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INTERVIEW: Ryan Davis Talks 'Underrated' Comedy Special, Netflix, Family, Eddie Murphy, Kevin Durant · The Breakfast Club

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning, everybody. It's DJ n V Jess Hilarious,
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  Speaker 2: Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club law La
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  Speaker 2: Ross here as well. We got a special guest in
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  Speaker 2: the building. We have a comedian, Ryan Davis. Welcome brother.
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  Speaker 2: What's up man now? Donald Rawlings is feeling into here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Charlomagne's out, just is out. So donn Ella's
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  Speaker 2: is one of our family members, extended family.
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  Speaker 3: But don't expect me to do no booty drop, so
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  Speaker 3: none of that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But how are you feeling?
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  Speaker 1: First for I'm feeling good, man, I'm feeling good.
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  Speaker 2: Your new special, Underrated is out right now. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 2: And it's a story. You put it together for people
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  Speaker 2: that don't know. Explain how you started to do this
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  Speaker 2: on your own. You shopped it around and yeah, you
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get a deal.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I shopped it around. It's funny too whenever you
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  Speaker 1: because I mentioned Netflix immediately when I said all Netflix
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  Speaker 1: didn't take it, people go, you know, there's other places.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they understand how shopping around goes. You
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  Speaker 1: shop it everywhere, you know, I just mentioned Netflix, but
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  Speaker 1: it was hailed for like five months or it was
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  Speaker 1: in their hands for like five months, and then eventually
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  Speaker 1: they said, you know no, they passed on it. And
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  Speaker 1: by that time, you know, yeah done. Will tell you man,
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  Speaker 1: some material has like shelf Life. Yeah yeah. But what
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, this is what people understand.
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  Speaker 4: Like Robbie.
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  Speaker 3: Robbie Praut is a big exec over Netflix, and even
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  Speaker 3: for years I've been in his presence. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to make this interview by myself, but we shared the
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  Speaker 3: same career paths and I asked him one time, I said,
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  Speaker 3: what do I have to do to give myself a
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  Speaker 3: better position for you know what? I know people ask
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  Speaker 3: him all the time what about a Netflix special? And
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  Speaker 3: he said, Donelle, you one of the funniest comments that
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  Speaker 3: I know. I respect you, but you have to understand.
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  Speaker 3: We tell people no all day and that's what people understand.
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  Speaker 3: You see people that on Netflix. But it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of deserving people. But for some reason, it might not
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  Speaker 3: have been the time, it might not have been the thing.
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  Speaker 3: They might have needed something from the Alphabet Commune, somebody
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  Speaker 3: from the Alphabet Commune that year, whatever, But what I could say,
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  Speaker 3: and I had a problem moment I slipped on your
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  Speaker 3: page when you took metals into your own hand.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the.
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  Speaker 3: Things I did, and I appreciate about you. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of people in this business they talked ship. They won't
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  Speaker 3: put their money where their mouth is and they won't
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  Speaker 3: bet on themselves. So when I saw you that testimony
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  Speaker 3: and you broke it down, this nigga went analytical. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he had charged numbers.
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  Speaker 2: You spent, well, how much did you shoot? How much
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  Speaker 2: you did?
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  Speaker 1: Take? You ast me about one fifty. Because you know,
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: when you choose certain venues and then you have to
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  Speaker 1: address the venue. I had to paint the stage. It
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: was several cameras. You know, you got to get the jib,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get the everything. Like I had to pay
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  Speaker 1: for everything out of pocket.
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  Speaker 2: So when you go to these places like Netflix and
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  Speaker 2: all these other places that said no, which made you
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  Speaker 2: decide to do it on your own, they tell you
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  Speaker 2: why no, or they just like, damn, you have no
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  Speaker 2: clue why it.
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  Speaker 5: Has been the block. Once you did that breakdown on
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  Speaker 5: the line where you showed those so.
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  Speaker 1: Many and that was the thing, it went so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: But because it was it was shared hundreds of thousands
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  Speaker 1: of times, So like my dms were crazy, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of people reaching out who have platforms
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  Speaker 1: and things of that nature, but I couldn't see it
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  Speaker 1: all or even entertain Plus I've already told millions of
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  Speaker 1: people where I'm gonna put it and what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do with it, you know, And to the people who
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  Speaker 1: were reaching out, you know, with these platforms, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. But also at this time, this is
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  Speaker 1: a great time to reach out to other comedians because
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of comedians that have my story. You know,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, you should you should put out that
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  Speaker 1: you're willing to bring comedians to your platform and give
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  Speaker 1: them a space to share their art, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I wanted. I wanted, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whenever I put it out to inspire other people to
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  Speaker 1: put their money where their mouth is.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but they're not going to do it.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people talk a lot of shit, and
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, like when we are
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  Speaker 3: in a better position. When I first started, it was
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  Speaker 3: only like ABC, CBS, NBC, and the ultimate platform for
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  Speaker 3: specialist was the HBO, Right, It wasn't a million things.
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  Speaker 3: So there are avenues but if you know, in this business,
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  Speaker 3: Netflix probably is the most prestigious, the one that people
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  Speaker 3: gravitate to the most, Like this is the platform to
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  Speaker 3: say this is one of the great and even if
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  Speaker 3: even if you do find another home for I know,
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  Speaker 3: it's something to be said about a Netflix special. I
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  Speaker 3: think you're deserve it. Interesting to me, is underrated? Why
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  Speaker 3: did you choose to name your special underrated?
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  Speaker 1: I think that is.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're just joining us, Ryan Davis is here,
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  Speaker 2: Donnella's filling in for Charlemagne, and Donnella is on his journalist.
