GUY TORRY & ALEX THOMAS

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I've had residual checks that are$1.32.
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I got one for three cents the other day.
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Yeah, but I've also got residual checks to be$175,000.
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When I didn't respect it.
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$200,000.
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$40,000.
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But then I get a movie that I was cut out of, and the check be nine times more.
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Like, for example.
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Wait a minute, really?
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When I tell you, like, for example.
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I got cut out a movie and I don't get no residuals from that movie.
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You ready for this?
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Take like something like Players Club.
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It was, you know, hey, it's a hood classic, but it was a real movie.
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Got some good money.
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I got cut out of castaway.
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One of the biggest movies of time.
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I had I you know how crushed I was when I got cut two weeks before the premiere.
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I'm up here.
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I started a website with me, uh, Helen Hunt, and and and Tom Hanks.
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And a volleyball.
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No, I was the fleet manager at FedEx before the plane took off.
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I thought my life was going to change.
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Man.
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No black movies for me.
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I got cut out the movie.
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But long story short, biggest resentments I've ever had in my life.
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And I'm not even going to talk about that one.
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I would have loved to be in the movie, dude.
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Same year.
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I got a suit made for the premiere.
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Okay?
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Not only that, but it would have been looked at different.
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Now when I'm at these country clubs, these white country, they would have been known who Alex Thomas was.
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It just was more the black things, not knocking the black things.
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God bless them with that.
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My family was able to eat and it was great notoriety for me.
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But that white money, that cast wave movie, I could be like, I don't gotta work again.
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First of all, welcome to another episode of Killin' It.
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We're your host, Justin Hyas.
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Lendon Brown.
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BTK.
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Make sure you like, comment, subscribe.
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Hey, man.
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Read a hard way.
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Hey man.
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I like the way y'all just started.
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You didn't say, are y'all ready?
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You didn't do a 5-4-3-2-1.
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You're like, hey y'all gonna.
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Okay, so look, man, man.
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Mike's on.
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Mike's already on.
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Man, we wanted to have an epic episode.
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I was like, how can we have an epic episode?
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Well, you call you called Alex the right version.
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Alex Thomas.
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And you threw God T on it.
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So don't talk about you a part of the show, too, damn it.
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I'm thinking, are you a part of the show?
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I'm like, I'm James.
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The Fat Tuesday podcast is coming later.
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Straight up.
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It should.
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Man, that'd be a fire podcast.
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Man, two of the funniest comedians in the game.
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I've been watching y'all.
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I'm gonna make y'all feel a little old, but I mean it sincerely.
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I've been watching y'all since I was a kid, you know.
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When you was dark skinned.
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When I was dark skinned.
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They looked dark when they was younger.
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No beard, no hair, no short hair.
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Next thing I thought you were gonna say, yeah, yeah.
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My mama came home from marching with Martin Luther K.
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Went to your show the night before.
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Yeah, you just really making it sound old.
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That is hilarious.
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Right after my mom hooked up with Jesse.
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Man, y'all, y'all look.
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That's believable.
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I mean, you never know.
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Um, y'all look younger, younger too, though.
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Y'all look great.
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I don't know how old y'all are.
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You black don't crack.
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And everybody in Hollywood is 36.
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That's right.
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Actually, Alex has been to Epstein Island and even.
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Oh, okay.
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So is this where we're going with this?
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Up the top.
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It's a mindset and a mind frame because it's crazy.
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I see dudes that I went to high school with.
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Man.
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Or dudes that, you know, girls too.
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And it's like, I know we're close in age.
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Yeah.
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But dude, you look 25 years older than me.
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You know what it was, too?
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We were talking about this off camera, but I remember the guys and the girls that at a young age were going hard with the drugs and alcohol.
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And you would always hear about it's gonna eventually catch up to you.
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You can see it.
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I see cats that like, yo, I remember when you smoked your first blunt in ninth grade.
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Wow.
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You look 99 years old.
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Yeah.
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You know what I mean?
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So it does catch up to you.
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Absolutely.
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Hey, I didn't want to say, I'm working on the, you know what I'm saying?
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I want to test out some merch, you know.
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Killing it.
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We're gonna start with branding.
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Always be brand.
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You see my hat.
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Bad Tuesdays.
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Come on, there's that.
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You see that?
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That's what we work for.
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It's our Central Country Club.
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Come on, man.
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That's what we're doing.
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Hey, you know what I look at it?
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Yeah.
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There's a word for that.
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Yeah, see?
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Hey man, nobody's gonna believe in you more than you.
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That's a fact.
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And I know we're in a Hollywood business.
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Well, we hire people for that.
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We hire people.
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Yeah.
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But until then, in the meantime, in between time, you got you are your walking billboard.
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And they don't put the marketing into African Americans as they do other people.
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Oh, I learned that with rush hour.
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I'll tell you quick, rush hour.
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When I did rush hour, see, I was able to see marketing dollars like firsthand because I did rush hour, then I did MacGyver back to back.
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Right.
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When I did rush hour, they had zero billboards up in Los Angeles.
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Zero.
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Zero.
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I said, I would hit up my manager.
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I said, yo, like, they don't have any billboards for rush hour.
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She talked to the head of the network.
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I'm not gonna say the network, do your research.
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They tell her only because I'm talking shit about it right now.
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She talked to the marketing people at the network, and they said, oh, well, no, we use the same dollars for rush hour that we use for everybody else.
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Okay.
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Rush Hour get canceled.
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McGyver comes on the same year.
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So technically I had two shows on at the same time.
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At the same time, actually, at one point.
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Bruh, McGyver billboards were everywhere in Los Angeles.
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I'm talking about every I'm talking about on Hollywood and Highland.
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Man.
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That large vertical billboard.
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Right.
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MacGyver.
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And so that let me know, and I wonder what was the difference between me and McGyver.
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Like, what's the difference?
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Complexion.
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I mean, that's what it is.
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I got one of that years ago, man, when Soul Plane came out.
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I don't care.
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Nobody says Soul Plane is one of my favorite movies.
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Oh, that's a classic.
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I wasn't in it.
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It's a hood classic.
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I didn't get it, but it's still one of my favorite movies.
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And when Soul Plane was coming out, you know, it was another movie coming out called Introducing Ted Hamilton or some some white movie, right?
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And they you saw them billboards and ads everywhere.
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And then when you saw Soul Plane, it's like they were, they were, they were pumping more of the bigger names in there than Kevin.
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At the time, Kevin Hart was coming up.
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I'm like, you have an opportunity to put that money and into into making him the face face of it, right?
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Right?
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And build this young black star that's coming up.
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But you but you and they didn't do it.
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And I was frustrated about it.
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Like I you would think I was in the movie, but I w but I wasn't.
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But I'm like, yo, and that's when I saw a clear choice, like the difference in how they do, you know.
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The urban projects versus the so-called mainstream.
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And you always hear, like, you hear stuff like they're setting them up to fail.
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Oh, yeah.
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Or but you don't want to believe that until you're either a part of it or you go, wow.
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So if we always say kind of Hollywood, for example, if Lorenz Tate was Ben Affleck, you know what I mean?
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If you know, you know, certain guys they really put more into that dude than they did.
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Because they were equal, they had the chances, but the projects that that particular guy was a part of, man, they really put into that promotion and advertising.
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Whereas ours is like, huh, if it if it doesn't go, if it doesn't blow, uh, it's just another urban film and we'll just hurry up and well put it on DVD or back in the day or perfect.
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I heard something about that recently.
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Uh Rafael Sadiq said that that was a situation for Neil Soul.
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He said Neil Sow isn't a thing.
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He said that the executives used to use the term for basically artists.
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A genre.
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Yeah, there's like that made RB music that they didn't want to put budget into.
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It was like on tops, they might do 500,000, maybe a million if they're really good.
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Right.
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But don't put no money money here.
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So like Neil's the Neo Soul artists hate that term.
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They do.
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Because actually what it was doing, it was disrespectful.
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We'll let that simmer.
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We're gonna push.
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I I gotta use names just to like make my point to you guys.
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I'm gonna just name three Neo artists, the Neo Soul artists.
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Right.
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Let's say Music Soul Child.
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Yeah.
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Let's say Rest in Peace D'Angelo.
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Yeah.
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Let's say a cat like Bilau.
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Yeah.
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Life Jennings.
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Yeah.
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People that black people like.
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Right.
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It was incredible music, but unfortunately, those brothers weren't Beyonce.
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Right.
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Uh Usher.
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Right.
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Um Luther Vangles.
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It's almost like the record label's way of going, they're RB.
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Not even Luther.
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Luther they didn't really put a lot into.
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It took a lot of.
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But that's why I used his name.
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Right.
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That's why I used his name.
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My point is they were lost on, well, it's RB, but it's not, no, it is RB.
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It's just not, I hate to use the word.
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It's not pop RB.
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Or it's not.
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Just because that guy right there, I guess in today's terms, just because BT doesn't have 13 million followers, and you're as talented, if not more talented, but you only have five million followers, they're gonna push him.
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Why are they gonna push him?
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Because he can fall under the pop.
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He can fall under maybe selling 11 million albums before you sell two million.
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And it's messed up because it makes it look like he's less than or you know, it's just two different styles of RD.
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They're both incredible.
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Trust me, that star respects you because he wishes he had all your talent, but then you go, damn, I wish I had 11 million followers.
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But it's not to say, I want to rhyme like common sense.
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Right.
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But it's not to say his music ain't dope.
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Right.
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It's not to say, dude, I've been to his concert.
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I don't care how many followers he had.
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Right.
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That nigga's so much more talented than such and such, such and such and such and such.
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But since he didn't fall in the so-called lane, or like you said, we don't know where to put him, that doesn't mean he's not incredibly talented.
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Oh, we're going, baby.
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Uh, you gotta do intros.
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I know, right?
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Hey, man.
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That makes sense.
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No, no, no.
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We didn't we ain't introduced y'all yet.
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Oh, we did a whole album.
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My name is Alex Till.
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No, no, no, I gotcha.
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Man, we got two of the of the funniest comedians in the game, man.
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Um, wow.
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I'm talking about, I thought I wrote up, I I know y'all credit.
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I thought I wrote it down here, but I already know y'all.
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They've been on shows with you before.
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Uh they've both been, wait a minute.
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Yeah, forget all of that.
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They've been on, first of all, both been on Martin the TV series.
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We're gonna get to that.
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Uh American History X.
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Uh, wait a minute.
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What uh uh Players Club's Club Players Club Life.
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Jamie Fox Show.
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Jamie Fox shows.
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I had it wrote down on my other screen.
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Exactly, man.
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Don't be a menace.
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Tripping.
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Don't be a menace.
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Uh, man, give it, give it up for the one and only Guy Tori and Alex Thomas.
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Yeah, baby.
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Still here.
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Thanks for having us.
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We rockin'.
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Still here, man.
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Man, it's still, I always say it's, hey man, we still fly fresh and relevant.
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That's a fact.
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I can't even tell you, and I know he can back me up on this.
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I'm gonna look at you when I say it.
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How many cats did we start out with, guy?
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They are no two things nowhere to be found or just nothing else to say.
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Right.
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What do you got?
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What do you feel what do you feel has been able to sustain y'all for this long?
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You know what?
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Me personally.
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Not just to cut you up, but as you mentioned, like, um, because it people hop people at home who don't know, there's always like a, it's like high school where there you you you join high school with your class, and as you as you continue to ascend, you start to see everybody not graduating.
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Right.
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Um, and and and you know, because what I realized even too, when we were talking about earlier, I think before we start rolling, was how, you know, you you see people in from high school, they don't look the same.
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Right.
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And, you know, because everybody, you know, when we all come in, everybody's freshmen.
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But what do you guys feel um has allowed you to kind of graduate and move uh up uh graduate rather?
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For you answer that, I want to say that.
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Shout out to the guys and women who didn't make it uh along the world.
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No hard for the city.
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We never know what went on in their lives that got in the way.
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For sure.
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Life got in the way with a lot of people.
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Especially for the the women, because unfortunately, doing my research for Fat Tuesdays, and I was a lot of the women stopped doing comedy because of the sexual harassment.
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And and there was some funny talented women.
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They got tired of getting approached for stage time to give up whatever, whatever.
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So a lot of them stopped because of that.
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It wasn't that they weren't funny, they got got tired of the harassment, but that's a whole nother conversation.
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No, but you know, you know what it is, man?
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Me personally, I kept my ear and eyes to the streets.
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Not for any particular reason.
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That's really me.
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Yeah, I'm a real straight up LA dude.
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Way before I got in the entertainment business, that was just me as a person.
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Right.
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Right?
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So a lot of guys, I've heard dudes that that I'll run into in an airport and or they'll be like, man, I stopped 10, 15 years.
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Man, what kept you still going there?
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I didn't have nothing else to say.
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I'm like, well, I got a lot to say, because I've always been that dude that was, I I could speak on the older stuff, I could speak on the younger stuff.
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Like my crowds are weird when I when I when I go sell out around the country, I literally have parents and their kids come to the show.
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But when I say their kids, I mean the kids are like, you know, 25.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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But the dad will remember a movie that I did in the early 90s, right?
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But the kid will be like, yo, he did one of the funniest sketches I've ever seen on Instagram.
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Right.
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Or I saw a funny story on a podcast.
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Like words that the olders uh people weren't even using, that was my way of staying relevant.
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When I it's almost like I have a saying, get with the times or get left behind.
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I had to pivot.
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I saw what was going on with social media.
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I was gonna ask y'all about that.
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Like, how are y'all feeling about navigating this new world with social media?
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Like coming from, you know, staying.
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Let me let me go back to what he was saying basically about staying relevant.
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It's like comedy chose us, we didn't choose comedy.
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And I I think the people who, when comedy chooses you, you stay in there long enough.
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Right.
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When you choose comedy and you try to do it, it ain't natural.
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And you can only pretend for so long.
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Yeah.
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But it's you eventually have to know the answers to the test.
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Yes.
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You know what I mean?
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You can only know that.
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It's a gift.
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And and it's a gift that we've we've given when we were born, and once you find out your gift and you find out the assignment, then you go for it.
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It's easy after that.
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But if you if if you have a I tell anybody, if you got a job and you hate it, that's that wasn't your purpose.
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Get out that job, and whatever your gift is, that's where you need to be.
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So it's killing you.
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Little do you know being at that job is taking a lot out of you, is spilling over into your relationships, spilling over into your kids.
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You at home miserable every day.
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Miserable, because that's not what you're supposed to be doing in the first damn place.
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I almost got to use sports, for example.
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I use sports as an example all the time.
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I'm such a sports fanatic.
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I I pertain sports to what we do.
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It's almost like you hear about it's the most cliche thing on the planet.
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You know, you always hear the cream rises to the top.
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Yeah.
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Only the strong survive.
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You know, if you really love something.
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But it's really true.
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Guy, I think a lot of cats, it's just one of the reasons.
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I'm not giving you all the reasons.
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I think why a lot of people either fell off or they said, never mind to this, a few things.
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They didn't have that will, that determination to take the bumps of the bruises, the a million no's, the nights the jokes didn't work, the nights the chicks didn't want to get with you, when you tried to go out for a movie and you didn't get there, are so many speed bumps and loopholes in this business, it truly comes down to only the strong survive.
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And if you're one of those dudes that truly loves this shit, again, back to sports, man, you are really you're gonna you're gonna excel.
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How many times do you hear, I mean, this I two two two sports examples.
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Baseball.
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The the guys that strike out the most, you know, a lot of people don't know.
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I mean, the guys that hit the most on runs strike out the most.
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The dudes, like the the dudes that score the most in basketball, they shoot the most shooting, they're always going for the big picture.
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Like you can't be afraid to fail.
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And I think, hey man, I'd be lying to you through my teeth if I said I didn't fail.
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I failed so many times, but I had to tell myself literally, dog, you came too far to give up.
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There's time I set myself up to fail so I can win.
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What you mean?
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If I think I'm all who I think I am and how big my balls are, I'm gonna put myself in a situation to where prove it.
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We'll be an example of that.
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First time I did that, honestly, was when I was uh, and this is no disrespect for this gentleman, he's a good friend of mine, and he'll understand.
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And this is no cat, this is no no diss, man.
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I'm gonna say his name.
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Yeah.
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There was a comic who a guy who was an actor, a big actor, on a on a his brand, Reginald Ballard.
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He was just starting to do stand-up.
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He was already big from the show Mark, right?
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And we were booked on a show in Philly, and he was a headliner, and I was going on before him, but I had already been doing, you know, stand-up for a minute, right?
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And I was like, man, I said, um, I knew where he was in stand-up at that time, and I know my energy and my fire, right?
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And I knew it probably wasn't gonna be nice when he came on stage because he was new, but he had the bigger name.
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Yeah.
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And I said, and as a friend, I said, hey man, um, let me go on, let me go on after you.
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Now I'm not one of these comics that need to close the show.
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I ain't that dude.
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I'll go on first, I don't care.
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But I'm like, I like let me let me let me go on after you, man.
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I want to see if I can follow somebody with a bigger name.
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Was this a night he was booked or something?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But you were new, so you didn't find a few.
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He was new up.
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He was new anyway.
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Right.
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I was just you know, following my spirit.
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And I was like, I was like, let me, let me, let me go on before you see.
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Because you don't ask that that.
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Right.
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You don't know.
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Meaning you didn't know any better.
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I knew better.
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No, I knew better.
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No.
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No, I knew better.
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He just didn't care.
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I knew no, no, no.
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I did care.
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He said it was basically he looking out for Bromman.
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That's how he said it.
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Oh, trying to be nice, like, bro.
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You can't follow it.
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Yeah, but not at this point.
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I should probably close.
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Right.
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So that's what he was.
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Because I care about the entire show.
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Right.
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But all the time.
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And at the same time, I'm like, man.
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You could have failed.
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I wasn't gonna fail.
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No, no, but you can't.
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No, no, no.
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I'll beat you, and I love your confidence, but it goes back to what you said.
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I put myself in position.
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Confidence is being spiritually bold.
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But it is.
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What's up, everybody?
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So, so so what it was is like, you know, when they introduced him, you know, through the roof.
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Like through the roof.
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Right, right.
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Like, like, like because he's who they came to see.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then when they introduced me, it was it was nice, but it wasn't that.
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Right, right, right.
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And and those things, I'm like, okay.
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And let me roll up my sleeves.
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And and So hold on, who went up first on this show?
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It was a host, I can't remember who else was on the show.
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Like a local.
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The name was James James.
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It was somebody and then me and then brother.
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Okay, so that was.
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And I switched, I switched it.
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So you did switch.
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So he allowed you to switch it.
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Yeah, he said, yeah.
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Okay.
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He knew what it was.
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Because he knew.
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He knew he was new.
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It wasn't that he wasn't funny because he's helped me.
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Have you seen your act before?
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Yeah, yeah.
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So he knew you were strong and then okay.
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So you I didn't realize how new it was.
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I said, keep the same money, you can do the same time.
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I said, I just want to see if I can know how big my balls are.
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And I don't do that often because it's disrespectful.
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You wanted to be You wanted to be T.
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out of Gaffrey.
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That's what you wanted to be.
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You're like, I'm gonna go on after the handliner.
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But no, that was different, though, because Gaffrey was the seasoned one, and T.I.
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was the new one.
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Oh, okay.
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Touched.
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Completely different.
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Touche, touche.
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So T.I.
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is a bigger name as an act, as an act, but not as a comedian.
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You know what I mean?
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It's a difference.
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So so in that same vein, but you get 10 million albums, but not have 10 minutes of material.
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That's a bad idea.
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But I will say, case TI see this.
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Oh, yeah.
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The Negro's funny.
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I've seen other.
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Wait, wait, real quick.
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I talked to you yesterday.
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Uh we played golf yesterday.
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Okay.
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And Chris called him on FaceTime.
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So it was me, Marlon Wayne.
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Chris Spencer, me, Anthony Anderson.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I've been trying to teach him that, but we're so used to, you know, we talk about you.
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Oh, Chris.
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So yesterday, you're known for the name dropping.
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Other person.
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But the difference is either receipts and they really don't know.
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No, you do.
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You do different when you're name dropping and that nigga doesn't know you.
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You don't have his number and he doesn't have your number.
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We met him one time.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's different with me.
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We were just playing golf.
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So me and Bob.
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Yeah, yeah, right, right, right.
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It's me, Luther, Reggie.
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No, um, no, but uh, yeah, Chris just called him on FaceTime.
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It was me, Anthony Anderson, and Marlon, and he was like, What's up, man?
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We were just talking about all the craziness.
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Wait, we were just talking about the craziness that's going on with him and 50 and all that, but that you just brought it up.
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And by you saying that, yeah, and me saying what I'm saying, I was backing us both up.
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We just talking.
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We talking comedy.
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Right, right.
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And there's no disrespect.
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What it is is he stepped into a new world and a new job.
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Yeah, I respect him.
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Which was he's not a comedian, but he attempted it.
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And I appreciate you.
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T.
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I'll be on your ass, nigga.
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No, no, no.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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No, it'd be different if I was talking shit.
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No, Jugger.
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But but honestly, that's why he respects cats like me, Chris Godfrey.
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God said he knows that they're really true comedy assassins.
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Right.
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So it'd be different if I was a hate man.
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I applauded him for getting on stage and driving, because I didn't have a problem with him doing stand-up.
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It's entertainment.
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It's like actors getting mad at us for comedians coming into movies or TV or radio drop get coming getting mad at us because we go into radio spots.
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It's all entertainment.
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Why not?
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You live once.
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Try everything you can.
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Throw shit against the street.
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I mean, he's yeah, Tip's always been funny.
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He was al like if you saw it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Exactly.
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He figured it out, man.
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Like you said, yeah, yeah.
