, I mean, it's 1049 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:38,360 Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, everybody just they they taking uh you know, 1050 00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,720 Speaker 1: sexy red songs and making church sounds out of Damn. 1051 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,000 Speaker 3: I can't believe it, bron, It's all all over my scripture. Pink, 1052 00:49:46,280 --> 00:50:00,680 Speaker 3: my scripture, pink. Sh Wow, he's a walk in the 1053 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:08,200 Speaker 3: club and I don't know if you could do that. 1054 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,000 Speaker 3: You're doing that for real? Yeah? 1055 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:15,960 Speaker 4: Is it true that you got to seize desist from 1056 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:18,360 Speaker 4: General Mills because of the stage named Cheerio. 1057 00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:24,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, man, official letters with the green stamp on the 1058 00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:29,040 Speaker 1: outside with you steal that, Yeah, ceazing decisse. Yeah, you know, 1059 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:30,960 Speaker 1: because I used to go buy Cheerio. 1060 00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:35,160 Speaker 2: You know, honey, nothing just regularly. 1061 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,080 Speaker 3: You say, honey, noting I got. 1062 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,000 Speaker 1: I think I'm glad I put it out because that 1063 00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,040 Speaker 1: was gonna be the that was gonna be the question throughout, like. 1064 00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,080 Speaker 3: Calling you Cheerio people coming out. I had to change 1065 00:50:55,120 --> 00:51:02,239 Speaker 3: it there, Yes, sir, it was. It was the whole thing, 1066 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,759 Speaker 3: cheer Yo, Cheerio. You know how you're trying to make 1067 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:10,960 Speaker 3: it sound cool, Rio Rio, I kind of make it 1068 00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:13,360 Speaker 3: sound cool, but it was. 1069 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,000 Speaker 1: It all kind of came like, you know, at that time, 1070 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,359 Speaker 1: people was like you have sid Bad, you have people 1071 00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:20,759 Speaker 1: like it was just kind of taking these one name names. 1072 00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,120 Speaker 3: And making themselves brand. 1073 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,640 Speaker 1: It was used to be a dude named Kodak and 1074 00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:26,680 Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, oh, that's fly right there, 1075 00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,839 Speaker 1: and then my name is Cedric. But to see I'm 1076 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:34,880 Speaker 1: going around like laughter, said cheer cheerio. It was like, 1077 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:40,960 Speaker 1: I see right now, y'all my friends. 1078 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:48,080 Speaker 3: Friend y'all because everybody else was like, yeah, that's dope, 1079 00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:52,480 Speaker 3: y'all was both like I need it. I need it 1080 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,480 Speaker 3: y'all at that time because the friends that I had then, 1081 00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:03,400 Speaker 3: it was like cheero change with a little, get a 1082 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:08,080 Speaker 3: change what it did with the little put the cheerio 1083 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:08,640 Speaker 3: be on it. 1084 00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:09,080 Speaker 2: He said. 1085 00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:13,400 Speaker 3: He gotta chatted on him right here. There's all the 1086 00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:14,680 Speaker 3: old school tattoo. 1087 00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:25,120 Speaker 7: Cheerio go right like bad letterings like delicious. You should 1088 00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,319 Speaker 7: have said, man, you should have stayed with delicious man. 1089 00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:29,000 Speaker 3: That that really happened. 1090 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:32,560 Speaker 1: And I'm glad I changed my name long before that 1091 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,600 Speaker 1: happened because I was the Chicago the dude did that. 1092 00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,560 Speaker 1: It was funny now Bro walked there. That really happened. 1093 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,760 Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, Daryl, Dona's whatever saying. But everybody 1094 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,080 Speaker 1: called me delicious man. You just called me that said. 1095 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:55,000 Speaker 3: Delicious man, Delicious. You know, Bro Man said, what if 1096 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,000 Speaker 3: you named Daryl? Said, they called me delicious? 1097 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:06,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, pull up, that's not gonna beat me. Your mama 1098 00:53:06,440 --> 00:53:08,560 Speaker 1: picked up the phone. Are you doing, miss Johnson? Delicious? 1099 00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:14,640 Speaker 1: There He was dead serious too. He wanted he was 1100 00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,279 Speaker 1: one of them Chicago pill dude. He was like, yeah 1101 00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,680 Speaker 1: you yeah, you finance Hell, I say you man, I'm 1102 00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:20,919 Speaker 1: gonna pay for half your meal. 1103 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,399 Speaker 3: I never heard that half Ye. 1104 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:30,120 Speaker 1: Stanks, thanks man, Yeah, man, Darren. Everybody call me delicious though, man, 1105 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:31,880 Speaker 1: you could call me that. 1106 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:32,320 Speaker 3: You know. 1107 00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:35,520 Speaker 2: Sorry. 