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  Speaker 5: Tip period because he just brought that in real, real easy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think underrated describes kind of what my journey
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  Speaker 1: is right now in stand up, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I think amongst my peers, they know how I get
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  Speaker 1: down on stage. But I think the general public we
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  Speaker 1: have gotten to a point where the skill of stand
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  Speaker 1: up isn't really celebrated as much as the popularity of
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  Speaker 1: an individual. And I wanted to highlight that when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the stand up space. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm one of the best out here, like one of
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  Speaker 1: the top ones, and I don't want and whenever I
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  Speaker 1: think I'm criticist anytime I'm criticized, it's based off of
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  Speaker 1: social media content. Oh, I don't think, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: may be this because of the I've seen clips of
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  Speaker 1: something instead of the actual thing that I do. So
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  Speaker 1: that's why I went with underrated.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, is Netflix the goal? And what
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  Speaker 2: I mean by that, It's like when you when you
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  Speaker 2: play basketball, the goal is NBA, When you play football,
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  Speaker 2: the goal is NFL. You know, when you do something
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  Speaker 2: the goal might be, you know, to own a Ferrari
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  Speaker 2: as a comedian, is the goal Netflix?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think I think Netflix put
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  Speaker 1: themselves in position with the deals that they did, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Dave and Chris and Kevin. When they started handing
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  Speaker 1: out twenty million, you know, uh, they had surpassed HBO
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  Speaker 1: at that point, and then it had been a while
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  Speaker 1: since you saw an HBO special and then that person
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  Speaker 1: went on to like incredible success, and that's been the
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  Speaker 1: story for a lot of people that you know have
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  Speaker 1: been on Netflix. So I think Netflix had surpassed you know,
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  Speaker 1: HBO as far as being a launching pad, so that,
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: you know, I think any creative keeps there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: into the street and eyes on what's going on. So
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  Speaker 1: you have somebody like Sebastian Maniscalco who he wasn't relatively
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  Speaker 1: known like that, and he did his Netflix special. Now
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  Speaker 1: he does Madison Square Garden. So you know, you see
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that and you don't see it on other platforms.
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  Speaker 1: It makes you go, Okay, now I see the influence
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  Speaker 1: that Netflix has and I kind of want that launching pad.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you think of it. I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: made Netflix appear to be the top one.
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  Speaker 3: When you say when you say underrated, is that your
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  Speaker 3: observation or is that the observation from your fans and
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  Speaker 3: people that have been following your journey. Who's saying you
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  Speaker 3: underraty you? Or there's the people that you want to
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  Speaker 3: reach out to.
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  Speaker 1: Nah, I think that's what I've viewed over the years.
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't even think. I think over the
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  Speaker 1: years I've seen that people don't even think I'm as
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  Speaker 1: successful as I am. I think it's uh. I think
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  Speaker 1: the narrative on me is that I'm still like that
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  Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure it out, or I'm up
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  Speaker 1: and coming and I've been like how successful.
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  Speaker 3: I will say the first time I ever saw you,
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  Speaker 3: I think it was that. I think it was that
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  Speaker 3: maybe chocolates, Sunnies.
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  Speaker 1: Or last Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, cause, you know is a thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, my stuff set I come to eat it up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you come behind me? I closed?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was when I left them, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, do what you gotta do. What it was
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  Speaker 3: and and I don't have a problem with that. And
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  Speaker 3: like the thing that you didn't get rattled.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? You getting rattled.
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  Speaker 3: And when I say, even when I watched the clips
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  Speaker 3: and stress your composure.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, you're timing, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And then when I saw you, when I first time
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  Speaker 3: I saw you, it's so hard to say somebody's original.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, this motherfucker's original his point of view.
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  Speaker 3: He's not talking about everything these motherfuckers talked about. And
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  Speaker 3: then when I watch you, I say, guess what this
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  Speaker 3: motherfucker can entertain black, white, Asian or whatever. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the point. How do you do you feel sometimes because
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  Speaker 3: you have the crossover ability that people don't connect with
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  Speaker 3: your blackness?
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  Speaker 1: Man, you know that you deal with that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm asking you the question.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just but to add on what he said,
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  Speaker 2: he's right, right, And the reason I say that is
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  Speaker 2: is I know you as a comedian, but to me,
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: it doesn't stand out as it should. Yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 2: little different because he's been coming on the Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 2: for years, so we poke at that, we make fun
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  Speaker 2: of him. But for you, I didn't see it the same,
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  Speaker 2: almost like a Hannibal Burrs right where he's huge, but
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  Speaker 2: not in our community. For say, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: So how do you deal with that? And how come
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  Speaker 2: that is?
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  Speaker 1: But that's why I lead to underrated. And I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I'm not going to act like that's not
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  Speaker 1: bothersome to be underrated amongst the people you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you relate to the most black people.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, because I'm going to ask you, like, because you
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  Speaker 6: said underrated, people look at you like you said up
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  Speaker 6: and coming, like you're not successful. Like when I said,
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  Speaker 6: I was going to ask you how successful you are?
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  Speaker 6: But I don't mean for you to like name every accolade.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, where do you think your level of success ranks?
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  Speaker 6: And like what is success to you? Because if you
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  Speaker 6: can put out one hundred and fifty k real easy
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  Speaker 6: for a special right, a lot of people don't got
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  Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty k in cash, just be like, yo,
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  Speaker 6: I need to shoot this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're doing something somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. So yeah, I'm doing all right.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: But that's also because of my fans. I went straight
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  Speaker 1: to my fans. This Patreon that I'm doing is not new,
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  Speaker 1: and I you know, I don't do the whole flashy thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm all about. You know, if my fans believe in
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  Speaker 1: me enough to give me money, then I'm gonna in
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  Speaker 1: return give them a product. So the special aim from that.
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  Speaker 1: Me and my my partner, Austin Hall, my business partner,
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  Speaker 1: Austin Hall, we did a movie.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know you succeeded.
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  Speaker 3: You're successful when you say my business partner, business partner.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like we're doing a movie. Even the money that's
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: made from this special is go. I'm gonna shoot my
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  Speaker 1: second one this year. You know, it's all about giving
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  Speaker 1: the people. If they're willing to invest in me, then
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to give them the product that they paid for.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you think you connect to the black community
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  Speaker 2: as you should?
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  Speaker 1: Like I think that the black audience has been trained
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: to gravitate towards certain type of stuff. Well, you know,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: in our business we call dick and pussy jokes continue alrighty,
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: not because I think I think what happens is uh.
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  Speaker 1: We have been trained over the years to do what's
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: the move, like what's the popular thing to do? Like
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be there, so I'm gonna go, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, instead of I don't think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are willing to stand on. I like this person,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll go even if the building is empty. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they rather be a part of something bigger. People love
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of something, and I think if
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't create that fear of missing out
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  Speaker 1: like a lot of people do you know, I'll sell
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  Speaker 1: out a show and I won't show anybody. So there's
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: so the narrative is the thought that I don't sell
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  Speaker 1: out shows. And I always thought that was weird, and
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: then some like I remember seeing comments when I would
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  Speaker 1: promote shows. They're like, I don't know, if the shows
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  Speaker 1: sell out, then I might have to pull up, And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, why would that be the reason the reason
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  Speaker 1: to a show? Stuff like that always, you know, I
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: think we're always because we're the coolest, you know kids
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  Speaker 1: that were always looking for the coolest people to follow,
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  Speaker 1: and comedy ain't about cool, It's about funny, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I think once we get back to that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: celebrating the skill and the you know, the actual talent,
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  Speaker 1: then you know, comedy would be back in a good place.