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We was there that night.
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You was there tonight, we're not gonna saw that.
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But what happens is we first performed.
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It's a thousand percent with you guys.
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What happens is every dude in our business they got homies at the hangar, right?
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Right.
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And a lot of times in your click, you got back to sticky.
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That was funny.
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You used to be a comedian, right?
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You'd be funny.
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What happens is a lot of them don't understand there is truly an art form to what we do.
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Every hood, every city, every block, every porch, there's a homie that had everybody laughing in the neighborhood.
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We understand a lot of us comedians came from that.
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But the truth comes out.
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When the mic gets up, you're next.
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Go make 300 strangers laugh.
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Strangers.
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It's not the key word is strangers.
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So what happens is T.I.
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he found that out.
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But what he did was he surrounded himself around a bunch of funny people that know it.
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He kept working better.
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And he got better.
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And I saw him in the hole in the walls, in the sparse and out.
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But let me know he was taking it serious.
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So shout out to T.I.
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But sometimes your homemade tells you, man, you should go do stand-up and they really setting you up.
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They don't like it.
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They wouldn't see you crashing burn on that stage.
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You were triple plan them on that last seven, but you go bum the night, nigga.
00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:09.039
Wait a minute.
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So what hold on before we get to the question?
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I just want to cap the story.
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Yeah.
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You went up after Burman.
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Yeah.
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Did you you killed is what you say?
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I never say that, but yeah, I didn't kill that.
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Okay, there you go.
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I never use words I killed.
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I went back a couple of times and the uh the so setting yourself up to challenge yourself in a way where you might fail.
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Um you guys could both speak to this because you guys have both uh done this.
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I w but I want to make some specific energy for creating, how important is it for creating a room as a comic and having a room for yourself, and what did you see from the legendary room that we know as Fat Tuesdays?
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Like how did you how did that shape things for you going uh forward?
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Especially at that time where your shit was hot.
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As far as how why I created the room or Yeah, so what what what went into the logic of I'm I need to start a room?
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You know what's funny?
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It all starts off as a kid, to be honest.
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And I didn't realize this until I was doing an interview for the documentary.
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This white reporter asked me, Who told you to start Fat Tuesdays?
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And I got offended.
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And I was like, nobody.
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And then what popped in my head was my dad growing up always saying, be proactive.
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Don't wait to ask me to be told to do something.
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If you see something needs done, go ahead and do it.
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So hybrid to me moving to LA in 92, and I heard about the Comedy Act Theater in South Central from my brother Joe Tory, uh, about Robert Harris and and and Martin and Chris and Michael Jordan and Mike Tyson all in the audience.
00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:50.799
I heard about that, right?
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So when I got to LA in 92 after the riots, you know, the comic the comedy theater was none of that.
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There was black celebrities weren't coming down there anymore.
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Industry wasn't coming down there anymore.
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Right.
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So I saw no representation.
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So by the time '95 came, I had a coup a movie credit under my belt and and an agent manager, and I saw a lot of cats not getting a look.
00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.640
So I was like, man, this is a lot of talent down here.
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Let me go, let me go open up a room in Hollywood where they can, they'll come see them.
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Let me take the hood to Hollywood and showcase the Dan and Greens.
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And there's no disrespect to Dan and Greens and and Yeah, and those comics.
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List goes on and those times.
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This goes on and on.
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Because you had already been been on money, and Jar He's had already been on money.
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I'm like Euphinius.
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Let's go.
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Because I was three years before him.
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So I could tell you the story of when there was no black room at the comedy store to what he took it to.
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Okay, boom.
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So, so so so then so that's what made me go create Fat Tuesdays because one, I wanted a room to work out in.
00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:53.920
Yeah.
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Two, when I got to LA, a lot of white people made you feel like if you weren't at the comedy store, improv Laugh Factory, you weren't a real comic.
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And I hated that feeling.
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And I wanted to create some opportunities for other brothers and sisters to get looked at by Hollywood.
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So that was my night to showcase and use it as a platform.
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And that's that was the whole energy behind that.
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It was never about me.
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First of all, congratulations.
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It was great what you did.
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I was the small class of young black comics that were paid regulars.
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At the comedy store.
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In the comedy school.
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Who was part of that class?
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Explain that.
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Huh?
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Who was part of that class?
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Explain what paid regular is, are you?
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Alright, right.
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I'm explaining that.
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Yeah.
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Blondie.
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Um I'm gonna I'm gonna, but I'm gonna give you the Go ahead.
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I'm gonna try to give it as slow as I mean as fast as possible.
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Cliff knows.
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So the three juggernauts in this city was the laugh factory, the comedy store, the improv.
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Still is.
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Yeah.
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Right, still is.
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They're the ones still standing, and they're the ones that get the respect in the business, and blah, blah, blah.
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But when I started, there was beef with three different owners.
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Bud Freeman, the owner of the improv, uh, Jamie Masada, owner of the laugh factory, Mitzi Shore.
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All three of them hated the comedy store.
00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:13.440
All three of them hated each other, right?
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They if they they literally would say, if you're headlining at the lab factory, you cannot come over here and headline it at the improv.
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But Freeman was like, if you are working at the improv or at the lab factory, you cannot come over here to the improv.
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It was really beef like that.
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But what happened was me and a few of my homies, me, Daryl Heath, Chris Tucker, we were, since we really didn't have credits yet, and really no one knew our name, we were able to fly under the radar and become paid regulars at all three at the same time.
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I know that.
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With no other young black comics, because you either a brand new new dude in this hip-hop generation, right, or you were a star.
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There was like no in-between.
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So stars, literally, if Damon Wayne's went up or Martin would go up at the comedy store, Jamie Masada would say, You can't go up here.
00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:11.839
You know, and Eddie Griffin was a comedy store comedian.
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He never, never, maybe, maybe when he 20 years down, but at that time, he couldn't do both, all three, to this day.
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33 years later, I am still a paid regular at all three.
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I was able to roll kind of like under the radar for all the years.
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But then again, it's slow as they got older, it became like there'd be nights with me, Joe Rogan, and Chris Dealy or whatever, but we did, we do all three in the same night.
00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:45.759
But in the early 90s, it was literally one or the other because the owners, you know, you still wanted to get a check.
00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:45.920
Right.
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:46.960
You looked like you had a question.
00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:47.519
No, no, no.
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I'm right with you.
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:50.640
Okay, so as far as Guy T goes, right?
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I was happy when he did what he did because as a young black comic that was working both rooms, I was that dude that I'd be at the Comedy Act Theater in a room full of gangsters and killers and all that, and literally hop on the bus and go to a complete white room at all three in one night.
00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:13.119
I literally would do three spots in one night Live Factory, comedy store, improv with no car.
00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:14.160
Wow.
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Literally getting a check from all three.
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But my thing was I hated having, I gotta go to the hood to be around black people.
00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:30.640
So when he started Fat Tuesday, what was great for us paid regulars were like, we got a black night like at our house.
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I'm gonna lose a regular.
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:35.279
I want to let everybody know paid regular back then was$12.
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:36.720
Yeah, it was like$25.
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Okay,$25.
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But obviously it was like that now.
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Still nothing.
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I know.
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Not far from it, but I don't even think I ever told you this guy.
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So when you would see me going and ripping your room in the main room, I was like, that's where I started.
00:29:51.119 --> 00:29:51.920
I was just about to say that.
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But in the same night.
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Oh, God.
00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:55.519
This is the story people didn't know.
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So when he had Fat Tuesday, when it was at its most popping, every superstar on the planet in there, I would get off and literally, uh, let's say I got off at 9 45.
00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:06.480
Right.
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:08.880
My 950 spots in the OR room.
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And after the OR room, I have a 1015 upstairs in the building.
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:16.480
So I would get three workouts in one night.
00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:21.119
I would go from the all-black room to two lily white, snow white rooms.
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But as a comedian, it's like I got all I can get in one night.
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.839
So that's why I was always able to do both rooms.
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:28.559
That's some New York.
00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:30.079
So let me tag, let me tag on that.
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So first of all, the comedy store was the comedy club out of the three that took the misfits.
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Like the improv and those were buttoned up.
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:39.279
They were like really suit tied type of comics.
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You could be a complete weirdo with a crack habit and get a spot at the comedy store.
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At the comedy store, that's the mitzvah.
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They took everything.
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:49.440
He said they still like it.
00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:55.039
Like like the Yaakov Smiranovs and the and the um the weird uh what is it?
00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:56.079
Andy Kaufman.
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:56.480
Yeah, yeah.
00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:02.559
They took that because even white, you if you were that goofball type of comic, you couldn't perform at the improved.
00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:03.920
But I'm gonna get in real detail with that.
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And I want to say one thing too, to explain what he said the stuff.
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The OR is the original room.
00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:10.640
So the comic store has three rooms.
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Right.
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:13.039
They have the original room, which is the very first room.
00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:14.319
It hosts like 200 people.
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:14.559
Right.
00:31:14.799 --> 00:31:20.880
They have the belly room, which is originally created for female comics, which makes you wanted them to have a spot to open up.
00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:21.759
That's where I started.
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It's upstairs, it holds like 90 people.
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And then the main room is a 400 seat.
00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:27.039
That's the big room.
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:31.039
So when you say he's hopping from room to room, it's within the same club.
00:31:31.200 --> 00:31:33.599
I think it was probably the first club that had multiple rooms like that.
00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.640
Now a lot of them have it.
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:38.960
But we're going back to the misfit and the weird feeling out of the three, this is what we always said.
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The comedy store, let me I'm gonna tell you what I personally used all three.
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I had functions for all three rooms.
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.839
The function was the comedy store was I thought of a joke today.
00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:52.079
I don't know if this shit's gonna work.
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.000
It might offend people and nobody gives a fuck about it.
00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:56.559
That's so funny.
00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:58.480
I would try that at the comedy store.
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Something about that super black room, you felt like you were in a tunnel by yourself.
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:03.119
If it worked, it worked.
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If it was black in color, not in people.
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Back as yes, black as in the back.
00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:10.880
You literally felt like you were in a like a like a closet telling jokes.
00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:11.920
You don't know who's listening.
00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:12.720
Dark room.
00:32:12.799 --> 00:32:13.359
Yeah, dark room.
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:14.720
You barely see the front row.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:16.640
It was where you really got stuff on its heels.
00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:16.880
Yeah.
00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:17.279
Right?
00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:17.519
Yeah.
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:20.720
The the laugh factory was my place to get corporate.
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:24.079
Always had mixed rooms to this day.
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:32.400
Chocolate Sunday, even though it's black, it's just something about you were Armenians, black whites, it was always a mixed room.
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:34.799
And then the improv was always the showcase room.
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:36.880
The improv is a room ABC might be here.
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:38.319
NBC might be here tonight.
00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:40.319
That might be three agents in the front row.
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:41.119
You did the set.
00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:42.160
You did a set, right?
00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:42.799
You did a set.
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:42.960
Right.
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:45.759
And you and you would really feel it.
00:32:45.839 --> 00:32:47.200
Like you'd be like, oh my God.
00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:49.200
You almost felt like you had to dress different at the improv.
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:50.079
That's so funny.
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:56.000
I told somebody that, like, maybe three days ago, without that, without even knowing what it was like.
00:32:56.079 --> 00:33:00.000
I was like, it feels like comedy is this industry in this beautiful art form.
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:03.759
The Laugh Factory feels like, everybody, come look at this.
00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:04.400
Comedy.
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.640
The lights are really bright, the ceilings are really high.
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:10.319
The set of, yeah, it's like comedy.
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:12.720
Like the improv feels industrial.
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:14.160
It feels like comedy as an industry.
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:18.160
This one doesn't feel too much different than Cleveland, which don't feel too much different than Hollywood.
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:25.920
It's like I tell you when you when you in an improv, it feels like a and then the store feels like the dark resets of a comic's brain.
00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:27.839
You just said it's same shit.
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:28.799
But I didn't even know that.
00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:29.440
I just feel it.
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:35.759
You can feel it like cocaine of the glass table that's in the green room or the main room.
00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:39.440
Prior to um what's the someone?
00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:40.720
Shell got candy in there.
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:41.519
What the fuck are you doing?
00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:42.559
Yeah.
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:44.400
Oh, Robin Williams?
00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:45.279
Robin Williams.
00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:46.319
Yeah.
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:51.119
What we used to always say was the comedy store was the Yankee Stadium for comedy.
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:51.599
Wow.
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:53.279
Again, you hear me use the sports terms.
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:57.279
It's like, yeah, there's a billion baseball parks in the world, but there's nothing big.
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:01.440
You feel like you ain't made it until you got played in Yankee Stadium.
00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:03.519
Yeah, MSG or like a rucker, yeah.
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:08.960
And that's why, again, I I know I'm all over the place, but I was proud and I was happy it's something else you did.
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:12.559
Some people get upset with this, but I wasn't mad.
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:16.559
And I didn't ever hate, and I and I never got to tell you straightforward, right?
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:18.320
So just give me the answer real quick.
00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:24.480
What year was it a few years ago back that you did something big with all these comedians got their names on the wall?
00:34:24.880 --> 00:34:25.760
Just give me a year.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:26.880
That was Fat Tuesdays.
00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:27.599
Alright, Ron D.
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:28.639
Like everybody got their names on the wall.
00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:29.440
That's Fat Tuesdays.
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:30.559
Yeah, but what what year was that?
00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:31.679
That was 2020.
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:33.599
Well, we we shot in 2021.
00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:34.880
It came out in 2022.
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:38.880
So that year when I, I mean, I saw every black comic, that's when all the names went up?
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:39.039
Yeah.
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:39.679
22?
00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:39.840
Yeah.
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.079
Okay, so here's my thing, and this is just honest.
00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:48.239
Come from the bottom of my heart, but I've never been able to express this outside of like just friends and I know it's coming.
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:48.960
No.
00:34:50.000 --> 00:35:00.320
One thing great that you did too, not only did you allow black comics that would have never been able to get in here if it hadn't been for Fat Tuesday.
00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:00.800
Right?
00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.559
So that's that's a compliment.
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:08.559
At one time, to get your name on the wall, you had to be a let me just get it out.
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:09.440
No, I'm not saying that.
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:10.239
I ain't saying that.
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:11.840
Because you were a comedy store comic.
00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:14.480
So I'm not saying I'm not talking about you.
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:15.119
My name was already on the wall.
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:16.559
So I'm not talking about you.
00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:26.079
What I'm saying is there was a time where you had to be a comedy store comedian to get your name on that wall.
00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:26.559
Right.
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:27.039
Right?
00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:33.440
So I was very proud because before all you guys, my name went on maybe 10 years before you guys, right?
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:34.639
And I was happy for that.
00:35:34.719 --> 00:35:40.000
But when all these people went up there, I was like, I personally was like, that dude was never a comedy store.
00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:40.960
I'm not saying names.
00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:44.159
That guy was never, that guy, that all of a sudden there was all these people.
00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:47.280
But things had changed since the George Floyd thing.
00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:53.920
And I feel like that it opened up doors for these white people that run, you know, that establishment.
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:55.840
You know, how's this looking now?
00:35:56.000 --> 00:36:00.639
That so many black comics that have contributed that weren't a part of our team got on the wall.
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:01.920
So I'm not knocking them.
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:02.320
No, no.
00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:04.719
I'm just saying completely balanced.
00:36:05.039 --> 00:36:07.440
Because you used to have to be a comedian that played the comic store.
00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:08.800
And I'm playing star.
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:10.320
There's stars.
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:17.119
There is stars that we all know that they got big in comedy, but their name went up on the wall.
00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:19.280
But they never were comedians at the comedy store.
00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:20.559
I've been there 32 years.
00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:23.360
That dude never really, unless it was a showcase.
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:27.440
He maybe did a guest spotted guy, but he wasn't a comedy store comedian.
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:29.360
So that's why I was happy unfortunately what happened with George.
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:30.719
So let me things open.
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:32.800
So let me and there's a whole wall of brothers on the wall.
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:34.559
Everything you said was valid.
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:36.159
Very valid and very right.
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:36.559
Right.
00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:37.840
But that's why I did it.
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:44.320
Because I found out there were some names on that wall that weren't black, that got that weren't comedians.
00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:44.880
At the store.
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:46.000
That got on the wall.
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:46.320
Oh.
00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:47.199
That I didn't know.
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:49.760
There's names on that wall that were not comedians?
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:51.280
I I do I do or did comedy.
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:54.239
I did comedy for two weeks.
00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:54.880
Oh, yeah.
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:55.840
All week.
00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:57.599
And their name called themselves comedians.
00:36:57.840 --> 00:36:59.840
And their name were on the their names were on the wall.
00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:02.079
And that's what I used to get.
00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:02.559
Gotcha.
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:02.960
Those up.
00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:03.920
Now when it furthered.
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:05.280
So you were an advocate to make that.
00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:06.639
Like this guy's a huge star.
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:12.880
And this guy just that was not the original ending of the and I don't want to ruin for people who didn't see it.
00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.280
That wasn't the original ending of the Go watch Fat Tuesday Doc.
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:16.320
Amazing man.
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:17.679
Ending was different.
00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:20.639
What happened was And the only reason I wasn't on it because I was out of town.
00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:22.400
Yes, we we reached out to the city.
00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:26.159
People, everybody hit me like, dude, you were one of the OGs that you were there before.
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:27.519
How were you not on it?
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:28.559
He called me separate.
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:30.159
And did a pre-interview.
00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:30.719
But I was called.
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:31.599
And yeah.
00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:33.440
So here's and it was during COVID, too.
00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:36.559
So we didn't get a lot of people in there because we shot during COVID.
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:38.000
Everything in LA was shut down.
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:38.320
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:41.840
And so a lot of community, a lot of people didn't want to come out because they felt smooth.
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:52.800
We also had a cap on, LA County had a cap on how many people we can have on set a day, but also Amazon, who paid for it, had a cap on how many people we had to have in it.
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:53.679
You know what I'm saying?
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:54.400
We had a cap.
00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:58.639
So it we had a lot of stuff we were fighting, but it was a lot of good that came out of that too.
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.559
Anyway, back to the original ending was not supposed to be the names of the wall.
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:03.920
The original ending was something else.
00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:11.840
It's just the fact that when we were interviewing, a lot of comedians start expressing the importance of their name on the wall, if they had it or didn't have it.
00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.280
And I heard the I heard them and I was like, huh.
00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:24.559
I told Reggie Hullen, the great director, who's who was asking the questions, who's directing it, I said, man, start asking them what's the significance of having their name on the wall.
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:30.719
And when he started asking that question, the comics would get emotional if their name was or wasn't on the wall.
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:31.760
And I was like, huh.
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.519
I said, I wonder if I can, you know, get their names on the wall.
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:43.119
Because the comedy store has said several times to me that if it wasn't for Fat Tuesdays, the comedy store would have been shut down.
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:47.039
As far as the money and the revenue involved, they told me out of one of the owners' mouth.
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:52.559
A lot of Fridays, they wouldn't have made payroll had it not been for Fat Tuesdays.
00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:53.119
Yeah, that's true.
00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:56.000
So Fat Tuesdays was important to the comedy store.
00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:58.079
So my thing was, and my name was already on the wall.
00:38:58.159 --> 00:38:59.360
I wasn't trying to use to get my name on the wall.
00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:01.920
My name had been on the wall a few years, maybe after his.
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:04.000
Several years after his, actually.
00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:11.440
But I said, you know, if if Fat Tuesdays was important to the comedy store, these comedians were important to Fat Tuesdays.
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:13.280
And without these comedians, there'd be no Fat Tuesdays.
00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:14.719
It wouldn't have been as successful as it was.
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:15.199
Right.
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:17.360
So they say, okay, well, let us think about it.
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:20.480
And uh I said, well, give me a list of names.
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:24.159
I thought of everybody that ever crossed that stage at Fat Tuesdays.
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:24.719
I had three.
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:26.320
You just answered what I said of it.
00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:28.559
I had like 200 or something names.
00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:28.880
Yeah, yeah.
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:30.239
And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:34.719
This nigga cat me for it.
00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:36.400
Slow down, soldier.
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:38.719
I wanted everybody on that.
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:40.320
Everybody ever came through Fat Tuesdays.
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:41.920
Because there's some names we all know.
00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:43.679
But yeah.
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:44.159
There's it.
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:48.480
You ever in the audience, right?
00:39:48.800 --> 00:39:49.199
Tupac.
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:50.719
Everybody Piper.
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:52.800
Name is on the wall, by the way.
00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:53.519
Speaking of Tupac.
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:54.320
He's definitely on the wall.
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:54.880
Speaking of Tupac.
00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:56.000
Name is on the wall, by the way.
00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.159
Speaking of Tupac, that's how I met Tupac at comedy store.
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:00.639
Yeah, I met him.
00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:01.280
Well, I met him.
00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.119
During amateur night, because his favorite comedian was Chris Tucker.
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.320
But he there was no Chris Tucker without seeing Alex Thomas.
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:10.559
Because we were both literally, we were both.
00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:12.559
We were both the dudes like up.
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:14.480
He's either before me, I'm after him.
00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:18.639
We were two little young amateurs, but the night was so hot.
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.320
It was crazy to have an amateur night that people come to see.
00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:24.880
Because amateur night or open mic, we don't get crowds.
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:26.480
Nobody here has a name.
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:30.159
None of us had credits, but it would just was the popping night.
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:31.119
So we button this up.
00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.239
So that's so to answer your thing, there was that was that was one of the reasons, reasons why.
00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:40.239
And when I found out that my brother's name wasn't on the wall, who meant a lot to stand-up comedy.
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:40.719
Absolutely.
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:46.400
Cedric Entertainer, when Central Entertainer doing his interview said, My name ain't on the wall, but I got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:47.360
I'm like, how is that?
