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Speaker 1: Thank you for you coming back. Part two is underway.

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Speaker 1: Is there a role you auditioned for that you didn't

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Speaker 1: get or roll you turned down you wish you hadn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I turned down a movie called Foods Gold. We

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Speaker 2: had Matthew mcconnae in it. Kevin Hart did it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I should have did it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if that would have made a difference,

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Speaker 3: but it was rolls like that. It's all kind of rolls.

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Speaker 3: I should I shouldn't have never turned down none.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't in a position to turn down no roles

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Speaker 2: because I was just starting. There was another movie with

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Speaker 2: Eddie Griffin and this other guy. Damn, I forget the name.

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Speaker 2: What was the name of that movie? TC Eddie Griffin

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Speaker 2: and the guy with the big eyes Christ the time,

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Speaker 2: and they had a dog. They was running, they was

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Speaker 2: running around the city. That was my role, man, And

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Speaker 2: huh double tape And I turned the roll down.

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Speaker 3: I turned the road.

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Speaker 4: Why do you do that?

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Speaker 3: I was tripping. I was in my mind.

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Speaker 2: I was I thought I was I needed, I was

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Speaker 2: deserved something better. You know, sometimes you can get tricked

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Speaker 2: off of success, Like if you get successful.

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Speaker 4: You trick yourself or you allow other people to trick you.

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Speaker 3: I tricked myself.

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Speaker 2: I tricked I tricked my Sometimes you can get a

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Speaker 2: little too fancy in your head about your success and

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Speaker 2: start demanding more than what you're supposed to get and.

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Speaker 1: End up up what you had in front of you.

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Speaker 1: What is selling out? We heard that a lot so

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Speaker 1: he sold out?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, I got the Cat interview. I sold out you

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Speaker 1: a you You probably heard that you sold out because Cat.

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Speaker 3: Sold out on your niggas, sold out arenas and sold

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Speaker 3: out shows. You sold sold out?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: You know what though, Quincy Jones said something, it's important.

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Speaker 4: He said, you got to have something to say.

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Speaker 1: Damn, you can't sell out if you ain't got nothing

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Speaker 1: to sell, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: I like that.

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Speaker 2: It's the real talk because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: you know, who's going to turn down opportunity to make

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Speaker 2: money to send their kids to college and have a

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Speaker 2: good life. Yes, you know, And I think there's levels

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Speaker 2: of comp compromising that you have to value.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I don't think one should compromise themselves with something makes

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Speaker 2: them uncomfortable for money. But hey, who's going to turn

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Speaker 2: down opportunities to work with white people in order to

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Speaker 2: send their kids to college and have a good life.

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Speaker 4: I'm not. Yeah, I had.

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Speaker 2: I used to have a peer pressure around my own

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Speaker 2: people about being racist. I used to be racist about

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Speaker 2: white people and didn't notice it until I was around

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Speaker 2: I'm like that I'm only racist around black people, and

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Speaker 2: when black people ain't.

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Speaker 1: Around, I'm white white white friends. Yeah, so how unfair

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Speaker 1: is that?

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Speaker 2: Like if black people were sitting in the tree and

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Speaker 2: see me reacting with my neighbor, they'll be like that sellout. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you've only seen it because you was in my tree,

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Speaker 2: your ass, my tree.

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Speaker 3: You won't see me being nice to white people.

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Speaker 4: I would need you to hell.

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Speaker 1: I need because you've been in you know, you've been

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Speaker 1: a comedians for thirty years. You've been in Hollywood, but

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Speaker 1: damn there as long.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: What's a gatekeeper?

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Speaker 3: A gatekeeper?

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Speaker 4: And are there such a thing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: A gatekeeper is an at the gate that know, if

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Speaker 2: you get in there, you might take his job. We

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Speaker 2: talked about this earlier. You might take his job.

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Speaker 1: The people who are the people that are to be

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Speaker 1: might see you and give you better.

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Speaker 3: Opportunities than the next one.

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Speaker 2: And if I'm a if I'm a guy, black guy

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Speaker 2: making money, for a company who's dishing out a lot

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Speaker 2: of money. And you bring my name up in an

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Speaker 2: office in a room, and I say, you won't be

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Speaker 2: making money.

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Speaker 1: It's just that simple. You believe they are there. What

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Speaker 1: Hell yeah, I'm I'm I'm the guy.

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Speaker 3: I make money. I make I make money for your company.

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Speaker 2: And you another black guy and they bring your name

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Speaker 2: up and they say, what about Santy sharp?

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Speaker 3: And sure you want to deal with You're not making

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Speaker 3: no money?

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Speaker 1: Shinning until they catch this nigga doing something he ain't

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Speaker 1: got nothing.

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Speaker 4: Doing, and then they gonna come back here and they

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Speaker 4: come back. Yeah, people really do that.

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Speaker 2: Hell yeah in every aspect, not only in the black community.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure they do it in the white community too.

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Speaker 3: You know. That's that's just that's what a gatekeeper is.

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Speaker 3: Damn somebody that can keep the gate and make sure.

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Speaker 1: You know, man, he's okay, but I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he'll be okay for this role that's right, or or

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Speaker 1: you got to be careful with him.

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Speaker 3: Well let them decide if they should be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't don't you help, don't you tell

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Speaker 1: the mother. That's why people will say, God, you're so nice.

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Speaker 1: I'm like what did you hear something different? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: damn you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Are you conspiracy theorists?

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Speaker 3: Hell? Yeah, go, I'm like, come on, Mike, hell yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because I didn't seen shit formulate. That's why I'm a

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Speaker 2: conspiracy there there, I've seen shit. I've seen conspiracies come true,

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Speaker 2: so I do believe it too.

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Speaker 4: You manifested it.

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Speaker 3: I manifested.

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Speaker 4: It's like the roots. You know that people think, oh

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Speaker 4: they can put root on you.

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Speaker 3: Yeh yeah.

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Speaker 4: If you start to believe in it.

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Speaker 3: You got a root on you. Yeah yeah, But are

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Speaker 3: you right?

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Speaker 2: That's how the mind, whatever the mind can conceive, if

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Speaker 2: your mind is strong enough to conceive it, it'll come true.

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Speaker 1: Because like man, dad, people can't hurt you, no, but

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Speaker 1: they can make you hurt yourself.

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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. Bad and pain and pain itself.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sitting there crying over somebody that don't even know

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Speaker 2: you crying.

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Speaker 4: M I can't believe you believe it? That mask. I

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Speaker 4: always want to add.

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Speaker 1: I like to ask people that ye came from a

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Speaker 1: very similar background, came from nothing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, dealing with fame, What have you learned about fame?

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Speaker 2: I take your face value. I take it with a

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Speaker 2: grain of salt.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 2: I'm never surprised. I'm never shocked, and I'm very rarely

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Speaker 2: mad about any outcome that happens in that business. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm not shocked no more that there's ass kissers. I'm

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Speaker 2: not shocked that people act like they know you and

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Speaker 2: don't know you tomorrow. I'm not shocked that happen.

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Speaker 1: You might hell, yeah, I mean, you know, it happens

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Speaker 1: in show. It happens with success. You know I got

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Speaker 1: I got friends and family members and shit that. Hey,

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Speaker 1: you know one good thing about me? I ain't always

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Speaker 1: been famous and rich. I've been broke before.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I have been nobody before, and I know

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Speaker 2: how I felt then and how people reacted.

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Speaker 3: Right, So can't nobody pull the wool over my head?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm half at half now, I've been I've been poor.

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Speaker 1: I've been about it as long as I've been poor.

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Speaker 1: So it's about fifty to fifty now now, you know?

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Speaker 1: So you yeah, you absolutely know. But I hate that.

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Speaker 1: You know what I hate human?

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Speaker 3: Hey, mag he may take my number, give me a call. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: what am I to call you about?

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Speaker 4: And then they change the number. Brouh heah, bro why

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Speaker 4: why you say.

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Speaker 3: Yeah I had that. I didn't have that dumb before.

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Speaker 2: But I like, again, Shaynon, to keep my stress levels

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Speaker 2: down and to understand, I understand that's what it is.

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Speaker 2: It's like, it's like trying to change a change of

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Speaker 2: tiger stripes.

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Speaker 3: This business has stripes on it. It's a tiger. You're

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Speaker 3: not changing it. You're not gonna change how people are.

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Speaker 4: That's how people are.

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Speaker 3: People are fake, people are are are are are.

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Speaker 2: Messy, people up, people do. That's what it is. Go home,

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Speaker 2: go to bed and understand. That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to ask you when you were you

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Speaker 1: always funny, when you.

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Speaker 3: Always the whole life any situation.

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Speaker 4: You're a class clown.

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Speaker 3: Huh, class clown.

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Speaker 2: They used to call it being disruptive, Yes, but it

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Speaker 2: turned into being a comedian for me. So my disruption

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Speaker 2: turned into spain.

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Speaker 1: So when the teacher would call and say miss Epps, uh,

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Speaker 1: it's just hard to get him the focus.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean he's just disruptive in class. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: everybody's friends, he's making jokes, he's constantly he's I just

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Speaker 1: I don't really know what to do with him anymore.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well see they try to put me on riddling. When

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Speaker 2: I was a kid, they tried to put me on

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Speaker 2: a pill, and they had pills back then, it's called riddling. No,

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Speaker 2: they just had ass whipping.

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Speaker 3: Now, back then they had they had Mike.

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Speaker 1: You talk about back then you two years younger than me.

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Speaker 1: You make it seem like you're twenty years younger than me.

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Speaker 3: I am nigga.

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Speaker 4: Your mom didn't tell your ass up.

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Speaker 3: I didn't give whoopings like that. Yes, that's why I

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Speaker 3: didn't give whip.

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Speaker 2: I have gotten some whoopings, but I didn't get ass

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Speaker 2: whoopings like that. And uh, y'all used to take a

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Speaker 2: riddling pill and I stopped taking that.

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Speaker 3: Why because the.

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Speaker 2: Tea I would act like I took it and spit

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Speaker 3: And they told them. They told my mother, we need

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Speaker 3: to go up on the valume.

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Speaker 2: It ain't working, damn. And she said, just now, he

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Speaker 2: ain't taking shit. Cause did you notice when you took it?

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Speaker 2: Did you notice a.

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Speaker 4: Change in you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Made me tired and made me eat. Maybe that's why

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Speaker 2: them kids that's on that ship and make them fat.

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Speaker 1: And you know that's the government ship.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, you know what?

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Speaker 2: You know what I needed to do. And I tell

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Speaker 2: people with their kids all the time, let them grow. Man,

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Speaker 2: you don't know what they're gonna grow in to be.

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Speaker 2: You can't really judge a kid when they're young. You

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Speaker 2: think you can. Because a lot of people thought I

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Speaker 2: was gonna be something else that I'm not, I ended

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Speaker 2: up being successful. I got people looking at me so shocked.

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Speaker 2: It's people that look at me like, damn, you are

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Speaker 2: really a different like. I never thought you would grow

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Speaker 2: up to be who you are. I thought you would

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Speaker 2: be ignorant and slow and dumb. Always had I've always

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Speaker 2: been smart, but I was very unorthodox. I learned different

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Speaker 3: Niggas all that niggas all today, but you? But you you.

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Speaker 4: Chris Rock. You say, like you think he ended Chunky Ducky.

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Speaker 4: See that's why.

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Speaker 3: WILLI smith about that nigga side, Come on, are you

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Speaker 1: But I can put you understand nigga pop him upside

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Speaker 4: He made country one hundred and thirty two pounds.

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Speaker 1: There be the motherfuckers to know how to get ahold

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the drug.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know how I came about rich, but.

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Speaker 3: That scared that somebody gonna pop him up.

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Speaker 1: Chris Rock. When you saw that, Yeah, did you think

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Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, that was I was like, I was like,

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Speaker 4: I thought it was a scared I knew.

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Speaker 2: It was real when I seen Chris will Smith's face

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Speaker 4: Keep my name I was like, oh, he keep my

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Speaker 1: But I don't know a whole lot of comedians that

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Speaker 3: That go nah?

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Speaker 4: No, But Chris, Chris, Hey, Chris took it. He made

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Speaker 2: Him fighting right there we just told that whole little area.

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Speaker 4: He said with g I Jane.

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Speaker 1: But I think, but I think I think it was

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Speaker 2: I would have popped that up side of his head too,

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Speaker 2: come on, man, come. But I wouldn't have did it

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Speaker 3: Not in front of the white people. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 2: That's one thing black people we can't do certain ship

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have to look at each other.

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Speaker 2: I catch you behind the liquor store, okay, Chick fil

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: As long as if white people see you, violence they done. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: They don't like violence unless it's a war.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, I was I was shocked, But I

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Speaker 4: Have handled it like that.

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Speaker 4: Not so sure Will would have did that to somebody else.

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Speaker 1: But like you said, that's that man's wife, no matter

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Speaker 3: And he that coach, he'll do make you act a fool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, my wife, anybody, that's one thing that'll get

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Speaker 3: And they call it. Can I curse on here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: They called it a tender dick. When you're tender dick,

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Speaker 2: I mean Will, Yeah, he had tender. He was tender.

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Speaker 3: But I am too. Mama, Better not say nothing about

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Speaker 1: You can do anything in the world, nigga, don't say

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Speaker 3: And if you don't stand up in front of a woman,

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Speaker 3: they gonna say that ship.

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Speaker 1: What you're gonna say, you ain't ain't nothing to the one.

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Speaker 1: See now now they looking at he bigger than me, though, Baby,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to mess up our money? Don't you

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Speaker 1: like living here? I mean and in the in the

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Speaker 1: thrust of it? Pop, Let me ask you this. Have

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Speaker 1: you talked to Chris Rock have y'all? Y'all, y'all, y'all.

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Speaker 3: I never really had a relationship with him, like really,

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Speaker 3: have you tried? I don't.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you when I tell you, me and him

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Speaker 2: ain't never y'all.

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Speaker 4: Ain't been cool like that.

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Speaker 3: No. I don't think he gets me and I don't

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Speaker 3: get him. And it's cool. Yeah, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Damn.

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Speaker 2: I hate that, That's all it is. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't do. I think he's funny, yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 2: do too. I think he's funny as hell.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but personality wise, I don't.

