Transkrip penuh untuk TONE BELL

00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:19.439 And I'm gonna tell you who else is killing it, our guest today, man. 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.240 Um, we're your host, Justin Hyas. 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:22.719 B.T. 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:23.120 Kingsley. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:23.840 London. 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:27.120 That's hilarious. 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:29.199 We ain't gonna replace you. 00:03:29.360 --> 00:03:32.319 Yeah, London's still London's still we're gonna replace you. 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:35.439 We're gonna replace you with another dark-skinned Negro if anything. 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:37.360 London's filming right now, man. 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:38.719 Uh, so he's he's still here. 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:41.199 Our brother be back, so man, y'all make sure y'all support him. 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:46.000 Um, but yeah, man, um, appreciate y'all liking, comment, make sure you like, comment, subscribe. 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.280 Um, appreciate y'all sharing the clips and the comments and all that, man. 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:50.000 We appreciate you. 00:03:50.159 --> 00:03:53.039 Man, the guest today, we're gonna let y'all know why he's on the show. 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.520 Why, why we feel like he's killing it. 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:56.240 Okay. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:57.759 I'm gonna run down this credit. 00:03:57.919 --> 00:03:58.800 Bro, you got so many credits. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:00.800 I forgot how many credits you have, bruh. 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:02.159 A lot of one seasons. 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:02.479 Go ahead. 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:03.680 Oh, we're gonna get to that. 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.080 Uh, we're gonna get to them cancellations. 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:10.000 Um Survival of the Thickest, okay, on Netflix. 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:12.479 Trigger warning on Netflix, Netflix. 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:13.599 I can't talk as early. 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:14.319 I was out last night. 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:15.199 It was all out. 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:16.800 It was all out last night. 00:04:17.759 --> 00:04:19.040 Understand what's about to happen. 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:19.519 Yeah. 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:24.480 You're gonna hear drunk talk from dudes that ain't drunk. 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:27.199 Um The United States versus Billy Holiday. 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:28.560 I got a funny story about that. 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.800 Um the fam on CBS, The Flash, oh man. 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:38.240 The truth be told, Bad Judge, Whitney, um, his own special, can't cancel this. 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:40.399 Drinkmasters, that was on Netflix too, right? 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:41.439 Can't uh my special? 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:42.480 No, no, Drinkmasters. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:43.680 Yeah, Drinkmasters, Netflix too. 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:55.199 But where I worked with Tumble Bell was a little hidden gym that got canceled immediately called Jerks with Cameras. 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:56.160 Oh my god. 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:56.959 Nah, give it up. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:58.399 That ain't even on your MDB. 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:03.759 Give it up! Give it up for the one and only Tom Bell, baby. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:04.240 Yeah. 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:06.160 Nah, I gotta I gotta dive in. 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.759 We're gonna start with jerks with cameras, because you already know my story with jerks with cameras. 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:10.720 You probably already know this. 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:17.759 So man, so anybody that don't know, jerks with cameras was a show on MTV. 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:20.800 So I had already did another show on MTV, it was a prank show. 00:05:20.879 --> 00:05:20.959 Yeah. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:23.519 And I did a prank show on MTV called Disaster Day. 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.000 So, you know, BET had Hell Day, MTV, they had uh Disaster Day. 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:29.680 So I had already did a show with them. 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:34.399 Then they hit me up and said, yo, we got this other show we want to do, and it's called Jerks with Cameras. 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:35.040 I was like, cool. 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.399 So basically we going around pranking people out on the street, Hollywood Boulevard, North Hollywood, pranking. 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.199 So they was like, we gotta find a host. 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:44.399 We need a host. 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:46.639 We need a host. 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.040 And so I was like, oh, okay, well, I can't wait to see who we get. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:54.240 And so they came to us in a meeting. 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:59.040 They was like, oh my God, we can't we have a star. 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.319 Oh, we can't even say who the f it is yet. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:06.560 We can't say that, but just now, this guy is huge. 00:06:07.199 --> 00:06:10.800 I'm thinking, god damn, who's gonna be the host of this show? 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:12.399 Now, at the time, Brandon T. 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:13.759 Jackson was really popping. 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.759 So I said, Oh, I well, I hope it's Brandon T. 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:16.240 Jackson. 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:17.759 That'll really be swell. 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:19.120 You know, that's what I'm thinking. 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:22.720 So then they said, the next day, I was like, oh my God, are you guys ready? 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:23.360 Drum roll. 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:25.439 I mean, they really they was hyping you up. 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:27.759 They said, are you ready to find out who your host is? 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:29.920 We're like, yeah, all me and all the other pranksters. 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:30.800 Like, yeah. 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.120 They said, tone, bam. 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:36.720 I said, the nigga from the course like commercial. 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:38.720 What commercial you was doing at that time? 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:39.199 Bud Light. 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:39.839 Bud Light.

00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:42.319 Middle light was middle light. 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:42.720 Middle light. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:43.759 Buddha forget it. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:45.279 Yeah, I work for Bud Light. 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.199 I got the job of Middle Light. 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.519 But but also, I was surprised too. 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:50.319 Okay, go forward. 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:51.279 I was surprised too. 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:56.399 But before you get into that, Tone has always been industry hot. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:05.759 And I want to I want to get, or at least outside looking in outside looking in, it appears you have been industry hot at least since, mind you, this was 2014. 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:06.000 Yeah. 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:06.639 That thing we did. 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.480 Yeah, when we did 13 to 14, yeah. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:10.079 Okay, when we did Jurassic Cameron. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:14.720 So to be, and at the time, I was like, well, I could have been the host of this show. 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:16.079 I'm thinking on some. 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:18.160 I'll tell you some wild shit that that came up. 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:18.959 Go for it. 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:21.199 So that that okay, so that happened. 00:07:21.279 --> 00:07:23.839 I remember I had finished Whitney. 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:25.120 I had finished Whitney. 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:26.560 Okay, so you had already done Whitney. 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:29.839 So I had done, uh, I got I got my deal. 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:31.439 NBC shit. 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:35.839 We can go back to that if you want to, but they got the NBC um Standard for Diversity joint. 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:36.560 Right, right, right. 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:43.439 Whitney came, uh Whitney came to, and it was like uh my deal was like seven for 13 back when they used to do those. 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.079 So I'm in 51% of the episodes. 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:49.279 So they go, you're going to work. 00:07:49.439 --> 00:07:52.319 If we shoot 13, you'll be in at least seven. 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:53.600 Okay. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:55.279 Had some great table reads. 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:57.120 Now I'm in 10 of 13. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.600 When it gets canceled, I go, shit, I can't believe I got on TV this quick. 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:01.920 Right. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:06.000 Now going for my next thing, jerks with cameras comes up. 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:07.519 There was a do you remember tonight? 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.040 There was a there was a showcase at the improv. 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:11.920 Okay. 00:08:12.079 --> 00:08:12.800 Nah, I don't remember. 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:14.240 They were looking for a host. 00:08:14.879 --> 00:08:18.160 I wasn't on the showcase, but I went to go chop it up. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.199 I think Grant Cotter was there. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:24.240 Damn, it was here. 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.439 I don't think you were there. 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:26.480 I feel like I remember this. 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:27.439 Yeah, I don't think you were there. 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.600 Nigga, I'm just hanging out at the bar, meet the people from the production company. 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:32.559 This is hilarious. 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.159 That's how I got the job. 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:36.000 I wasn't even on the show. 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:37.519 You didn't even perform. 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:40.799 I didn't even, nigga, I didn't go in the showroom. 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:43.759 Let me tell y'all, Tone is beautiful. 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:46.480 Okay, he is a good looking dude. 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:52.720 And being a good looking, charismatic, a tad shorter than Will Smith type dude. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:54.320 Thank you for the tad. 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:55.200 Yeah, I got you. 00:08:55.360 --> 00:08:56.240 I appreciate the tad. 00:08:57.759 --> 00:08:58.240 I know, right? 00:08:58.320 --> 00:08:58.480 The tad. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:08:58.960 I know, right? 00:08:59.120 --> 00:08:59.360 I got you. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:08:59.840 I got you, bro. 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:00.480 I'm tall. 00:09:00.559 --> 00:09:01.360 Yeah, that's all right. 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:04.320 But for real, like that helps. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.159 But what what was the conversation? 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.000 What do you think about you happened in that moment for him to say that? 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:15.120 I knew that was happening, but I did I didn't go for that reason, but I knew the showcase was happening. 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:17.360 But I'm always, I'm always out going. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:30.320 If I if I know uh decision makers are in the room, I'm gonna go go, it may this may not be my thing, but I'm gonna meet somebody to go, man, we got we got something else coming up. 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.240 But that's that's my corporate background going, how do I network on this? 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:35.840 Then I end up getting that gig. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:39.519 They call me, because those are the same folks who produce um Jersey Short. 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:39.919 Yep. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:40.960 Sally Ann. 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:41.360 Yep. 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:42.879 It was 495 Productions. 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:43.440 Yeah, wow. 00:09:43.600 --> 00:09:45.120 Sally Ann and Josh Peters. 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:45.600 Yeah. 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:51.360 And then um Yeah, it was it was it was a couple folks on that show who I've I still talk to through the years. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:53.360 Because you never know where somebody might gonna end up. 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:53.679 Yeah. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.080 I don't, I don't take advantage of people's time. 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:00.320 If you can give it to me, I'm gonna take it. 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:02.080 Okay, so hold on. 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:07.120 So

okay, from that though, do you feel like, damn. 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.679 I'm I'm trying to see, so how do the industry hotness come? 00:10:12.320 --> 00:10:16.799 See, I d that's funny you say that, because I don't feel that way, because I feel like, nigga, I ain't got a job right now. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:17.840 You know what right now. 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:18.879 We talking about back then. 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:22.159 Oh, oh, for a while, nigga, I was flaming. 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:23.600 So how do you feel like that? 00:10:25.200 --> 00:10:25.919 No, we don't do it. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.200 We don't be doing pause on here, nigga. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:30.559 I'm gay every other episode, but the way I be fucking talking. 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:32.799 I'm sure half of the audience think I'm gay. 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:34.480 I be doing the little gay boys at all times. 00:10:34.720 --> 00:10:35.679 They're like, this nigga's a cool. 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:38.159 Okay. 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:40.000 What? 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:41.679 I started off flamboyant. 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:47.759 I mean, let me tell you something while I'll play about all that, that pause and shit. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.399 I got too much coochie in my day. 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:53.919 Niggas that do stuff like that, it's like, I don't know what happened. 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:55.039 You ain't never had no pussy like that. 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:59.200 Yeah, either you ain't had no pussy or something happened in your childhood, I feel like you got touched on. 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:00.960 And so something has happened. 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:02.720 If you say pause and we laugh, I'm cool with it. 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:04.720 But if you go, nigga, for real, I go, nigga, what happened? 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:05.519 Yeah, what happened? 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:05.919 Straight up. 00:11:06.080 --> 00:11:06.480 That's wild. 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:07.200 I love the game. 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:10.399 I think the game is hilarious itself, but I'm it's never serious to me. 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:15.600 And pause to me is all is always just the induendo of sexual. 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:16.879 It doesn't even matter what it is. 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.320 Like I'll be talking to a girl and she'll sit there and be like, hey, yo, like, relax, bro. 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:21.519 Chick will say that shit? 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:22.639 It don't even know. 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:25.200 I'll say it, but it it does, I'm exaggerating it. 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:25.679 Oh, okay. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:27.360 She'll be like, yeah, I can't wait to come over there. 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:29.279 I'm like, hey, yo, come over there. 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:31.360 You know why I don't like it? 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:32.480 This is why I don't like it. 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:35.679 Somebody like Dame Dash is what, 50, 60 years old. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:36.960 It's like, grow up. 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.519 You know, he's saying pause after every single day. 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:40.720 We would have known by now. 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:41.679 Yeah, it's like, come on. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:45.600 It's like, man, because it ruins the flow of the conversation and what we're talking about. 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:50.480 So even with the conversation we were just having has gone now because we're talking about pause. 00:11:50.799 --> 00:11:55.039 Everybody out there that's saying pause, get your get your life together, go get some pussy. 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:55.759 All right, go for it. 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:57.519 Yeah, yo, get the pussy is crazy. 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:04.159 Pause of this conversation, go get some pussy and come back. 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.200 Like a like a back is crazy. 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:10.879 That's how it's supposed to go. 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:13.519 Come back, come back crazy. 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.240 Come back like the straight you are. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:18.240 Oh, straight is crazy. 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.080 I appear to be the reckless one on this, but this is absurd. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:23.519 Industry hot. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:24.879 Industry hot, man. 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:29.440 So you said you never, you didn't feel like you was industry hot, but back then you was flaming. 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:33.200 What do you think was happening back then where you was Well, you know how it goes? 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:38.480 You know how it goes, because every time I would go into a room, it was uh I got into the you mentioned Brand Brandon. 00:12:38.799 --> 00:12:39.440 So Brand T. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:42.000 Jackson, uh at the time it was Brand T. 00:12:42.080 --> 00:12:44.159 Jackson, it was Damon Jr. 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:46.720 Yeah, and it was uh probably Lamore. 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:48.960 Lamore was like becoming the a type. 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:49.519 Morris. 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:51.200 Yeah, Lamore Morris. 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:53.200 I became a type after them. 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:56.000 But everything I went in for was like Damon Jr. 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.000 type, Lamar type, Brand T. 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:58.639 Jackson type. 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:05.600 It was like I was going in for those things, and they were I mean, and you know, that shit that shit hurt you sometimes. 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:07.679 Like, you because you know these niggas now at this point. 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:08.159 Yep. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:16.960 And then you see it on the path, you see it on the, you know, you walk in and go, oh, this is the type we're looking for, and go, well, I mean, he's right there. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:17.360 Right. 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:17.919 Right. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.080 There's no way I'm gonna get this job because he's right there. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:21.519 He's peeking in the room. 00:13:22.559 -->

00:13:24.559 His name is already on the sides. 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:25.679 I'm looking at him. 00:13:25.759 --> 00:13:27.120 Like it's it was it was wild. 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.960 So um, so we did, I did Whitney, and then Jerks came out. 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:33.200 So we did jerks, we did 10 episodes of Jerks, I think. 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:41.919 And then um right after Jerks, the only reason why Jerks, well, I'm not gonna say the only reason because I can't say this for sure, but I know they were talking about a season two. 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:50.799 A season, I got a deal with another deal with NBC with Universal, but they didn't want me to do another season of Jerks. 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:54.399 And to go, this brand doesn't match what we're doing. 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:55.600 From what I remember. 00:13:55.840 --> 00:13:56.000 Right. 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:57.120 And it was a different time. 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.679 Now, nowadays you could have done both of them, but back then. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.200 They're like, please have another show. 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:01.679 Right. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:02.720 How long was that? 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:03.120 A week? 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:04.159 Yeah, straight up. 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:05.039 Please go do. 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.320 So yeah, so I ended up doing uh my second show. 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:09.600 I did Bad Judge. 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:11.039 I did Bad Judge. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:12.960 And this is with the deal with Universal? 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:13.840 This is yes. 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:15.759 How did you get the deal with Universal? 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:18.159 Yeah, we gotta we gotta circle back. 00:14:18.320 --> 00:14:18.399 Yeah. 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:19.039 Yeah, yeah. 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:24.559 So before, bef because Whitney, because everything happened really fast. 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:25.759 You were a type. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:29.840 It happened so fast that it fucked- that fucks it fucks me up. 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.080 Yeah, because I'm uh I think God. 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.000 Well, you were still wearing two watches. 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:35.440 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:43.679 When I met you, I met you in Dallas with Keith, Keith Manning, randomly, like uh his apartment, parking, yeah, this is my daughter Bell. 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:45.600 Yada yada, we chop it up, we cool. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.080 I see you in LA and you're on 14 shows. 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:50.559 But really, how did you get to deal with Universal? 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.159 I Okay. 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:53.759 I need to say that. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:00.000 Standard for Diversity was was was the um my pilot program to getting into business. 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:01.279 So y'all remember that. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:12.480 So if anybody who don't know that, uh Standard for Diversity was like a uh it's it