00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:48.400
Yeah, it feels crazy.
00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:54.000
When Jay Phillips said to me, man, I just wanted to drive past sometimes with my kids and say your dad's name on that wall.
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.960
So when I heard that and saw Marshall Wilfield's name wasn't on the wall.
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:05.119
Demilitant told me, um, when I called him and said, Hey man, I said, Man, I was able to get your name on the wall.
00:41:05.199 --> 00:41:08.559
And he started like, like, crying, like welling up.
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:10.320
I can, I could, I can hear his voice.
00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:16.800
Because Demilitant, when I interviewed him, he told me he had he had he had auditioned for the comedy store and got passed.
00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:20.960
But Mitzi wanted him to change his name to Whoopsie Woolly.
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:22.159
And he was like, What?
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:24.320
He's like, Because you have woolly hair.
00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:26.639
And he said, no, I'm not crazy.
00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:27.840
Tell him the year.
00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:29.599
That had to be like 85 years.
00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:32.000
Because he had he had he had a bushy afro.
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:32.480
Whoopsie.
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:33.199
And he said no.
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:34.960
So the fact that he said no.
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.519
And the fact that he said no, his name never got on the wall.
00:41:41.840 --> 00:41:44.960
So I called and told him, he got, he, he welled up.
00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:51.119
Then when he came to our shooting, when we unveiled the wall, and I and I make sure they put uh Daryl D.
00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.840
Militant Littleton, not just D Militant.
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:54.239
Right.
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:58.079
And he said, Man, you not only you said you got my whole name on there.
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:00.880
And what that meant was he knew he was dying.
00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:01.760
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:02.719
Because he didn't die.
00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:04.159
He died not too long after that.
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:05.199
He knew he was dying.
00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:09.119
So when he got emotional, make me emotional now, he knew he was dying.
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:11.119
And he was like, Wow, my whole name.
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:11.440
Yeah.
00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:12.000
Wow.
00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:13.440
That would have been hilarious.
00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.199
You would have put uh whoopsie woolly.
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:18.719
And so that's why.
00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:23.039
So to answer your to answer your your your your question, that that that's that's what happened.
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:24.960
But I got I got that flat from a lot of people.
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:28.079
You have to back him up on the magnitude of what that wall means.
00:42:28.159 --> 00:42:30.480
Yeah, you're gonna get people, they'd be like, oh, what's the big deal?
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:31.760
But in our field.
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:32.400
Right, right.
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:37.599
Okay, it's like if you played pro baseball, the whole goal is one day possibly be in the Hall of Fame.
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:43.199
You know, you'll get a guy like, you know, say take somebody like Charles Barkley, who goes down as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:49.199
He just didn't get the ring, but he was respected, uh Mexican amongst his peers.
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:51.599
Yeah, and he still goes down as one of the greatest of all time.
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:54.480
So my whole thing is this, and I'll make it quick.
00:42:54.639 --> 00:43:15.519
Whatever my credits were in life, TV shows, movies, animation, whatever, my kids, when they're older, they're gonna be able to walk up there in that same where you see David Letterman, where you see Richard Pryor, where you see Red Fox, where you see Eddie Murphy, where you see, you know, you know, Dave Chappelle, your daddy's name was right up there awesome.
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:16.079
On that name.
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:22.159
You know, so it's like whatever I did in my life, hey man, in my field, I made it to the highest level.
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:24.559
And it's not everybody's gonna win the championship.
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.199
Not everybody can be the dude to get$50 million a year.
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:28.000
Sorry about that.
00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:30.559
But you're still, but you're still gonna be in the league.
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:32.960
I'm about to say you got a rotary phone.
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:33.920
Oh, he's 90s.
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:35.360
That's the old 90s.
00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.440
So the the the the shout out to the kids.
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:38.320
The shit's gonna be loud.
00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:43.519
Shout out to the comedy store too, because I had I had there's a you know what a parking lot is, right?
00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:50.880
There's a space that's blank in the parking lot of the comedy store in the back that was that could have fit a lot of the names.
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:57.440
But the comedy store, what they did, they chose to pull it in front on the main room on sunset.
00:43:57.599 --> 00:43:57.760
Right.
00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:59.440
My name ain't even with the rest of it.
00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:00.719
On the side.
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:05.840
But but the fact that they they use that spot is like, man, thank you.
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:06.719
You were revolutionary.
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:07.280
Thank you, brother.
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:08.559
It was ever about Simon.
00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:08.800
Thank you.
00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:14.800
You really need you were you were the you were the George Floyd, the Martin Luther King of just getting people together.
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:17.039
Well, like Bobby Seals, he would be Newton, man.
00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:17.679
Alright, man.
00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:19.360
I'm sorry, man.
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:20.320
We get into talk.
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:20.880
I forgot.
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:21.519
Y'all have questions.
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:23.840
You got some questions for me?
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:26.880
We got a bunch of questions, y'all.
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:29.360
We got fans and no comedy talking.
00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:30.800
I'm gonna go to commercial first.
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.440
Man, we gotta get into y'all's movie and TV film career, man.
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.159
Because, you know, everybody, everybody we have on here, a lot of them big on social media.
00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:44.800
They still working to get TV and film credits.
00:44:44.960 --> 00:44:47.599
Y'all have some legend social media credits.
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:50.559
Yeah, it is.
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:51.519
I feel you.
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:53.119
I want to get the life.
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:54.239
The movie life.
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:55.360
We gotta get the life.
00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:55.599
Okay.
00:44:55.840 --> 00:44:56.559
We get to like it.
00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:57.199
That's you.
00:44:57.440 --> 00:44:57.840
Okay, okay.
00:44:58.079 --> 00:44:58.880
We gotta get the movie.
00:44:59.360 --> 00:44:59.920
I have a life.
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:00.639
You were in the movie.
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:02.960
The movie, the movie life, bruh.
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:10.079
Okay, with the movie life, I I wanna, I gotta know, like, what's a memorable story from the movie life?
00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.559
Or who's the funniest person on set?
00:45:12.719 --> 00:45:14.400
You know, like what give us something.
00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:15.840
I mean, all those are easy.
00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:27.440
I mean, memorable moment is is is, and I say this all the time, because it's very important, and you know, at the at first day on the set, Eddie made the set comfortable by telling the director to let all the comics go.
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:29.280
Let us freestyle.
00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:36.719
And that trust in somebody like Eddie Murphy, to have that trust in him for us to ad-lib and do everything was very important.
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:38.880
I say very important because it was a period piece.
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:42.480
So when we're ad-lib, we had to really, I had really studied the period.
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:44.800
The 30s and the 40s and when it took place.
00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:50.960
So you can't be ad-libbing, you know, uh, you know, millennial shit in a movie that took place back then.
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:52.639
So say holla back on the back.
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:53.360
Right, exactly.
00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:55.840
Even down this is lit.
00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:56.079
Right.
00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:57.039
In 1840.
00:45:57.280 --> 00:45:58.320
Even down to the handshake.
00:45:58.400 --> 00:45:59.599
We were doing a baseball scene.
00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:00.000
Right, right.
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.079
We was doing a baseball scene, and two of the um, I don't like calling extras.
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:06.719
I don't like that, but um atmosphere.
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:07.840
Props that eat.
00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:09.599
Um props that eat.
00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:10.559
It's Negros.
00:46:11.679 --> 00:46:13.519
No, atmospheric technicians.
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:14.159
Okay.
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:15.920
All right, that's a little bit.
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:18.000
So they were they were high fiving.
00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:20.880
And I was like, they didn't high five back in the 30s and 40s.
00:46:21.039 --> 00:46:26.480
It was a different, and I told the director, I didn't go to them, I went to the directors, hey, those guys just high-fived.
00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:27.679
And that's not, period.
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:28.400
That's not true.
00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.239
Did you leave that out your peripheral?
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:33.599
Like you were you in a scene and you saw two homies over here throwing up.
00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:37.039
I was at the point or rolling 60s or something like that.
00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:37.679
That actually happened.
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:40.880
That actually happened in the that actually happened in another production.
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:41.199
Oh, yeah.
00:46:41.360 --> 00:46:46.559
But but but but if you study the period, you know, you know all the jive talk and the handshake, the movement.
00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:52.960
So, so I so that was the for Eddie Murphy to trust us is the best thing he ever could have done.
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:55.199
And then you said, um, who's the funniest?
00:46:55.440 --> 00:46:58.880
Funniest offset, you know, was Bernie Mack.
00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:01.119
Bernie Mack would hold court and tell stories, man.
00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:04.239
And those stories, you know, we all been on movie sets.
00:47:04.480 --> 00:47:10.719
So you know when it's a new deal, and new deal means they're going to a new screen, this for you, you I know you all know.
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:13.920
Uh, you go to your trailers and hang out and do whatever.
00:47:14.239 --> 00:47:17.280
Bernie, especially Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, it was a big story.
00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:18.159
He was always on.
00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:22.239
He was all but Bernie was telling stories, and Eddie and Martin would sit right there and listen.
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:26.159
Usually stars like that be gone and wait and wait on you for the next setup.
00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:26.320
Yeah.
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:29.840
But Bernie with Bernie was that guy who told stories and was.
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:51.199
And comedy no.
00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:52.079
Let them go.
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:52.320
Yeah.
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:53.199
This is where the magic.
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:57.360
Don't get me wrong, we all know in TV and film, uh, you know, you gotta get a couple of takes.
00:47:57.440 --> 00:47:57.519
Yeah.
00:47:57.679 --> 00:47:58.320
Get what's on the script.
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.079
Get what's on the script.
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:02.400
And then you that third take, y'all have fun.
00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:04.559
Take notes, Rob Snyder.
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:05.360
And guess what?
00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:05.760
In post.
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:08.079
I was going, I had a question about that.
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:09.360
We're gonna get back to that.
00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:09.519
Yeah.
00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:11.840
That might be, and usually is the cut they keep.
00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:12.079
Yeah.
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:12.800
Because guess what?
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:14.239
The whole room's dying laughing.
00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:14.480
Yeah.
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.440
How are you gonna not keep that in the final cut?
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:20.320
How many times we've all of us been on auditions?
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:26.239
Kill it, don't get the part, watch that production, and they used our shit.
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:26.639
Right.
00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:28.000
From the audition.
00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:29.760
You got an example of that?
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:32.880
Uh too many.
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:35.440
I one one I can say.
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:40.960
One I can say, uh, they use actually one of my jokes.
00:48:41.119 --> 00:48:45.840
Our Def our Def Comedy Jam at one point was doing the sketches before the shows.
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:50.559
And they actually, when the sketch, one one of my jokes ended up in the sketch.
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.280
They actually did my joke as a sketch and didn't use me.
00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:56.800
Listening while you had them done, and he was like, okay, then you can't.
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:59.679
And they used it, they used it in the You know I'm a writer.
00:48:59.760 --> 00:49:00.000
Yeah.
00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:02.880
That's what some sketch shows did, though.
00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:07.360
They used to sit in the back, the writers sit in the back of the room and have a five showcase.
00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:09.760
Oh, that used to happen on the audition store in Living Clean.
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:10.880
See, I didn't want to say it, man.
00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:11.760
I haven't thought of it.
00:49:13.679 --> 00:49:15.519
No, no, no, but it was a known fact.
00:49:15.840 --> 00:49:19.920
Famous sketch shows that were doing like uh cattle calls.
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:20.159
Right.
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:23.360
Thousand different actors bring six of your characters.
00:49:23.519 --> 00:49:23.599
Right.
00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:25.440
You don't think the writers were sitting on stage?
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:25.599
Yeah.
00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:25.760
Yeah.
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:27.360
You don't think the writers were in the back of the room?
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:29.599
Uh you didn't make it, but that character.
00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:31.119
Next time you see your joke.
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:31.679
Yeah.
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:36.079
Or you see one of their stars playing your character.
00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:41.760
Because actually, what it was, they they know that you're not anybody yet, but that was a brilliant ass idea.
00:49:41.840 --> 00:49:45.039
I'm gonna be honest, how many times have you seen an amateur comedian, right?
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:47.280
He he doesn't know the math of this shit yet.
00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:54.079
He might have had an incredible premise or an incredible something he's trying to work out.
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:57.760
You just get in the back of the room, you go, dude, that dude left so much meat on the bottom.
00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:58.320
That happened to me.
00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:01.280
He doesn't even have a clue where to go with that.
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:01.599
Yeah.
00:50:01.840 --> 00:50:03.840
But somebody like those on those TV shows.
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:06.800
Yeah, we we're gonna make something out of that.
00:50:06.880 --> 00:50:08.320
That fact, that might be a movie.
00:50:08.480 --> 00:50:12.480
I got a uh yeah, I have a question for you, and I'm pretty sure this has never been asked to you.
00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:12.960
Okay.
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:14.960
You I'm not French.
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:16.639
A lot of people think that I'm next.
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:20.239
Hey! And he's never been to a Diddy bar.
00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:22.880
I've actually been to a lot of Diddy bars.
00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:28.320
I got following questions, but I have no clue what time the baby oil came out.
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:30.239
So that's what you were saying?
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:43.280
You uh had a very specific space because in some of your major credits, you had the pressure of following high-level entities.
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:47.360
So you are part of the Jamie Foxx show.
00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:51.360
But this is Bentley's new forte after Martin.
00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:57.119
So it's like it uh part of this as hot as Jamie is, gotta be like, what is he gonna do after that?
00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:02.159
You're coming on Players Club after Friday.
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:06.480
And a lot of that pressure's gotta be, what is he gonna do after that?
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:10.719
What does that feel like on set being in that space?
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:12.880
Uh did you realize it at the time?
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:18.880
Like, uh, I can't really, I don't wanna be the part of the reason that this dropped the ball in a situation like this.
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:20.239
I'm gonna be honest with you, man.
00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.880
It's again, you always hear me talk about sports.
00:51:23.199 --> 00:51:25.039
It's like, yeah, I'm very aware.
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:34.480
I've always been, I guess before the word analytics, way before everybody had the analytics and everything, I was always a student of the game.
00:51:34.639 --> 00:51:34.719
Yeah.
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:44.079
I knew what was going on around me, I knew who was doing what and how they did it and this and that, but I had to always tell myself, hey man, you did what you did to get here.
00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:54.719
If you were concerned what everybody else was doing, what their numbers were, how that last guy set was, how that last movie, I would never do me.
00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:59.119
So to answer your question, I blocked all that out and I just did me.
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:01.679
I can't be Chris Tucker, Chris Tucker can't be me.
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:03.920
I can't be Ice Cube, Ice Cube can't be me.
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:05.119
I can't be Lorenzo.
00:52:05.280 --> 00:52:07.519
I had to be, I had to figure out who is Alex Thomas.
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:08.880
But you killed it every time.
00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:09.440
Thank you.
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:12.960
And I and it weren't the biggest roles, but it's stuff that people will remember forever.
00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:17.360
And I felt like here's my what's the whole word that you guys probably all know the saying.
00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:18.880
I tell to my kids today.
00:52:19.199 --> 00:52:21.920
You only get the a first time for a first impression.
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:22.559
What's the word you gotta do?
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:26.239
You only get a one chance to make a first impression.
00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:34.239
And that was always, I went into every role thinking like there is no if this don't work out, I I gotta kill it.
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:39.360
Yeah, yeah, it may be small, but I you gotta take a uh a rope and become a cowboy.
00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:41.599
You gotta take an inch and make it a mile.
00:52:41.679 --> 00:52:46.159
Because what people always say is, man, it was a small scene, but you but you stole that shit.
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:48.639
I'm like, and that was my mentality going on.
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:57.599
And I wanna say, I wanna say that had to prepare you for because he did one a tour that I wouldn't do, because I probably don't have a confidence to do it.
00:52:57.840 --> 00:52:58.719
A rap tour.
00:52:58.960 --> 00:52:59.599
The NW screen.
00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:00.079
Up and smoke.
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:01.280
Up and smoke tour.
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:03.679
Yeah, I watched, I still have that DVD, I still watch it.
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:05.519
But you opened that show.
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:10.880
And and to open it, I I did a Maxwell Joe Scott tour, but that's a different audience from an up and smoke tour.
00:53:11.920 --> 00:53:12.079
Mind you?
00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:13.119
Might you know?
00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:15.360
Wait, what year did uh Kings of Comedy come out?
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:19.360
Uh the the the tour or the the the uh the theory.
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:21.840
We did the tour, we did the tour, we did the tour in '97, '98.
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:25.840
Okay, so you guys were before uh we we did up and smoke in 2001.
00:53:25.920 --> 00:53:26.000
Right.
00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:29.360
But the reason I say that, we're not only because you bought it up.
00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:38.880
It was so huge for me, because at that time, the biggest room, the biggest, you know, uh, you know, platform I'd ever been on was opening up for huge comedians.
00:53:38.960 --> 00:53:42.800
Like, for example, by that time, Mark Curry had taken me out on the road, the whole country.
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:46.159
Damon Wayans, these guys were some of the biggest comics at that time.
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:48.400
They were selling out 5,000 seaters.
00:53:48.480 --> 00:53:49.760
So that was the biggest for me.
00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:50.559
So when Dr.
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:56.880
Dre called me and said, it's gonna be 30,000 people every single night.
00:53:57.039 --> 00:53:58.719
Uh, can you do it?
00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:01.360
I was like, hell yeah.
00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:06.159
But isn't the story in my in my Dr.
00:54:06.239 --> 00:54:06.880
Dre voice?
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.639
No, but it was huge for me because it just came up yesterday on the golf court.
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:14.639
Somebody was asking, like, how did you tell jokes in that environment?
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:17.360
And I told him, I told him to honest from the bottom of my heart.
00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:22.480
I had to figure out a way to become a hype man slash comedian.
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:27.280
Because it ain't the same, these are not jokes I could go do Tuesday night at the Laugh Factory.
00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:27.440
Right.
00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:31.440
These are not jokes that I could go do the Comedy Magic Club in Hermosa Beach.
00:54:31.519 --> 00:54:31.599
Right.
00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:41.039
No, I had to figure out a way to sneak my jokes in here in front of 30,000 people that did not come to see me.
00:54:41.519 --> 00:54:44.800
They came, they were all drunk, they were all high, they came to see Dr.
00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:45.519
Dre Snoop.
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:47.119
And I'm La Horny too.
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:48.559
Horny and everything else.
00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:51.840
But I had to figure out a way, but I figured it out quick.
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:55.360
I figured it out so quick to the point where here's the crazy part.
00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:01.599
Yes, I was the only person on the tour that they didn't come to see, but I also had my own little lane.
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:06.239
Meaning, by 2001, I'd already had three, four movies under my belt.
00:55:06.320 --> 00:55:06.480
Yeah.
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:08.320
I was already on the Jamie Foxx show.
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:10.400
I had my little following.
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:12.559
Also, one thing Dre is We know him.
00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:13.360
Right, right, right.
00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:16.639
So Dre and Snoop used to come up to me.
00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:18.639
I'm married now, so I can say this.
00:55:18.719 --> 00:55:23.679
But Snoop be like, he be like, cuz you got a bitch in every city.
00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:26.000
And then Dre was like, I know.
00:55:26.159 --> 00:55:28.320
He's like, nigga, I mean, you you did this.
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:31.760
I guess they didn't realize, they just always looked at me a little more Alex.
00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:32.159
Right.
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:36.400
They didn't realize that, like, dude, you know, I've been doing comedy for 11 years now.
00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:40.239
Uh I I was in a few movies, in a few TV shows.
00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:44.880
I'm not as big as y'all, but I got at least four, four to seven bitches in every city.
00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:46.639
You can show them.
00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:50.880
Because when you sit there with a bitch that already likes you, it's like, hey man, we just got here.
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:52.559
Why she knows you already wish you know.
00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:54.159
I don't have a thousand like you do.
00:55:54.719 --> 00:55:56.320
But I have some acquaintances in every city.
00:55:56.559 --> 00:55:58.320
And I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure.
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:05.679
This is the thing about with as black comedians and why we're so great and better than a lot of other uh comedians.
00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:09.679
Because we have to do shows in the hood.
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:10.159
Yes.
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:10.559
Period.
00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:15.119
In in with with Crips and Bloods are at our shows and they're heckling you.
00:56:15.199 --> 00:56:17.440
And you had making the life, you gotta make a life decision.
00:56:17.599 --> 00:56:20.480
Do I get him back and kill him, or do I let him kill me in the product?
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:22.400
Because comics have gotten beat up, right?
00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:23.920
Stabbed, shot, brother.
00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:24.800
Joe Torch.
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:25.440
No, no, finish me.
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:30.320
Joe, I love you, but that's the truth.
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:30.800
I'm sure.
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:31.519
Am I lying?
00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:32.400
No, no, you're right.
00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:32.880
Okay, Joe.
00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:33.199
Okay.
00:56:33.360 --> 00:56:34.400
So though I'm sure though.
00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:36.559
Wait a minute, he was doing the beating up, but he was getting stabbed.
00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:38.159
We know Joe got the man, brother.
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:44.559
He got a dude shot up a club because I was there that night, so I wouldn't get into it because it brings back memories.
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:45.360
But your brother.
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:48.159
But I was gonna say before we're getting fights every single day.
00:56:48.320 --> 00:56:49.440
But we know, but he was.
00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.400
I'm sure those rooms prepare help prepare you for that tour as well.
00:56:54.639 --> 00:56:58.639
I knew how to talk about people, and the person that I'm talking about can laugh with me.
00:56:58.800 --> 00:56:58.960
Right.
00:56:59.119 --> 00:56:59.760
Joe Tory?
00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:00.159
Yeah.
00:57:00.639 --> 00:57:01.119
His brother?
00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:01.760
No mercy.
00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:02.400
No, nigga.