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  Speaker 3: But I really believe, I really believe this. It's people
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  Speaker 3: like yourself. Right, I've been doing it long with you,
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: but it's people like yourself that I really appreciate. And
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  Speaker 3: I really believe that. Sometimes I think, will the artists
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  Speaker 3: stand up fade away? You know what I mean, because
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: it's so easy to get caught up in you know,
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: the crowd work comics, it works him and everything, and
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  Speaker 3: he's like this is this going to oversaturate the market,
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  Speaker 3: and this is what's gonna be the norm. Then it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of refreshing when I see people like yourself. I
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: was like, you know what, there will be people that
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  Speaker 3: save this art form. And it's interesting because I've heard
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  Speaker 3: underrated come to me. I just really really believe Ryan,
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: it's just a timing thing. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: I think for you, I think all the things you
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: expect you're gonna get Okay, maybe not happening this year,
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  Speaker 3: but the trajector to be on the discipline you have
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  Speaker 3: to work as have. It's inevitable that everything you think
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  Speaker 3: you should get out of it. I think definitely, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the people follow you know that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you, man, I really didn't
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  Speaker 1: have expectations when I went online to just share my
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  Speaker 1: story or whatever. I was like, oh, my fans will
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  Speaker 1: see this. But then it ended up getting like eight
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  Speaker 1: million views across platforms. I didn't That wasn't what I expected.
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  Speaker 1: I expected. I was like, yeah, I'm just I hope
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  Speaker 1: to get my money back. So yeah, I want people
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  Speaker 1: to see it. I hope to get my money back.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: But but I worked really hard on this project, man,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Like whenever I went to shoot it, my father had
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: been diagnosed with cancer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, wait a minute, I have to stop this
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a second, Wait a second. Laugh.
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  Speaker 3: My dad passed away about a year ago, and I
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  Speaker 3: had a box of what nigga, you laughed?
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  Speaker 6: Isn't that one of the most memorable clips I told you.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just saying you.
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  Speaker 5: Stories your father was diagnosed with cancer too, not.
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  Speaker 4: That, but it was just an emotional part.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, go ahead, so.
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  Speaker 1: That I appreciate your empathy. Brother. So he uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was my mom, him and my mom. Uh, they had
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  Speaker 1: never even been on a plane before and they got
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  Speaker 1: on the plane to go to Chicago for my special Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was a huge deal, a lot of like I've
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  Speaker 1: like my entire siblings, like all of my siblings, I
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: want to bait like everybody got out to support it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to see that type of you know, belief
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  Speaker 1: from my family, man really meant a lot to me.
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  Speaker 1: And you, like I said, the success that I don't
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  Speaker 1: talk about, like I bought the house that I was
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: raised in from my parents and then and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: gave my dad the deed on like Father's Day and
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  Speaker 1: just being able to do that stuff. But I think
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: that stuff isn't necessarily cool. It is cool, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it is. It is, but it's not it's not what
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  Speaker 1: we celebrate as much.
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  Speaker 6: It seems like I don't know, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's not celebrated.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we call generational wealth and the fact for
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  Speaker 2: your parents. See, I like stuff like that because it
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: encourages more people to do more right. And you know
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: the reason I talk about a lot of this stuff,
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: especially when it comes to generational wealth. Is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of times we like to show success from the call
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  Speaker 2: we drive and the jewelry we have and the watches.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm guilty of it as well sometimes too. But
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  Speaker 2: also I like to make sure that my kids collegees
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  Speaker 2: are paid for, that my kids start off with. You know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: my daughter graduated from co legit I was able to
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: buy her a home, her first home. She starts at zero.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: You know the fact that paid for my parents' crib.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Those those are the fly things to me.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Those are fly the fly.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: The Louis Vatine shirt that you got on it is cool,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: but those are the fly.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Like how emotional I can only my mom stage for
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: a cancer survivor, so I can only imagine how emotional
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: it was for you having your dad be there and
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: because it's such a people don't understand that you've been
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: through a cancer battle of like how it weighs on
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: you and how strenuous it is. But to be able
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: to bring laughter during that time, yeah, I know they
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: had to be emotional for you.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: It was huge. It was huge and uh, my father, man,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: he's super proud, Like I'll never. I'll never forget that.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: How's he doing now?
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: He's see proud black man. He won't tell you, he
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: won't tell you. We never know how this nigga's doing.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: You know, we're like, hey, can you give us an update?
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Oh no, everything's cool, So we never know. You just
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: have to gauge how it looks.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Say you're one of eight kids, Yeah, where were you?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: You're the middle middle child.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: So half of them support your half of them don't
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: funk with you.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: No, so that my family actually didn't know how successful
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I was.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Really Yeah, when did they find out?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: They went like one when they went to the special
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and saw like I sold out the House of Blues
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: multiple shows, and they.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Were like what And then I really don't have what
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: your siblings?