was a I like to call it a non-televised last comic standing that don't take white dudes unless something's wrong with you. 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:13.919 That don't take white dudes? 00:15:14.240 --> 00:15:14.399 Yeah. 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:15.759 Oh, I gotcha, oh, gotcha. 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.879 You can you can be white, but you better be deaf, blind, yeah, something. 00:15:21.200 --> 00:15:21.759 Wheelchair, yeah. 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:23.279 But that was that was then. 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:23.759 Right? 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:28.320 So, so I I mean I do I did that from 08 until 2011. 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:30.639 I'd every year I was auditioning for that. 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:32.080 And I went to Phoenix. 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.480 I can't, I mean, I look, I was traveling doing it. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:42.159 And then the year I thought I got it was um uh 2010 is when I thought I was, nigga, I ripped. 00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:42.960 Yeah. 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:44.639 I got the tape, nigga. 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:45.519 I spent off the stage. 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:47.279 Nigga, I did, I did a turn. 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.200 That's probably where I fucked up, by the way. 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:50.720 Nigga, I I went so hard. 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:52.559 Uh nigga, I did a spin. 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:57.120 Nigga, I I pretty much, I'm pretty sure I go, nigga, I was great tonight. 00:15:57.759 --> 00:15:59.919 Nigga, I did I spin the tape. 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:01.840 Didn't they like a temptation spin? 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:07.600 Nigga, hands was up. 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.360 Nigga, no callback. 00:16:13.840 --> 00:16:15.200 So that was like semifinals. 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:16.159 Air getting Negro. 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:17.679 You get the fuck out of here. 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:19.360 I go, I go, word. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.159 I had a great set. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:26.960 Um and then I started watching like the game of like how people get through this. 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.759 And I go, okay, I I know what set I need to do for next year. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.759 So I did it the next year, um, 2011. 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:44.000 And nigga, I have a I had a better set the year before, but I had a I had a uh a um I would say a billable set the next year. 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:48.000 I gave you a character, let you know I could write, did some impressions or whatever. 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:53.759 And then so that year, I I come out, it's me, Owen Smith, the Lucas Brothers, Dave Rahge, Keisha Hunt. 00:16:53.919 --> 00:16:55.440 Um we had a class. 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:55.759 Yeah. 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:56.559 We had a class. 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:59.519 And um then I ended up winning this bitch. 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:01.200 I was trying to come in number two. 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:09.519 I was like, oh, Owen is gonna, he murdered, Lucas brothers murdered, like it was a bunch of very funny people in the showcase. 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:10.240 Wow. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:17.519 Uh we had the lowest attended NBC showcase because Tony Rock's birthday was the same night at Improv. 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:19.759 That's hilarious. 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:23.440 From what I hear, this showcase always packs out. 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:28.400 Nigga, it's like 120 people in this bitch at the comedy store. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:29.440 That's so good in the main room? 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:31.279 This is my first set ever at the comedy store. 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:32.160 What's my showcase? 00:17:32.319 --> 00:17:33.039 In the main room. 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:33.759 In the main room. 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:36.079 And in Tony Rock's birthday down the street. 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:38.079 Tony Rock's parties be popping. 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:38.799 Nigga, that bitch. 00:17:39.039 --> 00:17:40.640 I went over there after my career. 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:45.039 After I gained the career together, I was like, what's what's what's Tony Rock doing? 00:17:45.519 --> 00:17:46.240 So I get that. 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.079 So that's what got me on Whitney. 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:49.279 Auditioned a bunch of times. 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:50.160 They got me on Whitney. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:54.000 I did the the we did 16 episodes, I think, this season. 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:55.200 I did 13 to 16. 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:57.039 And then so now, but I did that ago. 00:17:57.119 --> 00:17:58.799 I cannot believe I've been on TV already. 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:00.319 I've been in town less than a year. 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:01.839 I'm a lead on the show. 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:04.559 It was bananas to me. 00:18:04.799 --> 00:18:06.559 Um, jerk some cameras. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.640 I ended up going to that showcase at the improv. 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:11.359 Get that job like two or three weeks later. 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:12.559 We end up going. 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:15.119 We filmed what I just what was that? 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:15.680 Two weeks maybe? 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:17.839 Like I think we rehearsed for a week and we shot for a week. 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:18.160 Yeah. 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:27.759 Right after that, um, right after that, the I get in calls from NBC Universal, and the bad judge comes up. 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:28.799 Wow. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.960 And I'm like, okay, I might got another shot at another show. 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:34.960 They don't even bring me in for that. 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:36.400 This actually, I was just talking about this. 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:39.039 Y'all know how silly this game is. 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:45.359 It's because it's it's like, I think you're always appreciative and you're always like, oh man, I can't believe I'm working. 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:49.200 Sometimes like it takes a minute, but then you get a job or whatever, you know, whatever it's gonna be. 00:18:49.519

--> 00:18:52.960 But I'm in the room and I go in for this, they call me in for a show. 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:55.599 Everybody, stop what you're doing right now. 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:57.599 Make sure you subscribe to Killin' It Pie. 00:18:57.759 --> 00:18:58.240 Boom. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.720 This is this is about you know, this is when pot of season was popping. 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:01.039 Yeah. 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:08.559 So nigga, you know, I'm I'm getting three auditions a day with every network and studio. 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:08.880 Right. 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:11.519 I'm everywhere between Monday and Friday. 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:12.880 Bounce around today. 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:17.519 Nigga, I'm going from Culver City to Studio City to everywhere. 00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.240 Yeah. 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:24.160 They bring me in for um What was the name of that show? 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.000 Uh Malcolm Barrett did the show. 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:27.519 Oh yeah, we gotta get him over here. 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:28.799 Y'all gotta get Malcolm Barrett. 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:30.079 That motherfucker is very funny. 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:30.400 Yeah. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:31.680 So they bring me in for a show. 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:33.599 Um just like Chappelle. 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:35.519 Without doing stand-up. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:37.759 Nigga, they bring me they bring me into a room. 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:39.039 Oh man, what's the name of the show? 00:19:39.119 --> 00:19:40.319 It's not, it's I feel like it's a history. 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:41.519 It's called history something. 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:44.480 Um so I go in for this show. 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:48.319 I end up getting bad judge, but here's how he went in for bad judge. 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:50.720 I went in for this other show. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:20:01.839 At some point, we're there's probably a room this size, and there's a wall in between, there's a door, there's like it's other niggas outside waiting to audition. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:02.000 Right. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:05.039 Me and Malcolm go in, he goes into Bad Judge, I go into this room. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:07.200 What the fuck was the name of this show? 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:09.039 Um, also, it got canceled. 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:10.400 So everybody said, yeah. 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:11.920 It don't matter, man. 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:13.599 But but but also I wanted it. 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:16.400 You know those moments like you're like, I want this motherfucker. 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:18.880 Like, I so I went in knowing I wanted that shit. 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:20.880 Hadn't even read Bad Judge. 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:26.559 There's there's so there's two doors leading out to the lobby where everybody else is at, every other actor waiting to audition. 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.079 Me and Malcolm go in, he goes into Bad Judge, I go into this one. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:32.720 There's a door in between this wall. 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:33.599 He's on that side. 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:35.200 Well, I can damn near hear him. 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:38.880 Nigga, they open a door and they're like, hey, can we switch? 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.319 That's wild. 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:45.039 Nigga, I go, I go, they go, take a second, read this. 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:47.119 I'm in the room with Kate Walsh. 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:48.079 I'm ready to go. 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:48.720 I've never seen the shit. 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:49.519 I'm reading it. 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.240 I go, uh, yeah, all right. 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:54.160 Malcolm's over here, I'm over here. 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:56.000 Nigga, we both book them. 00:20:57.039 --> 00:20:58.000 That's amazing, bro. 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:01.279 I booked the shit he went in for, he booked the shit I went in for. 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.720 Nigga, this is 20, this is right after jerks with cameras. 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:06.559 Yeah, y'all swapped on them hoes. 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:08.559 Yeah, it was like a hotel room. 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:11.440 Hey, yo. 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:14.640 No pause, nigga. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:15.119 No pause. 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:16.000 No pause, man. 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:17.039 No pause. 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:18.160 Get them draws. 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:20.079 We don't do pause, we get them draws. 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:21.359 Shout out to that, man. 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:22.079 That's a crazy story. 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:24.000 That is a hilarious story. 00:21:24.240 --> 00:21:29.599 Um, you identified something very specific. 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:34.319 The importance, I swear by the importance of festivals and competitions. 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:35.680 I say that they're everything. 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:47.119 It is your fast-forward through the business because if you can showcase correctly in front of the right people, then there could be your name can be spoken up when you're not there to speak up for yourself. 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:51.519 Um when you were going into these showcases, were you doing the same sets? 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:52.400 How much were you changing? 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:53.119 How much were you at? 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:55.200 I did a different set every time. 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:01.519 But but also it it and it never made sense to me of going like I was a corporate dude for a little bit. 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.319 I don't care about them as much as I care about y'all. 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:09.680 I think it means more for them to see us like each other than for me to go, oh, where'd you go? 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:10.319 Northwestern? 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:12.319 I don't give a fuck about that much. 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:19.519 I mean, I do know that about them, but I go, if we all tight, they go, oh man, these three dudes are very funny and they get along.

00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:22.400 He must be a cool dude to get along with. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.359 That's pretty much that's been my game the whole time. 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:35.759 Like uh I can take uh the uh you know Trent that works at so-and-so studio who might be looking for one of us. 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.279 But if he looks at us and goes, oh man, all those motherfuckers cool. 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:41.839 Now all three of us possibly got a job. 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:44.240 You know, we we might have a thing of this. 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:51.599 If I disregard y'all and go, I'm just kissing his ass to try to get a job, he goes, Well, he don't know how to do nothing, but Brown knows. 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:52.640 Right, right, right. 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:54.319 It's much easier. 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:55.519 And I like y'all niggas. 00:22:55.599 --> 00:22:55.920 You know what I mean? 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.440 It's like I'd I'd rather do this. 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:57.839 Right. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.680 Nigga, okay, first of all, this nigga popped up on me last night. 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:03.359 What did he say? 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:04.799 I I don't even know. 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:07.200 Were you on a step or a or a ladder or something last night? 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:10.400 He just nigga was just towering over me. 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.000 BT sneaky tall. 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:14.880 That's not a grill. 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:17.200 I think you were just wearing a wife beat or some shit? 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:18.480 No, I just had a t-shirt. 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:20.480 I was it got hot as so good hot back there. 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:22.799 I walked in the back, I was saying hello to somebody. 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:25.599 B she goes, What's up, nigga? 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:31.519 I'm like, oh my. 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:33.519 That's hilarious. 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.880 Oh my, clutch my pocket. 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:35.839 I'll see you tomorrow, go. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:36.480 I should get out of here. 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:39.519 It's just good to see you, bro. 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:41.039 Yeah, man, yeah, it's been a minute, bro. 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:42.160 Get to see you that much. 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:44.400 Um tell me about training. 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:48.079 Um, acting training or uh I don't know, did you do improv? 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:48.960 What was the training? 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:50.640 I did a bunch of classes early too. 00:23:50.960 --> 00:23:57.759 It was um I I really do feel like I have a weird story because I'm still trying to. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:59.119 We're still writing it. 00:23:59.200 --> 00:24:01.279 I mean, all of us are still trying to figure out our story, right? 00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:05.839 I mean, like we mean we we all have a moniker of success at some point. 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:07.279 Commercials. 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:07.839 Yeah. 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.880 You mean you I'd still have only gotten three seasons. 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:13.759 I don't have Yeah, I don't have to run. 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:14.400 I'm syndicate. 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:14.640 Okay. 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:17.599 When I was about to start bragging, I'm only the humble brag. 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:18.559 Yeah, I mean syndicate. 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.799 Well, yeah, we're like, sorry, I'm sorry. 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:31.440 Um But so so so we all have our you know what we set out to do something, we get it, but as soon as you get that thing, you're like, all right, I need to figure out what's next after. 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.880 Even though you you love this moment, you figure out that next thing. 00:24:35.119 --> 00:24:45.359 Um it's it it's it's so hard to put a put a I did UCB, I did uh Leslie Khan, I did uh Oh, you did Khan too? 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:45.519 Okay. 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:50.960 Yeah, I I did a bunch of classes, and a lot of them I think were fucking me up. 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:52.799 Not Leslie Khan so much. 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:53.599 Like that was great. 00:24:54.079 --> 00:25:06.720 I was doing UCB classes, but I cared about stand-up so much that it I'm I remember going on stage for like six months, I was like, nigga, I'm doing too much I'm I'm doing too much crowd work and ad lemon and not doing what I wrote. 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:09.440 UCB is an improv uh classes. 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:11.359 School, improv school, anybody wondering. 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:12.640 And I loved it. 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:14.079 It's great. 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:18.480 I found myself going like, nigga, I'm not even looking at my notebook no more. 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:26.880 Cause now I'm just, I'm just before crowd work became a thing, I'm out here just doing I go, I'm not doing anything that got me here. 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:29.680 And so, I mean, and that's just that's just me. 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:40.400 So I ended up like cutting that out, and then I was more talking to actors and like working one-on-one and doing shit with people, like at the crib, like other actors I was working with. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:56.160 I would take my lunch breaks, whoever I was working with, I mean, the K Washes, the Kathy Bates, the Nina Dobrevs, the Brisha Webbs, the I mean, we talk during the Mark Paul Geisler, like we talk in those moments of like, all right, uh, what can I learn from them right now where it's not 15 other people in this class? 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:01.519 How can I I ain't gotta take this class if I can learn it from you? 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:02.319 You already took it. 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:06.799 Can I get can I get something from you in 30 that it took you four weeks to learn? 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.480 But wait a minute, you took the acting classes before you was booking the TV shows? 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:10.880 No. 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:12.559 Or

you or so you was taking an acting class in the middle of the year. 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:15.680 I was Whitney before I was Nigga, I thought I was fire. 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:25.920 Nigga, my nigga, I was auditioning against D-Ray, and I'm I'm I'm I I nigga, I'm so sorry. 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:26.799 What's his name? 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.720 Um my nigga that played D'Angelo Barksdale on The Wire. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:31.839 Dang. 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:34.799 Uh Andre Andre uh is it Andre? 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:36.079 Uh sheesh. 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:39.519 My nigga, I am so sorry, but brilliant actor. 00:26:39.839 --> 00:26:40.160 You're right. 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:40.799 So great. 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:41.680 We know your work. 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:42.559 We know your work. 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:46.079 We told you we was fucked up when we started. 00:26:47.119 --> 00:26:48.400 I just won't get a long night. 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:49.680 Oh, yeah, Will Harris. 00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.400 No, no. 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:51.359 That nigga, what? 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:51.759 No. 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:53.519 Not Will Harris. 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:55.039 He played Avon Barks there. 00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:55.759 Yeah. 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:56.880 That's Will Harris. 00:26:56.960 --> 00:26:57.759 They played Avon Barks. 00:26:58.240 --> 00:26:59.359 Yeah, that's not who I was saying. 00:26:59.519 --> 00:26:59.759 Oh. 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:01.279 Who said? 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:02.480 The nigga who played his cousin. 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:02.720 Oh. 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:03.519 D'Angelo. 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:03.839 Anyway. 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:04.880 Oh, D'Angelo. 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:05.359 Yeah, yeah. 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:06.160 Let me look at that. 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:06.960 Uh nigga. 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:09.519 And we're all testing, we're all testing for Whitney. 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:14.160 And to this day, I go, I probably got this job because I was cheaper. 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:14.880 Oh, yeah. 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:16.160 That's why I got rush hour. 00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:18.559 Nigga, my rate was low. 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:19.440 Got it. 00:27:19.680 --> 00:27:23.279 It's the most money I ever made, but it's peanuts to them. 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:25.200 Nigga. 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:27.599 Bro, I mean Lawrence Gillard Jr. 00:27:27.920 --> 00:27:28.640 Gillard, yes. 00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.119 Lawrence. 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:30.160 Lawrence Gillard Jr. 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:30.640 Lawrence. 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:31.599 Phenomenal actor. 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:34.160 I'm testing, I'm testing with him and D. 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:34.480 Ray. 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.440 And but like, you know, to me, I mean. 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:38.240 Yeah, we have editors. 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.759 I'm around here trying to show the camera. 00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:41.039 I'm a fucking loser. 00:27:41.279

--> 00:27:42.480 Go on, let's see. 00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:44.799 I'm like, can you zoom in? 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:45.680 No, you can't. 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:46.640 All right, got it. 00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:47.519 We're listening, Tom. 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:50.000 We'll take care of him post. 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:50.720 Right. 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:52.160 Thank you, BT. 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.039 I'm listening. 00:27:53.200 --> 00:28:00.319 But you but you know those rooms like you get into the uh whatever room you're going into, but you're like, is this motherfucker you fan of? 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.599 I'm a fan of this dude. 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:06.160 And then I go, now I'm battling him to get this job. 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:11.119 And when you early in, at least I was early in, I go, Well, I I love him already. 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:14.319 He don't know me, but I know him, and I'm a fan of him. 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:16.720 Of course he's gonna get this job. 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:18.799 Nigga, D-Ray was in there. 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:20.240 And nigga, I love D-Ray. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:20.960 Oh, yeah, beast. 00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:23.839 Big fan of D-Ray, known as motherfucker since I was in high school. 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:24.480 Right. 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:26.400 He auditioned too, he testing. 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:27.440 I go, there's no way. 00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:29.599 Why would they pick me over D-Ray? 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:32.240 I think I was good. 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:34.480 I also think I was cheap. 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:37.359 But it gave me C legs to go. 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:40.960 Can I can can I figure out my bones after that? 00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:41.759 Right. 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:45.680 Um then Bad Judge comes up. 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:48.160 Um me and the Malcolm shit happened. 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:50.079 And then after that, I get a deal. 00:28:50.319 --> 00:28:52.880 So we get I think we do 13 with Bad Judge. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:54.319 This is when they was giving ideals. 00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:55.599 They don't give out deals. 00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:57.119 Not like they used to. 00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:58.480 Unless you're Tom Bells. 00:28:58.559 --> 00:28:59.680 Maybe you got one right now. 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:02.720 See, that's what I'm saying. 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:05.039 That's what I'm saying, bruh. 00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:06.640 I mean, I got some things popping. 00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:11.200 This dude is like, I don't think I don't consider myself, I don't look at myself like I'm industry high. 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:12.079 You got a deal right now. 00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:14.160 No, I don't have a deal right now. 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:14.880 We're talking. 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:15.680 He's talking. 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:16.799 But we don't have a deal right now. 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:18.160 But here's a here's a crazy thing. 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:29.200 I remember, and I'm gonna say the name, but uh the last big deal that I heard about was uh black comic in early 2000s got a deal with Universal. 00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:31.599 And this is this is hearsay, Universal, don't come after me. 00:29:31.680 --> 00:29:32.400 I hardly heard this. 00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.079 Y'all didn't tell me this, somebody else told me this. 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:39.839 Got a million dollar deal for a TV show, and that's before it was uh retroactive. 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:41.039 Oh wow. 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:44.000 Which means briefcase money. 00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.319 Please, here's a million dollars to like wait till we find you something. 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:51.200 Jeez, don't move. 00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:53.680 And then and then when the show comes, you still get paid. 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:58.480 I took a deal because I'm like, I'm like, I don't know if I'm ever gonna work again. 00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:00.000 Nigga, I got a deal. 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:01.759 I think I they offer me 500. 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:02.559 I think I took 250. 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.000 I go, that's that's too much. 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:05.839 I'll take 250. 00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:06.960 Gave me 250. 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:11.359 You the first nigga in history to ever say that's too much money. 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:12.480 I'll take a lesson. 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:14.960 Well, because it's it's it's retroactive. 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:15.519 Okay. 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:17.680 So you work that money off. 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:18.640 Okay. 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.680 So if I'm getting, let's say, let's say Oh, like a like a like a like a music deal. 00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:24.400 Music deal, yeah. 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:25.920 Yeah, you gotta get in the black, baby. 00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:26.880 You sold your boy. 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:31.039 Nigga, I I I mean let's let's say I make a 50 grand an episode. 00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:36.079 And they give me 250, nigga, I don't get paid until episode eight. 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:37.440 Got it. 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:40.400 You've already paid me for these. 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:44.640 So now I episode eight is like, oh, nigga, now I get a check. 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:45.279 Gotcha. 00:30:45.519 --> 00:30:59.599 It's very, and I'm like, if it was a mill, they didn't offer me a mill, they offered me five, but also, so 10105 for the lawyer, the manager, the agent, from that 250 from that 500 from that mill, whatever. 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:03.599 So now, after tax, all this kind of shit, that 250 really what? 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:05.839 Like 170? 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:06.720 Yeah, but yeah. 00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:10.559 Well, 70 go. 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:12.640 Shit. 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:14.319 It's a nigga listening right now. 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:16.640 Shit, nigga, let me get 170. 00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:17.759 You don't live in LA. 00:31:17.839 --> 00:31:18.319