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:03.760
Somebody got to die tonight.
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:04.719
We are going to fight.
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:06.480
Joe would fight the nigga with the road.
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:10.079
But but he was just a tough, you remember, remember Joe was buff at that time?
00:57:10.480 --> 00:57:12.239
Best wearing leather, arms out, shooting.
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:13.360
Yeah, he was a tough nigga.
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:16.639
Joe would talk about somebody and be like, yeah, nigga, I said it.
00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:18.320
Uh, next, this next comedian.
00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:19.119
You know what I mean?
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:20.719
Like, you just gonna leave it like that?
00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:21.679
You know what I'm saying?
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:24.320
But that's that was his thing, though.
00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:25.920
That was Joe's personality.
00:57:26.079 --> 00:57:28.239
So Did y'all see this when y'all were 16?
00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:30.480
Like, how early back, did y'all did y'all see this?
00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:32.480
Or it was it a some sort of event?
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:34.159
Because sometimes people get encouraged to do it.
00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:37.840
Or they, you know, they got kicked out of school and then they went into comedy all the time.
00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:39.360
I want to be a comedian, that type of thing.
00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:39.920
When did that?
00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:46.159
And when did you because like the thing is wanting to do comedy is different from deciding to do it.
00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:47.760
When did you decide to do it?
00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:50.480
This is why I said comedy chose me.
00:57:50.639 --> 00:57:54.320
Because I didn't know it was even a job until really Def Comedy Jam.
00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:58.159
I knew who Pryor was, I knew who Cosby was, I knew all that, you know?
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:04.239
And and when I saw first I saw my brother on Showtime at the Apollo, I was like, oh, okay.
00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:06.719
And then I saw Def Comedy Jam.
00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:08.880
So did you look at him like a comedian at that time?
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:10.480
Or you just saw you just like your phone?
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:11.440
On Apollo, yes.
00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:14.639
Joe, what?
00:58:14.960 --> 00:58:15.679
Like what year did he start?
00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:16.960
Joe started in college.
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:20.000
So Joe started around 87, 88, maybe.
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:21.360
Also, like not even five years ahead.
00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:22.639
Yeah, I started in '92.
00:58:22.719 --> 00:58:22.800
Right.
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:23.440
Okay.
00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:23.679
Right.
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:24.639
Right.
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:24.800
Okay.
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:27.519
And I always did things that my older brothers and sisters did.
00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:32.880
And then comedy, like I said, comedy chose me because I was always the class clown, like most of us, the school bus clown.
00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:34.159
We were always doing that.
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:36.239
We didn't know it was, I didn't know it was a job.
00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:39.280
Otherwise, we would have dropped out in the third grade and went pro early.
00:58:39.920 --> 00:58:41.599
And started open mics in fourth grade.
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:41.760
Right.
00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:46.000
But so that's your mom pepped you a lunch before you did your set.
00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:49.679
I eat your carrots before you do your joke.
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:53.280
I wasn't a young kid who saw it and like, oh, I'm gonna be that.
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:59.199
I knew I liked attention, and I knew I liked cheering people up, and I knew I was, you know, had a smart mouth.
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:02.400
And all that developed into, you know, who I am today.
00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:07.360
In my case, yeah, in high school, class clown, best sense of humor, kind of same story.
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:09.199
No clue this is what I wanted to do.
00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:18.079
But in my case, growing up in South Central LA, half my family's Crips and Bloods, I always remember uh one thing Richard Pryor said back in the day, but his was in prison.
00:59:18.239 --> 00:59:25.519
Remember the famous, he was like, I was in jail, I kept these niggas laughing to keep their minds off the booty.
00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:25.760
Yeah.
00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:31.199
In my case, it was keep these niggas' minds off, making me join the motherfucking gang.
00:59:31.280 --> 00:59:36.480
Nigga, I it's almost like I knew because I was the only black kid in an all-white private school, right?
00:59:36.719 --> 00:59:39.119
They already looked at me like I was a corny nigga.
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:39.280
Yeah.
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:41.280
And both my parents were in my life.
00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:43.760
So I couldn't do all the so-called cool.
00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.639
I couldn't be out to nine and ten o'clock at night.
00:59:46.880 --> 00:59:48.159
They wanted me to go on a drive-by.
00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:49.679
Nigga, I had soccer practice.
00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:50.480
You know what I mean?
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:52.239
They wanted me to buy the liquor store.
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:53.199
I had choir rehearsal.
00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:53.599
You know what I mean?
00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:55.519
You had T ball.
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:04.159
All this shit that they talked about, me doing, my whole thing was, but I can make you laugh.
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:08.960
I was just silly, didn't know what I was doing, but that kept me away from them.
01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:12.079
They were like, this nigga can't beat roll with the Crips or the Buzz.
01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:14.239
Nigga, you you're corny or you're soft.
01:00:14.480 --> 01:00:15.760
We ain't never seen you fight.
01:00:15.920 --> 01:00:17.199
You ain't never smoked the blunt.
01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:19.039
We ain't never seen you with a can of beer.
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.719
It used to bother me, and when I got older, I was like, thank God.
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:24.800
We ain't never seen you with business in every city.
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:27.440
Yeah, but the hoes came later.
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:34.239
I'm gonna be mad as hell if we walk out of here and you don't talk about one of my favorite movies.
01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:35.920
I think tripping is hilarious.
01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:40.719
I think tripping is hilarious, underrated.
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:43.440
I think you were hysterical in this shit.
01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:48.320
And for whatever reason, like we was talking about soul playing, like the whatever, love, da da da.
01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:51.519
But everybody that watches it, because I stumbled upon it.
01:00:51.599 --> 01:00:52.559
I'm just randomly, it's on.
01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:56.559
I'm like, and the nigga gets up in the in the bed dance, I'm like, what the fuck am I watching?
01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:59.760
I thought it was, I thought it was like a a new uh extended version of the house party.
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:01.280
I was like, Who the fuck is this?
01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:02.639
Geez got it, everything.
01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:04.960
I was like, the theaters?
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:05.360
Oh yeah.
01:01:05.440 --> 01:01:06.079
Yeah, it went to theaters.
01:01:06.159 --> 01:01:06.960
What years was this like?
01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:08.960
This is 95, 96.
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:10.079
No, it was way later than.
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:13.840
Donald Faison.
01:01:14.239 --> 01:01:14.880
Deion Richmond.
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:15.599
Deion Richmond.
01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:17.119
Um, um, Maya Campbell.
01:01:17.360 --> 01:01:17.840
Gotcha, gotcha.
01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:23.920
It was, it was, you know what, Trippin' was funny because that's one of the movies where, you know, I've done Pearl Harbor, I've done American Shreks, I've done five.
01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:25.920
And when somebody comes and says, Man, you know what my favorite movie is?
01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:26.480
Tripping.
01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:27.760
I'm gonna like of all the tripping.
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:30.880
Tripping is your one.
01:01:31.119 --> 01:01:32.480
You just bad because you can't walk like this.
01:01:34.239 --> 01:01:35.440
Yeah, uh, uh, yeah, yeah.
01:01:35.840 --> 01:01:36.800
But it shows, you know what it is.
01:01:37.039 --> 01:01:38.320
D'Artagnan, D'Artagnan Ebbman.
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:40.159
Shout out to Dartanya and Evanny Anderson.
01:01:40.400 --> 01:01:41.920
Yeah, yeah, like by you versus.
01:01:42.159 --> 01:01:42.800
Tony Jackson.
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:47.440
That shows whatever we did over the years, there was always a lane, and there were some people watching.
01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:47.840
Yeah, yeah.
01:01:48.639 --> 01:01:52.480
You can't compare it to Jurassic Park and goddamn Avatar, but guess what?
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:54.079
Almost like Tubi is now.
01:01:54.159 --> 01:01:55.360
We could talk about it all day.
01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:55.519
Right.
01:01:55.679 --> 01:01:57.679
But you know how many people are growing up on Tubi now?
01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:01.199
He was in Hollaback.
01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:02.159
I love Hollaback.
01:02:03.760 --> 01:02:14.880
But the film on Trippin', it was like it was a great movie to work on because uh Donald Faison, Deion Richmond, we didn't all know each other until the movie, and we clicked like we were friends forever in the movie.
01:02:15.119 --> 01:02:20.159
And we had a cool director, David Rayner, who who again let the comments go allow it, allow us to be.
01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:24.000
I was like, this shit is hilarious, bro.
01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:25.119
It came out in 99.
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:25.599
I looked it up.
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:26.239
99, yeah.
01:02:26.559 --> 01:02:28.719
Who do you guys go to for your comedy advice?
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.440
Who ya, who are your Oh, I got some story, but you go ahead first.
01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:33.360
Well, in my case, it's crazy.
01:02:33.599 --> 01:02:35.920
I never, it's it's weird to use the word advice.
01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:38.559
Because when you say advice, like we get, I know you get it a lot of time.
01:02:38.719 --> 01:02:39.920
Hey man, what's your advice?
01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:43.599
I was really blessed to be around those guys that I was around.
01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:59.119
Like, meaning being around Will Smith every day at the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, being around Jamie Foxx every day, Jamie, being around the Wayans brothers for the last 30 years, from Keenan all the way down to Marlin, it was like we were in comedy boot camp, whether we knew it or liked it or not.
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:01.360
It was if I ever had a question, right?
01:03:01.519 --> 01:03:05.679
It's crazy you're saying the word advice, but I guess it did come from all those guys.
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:08.000
Right now, I'm still a student of the game.
01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:15.199
It's not like I'm it's not like I'm asking as much anymore because now I'm the guy that people come like, hey, OG, Unk, you've been in it 30 years.
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:15.840
It's crazy.
01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:16.559
You know what I mean?
01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:17.440
That's crazy.
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:18.000
I'm an OG.
01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:19.440
That's crazy.
01:03:19.920 --> 01:03:22.719
That's how I know I'm an Unk and I'm an old my daughter and my son.
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:29.039
I'm in the mall, and a young dude came up to the food court, hey Unk, and my daddy was, I mean, my son, my kids like, is that your brother?
01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:31.679
That's like no legend, no Halo.
01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:36.559
That's what they call me because I'm of a certain age, and I had to explain what Unk was.
01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:38.719
But now I'm the guy giving advice.
01:03:38.880 --> 01:03:40.960
But I never did the advice thing.
01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:42.239
Hey man, what's your advice?
01:03:42.400 --> 01:03:42.719
I did.
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.599
I was just, hey man, I just had no fear.
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:50.079
I would talk to Martin, I would talk to Will, I would talk to Jamie like I should have been there.
01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:52.079
I talked to him like I'm one of the guys.
01:03:52.320 --> 01:03:55.119
It wasn't like, hey, little Alex, hey, the new new booty.
01:03:55.199 --> 01:03:58.159
I I really felt like I belonged.
01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:02.079
So my questions, it was kind of like just in conversation, not getting off.
01:04:03.280 --> 01:04:03.440
Absolutely.
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:04.400
Do you know what I mean?
01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:04.880
Yeah, absolutely.
01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:07.119
But you picked up some games still, yeah.
01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:07.920
That's what I'm talking about.
01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:20.639
Who basically, who would you guys go to if you had some, you know, because even as and you I know you give me just like because I want to say advice like they're so above you, but it's just like yo, when you try to work through.
01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:22.559
They led by example.
01:04:22.639 --> 01:04:23.280
I have to say this.
01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:23.519
Okay.
01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:29.440
Those dudes that we were fortunate to be around, and I know you have your stories, they literally led by example.
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:30.960
It's almost like if we were in the underworld.
01:04:31.039 --> 01:04:34.239
Say we weren't in the entertainment, but we were just all straight niggas, right?
01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:35.760
You learn from the big homies.
01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:36.079
Yeah.
01:04:36.719 --> 01:04:38.000
I learned from my big homies.
01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:40.320
It happened to be my big homies.
01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:42.400
Sports were successful.
01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:45.360
They were veterans and they figured this shit out.
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:49.599
So, you know, little do they know the stuff that fell on us, it made us successful.
01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:51.360
A little bit more baker soda, it's gonna rock up.
01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:57.440
In my case, I was fortunate to have a brick brother who already done it.
01:04:57.519 --> 01:04:57.599
Right.
01:04:57.760 --> 01:05:00.639
So I didn't I never asked for advice because he was just talking give it.
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:03.440
And he was he taught he taught me game.
01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:05.199
He, you know, smile more on stage.
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:07.280
Funny because he-smile.
01:05:07.519 --> 01:05:07.920
Exactly.
01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:11.440
It's so tough on the crowd, nigga.
01:05:11.760 --> 01:05:12.960
You got shot at last week.
01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:14.800
But he probably he knows my personality.
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:16.079
He said, smile more on stage.
01:05:16.159 --> 01:05:19.920
Use the six parts of the stage, you know, the front, there's back, the left, the right, there's up, the down.
01:05:20.079 --> 01:05:21.039
So he was always giving advice.
01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:22.159
I never had to ask for advice.
01:05:22.239 --> 01:05:23.840
But I asked for advice from other people.
01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:27.760
Like one time I remember, and Joe got mad at us when I said this in front of him, but it was just fact.
01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:28.800
I was having Rotter's block.
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:30.480
I was like, I couldn't think of anything else.
01:05:30.639 --> 01:05:32.000
And I called Jamie.
01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:34.960
Jamie had just gotten back from doing um Ali.
01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:35.599
Okay.
01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:37.280
I said, man, I can't think of anything, man.
01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:38.400
I'm Rodersblocking.
01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:43.840
And then he goes, Man, you never talk about your Hollywood stuff, your TVs and movie shows.
01:05:43.920 --> 01:05:45.840
I said, No, I keep that separate, I compartmentalize.
01:05:45.920 --> 01:05:47.599
He said, Man, people won't hear about that shit.
01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:53.119
People won't hear about, you know, um me having a fight on the set of uh uh of of um any given Sunday.
01:05:53.440 --> 01:05:57.280
Any given Sunday and and and what happened on the set of Ali and all that stuff.
01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:59.519
Talk about it because I used to never talk about my acting.
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:00.800
On stage.
01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:02.800
So, and that opened up a lot for me.
01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:04.239
And like, oh, okay.
01:06:04.400 --> 01:06:06.559
And then years later, I had another Rotterdog.
01:06:07.360 --> 01:06:14.800
I ran into um uh Tommy Davison on at the Remember the Good Guys that used to be on the corner of uh Ventura.
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:16.239
Oh, yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about.
01:06:16.480 --> 01:06:18.000
And uh not Laura Tony.
01:06:18.320 --> 01:06:19.119
Okay, okay, yeah.
01:06:19.519 --> 01:06:20.880
I saw him, I said, man, Rogers Block.
01:06:21.039 --> 01:06:23.599
He said, Man, start opening with your closer.
01:06:23.760 --> 01:06:24.400
I said, What?
01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:25.760
He said, start opening with your closer.
01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:27.280
It'll make the rest of your set.
01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:29.119
Yeah, it'll make your other joke stronger.
01:06:29.760 --> 01:06:31.039
That's what Tony does, Tony Rock.
01:06:31.199 --> 01:06:33.039
Yeah, and that and that that that advice came to the case.
01:06:33.199 --> 01:06:35.199
It makes you have to be on the follow yourself.
01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:35.760
Exactly.
01:06:35.920 --> 01:06:37.440
So those are a fact.
01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:39.360
Which actually goes back to what he was talking about earlier.
01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:41.360
Follow yourself.
01:06:43.039 --> 01:06:44.079
You know that closer is the killer.
01:06:44.239 --> 01:06:44.320
Right.
01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:45.599
Who that nigga's strong.
01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:45.760
Right.
01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:48.639
But I actually do that depending on what city I go to.
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:48.960
Right.
01:06:49.119 --> 01:06:49.679
I I would do it.
01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:51.199
It literally depends on the city.
01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:53.280
I'll look at a crowd and be like, you know what?
01:06:53.440 --> 01:07:00.559
Just for the hell of it, to throw a twist out there, to kind of test myself and see where I can go from there, I'll start off with my closer.
01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:07.920
And it's so, the shit's so strong that you go, little do they know, you're up there going, hey, oh shit, where do I go from here?
01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:09.440
Right, right, right, right, right.
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:10.639
So what else is going on?
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:17.840
And also I also got a lot of game from, you know, Bernie, Cedric, and Steve Harvey on the Kings of Comedy too.
01:07:18.079 --> 01:07:18.639
For example, though, right?
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:19.360
Are you being a good one?
01:07:19.519 --> 01:07:20.960
Well, they would give me, they would say certain things, yeah.
01:07:21.119 --> 01:07:21.199
Okay.
01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:22.880
What's some things they say?
01:07:23.039 --> 01:07:23.760
What's some things?
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:30.880
Just one thing that Steve said that stuck out, and I say this all the time, that's when I learned the difference between a comic and a comedian.
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:33.199
Comic says funny things.
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:34.960
A comedian makes things funny.
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:38.000
You can be a comic all day and no one knows who you are.
01:07:38.079 --> 01:07:40.400
You're you're not transparent, they have no idea.
01:07:40.719 --> 01:07:44.159
They leave that com when they leave that show, they're not leaving with a piece of you.
01:07:44.320 --> 01:07:46.960
They laughed, but they don't know who the hell you are.
01:07:47.280 --> 01:07:49.039
Comedian, we expose ourselves.
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:49.519
Absolutely.
01:07:49.840 --> 01:07:52.559
We make our pain our funny.
01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:54.000
So, our laughter.
01:07:54.159 --> 01:08:01.360
So, so I I would ask for advice in that way, but also a lot of advice came to me because I was Joe Toy's little brother.
01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:03.199
I remember doing uh Def Comedy Jam.
01:08:04.559 --> 01:08:04.639
Yeah.
01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:06.480
Def Jam, Def Comedy Jam.
01:08:06.719 --> 01:08:10.320
Um, Chris Rock was like, God, I'm gonna take your brother under my wing.
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Fuck Joe.
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He said, Man, never get a hook.
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Because when your hook goes, you go.
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And at that time, Shucky Jackie was on stage for his second, for his second def jam, and it didn't go that well because the the hook is on the hook it blew him up.
01:08:26.479 --> 01:08:27.840
But it didn't work on the second half.
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Right, he was kind of a funny guy.
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Don't you be Shucky Ducky?
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Don't you quack, quack.
01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:36.960
And the nigga would end on that.
01:08:37.199 --> 01:08:38.000
But hold up.
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He would end on that.
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So I'm gonna do it, right?
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I'm sucky ducky.
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And then this would be the nigga's closer.
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And that's why, because I'm sucky, Ducky.
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Quack, quack, good night.
01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:50.000
But it worked.
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You know what I mean?
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Like I never wanted to be that.
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But don't get me wrong, it worked, but here's the flip side.
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That that falls into that 15 minutes of fame shit.
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Let's just be real.
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He had a career out there.
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He had a good career.
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People that cheated the process.
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:04.720
He didn't cheat the process.
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No, no, no, no.
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What I mean, okay, so you're saying he's relevant and still kicking?
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Like he's gonna be a good thing.
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He's still doing stand up to the day, you know?
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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What I'm trying to say is do you ever think about why some guys never went to the next level, guy?
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I just don't.
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I don't even worry about myself.
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Here's the answer.
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I can't talk about anybody else.
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Because I, again, being a winner of the game, it's almost like you're a doctor.
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You gotta know about the good and the bad.
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Yeah.
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You study both.
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So, so yeah, you study, I'm not just gonna study the good, I'm not just gonna study the bad.
01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:36.159
I really want to know, I'm really on those analytics.
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Like, why?
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I'll look at a comic on joke on on stage, whether I like him or not, I'm going, I know exactly why that joke didn't work.
01:09:44.159 --> 01:09:44.560
Right.
01:09:44.720 --> 01:09:50.159
And I can really help him to take that same premise and help him kill, but it's not really my place.
01:09:50.319 --> 01:09:52.720
But I still to this day, I will analyze.
01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:54.399
I'm not looking at it like other people.
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You know, I'll go BT.
01:09:56.479 --> 01:09:56.720
You know what?
01:09:56.880 --> 01:09:57.279
That shit was crazy.
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You know where advice came from?
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Blah, blah, blah, before the blah, blah, blah.
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And then you go do it, and you look at me like, nigga.
01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:03.359
It worked.
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Yeah.
01:10:04.239 --> 01:10:05.039
I never thought of that.
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Thank you.
01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:07.279
You know, you know who gave me surprisingly advice?
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And this is when I was, I don't think I was doing comedy a year yet.
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I was at a Comedy Act Theater and I did my set, had a good set.
01:10:14.159 --> 01:10:14.720
It was cool.
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Got off stage, and in the back was TK Kirkland.
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T to the motherfucker.
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T to the motherfucker.
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And you wouldn't think to get advice from TK.
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And TK goes, Man, you write your jokes down word for word, don't you?
01:10:26.880 --> 01:10:28.079
I said, Yeah, I know.
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He said, I can see when you're telling your jokes, I can see you read.
01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:35.199
I was like, wow, he said, man, no, the joke write them down.
01:10:35.600 --> 01:10:40.880
Or if you write them down word for word, make an outline and just do the topics and do the bullet points.
01:10:41.119 --> 01:10:48.159
And and he was the first one, but by looking at me on stage, he saw that I was like trying to remember what I wrote down.
01:10:50.239 --> 01:10:50.800
Right, right, right, right.
01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:52.399
And I and and and like it came from that.
01:10:52.479 --> 01:10:53.920
DL gave me some advice one time.
01:10:54.000 --> 01:11:04.479
We I was doing comedy eight months, and we was in Bermuda doing a show, and without even saying anything, he was like, I was in my head, like I'm in another country, they may not get this shit.