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: No, No, we get in a group chat every day.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: We just don't talk about money, We don't talk about
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: any none of that matters. That changed, Yeah, no it doesn't.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Christmas time we've done Secret Santa every year and they know, no,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: they know whoever get Ryan is gonna, they know what
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: time it is. So but they didn't like I did
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a show at UH in Virginia Beach. I did a
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: weekend I sold out the whole weekend and my older
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: brother was there and he was like, Man, all these
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: people here, they probably gonna become fans of yours after this.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I was like, they all paid to see me, they
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: already fans.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Damn.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: He was like, people come to see you like that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: And it's like, Bro, and I'm talking about this is
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I've been touring like yearly since like twenty sixteen. This
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: is like twenty twenty three.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: A lot of times people don't acknowledge nothing but the flash.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. It's not that people
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: don't appreciate substance. They do, but the audience that appreciates substance,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I think is a much smaller group than and I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: think it's by design, you know what I mean. I'm
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: not saying that, you know, something is wrong with our people.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It's just people love. Like when I grew up, MTV
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: cribs was a thing for a reason. Before that, lifestyles
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of the Richard Famous was a thing for a reason.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: People want to attach themselves to maybe a life they
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: can't see, and if you look regular to people, they
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: don't gravitate to it as much. I think that's probably
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the better way to put it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's relevant in our community.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: It is different. There's a difference, man.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: But like I said, to be able to be able
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: to pull a audience the black side and the white
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: side and don't lose anything like some people when they
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: do this shit, like you're like, oh, when he front
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: of a white audience.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: He's this way.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: When he's from a black audience, he's that way. But
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Ryan has ability that it doesn't matter. You don't see
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I know it sounds crazy, I'm saying the same thing.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: You don't see color. You just see a person's a storyteller.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: It's got the wit hitting you with some stuff. It's
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: just it's a totally different.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Vibe, and it's it's intentional. I don't be honest with you, man,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know before I went to Canada to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: do a run of shows. I didn't know my perspective
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: was so black, like African American black until I went
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to Canada and ain't no niggas there. There's black people there,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: but we ain't there, and my perspective was so Black American.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I was losing the audience and I was like, I
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: didn't realize that my perspective was so limited. So I
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: started to work on broadening my perspective because I don't
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: want to leave anybody, Like if I if you can't
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: follow the joke, I want it to be because you stupid,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: not because I left you out.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Culturally, that's all that comes with experiences like me coming
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: from DC. I had a very very very strong Southern accent,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: and I had to work on in the South. If
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: people we call that country from DC to New York,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I signed the country as well. And I had to
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: work on my diction because I got tired of motherfucker
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: saying what did you just say?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: So I had to work on that.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: You know, So how important you think that is for
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: you to be able to connect all across the board.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: No, it's really important. I think I have like control issues.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I want to be understood. If you don't laugh at
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: something I say because you think it's not funny, I
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: can deal with that. But if there's if I feel
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: like I didn't communicate it correctly, then you know that's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: gonna bother me, and then I want to I want
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to fix that, Like I don't know, that's just always.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That's the thing in my personal life too.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: You remember your worst show? You ever you ever got
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: booed like you remember your worst show?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Nah, I've never been booed. I always I always remember
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: my worst show. Though I invited a crush of mind
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to the show. She sat front row and I bombed
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: right in front of her, and H damn, yeah, I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: don't think i've seen her sin this. Uh, I wasn't
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: that long ago, like ten years?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Who wasn't Who wasn't?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Like sometimes the girl No, no, no, my brain is
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: somewhere else always asks this question when someone thinks about
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: doing comedy.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Who was it?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Was it somebody in your family or life that said
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: you have to do it?
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Stop making me laugh, you gotta do it.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: No, because my humor is a little different, and I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: love the art of comedy. You know, being funny in
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: a space versus being funny on stage is two different
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: skill sets. There's so much thoughtfulness to being funny on stage.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: He don't understand that because.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I think you know, whenever you're whenever you're in a
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: space with many people, a conversation is usually already happening,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: so the connection is already there. So you all, whatever
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you're going to say in that moment is relevant to
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the conversation. When you're on stage, you're creating the conversation
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and the relevancy, and it's your job to communicate it
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: in a way that makes them laugh. So the idea
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of just being funny in your day to day and
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that's going to carry over. You know everybody that's a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: that's a gift. Very few have. Donelle is funny like that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Carlos Miller is funny like that. But there's not There's
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: not a lot of people who are so funny that
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it can translate like that. I've seen Donelle walk into
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the audience. He forced the connection of one of you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: You know, you'll understand what I'm saying, yo, and then
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: he'll put He'll like it's it's insane.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: But let me ask you, you know, with so many
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: comedians supporting you, right if you listen, like you know,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I heard Kevin Hard and Charlemagne do an interview, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I've heard Kevin support you, you know, support you. I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: guess verbally, do you feel like there should be more
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: support with comedians where they actually help because they have
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: other opportunities Because you know, we all see what's going
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: on with Netflix and some of those other things.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: But they do. They do. I think the conversations aren't
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: had a lot. But Dave Chappelle, whenever I put it
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: out or whatever, he texts me. He's told me before,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: you know, if I need anything, I can reach out.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: When we did when fifty was opening he did the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: big show down in louisianas the Shreveport I was like,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: literally in Dave's green room and he told fifty, if
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you're working on something comedy or whatever, this is one
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: of the better comedy writers of today. You need to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: book him to do something. Those things do happen, you know.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I like, have you written on shows? No, So whenever
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: a time came for me to write on a show,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Aaron McGruder actually had reached out because they were working
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: on something, and I was like, man, the opportunity to
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: work with the creator of Boondocks would have been crazy,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: but it got shelfed, so I didn't get the opportunity.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, now.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Man, he is reaching out.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like so with my special I got it
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: as a one time by because Patreon is a subscription
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: based and I don't want nobody to feel obligated to stay.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: But the people who get the subscription you also get
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: my talk show. Slash podcast is coming, Kevin Hart's gonna
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: be on that, Charlemagne's gonna be on that, Jill Scott
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: method man a lot. There's a lot of support from
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: entertainers and they agreed to this before that video even
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: came out, you know what I mean. And within the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: industry there's always a lot of support in people, but
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of us artists aren't decision makers, so they're like,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: what can I do that, you know what I mean.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: They can use their popularity and their platform to draw
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: more attention to you, but at the end of the day,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it's still on the decision makers to make that decision.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, the decision makers didn't pick me,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: but the people did, so let me do. I'll put
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: my own money up to give the people what they've
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: been asking for.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: And you know, with that add to it's a slow grind,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: but it's still a grind.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: It's like, you can it's easy for it. You be
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: like this, oh I want to do, this is gonna blood.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: But I think the path that you're doing, how you're
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: doing building relationships with some of the top people, being
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: respected and being funny.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Like I said, the.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Success whatever success you, it's already my opinion, it's already
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: mapped out. It's going to happen. You just got to
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: stay the course and it's everything's going to fall into place.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know what story because I don't laughing.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: No, I'm telling you something.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: It's so hard for me to laugh at the motherfucker