Yeah, that's a fast. 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:20.480 170 go fast in an apartment. 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:21.200 That's a part of it. 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:23.440 I paid my rent six months early. 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.680 I go, here's six months. 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.359 Don't talk to me till June. 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:30.720 And then I had to figure it out, yeah. 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:32.559 Okay, I gotta I gotta backtrack a little. 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.200 I gotta do this. 00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:34.319 This is this is for London. 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:34.880 You know what I'm saying? 00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:35.920 It says London ain't here. 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:37.119 Where you come from? 00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:39.039 Where you come from, brother? 00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:41.119 Uh Decatur, Georgia, man. 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.000 Hey, shout out to you. 00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:43.039 I'm from Atlanta, man. 00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:44.319 Uh, east side of Atlanta. 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:46.240 We hopped around the east side a little bit. 00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:50.240 So I was born in Decatur, uh, locked on you, Stone Mountain. 00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:52.000 My folks are still on the east side. 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:57.920 Um, went to school in Savan Savannah State, um, and then hopped around a little bit after that. 00:31:58.319 --> 00:31:59.920 And majored in what at Savannah? 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:03.680 Uh MassCom, but it was basically concentration film and TV. 00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:04.000 Yeah. 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:07.599 And then minor in theater, so I did a lot of plays and I toured with like some of the things. 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:08.880 Oh, are you using your degree? 00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:09.599 That's crazy. 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:10.000 Yeah. 00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:11.839 One of the few. 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.759 But SCAD was down there too. 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:19.519 So I was one of the dudes who like I left. 00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:23.920 I love everybody I went to school with, but I I wanted more. 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:27.839 And not everybody was like, man, I ain't gonna hang out with them white folks over there. 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:28.240 I go. 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.400 SCAD is they got everything we don't have. 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:32.880 Right. 00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:39.680 And I saw I did a bunch of like indies and features and student films over there, and I was gonna hang out with a lot of them cats when I was in college. 00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:45.279 And so I man, I got like I had two features before I graduated before I graduated undergrad. 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:46.000 Me too. 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:47.519 Yeah, me too. 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.279 So when did the stand-up, when did you decide to get in the standards? 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:54.000 I did stand up in high school a couple times. 00:32:54.240 --> 00:33:05.599 I did it when I was like 15, 16, um, and then I hosted some shows in college between Savannah, uh, Albany, Fort Valley, did some stuff at uh Fort Valley State. 00:33:05.759 --> 00:33:07.039 That took my first bomb there. 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:10.160 They booed the shit out of me at Fort Valley State. 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:11.359 That's and that's wild too. 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.119 Southern colleges do that. 00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:14.880 Oh, and Jordan Southern. 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:15.440 Yeah. 00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.599 Um did some stuff there, and then but but I knew a lot of cats. 00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:23.839 It was it was so it was my senior, I think it was my senior year of high school. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.519 I did, I've known Ronnie Jordan since I was 17. 00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:29.920 Yeah, he was doing colleges back then, shit. 00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:31.039 I was in high school. 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:33.599 We did an we did an indie short film together. 00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:34.000 Wow. 00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.279 Sean Larkin, Ronnie Jordan, Lav Love. 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:38.960 Nigga, I'd known him. 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:40.160 I started booking them. 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:43.599 I was a freshman booking the homecoming show, homecoming comedy show. 00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:45.200 I've known him for Shawdy. 00:33:45.279 --> 00:33:47.839 Um, shot at what my name means. 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:49.359 G-Man, Zooman. 00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:49.519 Yeah. 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:52.480 Who else is there? 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:55.279 Uh uh Ronnie, Ronnie Jordan has been around for so long. 00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:56.240 He was an opener for hair. 00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:57.839 You forget this nigga old. 00:33:58.319 --> 00:33:58.640 Yeah, that is. 00:33:58.880 --> 00:33:59.279 Old and rich. 00:33:59.440 --> 00:33:59.839 Old and rich. 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:00.400 Shout out to Ronnie. 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:01.519 Because that nigga looked 38. 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:01.680 Yeah. 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.279 But that nigga looked 38 when I met him. 00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:04.400 Yeah, he always looked 38. 00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:06.880 Man, good dude. 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:08.639 Yeah, so I've known Ronnie for forever. 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:10.400 Remo was like when we went to high school together. 00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:11.199 That is crazy. 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:12.960 I did my first two movies with Remo. 00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:14.000 Yeah. 00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:17.760 Bro, me and we had, we got, nigga, this is how gay we were. 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:19.360 Uh I'm not gonna say boss. 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:21.280 No, no, no. 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:23.280 Nigga, we got matching class rings. 00:34:23.760 --> 00:34:24.159 That's how good. 00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:26.079 We're like, oh now that's gay. 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:26.320 Okay. 00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:27.920 Now niggas are married. 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:29.199 Now you cross the line, Tom. 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:35.679 You don't

cross the line, nigga. 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:37.199 We gotta see you to leave. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:46.400 Uh no, no, no, like shit, nigga, we was tight since eighth, ninth grade. 00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:50.159 And so by the time we got a class rings, and we designed them at the same time or whatever. 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:53.599 But I know him since we were, and we grew up with uh Lil Magic from Magic City. 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:54.800 Like, y'all put them together like that. 00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:56.480 Y'all rings. 00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:03.280 TV company. 00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:04.800 TV company. 00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:08.079 I'm gay man. 00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:12.559 There was never a time I wanted to use the F word. 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.039 It was then, but I said, I need none of that. 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:16.800 But come in there. 00:35:17.920 --> 00:35:19.519 No, nigga, I'm leaving. 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:24.079 No, man. 00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:24.719 Oh, shit. 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:26.960 We're not trying to get, we didn't we know your show's been canceled. 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:28.000 We're not trying to cancel you, though. 00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:29.599 Oh shit, that's good. 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:30.239 Yeah, so we are. 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:36.639 I mean, I grew up with a very bro, the people I grew up with, I mean, y'all can probably attest to this, the people you grew up around, there's so many talented people. 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:39.920 Not everybody goes that direction. 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:42.719 Man, I'm I grew up around a lot of talented people. 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.079 A lot of talented folks. 00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:47.599 You uh man, you have to uh speak to this for me. 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:53.599 What how does your network I hate the word networking. 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:57.440 I because conceptually I think people get a foggy view of it. 00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:59.760 If you walk into a room looking to meet people, what's that? 00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:06.159 I met a brother yesterday, and it was just like he was giving me so much information, I I couldn't retain everything. 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.679 Yeah, man, I'm doing it, but then I do and man, I be W. 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:14.480 And then man, if you ever need to W, I was like, bro, this music loud as hell. 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:21.760 You have you, uh Lance, uh, a lot a lot of people I know Lance Woods are really good. 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.199 I know a few people that read it. 00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:24.559 Lance yesterday, too, yeah. 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:28.159 Yeah, moving around in the space, talking to the right people. 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:29.599 How do you identify them? 00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:33.360 Because I only know uh industry people when they got them little tight ass suits on. 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:35.920 You know the uh you know the new agent suit. 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.440 Here's the thing, it's like uh I actually give a fuck. 00:36:39.679 --> 00:36:42.480 It's hard, it's hard to sometimes give a fuck. 00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:46.800 I actually care about man, you're so different than me. 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:50.320 Justin, you different than me, BT different than me, I'm different than you. 00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:52.400 Why what's the difference? 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:53.760 Can I figure that out? 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:55.119 You're better looking. 00:37:29.920 --> 00:37:30.880 I'm a big truth. 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:32.800 I'm speaking my truth. 00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:33.920 That is hilarious. 00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:41.199 Uh I'm always like we should do a project together, bruh, because I always felt like we have great chemistry. 00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:41.840 We do, yeah. 00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:42.800 But listen, I'm listening. 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.760 It's like I always I tell people all the time, it's like I I act like the world I want to live in. 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:51.440 So it don't matter what you look like, who you are, where you're from, or whatever, like that's who I am. 00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:53.119 And I've since day one, we met. 00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:59.280 It's like and it's we I mean, I'm always on, I mean, and if I don't rock with somebody, I go, I don't know why they don't fuck with me. 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:01.840 It could be me, but I go, I don't know, what am I doing? 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:03.599 It that could be my problem. 00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:07.440 But as an only child who didn't grow up around a family, my family in the Midwest, my family in St. 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:08.320 Louis, Chicago. 00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:09.280 I grew up in Atlanta. 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.679 It's just me, my mom, my dad, only child. 00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:14.719 Nigga, I had to figure out how to make friends. 00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:17.360 That's so I'm the exact opposite, bro. 00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:18.719 So that's so crazy. 00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:20.079 I don't call it networking. 00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:25.280 I know that's what it is, but I go, nigga, I'm interested in kind of everything that I don't know about you. 00:38:26.159 --> 00:38:27.280 What is that thing? 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:34.400 All right, so you from here, nigga, I remember, and it probably sounded disrespectful when we we finally caught up, like I go, nigga, two watches. 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:39.840 I wasn't trying to go, I've never seen this. 00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:41.280 Nigga, left and right? 00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:42.639 Yeah, East Coast, West Coast. 00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:43.440 Oh, really? 00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:45.119 That's what you that's to me. 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:50.159 I go, and and I probably think I met BT probably two, three months into me being in. 00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:50.639 Yes. 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:51.360 Early. 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:58.639 But I go, because you you would you had the you had you still had the scarf and the

white, and I go, nigga, I've never seen it was middle summer. 00:38:58.800 --> 00:38:59.199 Nigga. 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:00.320 But you had 11. 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:01.920 I remember going, like, did he switch just? 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:03.920 I go, I just saw him. 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:08.559 He had a watch on this side, but then I seen both of them go, nigga, that's interesting. 00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:11.840 I'm gonna have to talk to him. 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:16.079 Remember when I thought you and Keon Pole was the same person? 00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:17.360 Nigga, I told him that last night. 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:20.719 Bruh, I thought he, I'm not no bullshit for like a year or two. 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:21.119 Really? 00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:24.159 To a point where I was hosting that downtown comedy club. 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:25.199 Yeah, with Garrett, yeah. 00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:26.320 With Garrett Morris. 00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:28.639 One of them had performed already. 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:30.159 Was it Nigga? 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:30.559 It was me. 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:31.440 It was you, okay. 00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:32.800 Tong had already performed. 00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:34.559 Keon really went in town like that yet. 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:34.960 Okay. 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:36.400 But but he was getting here. 00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:37.599 I had been here maybe a year. 00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:38.880 Keon was coming in. 00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:41.039 Okay, so I was hosting at the time. 00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:42.880 Tone had performed, right? 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.360 And we was doing the booking, I think, at the time. 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:48.000 And then Keon came up, and he was like, hey man, I'm trying to get up. 00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:51.760 I was like, nigga, we just had you a week, a week ago, like two weeks ago. 00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:56.079 But I was serious because I literally thought him and Keon Poland was the same person. 00:39:56.320 --> 00:39:56.880 Well, he had hair. 00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:58.000 My hair was lower back then. 00:39:58.320 --> 00:39:58.480 Yeah. 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.239 So we by the time me and him, I I told him this last night. 00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:04.639 It's like, by the time me and him caught up, I go, nigga, I see it. 00:40:04.719 --> 00:40:04.960 Yeah. 00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:06.800 We could be cousins all day. 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:07.920 We could be brothers all day. 00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:09.280 We do have similar features. 00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:09.920 Yeah, bro. 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:10.159 Yeah. 00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:11.920 Like, you know, that's the white in me. 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:13.920 We'd be joking about how I got white man in me. 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:15.280 I was like, these niggas are the same. 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:16.639 They're the same casting type. 00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:17.519 Switch the room. 00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:18.400 Switch the room. 00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:20.559 But we both we both also have broad shoulders. 00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:20.880 Yeah. 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:24.079 We we both had the same kind of frame in the shoulders. 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:24.480 Right. 00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:25.280 I see it though. 00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:29.599 Um, bro. 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:31.199 I don't even know where to start. 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:34.000 Um tell me about the process. 00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:37.119 Uh, you've had this beautiful world. 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:46.719 How important is it to how grounded do you have to be when you're in something like uh America versus uh Billy Holiday? 00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:48.079 Ooh, I got a story for this. 00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:48.719 Go for that. 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:51.440 Um that that one was interesting. 00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:52.559 Because you're playing real people. 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:52.880 Yeah. 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:54.000 You did a great job in that. 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:55.039 You killed that, bro. 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:55.599 Thank you. 00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:56.079 Thank you. 00:40:56.559 --> 00:41:00.239 That was one of those where like, oh, I I I auditioned for another part. 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:02.000 Didn't get it. 00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:06.320 Which was, you know, like I can't be mad at a job I don't have. 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:06.800 Right. 00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.880 So I auditioned for it. 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:11.920 I think my audition tape was fire for that shit. 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:12.880 My self tape was. 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.960 If nothing else, I go Lee Daniels going, I'm gonna, he's gonna call me for something else. 00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:20.239 Nigga, I was I'm I've got uh top five tapes. 00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.079 Nigga, I got remind me about this Brand T. 00:41:22.159 --> 00:41:22.800 Jackson tape I did. 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:23.119 Oh, okay. 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:25.599 I told Brandon about this once. 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:27.039 He was there last night too. 00:41:27.199 --> 00:41:27.360 Yeah. 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:28.800 Yeah, I saw him last night. 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.840 Uh so I saw Brandon whatever, but like this, this, nigga. 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:33.599 All right, so I I do this tape. 00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:36.719 Brandon be like, how can I wear leather in the summertime? 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:37.360 I leather. 00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:44.559 I know it's 85 degrees outside, but no shoes, just pants. 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:46.000 Leather pants, no shoes on. 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:46.480 All right. 00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:48.559 Nigga, I'm supposed to be barefoot. 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:50.159 Well, my bad, go. 00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:54.880 Uh uh, so yeah, so Billy Holiday came up because it was uh I auditioned for a different part. 00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:57.679 Uh the part that I auditioned for, Melvin Gregg got. 00:41:57.840 --> 00:41:58.559 Oh, wow. 00:41:58.800