1108 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,239 Speaker 3: You moved to l a in uh ninety two, ninety three, 1109 00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,440 Speaker 3: right around the time of the riots. Yeah, talk about that, 1110 00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:43,920 Speaker 3: but that. 1111 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,360 Speaker 1: Was like yeah, you know, so I actually came in 1112 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,279 Speaker 1: ninety four, so it was right after that, and you know, 1113 00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,920 Speaker 1: but it was crazy times because it was still a 1114 00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,239 Speaker 1: very much of a big gang coach in LA. 1115 00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:56,839 Speaker 3: We didn't really do that in Saint Louis. Yeah. Uh, 1116 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:57,640 Speaker 3: it was that. 1117 00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:01,759 Speaker 1: It was that kind of you know, the vibration of 1118 00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:03,560 Speaker 1: the city was of course, it was a place where 1119 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,520 Speaker 1: you come to make it right, you know, if you're 1120 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,640 Speaker 1: doing any kind of thing in entertainment. But it was 1121 00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,320 Speaker 1: wild to be, you know, in a city where you know, 1122 00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,480 Speaker 1: like culturally you had to be on you know, you 1123 00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,400 Speaker 1: had to be on your toes like in a different 1124 00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,360 Speaker 1: kind of way. And then you know, right after that, 1125 00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,839 Speaker 1: it was just really you know, it felt violent in LA. 1126 00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:22,680 Speaker 1: At many times you go to this own place, it 1127 00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,880 Speaker 1: just felt like, you know, but it was also a 1128 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,920 Speaker 1: place where you know, opportunity was happening. It was a 1129 00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:31,759 Speaker 1: lot of great you know, people was getting shows, you know, 1130 00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:34,440 Speaker 1: like you think about it, Steve Harvey Show, The Wayans, 1131 00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,920 Speaker 1: Jamie Fox, Martin was popping like. It was a lot 1132 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,040 Speaker 1: of things bubbling that that had the city like growing. 1133 00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,399 Speaker 1: So you know, it's just it was one of those 1134 00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,600 Speaker 1: things where you know, I was actually glad. Saint Louis 1135 00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:48,799 Speaker 1: was you know, of course the kind of city where 1136 00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:50,680 Speaker 1: you grow up and you feel like home, but it's 1137 00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:53,040 Speaker 1: also a place where you could, in a lot of 1138 00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,320 Speaker 1: ways know that you gotta out, you gotta leave in 1139 00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,200 Speaker 1: order to go get something real. So so I was 1140 00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:00,920 Speaker 1: just I was really happy that, you know, all the 1141 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,880 Speaker 1: things kind of lined up for me to be there 1142 00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:04,520 Speaker 1: at the time that I did, because I didn't move 1143 00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,880 Speaker 1: to LA like like most people will tell you as 1144 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:08,400 Speaker 1: a comic Girol, you gotta go to LA or to 1145 00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,759 Speaker 1: New York to make it, But I like would come 1146 00:55:10,840 --> 00:55:14,479 Speaker 1: out there on trips because again I had, like I worked, 1147 00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,800 Speaker 1: I was. I was a state fum claims adjuster for 1148 00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,360 Speaker 1: four years. I had like saved money, I had a house, 1149 00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,560 Speaker 1: I was I was doing like you know, I had insurance. 1150 00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,319 Speaker 1: You know, I was doing shit that wasn't like people would. 1151 00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:28,759 Speaker 1: I was grown, you know, like when I'm twenty nine 1152 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:30,719 Speaker 1: years old, you know, so I wasn't out there really, 1153 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:32,759 Speaker 1: you know, out there for the Shenanigans of it. So 1154 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,080 Speaker 1: when I went to when I finally came to LA, 1155 00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,440 Speaker 1: it was because I had a deal and I became 1156 00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:39,440 Speaker 1: the host of Comic View and they you know, they 1157 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,880 Speaker 1: paid and then was able to get me an apartment 1158 00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:43,520 Speaker 1: and that's how I kind of stayed out there. So 1159 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,520 Speaker 1: I just kind of kept going from there. But I 1160 00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,680 Speaker 1: had I kept all my main stuff in Saint Louis 1161 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,640 Speaker 1: until I got married. Shoot, that was like in ninety 1162 00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,440 Speaker 1: nine s and it seemed like a long time. 1163 00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,680 Speaker 4: Why why why Darius Miles of course, you know he's 1164 00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,920 Speaker 4: from East Saint Louis. Why he sayed Saint Louis East, 1165 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,640 Speaker 4: Like East St. Louis is not close to being the same. 1166 00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,839 Speaker 3: They not, they not, but they are, like I mean, 1167 00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,200 Speaker 3: it's real, it's a real thing, Like because East Saint. 1168 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:12,080 Speaker 1: Louis is Illinois, and it's definitely you know, known for 1169 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,720 Speaker 1: being the more grimey, yeah. 1170 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,319 Speaker 3: Grimy of the two, and you know, in a lot 1171 00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:19,000 Speaker 3: of ways they are. 1172 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:22,720 Speaker 1: But because you know, like you know, for Saint Louis, dudes, 1173 00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:24,960 Speaker 1: like the East side is the late night side. 1174 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,560 Speaker 3: That's the yeah turnout. You go there, the four and 1175 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:29,840 Speaker 3: the five in the morning, you kick it. 1176 00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,399 Speaker 1: So that blown to us as much as it did 1177 00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,640 Speaker 1: to them as far as we're concerned, because so you 1178 00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,120 Speaker 1: had a lot of Kendrick you know, kind of energy there, 1179 00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:42,040 Speaker 1: but it was, you know, it was hardcore because they 1180 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:44,560 Speaker 1: it was just super hood on that side right here. 1181 00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:46,719 Speaker 1: And I think, you know, as far as like where 1182 00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,560 Speaker 1: they kind of fit on the State, they was like 1183 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,000 Speaker 1: at the lower part, I don't and I don't think 1184 00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:53,799 Speaker 1: nobody just really like they State money never really tried 1185 00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:56,160 Speaker 1: to take care of them like that. So all the 1186 00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,359 Speaker 1: all the shiny stuff was right there on Saint Louis. 