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: And I didn't want to laugh, right, I'm like this,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: but it was just like, man, it was just seeing
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: you perform. It was a breath of fresh air man,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: especially from seeing so much garbage, and like right now
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: the biggest thing now. And I'm not knocking anybody doing
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: the crowd work, but I remember when I first started
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: that wasn't respected that side of comedy. It was like
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I did forty five minutes, Yeah, but you did thirty
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: minutes worth of crowd work. But now it's a different thing,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: and it's hard. It's so refreshing to see somebody like
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: it's up because it's easy. You can't tell these young
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: guys that have the following, you can't tell them to
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: work in their craft because it used to be if
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: you want to pussy, if you want the money off
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: of this, guess what.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: You had to do. You had to be good.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You had to be good.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Now you don't got to be good.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: They got me the money, they getting the accolades, They're
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: getting the money before they good, and it's hard to
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: tell him you should work on this. And was like,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: you know, I just made three hundred thousand on Instagram. Yeah,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: they don't have that. They don't have the thing to
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: make them want to be better.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And that was I didn't want to fall into that.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to fall into that. Like I even
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: monetized my social media late. I remember a lot of
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: people were like, you're not monetizing, you just missing out
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: on money. I was like, I don't want that to
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: be my motivation.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Put that first check you is easy.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: No, Yeah, when you get when the money that come
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: from social media is dumb, it's really dumb. But I
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: didn't want that to be I wanted to be one
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of the best, and I didn't want I'm gonna tell
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you the story that bothers me so much is the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Bernie Mack story. Why he like he doesn't have that
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: hour special because he was at a time where you
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: had to be picked. Yeah, and they wouldn't pick him,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: even though he was so popular amongst us that he
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: would sell out theaters and that other comedians like when
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: we when you can look at def Comedy Gym view
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Bad Boys of Comedy, comedians up doing impressions of Denzel
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Washington and Bernie Mack. Denzel Washington was our biggest star,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and the other recognizable voice within our community that people
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: wanted to do the most was Bernie Mack. And he
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: still wasn't picked. It took him dominating on Kings of Comedy,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: which he wasn't considered the guy, you know, industry wise
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: before he really got And I just like I wish
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: that he had the opportunity to self produce because that
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: one stand up is really all most people have it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not exactly the same, but it's some similarities. Like
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: even with the testimony you did, was like this, okay,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: how come what he did was eventually he showed.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: In the numbers. Yeah, he showed the numbers.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: This is this, this is this? How does that translate?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: And somebody foually that got I think I forgot who
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: was the showrun? He finally connected with the right crew
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: and then they saw it and he basically was like
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: this this what to tell you, motherfucker.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but I think it was like cracked me from wrong.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: All of that fight shouldn't have happened because from the
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: minute that he mic, we knew he was the guy.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: And you actually had a quote I wanted to actually
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: if you still felt this way. You said, fame hasn't
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: cared about talent for.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: A while now, for a while now, and I don't.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: But this is the funny part. They moved the goal post.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: They moved a gold post. Fame hasn't cared about talent
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: for a while, so but now they don't even give
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: opportunities to the famous. So it's like like, what do
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: you do? Like you can be really like what are
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: they looking for? Are they searching for anything? Because you
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: can go I'm really like, I'm really skilled, I'm really talented,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: or you get Nah, we're not giving it to that
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: right now. And it was like this person has a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: bigger follower than you, will give it to you. Well,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: this person has a bigger follower than them. Yeah, we're
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: not doing followings right now. It's like it's like, what
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: is the criteria I would look, I'll do I'll do
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the work necessary to let me know where the I
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: think that's one of the most difficult things just for
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: us within this space is if you set a criteria,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: we'll hit it. But when there's no criteria, now you
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you have us like waiting on you to make a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: decision on us. And once I realized that, I was like,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not waiting on nobody.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: No more about with you and Kevin Durant, Why are
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: you Kevin Durant got upset with you.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, Kevin Durant. So, Kevin Durant loves to go back
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and forth with people on social media. And you know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: we had a difference of opinion, and I'm cool with
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: difference of opinion. He said, he said offense wins championships,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: which is not a saying, has never been a saying
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: in any sport. Yeah, and that's what we disagreed. And
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: then he called me a trash comedian. And that's when
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I knew he was familiar. This is what I'm talking about.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: It's certain words, the in word in comedy.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: It's like, it's hard to go back to trash anything whack.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Those are fighting words in the way in the world
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: of comedy that you roasted.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The man's just horrible. Trash is trash trash. That's how
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: my whole day went. Like if you like, you know
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: people now they set up, they try party. You see,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: they show with how they do that. If that, if
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that had done that, all you would have saw is
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: me like sitting at the trash everywhere.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: But that's what But that's I said. But if you
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: know you funny though, it's like.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's why I think. I think he didn't know.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: That's why you felt like, yeah, I had to show
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: him he don't know, and let me let me show you.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Show you something. I like that.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: But the thing is, like, y'all asked me about that,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: why do you take it so personal? It is the
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: trigger trash Cordy in Whact when when Kramer went off
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: at the last factory that year and he just was
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: flowing down, you know what triggered him? Somebody, Yo, you
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: ain't funny, That's like, what the fuck are you talking about?
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: And especially when you know you know you're not trash
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: is so sensitive?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: It's not comedians. Let me tell you something sensitive, y'all. Y'all,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: y'all ignore when everybody else is. You gotta remember Erica
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Badu said it best keep in mind, I'm an artist
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and I'm sensitive about my ship.
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: But I thought so many shots though, So I feel
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: like y'all moved from sensitivity.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I just I don't feel like I was
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: sensitive in that moment. I kept it basketball. I talked
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: about basketball and that he said I was a trash
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: commed he said that he made it personal. I would
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I kept it basketball, but I was like, since we
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: want to get personal.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: You want to be finding, you want to.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Be Yeah, you want to step into my arena. Let's
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: let's see how you fair. I can't beat you in basketball,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: but I promise you I'm way better at this.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Like you said, well you you put it in one lesson.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Certain comics aren't like you, like y'all fuck with everybody
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: like your style. He's not a style of comic that's
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: going to be like trying.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: To roast certain people like that.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: You got Michael Blackson, perfect example, Michael Blackson, and I
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: love him. He's a provocateur. He's going to push the
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: button and he's going to cross the line. But it's
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: like a person like Ryan, person like myself. They don't
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: cross the line. When people come at him like that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: It is I know it's easy for y'all say why
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: y'all take person because this is our shit man.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is the crazy part when they say
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: people take shots. Michael Blackson is a good example. Michael
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Blackson is roasting you with love. I run into him
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: in the airport. He's like, what you doing in here?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You ugly nigga? And then be like, Yo, were about
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to go to Ghana in a couple of months. You
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, let me know if you've available,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna fly you out. I'm gonna show you some
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: stuff where I come from, like in Africa. You know
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: what I mean. That ain't somebody who hate you.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: He just he just loves I had him on my
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: podcast and it's so funny. A lot of people don't know,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: like what he did in regard to his village during
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: that school and I was like, wow, I know you
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: look at him and he talked. I'm like, why isn't
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: this being celebrated, And a lot of people when I
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: passed a lot of people saying I didn't even.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Know about it.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know. I think people just look at
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: because I know what you're talking about.