--> 00:42:11.039 And I did a great nigga, I did a lot of times you don't go full makeup, but I had makeup, I did the teeth and everything, because I played uh I auditioned for like basically like the heroin addict crackhead that was like one of her first husbands. 00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:14.639 Didn't get it, but Lee Lee ended up calling me like a month later. 00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:19.039 I'm hanging out with um I'm not gonna name drop, but I'm with a bunch of other actors in comics. 00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:21.119 We're at this little names. 00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:22.800 And we cross legs on this show. 00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:24.719 Cross your legs and do the case. 00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:25.440 Well, all right. 00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:32.480 Uh I'm I'm with um Anthony Mackey, Omar Dorsey, and uh Eugene Byrd, and and I'm hanging out. 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:34.320 We like we all watch, I think we're watching football together. 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:35.760 No, Captain America. 00:42:35.920 --> 00:42:36.239 Maybe, yeah. 00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:40.800 Maybe we watch a basketball, whatever time it was of the year, and I get a call. 00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:45.280 Um, I get a phone call, and I'm like, nigga, I'm fucked. 00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:46.639 Nigga, I'm hammered. 00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:49.119 Nigga, I'm fucked up. 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:51.199 I'm at a bar, nigga. 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:52.719 I'm fucked up. 00:42:53.440 --> 00:42:56.320 And I get a call, and it's like, it's like a 3-1-0 number. 00:42:56.400 --> 00:43:06.719 So, you know, normally, especially, you know, I'm used to 214s and 512s and 404s from, you know, just from from you know, from home 773s, you know. 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:09.119 So I got home. 00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:11.039 I got home. 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:17.199 But I'm I'm used to like, you know, family or you know, I'm I'm with, you know, I got your if you if you call me, Jessica gonna show up. 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:18.000 BT gonna show up. 00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:19.039 So I'm like, it's it's a number. 00:43:19.119 --> 00:43:19.360 I don't know. 00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:22.159 I'm like, but if you see a 310, you're like, oh shit, this might be work. 00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:23.119 This might be some work. 00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.920 I get a call and he goes, uh, hey, what's going on? 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:26.559 It's Lee Daniels. 00:43:26.639 --> 00:43:27.360 This Tone Bell? 00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.679 I go, nigga, get the nigga, I hang up. 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:35.519 I hang up on Lee Daniels immediately. 00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:36.559 I go, nigga. 00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:39.440 We've been in this bar all day watching football and shit. 00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:41.920 I hang up, I get a I get a text. 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:43.360 Hey, Tony, this is Lee Daniels. 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:45.440 Uh, can you call me back when you get when you get a second? 00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:48.000 I go, nigga, I'm done with this spam shit. 00:43:48.559 --> 00:43:49.039 Stop. 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:50.079 You text stop. 00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:52.880 My agent calls me like, hey, Lee's trying to call you. 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:58.079 I go, Lee Daniels I go, because it's crazy because I think I got a text wrong. 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:02.880 So I I call Lee back and Lee goes, Hey, I saw your tape for the for this part. 00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:06.719 Um we cast it, but I got this other part. 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.119 I think it's gonna be recast. 00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:10.159 Another actor had it. 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:11.840 They shot one day. 00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:13.039 Lee didn't like it. 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:14.559 He goes, but I think you can do this. 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:15.119 Can you do this? 00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:16.079 I go, Lee. 00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:18.719 Nigga, I'm fucked up. 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:25.599 I go, nigga, I'm hammered right now. 00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:28.159 I go, can I call you back in 12 hours? 00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:29.840 He goes, excuse me? 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:32.800 I go, nigga, I'm drunk. 00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:42.159 I go, I've been watching football for the last nine hours, eight, nine hours. 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:43.599 Can I call you back in the morning? 00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:44.480 He goes, what time? 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.679 I go, nigga, I said 12 hours. 00:44:45.760 --> 00:44:46.880 I'll call you about 10. 00:44:48.559 --> 00:44:49.920 He's shooting, but Montreal. 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:50.719 I go, what? 00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:52.559 I go, I call you 10 a.m. 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:53.440 my time. 00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:55.440 That's gonna be 1 o'clock your time. 00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:56.800 I'll call you at 10. 00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:57.920 I'll I'll wake up at 9. 00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.199 I'm gonna reread the script. 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:00.239 Look at this part. 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:01.119 I will call you back. 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.000 I promise you. 00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.800 He goes, All right, nigga, call me back. 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:09.039 First ever lead day. 00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:12.000 That's hilarious. 00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:13.360 Nigga, I wake up at nine. 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:14.000 Nigga, I leave. 00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:15.920 I finished what I'm and now but now I'm in my head. 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:16.639 Now I'm at the bar. 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:17.360 I can't even have a good time. 00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:18.159 Right, right, right, right. 00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:18.960 I'm still with the homies. 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.280 I'm still with the fellas kicking it, but I go touch down. 00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:21.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:22.320 Yeah, yeah. 00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:24.159 I think I gotta go. 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:34.320 Nigga, I go wake up at 8, 9 o'clock, read the script fully, read this new character, uh, call lead back, and I'm like, uh, he

goes, Can you do it? 00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:35.519 Oh, yeah, I got it. 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:37.679 He goes, All right, see you in Montreal in the week. 00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:38.719 Wow. 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:40.079 That's amazing, bro. 00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:43.280 And nigga, I got some stories from that set. 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:45.039 Because Andrew was fucking amazing. 00:45:45.440 --> 00:45:46.159 She killed that bitch. 00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:47.440 She played Billy Holiday. 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:49.760 Andrew Day is a beast, bro. 00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.280 We we we we had a ball. 00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:54.719 Um What's something? 00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:55.679 What's the story from it? 00:45:55.760 --> 00:45:56.719 What's something memorable? 00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:58.239 Nigga, so okay. 00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:04.960 So the first day I get on set is so I do this whole uh nigga, I'm gonna tell y'all something I should not say. 00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:10.559 So uh I there's a you know uh my character and her get in this fight. 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:14.880 So you know I get a you know, I'm I'm abusive, but she's abusive as well. 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:16.239 And I get like this black eye. 00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:21.519 Nigga, they put me, they can take me to this prosthetics uh lab in probably Van Is somewhere. 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:29.599 I go to this fucking prosthetic, and they nigga, they they f they put nigga the shit is like Martin. 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.079 Oh yeah, right Tommy Hearns, right, right? 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:33.599 And then they send Lee the pictures. 00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:38.079 Lee goes, she's supposed to have done that to him? 00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:38.480 Right. 00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:39.760 It was who made that right. 00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:42.239 He's like, a little smaller, maybe a cut. 00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:43.440 What the fuck is this? 00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:45.519 Nigga, that shit is out here. 00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:55.440 Uh as I'm in the room, um, I'm sitting there and I see like this this like uh neck to knees bust of a woman. 00:46:57.519 --> 00:46:58.559 Butt naked. 00:46:59.039 --> 00:46:59.519 Right? 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:02.960 It's just like curvature, it's beautiful. 00:47:03.199 --> 00:47:07.519 I go, I know this body. 00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:15.039 And I go, person doing my makeup, I go, who I go, who is this? 00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:16.559 And they go, you're not supposed to see that. 00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:18.079 And they throw a blanket over it. 00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:22.320 And they go, that was Beyonce. 00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:28.480 I go, I knew I knew. 00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:29.199 Wow. 00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:30.719 You said you should she was naked. 00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:31.840 No, no, Beyonce wasn't naked. 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:32.960 It's a wax figure. 00:47:33.119 --> 00:47:35.280 Yeah, it's just it was a it was a it was it was her figure. 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:42.559 Well, you say that's the like you know how they take a bust. 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.039 Bust, I'm okay, I'm I'm retarded. 00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:26.400 I was like, they had a a wax a wax figure of her that's a big I mean I don't know, it it looked like it looked like uh like cement. 00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:31.039 It wasn't cement, but it looked like just like stone carved out, whatever. 00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:33.760 But it was like it was I go, man, because it was smooth and everything. 00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:36.159 I mean, I was 20, 30 feet away from it. 00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:36.400 Yeah. 00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:41.920 But I saw it just sitting on this table and I was like, but uh it looked like a like a like a mannequin almost. 00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:42.400 Got it. 00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:43.920 But it was like neck to knees or whatever. 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:45.440 And I go, It was a hand like this. 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:46.880 He was like, that'd be Beyoncé. 00:48:48.000 --> 00:48:48.960 Like, is that Beyoncé? 00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:51.199 The United States versus Billy Holiday. 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.159 I'm gonna tell you my story real quick, which is Tucker Thule did that. 00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:54.559 Yeah. 00:48:54.719 --> 00:48:56.320 I was supposed to-he're great. 00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:57.280 Fantastic guy. 00:48:57.760 --> 00:48:58.480 Good people, yeah. 00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:02.480 So I was supposed to do a movie with their company, Homecoming, right? 00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:04.800 I had wrote a movie about homecoming at HBCU. 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:07.599 50 Cent was an executive producer on it. 00:49:07.760 --> 00:49:09.280 It was moving, like fast. 00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:12.320 And I was like, okay, we were trying to look for a director. 00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.960 We couldn't find like a the right A-list director. 00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:16.159 There wasn't like an A-list director. 00:49:16.239 --> 00:49:18.320 I'm like, well, there's no A-list actors in this film. 00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:21.039 Nobody's, nobody, no A-list is gonna do this movie. 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:21.840 So, anyways. 00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:23.199 It's called Homecoming. 00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:24.400 Yeah, it's called Homecoming. 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:27.840 It's like, okay, so and at the time there was no like what year is this? 00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:30.880 2016 or 18. 00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:34.320 Whenever around when Den of Thieves came out with 50 Cent. 00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:36.239 So, okay. 00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:41.280 They said they don't want to do homecoming anymore. 00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:42.239 Cool. 00:49:43.199 --> 00:49:45.519 And we were supposed to still try to get it going. 00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:52.079 Then he was like, well, listen, man, we got this movie called The United States versus Billy Holiday. 00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:52.960 Right? 00:49:53.199 --> 00:49:56.400 Um, let me know what part you want to be in it. 00:49:56.559 -->

00:50:00.079 And I was like, man, fuck that movie. 00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.320 I was like, that movie ain't I ain't say this to him. 00:50:02.559 --> 00:50:06.800 But in my mind, I'm thinking, bruh, we was just developing homecoming for two years. 00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.159 The shit didn't get made. 00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:10.079 We were supposed to do this shit with 50 Cent. 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:13.280 I'm thinking, you can't get no movie made. 00:50:15.440 --> 00:50:17.519 But I'm thinking, like, you can't get no movie. 00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:19.599 I'm thinking because I'm like, I just went through this process. 00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:23.920 And I'm like, so now you got some some movie that you're gonna just be able to throw. 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.440 And then it got made. 00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:26.320 It was phenomenal. 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:27.679 And I was like, damn, I should have been. 00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:37.760 Bro, it's I mean, I hear them talk about stuff like it's and I don't know that that backside of the game like that, but but hearing, hearing, you know, I have I have a corporate back background too before a little bit. 00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.880 So so there's certain phrases and terminology that I hear go, oh, I want to know more about that. 00:50:43.039 --> 00:50:48.960 But you hear, I mean, bruh, they were we were sitting on set and you hear things like, hey, we need we didn't we need to find another 10 million. 00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:50.000 And you go. 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:51.840 What? 00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:53.280 If you gotta find another 10 million. 00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:54.239 We already shooting. 00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:55.440 Yeah, where do we start at? 00:50:55.599 --> 00:51:01.599 Not 100,000, another 10 million, another 40 million. 00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:05.280 I mean, that movie ended up 50, 60 million, something like that. 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:05.760 What? 00:51:06.000 --> 00:51:07.280 Oh, it was up there. 00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:08.880 Well, yeah, it's a period piece. 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:09.119 Yeah. 00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:09.280 Yeah. 00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:13.039 Yeah, period piece is uh you are you be that 15 years. 00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:15.039 That movie was like the first day, okay. 00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:16.239 Let me go back to this real quick. 00:51:16.400 --> 00:51:22.480 The first day I get on set was like um John and Billy meet. 00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:26.639 Second scene is our crazy fucking sex scene. 00:51:26.880 --> 00:51:27.679 Yeah, yeah, I remember that. 00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:28.639 I watched that with my lotion. 00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:30.400 Nigga, I hey. 00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:33.920 Y'all been asking how can y'all support killing it? 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:35.360 Well, we got an answer for you. 00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:36.000 We got one. 00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:36.719 Cash app. 00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:37.360 Boom. 00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.280 We are independently produced right now. 00:51:39.519 --> 00:51:41.599 We're paying for this to give y'all a great show every week. 00:51:41.840 --> 00:51:43.280 Y'all be asking about a Patreon. 00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:44.960 You don't even have to, this ain't even month of money. 00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:47.039 Just go put something in there right now. 00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:50.719 The way you read the script, I go, okay. 00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:56.639 And then Lee is like, I got, I think I'm gonna do something different with that. 00:51:56.719 --> 00:51:58.079 It's same but different. 00:51:58.159 --> 00:51:58.880 I go, all right. 00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:03.039 And so we, you know, how it and it turned out was like on this vanity, whatever. 00:52:03.119 --> 00:52:06.480 And you know, so I'm I'm he goes, Well, you don't have time to take all your clothes off. 00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:11.760 So like you you gonna pull your pants down and then you're gonna pull, you know, you you gonna just fuck this bitch like this. 00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:14.320 Let me tell you something. 00:52:14.480 --> 00:52:14.960 Let me tell you something. 00:52:15.519 --> 00:52:16.159 That's a director. 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.639 That's a direct. 00:52:16.719 --> 00:52:18.000 Let me tell you something with Lee, bro. 00:52:18.079 --> 00:52:21.199 Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee, Lee a cool motherfucker, bro. 00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:24.559 So they say he goes, imagine this. 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:28.559 Y'all just y'all right here, and then he goes, nigga, you you think you're about to take this pussy, right? 00:52:28.639 --> 00:52:33.599 So you put you put on the shit to the side, and then he goes, You but you take that fucking pussy, nigga. 00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:37.920 Shout out to Lee Daniels. 00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:38.960 Yo, Lee. 00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:42.880 So, so you realize how brilliant that is. 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:49.360 Because when you try to convey something to an actor, there's all this terminology and try to get them to where you want them to get it from the. 00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:50.480 I'm not a Juilliard nigga. 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:51.280 But just to get it to you. 00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:52.400 I'm a nigga from the canoe. 00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:54.079 You're gonna fuck the shit out of this bitch. 00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:57.280 Hey, hey, wear that bitch out. 00:52:58.320 --> 00:52:58.800 Got it. 00:52:58.960 --> 00:52:59.519 Note it. 00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:02.159 Ain't no bull lighting shit there. 00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:02.960 So fuck that bitch. 00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:06.159 So, so, so we, uh Andrew Dad, love you, girl. 00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:10.400 Like she, she, this motherfucker's a uh a trooper, bro. 00:53:10.480 --> 00:53:13.519 Like she, she that was a first, that's my first day on set. 00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:14.320 Wow. 00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:17.840 So I do uh, nigga, I do a little fashion show. 00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:24.639 I don't know if you ever had to do this, but uh, nigga, basically

I'm, you know, I got my wife beater pulled up, my jackets off, my pants are pulled down to my ankles. 00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:27.360 So I ain't got nothing on but a cock sock. 00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:29.119 So I got a little fashion show. 00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:30.719 They like, what works on camera? 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:31.920 How much we gonna see? 00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:35.039 Nigga, I try on thongs and go for the producer, nigga. 00:53:35.119 --> 00:53:36.480 I got this. 00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:42.320 Nigga, the lines and I get down to the bag. 00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:44.079 I go, y'all nigga, y'all know what this looks like. 00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:44.639 I'm fine with this. 00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:45.440 That's hilarious. 00:53:45.599 --> 00:53:46.559 But I'm not gonna show y'all this. 00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:47.519 We'll just do it. 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:52.719 Me and Andrew get in, probably two or three takes. 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:56.800 And at this point, um, set super quiet. 00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.199 We on this vanity, me and her doing our thing. 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:02.480 And she was, she, like I said, she was we, but just we met today. 00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:03.199 Wow. 00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:05.519 And we gotta do this aggressive sexing. 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:10.079 And um, and uh they don't have nothing in the room. 00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:12.639 It's like this this whole this dressing room with the vanity, whatever. 00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:17.519 And and if they just put a little speaker in there with a microphone connected to Lee. 00:54:18.079 --> 00:54:21.119 This nigga Lee is like, fuck that bitch. 00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:24.239 Fuck that motherfucker. 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:24.880 Fuck that. 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:35.519 And so we're doing our thing, but every now and then Lee, you just hear Lee's voice, and it's That's hilarious, bruh. 00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:37.280 And my bag falls off. 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:40.159 At one point, my bag falls off. 00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:44.079 And you know, cocksocks ain't nothing but a little tiny crown royal bag. 00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:50.960 Obviously, in these situations, I know there's um, you know, intimacy coordinators and you know This is pre-inemacy coordinator. 00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:53.679 This is pre-dash shit. 00:54:53.840 --> 00:54:54.079 Got it. 00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:57.039 This is pre-cause you try to keep telling the professional, if fall off, keep going. 00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:00.559 Back fall off, and I go, we both look down, she sees it fell off. 00:55:00.880 --> 00:55:02.480 And I go, can I stay? 00:55:02.639 --> 00:55:04.559 Because her legs are like wrapped around me a little bit. 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.119 I go, can I stay right here until somebody comes? 00:55:07.199 --> 00:55:08.639 And she goes, of course. 00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:13.519 And that that literally that's the moment where it was like, oh, okay, he not a wild dude. 00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:13.920 Yeah.