01:11:04.880 --> 01:11:06.720
I gotta explain them in a different way.
01:11:06.800 --> 01:11:10.640
And without even saying that, he said, hey man, I know you're in another country.
01:11:10.800 --> 01:11:13.840
He said, Tell the jokes the same way you tell them in the States.
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Don't try to overexplain.
01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:18.800
And I'm like in myself, like, how do they even know I was that was that was a burden?
01:11:18.960 --> 01:11:20.000
Hey, but he was right.
01:11:20.880 --> 01:11:25.199
Now that we're getting into some masterclass shit, because now you now you you brought up another thing.
01:11:25.359 --> 01:11:28.239
I used to really be worried when I would go out of the country.
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Because I was like, how the hell are they gonna understand my jokes?
01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:35.760
Do you know what saved me with being able to kill around the world?
01:11:35.840 --> 01:11:40.720
I'm talking from Israel to Hong Kong to Jerusalem to goddamn Jamaica.
01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:41.920
Would you go to Israel now?
01:11:42.800 --> 01:11:43.680
Would you go to Israel now?
01:11:44.079 --> 01:11:44.720
No, but I wouldn't.
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No, no, but my Israel story was the bomb.
01:11:50.239 --> 01:11:51.039
Yeah, I hear what I'm saying.
01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:58.560
Nigga, when I show you I killed in Israel, uh, where were uh what they called rabbis were giving me their yarmulkes?
01:11:58.720 --> 01:11:58.960
Damn.
01:11:59.119 --> 01:12:01.359
Nigga, rabbi was like, oh, we love you.
01:12:03.199 --> 01:12:04.159
Like it was crazy.
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:07.920
It's a long story, but yeah, Israel, I did nine shows with Jerry Seinfeld.
01:12:08.159 --> 01:12:08.560
That's dope.
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:11.840
Oh yeah, it was it was it was called it's called comedy.
01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:16.000
I guess I said I'm sorry.
01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:16.960
I know we're long-winded.
01:12:17.439 --> 01:12:18.000
Nah, go for it.
01:12:18.159 --> 01:12:20.399
I mean, we could add to eight hours.
01:12:20.640 --> 01:12:22.479
It's a thing called comedy for Kobe.
01:12:22.720 --> 01:12:24.640
And he's been doing it for like 19 years.
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:25.039
Wow.
01:12:25.199 --> 01:12:32.960
And what happens is Jerry Seinfeld is great friends with uh with the head rabbi in Israel, right?
01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:40.880
And it just happened to be the rabbi had, I think, two children that were killed to uh to terrorism, and they were both teenagers.
01:12:41.439 --> 01:12:46.720
You know, do his you know, the whole, you know, the what do they call the Palestinians versus all that stuff.
01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:47.439
It was a mess.
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:53.359
So he started doing a comedy show like 20 years ago to raise money for children that have passed through the terrorism.
01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:53.760
Wow.
01:12:53.920 --> 01:13:01.520
And uh, I want to say, in like 16, 17 years of doing comedy for Kobe, there had only been like three black comics to go over there.
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Name Kobe, who's Kobe?
01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:04.640
So the kid Kobe was a kid.
01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:05.680
So not Kobe Bryant.
01:13:05.920 --> 01:13:06.880
No, no, no, no, no, no.
01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:07.760
I'm glad you said that.
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So the rabbi's son's name was Kobe.
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Got it.
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He was the one that was killed to terrorism.
01:13:11.760 --> 01:13:12.880
They started this foundation.
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And Jerry Seinfeld just happened to be great friends with that guy.
01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:18.319
I'm gonna guess one of the black people, George Wallace.
01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:18.800
No.
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Because that's his best friend, you would think.
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:20.960
Yeah, you would think.
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But no, no, no.
01:13:22.319 --> 01:13:22.880
George was the first.
01:13:23.039 --> 01:13:31.199
Okay, yeah, but then like six years later, it was Chris Rock, then four years later, it was Gang Safel, and then I was like the fourth black comedian to ever go out there.
01:13:31.439 --> 01:13:31.760
That's dope.
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.439
Right, but we did nine cities in Jerusalem in Israel.
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:42.880
It'd be like doing comedy in Clover City one night, Northridge another, Santa Monica another, but all these different, you know, synagogues, and it was huge.
01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:47.439
It just happened to be this is the year that I'm the uh that I'm the the headliner.
01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:47.680
Right.
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The crazy part about it was I really didn't know what in the hell.
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And the only you know, parameter was you can't cuss.
01:13:55.359 --> 01:13:55.520
Right.
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You can't talk about sex.
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That's why I didn't get it.
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Have fun.
01:13:59.359 --> 01:13:59.680
You know what I mean?
01:13:59.760 --> 01:14:00.239
Like it it was.
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But you ain't got no bitches over there.
01:14:04.239 --> 01:14:06.399
So it was a real, I liked these.
01:14:06.880 --> 01:14:07.760
I'll let that laugh go.
01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:08.880
That's very funny.
01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:11.680
Four more seconds of the laugh.
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Okay.
01:14:13.359 --> 01:14:14.560
Call for laughter.
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Let you get that stuff.
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:16.800
Yep.
01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:17.680
You know how to warm up.
01:14:19.439 --> 01:14:22.239
So, long story short, I was like, damn, what am I gonna do?
01:14:22.399 --> 01:14:24.239
I just had to do 30 minutes every night.
01:14:24.399 --> 01:14:26.800
And I had to like kick into my joke vault.
01:14:26.960 --> 01:14:27.279
Oh, yeah.
01:14:27.520 --> 01:14:29.039
Stuff that I haven't done for years.
01:14:29.119 --> 01:14:29.279
Yeah.
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:29.840
Yeah, yeah.
01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:30.800
Stuff that I would kill.
01:14:31.279 --> 01:14:32.079
Dig in the crates, yeah.
01:14:32.479 --> 01:14:35.840
Digging the dig in the crates, pull out stuff that always killed.
01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:37.199
I just hadn't did it in a while.
01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:41.039
And it would, it made me feel great that stuff that you would think, oh, that's not relevant.
01:14:41.680 --> 01:14:42.319
Brand new over there.
01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:47.920
Nigga, when I say brand new, when I'll say they treated me like my name was Richard motherfucking prior.
01:14:48.159 --> 01:14:48.399
Right, right.
01:14:48.560 --> 01:14:52.560
They treated, but but most importantly, you know what I love the most, all aside of comedy?
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It just happened to be 2019.
01:14:54.640 --> 01:14:55.920
It was the year before the pandemic.
01:14:56.159 --> 01:14:56.560
Oh, wow.
01:14:56.800 --> 01:14:59.439
Uh, and I just started a family.
01:14:59.680 --> 01:15:08.720
So out of all my trips around this entire globe, my greatest trip ever was that trip to Jerusalem.
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:11.199
Because I'm a Christian, right?
01:15:11.439 --> 01:15:14.560
But so I got to go visit the home of Jesus Christ.
01:15:14.800 --> 01:15:17.520
I got to take my kids to go see Bethlehem.
01:15:17.760 --> 01:15:25.279
I literally, when you say when they say Jesus walked on water, I have the video on Instagram of me walking on the Sea of Galilee.
01:15:25.439 --> 01:15:27.039
Like everything that you hear about in the Bible.
01:15:27.119 --> 01:15:29.840
Well, I thought you were about to say you had a video of Jesus walking on water.
01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:31.600
I thought you were gonna say he walked on water.
01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:33.760
That one got deleted.
01:15:33.920 --> 01:15:34.239
Uh-huh.
01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:36.399
My wife stopped.
01:15:36.560 --> 01:15:38.319
Why did Jesus came in the business?
01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:41.279
No, but it was huge.
01:15:41.600 --> 01:15:43.760
It was huge because we did one week in Europe.
01:15:43.840 --> 01:15:45.119
That just made it a family thing.
01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:48.880
We did one week in Europe, and then we did my nine days in Israel.
01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:53.199
And then what's crazy, I'm staying in Tel Aviv with all this craziness happening now.
01:15:53.359 --> 01:15:56.640
I'm looking at it, go, dude, I stayed a block away from that bomb head.
01:15:56.800 --> 01:15:58.239
I stayed too, I went to that place.
01:15:58.319 --> 01:15:58.960
I went to that place.
01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:07.520
So it was an amazing family trip, and it was one of my greatest comedy trips because it was the biggest comedy test I've ever like when I say no black people.
01:16:07.600 --> 01:16:07.920
Yeah.
01:16:08.720 --> 01:16:10.880
Nothing cool, nothing hip.
01:16:11.279 --> 01:16:13.439
I wasn't doing any uh Snoop Dogg jokes over there.
01:16:13.520 --> 01:16:13.920
You know what I mean?
01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:15.119
I had to dig deep.
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:17.119
And I want to say this as a comedian.
01:16:17.199 --> 01:16:17.279
Yeah.
01:16:17.520 --> 01:16:24.319
I want to say this to the young comedians who will watch this, because I'm sure they're watching, is that you gotta be battle tested.
01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:32.239
And that's why getting on stage wherever you can, whenever you can, and any nook and cranny, it gets you ready for shows like that.
01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:33.920
It gets you ready for shows that we're gonna do that.
01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:38.079
Because you never know when you're gonna have to blow the dust off or something.
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:46.319
What's so crazy is I'm damn near 30 years in at that time, and I was feeling like I'm an amateur again.
01:16:46.479 --> 01:16:48.960
I'm like, dude, you have performed all over the world.
01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:51.119
Why does it feel like this is gonna be such a test?
01:16:52.479 --> 01:16:53.199
How am I gonna do it?
01:16:53.279 --> 01:16:53.520
Yeah.
01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:55.359
So it was it was a mental win.
01:16:55.439 --> 01:16:57.520
It was a it was like, I did it.
01:16:57.680 --> 01:16:58.640
Like it's nowhere else.
01:16:59.199 --> 01:17:00.079
What is your writing style?
01:17:00.159 --> 01:17:02.159
Guy, what we're like, what what what is your writing style?
01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:09.439
I w I still write uh word for word, but then I break it down and bullet point it, and then just kind of go over it, study it.
01:17:09.520 --> 01:17:11.840
But it's things that I can relate to, something that may hit me.
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:14.640
I may not use it for years, but I'll I'll write it down.
01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:19.600
Did you ever write a joke down four years ago and it's been in your book that whole time and you never use it?
01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:20.319
Twenty years ago.
01:17:20.479 --> 01:17:22.640
And then you go back to it and it kills it.
01:17:22.800 --> 01:17:23.359
Kills, yeah.
01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:28.720
So that's that my note to the young generation that it's don't everything, it's almost like we're rappers.
01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:30.479
And you wrote a song 11 years ago, man.
01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:32.560
That's it, that shit didn't make the album.
01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:35.520
The homies didn't like it, but you still got that.
01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:40.079
Hey, get the right beat and the right production and the right coming around and be a hit.
01:17:40.399 --> 01:17:42.880
I remember hearing from uh from David Arnold, Peace Upon his.
01:18:03.039 --> 01:18:04.720
You gonna have some great dad material.
01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:07.279
And it's like, I knew I wanted to start a family.
01:18:07.359 --> 01:18:07.520
Right.
01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:08.479
I knew I got married.
01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:09.600
I'm like, let me start writing it.
01:18:09.680 --> 01:18:10.479
I can't use it yet.
01:18:10.560 --> 01:18:10.720
Right.
01:18:10.880 --> 01:18:12.000
And it was like waiting for me.
01:18:12.319 --> 01:18:12.640
Always right.
01:18:13.039 --> 01:18:16.960
It was waiting for me in my joke books to win these children came along.
01:18:17.359 --> 01:18:18.399
So thank you, Halo.
01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:20.159
Thank you, legend, thank you, trust.
01:18:20.239 --> 01:18:20.720
Those are my kids.
01:18:21.520 --> 01:18:27.680
My brother Joe, real quick, Joe Torrey, those who may be just tuning in, uh, he was telling me he was on a set of Harlem Knights.
01:18:28.159 --> 01:18:32.239
He was uh he was one of those props that eat on Harlem Nights.
01:18:32.399 --> 01:18:35.359
But he said Red Fox told him, write one joke a day.
01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:38.239
365 days in a year.
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You'll never run on material.
01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:41.199
Just write a joke a day.
01:18:41.279 --> 01:18:46.319
Or even if you didn't write a write a joke, go over one of your jokes and maybe tag it or develop it even more.
01:18:46.560 --> 01:18:56.000
But if you do that every day, you know, and it's 365 days in a year, because I had to start at one point as take this as a nine, treat this like a nine to five.
01:18:56.640 --> 01:18:58.479
You know, it's like get up in the morning, you know.
01:18:58.880 --> 01:19:01.119
People don't see the work that goes behind what we're all doing.
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Eat right, work out right, and and write every day.
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Even if it's just even if it's working on your acting or working on something else, or researching the joke that you gotta do.
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Do something every day, like it's a nine to five job, then get often.
01:19:13.680 --> 01:19:14.960
My mentor uh Don Don D.
01:19:15.279 --> 01:19:16.000
Curry told me one minute.
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That's my job.
01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:18.640
One minute a week.
01:19:18.800 --> 01:19:19.840
Is that you say the game?
01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:21.199
I'm sorry, he said one minute a week.
01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:21.600
Got it.
01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:24.479
And he was like every every every year you'd have a new hour.
01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:25.279
52 minutes?
01:19:25.359 --> 01:19:25.520
Yeah.
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That's crazy.
01:19:26.079 --> 01:19:26.880
I never looked at it like that.
01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:27.359
Me either.
01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:29.279
Did you see the movie Honora?
01:19:29.680 --> 01:19:30.000
No.
01:19:31.439 --> 01:19:32.960
It won an Academy Award.
01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:36.720
It's called Honora?
01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:37.920
It's called Honora.
01:19:38.159 --> 01:19:38.960
Was this in that?
01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:40.239
Why are you laughing?
01:19:40.319 --> 01:19:44.560
You gotta tell me what the We had a debate on this show.
01:19:44.880 --> 01:19:48.319
Honora is essentially the white players' club.
01:19:48.479 --> 01:19:50.479
And it won an Academy Award.
01:19:51.039 --> 01:19:51.920
At the Oscars?
01:19:52.159 --> 01:19:52.960
At the Oscars.
01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:54.479
In the 1800s?
01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:56.159
Bro, like last year.
01:19:56.800 --> 01:19:57.279
The last two years.
01:19:57.680 --> 01:19:57.920
Last year.
01:19:58.159 --> 01:19:59.199
No, it was white strippers.
01:19:59.359 --> 01:20:00.000
White strippers.
01:20:00.479 --> 01:20:02.800
Is that spearmint run or instead of magic running?
01:20:03.039 --> 01:20:03.520
That's a fact.
01:20:03.920 --> 01:20:04.800
I'm sorry that I know.
01:20:05.039 --> 01:20:05.520
That's a fact.
01:20:05.760 --> 01:20:06.319
We was having a debate.
01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:09.359
I was hot wings versus sushi.
01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:09.760
That's right.
01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:10.319
That's right.
01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:10.720
Okay.
01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:16.000
And we was having a debate on this show with uh actor named uh Paige Kennedy because he was saying.
01:20:16.800 --> 01:20:17.279
I know Paige.
01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:19.520
Paige was saying a Nora was better than Players Club.
01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:20.720
I said, ain't nowhere in hell.
01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:27.760
I said Players Club, I said, it's amazing to me how when a black people do certain things, it doesn't get the notoriety.
01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.000
But when the I saw the You saw that clip?
01:20:30.159 --> 01:20:30.399
So yeah.
01:20:30.560 --> 01:20:32.880
Oh, you said Paige's blood sugar was low too.
01:20:34.960 --> 01:20:36.560
You watch every episode of Jump in the Club.
01:20:39.680 --> 01:20:42.319
Can you text me or give me a clip of what the hell a Nora?
01:20:42.720 --> 01:20:43.359
I want you to watch it.
01:20:43.680 --> 01:20:44.239
No, no, I have to.
01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:45.840
It's the same.
01:20:46.239 --> 01:20:49.039
So they took the nigga blueprint and made it in the white world.
01:20:49.279 --> 01:20:50.239
Man, why look?
01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:51.920
Don't talk about friends like that.
01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:54.880
Don't talk about the sitcom friends like that.
01:20:55.840 --> 01:20:57.600
So, but this is the real question I wanted to get to.
01:20:57.680 --> 01:20:59.039
Cause we go get to these bitches.
01:21:01.680 --> 01:21:03.840
This gives me your only two hour episode.
01:21:07.520 --> 01:21:10.399
They've been running the light on us for the last 30 minutes.
01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:12.000
We've been running it.
01:21:12.399 --> 01:21:12.880
They've been flashing.
01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:16.640
You didn't know when you called us that we were gonna run the light, nigga?
01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:21.760
You knew it.
01:21:22.720 --> 01:21:24.319
Did you really think of each other?
01:21:24.560 --> 01:21:25.680
We do it out.
01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:26.640
Players club.
01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:28.159
The bitch, the women.
01:21:29.119 --> 01:21:35.279
I need you to what was like being in a 24-7 strip club.
01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:38.880
Imagine, imagine being in Magic City for 19 hours.
01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:40.640
Yeah, yeah.
01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:44.319
And then at that time, I wasn't gonna be single.
01:21:46.560 --> 01:21:47.520
I indulged.
01:21:48.079 --> 01:21:50.159
Yeah, uh, I was very hands-on.
01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:52.399
But they said no sex in the champagne room.
01:21:52.479 --> 01:21:53.840
Did you have sex in the shit room?
01:21:54.079 --> 01:21:57.600
Uh brother, uh the answer's yes.
01:21:57.680 --> 01:21:58.319
Um, but anyway.
01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:00.159
No, it was wild, man.
01:22:00.239 --> 01:22:01.600
It was, you know what I loved?
01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:06.239
Uh Q mixed in like real actresses with real strippers.
01:22:06.399 --> 01:22:06.960
Oh, beautiful.
01:22:07.119 --> 01:22:08.880
So that's what was incredible about it.
01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:12.159
It was like, you know, the real big booty strippers were able to help you out.
01:22:14.000 --> 01:22:14.399
Cristal.
01:22:14.560 --> 01:22:15.119
Crystal, yeah.
01:22:15.279 --> 01:22:16.720
Cristel is a friend.
01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:18.239
You know, let me just be honest with you.
01:22:18.479 --> 01:22:20.880
I made a lot of friends and family off of that beer.
01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:22.479
No, I'm not even gonna lie.
01:22:22.560 --> 01:22:27.920
Lisa Wright, not only is she my sister today, Lisa Wright and my wife are damn near best friends now.
01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:30.399
Man, we need to get a movie with this woman 30 years ago.
01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:31.119
You know what I mean?
01:22:31.279 --> 01:22:32.479
Like, like I really stayed now.
01:22:32.800 --> 01:22:36.159
Some of the girls, it was just a quick, you know, it wasn't a lifetime thing.
01:22:36.239 --> 01:22:38.079
It was a it was a five-minute thing.
01:22:38.239 --> 01:22:39.840
You know, you can hope.
01:22:40.399 --> 01:22:41.199
I was in and I was out.
01:22:41.359 --> 01:22:41.760
You know what I mean?
01:22:41.840 --> 01:22:43.359
It was what a hamburger's all about.
01:22:45.600 --> 01:22:52.399
But when I say out of all the movies I've done, when I tell you that I talk about looking forward to going to work every day, because it didn't feel like working.
01:22:52.560 --> 01:22:56.000
For all the people, I might let the cat out the back, but this is so many years later.
01:22:56.159 --> 01:22:57.680
I have people that come up to me, yeah.
01:22:57.760 --> 01:23:02.880
Like when y'all shot Magic City, uh Players Club in Magic City, I was like, that wasn't Magic City.
01:23:03.039 --> 01:23:04.640
Like, y'all wasn't even in Atlanta?
01:23:04.720 --> 01:23:06.720
I'm like, nigga, we were in Chatsworth.
01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:07.680
Damn, I didn't know that.
01:23:07.840 --> 01:23:09.840
Well, they make a lot of the 118.
01:23:09.920 --> 01:23:10.560
We were in the Valley.
01:23:10.640 --> 01:23:11.520
They make a lot of porn in that.
01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:12.399
No, no, no, they know.
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:13.439
We were down the street from there.
01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:15.920
I don't know how I know that, but vivid video.
01:23:16.159 --> 01:23:17.279
Oh, yeah, that it was a set.
01:23:17.359 --> 01:23:22.239
It wasn't really a strip club, but he really embodied the whole strip club world at that time.
01:23:22.399 --> 01:23:24.000
And yes, it became a cult classic.
01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:24.399
Right.
01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:27.199
Man, it's a cultural classic.
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:28.479
Do you know how many girls over there?
01:23:28.640 --> 01:23:29.680
I have women come up to me.
01:23:29.760 --> 01:23:31.439
I I was just a guy in the movie.
01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:43.760
I have women that come up to me and I'll be in a strip club, and they'll be like, do you understand like the reason I'm on the poll today is because a player I'm making the money, making the money letting the money make me?
01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:46.239
I'm like, how old are you?
01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:47.039
I'm 23.
01:23:47.119 --> 01:23:50.079
So your mother lets you watch that at four?
01:23:50.560 --> 01:23:52.800
And you ended up being on the pole at 25.
01:23:55.760 --> 01:23:57.199
Or twerking in your pampers.
01:23:59.600 --> 01:24:01.039
It's time for the pacifier.
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:02.800
It's time for the pacifier.
01:24:03.920 --> 01:24:04.960
Twerking in their pampers.
01:24:06.720 --> 01:24:08.000
There's some milk in this house.
01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:09.520
Some milk is hilarious.