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Speaker 2: I've never met him enough to know how cool he.

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Speaker 2: I really don't know him and he don't know me

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Speaker 2: like that, which is cool.

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Speaker 1: Eddie, You and Eddie Murphy with Doctor Doolttle to dolamit

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Speaker 1: you people, what what's it like working with Eddie? Because

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Speaker 1: I grew up on see I grew up on Eddie.

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Speaker 1: I was I was in the early eighties when Eddie

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Speaker 3: Funny, funny, funny all day.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's why I was just telling somebody I've

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Speaker 2: any time I.

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Speaker 4: Work with him in the movie.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, man, gonna do stand up because he's sitting

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Speaker 2: there telling you jokes while he's standing with you. That

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Speaker 2: He's been sitting in some of the stories. He told me, boy,

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Speaker 2: I was on the floor laughing.

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Speaker 3: I mean had me.

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Speaker 2: He told me One time John Amos was at a party,

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Speaker 2: whole suit on with a drink and it was so

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Speaker 2: many girls in there.

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Speaker 3: They said he stepped right off in the water with

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Speaker 1: And got out of the water and just kept drinking

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Speaker 4: Drinking with you think Eddie other do stand up again?

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Speaker 4: He should good.

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Speaker 3: He's the king of that ship, man. That's one thing

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Speaker 3: about Eddie Murphy.

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Speaker 2: Man, it's timing and the ship that he's you know,

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Speaker 2: I seen him and Kevin hard hass words. I don't

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Speaker 2: some words, and I'm like, Kevin, you can forget it.

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Speaker 1: This dude is Eddie Murphy is the king of Cow.

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Speaker 1: He's king, but he hain't done it in so long.

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Speaker 1: It's like a surgeon. You don't stop. You like Surgeer're like,

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Speaker 1: we can play football? No, not with YOUO artificial hips

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Speaker 1: I got.

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Speaker 3: I forgot about that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: If I'd have known that when we got into a nigga,

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Speaker 2: I would have hurry up and found.

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Speaker 3: Nigga Shannon, What the hell you hip? Fam?

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Speaker 4: No? No, no, they're good now, they're good. I just can't.

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Speaker 3: I can't.

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Speaker 1: You know, I can't. You know I can't go below

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Speaker 1: ninety degrees or something like that. But my yeps are fine.

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Speaker 3: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not in pain anymore. You should have called me

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Speaker 1: about four five years ago when I was in pain.

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Speaker 1: You could have got me there, Mike, I can get

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Speaker 1: you now. Shit, not not a chance.

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Speaker 3: I've seen you up there playing with Crawford.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I ain't want to miss his money up hey,

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Speaker 4: I want to or have tossed him. Yeah, I could have.

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Speaker 2: See you're talking about grabbing him from Yeah, that's why

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Speaker 2: I had it.

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Speaker 3: But that's why I said I was getting a pistol.

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Speaker 3: That ain't fair.

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Speaker 1: We're supposed to be like this, man, what I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: do that fun I got. It's gotta be quick. I

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Speaker 1: got too much muscle. It's going tig yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure. Give me your gold Comedian because you go

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Speaker 1: then Carling and all these guys coming forward. So you

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Speaker 1: He might like all but take this guy because that's

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Speaker 1: all I know. But you get to go back a ways, Mike,

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Speaker 1: So give me your gold Comedians. Give me my rushmore,

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Speaker 1: Chucky Ducky hold lo. Now, now, of course, you know what.

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Speaker 2: I hate saying this shit because everybody say the same

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Speaker 4: You do Multimore dollars got four heads?

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Speaker 3: No, that's fine.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, damn. I said you ain't do good in school?

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Speaker 3: Huh? I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I was.

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Speaker 3: I dropped out. How many recesses y'all had, Nigga, I

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Speaker 2: I didn't even I'm telling you, Shannon, I got this

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Speaker 2: is the honest guy's true brother. I stopped going to school,

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Speaker 2: like literally literally fifth grade, you.

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Speaker 4: Just stopped going.

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Speaker 3: I got held back twice. Oh my goodness, how you

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Speaker 1: And that at that age you ain't doing nothing and

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Speaker 1: you're getting stars.

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Speaker 3: For grade doing no work? Coming in the room.

448
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:55,240
Speaker 4: Would you go to sleep?

449
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,719
Speaker 3: No, Jo, big balls beating on the table.

450
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:02,720
Speaker 4: I see why the teacher.

451
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,920
Speaker 2: Turned the back. When a teacher turned the back, I say,

452
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,119
Speaker 2: shut up. I was that dude right there, always in

453
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 2: the hallway. Never had Yeah, you're definite was in the hallway.

454
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:12,040
Speaker 4: I can tell you.

455
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:13,160
Speaker 3: I stop at your classroom.

456
00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 4: Get Shanning right this Shanning? What having?

457
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:16,159
Speaker 3: And the teacher said keep walking?

458
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 4: And I said, shut up? Down up in the principal's office.

459
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,400
Speaker 4: I mean literally school.

460
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 3: Was a playground for me, but I was working on

461
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:24,800
Speaker 3: being a comedian.

462
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 4: So let me ask you a question.

463
00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you go, you and the principal's office, at

464
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 1: some point in time they had to call.

465
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:31,760
Speaker 4: Your mom or your dad.

466
00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when when your parents come to school and

467
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,960
Speaker 1: they said, Mike is being disrupted and he's.

468
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 2: My parents couldn't handle me, Shannon, No, my parents couldn't

469
00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,639
Speaker 2: handle me, my mom or my dad. I was off

470
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 2: the hook. I was off the hook. Literally, I got

471
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,479
Speaker 2: suspended all the time.

472
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: Hold up, how you get suspended? Like before you before

473
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,679
Speaker 1: the fifth grade? I made it to knife you know

474
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: how I made it to high school? Wow, they just

475
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 1: kicked me out of junior high. So they just kept

476
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,679
Speaker 1: because they just keep promoting you because they ain't want

477
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 1: to deal with you no more.

478
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 3: I went to junior high.

479
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 2: As soon as I got to a freshman in high school,

480
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 2: I got kicked out of high school.

481
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:16,120
Speaker 1: For what.

482
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,400
Speaker 2: Fighting crazy shit, showing up late, not going to school.

483
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 2: In high school, I just didn't go to school. I

484
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 2: was like, I'm just hung in the cafeteria. And then

485
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 2: they had a little court where the kids was and

486
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 2: I was wild man, but I was really a comedian.

487
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,480
Speaker 2: I had I had people on the floor. I would

488
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 2: mimic all the teachers. If it was a cute girl,

489
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 2: it was my job to make her feel not cute.

490
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:43,919
Speaker 2: That's how I would get her to like me. I

491
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,159
Speaker 2: talk about her toes her hair, and they come back.

492
00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 3: To me, Why did you say that to me? I said,

493
00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 3: oh no, I'm just kidd and then they be my friend.

494
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: They know if I came around. I was spinna talk

495
00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 1: about their ass. We don't have talent shows. Yes, so

496
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 1: you would have you a comedian, you win.

497
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 3: No, we didn't have them talented.

498
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,240
Speaker 2: The only talent show we had was I try to

499
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,320
Speaker 2: get in the spelling be one time and.

500
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,360
Speaker 3: Got I got.

501
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: I think I got to the second stage of that,

502
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: and I think the I think the.

503
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 4: Word was.

504
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: It really wasn't a big word. But all I remember

505
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,000
Speaker 2: is I stormed out of that. I was so mad because.

506
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:30,480
Speaker 3: My mom and then was there and I couldn't look

507
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 3: at my mother like that. I just seen her hands

508
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 3: like this. It's like like damn fun.

509
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,400
Speaker 2: But I am so like like like I can talk

510
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 2: about all of my misfortunes in life because I am

511
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 2: so successful now.

512
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 3: Yes, I am so successful off of.

513
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:56,080
Speaker 2: Nothing, no money, no education, no nothing.

514
00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 3: That's how I know when God creates something, you.

515
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:01,959
Speaker 4: Don't make no mistake.

516
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:03,120
Speaker 3: He don't make no mistakes.

517
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,360
Speaker 4: Brother, do you ever think about, like, man, I could

518
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:06,680
Speaker 4: have did that.

519
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 1: I could have I could have graduated, I could have

520
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,880
Speaker 1: did with gone to college if i'd.

521
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 3: Have focused under that ship.

522
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 4: Yep. But you focus on these roles.

523
00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 1: You focus on your stand up, you focus in this

524
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: this this movie business. So when you when you want

525
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:20,480
Speaker 1: to lock into something.

526
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 3: I can do it.

527
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 4: You can do it.

528
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 2: But it took me to be an adult and have

529
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,719
Speaker 2: bills and kids to lock in. I couldn't lock in

530
00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 2: on just my life. It wasn't enough. I had to

531
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 2: see some kids.

532
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:37,120
Speaker 1: Yeah you had, Now I got you have other responsibility.

533
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 3: Looking more more than just myself. That makes me do

534
00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 3: the right thing.

535
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, you was gonna play You're gonna do a byop

536
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 1: with Richard Pryor? What happened to that? Because I talked

537
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: to Damon. I think Damon Wayams was also talking about

538
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: the buyop and and and yeah.

539
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think I think over the years, man,

540
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 2: and I honestly think this about Richard Pryor.

541
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 3: I think his spirit was so keen.

542
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 1: Man.

543
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 3: I think that Nigga said, I don't want none of

544
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 3: the playing.

545
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 4: Me, But he actually chose you in two thousand.

546
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 3: He chose you to.

547
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure. But I still think that his spirit

548
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 1: in living with this, trying to do.

549
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 2: His role all these years, I think he literally in

550
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 2: his spirit because I don't know why the movie has

551
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 2: never been done. It's gotta be though, and I don't

552
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 2: care who they picked at this point. I just want

553
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 2: to see the movie done. But I don't know if

554
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: anybody can play it. Because of you.

555
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: You get that little semi fro, you have the complexion,

556
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: you have the voice.

557
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 2: And he played him before in a movie called It

558
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 2: was with Zoe I forget that name.

559
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 3: It was what was the girl lady's name, Nina Smo.

560
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 2: I played it. I played a small part of him

561
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 2: and killed it in that movie.

562
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 3: And and that was enough for me. Man.

563
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 2: I played enough. I played him again. They had a

564
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,600
Speaker 2: Lakers series that was on HBO.

565
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 3: Remember that Lakers series.

566
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,879
Speaker 2: I played him in that kilt It show Showtime. So

567
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,360
Speaker 2: I actually one chance to play him a couple of times,

568
00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 2: small roles.

569
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: But you want to play the big that you want

570
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: to do it? Man, you don't want to do it?

571
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:28,120
Speaker 1: Nothing what I will kill it? I will body Why wanted?

572
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: Why want his wife?

573
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 4: Because? I mean, you know, is that to hold up

574
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 4: his wife in kind of the direction of the boy.

575
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 2: She definitely owns the rights, oh for sure, absolutely, But

576
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 2: I don't know why she don't want to do it.

577
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 3: I don't know if she wants to do it.

578
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,879
Speaker 2: I don't know if she found the right person to

579
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 2: do it, but she's definitely.

580
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 3: Keeping it from going or seeing if it'll go, you know,

581
00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 3: but I don't.

582
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 2: I didn't want nobody to believe nothing. My daddy was

583
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 2: richer prior to me. If you met my daddy, that

584
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,479
Speaker 2: was the funniest nigga to me in the world.

585
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,199
Speaker 3: Hilarious. That's how where I got it.

586
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 2: That's my richer pride before I can get to anybody else.

587
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: My real father who gave me my shit funny as hell,

588
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: just wasn't a comedian.

589
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 3: Hilarious.

590
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 1: Funny that you mentioned Zoeisdonald because she played Nina some

591
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: more and they said that she had black face on.

592
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 2: While you laugh, I don't though why she did that shit.

593
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,080
Speaker 2: That's crazy listening to white people. See, sometimes you listen

594
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 2: to white people, sometimes they be meaning well, but they'll

595
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 2: send your ass down a dark hole right with.

596
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: Your culture because you could have easily got somewhat of

597
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: darker complexion to play that role.

598
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.

599
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 2: That was somebody that wanted her to play that that

600
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 2: bad and was thinking but didn't know that you can't

601
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: do that, do that. They should have got somebody like

602
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 2: Mary J. Blige, who was really good that could say

603
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: thing right. That was a real black girl that could

604
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 2: do it. Yes, you know, and our life of Love Zoe.

605
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 2: I just don't think that was the right role. Like hell,

606
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 2: Jeff Jay hudd you Jennifer Hudson to play it. She

607
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 2: would have been good too, Yeah, I.

608
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 4: Mean because Drewsky caught a little flat.

609
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 3: Sexy red would have did good.

610
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 4: No made that.

611
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 3: Liked. Some months.

612
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 4: Drew Ski got in trouble for wearing white face during

613
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 4: the skit. I've seen this ship. What were your faults?

614
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 2: He ain't, he ain't made it all the way. They

615
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: don't get it. He's good, That's what I'm telling you.

616
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: When you get on the real radar, then you can't

617
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 2: do ship right. But you know, I don't think a

618
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 2: lot of us are on the real radar to get punished.

619
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: Because it seemed like, I mean, it seems like skips

620
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: are the thing. I mean a lot of guys, a

621
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: lot of guys came up doing the skips.

622
00:28:59,360 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 4: Yea.

623
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: And but that's not how you guys. You guys had

624
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: to get up there. Y'all had to get on the

625
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 1: sit on a stool or walk back and forth, and

626
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 1: you had to tell jokes. That's right, it was no,

627
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't no ski and you might have, you know,

628
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: do a voice inflation and you're making boy sound like

629
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: somebody famous argist.

630
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 3: But you weren't doing those.

631
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 2: Skits, you know, No, you had to do joke for jokes, jokes,

632
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: set up, punchline, set up premise, punchline.

633
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 4: How different punchline set up? How different is it now?

634
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: Is it easier to become a comedian now than it

635
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: was when you were coming up in the business.

636
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 4: Because they got social media?