1187 00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,840 Speaker 1: So we kind of showed up like look at us, 1188 00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,640 Speaker 1: we're stunting, you know. So it always had that kind 1189 00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,800 Speaker 1: of undertone to it. But again, they had the clubs, 1190 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,120 Speaker 1: they had the late night they had the fun get 1191 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:10,680 Speaker 1: the strip clubs, everything on. 1192 00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,359 Speaker 3: The East Side. So I feel way more safe in St. 1193 00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:16,320 Speaker 3: Louis that're not doing. Yeah, No, east Side is definitely 1194 00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,320 Speaker 3: you want to have you some relationships. 1195 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:24,880 Speaker 1: It's definitely yeah, yeah, definitely a place you want to Yeah, 1196 00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:27,360 Speaker 1: definitely want to go in and have a couple of 1197 00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:31,080 Speaker 1: names you can drop to to where people be like, okay, 1198 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:31,600 Speaker 1: you good. 1199 00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,000 Speaker 3: You know, you know T Rock Dall Me and T 1200 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:40,439 Speaker 3: that's my god. Delicious not that much. Delicious ain't gonna 1201 00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:41,400 Speaker 3: get you far over there. 1202 00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,640 Speaker 4: You need to know like a little run in, a 1203 00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:54,240 Speaker 4: little Rutherford the Pistil Starter, Yeah, yeah, yeah that group. Yeah, 1204 00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:58,439 Speaker 4: you voice three comedy skits on albums Nellie's Country Grandma, Yeah, 1205 00:57:58,920 --> 00:58:01,320 Speaker 4: Nellie's Nellyville and jay Z's The Black. 1206 00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:07,520 Speaker 3: Album Threats, threatening, step in the step in the method 1207 00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,400 Speaker 3: like drug money man. 1208 00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,000 Speaker 1: Those those are all great, man, you know, because you 1209 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:15,440 Speaker 1: know you're a part of like music. You know, we 1210 00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,720 Speaker 1: all like you know, have that desire to do a 1211 00:58:17,760 --> 00:58:18,840 Speaker 1: little bit of all of it. 1212 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:19,120 Speaker 3: Right. 1213 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,240 Speaker 1: So you know, like Nelly being from Saint Louis, they 1214 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:24,000 Speaker 1: was hot. You know, they was doing their thing and 1215 00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,360 Speaker 1: so when Country Granmar was coming out, they just called me. 1216 00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:31,440 Speaker 1: We had did like a comedy show or something, you 1217 00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:33,160 Speaker 1: know where they was a part of it, so we 1218 00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,600 Speaker 1: knew each other in that way. So when the album 1219 00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:37,760 Speaker 1: was getting call, they called, like I was in l 1220 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,240 Speaker 1: a and they was like, yo, man, I want you 1221 00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:40,960 Speaker 1: to do these skits to be on the album. 1222 00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,240 Speaker 3: And that was just you know, it was one of them. 1223 00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:45,880 Speaker 1: You didn't you don't notice thing about to go diamond, 1224 00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:47,920 Speaker 1: but you know, like yo, but that's just fun, like 1225 00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,640 Speaker 1: you know, especially back then everybody. That was a good 1226 00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,720 Speaker 1: spot for comedians to be able to do a skin 1227 00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:55,680 Speaker 1: on the album because it's like that that consistency of 1228 00:58:55,840 --> 00:58:59,920 Speaker 1: being like known throughout by doing it and so, uh, 1229 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,560 Speaker 1: that was a great one. And then with jay Z 1230 00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:04,640 Speaker 1: that was kind of that was like a lucky one 1231 00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:08,560 Speaker 1: really in a way because I saw jay in different places, 1232 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:12,400 Speaker 1: uh you know, around the world, different spots, and I 1233 00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:14,160 Speaker 1: just told him one time I wanted to see him 1234 00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:15,760 Speaker 1: work because I heard it, you know, like the way 1235 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,040 Speaker 1: he right, And they was like, yo, he right. So 1236 00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:18,800 Speaker 1: I was like, yo, man, thought, if I'm in New York, 1237 00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:20,560 Speaker 1: I want to come to the studio. I just want 1238 00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,320 Speaker 1: to see when you work. He was like, no problem. 1239 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,720 Speaker 1: So I just happened to be there. I called he 1240 00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:27,320 Speaker 1: was doing the Black album. I go up to the studio. 