00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:14.800 It's respect. 00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:16.079 Yeah, it was like she was actually. 00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:16.880 Okay, yeah. 00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:20.559 Bro, I ended up, bro, I don't I haven't don't think I've ever told a story on a podcast. 00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:26.639 Uh the the scene where I I like my character pushes her into the mirror and I smack her and all that shit. 00:55:26.800 --> 00:55:30.159 Um, I ended up kicking her in the face for real. 00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:32.719 It was wild. 00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:36.639 Like, I own some slick ass shoes, which I'm I'm a big dude for shoes. 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:40.880 Like, I I want to wear the shoes during the day so I can like because I walk different in in the shoes. 00:55:41.039 --> 00:55:46.000 And so we we're we're kind of going through this me, and um the three of us are going through the scene. 00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:50.320 And then I'm you know, my character's supposed to like kick her in the stomach or whatever, but I slip. 00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:54.639 The shoes are so slick at the bottom, I fucking slip and catch her in the lip. 00:55:55.199 --> 00:55:56.480 Motherfucker lips are bleeding. 00:55:56.559 --> 00:55:57.119 She stays in it. 00:55:57.360 --> 00:55:57.599 Uh-uh. 00:55:57.920 --> 00:55:59.599 Nigga, I'm freaking out in real time. 00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:02.559 You could probably see it on camera, I think that that's the take they used. 00:56:03.119 --> 00:56:06.320 And I'm freaking the fuck out because I go, oh, just kidding this motherfucker in the face. 00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:09.039 She stayed in it, so I go, Oh shit, she's still in it, I'm gonna stay in it. 00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:13.280 So I stayed in it, and and we we we get the we get the scene or whatever. 00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:15.920 Cut. 00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:18.480 She hugs me afterward, some motherfucking lip bleeding. 00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:20.960 And she goes, Motherfucker, you kick me for real. 00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:22.800 And I go, oh shit, I'm I'm so sorry. 00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:25.519 She goes, nigga, we we nigga, we did that shit though, didn't we? 00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:27.519 That motherfucker's so cold. 00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:31.920 And then the next scene was her with a busted lip, because it was written already that way. 00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:34.239 So they didn't have to do makeup. 00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:34.960 They just she just did it. 00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:36.400 You didn't kick her, that was the Lord. 00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:40.079 Bro, she she Daniels was like, kick that bitch. 00:56:41.039 --> 00:56:41.920 Kick that mother. 00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:46.000 But that's one of the best sets I ever worked on. 00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:48.400 Everybody that I worked with was unbelievable, man. 00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:48.880 Everybody. 00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:54.000 This is what I want to get to, because you got the this fire movie coming out, Coyote versus Acme. 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:54.639 Yeah. 00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:56.880 And which is huge, man. 00:56:57.119 --> 00:56:59.920 Talk about, because originally, what was the budget on that movie? 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:00.639 Do you know? 00:57:00.880 --> 00:57:01.679 80 to 100. 00:57:02.000 --> 00:57:04.079 80 to 100 million dollars. 00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:04.480 Yeah. 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:05.760 And they shelved it. 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:06.719 Warner Brothers. 00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:08.480 I shot that motherfucker four and a half years ago. 00:57:08.639 --> 00:57:08.880 Jeez. 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:10.480 You shot it four and a half years. 00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:11.440 What was your feeling? 00:57:11.519 --> 00:57:15.840 Like, what why did they tell you at the time why they were shelving it if they told you? 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:17.119 They didn't tell me nothing. 00:57:17.360 --> 00:57:18.239 They didn't tell me nothing. 00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:23.360 It was um, it was slated for like two years after we shot it. 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:27.599 So it was like, oh, we shot in 22, should be out spring of 24. 00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:28.480 Dope. 00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:33.360 I go, Billy Holiday, COVID, so didn't come out in theaters. 00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:38.079 The only movie that I've ever been in that came out in theaters that did what it was gonna do was little. 00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:39.360 Right. 00:57:39.519 --> 00:57:44.239 Like, I still get love from that, but every other one that's supposed to come out in theaters never came. 00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:46.320 It had two during COVID, didn't come out. 00:57:46.559 --> 00:57:52.320 Um so we do, we do this one, and then what was the other Warner Brothers joint? 00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:53.119 Batgirl? 00:57:53.679 --> 00:57:54.880 Batwoman, Batgirl, right? 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:55.199 They pulled. 00:57:56.239 --> 00:57:57.199 They had two other ones like that. 00:57:57.360 --> 00:57:59.280 Or one plus that, then this one. 00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:04.480 I go, they got finally in a hundred million dollar movie with because I auditioned for the lead. 00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:04.800 Okay. 00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:06.159 And they were like, no. 00:58:07.840 --> 00:58:09.679 But they're like, your tape was great. 00:58:09.920 --> 00:58:11.519 We want to find you something in this. 00:58:11.679 --> 00:58:15.360 So I end up playing like the leads is the homie. 00:58:15.519 --> 00:58:15.760 Yeah. 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.599 But you got John Cena and and um Will Forte. 00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:22.480 Will Forte's, I mean, I saw Will yesterday. 00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:28.239 I mean, like he Lana Condor, like it's all it's so many dope people in this joint. 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:30.480 And I only work with that crew. 00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:33.440 I didn't see Cena at all because he I didn't have no scenes with him. 00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:37.440 But uh$100 million, they shelve it and they go, I saw it two years ago.

00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:38.400 I saw the cut. 00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:40.719 They invited me out, came out to see the cut. 00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:42.320 Nigga, I laughed, I cried. 00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:43.599 It was the movie's great. 00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:44.880 The trailer looks great. 00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:45.199 Right. 00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:48.719 Nigga, it it's nigga, it's a it's a it's it's for us. 00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:51.760 It ain't if you're 12, you can watch it. 00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:52.400 Right. 00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:59.840 But it's like you fighting um uh a class action lawsuit against Best Buy or Amazon or some shit. 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:01.840 It's a real thing, it's for adults. 00:59:02.960 --> 00:59:08.000 12-year-olds will think it's funny, but it's for 40 year olds, but it's it's it's it's very good. 00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:12.320 So uh okay, I I gotta make sure I address these things because because you talked about it. 00:59:12.559 --> 00:59:17.119 You said in some of these projects that um you might have just been cheaper. 00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:18.320 Correct me if I'm wrong. 00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:21.679 I have a slight understanding about this, but it'd be good for people watching also. 00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:31.599 When you start working as a uh on-screen actor, you're in the union, you get a guest star, a role, you're wherever you are on the call sheet. 00:59:31.920 --> 00:59:34.880 As you continue, that rate rises. 00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:38.559 And to my understanding, it has to stay there or close to it. 00:59:38.800 --> 00:59:44.000 So, like, you can't be number one three times in a row and then go get some role as number seven. 00:59:44.079 --> 00:59:48.480 It's like, well, he's gonna be too expensive because unless we're gonna pay him his number one rate as number seven. 00:59:48.639 --> 00:59:49.760 Am I tripping? 00:59:50.159 --> 00:59:53.840 Uh I know y'all would have a if I if I heard you, but no, go ahead. 00:59:54.159 --> 01:00:02.880 I was gonna say I think it depends on where the actor is like adding a career that may have something to do with it, like how much heat you have. 01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:04.159 Like, I meant legally. 01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:06.960 I meant like like legal, like you're so hot. 01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:15.280 Nah, I think they can they could all first of all, they're gonna always try to, they're not gonna always try to F you, but if they could pay you less, they will. 01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:17.199 I always want to pay less. 01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:18.960 I don't blame them for wanting to pay me less. 01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:19.280 Yeah. 01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:22.639 I don't want to pay as as much for to get my grass cut or for my grocery. 01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:23.920 Like, I always want to pay less. 01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:24.159 Right. 01:00:24.400 --> 01:00:25.360 You can't blame them for that. 01:00:25.519 --> 01:00:25.679 Okay. 01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:41.679 But I but I d I don't know if if I heard you correctly, there's a um so every networks and studios are are at least in my experience, I think, are different than streaming. 01:00:42.239 --> 01:00:42.559 Okay. 01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:51.840 My network, I have an I have a network quote that does transfer the streaming quote, but streaming don't have to adhere to what my network quote is. 01:00:51.920 --> 01:00:52.239 Yeah. 01:00:52.559 --> 01:00:58.559 I can't, unless we're favored nations where we're all making the same, my network quote can't get any lower than it is now. 01:00:59.039 --> 01:00:59.440 Got it. 01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:08.079 Nigga, my first, nigga, my my first when I made on Whitney was so low. 01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:08.239 Right. 01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:11.679 But to me, I go, I've never a week? 01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:12.400 Right. 01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:14.960 I've never seen this kind of money in a week. 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:18.239 My lawyer goes, you can't be on television for this. 01:01:18.719 --> 01:01:20.880 Nigga, that shit was 10 10 G's. 01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:22.079 Oh yeah, that's low. 01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:23.599 10 G's a week. 01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:25.280 I'm still paying motherfuckers. 01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:25.599 Right. 01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:27.119 Agent, lawyer, manager. 01:01:27.440 --> 01:01:30.400 Nigga, I'm I'm walking, I'm coming home with like 4,200. 01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:32.079 4,200 a week, 3,800? 01:01:32.239 --> 01:01:32.639 3,800. 01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:35.440 And I go, nigga, I made 3,800 this week. 01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:37.920 And people are like, you're on television. 01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:38.480 Right. 01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:39.760 This is no money. 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:41.679 Now my quote is pretty good. 01:01:41.840 --> 01:01:43.519 My network quote is is pretty good. 01:01:43.679 --> 01:01:47.039 My streaming quote right now they match. 01:01:47.679 --> 01:01:53.519 I don't think it can go down, but if we all go, we want to do this thing, we will, we will take less to go. 01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:54.000 We'll work. 01:01:54.400 --> 01:01:54.800 To make it work. 01:01:54.960 --> 01:01:56.719 I I'm I'm pretty sure that's how it goes, but I couldn't. 01:01:56.880 --> 01:01:58.000 Yeah, that no, that makes sense. 01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:05.440 And uh uh correct me if I'm wrong, because you can speak to this uh also the streaming versus network. 01:02:05.599 --> 01:02:09.760 To my understanding, when streaming decides that a show's gonna go, this is what we do. 01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:12.559 We know we're gonna probably do two to three seasons. 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:15.360 Here's your money, we'll see you on Monday. 01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:20.719 Like, you know, which is different than the gauging of uh how did it do? 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:24.239 Well, what were the numbers and what were the views and so on and so forth? 01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:29.679 You can probably speak to this better because like network,

you're thinking about the numbers. 01:02:30.079 --> 01:02:30.719 Like the ratings. 01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:31.280 The ratings. 01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:31.920 No, absolutely. 01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:33.840 I ain't thought about ratings in five years. 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:34.159 Yeah. 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:42.000 Because most of my my last I I did a network pilot right going into COVID, which it probably would have gone if it wasn't for COVID. 01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:50.880 The whole Karen thing started, and then our our show had like kind of a Karen-esque thing in it, and they were like, I go, exploit it. 01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:53.840 It'll work, but they go, we don't want to be seen that way. 01:02:54.079 --> 01:03:00.000 I go, nigga, it's we're right, we're the first two at it to go network with it. 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:09.760 But then I've been working with Netflix for so long, which has been great, but is it true you don't get residuals for strength, like Netflix shows? 01:03:10.559 --> 01:03:11.360 You get 'em. 01:03:11.760 --> 01:03:12.559 Okay, you do get residuals. 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:14.000 But it's a part of your salary. 01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:15.440 So you don't get them. 01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:17.440 Okay. 01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:18.400 So you just get more money. 01:03:18.880 --> 01:03:20.480 In my experience, I could be wrong. 01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:22.880 Whoever's looking at this, you can say I'm wrong. 01:03:23.119 --> 01:03:28.880 My experience, I get my episodic, and they give you uh mic closer. 01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:29.599 Yep. 01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:35.199 They give you who a sprinkle on top of that to be like, these are what residuals would be if you were. 01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:37.199 They just give it to you at the front. 01:03:37.280 --> 01:03:42.239 So so yeah, so so let's say you like you make a 50 grand an episode, they go, here's another four. 01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:44.079 That's some bullshit. 01:03:44.320 --> 01:03:46.000 Here's here's here's 54,000. 01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:48.400 You go, so 50 and then four. 01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:49.920 The four is the residuals. 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:57.119 Now I'm gonna say that's some bullshit because at the height of my residuals, I was easily getting four thousand every other month. 01:03:57.679 --> 01:03:58.639 You see what I'm saying? 01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:00.800 So if they're so if think about this. 01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:08.800 If I'm getting four thousand every other month for five years, they're only giving you that four thousand that one time. 01:04:09.519 --> 01:04:10.239 Got it. 01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:17.280 Bro, uh to this day, little and the flash are my biggest residuals out of everything I've ever done. 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:18.559 Yeah. 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:21.599 We we clearly have to talk about these two. 01:04:21.760 --> 01:04:35.519 Um, since we're so close to the Billy Holiday thing and working with amazing women, um, when you when you're working on

little, I mean, this these are talk about that world where you're talk working with powerhouse women. 01:04:35.599 --> 01:04:41.199 You got Regina Hall, we got Issa Ray, we got Marseille coming in to her own. 01:04:41.280 --> 01:04:41.599 This is her. 01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:43.039 Marseille was a kid still. 01:04:43.199 --> 01:04:43.360 Yeah. 01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:45.119 She's a motherfucker grown now. 01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:45.599 Yeah. 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:48.079 She was 12? 01:04:48.320 --> 01:04:48.639 Yeah, she was a little bit. 01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:49.039 She was 10. 01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:50.239 11, maybe. 01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:51.119 Yeah, she's great. 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:52.719 Yeah, she likes she was a kid. 01:04:52.800 --> 01:04:53.599 And I knew them early. 01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:54.239 I knew Jack. 01:04:54.480 --> 01:04:55.679 Is she a producer on that? 01:04:55.840 --> 01:04:57.280 Yes, I'm pretty sure. 01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:02.320 She was actually the youngest, they said the youngest executive producer or producer on the film or something like that at the time. 01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:08.159 And I and I've known her her mom and dad for when they started Blackish, we had already met. 01:05:08.239 --> 01:05:09.119 I already met her folks. 01:05:09.199 --> 01:05:10.960 I mean, this motherfucker, what, seven, eight years old? 01:05:11.119 --> 01:05:11.679 Right. 01:05:12.079 --> 01:05:16.079 Seen her for the last 15 years just grow the hell up, right? 01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:21.280 Her, Regina, Issa, and I hadn't known, I swear I met Issa. 01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:23.280 Issa's like, is who she says she is. 01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:25.679 Like, it's I love the fact that she was. 01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:28.800 I mean, Regina get to hook up. 01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:31.440 Um, she was Regina's so great. 01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:32.719 She's amazing, bro. 01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:34.320 Bro, Issa's great. 01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:35.440 Regina's great. 01:05:35.679 --> 01:05:37.760 Um can't tell you a story real quick. 01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:38.639 Yes, please. 01:05:39.039 --> 01:05:40.719 So there's a is a project. 01:05:40.880 --> 01:05:42.639 I've never had this happen before. 01:05:42.960 --> 01:05:45.679 Uh even my lawyer called me, he was like, This is this is wild. 01:05:45.840 --> 01:05:52.639 So after we do little, this is probably maybe the next year. 01:05:52.719 --> 01:05:54.719 Hulu is Hulu was cooking. 01:05:55.039 --> 01:05:59.760 Hulu's about to start getting an original program, and you know, when they all start out, they're like, hey, we're gonna take program and put it on. 01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:02.079 Watch it here, but now they're doing originals. 01:06:02.559 --> 01:06:19.920 I go audition for this um for this Hulu original show, and um my appointment is at like one o'clock over uh um La Brea and Melrose, whatever, Melrose that bill is yeah, yeah, 200 Bray. 01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:25.840 So I'm going over there and um Regina's already they offered it to her, she the lead. 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:27.519 They are they auditioned for her brother. 01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:32.960 Dope ass show, set in um like Napa, it's like a black-owned wine business or whatever. 01:06:33.039 --> 01:06:34.559 Did you know he was I think he was working already. 01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:36.480 He was on my guy, I think, already. 01:06:36.719 --> 01:06:39.599 Um one o'clock, I'm going in. 01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:41.840 I go, what time do you start though? 01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:43.760 And they go, oh, we start at nine. 01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:45.199 I go, I'm going to 8:30. 01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:48.639 I'm not going after 40 niggas already auditioned for the shit. 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:49.440 I'm going first. 01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:51.840 Nigga, I show up at 8 o'clock. 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:52.960 First, I walk in. 01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:54.800 10 minutes later, Bill Belly walk in. 01:06:55.039 --> 01:06:55.840 He goes, I'm first. 01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:57.280 I go, nigga, I'm already here. 01:06:57.519 --> 01:06:58.000 I'm going in here. 01:06:58.639 --> 01:06:59.840 That's how me and Bill got cool. 01:06:59.920 --> 01:07:00.320 Yeah, okay. 01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:01.760 This is when I met Bill. 01:07:03.360 --> 01:07:04.639 Nigga, I go in. 01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:06.800 I don't want to hear nobody else. 01:07:07.280 --> 01:07:08.960 I because I'm a fan of y'all already. 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:10.639 Everybody's coming in here. 01:07:10.960 --> 01:07:16.000 Nigga, I know you, and I want, I want, I'd love to watch you on the show, but I want this show too. 01:07:16.159 --> 01:07:16.719 Right. 01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:19.039 Nigga, I go rip. 01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:20.800 I go rip. 01:07:21.119 --> 01:07:24.400 Bill probably had it, felt a way about it. 01:07:24.719 --> 01:07:25.599 Got a call the next day. 01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:26.559 Hey, come back, Regina. 01:07:26.719 --> 01:07:28.159 You know, you gonna read Regina tomorrow. 01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:29.280 I go, dope. 01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:30.639 Read with Regina. 01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:31.760 Come back tomorrow. 01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:33.840 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, back Wednesday. 01:07:34.079 --> 01:07:35.519 Nigga, now we testing. 01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:38.239 Get to my car. 01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:40.800 You know, that on the way to the car, I get that phone call. 01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:42.719 Uh, you got it. 01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:45.599 I go, before I open the door, nigga, what? 01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:47.119 Nigga, Regina comes out. 01:07:47.519 --> 01:07:48.079 We're talking about it. 01:07:48.239 --> 01:07:48.960 We brother and sister. 01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:50.079 Like, all right, we good. 01:07:51.360 --> 01:07:53.360 Bro, I'm waiting, the deal's coming through. 01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:54.480 Who's about to call? 01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:59.280 One of the first originals, all black cast, black family doing this dope.