637
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 2: Now it's a million comedians, even even for the ones

638
00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 2: who want to just sit there and tell a joke. Yeah,

639
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: shit is no joke. I mean, to become a real comic,

640
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: it takes about ten years, really, yeah, to become a

641
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 2: real to to to really say I'm a comic and

642
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,719
Speaker 2: I've been doing this shit and you gotta go on

643
00:29:58,720 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 2: the stage a lot.

644
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 3: Man.

645
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 2: I was doing seven shows a week, sometime two and

646
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 2: three in a day.

647
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 3: Damn hell yeah. That's why.

648
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 2: Like right now, I'm on this tour that's coming up

649
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: called We the Ones I'm I'm headlining.

650
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 3: This is our third year doing it.

651
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 2: These young comics on this tour, these are young brothers

652
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: that I would say.

653
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 4: Five ten years, they'll be household names.

654
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: Yeah they they do pretty good in the culture now, right,

655
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 2: But these guys are gonna be some guys that's really

656
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 2: really You got guys like Mojo Brooks, little young dudes.

657
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: Yeah he go over to be trying to get back

658
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 1: with the baby Mama. Yeah yeah, DC Young Fly Yeah yeah,

659
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: A Country Wane yep, Carlos Miller. These dudes are These

660
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: dudes are young comics of today. And if I could

661
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: pick any of the comics, these are the guys that

662
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 1: are closer to anything that we were, Eddie Murphy.

663
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 2: They are speaking on the culture. You know what I'm saying.

664
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 2: These dudes really living in the streets. They really live

665
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 2: this shit, they know it.

666
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 4: Yeah.

667
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 3: Only difference is we just got.

668
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 2: The time on them, man, you know, you know, and

669
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 2: that makes a difference. Unfortunately, they came in a time

670
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 2: of this business that just wouldn't allow them to run

671
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 2: around and tell jokes like we did. Right, even if

672
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 2: I wanted to do that shit right now, it ain't

673
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 2: enough rooms.

674
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 3: Comedy clubs are just scarce now like that.

675
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: You know how different is telling jokes now that it

676
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: was there? Because there are a lot of stuff you

677
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: can't say now that you could say back then.

678
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 3: It's different. I mean they got this whole council ship.

679
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 2: Yeah we are, which I don't understand that ship because

680
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 2: if you got an audience, you can't be canceled.

681
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 3: R Like, can't nobody cancel me?

682
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 2: I think the cancelation comes in where when you're trying

683
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 2: to cross over. If you crossed over, I guess you

684
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: won't get the opportunities that you had on the crossover.

685
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 3: But if you have an.

686
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 2: Audience, you can't cancel me. I got people that's gonna

687
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 2: watching me like they don't even know the people that

688
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 2: quote unquote canceled you.

689
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 3: Them mothers in the hood, people that watched the Shannon

690
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 3: Sharp show, religious to it.

691
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: They don't give a about what anybody else said about you.

692
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 3: Same with me, these people coming to see me, these people.

693
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: Watching your show, right, they don't I don't know the

694
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 2: fuck what time they come on. And and that's what

695
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 2: we have to understand and realize and remember you you're

696
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 2: trying to hold on to some shit that wasn't yours

697
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 2: in the first place.

698
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 3: It wasn't our business.

699
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 2: It's a privilege for us to be able to cross

700
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 2: over and get some crossover dollars.

701
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 3: But this ain't your business. That's why I'm on a

702
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: tour with these guys.

703
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 2: This tour right here, this is me with young hot

704
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: comics from the hood that come from the urban life.

705
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 2: And they are hitting right now. And I make sure

706
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 2: I surround myself with them. And I'm not hanging with

707
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 2: the guys who have already made it right, you know,

708
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 2: even though I can learn from them. But man, I'm

709
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 2: getting the heat off these young dudes. These young dudes

710
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 2: are making me funny.

711
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,479
Speaker 1: How do you determine who you're gonna do? I've always

712
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: wondered this, Yeah, how do comedians determine who they're gonna

713
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: tour with? It gotta be the guys that's young and

714
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: hot and who you like. And you gotta always have

715
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: an ear to the streets. The streets gonna tell you

716
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: who's hot. The streets gonna tell you who's funny. The

717
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: streets gonna tell you.

718
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 3: Who you need to be with.

719
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 2: And that's what I use. You know, I've always kept

720
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 2: my ear to the streets. My kids, I got young kids,

721
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: I got teenage kids, young adult kids.

722
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 3: They keep me up on what's new and what ain't right.

723
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: Daddy, that ain't daddy daddy, So you know, I get

724
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 2: a lot of game from them.

725
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: But like when you were, like when you were younger,

726
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: let's say you're in your twenty, mid twenty, mid late twenties, thirties, forties,

727
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: how do you determine who you gonna want a tour

728
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 1: with or is there a promoter that says, okay, okay, Mike,

729
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: I got this tour together.

730
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 3: I got a comic, Yeah, I got it. I got it.

731
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 2: I got an agent named Chris Smith that's been my

732
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 2: agent particularly almost my whole career. And what he particularly does.

733
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 2: He take a comic like me who already made it,

734
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 2: and he'll go get a young comic and put the

735
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 2: young comic on my show because he's an agent for

736
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:49,360
Speaker 2: both of us. And that's how a young comic gets

737
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 2: his name. I opened up for Steve Harvey. I opened

738
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 2: up for all of these guys Earthquake. I've been on

739
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 2: tour with Bruce Bruce this when I was young.

740
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:58,879
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, me and.

741
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 2: Bruce Bruce is on tour roll all over America. Man, Yeah,

742
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: nobody knew who I was. But that's how young comics

743
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,919
Speaker 2: get on. You got to open up for somebody that's

744
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 2: on for somebody to see you.

745
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I like see I seen Bruce Bruce and

746
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 4: air Quake.

747
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 3: Yeah.

748
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:15,959
Speaker 4: I used to go to comedy shows all the time.

749
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: That yeah, but the ones I want to go see

750
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: there a big player, I like to I like to

751
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: like comedy the same. Yeah, yeah, I like the small,

752
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: intimate like a hundred people ain't the same. It's different now.

753
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 2: It's different now. So you come from the old school,

754
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 2: you remember when it was real comedy, I.

755
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: Do, I do, I do. Yeah. Entertainment business. What have

756
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: you learned about the entertainment business?

757
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 2: The entertainment businesses. It's gonna give you as much as

758
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 2: you put in it, you know, And you can't take

759
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 2: a personal You know. One thing Queen Latifa's manager Sat Kim,

760
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 2: and what he always say I learned from him one

761
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 2: time he said, Man, it ain't that serious, man, you know,

762
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: it really ain't. I mean, you know, when it comes

763
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: to you driving yourself crazy and trying to force it

764
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 2: and make it be what it is, it.

765
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 3: Is what it is, man.

766
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: It's entertainment business, show business, and you just can't take

767
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 2: it to heart.

768
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 5: Man.

769
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,479
Speaker 2: You get what you can get out of it last

770
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 2: as long as you can last and make people happy,

771
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 2: and you know past the patime, man, it ain't it

772
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 2: ain't yours.

773
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 4: To keep a lot of people.

774
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard to pass that patime though. They

775
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,760
Speaker 1: just want to keep running. Bro, you got four people

776
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: over here. No, Bro, I've got to keep the thing going.

777
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 2: Because they think it's they ship. They think entertainment. This

778
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: ship was here before we got here, and it's gonna

779
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 2: be here when we go.

780
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 4: After we go.

781
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: Get as much as you can get out of it

782
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 3: and keep going.

783
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 4: Mike, what's brokens you being?

784
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 6: So?

785
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 3: I grew up on welfare. I grew up on welfare.

786
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 3: I got I.

787
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 2: Got six seven brothers by three different women. My mother

788
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 2: had three, four different daddies in our family. We grew

789
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 2: up poor. I grew up with a single mother in

790
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 2: the house with seven brothers and no money. So, and

791
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 2: I tell a person all the time, if you ain't

792
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 2: never felt a miss meal cramp, you don't know who

793
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 2: hungry is. I'm talking about what it felt like somebody

794
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 2: just punched you in your stomach. But yeah, that's because

795
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 2: you was hungry. Every time you swallow your stomach, say

796
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 2: thank you, I.

797
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 4: Ain't nothing come down.

798
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: I mean people don't like like when you grow up,

799
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 1: Like I grew up in the South, and we had

800
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: to eat some things. But there are time we missed

801
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: mel My grandma just didn't have the money.

802
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 3: That's right, but it.

803
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 1: Makes you appreciate everything that you get now. I remember

804
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: when rob something you can do one of the two

805
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, when you when you when you grow up,

806
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: I remember we had like dirt floor. We had cement floors,

807
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: so it would you know, you know how it is

808
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 1: in a mechanic shop, it get dusty and we spray

809
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: water down to try to keep the dust down. I

810
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,320
Speaker 1: remember my grandma used to say all the time, Sunday

811
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: ain't money, but let's try to keep the pizza house clean.

812
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: And I always I always remember that. And now that

813
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: I got a little piece of house, I mean you

814
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,919
Speaker 1: got cement floors. You ain't got no end, no plumb,

815
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: you got no paneling. But that's all we had we had.

816
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 3: You know, you have to you have to appreciate what

817
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 3: you have.

818
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 4: You have to care.

819
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: Now that I got stuff, and that's like, bro, can

820
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: we like I tell my kids that, I tell you know,

821
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: can we just like I heard.

822
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 3: Your poor store, I've seen that place y'all lived.

823
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 4: In Yeah, that was That's that's why you might have

824
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 4: been a little poor.

825
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm sitting teuff, but it makes you appreciate every I

826
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: appreciate everything. I don't think that'll ever leave. I don't

827
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: care if I got two hundred million, three hundred million,

828
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: that'll never leave.

829
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 2: Well, that's why you're able to survive. That's why you're

830
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 2: able to survive a lot of things. That's why you

831
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 2: able to survive back lash. You have a you know

832
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 2: you you was you was built for this ship.

833
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 3: You was built for it. Mentally, you was built for it. Physically,

834
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 3: it was you was built for these bouters to come

835
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 3: at you and not to kill you, though they just

836
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 3: bounce off for you.

837
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: It makes you it definitely under you understand having grown

838
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: gone through what you're going through as.

839
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 3: A kid, you know it would have broke another right.

840
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you wouldn't be sitting there, Yeah, for sure,

841
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: somewhere in the same style.

842
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you.

843
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: Didn't already seen the worst. Yeah, I've been in the

844
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 1: storm a long time. So you know, when you got money,

845
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: what was the first thing that you did when you

846
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:38,720
Speaker 1: got money?

847
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 3: I bought my mother a washing drive.

848
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 4: You will the rest of that medicaid.

849
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 3: My mother was.

850
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 2: My mother was on assistance and I bought a washing

851
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: drive and uh, she was so happy to get that

852
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 2: washing drive.

853
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 3: My mother. We grew up watching prices right and.

854
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 2: Oh, your mother used to My mother dreamed of having

855
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 2: things for us, and I'll never forget.

856
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 3: Uh.

857
00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 2: Reader's Digest sent us a fake check in the mail.

858
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 2: My mother's got the screaming, and we tried to cash that.

859
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: We got the car and went up to the bank

860
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: and my mother came out the bank said.

861
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 3: We said, what's wrong, mam? She said, this wasn't real.

862
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 3: It was a Yeah, it was a Reader's Digest check.

863
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 3: I'm saying to myself, Mama.

864
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: First of all, it was too much money, had like

865
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: five million dollars or something.

866
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 3: That ball.

867
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 2: The way that ship was written on the check, we

868
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 2: thought we had that money. Man, and I used to

869
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 2: take and take scissors and cut She cut big wheels

870
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 2: out and paste them on the wall.

871
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 3: Ship.

872
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 2: I want it, I said, boy, I just want that ship.

873
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 2: And we grew up Jehovah witness. Oh man, that didn't

874
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 2: make it easy, so we wasn't. I think my mother

875
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 2: made us Jehovah witness because she knew we couldn't afford shit.

876
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 3: So see, I'm gonna give you a religion that you

877
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 3: don't need.

878
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: You ain't supposed to do it. You're gonna feel bad

879
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: about getting this. You real estate? You you really involved

880
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: in real estate?

881
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 4: What made you? What? How did you like learn how

882
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 4: to invest? Like?

883
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 1: Okay, I got this money, ain't no guarantee if I

884
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: don't do something with it to make sure I'm gonna

885
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: be able to keep it.

886
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, growing up as a kid.

887
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: I we rented houses all the time.

888
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,920
Speaker 3: We ain't never own no house. My mom didn't.

889
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 2: So I always promised myself if I ever got some money,

890
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 2: I was gonna go back and buy all the houses

891
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: that we got evicted out of.

892
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 4: And I did, Damn, I made.

893
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 3: I made. I made an.

894
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 2: Addressed list in my hometown. I rolled around and I

895
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 2: made an address list of all the houses we got

896
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 2: kicked out of, and I went and bought every.

897
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: Last one of them up.

898
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 4: You bought every house, every.

899
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 3: One of them that we got kicked out of out back.

900
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 4: And you allowed family that you you rent them out.

901
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 3: Yep, I rent them out, you know what I mean?

902
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 2: And my family stay in them, and you know, I

903
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:07,040
Speaker 2: went back and got them. I told my mother that too.

904
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 2: I'll never forget man. We used to get kicked out

905
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: of the houses. My mother we sitting in the back

906
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:11,479
Speaker 2: of the cab.

907
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 3: She had a big ass bag of clothes and.

908
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,959
Speaker 2: My mother crying, and we go to my grandmother's house

909
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: to stay with my grand because that's every time we

910
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 2: got kicked out. We went to my grandma Ma, and

911
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,359
Speaker 2: I said, my mama bought all these motherfucker houses back

912
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 2: one day. I thought I was gonna do it with

913
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 2: some dope money, but but you go get the I

914
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: was gonna get them houses back, and I did. I

915
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: went back and got them houses. I went and knocked

916
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:36,479
Speaker 2: on people's door and bought their ass upout them houses. Yep,

917
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 2: I sure did. Me and me and my wife we

918
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: went and we fixed them houses up. We actually had

919
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 2: a show on HGTV called.

920
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:43,959
Speaker 3: Buying Back the Block.

921
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, went and bought them houses, and I revitalized my

922
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 2: whole neighborhood.