1241 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,960 Speaker 1: He hanging, He's just doing this thing, doing the jay 1242 00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:32,160 Speaker 1: Z thing, and he was like, I gotta leave and 1243 00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:34,600 Speaker 1: make a run. But I'm working on this record called Threats, 1244 00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:39,320 Speaker 1: and I need I need a mad mad rapper type skit, 1245 00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:41,720 Speaker 1: like a dude like, you know, like what a mad 1246 00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,960 Speaker 1: rapper was on he was on the Yeah, yeah, he 1247 00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:45,200 Speaker 1: was on the other album. But he was like, I 1248 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,240 Speaker 1: just need somebody this on tripping, you know, saying about 1249 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,800 Speaker 1: threatening it folks. I was like all right, and he left. 1250 00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:52,919 Speaker 1: So it's just me and Guru and a couple of people, 1251 00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,480 Speaker 1: and I just went in there freestyled and I was 1252 00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,000 Speaker 1: just in there just saying shit. And then he called 1253 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:00,520 Speaker 1: me down about like one. He's like, hey man, what's up. 1254 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:02,920 Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, you want to be on this album? 1255 01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:05,520 Speaker 3: You made it. I was like, what wan the blackout? 1256 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:11,840 Speaker 3: I just need a chain. I need the rock chain. Yeah, 1257 01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:15,760 Speaker 3: I ain't never get my damn check. I ain't never 1258 01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:16,439 Speaker 3: get my chain. 1259 01:00:18,560 --> 01:00:18,600 Speaker 1: No. 1260 01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:20,160 Speaker 3: So that but that was it. 1261 01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,360 Speaker 1: That was the only thing I really wanted and so 1262 01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:24,960 Speaker 1: but it was fun though, but even again, it was 1263 01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,440 Speaker 1: just big you know, you know when you see them 1264 01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,400 Speaker 1: in hindsight and you recognize like how music just transferred 1265 01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,880 Speaker 1: people's lives and then it just go on and on. 1266 01:00:34,040 --> 01:00:36,200 Speaker 1: And it was like because like I getting on for that, 1267 01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,840 Speaker 1: you know that Nelly skid that, you know, you know 1268 01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:40,440 Speaker 1: what I was like the big body bends with two 1269 01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:42,880 Speaker 1: dollars worth of gas and stuff like that, and just 1270 01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:45,439 Speaker 1: like people will know that was they'll quote those things 1271 01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:46,360 Speaker 1: to me to this day. 1272 01:00:46,440 --> 01:00:47,760 Speaker 3: You know what I mean, you be like, yo, I 1273 01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:50,360 Speaker 3: was just going in there playing, you know, just having 1274 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:50,800 Speaker 3: a good time. 1275 01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:52,160 Speaker 2: He was a monster back then. 1276 01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:55,960 Speaker 3: Oh crazy that that went so crazy? 1277 01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that that that album went off and 1278 01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,120 Speaker 1: then hot and here and the next joke that was crazy, 1279 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:02,720 Speaker 1: that big. 1280 01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,840 Speaker 3: Old that was a big tip drill video. No, no, 1281 01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:13,600 Speaker 3: I was Cheerio at the time. They wouldn't let me in. 1282 01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,680 Speaker 3: What you got relationship with Bun be from port author 1283 01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:20,160 Speaker 3: you and right. 1284 01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,240 Speaker 1: Yeah Bun I did someone want a Bun album? Yeah 1285 01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:24,640 Speaker 1: that's all about that. Yeah I remember that. Yeah, I 1286 01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,960 Speaker 1: did someone one Bun album. But coming down, like so 1287 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,240 Speaker 1: I used to go Steve used to be based here. Uh, 1288 01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:33,040 Speaker 1: Steve Harvey was based in Dallas and that was one 1289 01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,280 Speaker 1: of the starting grounds for me. So I used to 1290 01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,360 Speaker 1: have a lot of comedy here. And then his manager 1291 01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:39,880 Speaker 1: at the time, Rashaan was in Houston and he had 1292 01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,439 Speaker 1: a club, so they so you would do them both, 1293 01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:44,120 Speaker 1: so you would come down there. So I spent a 1294 01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:46,880 Speaker 1: lot of time down in Houston, and then with Bun 1295 01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,360 Speaker 1: and Pimp and all them, they was like popping and 1296 01:01:49,440 --> 01:01:52,320 Speaker 1: you know they come popp a couple of times. 1297 01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,800 Speaker 3: Tell the story about Himp, like you got these stories about. 1298 01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,680 Speaker 1: Only only Real One. No no, because only Real one 1299 01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:00,960 Speaker 1: where we ever kind of really though, it was like 1300 01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:04,240 Speaker 1: an award show, and you know, he he was just 1301 01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:07,720 Speaker 1: like Pels, just like Hella Cole. You know, we just 1302 01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,640 Speaker 1: went just saying what up. We we we respect each 1303 01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:12,920 Speaker 1: other and pre each other, you know, just kind of thing. 