01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:00.079 I go, oh, dope. 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:02.480 I go, now me and Regina can rock. 01:08:03.039 --> 01:08:06.480 Nigga, a day or two later, I'm waiting for the deal. 01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:08.800 They go, oh, it'll be here before five o'clock. 01:08:08.880 --> 01:08:13.119 The people on the plane coming back from New York to LA, you're gonna get the call from the lawyer or whatever. 01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:16.479 I go, hey, I'm waiting for the deal. 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:16.960 Where is it? 01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:18.560 My lawyer's calling, hey, it's not coming through. 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:20.560 I go, no, no, they said I got the offer. 01:08:20.640 --> 01:08:22.560 I got they called me before I got to the car. 01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:23.199 Right. 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:24.479 What's up? 01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:26.560 Uh NBC's calling. 01:08:26.720 --> 01:08:28.560 There's a pilot that they want you for. 01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:29.199 I go, no, no. 01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:30.239 Tell NBC we can't do it. 01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:31.279 I'm waiting on the Hulu. 01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:33.920 He goes, Hulu's not gonna call. 01:08:34.079 --> 01:08:35.680 I go, no, no, but you told me. 01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:37.680 Two days ago, Hulu's gonna call. 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:37.920 Yeah. 01:08:38.399 --> 01:08:39.760 What do you mean? 01:08:40.800 --> 01:08:43.520 Lori's like, yo, I've never seen this before. 01:08:44.479 --> 01:08:46.000 That shit went away. 01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:48.560 I go, but y'all call me together. 01:08:49.279 --> 01:08:51.600 Agent manager, Lori, all y'all. 01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:52.880 I was eighty y'all on the phone. 01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:53.199 All of us. 01:08:53.279 --> 01:08:53.840 We're talking about it. 01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:54.880 We're very excited. 01:08:55.119 --> 01:08:56.479 Remember Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday? 01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:58.640 And then I read Regina and we tested it and all this kind of stuff. 01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:01.359 And he goes, We don't we don't know what happened. 01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:03.039 But NBC got this pilot. 01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:03.920 They want you too. 01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:06.000 And I go, alright. 01:09:06.239 --> 01:09:07.359 I go, what's the part? 01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:08.880 I go, so Hulu's gone. 01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:09.760 They go, it's not coming. 01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:10.640 I go, all right. 01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:12.239 I read I'll read this pilot. 01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:13.199 They offer me this part. 01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:17.039 I go, I want that part. 01:09:17.119 --> 01:09:18.159 I don't want the part y'all offering me. 01:09:18.239 --> 01:09:18.560 I want that part. 01:09:18.800 --> 01:09:21.359 And now I'm just going, where'd this come from? 01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:23.039 I didn't even know this pilot was out here. 01:09:23.119 --> 01:09:23.279 Right. 01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:24.079 I want that part. 01:09:24.159 --> 01:09:25.680 Just to see what's going on. 01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:28.159 And they go, cool, you can have it. 01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:30.640 I go, what the fuck is going on? 01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:33.199 It was wild. 01:09:33.439 --> 01:09:34.960 And somebody, uh, who is it? 01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:36.800 CP was CP was on here. 01:09:37.199 --> 01:09:41.359 He said something about uh sometimes you want to be the number two in the show because the number one ain't as fun. 01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:41.760 Right. 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:43.840 Yeah I learned that on that pilot. 01:09:44.079 --> 01:09:44.880 Oh, yeah, I learned that. 01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:46.560 Motherfucker, I was number one. 01:09:47.279 --> 01:09:50.399 I go, nigga, I like being number three. 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:53.279 Number two, number three has way more fun. 01:09:53.760 --> 01:09:54.880 I make the punches. 01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:55.760 That's a fact. 01:09:55.920 --> 01:09:59.680 I was number one, and the director had to tell me, she goes, No, no, you wanted to be number one, remember? 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:01.359 Wow. 01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:03.439 What was the name of the pilot you're talking about? 01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:04.479 You remember? 01:10:05.680 --> 01:10:07.920 Uh I think it was called Good Fortune. 01:10:08.159 --> 01:10:09.039 Good fortune. 01:10:09.199 --> 01:10:09.600 Yeah. 01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:11.279 Retta was in it. 01:10:11.439 --> 01:10:13.600 Um There was another show called Good Fortune. 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:14.079 There's a movie. 01:10:14.479 --> 01:10:15.840 A movie with V's on Zary. 01:10:16.000 --> 01:10:16.479 Yeah, that's the Z. 01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:17.600 That's what Nature did. 01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:18.000 Yeah. 01:10:18.079 --> 01:10:18.239 Yeah. 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:19.119 I think it's called Good Fortune. 01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:20.159 I think it's called Good Fortune. 01:10:20.399 --> 01:10:20.800 Jackson. 01:10:21.600 --> 01:10:23.680 Yeah, it was something about that. 01:10:24.000 --> 01:10:24.640 I done forgot. 01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:25.680 I'm sorry. 01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:26.880 I talked to a lot of long stories. 01:10:27.119 --> 01:10:27.600 No, no, no, no. 01:10:27.680 --> 01:10:28.479 You did exactly what you just want to do. 01:10:28.800 --> 01:10:30.239 You know, some shit this shit be weird sometimes. 01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:31.600 No, no, I feel you. 01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:40.079 Do you feel like you've uh had the do you do you feel like, or let me ask this another way. 01:10:40.239 --> 01:10:43.439 Because I uh because I'm pretty sure the answer to that is not yet. 01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:48.319 Do you know the role that you want that you can shine in? 01:10:48.880 --> 01:10:52.960 Because the question would have been, do you do you think you've had that chance yet? 01:10:53.279 --> 01:11:00.000 Do you have an idea of what that looks like for you to shine and show all your talents, your comedic ability, your actor chops, all that good

stuff? 01:11:00.239 --> 01:11:02.720 I I'm I I'm I'm working on it now. 01:11:03.119 --> 01:11:12.720 I don't think there's been glimpses of I think there may have been three or four projects I've done over the years where you got a chance to say, oh shit, if we let him go, this is what he's good at. 01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:14.640 And I know that's what I'm good at. 01:11:14.880 --> 01:11:18.640 But the um I I man, I really pride myself on it. 01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:21.359 I feel like I'm more of a Seinfeld, like in the Seinfeld show. 01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:21.680 Yeah. 01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:31.760 Where I'm like, man, let me be the straight guy with with the with my dry humor and and the and the sarcasm and let uh killers kill. 01:11:32.159 --> 01:11:32.640 Yeah. 01:11:32.960 --> 01:11:36.640 Not because of me, but going, bro, I'll service the story. 01:11:37.680 --> 01:11:40.560 Come murder these storylines and these jokes. 01:11:40.720 --> 01:11:42.880 I got, I'll, I'll, I'm the thread. 01:11:43.600 --> 01:11:46.239 But please be the sleeve and the collar and the everything else. 01:11:46.319 --> 01:11:48.800 Like I I know, motherfuckers that are too talented to go. 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:54.079 I'm I know what I'm good at, and and just lacing it together would be what I want to do. 01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:56.560 I don't need to be the Got it, got it, got it. 01:11:56.720 --> 01:11:58.239 But yeah, I mean, I think it's coming though. 01:11:58.640 --> 01:12:06.159 I got my new hour is is the pitch for the show, and the show is very fun. 01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:06.880 Got it. 01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:07.520 But but yeah. 01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:12.479 Your new your new hour have you approached Netflix about it since you've had a relationship with Netflix? 01:12:12.640 --> 01:12:13.439 Yeah, we're working on it. 01:12:17.680 --> 01:12:18.560 Tone is incredible. 01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:19.840 We're talking. 01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:23.760 Now, this this this is my this my this is my last question. 01:12:24.319 --> 01:12:27.359 Um You've been on a lot of TV shows. 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:32.640 Do you feel like those TV show credits are equating to ticket sales with your stand-up? 01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:33.760 A few of them. 01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:34.159 Okay. 01:12:34.319 --> 01:12:35.520 I and I can always tell. 01:12:35.600 --> 01:12:44.399 Uh the only shows that people, I mean, every now and then people are like, oh, I loved you on Bad Judge, wish that would have continued, loved you on that show, that didn't continue. 01:12:44.880 --> 01:12:47.439 The Flash, three episodes on Flash. 01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:49.439 I did five, but I but only three air. 01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:50.880 They had to redo some stuff. 01:12:51.119 --> 01:12:57.039 Um three episodes of Flash, disjointed and um Thickest, man. 01:12:57.199 --> 01:12:58.800 Like Yeah, I thought Disjoined. 01:12:59.439 --> 01:13:04.479 People come to this day, I probably get more from disjointed than

any other show. 01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:09.279 Just that, just that marijuana weed culture, and people go, oh man, I'll fuck with you heavy. 01:13:09.520 --> 01:13:14.720 But it's but it is weird because like people, especially online when I'm like just trolling and just being an asshole online. 01:13:15.279 --> 01:13:19.039 Uh people who know me from disjointed let me be that guy. 01:13:19.199 --> 01:13:22.239 People from Thickest think I'm supposed to be the guy from the show. 01:13:22.399 --> 01:13:24.560 So they go, why would you say something like that? 01:13:27.600 --> 01:13:28.479 I'm an asshole. 01:13:28.560 --> 01:13:28.880 Right. 01:13:31.520 --> 01:13:33.039 So you want me to be this great guy. 01:13:33.279 --> 01:13:33.359 Right. 01:13:33.600 --> 01:13:34.880 No niggas like that for real. 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:37.279 The character. 01:13:38.079 --> 01:13:38.560 I'm not. 01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:39.920 Please give that up. 01:13:40.079 --> 01:13:41.600 I have to I have to touch these two things. 01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:43.600 One is uh I got a nerd out. 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:44.319 Yeah. 01:13:44.479 --> 01:13:47.039 That's my as opposed to we did Kakha talk earlier. 01:13:47.119 --> 01:14:03.840 So the being in uh something Flash is for the people that don't understand, in superhero lore, uh Flash is a high-level hero, and this show got it right. 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:07.520 Really, really so many what five spinoffs from it? 01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:07.840 Yeah. 01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:10.880 Um do you do have you been to the Comic Cons? 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:11.520 Have you walked around? 01:14:11.600 --> 01:14:12.479 Have you felt that energy? 01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:20.000 I don't think my character was that enthralled, like that into the world that it makes sense for me to go. 01:14:20.079 --> 01:14:20.720 I've heard about it. 01:14:20.800 --> 01:14:22.239 People have asked me, would I be there? 01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:25.520 Sprinkle, not a bunch, like ten people over the years. 01:14:25.840 --> 01:14:26.319 Hell are you going? 01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:27.199 You gonna be down here? 01:14:27.359 --> 01:14:30.079 But I played a made-up character that really wasn't in this universe anyway. 01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:30.560 Right. 01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:38.640 But I respect it because I know some people who I mean, like I said, at this point we all do, but you see how impressive it is. 01:14:38.720 --> 01:14:47.920 I mean, I got I got family who goes, I've told people, my nephew do this, and they only seen you on the flash. 01:14:48.159 --> 01:14:48.720 The flash is the. 01:14:49.039 --> 01:14:55.760 I go, I've had 150 episodes of other TV and three episodes of Flash is where that's your nephew, right? 01:14:55.920 --> 01:14:58.720 It's it it is that world is different, bro. 01:14:58.880 --> 01:14:59.600 That world is great. 01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:07.279 Yeah, and then uh soural of the thickest, uh already moving. 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:12.640

And you spoke to this earlier, but what is it like moving in the industry right now? 01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:14.479 Because things are kind of all over the place. 01:15:14.560 --> 01:15:16.079 It feels like it's trying to find his footing. 01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:16.960 Bro, I don't know. 01:15:17.119 --> 01:15:17.359 Yeah. 01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:18.000 I don't know. 01:15:18.079 --> 01:15:22.560 I mean, I got I was dry with with no work for a month. 01:15:22.720 --> 01:15:24.319 Like no auditions, nothing, not even reading. 01:15:24.399 --> 01:15:27.119 I mean, I love I love to read, you know, when they send you something, read for interest. 01:15:27.359 --> 01:15:28.079 I love that. 01:15:28.239 --> 01:15:30.800 Just send me something so I can go, what what's what's going on out here? 01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:31.039 Right. 01:15:31.199 --> 01:15:34.800 What kind of movies, what kind of TV are they making, at least so I can stay up. 01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:38.079 So I hate I probably had three or four weeks where I had nothing. 01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:45.840 I get here on uh I fly in on Wednesday and four auditions come in. 01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:49.600 I have no idea what the game is doing right now. 01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:50.079 Right. 01:15:50.399 --> 01:16:02.399 Um but I feel like I feel like comedy is real close to like we're about to get in some real nice dumb comedies again. 01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:07.840 And I'm saying dumb as in like just bro, funny, dumb shit. 01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:16.000 Where I'm putting on 90 minutes, it went away for a little bit, you say retarded a minute ago, nigga, retarded is back. 01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:17.760 Yeah! 01:16:18.800 --> 01:16:21.439 I was in New York, and Sam J was like, nigga, retarded is back. 01:16:21.680 --> 01:16:24.880 And it go, but I also and we also know why retarded is back. 01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:26.880 All right, we tried. 01:16:27.119 --> 01:16:27.279 Okay. 01:16:27.840 --> 01:16:28.640 Right, right, right, right. 01:16:29.039 --> 01:16:30.399 We tried, and we still respect you. 01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:30.800 Yeah. 01:16:31.119 --> 01:16:34.319 But I need to say gay sometimes, I need to say retarded sometimes. 01:16:34.479 --> 01:16:34.560 Right. 01:16:34.800 --> 01:16:36.479 And I'm talking about the 90s way. 01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:37.520 Right, right, right. 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:39.439 We not I love your feelings. 01:16:39.600 --> 01:16:40.000 Yes. 01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:41.520 I care about you. 01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:44.960 Retard is so much I'm I gotta get, I gotta cut to the chase. 01:16:45.039 --> 01:16:45.520 Right, right, right. 01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:48.159 But I think those kind of comedies are coming back. 01:16:48.399 --> 01:16:52.720 Um, the the uh just where we are. 01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:58.000 I mean, uh people keep talking about, I mean, I've been talking to a bunch of executives about what they really feel about verticals. 01:16:58.960 --> 01:17:02.720 And from what I gather, people are like, oh, verticals are the new thing. 01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:04.560 I'm not against it. 01:17:05.119 --> 01:17:08.479 But it's gonna be if we want to do a vertical. 01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:08.880 Right. 01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:12.239 This ain't gonna be like, oh, BT, Justin Tone. 01:17:13.119 --> 01:17:13.680 Sony. 01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:18.479 Sony's not calling us to do a vertical nigga, right? 01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:21.760 Hey, uh, industry, you're you're wrong about verticals. 01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:22.880 It's not gonna work. 01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:24.560 We've seen this before, you guys. 01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:25.600 It's not gonna work. 01:17:26.079 --> 01:17:26.800 It will work. 01:17:27.039 --> 01:17:28.560 It's it's gonna work-ish. 01:17:29.119 --> 01:17:33.840 It's gonna, yes, anything that is captivating that you can watch on your phone, cool. 01:17:34.000 --> 01:17:35.600 But it's quibby all over again. 01:17:35.920 --> 01:17:36.640 That's what I would just think. 01:17:36.960 --> 01:17:37.680 I want to do these quibbs. 01:17:38.079 --> 01:17:38.560 All over again. 01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:42.079 You you the there's there's a they cool. 01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:44.479 The attention span is short. 01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:49.199 They believe that if I oh, I just go seven, eight minutes on my phone, people do this. 01:17:49.279 --> 01:17:54.079 It's like, no, there's things that you watch on your phone, and there's things I don't want to sit down and watch at home. 01:17:54.239 --> 01:17:58.479 So it's like, yeah, you're gonna cap the views, will be there, the followers will be there. 01:17:58.720 --> 01:18:01.279 Do you think Quibi would have rocked in 2018? 01:18:01.520 --> 01:18:02.159 Nope. 01:18:02.399 --> 01:18:03.520 I think it would have. 01:18:03.760 --> 01:18:08.399 I I here uh let me let me give you uh the other side of perspective. 01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:14.960 I'm out pitching uh unscripted show that's about uh 30 to 35 minutes, 40 minutes, whatever. 01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:17.760 And everybody said, Well, people are watching stuff this fast. 01:18:18.640 --> 01:18:19.920 I was like, Well, yeah. 01:18:20.079 --> 01:18:21.119 We also watch that. 01:18:21.199 --> 01:18:24.560 Sometimes you're in your car, you turn something on, 12-minute clip, perfect. 01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:26.720 You sit it down, you watch it, and the views are crazy. 01:18:26.880 --> 01:18:28.560 They don't know I didn't actually look at my phone. 01:18:28.640 --> 01:18:31.039 I'm just running up the Breakfast Club, right? 01:18:31.359 --> 01:18:33.520 Oh, good interview on, you turn it on, da-da-da. 01:18:33.760 --> 01:18:38.159 That's much different than I'm sitting down at the house, okay, cool, survival of the thickest. 01:18:38.399 --> 01:18:38.560 Right. 01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:40.319 Popcorn, food, yeah, yeah, yeah, dinner. 01:18:40.479 --> 01:18:42.000 It's like two different habits. 01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:46.159 So trying to convert the