923
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 3: Man.

924
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,439
Speaker 2: You know, and the white people walk down the street, man,

925
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 2: and they don't know the history of them houses. I

926
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 2: told them, man, you know, a little dude n Antonio

927
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 2: got killed in the house you live in.

928
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, Mike, did you know your father?

929
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I knew my dad.

930
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 3: Man, hard working man.

931
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: Uh Tommy Epps worked worked at a plant, worked at

932
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 2: a harvester for forty years.

933
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 3: You know. Uh yeah, good, good dude. Man. My father

934
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 3: was a hard working dude. And I'll never forget. Man.

935
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 2: My father did not he didn't like no street people.

936
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 2: And uh, when I became a street dude, I was

937
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 2: selling drugs.

938
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 3: I went he had a car wash.

939
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 2: I went to his car wash in my Cadillac and

940
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 2: he told the people don't wash that, damn, because I sold.

941
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 3: I was selling. Yeah, he called me a dog. He

942
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,839
Speaker 3: said you're a dog. I said, huh. He said, yeah,

943
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 3: you're a dog. He said he ain't worth shit.

944
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 2: Because I was selling dope and I got caught. And

945
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 2: I'll never forget. I was in prison and I met

946
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 2: a dude from Miami that got caught selling kilos and

947
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 2: it and I'm sitting in the cell with him. He

948
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 2: was showing me pictures of his houses and boats. I said, damn,

949
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 2: I called my father on because I said, I talked

950
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 2: to my father from jail. I said, Daddy, I'm in

951
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 2: here with a dude that is smart as hell. He said, well, son,

952
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 2: if he's so smart, why is he in there with you?

953
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 2: He said, there bragging about some up to jail with

954
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 2: you talk about his fart.

955
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, damn.

956
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 2: My dad always said crazy ship that you know, and

957
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 2: that ship still I'll never forget what time too? I

958
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 2: told my dad, I said, this is how I learned

959
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 2: how to deal with my kids.

960
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 3: I used to cuss my dad.

961
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 2: I said, man, you ain't no real because he wouldn't

962
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 2: buy me the ship I want it because I thought

963
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: I was. Because it was the kids that had to

964
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 2: go cardsbody. Yeah, I said, why come? I came down

965
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 2: and I said, man, you ain't no real father.

966
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 3: You know what he told me one time that came

967
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 3: back smacked me in the face.

968
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 2: He said, wait till you had some kids, and boy,

969
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 2: if I be damn, my kids didn't say the same, brother,

970
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 2: But that's crazy how that ship just double back. So

971
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 2: just teach you to always honor your parents, to listen

972
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 2: to him. They know what they're doing. And most kids

973
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 2: be upset with their parents and not realizing their parents

974
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 2: be kids too. Yes, your mother and father were too

975
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 2: young too to be who thought they was?

976
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 3: They was young too? Right?

977
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 4: They were still trying.

978
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 3: To figure it out. So now I'm growing and I

979
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 3: got kids, that shit just all came clear to me.

980
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned your wife. How does your wife

981
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:28,759
Speaker 4: helped you?

982
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: Because then you hear a lot of stories like, Okay,

983
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: I got married and she helped me. You know, she

984
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 1: helped me find my purpose. You know, Steve speak glorially

985
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: about his wife. Forget his wife's name, but Marjorie, and

986
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,240
Speaker 1: he speaks about like I started to elevate when Marjorie

987
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: got in my life. I hear you talk about the

988
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: same thing that how she calmed you down. That You're like,

989
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: it's not that serious, Mike. Yeah, I mean what you

990
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: try to Hey, I got you, got me, I got you.

991
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: We're good.

992
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

993
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: How is how is that when a man finds a

994
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: white people? The Bible says when a man files wife files, most.

995
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:06,439
Speaker 2: Of us get married. So we don't screw everybody. Let's

996
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:12,240
Speaker 2: be honest. But I can honestly say that my wife

997
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 2: is much younger than me, twenty years younger than me.

998
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

999
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 2: I don't want to date nobody my age because that's

1000
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:22,720
Speaker 2: one hundred years in the bed.

1001
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,799
Speaker 3: So I had to cut the marundred down.

1002
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 4: Man.

1003
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 2: But she's a grown ass woman. She's thirty eight years old,

1004
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So she taught me a lot,

1005
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 2: you know, she taught me a lot. And sometimes sometimes

1006
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: most of the time, your wife is gonna see things

1007
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 2: that you don't see about yourself all the time. And

1008
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 2: you need that, right because we're very, very slow.

1009
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 3: When it comes to women. Man.

1010
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: We think we smart, but they the coldest when it

1011
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 2: comes to holding them and know when to fold them,

1012
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 2: when to walk away, when to be quiet when you

1013
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 2: We'll never be able to figure women out. So I

1014
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 2: guess we gotta listen, you know what I mean. We

1015
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 2: got to listen to him. And that's what God put

1016
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 2: him there for. He gave them that extra sense to

1017
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 2: protect us. I always say women are caretakers for men.

1018
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 3: You know.

1019
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 2: I don't care about much money we make or how

1020
00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 2: much the king we are.

1021
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,479
Speaker 3: Ain't none of it no good if a woman can't

1022
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 3: take care of you. You.

1023
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: This is your second marriage, right, Yeah, after your first marriage?

1024
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:40,920
Speaker 1: Did you think you'll ever get married again?

1025
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1026
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 4: You did.

1027
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1028
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,479
Speaker 2: As soon as I met my second wife, I wanted

1029
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 2: to marry her because that's that was it was like

1030
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 2: God sent you to me, you know, I can tell

1031
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:59,360
Speaker 2: sometime when women are come through God for me, and

1032
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 2: and I can tell when it's not that. And you know,

1033
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 2: being young and famous and being in the business, it

1034
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 2: can you know, having money meet a bunch of women.

1035
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 3: Yes, so you know when it's that one. She was

1036
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 3: that one.

1037
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:20,319
Speaker 1: What did you do different in the second marriage that

1038
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: you didn't do in the first marriage that probably caused

1039
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: the split?

1040
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:28,479
Speaker 3: I didn't do coke in the second marriage.

1041
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 4: Are you serious?

1042
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 3: Yeah? I was my first marriage.

1043
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 2: I was a fool. I'm not gonna lie. Wow crazy

1044
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 2: and again I just needed to grow up. I couldn't

1045
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 2: even wait to get to fifty five. Now I'm fifty five.

1046
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 2: I am so comfortable in my skin.

1047
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,439
Speaker 3: Man. I love who I am right now.

1048
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I love how I think.

1049
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 2: I love how I feel. I love that I don't.

1050
00:48:58,239 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 3: Give a.

1051
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 2: Heard all them years now, I don't give them like everything,

1052
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 2: and I love it, you know. But that's what helps

1053
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 2: me with myself. That's what helps me in my sanity.

1054
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 2: Are you and your wife still good for your first wife?

1055
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:15,240
Speaker 2: Still on good terms?

1056
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:15,760
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1057
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 4: I like that.

1058
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:18,279
Speaker 3: Yeah we don't.

1059
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:22,919
Speaker 2: We don't talk like friends, but don't have kids, ain't arguing. Yeah,

1060
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 2: we ain't arguing and fighting, you know.

1061
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 1: Cause you like, like the Rock and his first wife,

1062
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: they went in the business together. I see Dave Portnoy,

1063
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: like his ex wife have access.

1064
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 2: Well, you gotta understand, I got multiple women, kids with women.

1065
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: But I'm saying married, yeah, marriage, how manything? You only

1066
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: been married twice though I've only been married twice. Yeah,

1067
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: but I got a bunch of kids. Yeah, but I

1068
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: ain't talking about that now. No, that's that's different your marriage,

1069
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: marriage and and and yeah yeah.

1070
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah.

1071
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 2: You know, like I said, my all my kids mothers

1072
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 2: done great jobs with my I didn't pick bad women, Okay,

1073
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:06,919
Speaker 2: it just did yeah pretty much.

1074
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 3: It just didn't work out. And it's okay.

1075
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 4: How many kids you have?

1076
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 3: I got seven kids? Damn. Yeah.

1077
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,280
Speaker 4: I gotta start to catching Nick Kennon.

1078
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 2: Now, I ain't trying to catch that nigga, that nigga

1079
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 2: net work condom.

1080
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 3: Nick Cannon is on a moxicilan at this point.

1081
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 4: So how old is the oldest thirty six? The youngest four?

1082
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 3: You done? Yeah, I'm done now I think I am.

1083
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 3: I need to go.

1084
00:50:39,880 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 1: You do realize, like when the kid is senior in

1085
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: high school, what's your name Mike, Mike. They gonna say,

1086
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: Mikey your grandfather out there. That's my daddy.

1087
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 4: Food. You do realize how old you're gonna be, right.

1088
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 2: That's why I'm teaching him to say you yourself or

1089
00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:58,240
Speaker 2: get out of my face.

1090
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 3: Don't worry about I'm teaching all this because you're gonna

1091
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 3: need it.

1092
00:51:01,640 --> 00:51:04,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, God, you ain't you worry about what I'm doing.

1093
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: That's the one I've been teaching. Yeah, don't worry about

1094
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: what the I'm doing. He gonna need that one.

1095
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,959
Speaker 2: But that's why I still try to go to the gym,

1096
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,399
Speaker 2: because I mean, I see, man, I see guys right

1097
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: now in their seventies that look really really good black man.

1098
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 2: We don't all have to grow and be old and brittle,

1099
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I can be a seventy

1100
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 2: five year old still walking around here, like right, I'm

1101
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 2: fifty five. Right now, I will run, I'll run a

1102
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 2: young boxes. I do all that shit right now. Fifty five.

1103
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: You ain't fitna be paying playing catch with no eight

1104
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: year old at sixty.

1105
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:44,399
Speaker 3: Why I'm not, man, Yeah, what kind of is you? Man?

1106
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: I can't do that as old ass, at least say

1107
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 1: I can. S'm Okay, you can do can't do that, bro,

1108
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: you can do that. You being negative now now hey

1109
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:54,400
Speaker 1: you hey, you throw it to it and having to

1110
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 1: bring it back to you.

1111
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 3: You're sitting in the chair. Hey man, don't do that.

1112
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,439
Speaker 4: But but you went all out on this marriage. Though

1113
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 4: it was star studied. It was that hurl you.

1114
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 3: That was me.

1115
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 4: That was me and her. Sure we both you know what.

1116
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 2: She she always loved the whispers. And I went and

1117
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 2: got the whispers, damn. And I flew my mother out here,

1118
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 2: and man, I flew my whole family out there. Man, Yeah,

1119
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,919
Speaker 2: you had T I snoop Dog, t I snoop Dog

1120
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 2: and my mother. My mother never got on her airplane.

1121
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 2: And my mother came. I rest her, God rest her soul.

1122
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 2: She's not with us now. But that was one thing

1123
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 2: that I did get to say. I said, boy, I

1124
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 2: got my mother on that airplane. She came to California, man,

1125
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 2: and she seen that ocean and oh man, you know that.

1126
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 4: Was like my baby, My baby did this?

1127
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 2: My baby did she? She got on that plane. She

1128
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 2: came down lay and seen it.

1129
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1130
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: So what type of dad are you?

1131
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 3: Are?

1132
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 4: Youuse?

1133
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: Like you said, you know, you say you're cool with

1134
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: your dad, But are you are you? Are you raising

1135
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: your kids kind of like how your dad raised your

1136
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: mom and dad raised you or you like, Yeah, I've.

1137
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 3: Been a different dad through the years.

1138
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:08,760
Speaker 4: Okay.

1139
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:13,360
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, my oldest daughter didn't get the best of me

1140
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 2: because I was too young and I didn't know what

1141
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 2: I knew, and so I feel so bad about that.

1142
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 3: And I see my baby sometime and.

1143
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 2: I wish I could pay her back, but I can't

1144
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 2: because I just wasn't in that place in my life.

1145
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:33,760
Speaker 2: But my newer kids, I'm able to do the things

1146
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,800
Speaker 2: that I wish I could have done with my oldest child.

1147
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 4: You know, so you didn't know you could only do it? No, man,

1148
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 4: I really didn't.

1149
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 2: And if I could go back and repatch that, I

1150
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 2: would do it a hundred times.

1151
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: You know, you said you had a lot of daughters,

1152
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:53,360
Speaker 1: because that's karma paying you back for all the the

1153
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 1: conniving bullgeye stuff that you've done.

1154
00:53:56,320 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't that great with women, man, But I

1155
00:54:00,040 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 2: didn't have no examples.

1156
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 3: Man.

1157
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 4: Was it the money, was it the fame, or was

1158
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 4: it the.

1159
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,840
Speaker 2: No I didn't I didn't have examples of I didn't

1160
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,520
Speaker 2: know a lot of married people as kids. I've seen

1161
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 2: my mom get married once, but you know, her relationships

1162
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 2: with men wasn't that great.

1163
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 1: So I just didn't know what that looked like. My

1164
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: dad wasn't in the house, so I didn't know how

1165
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: that felt.

1166
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: I became my own person young, you know what I mean.

1167
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 2: So I became grown really, really too quick. So I

1168
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 2: didn't I didn't get a chance to see what a

1169
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 2: real dad do. So I had to learn as an adult.

1170
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 4: You had to learn on the job. You had nobody

1171
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 4: to teach you the job, but you learned on the job.

1172
00:54:44,600 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 3: Yeah. Unfortunately, my daughters didn't get the the you know

1173
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:48,399
Speaker 3: what I mean.

1174
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 4: So what's the relationship with them?

1175
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 3: Like?

1176
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 4: Now, are they resempful? Do they look at you It's.

1177
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: Like, well, we didn't get we didn't get this dad,

1178
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: but they get the best of dad while we got.

1179
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure.

1180
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,760
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure, man, I'm pretty sure that my daughter

1181
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 2: have them about it.

1182
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1183
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 2: I tried, you know, I tried. It's hard. It's hard,

1184
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,200
Speaker 2: it really is. It's hard to patch that kind of thing.

1185
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:11,720
Speaker 2: It is because it's time.

1186
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: You're not trying to patch it up. You got to

1187
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:17,280
Speaker 1: move forward. You can't move back. You can't get what's gone. Yeah,

1188
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: do they understand that? Here they do. And again I

1189
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: still applaud their mothers. Yes, thank god that my.