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: But like when you got y'all are like, we look
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: to you guys for relief a little bit, and I
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: know you talk. There was a sitdown that you did
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: where you talked about how comedy, especially black comedy, is
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: kind of like the relief for a lot of like
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: traumas and different things. And when I watched that, I
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: was like, Okay, I kind of get what he's saying,
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: and maybe that's why I don't see Like for me,
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: I look at you, it's like, Okay, you're the funny guy.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: So when you're being upset about something, it's like, why
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: you upset, You the funny guy.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Or when you're responding, it's like, no, you're the funny guy.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Just be funny. But it's like you're our relief. So
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: it's like it's hard for us to see y'all as
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: anything but that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Sometimes, and that's messed up that y'all don't see us
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: as people.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Smokey Robinson, people say I'm the life of the party
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: because I tell a joker too, But take a good
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: look in my face and you see I'm frowning. We
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: as comics, as much as someone going to the show's
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: therapeutic for them, is therapeutic for us, and the best
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: comments are the ones that whatever they deal with life,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: they know how to go up, go on stage and
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: talk about things in trouble in them.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Right on my special I talk about I talk about
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: my relationship. I have a fractured relationship with my mother.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I talk about that.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: I talk about that must have been difficult to do
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that in front of him.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Oh what like she she had something to say, but
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: she was there, she supported So I always love her
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: for that.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Fractured relationship.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Man, whenever, especially in our community, the woman the matriarch
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: of the family. You know, she can do no wrong
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: at times, and then she does do wrong. You gotta
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: have that grace. You don't ever disconnect from your mother.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And I made the decision not to really speak to
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: my mother for several years.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Oh that's tough.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I talk about that in the set. You
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. The mother of my children almost died,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you know, carrying our children. I talk about that. I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: talk about That's what I'm saying. I turn those those
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: things into levity. I talk about race, I talk about
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: political correctness, I talk about relationships. I talk about everything,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: because there aren't spaces for that. I talk about suicide.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I talk about. And I think people don't realize because
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: if you don't go to my shows, you don't know
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: they've been. There have been many black men who walk
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: up to me and go, you know, I have a
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: kind of a fractured relationship with my mother and there's
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: no space for us. Nobody's talking about what it is
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: to be a black man in that space, to look
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: at the woman who created you and not feel the connection.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: That's the person we want to love us the most.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: You know. The people who don't feel that love, where
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: do they go for levity? And that's what I try
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: to provide.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: But do you give a grace?
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Right? Oh? I give her grace?
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: And I say that is you know, we came up
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: in the ever where, you know, especially black families, it
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: was mind your business, a kids, stay in a kid's place,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and they didn't show emotion. They didn't talk about their bills,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: they didn't talk about none of that. You had to
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: figure it out when you figured it out, right, So
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: you have to give her that. Like my kids are differently.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: They know everything that's going They know when daddy got
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: a bad day, daddy having a good day. They know
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: when daddy get a big check. When that they ain't
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: got no check. They know everything because we're more I
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: would think we're younger parents and we're more relatable. So
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: as long as you're giving your mom.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I had to give her grace because my mom's super young.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: My mom had me as a teenager and I wasn't
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: even a first child, so you know, understanding, I had
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: my first child at twenty six and I wasn't ready.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: So having my third one at like seventeen, you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even imagine what. You know, she never had
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: a chance to become an adult before she started raising
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: children of her own. Was your mother trafficked? No, she
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: was married.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: I was on stage the other day and I really
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: do the stage. I realized that my father trafficed my mother.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: What what is happening?
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: What did you want to talk about it?
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Like, not whenever your mom got traffic tell us about it?
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: No, this is your show.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: But your mother had three children by the age of seventeen.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Four by nineteen by nineteen Yeah, so was your father
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: a lot older? Was it? He's older? Yeah, he's older.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I talk about that in the special.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: What was that dynamic like for you? Though?
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: Just because I mean the relationship ended up fracture, but
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: like coming up and your mom is growing up with
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: you with three other kids for other kids, that was like,
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: that was your sister.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Was like when you see her as mom, that's mom
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: because she we weren't raised like she's. We weren't raised
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: by grandma like my parents were married, they raised us together.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: It wasn't until you get to like you get to
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: become an adult, like I'm thirty eight. My mom was
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: thirty eight when I was twenty one and I had
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: older siblings. That's crazy, that's crazy. That's when I started
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: to see how young she was. Before it was always
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: that's my mom.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: Club and actually see your yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Man, listen, no, yeah, but she my mom is I
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: and I deal with It's so funny because now because
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't deal with the stuff that she dealt with,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: it's like I'm more mature than her now because she
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: never got a chance to mature. She had to be
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: that fourteen year old girl and then turned mom and
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: then never really got the chance to grow us up
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: because she had to focus on everybody else. And at
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: times now I feel like I'm older than her.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: When she came and saw you, was that her first
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: time hearing the jokes about your relationship.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but I've talked about our relationship on podcasts
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and I never said what exactly was or whatever she
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: did because it was you know, that's between us. But
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the thing is she won't admit to it. And there'll
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: be people who watch this who know what I'm talking about.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: When you confront your parents about what it is or
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: what trauma they brought to you or what they did,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and it's not that you're saying you're a bad parent,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: this is my experience of you. And then the first
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: thing they'll say is, also, I was the worst parent ever. No,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be here if you were a bad parent,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't purchase the home and give you that.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: You know, if I thought you were a bad parent,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't praise you the way i'd do if you
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: were a bad parent. This is where I feel like
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: something went wrong in my development and I just want
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: you to see what's happening to me. I'm coming to
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you because I'm trusting you. This is still me being
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: vulnerable with you. They can't register it like that you're
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: taking a shot.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: I have a daughter, How does that affect the relationship
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: did you had did you have with your mother? How
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: does that affect the relationship? And you're raising your daughter?