habit over is it's just like a weird process. 01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:52.640 I'm not gonna be on the boat watching 17 episodes of this show that I would have preferred to just see the high quality version. 01:18:52.720 --> 01:18:58.560 And it's like, no, both these things exist in a space, but like you said, Sony's involvement. 01:18:58.640 --> 01:18:59.840 They tried this with Quibi. 01:19:00.479 --> 01:19:03.439 Kevin Hart and all the money in and high action. 01:19:03.680 --> 01:19:05.520 And it was like, I can't even see all the action. 01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:06.479 He ran that way. 01:19:06.560 --> 01:19:10.159 It's like action. 01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:11.439 Are you looking on yourself? 01:19:12.079 --> 01:19:13.840 There's still something about going to the movies. 01:19:14.239 --> 01:19:15.840 Doomsday is happening, you guys. 01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:17.279 Uh, dude is happening. 01:19:17.439 --> 01:19:21.119 It's like this is an experience that is all unique its own. 01:19:21.199 --> 01:19:23.600 It's like live comedy versus the stand-up. 01:19:23.840 --> 01:19:24.960 I mean, versus a special. 01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:28.479 It's like both things can exist, but it's gonna feel much differently. 01:19:28.640 --> 01:19:29.520 So yeah, cool. 01:19:29.680 --> 01:19:30.720 Do the vertical thing. 01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:31.840 It's not stopping. 01:19:31.920 --> 01:19:40.319 Uh I just, I mean, like, I I think it's like if if if I were to watch, if I see BT going, I'm doing a 10-part series on uh where are my keys at? 01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:40.960 Right. 01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:46.479 But I'm watching BT, I go, I know BT, and I'm watching BT going like, where the fuck are my keys? 01:19:46.640 --> 01:19:46.800 Right. 01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:49.920 I watch 10 parts of that to go, this is I think a BT is hilarious. 01:19:50.000 --> 01:19:51.439 And also, where are his keys? 01:19:51.600 --> 01:19:51.920 Right. 01:19:52.079 --> 01:19:56.720 But if you go, I'm an ex-CIA agent, and they go, I don't feel like watching BT do this. 01:19:56.960 --> 01:19:57.199 Right. 01:19:57.600 --> 01:19:58.960 That's just BT acting like this. 01:19:59.439 --> 01:19:59.680 Right. 01:19:59.920 --> 01:20:01.119 For a vertical. 01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:09.039 But it's gonna be people that live in a suburb where kids you never seen, like to me, those are fun. 01:20:09.279 --> 01:20:10.960 But I don't, but nobody's gonna put real money. 01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:14.239 I also don't want the production value to be up here. 01:20:14.479 --> 01:20:17.039 I kind of just want to see BT looking for his keys. 01:20:17.119 --> 01:20:19.199 That's that's a 10-part series I'm looking for. 01:20:19.840 --> 01:20:21.439 If it's good, it's good. 01:20:21.600 --> 01:20:26.399 Because we've all laid in the bed, caught up in some show, borderline. 01:20:26.800 --> 01:20:28.800 I remember I was watching some show, I don't even remember what it was. 01:20:28.880 --> 01:20:30.239 I was like, do I have to keep rolling? 01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:31.520 Because I don't want to get bed sores. 01:20:31.760 --> 01:20:33.600 Because I'm not leaving here for a few hours. 01:20:33.840 --> 01:20:35.760 Like, I gotta finish this today. 01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:36.880 Do I have to keep rolling? 01:20:37.039 --> 01:20:40.239 I just gotta keep put the pizza there and drink the water. 01:20:40.319 --> 01:20:43.039 It's like, and I put the pizza in the bed, but it's good. 01:20:43.199 --> 01:20:44.079 With the joke good? 01:20:44.319 --> 01:20:45.039 Three in the morning. 01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:46.880 Boy, season two of Breaking Bad. 01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:49.119 I was like, man, I'm not moving. 01:20:49.520 --> 01:20:53.359 I just started, I told, uh I saw Nigga, pizza in the bed is diabolical. 01:20:53.760 --> 01:20:54.640 It was moving, boy. 01:20:54.880 --> 01:20:56.399 What's the uh Survivor's Remorse? 01:20:56.560 --> 01:20:57.520 Survivor's Remorse. 01:20:57.680 --> 01:20:59.840 The dude that plays the agent to the football dude. 01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:01.039 I saw him last night. 01:21:01.119 --> 01:21:02.079 He was at the party last night. 01:21:02.159 --> 01:21:02.319 Okay. 01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:04.960 And I was like, bro, I just start watching this show. 01:21:05.119 --> 01:21:09.199 Bro, and I watched the first season in like hours. 01:21:09.359 --> 01:21:11.279 I was just like, oh no, I'm not going anywhere for a while. 01:21:11.359 --> 01:21:12.159 I'm just gonna. 01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:13.359 You see what I'm saying? 01:21:13.520 --> 01:21:16.560 That is uh that is much I wouldn't have done that on my phone. 01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:17.039 Right. 01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:19.520 So it's just like it we there's two different things. 01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:22.399 But we're but we're also old. 01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:24.479 Hmm. 01:21:24.800 --> 01:21:26.239 Yeah, so who knows what a lot of people are. 01:21:26.560 --> 01:21:31.119 I mean, I don't know if you've ever seen these things, but like there's a uh I'll send to both y'all, uh, I'll text the y'all. 01:21:31.199 --> 01:21:59.920 It's there's there's a it pops up in my timeline probably once a week, but it's like this psychology podcast that really goes in on people born between like 80 and 89 of our generation of how we had the technology boomers end up getting into, which is like VCRs and and you know, home phones and different lines and s the the start of cell phones and pages or whatever. 01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:04.880 And then we're pre-internet, but we're the first people to experience internet. 01:22:05.279 --> 01:22:08.720 We we were the we're internet kids when everybody got it. 01:22:09.119 --> 01:22:11.279 But we also know when digital became digital. 01:22:11.439 --> 01:22:11.920 Right. 01:22:12.159 --> 01:22:17.439 Now kids only know digital, and our parents had knobs on a TV. 01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:17.680 Right. 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:19.359 They TV's like ovens. 01:22:19.680 -->

01:22:20.239 You know what I mean? 01:22:20.800 --> 01:22:25.840 So it was like w we have we're this this crazy generation in the middle. 01:22:26.319 --> 01:22:28.319 And we're old motherfuckers now. 01:22:28.720 --> 01:22:33.920 Like we are, we are the um We definitely the middle child. 01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:42.079 The the millennials will be in in uh the first millennials will be 50 in four years. 01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:44.800 Crazy. 01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:49.840 Millennials, I mean, and we think we still I mean, we nigga, we all dress like we children still. 01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:50.399 Yeah, yeah. 01:22:50.880 --> 01:23:05.359 But do you do you think that the see have you ever sat a kid in front of like good, like you you sit up in front of Sesame Street today, and and they'll sit there and stare at the screen no different than they were scared of the iPad. 01:23:05.600 --> 01:23:09.119 So it's like you Coco Mella does the same thing as like no no no. 01:23:09.279 --> 01:23:12.159 But I think I think it depends when, I think it depends when you start doing it. 01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:20.399 If you have an iPad kid, they quick to move on too. 01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:21.920 Cause they can set it down. 01:23:22.159 --> 01:23:25.920 If you s if you yeah, if you sit a motherfucker in front of a TV, they can't touch that shit. 01:23:26.000 --> 01:23:26.880 They gotta sit there and watch it. 01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:31.760 But if you give them up for this thing, they can they can put it down and move. 01:23:32.000 --> 01:23:33.680 So so I I don't disagree with you at all. 01:23:33.840 --> 01:23:40.079 I think I think the Netflix thing, I think what we just saw with Funny AF is I think that's probably where we're going. 01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:47.840 When we're watching Funny AF, and it was like you can vote right now in real time, and and we know exactly what happened. 01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:52.560 I think that uh uh obviously reality it works, a competition it works. 01:23:52.720 --> 01:23:55.840 But remember the books back in the day books Choose Your Own Adventure. 01:23:56.000 --> 01:23:56.880 Choose your own adventure. 01:23:57.279 --> 01:23:58.319 Like if you want them to call it. 01:23:59.359 --> 01:24:00.159 That's very interesting. 01:24:00.239 --> 01:24:02.640 I'm watching because it was a Bandersnatch. 01:24:02.800 --> 01:24:04.319 Yeah, there was a show like that recently. 01:24:04.479 --> 01:24:06.960 It's like, but what if that was digital? 01:24:07.119 --> 01:24:13.840 What if you were watching, what if a show aired right now, and before episode two, it was like, you're gonna go down this path and you're gonna go down this path. 01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:20.479 And then you chose where you wanted to go through just clicking motion on your phone or some scanning thing. 01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:22.800 It's like I was just thinking with it. 01:24:23.039 --> 01:24:29.600 With AI, if they keep using AI, it'll be easier to do something like that where you could choose your own adventure with these characters. 01:24:29.920 --> 01:24:32.319 AI could basically create whatever. 01:24:32.479 --> 01:24:33.439 We gotta get to the game. 01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:33.840 Okay. 01:24:34.000 --> 01:24:34.239 Okay. 01:24:34.720 --> 01:24:35.680 Banner Stash did that. 01:24:35.760 --> 01:24:46.000 I thought they did a good job at it, but also it makes the content like, oh, I was supposed to watch two hours of this thing, but then you pick the wrong journey, and now nigga, my my experience is only 48 minutes. 01:24:46.159 --> 01:24:46.720 Oh, wow. 01:24:46.800 --> 01:24:46.960 Yeah. 01:24:47.119 --> 01:24:47.840 I need to check that out. 01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:48.479 I ain't watched that. 01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:49.359 That came out years ago. 01:24:49.439 --> 01:24:52.000 I think BC was talking about, yeah. 01:24:52.159 --> 01:24:52.319 Yeah. 01:24:52.560 --> 01:24:55.199 Um, all right, man, we uh got a couple games you wanna do another. 01:24:55.600 --> 01:24:56.079 Yeah, we done it. 01:24:56.800 --> 01:24:58.239 Hold on, Justin, you're not gonna do it today? 01:24:58.399 --> 01:25:00.399 Man, we're y'all switching it up today? 01:25:00.800 --> 01:25:01.439 You gotta put more. 01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:08.079 We've been trying to, I'm gonna kill a little bit. 01:25:08.960 --> 01:25:17.520 I'm just trying to figure out at what point in this interview I'm gonna ask me if I'm gonna eat it. 01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:29.039 And this one actually has that question over here. 01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:30.960 That's right. 01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:32.880 All right, here it goes. 01:25:33.439 --> 01:25:35.199 Kill it or let live. 01:25:35.439 --> 01:25:36.479 Kill it or let live. 01:25:36.560 --> 01:25:37.600 You don't already know the game. 01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:39.920 Anybody that don't know the game, I'm gonna say kill it or let live. 01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:42.159 Uh if you mess with it, you're gonna say let it live. 01:25:42.319 --> 01:25:45.920 If you if you don't mess with whatever thing I throw out there, you're gonna say kill it. 01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:47.279 Kill it or let live. 01:25:47.439 --> 01:25:49.439 Hooking up with cast members. 01:25:50.399 --> 01:25:51.039 Kill it. 01:25:51.199 --> 01:25:51.600 Kill it. 01:25:51.760 --> 01:25:52.000 Kill it. 01:25:52.079 --> 01:25:53.359 I've never hooked up with a cast member. 01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:57.119 When we were filming. 01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:02.079 God damn it, Tone. 01:26:02.319 --> 01:26:02.960 Goddammit. 01:26:03.760 --> 01:26:04.720 I don't share where I eat, bro. 01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:14.880 It's like, I mean, if if not that I haven't wanted to, but I actually not not really, probably once in my career, I've never really hooked up with somebody I work with. 01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:18.399 I I'm not, I go, I'm I'm trying to keep it. 01:26:18.479 --> 01:26:19.279 I'm trying to keep his job, bro. 01:26:20.399 --> 01:26:22.479 Ain't no piece of pussy worth my

job. 01:26:22.640 --> 01:26:28.399 I've never really I want my badge to work. 01:26:28.560 --> 01:26:29.119 I want to go. 01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:30.239 Crafty is beautiful. 01:26:30.399 --> 01:26:30.560 Yeah. 01:26:31.279 --> 01:26:32.800 Now I took down some extras. 01:26:38.479 --> 01:26:40.319 Some extras be finding shit sometimes. 01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:45.279 We work together. 01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:46.560 We work together. 01:26:46.800 --> 01:26:48.640 But then they keep popping up though. 01:26:51.680 --> 01:26:53.760 We fucked three weeks ago, and here you are again. 01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:58.079 It's like a one-night screen that never goes away because her job. 01:26:58.239 --> 01:27:00.239 Her job is the big edge of the go. 01:27:02.319 --> 01:27:03.039 I have nothing. 01:27:03.119 --> 01:27:05.600 I'm just telling jokes, and I didn't even fuck nobody. 01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:06.000 Okay. 01:27:06.399 --> 01:27:08.239 Kill it or let live. 01:27:09.199 --> 01:27:14.399 You have a hundred million followers on every social media platform. 01:27:14.960 --> 01:27:20.880 But in order to obtain these hundred million followers, you have to sleep one night at teleparadics. 01:27:32.399 --> 01:27:33.840 Is there money associated with these followers? 01:27:36.960 --> 01:27:40.239 Yeah, I'm gonna spend a night in the buttons who's coming in. 01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:41.199 What's up? 01:27:46.800 --> 01:28:02.720 Um, You still look up? 01:28:04.000 --> 01:28:05.359 He didn't say what room you had to be in. 01:28:06.960 --> 01:28:07.439 It's a lot of rooms. 01:28:08.479 --> 01:28:09.199 A lot of rooms. 01:28:09.840 --> 01:28:10.960 But he knows I'm in the house. 01:28:11.199 --> 01:28:11.680 He knows. 01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:12.960 And he's coming. 01:28:15.680 --> 01:28:18.399 I uh let it live. 01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:20.880 Hey, shout out to Tyler Perry. 01:28:21.439 --> 01:28:22.640 Never let it live, baby. 01:28:22.880 --> 01:28:23.199 All right. 01:28:23.359 --> 01:28:24.159 This is my last one. 01:28:24.319 --> 01:28:25.600 Kill it or let live. 01:28:25.760 --> 01:28:28.960 You get to be the richest man in the world. 01:28:29.199 --> 01:28:32.239 You have all the wealth that you've ever wanted. 01:28:32.319 --> 01:28:33.119 You can do whatever. 01:28:33.439 --> 01:28:35.439 You got the most money in history. 01:28:35.520 --> 01:28:36.399 You Montamusa. 01:28:36.560 --> 01:28:36.880 What's his name? 01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:37.439 Montamusa. 01:28:37.760 --> 01:28:38.399 Monson Montsa Mousa. 01:28:38.960 --> 01:28:39.600 You know what I'm talking about? 01:28:39.760 --> 01:28:39.840 Yeah. 01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:41.760 You the richest man that's ever lived. 01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:42.239 Okay. 01:28:42.560 --> 01:28:47.119 But in order for you to get the money, you have to eat ass. 01:28:48.079 --> 01:28:50.800 But you can't, you don't know who ass is it is. 01:28:51.439 --> 01:28:53.279 It's like a glory hole, but is it just an ass? 01:28:53.520 --> 01:28:54.640 It's a glory hole ass. 01:28:56.399 --> 01:28:57.439 You get to see that ass. 01:28:57.600 --> 01:28:58.319 But you can't see the. 01:28:58.560 --> 01:28:59.680 It's a woman, though. 01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:01.039 I don't know. 01:29:03.600 --> 01:29:04.960 Did you not finish the question? 01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:06.399 No, it's done. 01:29:09.119 --> 01:29:11.119 It's just uh I don't know. 01:29:11.279 --> 01:29:13.680 It's just an ass, and there's a little hair. 01:29:14.000 --> 01:29:15.199 Do I have the money already? 01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:16.319 No, you gotta eat that ass. 01:29:16.560 --> 01:29:17.680 I gotta eat the ass and then I get the money. 01:29:17.840 --> 01:29:18.319 Then you get the money. 01:29:18.479 --> 01:29:19.439 But who giving me the money though? 01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:20.880 The person who asked me. 01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:23.119 It's in a briefcase. 01:29:24.159 --> 01:29:25.199 It's a briefcase right now. 01:29:25.439 --> 01:29:26.800 There's too man caveats to this. 01:29:27.680 --> 01:29:28.880 There's too many caveats. 01:29:29.840 --> 01:29:32.319 Because there's a version where I go, I'm eating that ass. 01:29:33.920 --> 01:29:36.000 There's a version, but you ain't give me enough. 01:29:36.159 --> 01:29:37.119 It's all apparent. 01:29:38.800 --> 01:29:39.920 So now I wake up. 01:29:40.000 --> 01:29:40.800 I wake up. 01:29:42.079 --> 01:29:43.359 The room I was in. 01:29:44.720 --> 01:29:45.920 This is a hoax. 01:29:47.760 --> 01:29:48.720 Good morning. 01:29:50.000 --> 01:29:56.159 Hey, Tom has been on a lot of canceled shows, but I can assure you, I'm the only nigga getting canceled today. 01:29:56.399 --> 01:29:57.520 I can assure you that. 01:29:57.680 --> 01:29:58.880 I'm done with that's it, bro. 01:29:59.039 --> 01:30:00.000 Didn't you say the answer? 01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:03.039 Uh I said there's a way that this could happen. 01:30:03.359 --> 01:30:05.279 But when he didn't give me the music, you can give me the other. 01:30:05.760 --> 01:30:08.800 I can't say either way, because there's there's a version. 01:30:09.039 --> 01:30:12.159 There's a version of it, but That's a let live everybody. 01:30:12.239 --> 01:30:12.479 Come on. 01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:13.199 No, no, no. 01:30:14.640 --> 01:30:15.840 That's a down the middle. 01:30:17.600 --> 01:30:18.079 Nigga alright. 01:30:21.039 --> 01:30:23.199 I'm just saying when you spread cheese, that's down the middle. 01:30:24.000 --> 01:30:25.279 Here's the hard thing with Eden S. 01:30:25.520 --> 01:30:26.159 Yeah. 01:30:26.800 --> 01:30:27.680 This is clips. 01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:36.560 When you talk about Eden Ass, uh nigga, I was okay, me and Rail Battle were with Tracy Morgan one day, and we were shooting Lass OG. 01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:37.039 Yeah. 01:30:37.199 --> 01:30:39.600 And Tracy just holding court on set. 01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:44.159 And Tracy goes, uh, they probably 10 minutes from, you know, they're setting up lights and shit.