1304 01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:15,240 Speaker 1: He met my daughter, you know what I'm saying. He 1305 01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:18,200 Speaker 1: just was like a real cool, cool dude. Like that 1306 01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:19,880 Speaker 1: was the only time me and him ever kind of 1307 01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:22,160 Speaker 1: locked up like that. Yeah, but I keep it with 1308 01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,120 Speaker 1: Bun a lot more, you know, even even busting up 1309 01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:28,560 Speaker 1: in the Trio Burgers and yeah, you know, like just 1310 01:02:28,720 --> 01:02:30,920 Speaker 1: recently and then uh, you know, he just. 1311 01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:32,080 Speaker 3: You know, he just slid. Dude. 1312 01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,720 Speaker 1: I'm glad to see like that, that kind of spin 1313 01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,800 Speaker 1: like when somebody takes their you know, their celebrity and 1314 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,160 Speaker 1: then go into another thing in life and then had 1315 01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:43,200 Speaker 1: great success as well, you know, especially for a dude 1316 01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:46,280 Speaker 1: like him, just so solid like for you know, this 1317 01:02:46,480 --> 01:02:47,440 Speaker 1: this new venture to. 1318 01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:50,560 Speaker 3: Be just as dope as as he was as a rapper, 1319 01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,040 Speaker 3: to be like this dude. Yeah, barbecue sauce right, Yeah, 1320 01:02:53,880 --> 01:02:57,680 Speaker 3: I'm not trying to do a tril Burger. Yeah we did. 1321 01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,600 Speaker 1: We did a little we did a day where we 1322 01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,800 Speaker 1: did little collab where we're down there we see barbecue, Yeah, 1323 01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:03,680 Speaker 1: popped up, you know. 1324 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:04,600 Speaker 3: So that was dope. 1325 01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:06,800 Speaker 1: And so you know, we actually got some other you know, 1326 01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:09,600 Speaker 1: we had some other business uh deals going that prevented 1327 01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:12,600 Speaker 1: us from kind of locking in on it, uh for real. 1328 01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:15,520 Speaker 1: But but yeah, but that was dope, man. And uh 1329 01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:19,040 Speaker 1: so yeah, me and Anthony got ac barbecue been really growing. 1330 01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:22,880 Speaker 1: We in Walmart, Lowe's and H. H. G. B's down 1331 01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:26,080 Speaker 1: in Texas here and then uh and uh and then 1332 01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:29,600 Speaker 1: uh Amazon, So we just made Oprah's Favorite things this year. 1333 01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,160 Speaker 1: So that's a big thing, right there. A lot of 1334 01:03:32,160 --> 01:03:34,040 Speaker 1: a lot of real cool stuff happening. We're gonna open 1335 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:38,040 Speaker 1: up our first restaurant, our own Flagshire restaurant in the 1336 01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,920 Speaker 1: Century City mall, you know out there, the one in 1337 01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,960 Speaker 1: Century City upstairs the food court. So that's gonna be 1338 01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,560 Speaker 1: coming soon. Uh where We're gonna have our own, our 1339 01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:49,720 Speaker 1: first flagship store. 1340 01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:53,360 Speaker 2: So we I walked around the other day like, yeah, yeah. 1341 01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:54,920 Speaker 3: It got sexy over there. 1342 01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:59,720 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, because it's kind of indoor outdoor, but it's 1343 01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:01,920 Speaker 1: a it's a great spot for the you know when 1344 01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:04,680 Speaker 1: you know that holiday shopping, when you just out like strolling, 1345 01:04:04,760 --> 01:04:06,880 Speaker 1: it's gonna be a over there. 1346 01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,560 Speaker 2: You got a nice list of movies you've been in 1347 01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,920 Speaker 2: and produced and been a part of, you know, anyone 1348 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:13,520 Speaker 2: to stand out. 1349 01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:14,240 Speaker 3: Do you have a favorite? 1350 01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:18,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, man, like I guess, you know, probably Barbershop one 1351 01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:19,640 Speaker 1: was my favorite. 1352 01:04:19,840 --> 01:04:21,600 Speaker 3: Like movie to do be Cool? 1353 01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:27,120 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, be Cool with the rock dam Johnson Family 1354 01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:32,640 Speaker 1: Vacation had a blast doing uh you know the Mattagascars. 1355 01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:33,840 Speaker 3: You know, you do. 1356 01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,760 Speaker 1: Animation, that's the first thing. But it was like some 1357 01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:40,600 Speaker 1: of the biggest paydays I've ever seen in my life. 1358 01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:41,920 Speaker 3: That was crazy. 1359 01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:45,280 Speaker 1: That was crazy because that I didn't even know really 1360 01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:47,600 Speaker 1: what it was until like it was like like a 1361 01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:51,360 Speaker 1: year later. They said the residual check one time every 1362 01:04:51,400 --> 01:04:54,520 Speaker 1: bought the house with it. I was like, yo, just 1363 01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:55,400 Speaker 1: showed up in the mail. 1364 01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,040 Speaker 3: I was like, this all mine. It was like, yeah, 1365 01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:02,400 Speaker 3: like it's crazy, man, y'all told my wife she don't 1366 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:07,240 Speaker 3: know yet, you know about this. You don't know about this, dude. 1367 01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:10,720 Speaker 3: This not to go on the rolls, you know. So no, 1368 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:15,960 Speaker 3: but if she see it, it's going on a new kitchen. 1369 01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:19,000 Speaker 1: But if I see it, the double yeah, yeah, we 1370 01:05:19,120 --> 01:05:21,760 Speaker 1: get ready, We get ready, drop it on some forges, 1371 01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:31,640 Speaker 1: some wild ship. Just uh but uh yeah, but you know, 1372 01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:33,920 Speaker 1: like really just a lot of fun doing a lot 1373 01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:36,960 Speaker 1: of picture. I did, uh this when we first reformed, 1374 01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:39,880 Speaker 1: where I got a chance to work with Ethan Hawk, 1375 01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:42,560 Speaker 1: like you know, like a more dramatic role, like those 1376 01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:45,040 Speaker 1: kind of things, like when you get to do stuff 1377 01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:48,000 Speaker 1: outside of your like kind of norm you know that 1378 01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:50,480 Speaker 1: that was dope, like to be with like heavy hitters, 1379 01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:53,840 Speaker 1: like a man to say Freed and Ethan Hawk, you know, 1380 01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:57,640 Speaker 1: like doing scenes with these with these that boy dog 1381 01:05:57,760 --> 01:05:58,360 Speaker 1: when he comes. 