01:24:09.920 --> 01:24:10.560
That's hilarious.
01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:13.760
Uh uh, okay, so I wanted to ask this.
01:24:14.079 --> 01:24:18.479
How close did you get to actually doing music?
01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:23.119
Because some of the jokes, first of all, you're you're you're really tied into that world.
01:24:23.199 --> 01:24:23.359
Yeah.
01:24:23.520 --> 01:24:31.119
Uh, between the the albums and and the and and and appearing on Get Richard Die Trying the Son and so forth, and you're surrounded by these people.
01:24:31.359 --> 01:24:34.319
But I've been in the room when Young Lia comes on.
01:24:34.640 --> 01:24:35.279
Oh my god.
01:24:35.600 --> 01:24:40.960
I've been in the room when this with with his closer is a party now.
01:24:41.279 --> 01:24:42.079
It really is.
01:24:42.479 --> 01:24:44.880
W what how close did it get?
01:24:45.039 --> 01:24:47.199
Well, BT, you did videos.
01:24:47.520 --> 01:24:48.720
Uh uh BT.
01:24:51.279 --> 01:24:55.520
Before I got into this business, yeah, I grew up in a musical household.
01:24:55.840 --> 01:24:59.039
My dad was in a his little band called Earth, Wind and Fire.
01:24:59.359 --> 01:25:03.119
I grew up with two pianos in the house in every single horn you could be.
01:25:06.319 --> 01:25:11.920
I grew up, I I have baby pictures of me in the studio with James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, Michael Jackson.
01:25:12.000 --> 01:25:19.359
My dad was the uh, he started out, so just so everybody knows, Earth, Wind and Fire was called the Phoenix Horns.
01:25:19.600 --> 01:25:24.239
It was Erdean, Maurice, and my dad, Alexander Thomas Sr.
01:25:24.479 --> 01:25:26.960
My dad was the wind of Earth, Wind and Fire.
01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:28.239
He was the trombones and all that.
01:25:28.399 --> 01:25:28.479
Yeah.
01:25:34.960 --> 01:25:35.600
That's my daddy.
01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:38.319
So I grew up in the music, but but think about it.
01:25:38.479 --> 01:25:39.600
I was forced.
01:25:39.760 --> 01:25:41.199
They forced me to play piano.
01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:41.439
Right.
01:25:41.600 --> 01:25:46.479
They forced me to do the horn, and I, you know, when you force a kid to do something, you rebel.
01:25:47.039 --> 01:25:48.960
And I end up telling jokes for a living.
01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:50.159
Like I was the first thing.
01:25:50.239 --> 01:25:52.000
But remember, my generation is hip hop.
01:25:52.960 --> 01:25:54.239
I loved hip-hop.
01:25:54.479 --> 01:25:59.439
I'm that dude that used to get fights in fights in LA because I loved all hip-hop.
01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:02.640
You know, because at a certain time it was like, if you're from the East Coast, you only like East Coast.
01:26:02.720 --> 01:26:02.800
Right.
01:26:02.960 --> 01:26:06.560
If you're from the West Coast, cuz Nicky, you should just like No, I loved hip-hop.
01:26:06.640 --> 01:26:10.239
I'm the dude that knew about underground hip-hop in New York, and they would be mad at me.
01:26:10.319 --> 01:26:10.399
Right.
01:26:10.560 --> 01:26:12.159
So cut to now I do stand up.
01:26:12.319 --> 01:26:13.760
Def Comedy Jam comes around.
01:26:14.079 --> 01:26:17.039
Def Comedy Jam, they started calling me in all the comedy clubs.
01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:20.079
They would introduce me as the young hip-hop comedian.
01:26:20.479 --> 01:26:22.319
And I just started talking about.
01:26:22.479 --> 01:26:23.600
I found a lane.
01:26:23.760 --> 01:26:27.199
There's so much comedy in this thing called hip-hop.
01:26:27.359 --> 01:26:32.800
So I just became as the hip-hop comedian, taking songs, flipping songs, talking about scenarios.
01:26:32.880 --> 01:26:35.520
This was way before the internet and all that kind of shit.
01:26:35.680 --> 01:26:39.840
So, long story short, cut to Young Liar, only because you bought it up.
01:26:40.000 --> 01:26:40.239
Yes.
01:26:40.399 --> 01:26:42.159
Young Liar is my alter ego.
01:26:42.399 --> 01:26:44.079
Young Liar was like, what's his name?
01:26:44.159 --> 01:26:47.439
Uh Saser Bear and Cohen Cohen and what's the character in Borad.
01:26:47.680 --> 01:26:48.239
Chocolate job.
01:26:48.479 --> 01:26:49.760
Yeah, yeah, that came after me.
01:26:50.079 --> 01:26:50.960
I know, I know, but I'm saying.
01:26:51.199 --> 01:26:54.319
But yeah, when Kevin R did, they all I was the first to really do it.
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:56.800
But I was really like that guy.
01:26:56.960 --> 01:26:58.720
Like, I would go deep cover.
01:26:58.880 --> 01:27:01.439
I would I would perform in strip clubs in Atlanta.
01:27:01.520 --> 01:27:01.840
Yes.
01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:06.319
As Young Liar, and them not even know that it's Alex Thomas.
01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:09.279
Because I really tout that nigga, you feel me?
01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:13.199
I had a noise and everything.
01:27:13.279 --> 01:27:13.359
Yeah.
01:27:13.600 --> 01:27:14.000
My noise.
01:27:14.159 --> 01:27:15.840
You know how you know Rick Russell, like, oh.
01:27:16.239 --> 01:27:16.399
Yeah.
01:27:16.960 --> 01:27:18.079
My shit was ah.
01:27:20.399 --> 01:27:21.199
That was my shit.
01:27:21.279 --> 01:27:25.600
But I really had real songs that would bump in strip clubs nationwide.
01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:27.359
Nobody knew.
01:27:28.239 --> 01:27:31.600
I got a Lamborghini and a helicopter.
01:27:32.239 --> 01:27:34.960
That was a near my death looking hella proper.
01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:37.039
I'm talking about cash.
01:27:37.359 --> 01:27:37.920
Cash.
01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:38.479
Cash.
01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:42.800
But I really think you don't know how many albums I sold on Spotify.
01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:45.920
Nobody to this day.
01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:47.439
Well, now talking about that.
01:27:47.920 --> 01:27:50.079
They had no idea that that was still a Young Liar.
01:27:50.319 --> 01:27:51.760
This came after Up and Smoke.
01:27:51.920 --> 01:27:53.279
Oh, I didn't start Young Liar.
01:27:55.600 --> 01:27:59.279
No, I started Young Liar when old boy Trinidad James came out.
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:00.960
2000.
01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:02.159
What would you say?
01:28:03.199 --> 01:28:06.640
This might be this might be 17, 18, 16, 16.
01:28:06.880 --> 01:28:07.920
And then it got serious.
01:28:08.800 --> 01:28:11.119
When that I woke up in a new Bugatti.
01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:15.600
When that went triple platinum, I'm like, nigga, I have to hit the studio.
01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:15.920
Right.
01:28:16.319 --> 01:28:18.640
Because the whole joke started out as a joke.
01:28:19.039 --> 01:28:20.800
The nigga saying I woke up in a Bugatti.
01:28:21.520 --> 01:28:22.000
No, you didn't.
01:28:22.720 --> 01:28:23.840
This is your first album.
01:28:24.000 --> 01:28:25.119
You don't have that kind of money.
01:28:25.680 --> 01:28:27.119
A Bugatti cost$3 million.
01:28:27.760 --> 01:28:28.239
Tell the truth.
01:28:28.319 --> 01:28:30.000
You woke up in your mama's buick.
01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:32.079
You don't wake up in a Bugatti.
01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:42.960
So when I started seeing that you can literally lie over beats, and if you get a real and and joke, and then I had a character behind it, and no one knew it was me, it took off.
01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:44.079
You do that though.
01:28:44.159 --> 01:28:49.600
You would randomly do stuff that people don't know as you like the bags for for uh for it's like yeah, yeah, bro.
01:28:49.760 --> 01:28:51.119
I know all this, but we don't have it.
01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:52.960
We don't have to make the real thing.
01:28:55.359 --> 01:28:55.920
I know, man.
01:28:56.000 --> 01:28:56.880
We got about it.
01:28:57.039 --> 01:29:01.359
Killing it, killing it in the thunder.
01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:03.600
We got about questions.
01:29:04.000 --> 01:29:04.880
Can we get back to the questions?
01:29:05.039 --> 01:29:06.000
Come after four hours later.
01:29:06.720 --> 01:29:07.359
What up, y'all?
01:29:07.439 --> 01:29:08.640
Thank you for uh watching, man.
01:29:08.720 --> 01:29:11.840
Listen, we appreciate you, but I need you to go ahead and hit that little subscribe.
01:29:11.920 --> 01:29:12.640
Don't act.
01:29:12.880 --> 01:29:14.560
Hit the little subscribe button.
01:29:14.800 --> 01:29:15.199
Thank you.
01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:16.560
That didn't take but so long.
01:29:16.720 --> 01:29:17.119
Look at you.
01:29:17.279 --> 01:29:17.760
Harmless.
01:29:18.159 --> 01:29:18.640
Hold on, hold on.
01:29:18.880 --> 01:29:20.159
So killing it with the feds.
01:29:21.760 --> 01:29:22.000
Hold on.
01:29:22.159 --> 01:29:22.880
No, but the back, the back.
01:29:23.119 --> 01:29:26.960
I just a long story short, that that lasted for 13 years, the Lewis Stewart collection.
01:29:27.039 --> 01:29:28.239
I'm no longer the owner of that.
01:29:28.399 --> 01:29:31.439
We went separate race, but yes, it made millions and millions of dollars.
01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:32.319
It took off.
01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:36.319
I was just, I just one of those dudes that I have to say these two three names.
01:29:36.479 --> 01:29:43.359
Uh, three people that I modeled myself after business-wise, was Russell Simmons, Diddy, and Jay-Z.
01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:47.119
And what I mean by that, Fat Farm, Rockerware, John John.
01:29:47.600 --> 01:29:53.039
These dudes made$600 million off a clothing brand, and it had nothing to do with music.
01:29:53.199 --> 01:29:53.359
Right.
01:29:53.520 --> 01:29:56.479
I was just always a fly fresh nigga that love accessories.
01:29:56.640 --> 01:29:59.119
And it literally just took off every star in the world.
01:29:59.199 --> 01:30:01.039
And it was just, it was just one of my endeavors.
01:30:01.119 --> 01:30:03.680
My new movement is South Central Country Club.
01:30:03.840 --> 01:30:04.800
I'm a golfer.
01:30:05.359 --> 01:30:06.000
It's organic.
01:30:06.079 --> 01:30:07.359
It really is a part of my life.
01:30:07.439 --> 01:30:11.279
I all everybody in Black Hollywood would always see me wearing it because I liked it.
01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:15.199
I wasn't even thinking about putting it on the market till the demand got so high.
01:30:15.359 --> 01:30:16.079
Where can I buy that?
01:30:16.159 --> 01:30:16.640
How can I buy that?
01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:18.640
Working up, I was like, I gotta go into business.
01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:19.920
And now this is taking off.
01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:22.239
So South CentralCountryClub.com.
01:30:22.399 --> 01:30:24.560
If you want to look fly, go get you some food.
01:30:25.119 --> 01:30:28.239
This thing, if you was doing those characters on that up a smoke tour, that would have been banana.
01:30:28.720 --> 01:30:31.119
Which it was, but I know I know the same.
01:30:33.119 --> 01:30:34.399
Everybody's lying.
01:30:35.439 --> 01:30:37.520
I spent a million dollars in the club last night.
01:30:37.840 --> 01:30:38.640
I got 92 bit.
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:41.439
I got 32 uh, you know, Maserati's.
01:30:41.520 --> 01:30:42.239
Like everybody's lying.
01:30:42.479 --> 01:30:43.840
Sounds like our administration right, bro.
01:30:44.079 --> 01:30:44.560
Pretty much.
01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:45.520
Pretty much.
01:30:45.680 --> 01:30:46.479
I got two last questions.
01:30:46.720 --> 01:30:47.199
I gotta get to.
01:30:47.359 --> 01:30:48.239
Trump will be old liar.
01:30:49.760 --> 01:30:50.479
Orange liar.
01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:51.520
Orange liar.
01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:52.640
American History X.
01:30:52.880 --> 01:30:53.039
Yes.
01:30:53.199 --> 01:30:53.439
That was.
01:30:53.920 --> 01:30:54.560
Speaking of racism.
01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:55.760
I know exactly.
01:30:56.000 --> 01:30:56.319
American.
01:30:56.720 --> 01:30:57.359
But a transition.
01:30:57.680 --> 01:30:58.880
American History X.
01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:09.119
Edward Norton, um, I want to know, did you learn anything working on a movie like that just as an actor and being around Edward Norton?
01:31:09.199 --> 01:31:10.079
That was number one.
01:31:10.239 --> 01:31:14.399
And number two is did anybody call you a nigga on that set?
01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:17.600
And you was like, hey man, this shit ain't acting.
01:31:18.239 --> 01:31:18.960
Funny, funny thing.
01:31:19.039 --> 01:31:22.880
Well, first of all, Ed is one of the greatest actors, one of the greatest actors of our generation.
01:31:23.199 --> 01:31:23.680
A fact.
01:31:23.840 --> 01:31:28.960
And learning from him was uh was watching by watching.
01:31:29.039 --> 01:31:30.079
It wasn't, you know.
01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:34.000
And uh he gave me a note one time about camera lenses.
01:31:34.079 --> 01:31:36.800
I learned how to do the ask what camera lens are you on.
01:31:37.439 --> 01:31:39.760
And what that means is is like, are you close?
01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:40.399
Are you here?
01:31:40.479 --> 01:31:41.119
Are you tight?
01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:43.199
Are you are you three-quarters or are you wide?
01:31:43.680 --> 01:31:46.239
And that determines, yeah, that determines your movement.
01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:49.199
Because if you're tight, you can't do a lot of head movement because you'll be all off.
01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:50.640
When you're wide, you can do it wide.
01:31:50.720 --> 01:31:53.119
So when you when they shoot like that, they shoot wide, you can ask.
01:31:53.520 --> 01:31:53.920
He would have to do it.
01:31:54.640 --> 01:31:55.199
I saw him ask.
01:31:55.279 --> 01:31:55.680
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:31:55.840 --> 01:31:58.560
And then I would like, oh, okay, I learned that way, you know.
01:31:58.720 --> 01:32:01.039
So, and and like I said, you know, I was green.
01:32:01.119 --> 01:32:01.680
I was green then.
01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:09.920
I it's so funny because I just booked my first sitcom, which was good news on UPN, and we were we shot the pilot.
01:32:10.159 --> 01:32:10.560
R.I.P.
01:32:10.720 --> 01:32:11.279
the UPN.
01:32:11.520 --> 01:32:12.960
Man, it was lit, though.
01:32:13.039 --> 01:32:14.319
It was fire, it was fire, it was fire.
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:17.199
We shot the pilot and we ended at like 2 a.m.
01:32:17.600 --> 01:32:21.680
And I had to be on the set for American Strax at 6 a.m.
01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:29.680
So I literally had to go home, shower, get like an hour and a half nap in, and shoot down uh to uh to the set for American Strax.
01:32:29.920 --> 01:32:36.159
But it it was so it was such a tense set because Ed Norton and the director hated each other and they didn't get along.
01:32:36.399 --> 01:32:38.079
And I was in the middle of a lot of those fights.
01:32:38.239 --> 01:32:38.880
Were they argue?
01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:39.760
Big time.
01:32:40.720 --> 01:32:41.279
In front of the set.
01:32:41.600 --> 01:32:42.239
In front of everybody.
01:32:42.560 --> 01:32:42.800
Oh wow.
01:32:43.039 --> 01:32:49.520
Because the thing about it is, you know, you all know, blocking is usually gonna take, you know, maybe 15, 20 minutes.
01:32:49.600 --> 01:32:50.159
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:32:50.319 --> 01:32:52.399
I think blocking would take an hour, two hours.
01:32:52.640 --> 01:32:56.720
Because they couldn't see, and I would, and I would be like, you know what, I'll be in my trailer.
01:32:56.800 --> 01:32:57.439
Y'all raised the show.
01:32:57.600 --> 01:32:58.720
So they were holding up production.
01:32:58.880 --> 01:32:59.279
Oh yeah.
01:32:59.439 --> 01:33:00.479
And a difference of opinion.
01:33:00.560 --> 01:33:10.159
And Ed, rightfully, you know, he he had his way that it should go, but he I think his methods were the method he did about it was wrong.
01:33:10.319 --> 01:33:11.439
Was he co-director?
01:33:11.600 --> 01:33:11.760
No.
01:33:12.159 --> 01:33:13.600
See, that's when you can kill it right there.
01:33:13.840 --> 01:33:15.520
And you just go, uh, excuse me.
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:17.039
But but here's the I'm the director.
01:33:17.119 --> 01:33:20.960
Now, if we're both directing, I have to respect your vision on the shot also.
01:33:21.199 --> 01:33:23.680
But if I'm not the director, he's the star though, right?
01:33:24.319 --> 01:33:25.039
He was the star.
01:33:25.199 --> 01:33:27.039
And and and the director, this is his first movie.
01:33:27.359 --> 01:33:27.840
A rock or something.
01:33:28.159 --> 01:33:29.279
Yeah, but that's who he is, though.
01:33:29.359 --> 01:33:31.279
Norton's like that because that's what happened on Marvel.
01:33:31.439 --> 01:33:32.960
That happened on a lot of a lot of things.
01:33:33.119 --> 01:33:34.720
Yeah, he's a great actor, don't get it twisted.
01:33:34.960 --> 01:33:39.359
But he cares so much about the project that I get why he does it, because he wants it to be right.
01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:40.319
Yeah, he wants it to be great.
01:33:40.479 --> 01:33:46.239
But it's just it may be, and then now that he's an older actor, because American Sex was only his his second film.
01:33:46.560 --> 01:33:51.600
He had done Primal Fear, he had done Primal Fear, which he should have won an Oscar for.
01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:52.720
He got cheated on that.
01:33:52.800 --> 01:33:56.000
They gave the Cuba good, which Cuba did, well, but what he did in Primal Fear was.
01:33:57.760 --> 01:33:58.239
Money Talks.
01:33:58.319 --> 01:33:59.039
I mean, not Money Talks.
01:33:59.840 --> 01:34:00.239
Show me the money.
01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:00.720
Show me the money.
01:34:00.800 --> 01:34:01.520
So Jerry Maguire.
01:34:01.600 --> 01:34:02.159
Jerry Maguire.
01:34:02.319 --> 01:34:02.399
Right.
01:34:02.560 --> 01:34:02.960
Jeremy Maguire.
01:34:03.119 --> 01:34:05.600
So so Ed, it was only Ed's second film.
01:34:06.479 --> 01:34:12.239
And so, I mean, uh the uh Fight Club came out before making sex because they held the movie was held up in post.
01:34:12.720 --> 01:34:15.199
Because of all the they fired a director, Tony K.
01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:25.199
Shout out to Tony K, because him and Ed had too much of a difference, and it was just a chaotic piece of thing to work on, but I used that all that stress on that movie for my character.
01:34:25.279 --> 01:34:26.000
I'm in jail.
01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:26.880
You know what I'm saying?
01:34:26.960 --> 01:34:30.880
It was a it was tense on the set because the director had real skinheads on the set.
01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:34.239
Like he went to Orange County and like bust in, like busts a skinhead.
01:34:34.479 --> 01:34:35.840
So the skinheads were extras.
01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:36.319
Yes.
01:34:36.479 --> 01:34:36.640
Wow.
01:34:36.880 --> 01:34:37.760
Yes, they were props that.
01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:41.439
And they have to tell them, Willie, you know, you can't really stab somebody to do that.
01:34:41.600 --> 01:34:41.840
Right, right.
01:34:42.079 --> 01:34:45.760
I know that's real, that's authentic, but you can say as much as you can think.
01:34:46.159 --> 01:34:48.720
And they and they and look, and they wanted to rehearse lines.
01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:49.520
They had one line.
01:34:49.600 --> 01:34:50.239
Can we rehearse?
01:34:50.880 --> 01:34:51.920
Yeah, we had one line.
01:34:52.479 --> 01:34:53.119
Rehearse guy.
01:34:53.840 --> 01:34:54.479
I just want to make sure.
01:34:54.720 --> 01:34:56.399
All you gotta do is say nigga, you gotta rehearse that.
01:34:57.199 --> 01:35:04.800
But no, man, it was it was it was a great, it was a movie that really uh introduced me to Hollywood as an actor, mainstream Hollywood.
01:35:04.960 --> 01:35:05.119
Yeah.
01:35:05.359 --> 01:35:09.359
And and crazy because they saw me right here.
01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:10.159
Wow.
01:35:10.479 --> 01:35:11.680
They saw me in Fat Tuesdays.
01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:12.640
Oh, that's how they found you.
01:35:12.800 --> 01:35:14.560
They came to see Tommy Davidson.
01:35:14.800 --> 01:35:15.359
Wow.
01:35:16.800 --> 01:35:18.800
At the time, my manager, shout out to Jeff Chetty.
01:35:19.840 --> 01:35:22.880
Man, right, shout out to Jeff Chetty, who was my manager at the time.
01:35:23.279 --> 01:35:25.119
I did the Aspen Comedy Festival.
01:35:25.520 --> 01:35:28.239
And he was like, God, there's so many industry people that are not here.
01:35:29.439 --> 01:35:30.640
You're gonna kill it up there.
01:35:30.960 --> 01:35:32.960
He said, What I'm gonna do is I need a Tuesday night.