1190
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 2: Kids had great mothers because they were able to take

1191
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 2: up the slack for what I didn't do.

1192
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 4: And where I wouldn't not being there.

1193
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 2: Yet, thank god that they had good mothers, grandmothers.

1194
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 3: They all had good extended family.

1195
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 2: Like if you see my kids and met my kids,

1196
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 2: you don't see no pain on them and none of

1197
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: that shit whatever their personal prefaces about me. And it

1198
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 2: is what it is. But I got a daughter in USC.

1199
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 2: I got a daughter to go to NYU, got the

1200
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:56,720
Speaker 2: other daughter about to go to FAMI.

1201
00:55:56,760 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 4: Use yet, I say, Mom, not them all?

1202
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:06,240
Speaker 3: You paying for that ship, but I'm out of here.

1203
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 3: But but mob, no.

1204
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:10,959
Speaker 1: Get the out of here. I'm paying for that ship. Mike,

1205
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 1: your grade, you couldn't have got in prison?

1206
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 3: Get your ass.

1207
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 4: H Oh you did get it.

1208
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:21,439
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, usc n yu, those are not even

1209
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,120
Speaker 1: places to get into whether you got I know people

1210
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 1: that got money and they still couldn't get the kids

1211
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: in because the kids didn't meet the academic Well you

1212
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:36,479
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not gonna explain to myself to that ship.

1213
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,439
Speaker 4: Ain't no way, ain't no way they put you down there.

1214
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 3: Hey bro, I had to love something to do with

1215
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:43,360
Speaker 3: it in there.

1216
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 2: On the smart side, I just couldn't never see it

1217
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 2: through myself.

1218
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I'm smart as hell, but

1219
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 3: it's a different kind of smart, you know what I mean.

1220
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 3: I'm sitting here with you.

1221
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm saying NFL and all kind But how

1222
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: did I get here with you?

1223
00:56:58,360 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 4: But books?

1224
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: See you smart? That doesn't it had like you're not

1225
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: book books. You street smart and you understood how to

1226
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 1: parlay that into a business.

1227
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 4: But you got to be smart smart to go to

1228
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 4: n y U and USC.

1229
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 3: You do you do? And they and and yeah maybe

1230
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 3: their mothers did yeah yeah mhm, but I.

1231
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 4: Co parenting.

1232
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1233
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: I tell people like, look, when you're young, you argue

1234
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 1: about silly stuff because you look back to look back

1235
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 1: at it, Like we argue about stuff that that really

1236
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 1: wasn't that important. And how difficult was it to know?

1237
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 4: You're on the road. You're a comedian.

1238
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: You you got to travel, you got to go to work,

1239
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: and you're not there and the kids are growing up

1240
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: that hey one, I mean you might leave and come back.

1241
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 1: They're like, damn the kid walking without lefting the kid

1242
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: would barely could crawl, not just walking.

1243
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 4: I can talk, could eat, could ask for this.

1244
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 2: It's unfortunate. Part about being famous. You got to give

1245
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 2: up something, man, going to do that sacrifice. You're gonna

1246
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 2: sacrifice something for being who you are, If you are,

1247
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 2: you know, a factor in this world, You're going to

1248
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 2: give up something. This shit ain't free.

1249
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 4: Shaying it, It ain't you know what, I absolutely know it.

1250
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 3: We have to pay for a lot, in a lot

1251
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 3: of different ways for this shit.

1252
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 4: What are the goals you're trying to get?

1253
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 1: I tell people as simple as there, Mike and I

1254
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: want to know what you The greater the goal, the

1255
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: greater the sacrifice that must be to meet said goal.

1256
00:58:29,880 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: Say it again, The greater the goal, the greater the

1257
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: sacrifice to.

1258
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 4: Reach the goal.

1259
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 3: Real shit, real shit.

1260
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: People like, oh, oh, work life balance. Okay, you have

1261
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: work life balance, you're doing a nine to five. But

1262
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: if you want to be great great, There is no

1263
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: work life balance to be great great because it's continuous

1264
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: and people don't understand that. People think that you can

1265
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: like like, well, look at Jeff Bezos. Okay, as Jeff

1266
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: Bezos when he was starting Amazon, did he have a

1267
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: work life balance? That's Bill Gates when he was starting Microsoft,

1268
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: asked all these people in the Walton family when their

1269
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: dad was starting, did he have a work life balance?

1270
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 1: They got that now because they got three four hundred

1271
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: billion dollars, But in the beginning, there is no work

1272
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: life balance.

1273
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 3: It's all sacrifice.

1274
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: It is, and you have to have a partner that

1275
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 1: understands the sacrifice. I had a coach that asked me

1276
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: one time, Mike. He says, Shannon, you know why movie

1277
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: stars mayor other movie stars I like. I guess because

1278
00:59:29,320 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: they like each other, he said. That's a part of it,

1279
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: he said, because the other know what it is like

1280
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: to live that life.

1281
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1282
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: See, they know how to jump in and out of character.

1283
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: They know they're gonna be gone. My partner knows I'm

1284
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 1: gonna be gone for six months. Her partner knows, or

1285
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: his partner knows. She knows her partner is gonna be

1286
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: gone for six months at a year. Yeah, you have

1287
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: to understand what it's like. And everybody says that that, Oh,

1288
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: I understand sacrifice. I can be number two until you're

1289
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: asked to be number two and then it's a yeah.

1290
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 3: And I think my wife understands that.

1291
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 2: That's why I think she's so important in my life,

1292
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:08,400
Speaker 2: because because she understands, you know, and she said all

1293
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 2: the time, can't know any person be with you exactly,

1294
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But you know, that's a

1295
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 2: special woman to be with a guy like you, you know.

1296
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 2: And I respect her for that, you know, I do,

1297
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 2: I really do. I respect her for having the the

1298
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 2: I can't say balls, having.

1299
01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: The the yes yes with a person like me.

1300
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 4: So you know, are you O?

1301
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 5: C D?

1302
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:35,959
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1303
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 4: See to I.

1304
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,960
Speaker 2: Got to clean. I can't stand dirt. See and do

1305
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 2: something to me, don't oo, Mike, do something to me?

1306
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: Man, you man, look here, I need I need everything,

1307
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: the quarterly. I need long sleeves, hunger Cordner, short sleeves,

1308
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: the darker jeans, the light of drum your brain up right, dude, Man,

1309
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: I need all the labels to face out. I need

1310
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 1: everything I need to track I don't need. I can't

1311
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: see dishes in the sink. Yeah, it ain't that hard. Yeah,

1312
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: is your life going to end if the dishes in

1313
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: the sink?

1314
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 4: Is your life going in?

1315
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 3: Pretty much? Now? You got flies and nats and ship. Now.

1316
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 1: No, I don't know if my life going in, but

1317
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: this relationship go in.

1318
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 4: Old on.

1319
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:29,160
Speaker 1: You got it's eight boys. Your mom had eight boys,

1320
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: seven boys, seven boys.

1321
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 3: I got my dad had another son.

1322
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: So it's eight of y'all. Yeah, y'all fight all the time,

1323
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 1: ain't it. We used to fight. We used to fight

1324
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: all the time. And that's what I'm saying, that sibling.

1325
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:43,960
Speaker 1: That was another thing that got me ready for show business.

1326
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1327
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 3: Living in the house with a bunch of competitions.

1328
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, we was all competing to get my mama's teacher.

1329
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 4: Where are you falling the pecket order? You're the oldest middle.

1330
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 3: Three up, three down.

1331
01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:55,959
Speaker 4: Damn.

1332
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 2: My mother used to introduce all her kids with her

1333
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 2: talent and when and they used to say who is that?

1334
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:07,440
Speaker 1: And she said, that's just Michael. Imagine that ship, right,

1335
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: damn you just Michael.

1336
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, because she could not they couldn't identify. My talent

1337
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 2: was being a comedian because if back then, people.

1338
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 3: Didn't sought out to be comedian.

1339
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 2: So if you've seen a kid actually being funny, you

1340
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 2: was like he's disrupted. They didn't look at him and say, oh,

1341
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 2: he's gonna be a big comedian.

1342
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 3: Star. They like put a paddle on his ass. See

1343
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

1344
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, so nobody could recognize my talent, you know, And

1345
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 2: now I'm hey man, I'm who I am?

1346
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 4: Mike?

1347
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: You got hell back in kindergarten? I think so, Like,

1348
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: all you got to do is come to class you sleep.

1349
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: I did, Mike, how you get hell back in kindergarten?

1350
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:08,720
Speaker 2: I wiped the booger on a kid, Channing. I wiped

1351
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 2: the booger on a kid, and they from there.

1352
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 4: It just never stopped, Mike. But they say you in

1353
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 4: the slow classes too, though, Mike.

1354
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 3: I was in special Ed.

1355
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:23,480
Speaker 2: I was in specially I was in the regular room

1356
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 2: up to about the fourth grade.

1357
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 4: And then you stayed in the same classroom the whole day.

1358
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:28,520
Speaker 3: They came and got me out of there and took

1359
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 3: me to a do we gotta do this? I guess

1360
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 3: all right.

1361
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 2: They took me out of a regular room and put

1362
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:39,320
Speaker 2: me in special Ed. And I stayed in special Ed

1363
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 2: for the rest of them up until the ninth grade,

1364
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:43,200
Speaker 2: and I stopped going to school.

1365
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:45,439
Speaker 4: So you're gonna be a special lead in the ninth

1366
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:45,919
Speaker 4: grade too.

1367
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:51,720
Speaker 3: What you think, Nigga, I just kindergarten up.

1368
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: So you was about the answer that was about to

1369
01:03:56,480 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: get a certificate. I don't know if they give a certificate.

1370
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 1: They who they say you attended for what? The high

1371
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: school you went to? They say, no, no, that's what they

1372
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: would have gave you a certificate for what because you

1373
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,480
Speaker 1: don't get a diploma, because.

1374
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 3: I don't get a diploma. No I don't. I didn't

1375
01:04:14,280 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 3: get it.

1376
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: No, you weren't gonna get one and special lead either, No, damn,

1377
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: oh I would have got a certificate.

1378
01:04:20,640 --> 01:04:22,840
Speaker 4: They're just say participation. You came to class.

1379
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:23,720
Speaker 3: That's why.

1380
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 4: Anna put that on your wall, just in case you knew.

1381
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: That you taught yourself how to read and write over

1382
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: an adult you so so did you whether it were

1383
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: it hard for you in school or you just didn't

1384
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: apply yourself hard.

1385
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 2: So you know, you know, when you when you weaken

1386
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 2: one area, you compensate over compensation another area.

1387
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:53,760
Speaker 3: So that's where the comedy came. Yeah.

1388
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you didn't have to read, you make jokes.

1389
01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:58,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, kept people from seeing that I could read and

1390
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 2: then read, you know.

1391
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 3: But then I love telling these stories.

1392
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: You know why because there's some kids, kids out there

1393
01:05:06,560 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: right now watching that's gonna watch this yees say, ah,

1394
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:12,960
Speaker 1: I feel good about who I am.

1395
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 3: Yes, and I ain't different, and you're not alone.

1396
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of people around here that got all

1397
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 2: kind of something about them.

1398
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 3: Mother. They appear to be okay, but something's wrong with everybody.

1399
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: Take ownership of your imperfections. Then people can't make you

1400
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: feel infarior about them.

1401
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 3: So why are you making me in fear and farior

1402
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 3: about it? Four or five jokes?

1403
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 1: No, I didn't you did. No, I just asked them.

1404
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: I was just asking how I got all the great slogan.

1405
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 3: I think it was just laughing about me be retarded.

1406
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:53,240
Speaker 1: Man, you were slow, but I'm just saying I was

1407
01:05:53,320 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out how you get that.

1408
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 2: I was slow. I think that my interest wasn't there.

1409
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 2: I was not interested in school. I watched TV. I

1410
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 2: could tell you about every episode of Happy that I.

1411
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 4: Want good time all. Ye oh, yeah, I was Jefferson.

1412
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 3: So when it was time for me to do TV,

1413
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 3: my timing was perfect.

1414
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1415
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 2: That's why I told Wanda, I'm like, this feel like

1416
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:22,440
Speaker 2: old school sitcom because that's what I grew up watching,

1417
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 2: old school sitcom.

1418
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 4: Damn. Yeah.

1419
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 1: So because you struggled early on do you think someone

1420
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: took advantage of you, like when you first got into

1421
01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 1: the business as far as money wise, or putting you

1422
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: in bad contracts.

1423
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know what always saved me is I

1424
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 2: always had a street edge. So whoever dealt with me

1425
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 2: and dealing with shit, Like if I was dealing with

1426
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 2: somebody who was dealing with my money and I was unsure,

1427
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 2: I would drop a pistol out of my pocket on

1428
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:55,200
Speaker 2: an accident.

1429
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 4: Oh, sorry about that. I didn't mean to do so.

1430
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 2: In my head, I was like, this mother, can't finished

1431
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 2: steal from me because you already know I'm capping yours.

1432
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,640
Speaker 3: I would do all kind of weird ship like that,

1433
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.

1434
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 1: It was like, let me send a subliminal message to

1435
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 1: save stealing front.

1436
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, cause I don't want to have to kill you.

1437
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have did that either, but you.

1438
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 1: Said, but he don't know that though you see a

1439
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 1: guy with don't take my money, don't take advantage of me.

1440
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:26,280
Speaker 3: So I had tactices in surviving man.

1441
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, with a situation that you a pimp and you

1442
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 1: end up how you a pimp and you end up

1443
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 1: owing the lady money.

1444
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 2: Because I tried to be a pimp. One time I

1445
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 2: tried to pimp some girls. And I've always been a

1446
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 2: nice guy man, And.

1447
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 3: I don't know. One of the girls said, I owed

1448
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:52,040
Speaker 3: her some money, but you know, she gotta make the money.

1449
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 3: And then you take the money and then you give

1450
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 3: her bought some money from her.

1451
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 4: You borrow some money? How you a pimper? You borrowed

1452
01:07:58,120 --> 01:07:58,760
Speaker 4: money from the girl?

1453
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 3: Was my cousin? What the girls? How your cousin out?