1382 01:05:58,240 --> 01:05:59,760 Speaker 3: To that acting like you know what I'm saying. 1383 01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:01,480 Speaker 1: So you got to step up and those kinds of 1384 01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:05,160 Speaker 1: things are really great experiences man. So you know, and 1385 01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:07,560 Speaker 1: I you know, and I had to do that intolerable cruelty. 1386 01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:10,919 Speaker 1: That's another movie I have fun on. Uh that Gus 1387 01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,160 Speaker 1: Petch character. That was fun, Like you just get to 1388 01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:14,840 Speaker 1: make up characters and just have fun. 1389 01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:18,920 Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's been, it's been. It's been a fun run. 1390 01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:23,160 Speaker 2: Fatherhood for me, Yeah, your fatherhood father three? Yeah, what's 1391 01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:23,760 Speaker 2: that mean to you? 1392 01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,120 Speaker 1: It's a very unique thing because you know, I didn't 1393 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:30,000 Speaker 1: you know, my my father wasn't really you know, and 1394 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:32,600 Speaker 1: again not the he not the ship on him, like 1395 01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,080 Speaker 1: he's not a bad dude, but he wasn't around like that, right, So, 1396 01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:37,960 Speaker 1: so I didn't really have especially as a male like 1397 01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:41,400 Speaker 1: you growing up in a household with just your mom's 1398 01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,840 Speaker 1: your sister, and you gotta like learn how to be 1399 01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,960 Speaker 1: a male in these kind of situations. And and so 1400 01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:50,240 Speaker 1: like when I you know, when I had my first child, 1401 01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:54,040 Speaker 1: you know, like my my my first daughter was like 1402 01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:58,120 Speaker 1: again from a situation, not marriage, you know, it's. 1403 01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:08,080 Speaker 3: Just it's sad. Damn there you go, there you go, 1404 01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:09,920 Speaker 3: I guess we're gonna do this then. 1405 01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:12,880 Speaker 1: So but you know, it was crazy, and so like 1406 01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:15,240 Speaker 1: you know, like it was a lot harder my career 1407 01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,840 Speaker 1: was going at the same time, and you young, you 1408 01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:18,400 Speaker 1: just trying. 1409 01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:21,120 Speaker 3: So I'm like really focused on my career. I'm like longest, 1410 01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:23,400 Speaker 3: I'm like paying my daughter good. 1411 01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:25,680 Speaker 1: So you kind of missed the elements of really like 1412 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:29,000 Speaker 1: being in on the on it because I'm like, I'm 1413 01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:30,960 Speaker 1: you know, I'm climbing on the you know, climbing up 1414 01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,360 Speaker 1: the career louder ladder. So she's in Saint Louis and 1415 01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:36,000 Speaker 1: I'm like in La mainly, and you know, you pay, 1416 01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,800 Speaker 1: you pay to say to say, hey, I'm the dad. 1417 01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:40,720 Speaker 1: You know I got you in school, do to show 1418 01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:42,600 Speaker 1: up every now and then. But then when you know, 1419 01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,720 Speaker 1: when I got married, then my two youngest kids, you know, 1420 01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:48,480 Speaker 1: you got that more in the house, more on the ground, 1421 01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:51,160 Speaker 1: more part of the schedule, more a part of who 1422 01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:54,440 Speaker 1: they are is understanding, and so you definitely learned. So 1423 01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:55,960 Speaker 1: I had to go back and get some of those 1424 01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,320 Speaker 1: things with my oldest daughter, which is hard because now 1425 01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:02,480 Speaker 1: she's formulated her own thoughts and I have mine and 1426 01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,960 Speaker 1: we have to earn these things back. And so but 1427 01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:07,880 Speaker 1: I do feel it's the responsibility to know that as 1428 01:08:07,960 --> 01:08:10,720 Speaker 1: the as the mail in the household, and you have 1429 01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:14,720 Speaker 1: these children, it's important for you to be a person 1430 01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:16,720 Speaker 1: that is a guide in life is a source of 1431 01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:21,600 Speaker 1: comfort for them, is a source of uh knowledge, a 1432 01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:22,720 Speaker 1: place for them to. 1433 01:08:24,400 --> 01:08:27,680 Speaker 3: You know, ask questions and be guiding in a in 1434 01:08:27,760 --> 01:08:28,880 Speaker 3: a in the right way. You know. 1435 01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:32,519 Speaker 1: I think that when we have money, you know, luckily, 1436 01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,080 Speaker 1: like say, I was able to learn that, you know, 1437 01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,479 Speaker 1: with my oldest daughter, that just having money is not 1438 01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:39,960 Speaker 1: the resolve of that. So, you know, I was able 1439 01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,880 Speaker 1: to learn that you just can't pay your way through 1440 01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,559 Speaker 1: daddyhood like that ain't no that, ain't that ain't gonna 1441 01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:48,519 Speaker 1: win because you know, these you know, kids and people 1442 01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:50,760 Speaker 1: have a lot of needs and you know, and so 1443 01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,360 Speaker 1: uh so you have to go back and earn that 1444 01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,800 Speaker 1: now you know, now my oldest daughter has a