01:30:44.239 --> 01:30:46.000 And Tracy goes, Yo, you eat ass? 01:30:46.159 --> 01:30:47.600 And he just talking to random people. 01:30:47.920 --> 01:30:51.279 Tracy Morgan, yo, you eat ass or you eat pussy? 01:30:51.600 --> 01:30:53.920 He just, bro, it's it's me and Ray are cracking up. 01:30:54.159 --> 01:30:55.920 You eat ass or you eat pussy. 01:30:56.319 --> 01:30:59.119 And he goes, if you eat pussy, you eat ass. 01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:02.640 Because the only thing that separates them is that thin motherfucker right there. 01:31:02.720 --> 01:31:04.960 And that's called the bridge of a troubled waters. 01:31:05.760 --> 01:31:08.000 Nigga, me and Rail are like, we have to go. 01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:10.319 And then they're like, all right, we're ready to. 01:31:10.560 --> 01:31:12.239 He's like, all right, let me go shoot. 01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:14.720 It was we're like, yo. 01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:16.159 I'm Brian Fellows. 01:31:17.600 --> 01:31:18.880 So nigga, everybody eat ass. 01:31:19.199 --> 01:31:19.520 Yeah, man. 01:31:19.600 --> 01:31:19.840 Grow up. 01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:23.439 Keep three, cut five. 01:31:23.600 --> 01:31:23.920 All right. 01:31:24.159 --> 01:31:24.880 It's blind. 01:31:25.039 --> 01:31:26.239 You don't know what's coming next. 01:31:26.399 --> 01:31:27.119 Keep three. 01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:27.600 No. 01:31:27.840 --> 01:31:28.319 What'd you say? 01:31:28.399 --> 01:31:28.800 Keep three? 01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:29.439 Keep three. 01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:29.680 Okay. 01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:30.800 Kill five. 01:31:30.960 --> 01:31:31.119 Okay. 01:31:31.279 --> 01:31:32.479 You don't know what's coming next. 01:31:32.640 --> 01:31:33.600 It's blind list. 01:31:34.479 --> 01:31:35.760 Once it's gone, it's gone. 01:31:36.399 --> 01:31:36.960 All right. 01:31:37.359 --> 01:31:38.720 TV sitcoms. 01:31:40.159 --> 01:31:41.359 Girlfriends. 01:31:42.880 --> 01:31:43.680 Keep a kill. 01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:46.079 I don't know what's coming next. 01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:50.239 Uh kill. 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:52.239 Tome Bell hates black women. 01:31:53.520 --> 01:31:54.640 You heard it here first. 01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:58.319 You're fucking dumb, but I'm not going out by myself. 01:32:00.560 --> 01:32:08.800 You know the reason why I say that is because I just watched a clip of uh uh it was it wasn't uh was it Richard is it Richard T. 01:32:08.880 --> 01:32:10.079 Jones playing her boyfriend? 01:32:10.159 --> 01:32:16.159 Yeah uh um um what's her name? 01:32:16.239 --> 01:32:20.560 Uh the uh the uh uh uh oh uh Tracy Eller Ross. 01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:21.600 Yeah, Tracy Ellen Rawls. 01:32:21.680 --> 01:32:28.720 Um and they had a wonderful scene where they were like just arguing back and forth, and I go, this is a relationship right here. 01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:29.039 Yeah. 01:32:29.279 --> 01:32:32.159 This is how this is how this shit goes often. 01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:33.680 So that's so I'll go. 01:32:33.840 --> 01:32:34.560 I hated that shit. 01:32:34.720 --> 01:32:35.039 Killer. 01:32:36.319 --> 01:32:37.600 Wayne's brothers. 01:32:39.920 --> 01:32:42.640 I love Wayne's Brothers, but I'm gonna say killers come and see what else is next. 01:32:42.880 --> 01:32:44.079 Homeboys in Outer Space. 01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:44.560 Killer. 01:32:44.880 --> 01:32:45.039 See? 01:32:45.199 --> 01:32:46.000 So you gotta be careful. 01:32:50.079 --> 01:32:50.880 I've already killed three? 01:32:51.039 --> 01:32:52.720 Yeah, you killed three, it's only five left. 01:32:53.039 --> 01:32:54.000 I gotta say yes to everything else. 01:32:54.079 --> 01:32:54.560 What do we got? 01:32:54.640 --> 01:32:57.039 Uh no, you no, you only gonna keep three. 01:32:57.199 --> 01:32:57.520 Oh, okay. 01:32:57.600 --> 01:32:57.920 All right, yeah. 01:32:58.159 --> 01:32:59.119 All right, blackish. 01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:00.399 Keep. 01:33:00.720 --> 01:33:01.039 Nice. 01:33:01.439 --> 01:33:02.319 My wife and kids. 01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:03.119 Keep. 01:33:03.439 --> 01:33:03.840 Nice. 01:33:04.399 --> 01:33:05.520 The Parkers. 01:33:13.439 --> 01:33:14.800 I never watched it like that. 01:33:15.359 --> 01:33:16.960 Definitely hate black women. 01:33:17.520 --> 01:33:18.880 You're fucking nothing, buddy. 01:33:19.680 --> 01:33:19.840 Nah. 01:33:20.000 --> 01:33:21.520 Y'all watch the Parkers like that? 01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:24.319 Have I seen it? 01:33:25.119 --> 01:33:26.880 It was an appointment television from anybody. 01:33:27.680 --> 01:33:29.840 I support black women. 01:33:30.079 --> 01:33:33.439 I've seen it, yes, but I wasn't, I wasn't like, I wasn't T-Vowing that shit. 01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:34.159 I got you. 01:33:34.399 --> 01:33:35.439 Um I didn't. 01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:40.560 Wait, watch this, watch this, watch this. 01:33:40.880 --> 01:33:42.079 Living single. 01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:43.439 Love living single. 01:33:43.680 --> 01:33:44.479 Oh, okay, boy. 01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:45.359 Love living single. 01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:46.159 Keep it killed. 01:33:46.800 --> 01:33:47.760 And there's one more after this. 01:33:47.920 --> 01:33:48.960 Oh, it's one more after this, though. 01:33:49.039 --> 01:33:49.600 It's your three. 01:33:49.760 --> 01:33:50.079 Keep. 01:33:50.239 --> 01:33:51.359 That's your last war. 01:33:52.000 --> 01:33:53.520 Oh, I do want to know what's next. 01:33:54.640 --> 01:33:55.359 How are you gonna know? 01:33:55.439 --> 01:33:56.640 It's just until you get to keep it or not. 01:33:56.800 --> 01:33:58.399 But I kill, I kill Parker's, but I'm gonna go. 01:34:00.479 --> 01:34:01.920 So right now, you kill girlfriends? 01:34:02.159 --> 01:34:02.399 All right. 01:34:02.479 --> 01:34:04.720 You kill Wade's brothers, you kill homeboy brothers. 01:34:04.880 --> 01:34:09.279 For the record, for the record, I want to keep living single, but I'm gonna kill it because I want to know what's next. 01:34:09.920 --> 01:34:10.640 I'm telling you, I'm gonna.

01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:11.439 No, this is for the people. 01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:12.479 It's not for you, BT. 01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:13.520 This is for the people. 01:34:15.199 --> 01:34:18.079 Boy, if it's friends, it's definitely Fresh Prince. 01:34:19.600 --> 01:34:20.319 Keep, bro. 01:34:21.359 --> 01:34:24.399 I may, I may, I made, I'm a Fresh Prince stand. 01:34:25.119 --> 01:34:25.600 Straight up. 01:34:26.000 --> 01:34:28.880 I'm a Me and Rail Battle had I got a lot of stories with Rail Battle. 01:34:28.960 --> 01:34:38.159 Me and Rail Battle had an epic Fresh Prince versus Martin conversation in New Orleans that we it crowd ended up gathering around us because like we're arguing which one is better. 01:34:38.479 --> 01:34:39.920 We both think they're both great. 01:34:40.079 --> 01:34:41.279 I fucking love Martin. 01:34:41.359 --> 01:34:41.600 Right. 01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:43.359 I just resonated more with Fresh Prince. 01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:46.800 He resonated, you know, more with Martin, but he also loves Fresh Prince. 01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:49.600 And we just, I mean, every time we see each other, it's it's that thing. 01:34:49.840 --> 01:34:52.159 Y'all trying to see which one is like funnier? 01:34:52.479 --> 01:34:54.079 Martin is funnier. 01:34:54.640 --> 01:34:56.239 Fresh Prince had a better story. 01:34:57.039 --> 01:34:57.359 Yeah. 01:34:57.760 --> 01:34:59.520 But I but I think it's more relatable. 01:34:59.600 --> 01:35:00.800 I think Fresh Prince is more relatable. 01:35:01.039 --> 01:35:01.279 It's crazy. 01:35:01.520 --> 01:35:02.640 I think my wife and kids are better than both. 01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:04.640 We weren't talking about that though. 01:35:04.880 --> 01:35:06.560 But I do love my wife and kids. 01:35:06.960 --> 01:35:08.000 It's fucking hysterical. 01:35:08.239 --> 01:35:09.119 Last question, man. 01:35:09.359 --> 01:35:14.000 Um, you are always hot uh industry-wise, man. 01:35:14.079 --> 01:35:15.199 You are always killing shit. 01:35:15.439 --> 01:35:16.159 Not that it's a podcast. 01:35:16.239 --> 01:35:17.279 Justin, we cancel. 01:35:17.680 --> 01:35:18.000 Yeah. 01:35:19.279 --> 01:35:20.319 Me and you both, man. 01:35:20.800 --> 01:35:23.920 We can start a podcast off two cancel Negroes. 01:35:25.039 --> 01:35:28.560 What does it look like for you career-wise to be killing it? 01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:32.239 What is what is that behind the camera, in front of the camera, producing? 01:35:32.399 --> 01:35:33.199 Is that movies? 01:35:33.279 --> 01:35:34.000 Is that TV? 01:35:34.079 --> 01:35:36.159 I really want to talk to you about movies versus TV. 01:35:36.239 --> 01:35:37.920 But what does it look like for you? 01:35:38.159 --> 01:35:38.880 I don't know, man. 01:35:38.960 --> 01:35:45.359 I I really still enjoy this business and I mean mainly because of last night of doing this right now. 01:35:45.439 --> 01:35:47.439 It's like that this is the best part of it to me. 01:35:47.600 --> 01:35:49.359 And

I love being a fan of it, man. 01:35:49.439 --> 01:35:50.720 I I love, even if I can't. 01:35:51.039 --> 01:35:55.119 I mean, I've taped every episode of MacGyver and didn't watch a bunch of them. 01:35:55.439 --> 01:35:58.239 But I will play it just to make sure. 01:35:58.399 --> 01:36:03.119 I go anytime I you pop up, I'm with the wife on the couch going, BT. 01:36:03.840 --> 01:36:06.399 And I and I, motherfucker, I would rewind shit to go. 01:36:06.560 --> 01:36:15.039 Even if I I think I I've probably seen three episodes of the London show, seen them, but I record them and I play them just to make sure. 01:36:15.279 --> 01:36:16.640 Cause one, I want you to work. 01:36:16.800 --> 01:36:17.039 Yeah. 01:36:17.199 --> 01:36:19.680 Two, if you're busy, I got a possible getting a job. 01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:20.319 That's a fact. 01:36:20.720 --> 01:36:21.680 I need you to be busy. 01:36:21.920 --> 01:36:22.560 That's a fact. 01:36:22.800 --> 01:36:30.720 Um I there there's a I did a movie last summer that got my wheels turned on, like, do you want to direct? 01:36:30.800 --> 01:36:35.199 And because me and the director works work so close, and he asked me for my opinion on a lot of stuff. 01:36:35.279 --> 01:36:37.199 And I go, I think we should keep this in the wide. 01:36:37.279 --> 01:36:38.319 We don't need a close up of this. 01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:39.279 I think this should play in the two. 01:36:39.600 --> 01:36:41.920 And it and I think I was right over a lot of those moments. 01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:44.720 And there's a piece of me that's like, man, maybe I want to direct. 01:36:45.359 --> 01:36:50.560 Um I'd love to staff at some just to get off my system, I got staff on a show. 01:36:50.800 --> 01:36:53.520 Um I love comedy so much. 01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:58.159 It's like I'm I think I'm getting to the point now where people have seen me, you know, my fans in certain cities. 01:36:58.319 --> 01:37:03.760 Um being in my 40s now, I'm so much better at this. 01:37:04.000 --> 01:37:04.239 Right. 01:37:04.399 --> 01:37:06.239 Like I think my material was fine in it. 01:37:06.239 --> 01:37:07.279 I didn't know how to perform it. 01:37:07.600 --> 01:37:10.000 And now I think I have, bro, my hours. 01:37:11.279 --> 01:37:12.000 Really fun to watch. 01:37:13.039 --> 01:37:13.920 It's really fun to watch. 01:37:14.079 --> 01:37:15.520 So I don't know, man. 01:37:15.600 --> 01:37:22.560 It's like it's it's I'm hoping the AIs and the and the I hope the business allows us to keep doing what we're doing. 01:37:22.640 --> 01:37:23.760 I just I really enjoy it, man. 01:37:23.840 --> 01:37:30.640 I mean, even at the comedy brunch yesterday at Sorandos' house, the the oh fucking, I'm sitting with everybody. 01:37:31.199 --> 01:37:39.920 Eddie Murphy and Chappelle and Seinfeld and every Kevin and just Dion, and then I'm just in a circle, like chopping it up. 01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:48.079 I go, I'm such a fan of these people and this business, and then they go, oh, what's up, you know. 01:37:48.960 --> 01:37:49.760 Kevin say what's up. 01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:52.079 Chappelle, oh, Tom, what's going on? 01:37:52.239 --> 01:37:55.680 The the hanging out with Mo and and Ronnie Chang and Hassan. 01:37:55.840 --> 01:37:58.640 Just like I love me and Theo chop it up real quick. 01:37:58.880 --> 01:38:01.119 Pound with CK and I don't know, man. 01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:04.079 I'm just I remember watching uh, and I'm sorry, I don't go on Dice. 01:38:04.239 --> 01:38:04.960 No, no, no, you good. 01:38:05.119 --> 01:38:11.439 I remember watching uh, I was shooting, I think I was shooting Truth Be Told, but I'm on the I think we're on the Universal lot. 01:38:11.840 --> 01:38:16.800 And um when they tried to reboot Coach, remember Coach from the 90s? 01:38:16.960 --> 01:38:23.600 They tried to reboot coach, and uh they were bringing extras in or background for a couple scenes on on coach. 01:38:23.760 --> 01:38:28.880 And they were they had like probably 40 extras are walking toward the stage and there's one girl kind of lagging. 01:38:28.960 --> 01:38:37.840 We were on lunch break, but I was going to my car and I saw this one girl, and then you know, they you know, hey, bring your own clothes, we might use something you have, or we'll give you something to accessorize or whatever. 01:38:37.920 --> 01:38:46.960 And it's one girl like 10, maybe 15 feet behind the rest of the group, but she's dragging her suitcase and she's just looking up at the studio and she's like, Fuck, I can't believe I'm on the universe a lot. 01:38:47.279 --> 01:38:52.000 And I remember seeing her look excited for going, I can't believe I'm here. 01:38:52.079 --> 01:38:55.039 And I think about that lady all the time, going, like, I always want to feel like that. 01:38:55.600 --> 01:39:00.880 I always want to feel like anytime I I if I have a good set, I'm cool with it. 01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:03.920 If I crush, I go, I can't believe I get a chance to do this for a living. 01:39:04.159 --> 01:39:04.399 Right. 01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:06.079 I love doing this. 01:39:06.880 --> 01:39:11.680 And I mean, I've started doing Q ⁇ A's at shows now, going like, all right, here's my 50, 55. 01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:13.119 I go, anybody got any questions? 01:39:13.279 --> 01:39:18.720 And then I get a chance to just go, I know I talked about my life in com in joke form. 01:39:19.279 --> 01:39:23.119 Does anybody have anything they just want to you want my perspective on anything? 01:39:23.920 --> 01:39:38.880 And I have so much fun that people left their house, paid, had a two-drink minimum, had some tenders, brought their husband, brought their wife, brought their partner, whatever, left their dog at home, got a babysitter, and but they like, man, we just came to see you because we like what you've been doing for the last 15 years. 01:39:39.119 --> 01:39:40.960 Bro, nigga, I love that shit. 01:39:41.119 --> 01:39:42.000 It's beautiful, man. 01:39:42.159 --> 01:39:44.239 Hey man, let people know where they can find you. 01:39:44.640 --> 01:39:45.680 Socials, any projects. 01:39:45.920 --> 01:39:46.399 Hey, man. 01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:53.279 Tone Bell on all platforms, Instagram, I'm not on TikTok, uh tone bell.com, uh, July 2nd. 01:39:53.359 --> 01:39:57.359 I don't know if this is gonna come out by July 2nd, but July 2nd is gonna come out in 2028. 01:39:59.199 --> 01:40:00.159 I heard y'all at one point. 01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:02.000 Somebody was like, I shot this shit in December. 01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:03.279 I'm just seeing this. 01:40:04.479 --> 01:40:07.600 So uh by the time you see this, Survivor Think of Season 3 will be out. 01:40:07.760 --> 01:40:08.159 Yeah. 01:40:08.479 --> 01:40:13.520 Uh July 2nd, and then uh April 28th, 2026 is Cody versus Acme. 01:40:13.760 --> 01:40:15.439 Uh look out for my new special. 01:40:15.600 --> 01:40:18.319 Uh to me right now they don't like it, but I'm calling it season two. 01:40:18.399 --> 01:40:22.239 I don't know what the title's gonna be, but right now I'm calling it season two because it's it's my second special. 01:40:22.560 --> 01:40:25.439 And uh the first one's called Can't Cancel This. 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:30.880 So people thought it people thought can't cancel this was like I was making a cancellation joke of like I'm saying some wild shit. 01:40:31.039 --> 01:40:36.159 Really, it was because I've been on so many canceled shows that it was this is the only thing you can't cancel. 01:40:36.239 --> 01:40:36.399 Yeah. 01:40:36.640 --> 01:40:38.159 So to me it's called season two. 01:40:38.479 --> 01:40:46.239 Hey man, this has been a hilarious moment of maybe the most hilarious informative uh episode we've had. 01:40:46.479 --> 01:40:50.399 Um like, comment, subscribe, hit that subscribe button. 01:40:50.479 --> 01:40:53.119 Uh let us know your favorite moments from this episode. 01:40:53.359 --> 01:40:54.560 Um, yeah, man. 01:40:54.720 --> 01:40:56.720 And I mean, we appreciate y'all watching, man. 01:40:56.960 --> 01:41:01.279 When we out in the streets, we feel in the love, and we can tell that people are really rocking with this show. 01:41:01.359 --> 01:41:02.479 So we appreciate it. 01:41:02.640 --> 01:41:04.640 And yeah, we've been your host, Justin Hyas. 01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:06.319 BTK's London Brown. 01:41:07.680 --> 01:41:09.439 At London, we miss you, brother. 01:41:09.600 --> 01:41:12.000 And this has been the one and only Tom Bell. 01:41:14.720 --> 01:41:15.359 Yes.