1454
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 4: Well?

1455
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 2: I really wasn't pimping them. I was like, I'm gonna

1456
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:11,320
Speaker 2: play like the pimps so we can get the money.

1457
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 2: And they was like, we ain't giving you ship. I

1458
01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:17,000
Speaker 2: don't know if they turned the trick or not, but

1459
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 2: I didn't get nothing out of it. That was a

1460
01:08:20,400 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 2: bunch of shit that I tried. This is a run

1461
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,360
Speaker 2: of ship that I tried as a kid. Try to

1462
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 2: go to the military. I tried to be.

1463
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:28,799
Speaker 4: So what happened in the military?

1464
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,760
Speaker 3: I flunk the as bad.

1465
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 1: So you didn't actually go to the military. You flunked

1466
01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:36,800
Speaker 1: the test in the military.

1467
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 2: Yes, And two of my friends went, my buddy Ryan

1468
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 2: Memory and another guy went and left me. And I

1469
01:08:42,880 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 2: was showing people the Bruce bro sures I was like, look,

1470
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:48,439
Speaker 2: I'm going to the army, and I didn't.

1471
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:50,839
Speaker 4: You gotta be really bad for the army take anything.

1472
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:55,439
Speaker 2: They didn't take me, damn right, And I'm glad they

1473
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:58,720
Speaker 2: didn't because I probably would have got a discharge.

1474
01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:00,720
Speaker 1: I guess soon as one of the dudes would have

1475
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 1: jumped in my face. I said, get the face. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1476
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: you yeah, yeah.

1477
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,200
Speaker 3: That ship wouldn't have worked. I said, you're talking to me.

1478
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 3: It's like, that's when we're supposed to do.

1479
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 4: The army man in there is talk ship to him.

1480
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 3: You ain't supposed to talk ship back, sold George. Do

1481
01:09:18,520 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 3: you hear what I was?

1482
01:09:19,360 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 4: I was saying, No, has been over, Yeah, just disjarded.

1483
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1484
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: What about the robbery? When you call your homeboy's name?

1485
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my buddy, ray Bob, I went on a robbery.

1486
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: How you called? How you call your partner's name, Mike.

1487
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 3: It wasn't a good robbery. You ain't supposed to say nothing.

1488
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:50,720
Speaker 3: You ain't got to call the name. Well. I was

1489
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 3: so in the moment. I was in the moment, and

1490
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:54,920
Speaker 3: I was.

1491
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 4: Get the money and I was get the jewelry.

1492
01:09:57,240 --> 01:10:00,000
Speaker 3: I was saying, Ray Bob. I was saying and my buddy.

1493
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 3: He had a mask over right here his eyes. He

1494
01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 3: kept doing big good.

1495
01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 2: I'm like what, I didn't know what he was saying.

1496
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 2: You call him my name, call him my name, he said.

1497
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:14,679
Speaker 2: The next morning it was two hundred niggas in front

1498
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 2: of his house.

1499
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 3: To this day, that mad to be right down.

1500
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 1: I swear to God, I mean, shut me right now, nigga,

1501
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:27,280
Speaker 1: like you imost got me killed.

1502
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 4: What happened when you got put in the trunk of

1503
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 4: the car.

1504
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 2: I was at a I was at a club called

1505
01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:38,320
Speaker 2: the Bottom Line on thirty eighth Street in my hometown,

1506
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 2: and I was sitting there. I was in one of

1507
01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 2: my buddy Jeff's. He had a convertible. He had a

1508
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 2: Bonnieville with switches on his ship. I'm sitting up in

1509
01:10:47,320 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 2: the car and I'm in the parking lot talking to her.

1510
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be taking the car, taking the car

1511
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 2: and some money somewhere. I'm in the car riding and

1512
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 2: why I'm riding. It's a girl on the side of

1513
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:00,960
Speaker 2: the car and I'm talking to her, and I'm like, damn,

1514
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 2: I don't know how I didn't realize it, but excuse me.

1515
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 2: The girl walked me to the back of the club.

1516
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:13,679
Speaker 2: I'm like, damn, all was a sudden we in the dark.

1517
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,800
Speaker 2: Then I heard I heard the dude jump up in

1518
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 2: the car. And the dude had been robbing so much

1519
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 2: he had all kinds of people shit on his neck

1520
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 2: changing Damn. Yeah, he had been robbing all that day,

1521
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,560
Speaker 2: and he had blick on his breath, and he was

1522
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 2: hitting me with the pencil, going like he turn that way,

1523
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 2: turn that way.

1524
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 3: I'm in the car, turn the car like this.

1525
01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:38,479
Speaker 4: So we get on one street.

1526
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 3: He said, cut them up, lights off, cut the lights of.

1527
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 3: So I cut the lights off, and I got my

1528
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:46,040
Speaker 3: hands like this on my eyes. So I hear a

1529
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:47,280
Speaker 3: bunch of other cars pull up.

1530
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 4: They getting out the car.

1531
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 2: Why was the fighting over the ship in the car

1532
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 2: while I'm in the car like this, I hear him.

1533
01:11:53,400 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 3: Up nor mother fucker, that's my speech.

1534
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,200
Speaker 4: I'm getting this this time. I'm just I'm so they

1535
01:11:58,240 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 4: get me out.

1536
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 2: Put me in the trunk, Hey, ride me around. Man,

1537
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 2: I'm in the back of the truck. Ain't no buts

1538
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 2: some dirty clothes back there, kicker box.

1539
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 3: And when they.

1540
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 2: Spread not even started spread times, and they playing DJ

1541
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:19,600
Speaker 2: Quick Black pussy Swear to God, damn. And when they

1542
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:22,040
Speaker 2: got to stop signing and stop the light, stopped the

1543
01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:23,760
Speaker 2: music all I beat on the seat the book and

1544
01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 2: said what I said, play that the gear.

1545
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 3: They bust out laughing.

1546
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:32,360
Speaker 4: Let me out of the truck.

1547
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:34,759
Speaker 3: The dude slapped me upside my head. I was running

1548
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 3: through the field like this. I said, boy, I better

1549
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:40,080
Speaker 3: get out of this ship. Man.

1550
01:12:40,960 --> 01:12:44,679
Speaker 1: That's when you realized that that that that that life

1551
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 1: of crime may for you out.

1552
01:12:46,240 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, he has to be a certain type of dude

1553
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 3: be in the streets.

1554
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,800
Speaker 2: I mean I was in the streets enough, but uh yeah,

1555
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:53,680
Speaker 2: I didn't want to.

1556
01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:55,639
Speaker 4: But you realize you are willing to die for that fool.

1557
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 5: Nah.

1558
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 3: I wasn't really I wasn't ready to go out that.

1559
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 2: I was really meddling. I was really being nosy. I

1560
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 2: really didn't have no business in the streets. Mother and

1561
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 2: father weren't the street people. You know, living in the neighborhood.

1562
01:13:07,439 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 2: You gonna learn some shit. You pick it up.

1563
01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:12,360
Speaker 3: You know, your buddy down the street, he's a criminal.

1564
01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 3: You're gonna hang on him. You're gonna get in trouble.

1565
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:17,920
Speaker 4: You. You ended up going doing some time in some jail.

1566
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did two years in the county jail. And

1567
01:13:21,720 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 2: if you google Mike EPP's mugshots, you'll see it. You'll

1568
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 2: see when I got when I got caught nineteen ninety

1569
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 2: ninety one, eighty nine.

1570
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 4: One of them years you had, you had drugs.

1571
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:35,639
Speaker 1: They caught you with drugs on I sold some drugs

1572
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,480
Speaker 1: to as to an informant to an informerman.

1573
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 3: Okay, and yeah he was a drug addict.

1574
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 2: So we couldn't get him back in court the judge

1575
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,760
Speaker 2: I had, I mean the lawyer that I had. His

1576
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 2: named Jeff Baldwin. I put him on my second special.

1577
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:52,200
Speaker 2: I did my special in my hometown. They were sitting

1578
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:55,320
Speaker 2: in there. I said give it up for Jeff Baldwin

1579
01:13:55,640 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 2: because I almost got twenty years with that ship. And

1580
01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 2: he got me down and filer AffA David for the

1581
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 2: dude to come in. He never showed up, was his

1582
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 2: drug addict. And I ended up getting just possession. So

1583
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:13,479
Speaker 2: they gave me eight years and suspended five and I had.

1584
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,080
Speaker 1: Two years served in the count I did two years

1585
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 1: in the county jail.

1586
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:20,559
Speaker 2: You go in your probation. I ended up going to

1587
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 2: halfway house. After that, I went to the halfway house.

1588
01:14:23,160 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 2: Then I was on probation. But that's when I got out.

1589
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 2: When I got out, was sleeping on my sister's couch

1590
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 2: and he had a comedy competition on the radio. Dion

1591
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 2: Cole was the host. He was driving from Chicago to Indiana.

1592
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 2: The host the show because he was on Comic View.

1593
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 2: They thought this big ass star and one of two

1594
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 2: of my buddies, Otis Brown. Otis Brown and Gary Bates.

1595
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 2: They both got murdered. They both us three went to

1596
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:53,520
Speaker 2: the club Seville's to get in the competition.

1597
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:54,600
Speaker 3: I signed up for it.

1598
01:14:54,880 --> 01:14:56,680
Speaker 2: They said, you funny at the barbershop, but if you

1599
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:58,599
Speaker 2: funny in front of people, I was signed up for it.

1600
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:01,639
Speaker 2: Went up there and blew the club or everybody laughing.

1601
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:04,719
Speaker 2: Next week I came, but my name was on the radio.

1602
01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 2: I done invited my mom on friends all that.

1603
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 3: Man, Man, I go back to the go back up

1604
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 3: there to the to the comedy club. They booed me

1605
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 3: off stage.

1606
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:14,839
Speaker 4: Damn what happened?

1607
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:17,720
Speaker 2: I seen too of our old money when I walked in.

1608
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:20,120
Speaker 2: They threw me off because I was one of them

1609
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:23,679
Speaker 2: to run off with the plug type of dude. Because

1610
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:25,639
Speaker 2: drug uses to catch me and say, boy, you better

1611
01:15:25,680 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 2: be glad. I like you, Mikero, suck you up. I

1612
01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:31,679
Speaker 2: was one of them dudes, right, and I ran off

1613
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 2: with the money. But I seen them and them motherfuckers

1614
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:36,439
Speaker 2: threw me off. I got booed.

1615
01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:39,440
Speaker 3: I came back the next week and won that competition.

1616
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 4: I ain't look back.

1617
01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:45,080
Speaker 3: I ain't looked back. And I've been, I've been, I've

1618
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 3: been in the business.

1619
01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: You think that was a sign of God that you had,

1620
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: Like you went and did that time? You like, I

1621
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:51,439
Speaker 1: get out, I ain't coming back here?

1622
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was that was it. That was I

1623
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 2: got I got tired of that ship. And plus people

1624
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 2: was telling me I was funny, and I was watching

1625
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:02,640
Speaker 2: Comic View and I was watching Death Jam. I was

1626
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 2: and they had people. I was like, oh, hell no,

1627
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:05,680
Speaker 2: I'm funnier than them.

1628
01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1629
01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:08,759
Speaker 2: I just didn't know how to get to it because

1630
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:10,560
Speaker 2: I was living in Indiana, and right.

1631
01:16:10,520 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 4: You ain't no no comedians from Indiana.

1632
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 3: Oh.

1633
01:16:12,439 --> 01:16:14,760
Speaker 2: I would call death Jam up in New York, yeah

1634
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:16,599
Speaker 2: and say, my name is Mike Ypson.

1635
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get in touch with Russelson. But I

1636
01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 3: didn't know. I couldn't get in touch with him through

1637
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 3: call in the office, you know what I mean? I

1638
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 3: was just green man, right.

1639
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you those demons and you beat.

1640
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:36,639
Speaker 1: Them, not really, you have to fight him every day,

1641
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 1: every day.

1642
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 3: Every day.

1643
01:16:41,680 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 4: You understand that that you gotta fight these demons every day.

1644
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:45,439
Speaker 1: This is a fight you gotta fight every day for

1645
01:16:45,479 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: the rest of your life, the rest of my life.

1646
01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 3: But you know, the older I get, I learned how

1647
01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:52,759
Speaker 3: to cope a little better.

1648
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 4: You know.

1649
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 3: That's why.

1650
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:58,400
Speaker 2: That's why my care factor is too, it's so low,

1651
01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 2: because the more I care, the more they come around.

1652
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 3: Really.

1653
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like you know, it's like demons only come

1654
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 2: around when you care, when you don't give a the gone,

1655
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 2: and then you can you can.

1656
01:17:16,439 --> 01:17:19,080
Speaker 4: Move maneuver how you want to. Yeah, as soon.

1657
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 2: As they catch you celebrating and having a good time

1658
01:17:21,479 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 2: doing good in life.

1659
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 3: Here they come.

1660
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 2: As long as you don't care, up, you can't find them,

1661
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:30,000
Speaker 2: you know.

1662
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 3: Is it.

1663
01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 4: Whether it's a hereditary in your family.

1664
01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, whole family really?

1665
01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, all kind of shit in our family, damn since

1666
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: black people period, schizophrenia, bipolar, criminal, all of that shit.

1667
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 3: Shit just running the running our history. But I learned

1668
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 3: how to deal with it.

1669
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 1: Man.

1670
01:17:56,640 --> 01:17:59,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I remember my mother used to make me

1671
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 2: go take naps. I'll never forget that, and I never

1672
01:18:03,640 --> 01:18:05,679
Speaker 2: understood what it was. She said, go take a nap,

1673
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 2: and I go lay down, and when I wake up,

1674
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 2: I was a different person. So I still do that.

1675
01:18:11,840 --> 01:18:14,680
Speaker 2: I go take naps, I let it all go. I

1676
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 2: don't care what's on my family, wife kid ah. I

1677
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 2: go to bed, compress whatever's wrong with me. I go

1678
01:18:22,400 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 2: to bed, and when I wake up, I can deal

1679
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 2: with it. But I gotta go lay down and I

1680
01:18:29,280 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 2: shut that shit off. I don't want to think about

1681
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 2: the world.

1682
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:38,519
Speaker 4: What is it that you wish you knew? Being that

1683
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 4: you know.