daughter, 1445 01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,000 Speaker 1: So I got a granddaughter, and it's just you know, 1446 01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:01,439 Speaker 1: a unique bond because that's that would have been a 1447 01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:03,439 Speaker 1: space that if I'd have been on that same energy 1448 01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:07,400 Speaker 1: I was, I wouldn't have that relationship with my granddaughter 1449 01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,760 Speaker 1: because I was on some you mad at me, I'm 1450 01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:11,640 Speaker 1: mad at you, you you know, like you know, you 1451 01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:14,200 Speaker 1: realize that my wife was the kind of person that 1452 01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:16,400 Speaker 1: was like, look that doesn't work. 1453 01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:18,400 Speaker 3: You got to get in there, sir. 1454 01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,439 Speaker 1: And so that's what I really do appreciate, you know, 1455 01:09:21,560 --> 01:09:23,560 Speaker 1: and learning about being you know, being a father. And 1456 01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,000 Speaker 1: then you know, our kids grow up in this space 1457 01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,040 Speaker 1: where they see us and they see our successes, and 1458 01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:32,320 Speaker 1: somehow they feel challenged that they have to be these 1459 01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,439 Speaker 1: things too early, you know, especially my son, you know, 1460 01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,560 Speaker 1: he has that that thing where he feels like he 1461 01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:42,400 Speaker 1: has to have all the answers and be successful because 1462 01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:44,760 Speaker 1: I'm successful. And he puts a lot of pressure on 1463 01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,360 Speaker 1: himself for that reason. And it's like, you know, man, 1464 01:09:47,400 --> 01:09:49,600 Speaker 1: it's about discovery. So like there's a lot of like 1465 01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:51,560 Speaker 1: you know, I told him, you know, I was. I 1466 01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,320 Speaker 1: was twenty eight, twenty nine when I discovered comedy, you know, 1467 01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:57,160 Speaker 1: twenty seven or whatever in there, but thirty something when 1468 01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:57,640 Speaker 1: I made it. 1469 01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:00,080 Speaker 3: So you know, I'm not. I'm not, you know, you 1470 01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:01,720 Speaker 3: twenty four years old, bro. 1471 01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:04,120 Speaker 1: Like you know, just just work, Just go to work, 1472 01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:06,240 Speaker 1: wake up every day and be and be the best 1473 01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,160 Speaker 1: you and just kind of stay at that and don't 1474 01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:10,200 Speaker 1: put that kind of pressure on yourself, you know. 1475 01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,360 Speaker 3: So, uh, I think those. 1476 01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,080 Speaker 1: Those other kind of things that you know, I wish 1477 01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:16,360 Speaker 1: I had somebody guiding meeting, you know and giving me 1478 01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,720 Speaker 1: cool game and there for me and that's what I 1479 01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:21,839 Speaker 1: think is really one of the most important being being conscious, 1480 01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:25,879 Speaker 1: being aware, being alert, listening, and being being involved. 1481 01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:27,439 Speaker 3: That's the best you can do as a father. 1482 01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:30,559 Speaker 2: Absolutely, home stretch quick hitter is first thing to come 1483 01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:32,960 Speaker 2: to mind. Top five comedians of. 1484 01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:38,280 Speaker 3: All time, Wow, top five all time? Wow. Listen my list. 1485 01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:40,320 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go Richie Pryor, I'm 1486 01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,640 Speaker 1: gonna go with Eddie Murphy. I'm gonna go with the 1487 01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:48,240 Speaker 1: late Robin Harris. I'm gonna go with Robin Williams and 1488 01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:54,439 Speaker 1: uh and I'm gonna put up. 1489 01:10:55,960 --> 01:11:00,400 Speaker 3: We'll push push push pel on it. We'll put feeling 1490 01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,920 Speaker 3: that I rock with him like that. Yeah. 1491 01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:09,240 Speaker 1: Five Dinner against that Alive oh Man, Muhammad Ali, Martin 1492 01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:13,840 Speaker 1: Luther King. I don't want somebody fun at that ship. 1493 01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:16,880 Speaker 1: I want Eddie Murphy there, and then I want like 1494 01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:23,840 Speaker 1: shot Dave there. Yeah, then yeah, yeah, shot A She'll 1495 01:11:23,960 --> 01:11:24,840 Speaker 1: be there and then. 1496 01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:26,719 Speaker 3: And then like uh. 1497 01:11:28,280 --> 01:11:32,760 Speaker 1: And maybe somebody like Abraham Lincoln Man just yeah, like 1498 01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:34,960 Speaker 1: yeah yeah, because he you know. 1499 01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:37,200 Speaker 3: The first one had a hat that you like. 1500 01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:37,439 Speaker 1: Yo. 1501 01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:43,040 Speaker 3: See you know you so take the Briamball show you 1502 01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:43,600 Speaker 3: how to do it? 1503 01:11:45,120 --> 01:11:47,160 Speaker 2: I like that one album repeat. 1504 01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:48,200 Speaker 3: Oh man. 1505 01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:54,800 Speaker 1: Man's combination combination. So Marvin Gay I Want you and 1506 01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:56,040 Speaker 1: reasonable doubts. 1507 01:11:55,920 --> 01:12:02,320 Speaker 3: Jay Z Yeah, classes get the pleasure pizza like uh. 1508 01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, like pepperoni and you know sometimes hallopeno, but some 1509 01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:12,840 Speaker 1: good cheese, good crispy crust. Yeah, like damn man, you know, 1510 01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,360 Speaker 1: I'm trying to trying to get off that od Zippy. 1511 01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:33,559 Speaker 1: They're drinking o zipic smoothies. Lady oh Shower the childhood crush. 