01:35:33.199 --> 01:35:35.039
I need you to give me 250 free tickets.
01:35:35.359 --> 01:35:38.720
And I'm gonna invite industry down there who didn't come to Aspen to see you.
01:35:38.960 --> 01:35:40.159
He said, I'm gonna do a special show.
01:35:40.319 --> 01:35:43.680
I just want you and Tommy Davidson on the show.
01:35:44.079 --> 01:35:47.439
And at the time, me and Danny Green was tight, and I was like, well, no, what?
01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:51.520
What about he said, no, just you and Tommy Davidson?
01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:52.079
I said, okay.
01:35:52.159 --> 01:35:53.600
I said, but I need somebody to open for me.
01:35:54.000 --> 01:35:55.279
I said, I need I can't go cold.
01:35:55.600 --> 01:35:56.479
Even though five minutes.
01:35:57.119 --> 01:35:59.039
He said, well, yeah, have Danny go up and do to me.
01:35:59.119 --> 01:35:59.680
I said, cool.
01:35:59.760 --> 01:36:02.319
I came back and told Dan, I said, Danny, look, it's gonna be 250 industry.
01:36:02.640 --> 01:36:03.199
That's gotta be on.
01:36:03.439 --> 01:36:05.119
I said, nigga, bring your best shit.
01:36:05.920 --> 01:36:06.640
I said, do 10 minutes.
01:36:06.880 --> 01:36:07.600
Bring your A game.
01:36:07.840 --> 01:36:09.279
Bring do 10 minutes and bring me on.
01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:09.840
We go.
01:36:10.000 --> 01:36:13.119
And then I did it, but they they came down to see Tommy.
01:36:13.359 --> 01:36:14.880
And they heard my set.
01:36:15.039 --> 01:36:19.600
Not that I was any funnier than Tommy, but my set was more about being race, how stupid racism is.
01:36:19.760 --> 01:36:22.239
My my subject matter suited the role better.
01:36:22.880 --> 01:36:24.640
Plus, plus I was a lot cheaper than Tommy James.
01:36:27.760 --> 01:36:28.960
You know that was your audition then.
01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:31.359
And I didn't know that, I didn't even know they were there.
01:36:31.520 --> 01:36:32.079
Yeah, that's crazy.
01:36:32.239 --> 01:36:33.199
I didn't know they were there.
01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:36.560
And so I ended up getting the role because of Fat Tuesdays.
01:36:36.720 --> 01:36:45.119
Flip two years prior, they came to see me uh in the belly room for a role for in a movie, and you were on that lineup too.
01:36:45.199 --> 01:36:45.920
They were there to see you too.
01:36:46.000 --> 01:36:46.880
I don't know if you're doing or not.
01:36:47.199 --> 01:36:50.880
But I knew they were there to see me, and I get a call earlier that day from Chris Tucker.
01:36:51.039 --> 01:36:52.079
Say, hey man, I need to go up tonight.
01:36:52.159 --> 01:36:53.279
I said, Okay, I got you.
01:36:53.520 --> 01:36:57.279
And I remember that night, Chris blew the roof off that shit.
01:36:57.520 --> 01:36:58.159
Killed it.
01:36:58.399 --> 01:36:59.279
Fifth element.
01:36:59.840 --> 01:37:00.319
Oh, wow.
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:03.199
I didn't know they came to see Chris, and I didn't know you was you was on the list.
01:37:03.359 --> 01:37:03.680
Oh wow.
01:37:03.760 --> 01:37:04.560
You didn't know you went up there.
01:37:06.079 --> 01:37:06.720
We didn't know about it.
01:37:07.119 --> 01:37:09.359
It's kind of better that you didn't know because you, you know what I mean?
01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:15.359
Somebody, somebody I know somebody who was a casting assistant on that movie, and they said, Yeah, you were on the list, Alex Thomas was on the list, and Chris Tucker.
01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:18.239
I didn't know Chris, they were came, I just thought they came to see me.
01:37:18.319 --> 01:37:21.359
But I when Chris got the part, I wasn't mad.
01:37:22.000 --> 01:37:24.159
I was like, hey, they they started Fat Tuesdays.
01:37:24.239 --> 01:37:24.800
I ain't tripping.
01:37:24.960 --> 01:37:28.640
Then when I saw the movie, I was like, Yeah, I would have heard I would have heard that role.
01:37:28.720 --> 01:37:28.960
Yeah, yeah.
01:37:29.119 --> 01:37:29.199
Right?
01:37:29.439 --> 01:37:30.560
Yeah, that's a classic role he did.
01:37:31.680 --> 01:37:32.079
He killed it.
01:37:32.159 --> 01:37:32.239
Yeah.
01:37:32.479 --> 01:37:33.840
So I wouldn't have taken it to that level.
01:37:34.159 --> 01:37:35.439
Uh that's a great segue.
01:37:35.680 --> 01:37:37.279
And both you guys could answer this.
01:37:37.359 --> 01:37:40.640
Uh-oh! We need to have some bird talk.
01:37:40.880 --> 01:37:48.079
Uh what out of uh we got movies, we got TV, we got writing, we got running the show, we got bags.
01:37:48.319 --> 01:37:50.800
Where did you see financial wins?
01:37:50.880 --> 01:37:54.960
And you don't have to get specifically into the numbers, but when you saw if you don't want to.
01:37:55.199 --> 01:37:57.279
Yeah, yeah, if you don't want to, I did absolutely touring.
01:37:57.840 --> 01:38:03.199
Uh uh you were touring with you you guys have both hairline comedy clubs for years.
01:38:03.359 --> 01:38:06.479
Where did you see big money from?
01:38:06.640 --> 01:38:08.800
Where did you see substantial?
01:38:09.199 --> 01:38:14.720
Oh, this is I'm in a I'm moving stuff around, you know, I could support my family differently.
01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:16.239
It is things are good.
01:38:16.880 --> 01:38:25.439
I would say, I I mean, I'm honestly when you say, you know, some we make money, but the money money is doing Fat Tuesdays.
01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:26.479
That was the most important thing.
01:38:26.640 --> 01:38:27.680
More than TV and film?
01:38:27.920 --> 01:38:28.479
Yeah, that was a good one.
01:38:28.560 --> 01:38:31.840
Oh, oh, oh, oh, you're talking about earlier.
01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:32.880
No, not the night, I'm sorry.
01:38:32.960 --> 01:38:33.760
The documentary.
01:38:35.199 --> 01:38:36.239
Thank you for clarifying that.
01:38:36.479 --> 01:38:38.079
Yes, the documentary Fat Tuesdays.
01:38:38.319 --> 01:38:38.560
Really?
01:38:38.720 --> 01:38:41.119
Yeah, because I because I was executive producer.
01:38:41.600 --> 01:38:51.279
Uh I I my archives that I used that they they they and and also as a as a as a you know as the creator.
01:38:52.079 --> 01:38:52.319
Wow.
01:38:52.640 --> 01:38:56.399
And me, man, it was an accumulation of stuff.
01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:01.199
You know, because a lot of things that I did, it was never like the star of these things.
01:39:01.920 --> 01:39:06.159
But the things that I was a part of, they really did well.
01:39:06.720 --> 01:39:16.479
And I didn't, I'm gonna be honest with you, I didn't realize how much sometimes I was making until some of those huge residual checks came.
01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:21.840
And when those huge residual residual echoes, God thank God, you know, you always hear about that.
01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:27.920
You get you get a big check off of uh, you know, something you did 20 years ago, and the checks keep coming.
01:39:28.000 --> 01:39:33.520
But I'm not gonna lie to you, I've had um residual checks that are$1.32.
01:39:33.840 --> 01:39:34.640
I got one for three cents.
01:39:35.119 --> 01:39:37.840
Yeah, but I've also got that too.
01:39:38.000 --> 01:39:42.800
But I've also got residual checks to be$175,000 when I didn't respect it.
01:39:43.039 --> 01:39:45.039
$200,000,$40,000,$50,000.
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:47.439
So it was never just one thing.
01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:52.399
Yeah, everything, I feel like everything paid me in its own way.
01:39:52.720 --> 01:39:55.600
You know, writing on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, okay, that was a great check.
01:39:55.760 --> 01:40:01.359
Money on the as I as a regular character on my first major TV show, uh, you know, Jamie Foxx show.
01:40:02.000 --> 01:40:03.359
You know, regular check.
01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:14.079
But then you'll get something like, I'm not gonna lie to you, a movie that I so-called was a star in, but then I get a movie that I was cut out of, and the check be nine times more.
01:40:14.159 --> 01:40:14.640
Like, for example.
01:40:14.880 --> 01:40:15.600
Wait a minute, really?
01:40:15.840 --> 01:40:21.199
Nigga, when I tell you like for example, for example, I got cut out a movie and I don't get no resistance from that fucking movie.
01:40:21.520 --> 01:40:22.239
Well, you ready for this?
01:40:22.319 --> 01:40:24.239
I I'm not gonna tell a long story because I know you gotta hurry.
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:27.199
Yeah, man, shit, but take like something like Players Club.
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:29.760
It was, you know, hey, it's a hood classic, but it was a real movie.
01:40:30.079 --> 01:40:31.279
Got some good money.
01:40:31.600 --> 01:40:33.680
But nigga, I got cut out of castaway.
01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:38.720
One of the biggest movies of time.
01:40:39.279 --> 01:40:43.359
I had I you know how crushed I was when I got cut two weeks before the premiere?
01:40:43.439 --> 01:40:43.920
I'm up here.
01:40:44.079 --> 01:40:50.960
Well, you got to start, I started a website with me, uh, Helen Hunt, and and and and Tom Hanks.
01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:51.680
And a volleyball.
01:40:53.920 --> 01:40:55.119
Wilson, nigga.
01:40:55.279 --> 01:40:57.199
No, no, literally, a lot of people don't know this.
01:40:57.359 --> 01:41:02.720
I was the manager, I was the fleet manager at FedEx before the plane took off.
01:41:03.439 --> 01:41:05.279
I thought my life was going to change.
01:41:05.439 --> 01:41:05.840
Man, no.
01:41:06.159 --> 01:41:06.640
That would have been great.
01:41:07.680 --> 01:41:08.239
I'm doing pic.
01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:13.039
I got a picture of me, Helen Hunt, and in time as the fleet manager.
01:41:13.199 --> 01:41:14.319
I got cut out the movie.
01:41:14.399 --> 01:41:17.680
But long story short, biggest resentments I've ever had in my life.
01:41:17.760 --> 01:41:19.439
And I'm not even gonna talk about that one.
01:41:19.600 --> 01:41:24.159
Because I would have loved to be in the movie, dude.
01:41:24.319 --> 01:41:24.720
Same here.
01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:27.520
I got a suit made for the premiere.
01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:28.159
Okay?
01:41:28.399 --> 01:41:30.800
Not only that, but I would have been looked at different.
01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:35.920
Now when I'm at these country clubs, these white country, they would have been known who Alex Thomas was.
01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:37.760
No, it just was more the black things.
01:41:37.840 --> 01:41:40.880
I I not knocking the black things, because guess what?
01:41:41.119 --> 01:41:42.239
God bless me with that.
01:41:43.119 --> 01:41:46.399
My family was able to eat, and it was great notoriety for me.
01:41:46.640 --> 01:41:52.000
But that white money, that, that, that, that castaway movie, I could be like, I don't gotta work again.
01:41:52.159 --> 01:41:53.039
But you know what I'm saying?
01:41:53.119 --> 01:41:55.600
So I got cut out of Stuck on You.
01:41:55.760 --> 01:41:56.159
Oh, wow.
01:41:56.479 --> 01:41:58.159
Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon.
01:41:58.319 --> 01:41:58.560
Wow.
01:41:58.640 --> 01:41:59.039
Yeah.
01:41:59.279 --> 01:42:03.279
And I'm telling, and I was like, man, this is this is good.
01:42:03.439 --> 01:42:06.880
I mean, I this is this is after American Shreks and Purb and all the other stuff.
01:42:07.039 --> 01:42:12.239
It was just, you know, big fan of Matt Damon, because you know, I'm a boring guy, Jason Boring guy.
01:42:12.399 --> 01:42:16.880
But anyway, I got cut out and I get no residuals from that.
01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:22.159
I think what happened was I had to find out through the Drake Bond because I didn't know until the checks started coming.
01:42:22.319 --> 01:42:29.520
It's like if you get cut out like on the third cut, almost like um, say the movie's coming out June 1st.
01:42:29.600 --> 01:42:30.720
It's almost like with an album.
01:42:30.800 --> 01:42:30.960
Yeah.
01:42:31.199 --> 01:42:31.359
Right?
01:42:31.439 --> 01:42:37.920
You had 22 songs, but uh, you know, uh Virgin, what you'd only do, or Interscope said you can only fit 16 on that.
01:42:38.079 --> 01:42:42.640
And you've been they've been fighting for it, and it's like they've been fighting for it, and like, dude, but those other ones are bangers.
01:42:43.119 --> 01:42:44.720
I've heard I've heard someone else say that though.
01:42:44.800 --> 01:42:49.119
What you're saying, I heard somebody was in an animated film or something, and they got cut out and they still get residual.
01:42:49.520 --> 01:43:01.199
I think it was because the like whatever the word, the technical word for last minute, like when I say last minute, I guess the final cut before they were about to go to print, my scene got cut out.
01:43:01.439 --> 01:43:02.399
Let me tell you why I got cut out.
01:43:02.640 --> 01:43:03.439
That's why you gotta sit down.
01:43:03.680 --> 01:43:12.000
I play a street hustler in on right on uh Hollywood Boulevard, and Greg Kinnear and Matt Damon are stuck on you, that's their Siamese twins stuck together.
01:43:12.159 --> 01:43:14.000
I come up and hustle them, right?
01:43:14.399 --> 01:43:15.199
Funny scene.
01:43:15.279 --> 01:43:16.239
I'm ad-libbing.
01:43:16.399 --> 01:43:19.039
They we've made it great funny, right?
01:43:20.640 --> 01:43:24.560
Wardrobe put me in a Lakers jersey, a sh a Shaq jersey.
01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:25.359
Oh wow.
01:43:25.600 --> 01:43:28.800
A Lakers jersey, and they did not clear it with the NBA.
01:43:29.840 --> 01:43:37.920
Oh so when you're doing a negative character, wow, you can't have recognizable stuff on.
01:43:38.319 --> 01:43:39.840
You have to clear it, copyright, you're right.
01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:42.399
And I'm like, and and I and like we both know Jeannie Buzz.
01:43:42.640 --> 01:43:45.119
If I'd have known that, I'd have called Jeannie, Jeannie, clear this, please.
01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:46.159
Jesus Christ.
01:43:46.319 --> 01:43:47.680
So but they didn't clear with the NBA.
01:43:47.920 --> 01:43:50.319
If the star had the Laker jersey on, they would have had to keep it.
01:43:50.479 --> 01:43:51.119
Right, exactly.
01:43:51.199 --> 01:43:55.359
And and and I was only in, it's like one scene, two-parter.
01:43:55.520 --> 01:43:55.760
Damn.
01:43:55.920 --> 01:44:00.159
Uh but but the thing about it is, and I I had live, I was I was I was a fire.
01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:00.800
It was on fire.
01:44:01.279 --> 01:44:07.680
And the thing about it is, is I have I have the scene because it's in it's on the DVD in the deleted scenes.
01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:10.079
So it's part so it's part I can show it to you.
01:44:10.159 --> 01:44:12.399
But it's on my reel because it's like it's Greg in there.
01:44:12.479 --> 01:44:12.880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:44:13.359 --> 01:44:17.119
It's a character I hadn't played, so it's part of my acting reel because it was there.
01:44:17.199 --> 01:44:20.000
But I got here's one thing that was fucked up about it.
01:44:20.079 --> 01:44:24.159
I'm watching TV one day, my back is to the TV, the trailer runs.
01:44:24.319 --> 01:44:30.720
I hear my voice, boom, I look, I'm there, but my jersey is CG eyed out.
01:44:30.800 --> 01:44:32.239
It's blacked out, and it looked weird.
01:44:32.479 --> 01:44:34.479
So why couldn't they just do that for the whole damn movie?
01:44:34.640 --> 01:44:37.520
They could do it for the trailer, but it would look weird for the whole scene.
01:44:37.760 --> 01:44:39.119
And when you see the scene, you'll see, why?
01:44:39.680 --> 01:44:40.800
That's like halfway doing it.
01:44:40.880 --> 01:44:41.039
Right.
01:44:41.199 --> 01:44:41.359
Right.
01:44:41.520 --> 01:44:44.319
So, and I'm like, I heard my voice, and I'm like, that's me.
01:44:45.119 --> 01:44:48.640
And then the jersey's black, I'm like, okay, well, maybe they'll do it for the whole movie.
01:44:49.039 --> 01:44:49.840
They could have done it with the A.
01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:52.239
But they why does the jersey say cringe all high?
01:44:55.119 --> 01:44:55.760
One last thing.
01:44:55.840 --> 01:45:01.600
Just um, and then just thinking about this for a moment, but you guys are doing really great.
01:45:01.680 --> 01:45:03.119
And I know you guys have to edit this.
01:45:03.199 --> 01:45:03.600
No, no, no.
01:45:04.399 --> 01:45:05.439
No, we're gonna cut the podcast.
01:45:05.840 --> 01:45:08.079
We're gonna open up saying this is such a great part two.
01:45:08.479 --> 01:45:09.279
I'm gonna really go back.
01:45:09.439 --> 01:45:13.039
All this shit that we talked about before you so-called introduced me.
01:45:13.680 --> 01:45:14.960
Please don't say you're cutting all that.
01:45:16.399 --> 01:45:17.039
That was some good.
01:45:17.920 --> 01:45:21.039
You know how it is with four comics sitting together, you know, I'm gonna speak.
01:45:21.199 --> 01:45:21.680
I'm gonna let you know.
01:45:21.760 --> 01:45:23.600
I didn't tell the other day, but you're not gonna be a little bit more than a lot of people.
01:45:23.760 --> 01:45:34.960
I already knew this was gonna be I already knew this was gonna be a two-hour episode, and I already knew this is gonna probably be like 10, 12 clips because I already knew the stories and stuff like that that y'all had to drop.
01:45:35.039 --> 01:45:36.479
But that's why we wanted to do this episode.
01:45:37.039 --> 01:45:42.880
Also, some of the just like you said, some of the, at least for me, I know for probably is is friends and it's catching up.
01:45:43.760 --> 01:45:49.199
Like, you know, and and and the parts you haven't cut out the podcast, use for just clips.
01:45:49.359 --> 01:45:50.079
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:45:50.159 --> 01:45:50.239
Yeah.
01:45:50.479 --> 01:45:50.880
You know what I'm saying?
01:45:51.039 --> 01:45:53.039
We're gonna clip, we're gonna discipline by yourself.
01:45:53.119 --> 01:45:53.920
Like you don't have an escape.
01:45:54.000 --> 01:45:54.800
It's an engineer back there.
01:45:55.279 --> 01:45:55.920
Yeah, Aaron back there.
01:45:56.000 --> 01:45:56.640
This is dope, by the way.
01:45:57.119 --> 01:46:00.159
Because what I want to do, I'm just yeah throwing this out, I always do this every time.
01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:09.359
When you so-called say it's over with cut, whatever, I I want him to come out, and what I do is I'm gonna have him take three or four shots of us like we were in act.
01:46:09.439 --> 01:46:09.920
Like somebody is.
01:46:10.319 --> 01:46:12.399
This is what then this is when people stop listening.
01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:14.880
To the to the We got you.
01:46:14.960 --> 01:46:15.520
We got we're gonna.
01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:17.199
Oh, yeah, you're talking about like the BTS.
01:46:17.600 --> 01:46:18.640
Yeah, the BTS, we got it.
01:46:20.640 --> 01:46:21.039
Oh, we're gonna.
01:46:22.000 --> 01:46:27.680
Yeah, so Ts will be like, nigga, off the picture, people go, nigga, it look like y'all know a ball.
01:46:27.920 --> 01:46:31.279
We got it, we got shout out to y'all, man, for doing this, man.
01:46:31.359 --> 01:46:31.840
I love it.
01:46:31.920 --> 01:46:32.319
Oh, absolutely.
01:46:32.560 --> 01:46:33.119
Oh, thank you, man.
01:46:33.920 --> 01:46:35.039
But we'll try to get the last question.
01:46:35.520 --> 01:46:36.079
Yes, the last question.
01:46:36.319 --> 01:46:42.640
Last question is Um, if everything and everyone you you lost was in a box, what would you search for first?
01:46:42.880 --> 01:46:44.000
Say that question with me.
01:46:44.239 --> 01:46:50.960
If everything you had lost, and that would include people, whatever that may be, if it was in a box, what would you search for first?
01:46:52.399 --> 01:46:54.159
Man, I can it be a person?
01:46:54.319 --> 01:46:54.560
Sure.
01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:55.439
Be my mama.
01:46:56.000 --> 01:46:57.359
Mama, my prayer warrior.
01:46:57.680 --> 01:46:58.640
My dad was great too.
01:46:58.720 --> 01:46:59.359
Don't get it twisted.
01:46:59.439 --> 01:47:03.600
They were together 53 years, but my mama, you know, mamas are different.
01:47:04.000 --> 01:47:04.800
Mamas are different.
01:47:04.880 --> 01:47:05.680
It'd be my mom.
01:47:05.920 --> 01:47:07.119
That's not an easy.
01:47:07.359 --> 01:47:08.399
I know it's gonna sound crazy.
01:47:08.479 --> 01:47:10.880
I know it sounds like a game show, but could you use that in a sentence?
01:47:12.159 --> 01:47:13.600
I say the question I'm talking about.