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: So my I have a ten year old daughter, seven
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: year old son. So what I realized is because my
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: parents wasn't affectionate, and I felt like I turned out okay,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: that there was no need to give my children that
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: kind of affection. You know, I didn't deem affection necessary.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what in Korean culture because I was stationary.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: That's Korean fathers. They have no emotional connection with the kick.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Their only responsibility is to provide and protect all that
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: I love you and everything they are. Korean fathers are
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: the toughest fathers to have period.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was really like that. My son, you know,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: he's very affectionate, he's very sensitive and things like that,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: and I was just like tough up, blah blah blah
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: blah blah. But I'm like, he's going to the person
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: he believes will protect him, and he trusting with these emotions.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here going get over it. I ain't
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: even realizing what I'm doing to him. I'm drawing a
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: line of disconnecting with him. He doesn't feel safe around me. Now.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Is that because of the relationship you have with your father?
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Is that passed on the generations?
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: No, man, my father was my dad. Oh my god.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: If you have older parents, your parents still here, you
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: might have seen this from your father.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: You have father's dad.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, sorry to hear that. Yeah, Dad, I love you,
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: See you when I get back to Charlotte.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: So my dad, y'all got your fathers all in your life.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: No, it's not a flex man. Yeah, it's not a flex.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: So, I mean my dad halfway and half way, y'all
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: depends on today.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, stop rubbing this. So my dad, he wasn't
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: very affectionate and I and you get older and you realize,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: you know, I remember how my grandmother was, and I
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, he probably didn't get a whole lot
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: of affection either. But my dad is super affectionate now.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: He says I love you all the time. He calls
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: to see how you're doing, any cares and all that stuff.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: He a completely different nigga than the nigga I grew
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: up with, and that took a while for me to
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: get used to. Like he would go, you know, he
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: would say I love you, over the phone. I'd be
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: like everything, okay, we're good. Yeah man, yeah, But grandfather
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: he'd be like, gone, my dad was he didn't do
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: he didn't do it like that. But now I'm so
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: like I kissed my son and my daughter every time
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I see him, hug him every time. We can't get
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: off to you gotta we got it. Exchange I love
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: you or it's not. So it's up to you to
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: change it. It's up to you to recognize these things
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: because your your parents did the best they could, whether
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: you believe it or not. Even if you like, well,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: they could have done better what they couldn't see how
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: many of us actually see the things that we do
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: that we're messing up. Somebody from somebody has to tell you. Usually,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: somebody has to tell you how they're experiencing you. You
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: don't get to tell people how they should experience you. Absolutely.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: How do you want your kids to see you?
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Oh? I want my kids. I want my kids to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: respect me, and I want my kids to be proud,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: and they're not. They're not proud of me.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you you I don't know. Once you
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: voice something.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: But no one else said they'll be proud they'll be
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: proud in the next couple of years.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you why. Similar to you, my kids
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: they know they hit me on the radio, but they
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: don't know what it is.
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: They don't know what it is.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: When people take pictures, they like, that's just dad. Still
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: not popping to them. But when they see me on TikTok,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: so be with other people, don't I'll be like, see
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: me like when they see me on TikTok and the
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Man Yo.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: When Kevin Hart was on here and he said my name,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: I showed my son and he said, why does he
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: know you? I was like, he was like, but he said,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: casanat casanatus cool and like I when I had done
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I had done TV movies and stuff like that, I'll
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: put it on the TV screen. It didn't mean nothing
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: to them. They saw I had a large following on YouTube.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, my dad is really somebody. He on
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: YouTube with a lot of followers.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: It was sol for me. When I did this character
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: on Soul. My son was like because the characters made
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: it to and that's how he got to get McDonald
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: happy meals every week because that was the toy thing.
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: He was like, my dad was in soul. And I
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: remember when when the Happy Mill discontinues that Dad, I
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: got a happy meal a day and I wasn't.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Really happy You're.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Not there no more than that's when he went back
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: to not fucking with me.
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: Before y'all get out of here, this is I'm changing
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: gears because I really want to hear your opinion on this.
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: So I was just this is breaking right now, not breaking,
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: but a lot of outlets are picking this up right now.
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: Eddie Murphy, he's a part of the No call Sheet documentary,
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: number one on the call Sheet documentary, and he talks
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: about Sidney Potier telling him to not do dramatic roles
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: in movies and to lead that up to like the
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: Denzels and things of that nature. I just want to
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: hear how y'all feel about that. Just hearing it, I
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: can give you all more context my personal.
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: Opinion on it.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: If someone tells me what I can't do or shouldn't do,
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: that's gonna put the pack on me to want to
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: do it. And especially you can't understand Sidney Poitier's thing
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: on that. But you never know, like how Eddie wanted
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: to start, you know what I mean? Comedy might have
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: been the thing that he connected with it, but at
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: the same time he might have been wanted to be
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: considered a more dramatic actor opposed to like a comedy actor.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Stay Ryan, I think if he takes that advice, we
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: don't get Jimmy Early from dream Girls, and what a
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: shame that would have been. You see what I'm saying,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Like you can, you can respect the greatest who ever
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: do it. But just because they're one of the greatest
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: to ever do it doesn't mean that they won't set
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: limitations on you. And it's on you to not listen
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: to those limitations. Thank god Eddie Murphy didn't listen to that.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean that. That's my first thought
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: is you know, and Eddie Murphy to me, is the
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: greatest talent to ever live. I've never seen anybody more
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: talented than that in all facets, That's what I'm saying.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: I've never.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: He said he turned down that they were putting together
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: a Malcolm Ximell's be and he turned it down because
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: he had basically had been in conversation for it and
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: he was talking to Sean was like, Hey, what do
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: you think about this?
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: And after that advice. He was like, you probably won't
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: do it.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Yep, And that was and that's sad. But I think
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: when people try to set limitations on you, they're thinking
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: about their own. As great as Sidney Poitier is, he
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: probably was thinking about He probably thought that there were
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: you can't imagine. I don't think people can imagine a
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: person like Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy is unimaginably talented. He's
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: literally a parrot. He can mimic anybody's voice, he can
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: mimic people's singing voice. But then he's talented within his
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: own right. Like his stand up is magnificent. His movies
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: are blockbusters. Saturday Night Live, he showed you I can
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: dominate sketch comedy and do that animation. He's Mushu and Moulan,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: He's Donkey and Shrek. There's no avenue that he has
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: not dominated. He has hit records like, yeah, I understand
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: telling somebody to be you know, realistic. I guess that's
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: what you know. Maybe Sidney Poitier was thinking, but Eddie
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Murphy doesn't fall into that. Neither does Jamie Fox. I
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: don't think a guy like DC young Fly falls into
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that category. Is some people in this world who are
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: just so multifaceted and mostly talented that you actually limit
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the gift they could given to the world when you
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: tell them to stay in their lane.