1512 01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,960 Speaker 1: Shata was one one boy Sha from good time. She 1513 01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:41,439 Speaker 1: got to throw her on there boys. She was one 1514 01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:43,919 Speaker 1: of the ones at that time that look look horrible 1515 01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:48,080 Speaker 1: kind of thing right there. Lola Filanda, that's when y'all 1516 01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:50,640 Speaker 1: got to go back over. But Lola Fla, that was 1517 01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:52,400 Speaker 1: like when yo mama got a friend. 1518 01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:54,840 Speaker 3: That's like that. You like, you little you got that 1519 01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:55,920 Speaker 3: one older lady. 1520 01:12:55,960 --> 01:13:01,799 Speaker 1: You're like, so your boy daughter just played Lola and yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly, 1521 01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:06,960 Speaker 1: Barbi dog Yeah Lori plays. Yeah, that's kind of the 1522 01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:10,599 Speaker 1: tonality if you see the real Lola, like Laurie, there's 1523 01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:13,960 Speaker 1: a good, good prototype for that. Who she was as 1524 01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:16,960 Speaker 1: a She was a dancer and just fun and energetic. 1525 01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:20,800 Speaker 1: I just remember being little as a kid, like you know, like, yeah, 1526 01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:22,800 Speaker 1: y'all was like yo, Mi's Lola. 1527 01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:32,639 Speaker 3: Boy going to the bathroom, now BAM's lola that night. 1528 01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:37,800 Speaker 4: One guess, one guest that you want to see on 1529 01:13:37,920 --> 01:13:40,080 Speaker 4: All the Smoke, But you have to help us get 1530 01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:40,840 Speaker 4: your answer. 1531 01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:45,600 Speaker 3: On the show. People. You know a lot I do. 1532 01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,280 Speaker 1: I know a lot of people that need to be 1533 01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,880 Speaker 1: on All the Smoke. Y'all need to have like, uh, 1534 01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:55,680 Speaker 1: you know, did y'all have George low Pans over here? 1535 01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:59,200 Speaker 3: Like like George? George is a fun interview and a 1536 01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:03,880 Speaker 3: fun dude too like that. Yeah, he'll rock with y'all. Yeah, yeah, 1537 01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:06,360 Speaker 3: he'll He'll definitely do a cush up too. 1538 01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:12,760 Speaker 2: Like a smoking event at his crib one time. 1539 01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:15,320 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you used to do the who 1540 01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,320 Speaker 3: Weed in My Pool? These parties? 1541 01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:19,920 Speaker 1: Yeah that he was doing a party called who Weed 1542 01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:24,280 Speaker 1: in My Pool? And be a weed pool party? What said? 1543 01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:24,479 Speaker 3: Man? 1544 01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:27,639 Speaker 2: We appreciate you obviously one of the greats, but even 1545 01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,200 Speaker 2: a better person. And I mean we wish you continue 1546 01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:32,000 Speaker 2: success as long as you want to do this ship. 1547 01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:34,160 Speaker 2: Thanks for your time, man, Thank you. 1548 01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:37,400 Speaker 3: Man love I started acting, so keep me in mind, please, brother, 1549 01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:40,920 Speaker 3: my brother. Okay, man, see you didn't laughing like Kevin 1550 01:14:40,960 --> 01:14:43,600 Speaker 3: Hart did. So appreciate it. I like it, man. You 1551 01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:45,960 Speaker 3: know Chump the only one that tried to do it 1552 01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:49,000 Speaker 3: like Shump is trying to jump into that ag. Yeah, 1553 01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:52,320 Speaker 3: so I can see it happen. Rolls that he doing 1554 01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:54,920 Speaker 3: like some of them. Rolls like to be closer to me. 1555 01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,960 Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, well you look the thing about the actor, man, 1556 01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:01,360 Speaker 1: you allow yourself to you know, have other experiences. You know, 1557 01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:03,280 Speaker 1: it's it's one thing to be yourself and it's a 1558 01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:05,720 Speaker 1: thing to be like, Yo, I've seen this kind of 1559 01:15:05,760 --> 01:15:06,360 Speaker 1: person before. 1560 01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:08,479 Speaker 3: Let me figure that out right. You can make it. 1561 01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:09,439 Speaker 3: You can make it be true. 1562 01:15:09,479 --> 01:15:11,800 Speaker 1: You'll be surprised, like if you just let it and 1563 01:15:12,240 --> 01:15:13,680 Speaker 1: you don't have to do nothing out of out of 1564 01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,800 Speaker 1: your mind. But you can just definitely identify with people 1565 01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:18,560 Speaker 1: like that. You know, you'd be like, oh, I know 1566 01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:20,680 Speaker 1: a character that's more like that. It's not like me 1567 01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:23,240 Speaker 1: that I can that I can hear. That's that's how 1568 01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:23,839 Speaker 1: you gotta. 1569 01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:24,960 Speaker 3: Trust, well said man. 1570 01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:27,559 Speaker 2: This is our first coffee table book with Simon and Schuster. 1571 01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:29,680 Speaker 2: We want to give you a hard man. 1572 01:15:31,240 --> 01:15:35,479 Speaker 7: The first podcast with with the coffee table book up 1573 01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:37,800 Speaker 7: right there in second edition. 1574 01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:39,400 Speaker 3: Man, I like this. 1575 01:15:39,600 --> 01:15:41,720 Speaker 2: Man, that's a wrap, said the Ertay. You can catch 1576 01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:45,120 Speaker 2: us on all the Smoke Productions YouTube and the DraftKings Network. Man, 1577 01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:46,120 Speaker 2: we'll catch out next week. 1578 01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:54,880 Speaker 3: M hm mm hmmm