01:47:15.439 --> 01:47:18.720
You said one, but I'm going, I'm my answer is gonna be different if that's okay.
01:47:18.880 --> 01:47:20.479
No, for sure, just whatever you may listen to.
01:47:21.439 --> 01:47:25.279
Whatever you may have lost in your life, if it was all in a box, what would you search for first?
01:47:25.520 --> 01:47:28.319
It has to be something that you actually lost already.
01:47:28.720 --> 01:47:32.479
Something, someone, whatever it is, what would you search for first?
01:47:33.840 --> 01:47:35.279
Family, job, career.
01:47:35.600 --> 01:47:36.319
I'm not gonna lie.
01:47:38.079 --> 01:47:39.439
My childhood.
01:47:39.760 --> 01:47:40.399
Wow.
01:47:40.720 --> 01:47:41.039
Oh.
01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:43.199
My childhood, man.
01:47:44.960 --> 01:47:45.600
No, no, no.
01:47:46.720 --> 01:47:47.520
Make me really think about it.
01:47:47.840 --> 01:47:48.079
For sure.
01:47:48.319 --> 01:47:48.960
You know what I mean?
01:47:49.119 --> 01:47:52.079
Because sometimes you turn back, what if it was different?
01:47:52.159 --> 01:47:53.279
Where would I have been?
01:47:53.680 --> 01:47:55.520
I don't know if anybody else has ever thought like that.
01:47:55.680 --> 01:47:55.840
Right.
01:47:56.000 --> 01:47:56.159
Yeah.
01:47:56.399 --> 01:48:06.800
If the if the if the if the shoe was on the other foot different, the shoe was on the other foot, if if my circumstances were different, you know, like wow, like that's what I'd like to.
01:48:08.079 --> 01:48:09.119
I don't know if that makes sense.
01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:09.680
Absolutely.
01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:11.920
If the shoe was on the other foot, you'd be on the spectrum, nigga.
01:48:12.000 --> 01:48:12.079
Yeah.
01:48:13.359 --> 01:48:14.720
You can't say nothing around it.
01:48:16.640 --> 01:48:16.880
It's gone.
01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:17.279
It's done.
01:48:17.359 --> 01:48:19.840
Like you got, wow, I wish I could do this different.
01:48:19.920 --> 01:48:21.119
I wish I could do that different.
01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:23.600
But then again, everybody's got a different route.
01:48:23.840 --> 01:48:26.640
And that's how and you got where you are is with your journey.
01:48:26.800 --> 01:48:27.359
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:48:27.600 --> 01:48:29.119
So I wouldn't change any of the bags.
01:48:29.840 --> 01:48:34.159
Uh this so this game is uh keep three, kill five.
01:48:34.319 --> 01:48:34.800
Oh my god.
01:48:35.279 --> 01:48:35.600
That's all right.
01:48:35.920 --> 01:48:38.399
So I'm gonna I'm gonna randomly give you a topic.
01:48:38.640 --> 01:48:39.359
Keep three.
01:48:39.680 --> 01:48:42.319
I'm gonna name these things off blindly.
01:48:42.720 --> 01:48:45.760
So if you think it's great, you gotta hold on to it because you only get to keep three.
01:48:45.840 --> 01:48:47.439
You don't know to keep it to ourselves?
01:48:47.600 --> 01:48:54.800
No, I'm saying it's it's so there's gonna be like it's almost like doing the top five list, but you're only doing three, but you don't know what's coming.
01:48:55.039 --> 01:48:55.359
Got it.
01:48:55.520 --> 01:48:56.000
Start with that.
01:48:56.239 --> 01:48:57.840
So you just want to.
01:48:58.560 --> 01:49:00.640
Together, we gotta we gotta roll.
01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:02.720
Um the LA you to find school.
01:49:03.039 --> 01:49:03.760
I mean, these are fast, though.
01:49:03.840 --> 01:49:04.880
So you just keep it to the city.
01:49:05.039 --> 01:49:06.399
The batteries are about to run out on the camera.
01:49:06.640 --> 01:49:10.319
All right, so so I got because I got one for both of y'all, but it's just keep or kill.
01:49:10.640 --> 01:49:18.000
So for for uh guy, I got uh I got I got top five, I got I got three, you keep three of these Lakers, you cutting five of them.
01:49:18.159 --> 01:49:18.880
Oh man, you know.
01:49:20.399 --> 01:49:21.680
I'm the best Laker fan of the fan.
01:49:21.760 --> 01:49:24.079
Nah, I'm gonna be born and raised in this shit.
01:49:24.159 --> 01:49:24.479
I don't care.
01:49:24.800 --> 01:49:25.279
I was in St.
01:49:25.359 --> 01:49:25.600
Louis.
01:49:25.840 --> 01:49:27.439
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:49:28.079 --> 01:49:29.600
You flew here, I grew here.
01:49:29.760 --> 01:49:34.479
Next day, for you for the purple.
01:49:34.560 --> 01:49:35.760
And I'm wearing purple and gold.
01:49:36.079 --> 01:49:37.359
For you, I got West Coast songs.
01:49:37.600 --> 01:49:38.079
Okay, go.
01:49:38.319 --> 01:49:39.680
All right, so uh let me ask you.
01:49:39.760 --> 01:49:41.600
So for so let's go, Lakers.
01:49:41.760 --> 01:49:45.359
Uh Derek Fisher, keep or cut, or keep or kill.
01:49:45.600 --> 01:49:46.399
Oh man.
01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:47.279
Keep.
01:49:47.520 --> 01:49:47.680
Keeper.
01:49:48.239 --> 01:49:49.600
You know, remember, you don't know who's coming next.
01:49:49.680 --> 01:49:49.840
I know.
01:49:49.920 --> 01:49:50.800
I'm a gifted.
01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:51.840
You get to keep three.
01:49:51.920 --> 01:49:52.159
Okay.
01:49:52.319 --> 01:49:52.479
Okay.
01:49:52.720 --> 01:49:53.279
Oh shit.
01:49:53.359 --> 01:49:53.520
Okay.
01:49:53.760 --> 01:49:53.920
Yeah.
01:49:55.119 --> 01:49:56.640
But is it gonna be a starting five?
01:49:56.800 --> 01:49:57.680
No, it's only gonna be three.
01:49:57.840 --> 01:49:58.239
Okay, guys.
01:49:58.479 --> 01:49:58.640
Okay.
01:50:19.199 --> 01:50:19.760
Magic.
01:50:20.880 --> 01:50:21.359
There we go.
01:50:22.159 --> 01:50:26.159
The last one was you kept Derek Fisher.
01:50:26.319 --> 01:50:27.279
You cut James Worthy.
01:50:27.439 --> 01:50:32.239
You cut uh you killed Jerry West, you killed Robert Rory, you kept Kobe, you kept Magic.
01:50:32.479 --> 01:50:37.760
You kept Magic, you cut Luca, and the last one that you would have ended up keeping if you didn't was Samaki Walker, so good job.
01:50:39.840 --> 01:50:44.079
Let me tell why I kept why I kept popcorn while he played on the movie.
01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:47.680
Let me tell you a clip why I kept why I kept Fisher.
01:50:47.840 --> 01:50:50.640
I kept Fisher because Fisher was the glue that kept that team together.
01:50:52.479 --> 01:50:55.439
Let's not forget about the shops from big shop Bob, but I know.
01:50:55.520 --> 01:50:56.159
That's why I paused.
01:50:58.000 --> 01:50:58.479
That's why I paused.
01:50:58.880 --> 01:51:04.000
But I knew you had, I thought you were gonna come up with Shaq or Kareem somewhere in there, but that's why he's all over the place.
01:51:04.640 --> 01:51:06.640
So it might be so I'm funny.
01:51:06.720 --> 01:51:07.439
I gotta give him a.
01:51:07.600 --> 01:51:08.239
I'm a Laker fan.
01:51:08.319 --> 01:51:08.560
I know.
01:51:08.720 --> 01:51:09.199
Come on, bruh.
01:51:09.359 --> 01:51:09.520
Okay.
01:51:11.760 --> 01:51:12.720
I'm a Kareem Rush fan.
01:51:13.199 --> 01:51:14.800
You have to really be a Laker fan.
01:51:15.199 --> 01:51:17.119
He just said Kareem Rush or Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
01:51:18.000 --> 01:51:18.239
Oh, okay.
01:51:18.399 --> 01:51:18.560
I know.
01:51:18.880 --> 01:51:19.600
Hey, Kareem Rush.
01:51:21.680 --> 01:51:22.000
Come on, man.
01:51:22.560 --> 01:51:24.800
Alright, so these are uh West Coast songs.
01:51:25.680 --> 01:51:26.960
Ambitions as a Rider.
01:51:28.560 --> 01:51:29.039
Kill.
01:51:29.520 --> 01:51:29.840
Okay.
01:51:30.479 --> 01:51:31.840
Kendrick, alright.
01:51:32.560 --> 01:51:32.960
Keep.
01:51:33.359 --> 01:51:33.520
Okay.
01:51:33.920 --> 01:51:34.560
Kill or what?
01:51:34.800 --> 01:51:36.159
Kill uh keeper kill.
01:51:36.800 --> 01:51:37.920
Kill mean you get rid of it.
01:51:38.000 --> 01:51:38.720
Keeping means you.
01:51:40.000 --> 01:51:40.800
I said keep it.
01:51:40.960 --> 01:51:42.880
You said you said keeper keeper Kendrick, alright.
01:51:43.039 --> 01:51:44.319
Uh explosive.
01:51:45.920 --> 01:51:46.319
Kill.
01:51:47.199 --> 01:51:48.159
Regulators.
01:51:49.039 --> 01:51:49.359
Kick.
01:51:50.319 --> 01:51:51.279
Jin and juice.
01:51:51.760 --> 01:51:52.960
Oh, you gotta keep that.
01:51:53.520 --> 01:51:54.239
So that's your three.
01:51:54.640 --> 01:51:57.199
So you so you kept no, you can keep going, but amen.
01:51:57.680 --> 01:52:08.319
Yeah, so you so you so you killed Ambestus as a writer, you kept Kendrick all right, you killed Explosive, you kept regulators, and I mean you kept gin and juice and you kept Warren G.
01:52:08.640 --> 01:52:09.359
And regulators.
01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:11.680
But if I don't say West Coast those three.
01:52:11.920 --> 01:52:12.399
It don't, yeah.
01:52:12.479 --> 01:52:12.960
You you killed.
01:52:13.840 --> 01:52:18.399
So the ones that was left that are officially killed are this is how we do it.
01:52:19.600 --> 01:52:19.920
Oh man.
01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:22.800
Drop it like it's hot, and Afropuffs.
01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:23.840
No, you won.
01:52:24.079 --> 01:52:24.560
You won.
01:52:27.439 --> 01:52:29.039
I'm about to say, Bobby, I'll appreciate that.
01:52:29.920 --> 01:52:30.319
Absolutely.
01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:31.439
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:52:31.600 --> 01:52:33.680
Hey man, thank y'all for pulling up, man.
01:52:33.760 --> 01:52:35.600
We had two legends up in here today, man.
01:52:35.760 --> 01:52:37.279
Appreciate the game, the stores.
01:52:37.439 --> 01:52:40.159
Let people know where they can find y'all at, y'all social medias.
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:41.760
Hey, and I have fun.
01:52:42.079 --> 01:52:42.800
That's what it's supposed to be.
01:52:42.960 --> 01:52:43.520
That's good time, man.
01:52:43.600 --> 01:52:44.560
That's what's supposed to be, man.
01:52:44.800 --> 01:52:47.279
I don't know if it has to do, because we know you niggas.
01:52:47.600 --> 01:52:48.000
Probably.
01:52:48.239 --> 01:52:48.720
And family.
01:52:49.119 --> 01:52:50.000
And we like you guys.
01:52:50.880 --> 01:52:51.680
We know a lot of people, bro.
01:52:52.000 --> 01:52:53.039
You treat everybody well.
01:52:53.119 --> 01:52:57.039
When y'all, hey, when y'all go, when you go back to the golf course, tell them it's good, good time.
01:52:57.279 --> 01:52:57.439
Absolutely.
01:52:58.800 --> 01:53:00.000
It's like, yeah, tell Marlon.
01:53:00.319 --> 01:53:01.199
Tell Chris.
01:53:01.359 --> 01:53:02.159
Tell Spencer.
01:53:02.800 --> 01:53:03.279
Tell Joe.
01:53:04.079 --> 01:53:04.880
Because here's what happened.
01:53:05.359 --> 01:53:12.800
Yeah, because uh we got sick of the idea of if you were promoting something or creating something, you had to go to the Breakfast Club.
01:53:12.880 --> 01:53:18.159
You got to go to Joe Button, you gotta go to 85 South, you gotta go way over there to go promote.
01:53:18.239 --> 01:53:19.039
So that's what we build.
01:53:19.439 --> 01:53:20.239
All of them great platforms.
01:53:20.399 --> 01:53:21.199
All of them great platforms.
01:53:22.000 --> 01:53:23.119
God damn, this is LA, baby.
01:53:23.439 --> 01:53:23.760
Come on, man.
01:53:23.840 --> 01:53:24.159
I get it.
01:53:24.319 --> 01:53:24.880
Come on, man.
01:53:25.760 --> 01:53:28.720
I'm just curious, because it's just what I'm about to say.
01:53:29.359 --> 01:53:30.800
Editing, as far as this goes, isn't it?
01:53:30.960 --> 01:53:32.560
BT will be reviewing this episode.
01:53:33.119 --> 01:53:34.239
But the fact you know right now.
01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:38.720
I said reviewing this goddamn episode.
01:53:38.880 --> 01:53:40.800
Uh we take turns.
01:53:40.880 --> 01:53:41.439
Oh, you got it?
01:53:41.680 --> 01:53:42.000
Let me know.
01:53:42.319 --> 01:53:43.039
I do enjoy the game.
01:53:43.279 --> 01:53:44.399
Oh, no, okay, well, good.
01:53:44.479 --> 01:53:44.560
Good.
01:53:46.720 --> 01:53:47.439
He's too excited.
01:53:48.960 --> 01:53:50.800
You look like a water boy on the lake.
01:53:51.439 --> 01:53:52.239
No, no, no, no.
01:53:52.800 --> 01:53:54.560
That little insight topic we just had.
01:53:54.640 --> 01:53:55.920
What did you just say, what are you saying?
01:53:57.119 --> 01:54:01.279
We watch the episodes afterwards just individually on your own.
01:54:01.600 --> 01:54:02.479
Yeah, yeah, with your own note.
01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:06.079
We take turns just to make sure it's edited by missed anything.
01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:08.560
And if anything, if we need to cut out anything, whatever the case is.
01:54:08.800 --> 01:54:09.840
What do you guys ever debate?
01:54:09.920 --> 01:54:11.680
Yo, you gotta keep that scene when he went.
01:54:11.920 --> 01:54:13.199
We ain't never had enough debate about it.
01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:14.000
We kind of trust.
01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:15.920
Yeah, we trust each other.
01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:16.239
Okay.
01:54:16.479 --> 01:54:17.359
But just some of the.
01:54:17.760 --> 01:54:18.560
Wow, that's amazing.
01:54:19.199 --> 01:54:19.520
Send that to us.
01:54:20.960 --> 01:54:25.039
When we get off of here, we're gonna put these medals on, and you gotta tell the Lakers story about the keeping the team together.
01:54:25.199 --> 01:54:25.760
But uh go ahead.
01:54:26.000 --> 01:54:27.920
But just some of the episodes be longer than others.
01:54:28.319 --> 01:54:28.880
It's a long one.
01:54:29.119 --> 01:54:30.479
I they know it's a long one.
01:54:30.640 --> 01:54:31.119
How long was it in?
01:54:31.359 --> 01:54:31.920
It's two hours.
01:54:32.239 --> 01:54:33.680
And you know, we gotta go.
01:54:33.920 --> 01:54:34.640
It takes days or what's up.
01:54:34.960 --> 01:54:36.079
I be reviewing clips.
01:54:36.399 --> 01:54:37.119
I do a lot of things.
01:54:37.279 --> 01:54:39.279
That's just let you know it was a lot of great content here.
01:54:39.600 --> 01:54:39.920
Absolutely.
01:54:40.000 --> 01:54:40.159
Absolutely.
01:54:41.039 --> 01:54:41.760
That's a good problem to have.
01:54:41.920 --> 01:54:42.720
Oh, that's oh, oh.
01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:43.840
The clips gonna be amazing.
01:54:44.239 --> 01:54:44.960
The clips gonna be amazing.
01:54:45.039 --> 01:54:46.960
Y'all got some good visuals with the clips and all that stuff.
01:54:47.039 --> 01:54:47.439
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:49.359
We killing it.
01:54:49.520 --> 01:54:49.680
Okay.
01:54:50.880 --> 01:54:51.520
No, dope name.
01:54:51.600 --> 01:54:52.239
We're doing very, very well.
01:54:52.399 --> 01:54:52.479
Thank you.
01:54:52.560 --> 01:54:52.640
Thank you.
01:54:52.800 --> 01:54:54.880
Y'all need to do the killing it tour and sell them t-shirts.
01:54:55.279 --> 01:54:55.600
We will.
01:54:55.840 --> 01:54:56.479
That's the first one.
01:54:57.840 --> 01:54:58.159
I see it.
01:54:58.319 --> 01:55:00.159
I just made the I just made this.
01:55:00.319 --> 01:55:00.479
Yeah.
01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:01.359
It's coming.
01:55:01.439 --> 01:55:01.840
It's coming.
01:55:01.920 --> 01:55:02.640
We got the logo.
01:55:02.720 --> 01:55:03.039
It's coming.
01:55:03.119 --> 01:55:03.439
It's coming.
01:55:04.079 --> 01:55:07.840
But the plan is, anybody that stayed this long, you a real fan.
01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:11.119
The plan is to take this act on the road maybe next year.
01:55:11.199 --> 01:55:11.359
Absolutely.
01:55:11.600 --> 01:55:12.319
You know, just continue to build.
01:55:13.760 --> 01:55:14.000
That's right.
01:55:14.159 --> 01:55:14.720
Don't hope anything.
01:55:14.880 --> 01:55:15.119
That's right.
01:55:15.359 --> 01:55:15.520
Maybe.
01:55:15.600 --> 01:55:15.840
Speaking of the thing.
01:55:16.000 --> 01:55:19.279
Speaking of next year, we're going to be touring, killing it.
01:55:19.520 --> 01:55:19.760
Absolutely.
01:55:19.920 --> 01:55:20.560
You know what I'm saying?
01:55:20.880 --> 01:55:23.840
And I can promise you it's going to be something you ain't never experienced before.
01:55:24.000 --> 01:55:24.560
Absolutely.
01:55:24.960 --> 01:55:26.079
What's y'all's socials?
01:55:26.239 --> 01:55:26.640
Oh, yeah.
01:55:26.800 --> 01:55:28.159
So uh what's what's the camera?
01:55:28.239 --> 01:55:28.479
Right here?
01:55:28.880 --> 01:55:29.039
Yeah.
01:55:29.439 --> 01:55:32.479
Uh my Instagram, funny man Alex Thomas.
01:55:32.720 --> 01:55:33.920
All one word, funny man.
01:55:34.159 --> 01:55:34.960
Alex Thomas.
01:55:35.039 --> 01:55:45.920
If you want to pick up some South Central Country Club merch, go to South CentralCountry Club.com or go to uh on Instagram at South Central Country Club.
01:55:46.319 --> 01:55:49.600
Uh check out the Fat Tuesday documentary on Amazon Prime.
01:55:49.680 --> 01:55:50.479
You'll love it.
01:55:50.720 --> 01:55:56.720
Check me out, guyTory.com, and I have five websites, but just go to guyTory.com and you'll get to the other one.
01:55:57.039 --> 01:55:58.239
I have 17 websites.
01:56:00.560 --> 01:56:01.600
I'm a little nervous, sis.
01:56:02.479 --> 01:56:04.159
I heard somebody say that I have 11 websites.
01:56:04.880 --> 01:56:05.600
I got five.
01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:09.520
The reason I ask you guys about editing, is it coming up?
01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:11.279
Like, is you are we talking two weeks, a month?
01:56:11.359 --> 01:56:12.880
Because I got a big show coming up.
01:56:12.960 --> 01:56:14.720
So I'm like, Oh no, it'll be a while ago.
01:56:14.880 --> 01:56:16.479
It'll be a little bit more.
01:56:16.640 --> 01:56:21.119
All right, well, while uh May 9th, I'm at the uh upstairs in downtown LA at uh.
01:56:21.600 --> 01:56:23.279
This is coming out in 2029.
01:56:28.800 --> 01:56:30.239
And you guys will never hear about them.
01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:31.439
But uh, yeah, go see him.
01:56:31.840 --> 01:56:33.439
If you can go back in time, make it up.
01:56:33.760 --> 01:56:34.079
May night.
01:56:34.159 --> 01:56:34.560
May night.
01:56:34.800 --> 01:56:36.159
May touring all over, man.
01:56:36.319 --> 01:56:36.800
Go ahead, bro.
01:56:37.039 --> 01:56:39.600
Uh hey man, make sure you like, comment, subscribe, man.
01:56:39.680 --> 01:56:41.680
Leave your favorite moments in the comment section.
01:56:41.760 --> 01:56:43.600
Uh, tell your friends about the show, man.
01:56:43.760 --> 01:56:45.359
We've been your host, Justin Hyas.
01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:45.920
London Brown.
01:56:46.079 --> 01:56:46.800
B T King.
01:56:46.960 --> 01:56:51.119
And this has been the one and only Guy Tori and Alex Thomas.
01:56:53.359 --> 01:56:54.319
We're killing it.