1684
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 2: Now that everything which is gonna be okay. If I

1685
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 2: knew everything was gonna be all right, I wouldn't have

1686
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 2: damaged myself or hurt myself, you know, because I was

1687
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:55,200
Speaker 2: unsure about the future. So when you're unsure about the future,

1688
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:58,880
Speaker 2: you have tendencies giving up not giving them cause you

1689
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:02,200
Speaker 2: don't know if it's gonna be okay. So you make

1690
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:07,760
Speaker 2: bad decisions, yes, because you're unsure, and you unsurely makes

1691
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 2: you not give a me.

1692
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:12,639
Speaker 3: You don't give a hurt yourself, and when you survive

1693
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 3: hurting yourself, you have to live with you hurting yourself. Yeah, damn.

1694
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, help me understand this.

1695
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:30,400
Speaker 1: Is it okay for comedian to have writers or do

1696
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 1: you look at do you look down on guys that

1697
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:34,599
Speaker 1: have other people write material for them?

1698
01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:38,000
Speaker 2: I don't think people can write for a real comedian

1699
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:45,680
Speaker 2: really yeah, I think I think you can only advance it.

1700
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:48,880
Speaker 2: You can only nurture it, you can help it. You

1701
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:51,479
Speaker 2: can't really write for a comedian. Nobody can write a

1702
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 2: joke for me. It's gotta be something. They gotta write

1703
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:59,800
Speaker 2: some ship that that would really come from me. If

1704
01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:02,800
Speaker 2: it don't come from if if it's something that came

1705
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 2: from them that they think I should do, I can't

1706
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:05,400
Speaker 2: do the joke.

1707
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 3: Really no, it's gotta.

1708
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:11,679
Speaker 1: It's funny because I see there's a lot of rappers

1709
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:13,200
Speaker 1: like when you ain't hearing real them see if you

1710
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: don't right, But singers don't look at it. Beyonce have

1711
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:18,479
Speaker 1: people write for her. Whitn they had people right for her.

1712
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.

1713
01:20:20,240 --> 01:20:23,640
Speaker 3: That's a joke. Yeah, but it's but again.

1714
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:25,760
Speaker 1: But you have to it has to be personal. Does

1715
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 1: it have to be personal? No, I don't have to

1716
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:27,879
Speaker 1: be personal.

1717
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 3: But but but.

1718
01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 2: I'll just take a premise, just give me the premise,

1719
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:36,440
Speaker 2: I don't want to hear your punchline.

1720
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:38,440
Speaker 3: Don't give me a punchline.

1721
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:40,440
Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, okay, okay.

1722
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:43,240
Speaker 2: Because I can't do anything with that because I need

1723
01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 2: to make it up myself. Okay, I need to make

1724
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 2: my own punchline. I need my own set up.

1725
01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:50,839
Speaker 4: Just just you just need to shell.

1726
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 3: That's it. That's it. Just give me the shell.

1727
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:57,800
Speaker 2: Because I get people write for me all the time,

1728
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 2: regular people that don't even know they're writing for me.

1729
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 2: Sitting at the bar and say some ship. I'm saying,

1730
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 2: I gotta have that. I'm taking that, and he can't

1731
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 2: deliver it. No, nobody know who he is. He'll never

1732
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:11,559
Speaker 2: see me again. I'll never see him again.

1733
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 1: Somebody said, man, I told him that joke at the bar.

1734
01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 1: They stole my is ish. Ain't nobody gonna believe it?

1735
01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:20,559
Speaker 4: H gone.

1736
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:22,559
Speaker 3: And when.

1737
01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:27,839
Speaker 1: You've been your uh Death Comedy Jam, you're on those.

1738
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,000
Speaker 4: How did how did? How did those shows advance Mike

1739
01:21:31,040 --> 01:21:31,639
Speaker 4: Yelm's career?

1740
01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:39,080
Speaker 2: They those platforms were my start. That's what got my

1741
01:21:39,200 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 2: confidence going. Russell Simmons Death Comedy Jam was a platform

1742
01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 2: for young urban comics to do seven minutes and get

1743
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:54,240
Speaker 2: their ship off and shock the world, you know, because

1744
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,559
Speaker 2: back then it was just Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.

1745
01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 2: It was always one comic. When Death Comedy Jam came along,

1746
01:22:01,160 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 2: it was able to profound all these comics from different

1747
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 2: cities that were funny.

1748
01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:09,280
Speaker 4: That was You're right, because that was the only comedians

1749
01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 4: that you knew.

1750
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 3: That was it.

1751
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you obviously Red Foughts, but like

1752
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: it is now, I mean, it was death Comic View

1753
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:20,520
Speaker 1: and Death Comedy Gym in Comic View that you Earthquake

1754
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: and the Bruce Bruces and and and the Bernie Max

1755
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: and all those and you saw, you know, you saw

1756
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:27,320
Speaker 1: the whole floods and the and the some more than

1757
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 1: the Sheryl Underwood's.

1758
01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 4: Like, damn men, it's that many comedians out there.

1759
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean a slew of them.

1760
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 2: And when you think about it, you talk about ice Cube,

1761
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 2: Russell Simmons.

1762
01:22:42,080 --> 01:22:46,519
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Theymn Givens gave everybody a career.

1763
01:22:46,880 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 2: Yes, everybody came from that guy, from music to stand

1764
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:52,839
Speaker 2: up comedy.

1765
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 3: You can't take that from them, right.

1766
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: You mentioned something very interesting. You meant you said that

1767
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:01,560
Speaker 1: you open up Ave Harvey. I've had a lot of

1768
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: guys sit in that chair right there and say, man,

1769
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: Steve did from from said the Entertainer to Quaig to

1770
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 1: so many Ricky Smiley, uh, Carlos, Carlos Miller, who's on tour,

1771
01:23:13,040 --> 01:23:15,559
Speaker 1: gonna be on tour with you, lows about what he did.

1772
01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:19,680
Speaker 1: So many guys have said what that man did for

1773
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:21,920
Speaker 1: them in their career? What is some of the best

1774
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:25,080
Speaker 1: because I believe in giving people that flowers. Hey, somebody

1775
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:27,960
Speaker 1: might have. Just because somebody have the bad experience, it

1776
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:30,920
Speaker 1: doesn't take away what he's done for other people. Right,

1777
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: what is some of the best advice Steve gave you?

1778
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 2: You know what, I don't think Steve Harvey ever personally

1779
01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:46,760
Speaker 2: gave me on the advice side of his mouth, but

1780
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 2: he definitely showed by example.

1781
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 4: Okay, you know what I mean.

1782
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:55,680
Speaker 2: He's one of the example guys that if you were

1783
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 2: smart enough, you would watch him in line, right. You know,

1784
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 2: I don't think he was a personal guy like that

1785
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 2: that will come up to you and yeah, man, he

1786
01:24:04,960 --> 01:24:07,679
Speaker 2: just wanted them kind of guys sing them they gonna

1787
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:13,599
Speaker 2: do it, Dal Hugley, But Steve not that kind of guy. Bernie,

1788
01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 2: what I did his last movie, did you soul Man.

1789
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:22,200
Speaker 2: That was the last movie he was in. He had

1790
01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 2: an auxygen tank. He was dying and him and him

1791
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 2: and Sam Jackson was on the.

1792
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 3: On the.

1793
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:33,759
Speaker 4: Uh, did you realize he was that sick? Then? Yeah?

1794
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:35,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was messed up.

1795
01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 2: And I said, Bernie man Man, give give a young

1796
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 2: comedian some advice. He said, don't do nothing for money.

1797
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 2: And I was like, wait, man, what we do it for?

1798
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 2: He's rich as hell, that's the only reason I'm doing this.

1799
01:24:51,479 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 3: I can't take that advice. Ship.

1800
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:58,880
Speaker 2: But he was basically saying, you know, make sure that

1801
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:01,880
Speaker 2: it's something that you want to do right, and don't

1802
01:25:01,880 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 2: do it because it's just money.

1803
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 1: There if you had this pinpoint one the person that

1804
01:25:09,960 --> 01:25:13,720
Speaker 1: do what you do, who's helped Mike Yelp's the most

1805
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:14,400
Speaker 1: in his career.

1806
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. I mean, it's it's so hard to say

1807
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:30,280
Speaker 3: because it's so many. There's so many people. I think

1808
01:25:30,320 --> 01:25:35,360
Speaker 3: it's a conglomerate of a lot of people. You know.

1809
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 2: I got a friend of mine named TC that's been

1810
01:25:40,960 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 2: with me. He's seen the whole movie, my brother TC.

1811
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:52,240
Speaker 2: He's seen me come to New York before anybody met me.

1812
01:25:53,760 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 2: He's seen me before any of the wives that I met.

1813
01:25:57,280 --> 01:26:00,759
Speaker 2: So I would say my brother TC, man, my manager.

1814
01:26:01,240 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 1: You know, I always tell young black men, you got

1815
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 1: to have a soul brother, man, you got to have

1816
01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: somebody with you, man, a brother that's gonna ride with you, man,

1817
01:26:11,720 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 1: And that's what TC's been.

1818
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:13,879
Speaker 3: He's been a great.

1819
01:26:13,680 --> 01:26:18,479
Speaker 2: Friend of mine and been with me in some dark

1820
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 2: times and some great times, you know. So I would

1821
01:26:22,479 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 2: say my I would say my road manager, TC. It's

1822
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:32,599
Speaker 2: been one of the most pinnacle brothers and my people

1823
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:38,000
Speaker 2: in my life. You know, well, my parents died, all

1824
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 2: kind of stuff. You know, you think about the moments, man,

1825
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,799
Speaker 2: you know. But of course my wife, man, my wife.

1826
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 2: I can't take anything from her.

1827
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:46,360
Speaker 4: Man.

1828
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 2: She's been a solid person for me and helped me

1829
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:52,280
Speaker 2: become I remember one time I came to the first

1830
01:26:52,280 --> 01:26:54,080
Speaker 2: time I met my wife. I came in the house

1831
01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:56,799
Speaker 2: high and she said, if you ever do that again,

1832
01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:01,880
Speaker 2: we'll never be together. And I never did it again.

1833
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:06,080
Speaker 2: And that's been some years ago. I thought I was

1834
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:08,040
Speaker 2: gonna be able to be that person with her, like,

1835
01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 2: let me show her this other because she didn't know,

1836
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 2: so let me show her this other side of me.

1837
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:17,599
Speaker 3: Hi come in the house to do that shit, it's

1838
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:21,800
Speaker 3: over and I respected that and I wanted to be

1839
01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 3: with her. You needed Hell. Yeah, if I would have

1840
01:27:26,840 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 3: been with somebody who thought that was cool what I did,

1841
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:30,760
Speaker 3: I probably would be sitting here.

1842
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 4: Square one.

1843
01:27:33,320 --> 01:27:35,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, it probably would have. Anything could have happened.

1844
01:27:35,560 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 2: So sometimes you have to have people threaten you with

1845
01:27:40,160 --> 01:27:43,040
Speaker 2: not being in your life. That's right to make you.

1846
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 2: It's either this or that. So I picked that. I

1847
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:49,240
Speaker 2: picked a good wife. She's a beautiful mother to my kids,

1848
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:54,799
Speaker 2: great wife, very smart. You know, she's a producer herself,

1849
01:27:55,640 --> 01:28:00,200
Speaker 2: Janna Vann, different shows. Okay, so she understands the business

1850
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,000
Speaker 2: which I got blessed with.

1851
01:28:01,920 --> 01:28:05,160
Speaker 4: That joke stealing. Mm hm.

1852
01:28:05,720 --> 01:28:08,880
Speaker 1: I heard a lot of some says, look, that's your

1853
01:28:08,960 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: That's the best joke you ever gonna tell. Okay, you,

1854
01:28:12,120 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 1: I guess you can get upset about it, or somebody

1855
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:15,880
Speaker 1: will say, write a better joke.

1856
01:28:16,280 --> 01:28:17,639
Speaker 4: Where are you on joke stealing?

1857
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:20,160
Speaker 3: I don't be. I don't know.

1858
01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:22,680
Speaker 2: I don't know how you can steal a joke. I

1859
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:27,599
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know what that is. The problem

1860
01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 2: with that is is we all think alike, you know, uh,

1861
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 2: all the way down, all the way down to telling

1862
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 2: a joke the same.

1863
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:43,599
Speaker 3: Sometimes there's a million jokes in the world. Man. Red

1864
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 3: Fox used to do whole sets of stock jokes. I

1865
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:53,040
Speaker 3: don't know where he got them jokes, but he was

1866
01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:55,680
Speaker 3: telling them. I was loving them.

1867
01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 2: Richard Pryor did all the jokes that Paul Mooney wrote

1868
01:28:59,840 --> 01:29:00,160
Speaker 2: from on.

1869
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know how you can steal

1870
01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:04,080
Speaker 3: a joke. You know.

1871
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 2: I hear people say shit I say all the time,

1872
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:10,559
Speaker 2: and I just I recognize it. But I don't never

1873
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 2: go to nobody and tell them, Hey, man, you can't

1874
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:13,160
Speaker 2: say that, right.

1875
01:29:13,120 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 4: You don't draw no attention to it. You just like

1876
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:15,679
Speaker 4: you keep it moving.

1877
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:22,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, Because the reality of that is is that I

1878
01:29:22,479 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 2: can take a joke and tell it, and a little

1879
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:29,720
Speaker 2: young guy can tell the joke and tell it, and

1880
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:32,559
Speaker 2: if no nobody know who the kid is, it ain't

1881
01:29:32,600 --> 01:29:33,679
Speaker 2: his joke, no way.

1882
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 3: Right, it's not.

1883
01:29:37,200 --> 01:29:39,559
Speaker 2: You know, people stole all kind of shit from me

1884
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 2: coming up, but I don't. I can't steal a joke, man.

1885
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:47,440
Speaker 2: They all joke, They all ideas.

1886
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:50,200
Speaker 1: Is it true that you use gambling one time with

1887
01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:52,519
Speaker 1: an Oak and you lost forty grand?

1888
01:29:53,160 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 2: But yeah, hell yeah around with him? Remember y'all Jerrel Ert.

1889
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, them NBA niggas was in a hotel gambling

1890
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: and ship and I thought I could jump in there.