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  Speaker 5: He said that Sidney said to him, you're a brother
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: for fresh air, and don't.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: F with that. Yeah.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: And then also that's a matter of opinion too, you
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: have to subscribe to a Yeah.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: No, I think I think it was it was done,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: and I think he was looking out for him. I
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: don't think people realize how how close you are from
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: a bad movie from being forgotten or a bad performance
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: from being forgotten. It happens, you know. I think also
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: you got to think about in Sydney's time, he couldn't
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: take a risk on a roll because if it didn't happen,
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: it was it wasn't a space for him to come.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: Sid did an open mic involved, right.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: So you gotta But I don't think like even Kevin
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Hart came up here and said the exact opposite, you know,
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: when he was talking to my generation of comics, he
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: was like, don't make your main thing your only thing, right,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: you know. So that's I just think that's the evolution.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: That resonated with that part resonated with me. That was
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: like loud and clear.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: That was clear. I thank you for that.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: That was That was something that so many people and
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: there's so many different lanes and so many other avenues
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: that you can do. I remember, want to remember they
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: used to do the Mixed Type Mixed Tape Awards, yep,
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: I remember, and you know those crowds used to be
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: rowdy as hell and run run DMC.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: He run it.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: I mean those mixed tape boards. They'd be like, yo,
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: fuck you get out of here. I never seen nobody
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: when he went on stage he commanded that order. They
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: got completely quiet. Then he was talking about hip hop
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: and he was like, hip hop is not just about
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: being an MC. Hip hop is creating fashion. You have
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: hip hop lawyers and they don't just limit it to
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: music just MC just behind the scenes. I remember one
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: time it was a quote from method Man. Mehan Man said,
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: I'm tired of being a chump in the front. I
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: want to be the MAC in the back. And what
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Kevin said that it kind of all of those things
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: resonated on what you can do in this business.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: And I hope whenever you know, me putting my money
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: behind my own projects and I will do that for
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: the rest of my career, whether anybody chooses me or not.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: I'm always work towards my passion and I'm not gonna
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: let anybody slam the door on my on my dreams.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: But I want to inspire my peers to do the same.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Not just do the same in their own career, but
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: come do it with me. Let's go, let's go make
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: some stuff together. You got something you're passionate about. Let's
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: put our money together, Let's get it done. Let's just
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: get it done.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: You know you're in our community. Easier said than done.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why it's easier said than done.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: In our community. Black people love credit. They love credit.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Like like you said, the method man said, you want
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: to be the mac in the back. Not a lot
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: of us want to be the mac in the back.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Like me. If I did a movie about my life story,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: people would expect me to play myself. Right, what if
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: there's a better actor than me for this role, I'll
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: move out the way. A lot of us won't move
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: out of the way because we want credit. We rather
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: our face be on the front of it than giving
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: people the best product possible. And that but that comes
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: from I believe just we go through life in our
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: community without getting the credit we deserve. So whenever we
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: get the opportunity to get it, we want all of it.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: And we can't move like that whenever we're wanting to
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: be creative. So I just hope that this inspires people
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: to go look for it. Yeah, go look at the audience.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Go look for people you because when you think about it,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: some of the most popular people don't even do stand
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: up the people you deal the point if you really
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: want to enjoy stand up comedy, there are people a
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Lei Sadik is killing it, you know what I mean?
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: You know you got people like name Lyn, you got
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: me you know even the way. Yeah, and you just
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: gotta you gotta go search it because they're not like
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: in music, they used to have artists development that we
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: just don't have that no more. So it's up to
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the audience to go find us.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: But where can they find you? Where can they find
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: your comedy special underratio? If they want to see it paid.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: For, go to You can go to my Instagram, right,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: but you go to Patreon type and Ryan Davis, it'll
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: come up. Just go to Patreon type and Ryan Davis.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: It'll come up and if you want to see him live,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: he's performing at the Gramercy Theater on April.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Twelfth in here in New York.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: That's right, And we appreciate you for joining us, and
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: thank you Donnelle for sitting due. Donnell's actually gonna be
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: at the City Winery this weekend. So I appreciate both
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: of you. Brothers man, thank you, thank you for donaver Stadase,
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Charlamagne and just without today.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but can I I don't even think Donnelle even remembers.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: But when we did, uh we did the Laugh Factory.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: He was hosting. I wanted to close. Shout out to Lonnie.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Lonnie is a tough judge of comics.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, we had so many beasts in the day.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: But yeah, she loves you, and that was the thing.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: She was like, I need somebody to close. I was like,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: I can close. She was like I don't know about that,
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: and then I was like, nah, let me, let me
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: do it. And then I got there and Donnelle was hosting.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that's probably why she so. But
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: the show it was like me Donelle, miss pat JJ Williamson,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Seawan Jones. It was it was like they were bringing it.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: And then I did the first show and the second
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: show when Donelle brought me up, he said, there's some
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: people in this game that people don't know. They're like,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: you don't know who they are one day and then
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: the next day they're one of the biggest comedians. I
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: think this guy might be one of them. Wow, you
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: probably don't even remember, but that's how he brought me up.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, I proved the Donelle
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: that I'm supposed to be.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it was like for me because it's again
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: that three years ago.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because I'd like, it's whatever.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: People want to say that I know talent when when
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: I see it right and that room, I mean, the
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: thing that impressed me the most. People could go up
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: there and they can have a good set, but it's
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: the way he did it, the subject matter, and you
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: could tell it was somebody that didn't do the easy route.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: It's like, this is who I am. And the level
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: of confidence. I was like, that's a bad motherfucker. And
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: I've seen people they're going to these spots and they
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: feel like they got to perform a certain way. They've
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: seen this guy do that. That works for him. But
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: the ship was so original. That's why when you say underrated,
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, who's rating you?
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Well, they don't know, That's what I'm saying. They want me.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Being underrated speaks to if I was rated properly, they
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: would talk like you talk right.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well definitely go check it out for yourself so
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: you can see the brother, Ryan Davis, and again, thank
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: you for joining.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Us, you for having men down there.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: Thank you brother.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, and you see down there. We ain't make
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: no booty jokes today. Nothing.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: I missed the movie. No, no, no, it is Ryan Davis.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club. Good morning, thank you about now.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: The Breakfast Club.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: H