1891
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:07,200
Speaker 1: You pay oh, because I was gonna call O, say, ok,

1892
01:30:07,280 --> 01:30:08,160
Speaker 1: I got him here for you.

1893
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 3: I know that that nigga know me too, I know

1894
01:30:11,080 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 3: that nigga.

1895
01:30:12,280 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was talking to Hi about the way over here. No,

1896
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:16,040
Speaker 1: I didn't lose no money to him.

1897
01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:18,960
Speaker 3: I mean I didn't otn I just lost some money gambling.

1898
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:19,479
Speaker 3: But damn.

1899
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:22,479
Speaker 2: That was the thing about with them old them NBA players.

1900
01:30:22,520 --> 01:30:24,719
Speaker 2: They had way more money than me. Yeah, I thought

1901
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:29,519
Speaker 2: I could jump in there. It's like the casino got quick.

1902
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:32,280
Speaker 2: I got the money and got got my ass up

1903
01:30:32,320 --> 01:30:37,599
Speaker 2: out of there. I'm out of there, nigga. Charles Oakley,

1904
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 2: let me.

1905
01:30:37,880 --> 01:30:40,720
Speaker 1: Ask you this, why is it important for you to

1906
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: take these young comedians.

1907
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 4: On the road.

1908
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:47,840
Speaker 2: You know, I remember when I was young, and I

1909
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:51,480
Speaker 2: remember how it felt to go on tour with the ogs,

1910
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:54,640
Speaker 2: and I knew how important it was for them to

1911
01:30:54,720 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 2: learn and from for me to learn too. You know,

1912
01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:01,040
Speaker 2: Like I said, I learned from them and they learn

1913
01:31:01,120 --> 01:31:04,280
Speaker 2: from me. We all learned from each other, man, you know,

1914
01:31:04,439 --> 01:31:08,559
Speaker 2: and unfortunately we all got to start somewhere. I like

1915
01:31:08,640 --> 01:31:11,639
Speaker 2: being on the road with these guys. We're the ones tour,

1916
01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:15,360
Speaker 2: you know. And as the tour started yet, No, the

1917
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,400
Speaker 2: tour is starting up. What's the date on the tour

1918
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 2: February huh, so.

1919
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:23,000
Speaker 4: It's in twenty six. You can't get off in twenty six.

1920
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:26,280
Speaker 2: Twenty six, February sixth. We're doing a worldwide tour. Like

1921
01:31:26,280 --> 01:31:28,519
Speaker 2: I said, it's channing. This is our third year doing it.

1922
01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:32,559
Speaker 2: How many cities, Oh man, we're doing all the major cities,

1923
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:37,519
Speaker 2: forty six. And if I posted it's on bm INN

1924
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:42,080
Speaker 2: Shows dot com BMN shows dot com, You're going to

1925
01:31:42,160 --> 01:31:44,680
Speaker 2: go in there check out all the dates I'm headlining

1926
01:31:44,720 --> 01:31:47,040
Speaker 2: this year. Last year, I was just hosting Bringing Up

1927
01:31:47,080 --> 01:31:50,320
Speaker 2: the Young Comray. This year, I'm coming out o g

1928
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:55,400
Speaker 2: after everybody, and we got TK Kirkling on this, you know, man,

1929
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:59,880
Speaker 2: we got Jay Ski Man, we got some of the

1930
01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:02,559
Speaker 2: some of the youngest, hottest comedies. It's gonna be the

1931
01:32:02,560 --> 01:32:05,720
Speaker 2: hottest comedy tour out. You know, you ain't gonna see

1932
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 2: no way nowhere where you're gonna see a better tour

1933
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:10,960
Speaker 2: than this young, hot black comics.

1934
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:14,240
Speaker 1: And that's important. That's important. You feel this is this

1935
01:32:14,320 --> 01:32:16,879
Speaker 1: is This is Mike Epps giving back.

1936
01:32:17,320 --> 01:32:21,040
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, and Mike Evs staying in the loop because

1937
01:32:21,040 --> 01:32:23,160
Speaker 2: I gotta stay in the loop with these young guys

1938
01:32:23,160 --> 01:32:26,880
Speaker 2: to be funny too as well teaching and learning.

1939
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:30,559
Speaker 4: Will you give the Tupac juror from my all eves

1940
01:32:30,600 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 4: on be cover?

1941
01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 3: Yep? How you get that? Moutar?

1942
01:32:36,920 --> 01:32:42,280
Speaker 2: One of the outlaws gave me that bracelet and I

1943
01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 2: gave it to Tupac sister because I kept saying to myself,

1944
01:32:49,600 --> 01:32:55,160
Speaker 2: hold this man's brainslet. I met his sister sat and

1945
01:32:55,200 --> 01:32:58,880
Speaker 2: I said, I got something for you, and I gave

1946
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 2: her that. And somebody gave me the original picture of

1947
01:33:02,560 --> 01:33:05,120
Speaker 2: him and Sugar sitting in that car the photographer did,

1948
01:33:05,880 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 2: and I gave them to her and I said, if

1949
01:33:10,320 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 2: I would have passed, I would have loved that. Somebody

1950
01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 2: was real and gave my sister my bracelet. You know, wow,

1951
01:33:19,160 --> 01:33:20,720
Speaker 2: that was That was the real est thing I could

1952
01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:22,400
Speaker 2: have did, man, You know what I mean?

1953
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:24,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, it blew her mind too.

1954
01:33:24,960 --> 01:33:27,880
Speaker 1: She was like, oh my god, wow, yeah, I gotta

1955
01:33:27,880 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 1: give you that bracelet.

1956
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get you out of here.

1957
01:33:32,760 --> 01:33:36,200
Speaker 1: And this way I had, uh, we had two chains

1958
01:33:36,240 --> 01:33:38,720
Speaker 1: on two change to you and him cousins and nobody else.

1959
01:33:38,800 --> 01:33:46,640
Speaker 1: Y'all kid, I ain't kidding them, black ass big dreadlocks

1960
01:33:46,640 --> 01:33:47,559
Speaker 1: and ship.

1961
01:33:49,280 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 3: Two chains set there and you, yeah, you baited him

1962
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 3: into that too.

1963
01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:55,960
Speaker 4: What I bade him? I said, y'all cousins He said, yeah.

1964
01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:59,720
Speaker 2: See Shannon, everything that you know yet no you, That's

1965
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:02,760
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. See, I'm glad I finally worked did

1966
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:05,760
Speaker 2: this show with you, because you would bring my name

1967
01:34:05,880 --> 01:34:08,240
Speaker 2: up all the time to different people, trying to bait

1968
01:34:08,320 --> 01:34:09,880
Speaker 2: them to say ship.

1969
01:34:11,120 --> 01:34:12,200
Speaker 4: I mean saying that your.

1970
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 1: Your cousin, because every time you ask people about me,

1971
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:17,719
Speaker 1: they end.

1972
01:34:17,680 --> 01:34:18,280
Speaker 3: Up saying something.

1973
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:20,160
Speaker 4: They say, that's your cout, that's my cousin.

1974
01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:20,439
Speaker 3: No.

1975
01:34:21,040 --> 01:34:23,599
Speaker 2: Two change said right on this on one of these

1976
01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:27,440
Speaker 2: chairs and said he must be a cousin by marriage.

1977
01:34:27,840 --> 01:34:33,360
Speaker 3: What kind of that means? Somebody married? I married somebody

1978
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:34,400
Speaker 3: that was like.

1979
01:34:35,720 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something to change and omar, y'all

1980
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:42,479
Speaker 2: can have that slave name.

1981
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:47,559
Speaker 3: Argetting around a damn slave name. My my name is

1982
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:55,000
Speaker 3: Mike X fucking to change said, I was married by.

1983
01:34:55,160 --> 01:35:01,040
Speaker 5: Uh y y'all related by with me and all my

1984
01:35:01,120 --> 01:35:02,960
Speaker 5: as we see, we was all supposed to do a

1985
01:35:03,000 --> 01:35:07,200
Speaker 5: TV show going to find out who, oh y'all would

1986
01:35:07,200 --> 01:35:08,280
Speaker 5: do here Louis Gates show.

1987
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:11,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, because we were all yeah, and I started thinking

1988
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:14,280
Speaker 2: about it. I'm like, I don't want to meet my master,

1989
01:35:16,360 --> 01:35:19,680
Speaker 2: damn whoever the ABC is because I did that that that.

1990
01:35:22,360 --> 01:35:26,280
Speaker 4: Yes, like a dummy? And where are you from?

1991
01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:33,040
Speaker 2: I'm white? I'm white. That's where I'm from. I thought

1992
01:35:33,040 --> 01:35:35,599
Speaker 2: I was black. I am black, but yeah, you are,

1993
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 2: but it's it's some white people. Yeah, my nose ain't

1994
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:41,679
Speaker 2: as big as yours.

1995
01:35:43,160 --> 01:35:46,040
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm like Nigeria.

1996
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know he's not. See I called you, Yeah,

1997
01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:49,080
Speaker 3: I know he's not. Jeri.

1998
01:35:49,920 --> 01:35:51,519
Speaker 2: It takes a while for me to get to the

1999
01:35:51,560 --> 01:35:57,680
Speaker 2: Africans on my ship. All your peon popped up. So

2000
01:35:58,200 --> 01:35:59,840
Speaker 2: I'm I'm I got a lot of white in me,

2001
01:35:59,880 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 2: but I got problems.

2002
01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:07,920
Speaker 4: We will get you out of this bike.

2003
01:36:09,120 --> 01:36:11,880
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you haven't accomplished that you hope

2004
01:36:11,880 --> 01:36:14,760
Speaker 1: to accomplish before you're done with this business?

2005
01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:16,920
Speaker 3: Yeah?

2006
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:20,240
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure I leave a great

2007
01:36:20,360 --> 01:36:25,559
Speaker 2: name for myself and this business so that my children

2008
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:28,000
Speaker 2: can hear and live.

2009
01:36:27,840 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 3: Off of my legacy. That's all I want to do.

2010
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:31,960
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I leave out of this

2011
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:38,240
Speaker 2: business unscathed and alive, so that my kids can take

2012
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:41,320
Speaker 2: what I did and flourish off of me.

2013
01:36:41,760 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 3: If I can do that, I'm good. I just want

2014
01:36:44,560 --> 01:36:46,439
Speaker 3: my name to be good. Everybody.

2015
01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:49,240
Speaker 2: When they hear my name and they hear Mike Keps,

2016
01:36:49,280 --> 01:36:51,840
Speaker 2: they said, man, your dad was He was all right,

2017
01:36:51,960 --> 01:36:56,240
Speaker 2: got a hell of a actor comedian. Shit started some time,

2018
01:36:56,320 --> 01:36:59,040
Speaker 2: but for the most part, all the way around.

2019
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:02,680
Speaker 1: God, what do you redit credit credit your longevity to?

2020
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:04,559
Speaker 1: How have you been able to stay in this business

2021
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:06,439
Speaker 1: stay relevant for so long?

2022
01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:11,760
Speaker 2: My passion for the business, my passion for the art

2023
01:37:12,479 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 2: I really love.

2024
01:37:14,320 --> 01:37:17,400
Speaker 1: I protect what I have. I protect my art. I

2025
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:18,639
Speaker 1: protect my comedy.

2026
01:37:19,120 --> 01:37:23,360
Speaker 2: I protected in my spirit like it's all I got

2027
01:37:23,680 --> 01:37:26,280
Speaker 2: right and I protect it and I love it and

2028
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 2: I honor it, and that I and I That's why

2029
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:30,200
Speaker 2: I have.

2030
01:37:30,479 --> 01:37:31,760
Speaker 3: I've had longevity.

2031
01:37:32,240 --> 01:37:35,640
Speaker 2: I'm very passionate about the gift that was given to

2032
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:36,879
Speaker 2: me and I protected.

2033
01:37:37,600 --> 01:37:39,920
Speaker 1: What can they expect from the tour? We the Ones,

2034
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:42,960
Speaker 1: We the Ones tour. This tour is gonna be the

2035
01:37:42,960 --> 01:37:46,479
Speaker 1: biggest one that we ever did. I'm headlining and these

2036
01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:50,920
Speaker 1: guys are hilarious, some of the greatest Black young comics

2037
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:52,160
Speaker 1: in the game right now.

2038
01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:54,600
Speaker 3: Make sure you go get them tickets. We're going to

2039
01:37:54,680 --> 01:37:54,920
Speaker 3: be in.

2040
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 2: All the great cities. If you went last year, you've

2041
01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 2: seen how fun it was. It's gonna be even bigger

2042
01:38:00,360 --> 01:38:03,200
Speaker 2: this year and I'm headlining. Make sure you go get

2043
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:03,679
Speaker 2: the tickets.

2044
01:38:03,720 --> 01:38:06,519
Speaker 1: Were The Ones kicks off February sixth. What's the first

2045
01:38:06,560 --> 01:38:07,960
Speaker 1: day you can what's the first thay you hit?

2046
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:13,840
Speaker 2: Indianapolis? Right, Indianapolis my hometown. Make sure you go get

2047
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:16,200
Speaker 2: the tickets. Man, we the Ones. Make sure y'all check

2048
01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:20,240
Speaker 2: out The Upshaws, coming out January eighth, our last season

2049
01:38:20,280 --> 01:38:23,719
Speaker 2: only on Netflix. Shannon Sharp, I appreciate you, Bouy.

2050
01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:25,000
Speaker 4: Mike helps.

2051
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:28,040
Speaker 3: Respect line.

2052
01:38:28,120 --> 01:38:29,920
Speaker 4: Appreciate you, though, preciake.

2053
01:38:29,600 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 6: It all my life, grinding all my life, sacri fights.

2054
01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:38,000
Speaker 6: Hustle paid the price. One Slice got the Brother dis

2055
01:38:38,120 --> 01:38:40,760
Speaker 6: to swap all my life, Poppy grinding all my life.

2056
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:43,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, all my life, grinding all.

2057
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:46,080
Speaker 4: My life, sacrid fights. Hustle paid the price.

2058
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:50,040
Speaker 6: One Slice got the brother diis to swap all my life,

2059
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:53,800
Speaker 6: Poppy grinding all my life,