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Joy Taylor and Lil Rel Talk Eddie Murphy, Confidence and Comedy · Two Personal with Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: I think pages are man made birds.
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  Speaker 2: Cultural history is very important to the times as well.
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  Speaker 1: The gobble of male strippers. You know how crazy that is.
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  Speaker 2: I firmly believed that we need to bring back a
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  Speaker 2: little pop in the mouth every once in a while.
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  Speaker 3: I woke up like the beat It video you move
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  Speaker 3: Michael jests together with in the bed like this.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I know my audience is people that hate
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  Speaker 2: my ass. I know exactly who is consuming my content.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate y'all. I appreciate the engagement. Hey guys, it's joy.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Too Personal. Thanks so much for joining us today.
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  Speaker 2: And today we are talking to my friend Lirel. He
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  Speaker 2: is an actor, comedian, director and producer and his latest
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  Speaker 2: comedy special, Reil Talk, is streaming on to Be and
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  Speaker 2: he has a Christmas movie out with Miss Tabitha Brown.
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  Speaker 2: You can see Unexpected Christmas in theaters, and I loved
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  Speaker 2: our chat and here is little Row. All right, My
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  Speaker 2: next guest is a man of many talents. He's a comedian,
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  Speaker 2: a writer, an actor, producer, director, husband, father, very busy man,
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  Speaker 2: very busy man, and his latest comedy special Rail Talk
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  Speaker 2: is out now on to be And you can see
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  Speaker 2: Unexpected Christmas, which I will be watching because.
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  Speaker 4: I love a Christmas movie co.
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  Speaker 2: Starring Tabitha Brown in theaters. Lil ral Howardy, welcome to
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  Speaker 2: Personal Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite things to watch.
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  Speaker 4: So sure, thank you. Thank you. What a high compliment.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm a fan of you, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's very It's just fun. It's fun because like
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  Speaker 3: what like if I like when I see you out,
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  Speaker 3: we just start having instant conversations about sports.
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  Speaker 4: There's a whole party going on. We're like, well, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, like.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but you are definitely a Chicago guy.
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  Speaker 2: And actually the last time I saw you, I told
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  Speaker 2: you I loved the short that you were in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you said you went to Yeah you
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  Speaker 1: went to the Field film.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, actually, Marcos you were with me the Short.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry, the name is escaping me at the short.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you can put me on the spot.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I forget the name of it, but it much.
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  Speaker 4: It was just forget it was really it was so
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  Speaker 4: much fun, a really really great I love short films.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, we'll cut that out and okay, I live
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  Speaker 2: if you want to keep a dish. I loved the short.
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  Speaker 2: Well he just does some many things. But yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: saw we loved it.
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  Speaker 4: We Marcus and I.
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  Speaker 2: Saw that together at the at the festival. It was
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  Speaker 2: and you are your Chicago guy, and so okay, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: This is my take on the Chicago pizza and I
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  Speaker 2: will not apologize for it. Deep dish pizza is pizza
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  Speaker 2: soup and I that's just the truth.
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  Speaker 3: That's only one type of pizza is deep dish. I
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  Speaker 3: think every time somebody talk about Chicago pizza, they only
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  Speaker 3: go with deep dish. We make our slices are better
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  Speaker 3: to me because they put real meat on it. One
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  Speaker 3: thing I hate about New York pizza is that everything
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  Speaker 3: is flat. Everything is not supposed to look like a pepperoni.
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  Speaker 3: A sausage does not look like a pepperoni on New
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  Speaker 3: York pizza. That's what it looks like on Chicago pizza.
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  Speaker 3: They put real sausage on it and that's why it's good.
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  Speaker 4: But everybody doesn't eat sausage though.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we put real cheese on it, like you shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be able to fold a pizza slice.
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  Speaker 1: I remember watching fake pizza, but you know.
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  Speaker 4: And then all the oil drips out, and then you
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  Speaker 4: know you're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Get square, you know, had them cut it in the
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  Speaker 3: squares and you enjoy some pizza.
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  Speaker 4: But you like that, you like the puffy pizza though puffy.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's like when somebody described Chicago pizza, it's always like,
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  Speaker 3: it's not puffy pizza.
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  Speaker 1: It is what pizza supposed to look like.
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  Speaker 4: If you party pizza.
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  Speaker 3: Pizza in Italy, yes, actually, which is crazy, Yes, yes
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  Speaker 3: I have, and that's it interesting, like but it's not
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  Speaker 3: that was really good, right because everything in Italy is good.
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  Speaker 1: Everything like they serve here is none close.
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  Speaker 4: They make it different ways in Italy too.
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  Speaker 3: No, they make it different, but I can't argue something
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  Speaker 3: that when they made it.
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  Speaker 4: It's theirs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'm saying, like not all pizza in Italy
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  Speaker 2: is the same. No, Like I mean and it's was
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  Speaker 2: different than the pizza in Rome. But Chicago pizza Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we can agree with that deep pizza is not good.
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  Speaker 1: I say it's not good. It's just not the only
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  Speaker 1: type of pizza.
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  Speaker 2: But every time that comes from Chicago, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: pizza soup, and I think I won that argument.
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  Speaker 4: So that's that's that's the start of the show, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So we we really start to show with a like
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  Speaker 2: a personal question or fun question from the bowl.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll start with that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I will answer it with you as well. So
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  Speaker 2: you're not alone.
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  Speaker 1: Which conspiracy theory do you low key believe?
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  Speaker 4: Damn?
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  Speaker 2: This is easy for me, so I allow all my
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  Speaker 2: friends to have one conspiracy. Once you get to two,
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  Speaker 2: we can't be friends anymore because you're doing too much
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  Speaker 2: on the internet and you don't have enough work.
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  Speaker 4: On your hand. But you are allowed one conspiracy theory. Damn.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you might have to go first because I
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  Speaker 3: had to think this is a this is this is
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  Speaker 3: a question, like you really have to think about it
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  Speaker 3: day before because I'm not like a conspiracy.
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  Speaker 4: Have you never ever allowed someone to swap? Would you
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  Speaker 4: like to swap?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Because now I want to I want to. I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: I know, let me think about this, because go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Birds are spies for the government.
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  Speaker 3: Well okay, so here we go. I recently talked about this,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't mind following up on this. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think pigeons are I think pigeons are man made birds.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a conspiracy theory, man?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of a lot of defending of
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  Speaker 2: pigeons recently as well. I saw an actress recently, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Polsam was depending defense. She said, well, because they're skyrats.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, everyone knows they're skyrats. And she was saying
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  Speaker 2: that they were actually really like empathetic creatures.
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  Speaker 3: They like they were made, they were they were program
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  Speaker 3: them to be whatever they want them to be. I've
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  Speaker 3: never seen a baby pigeon a day in my life.
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  Speaker 3: I never seen a pigeon egg like this exists.
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  Speaker 4: The pigeon egg. That's a great point.
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  Speaker 2: And they deliver messages for us, that was like their
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  Speaker 2: their their purpose, Like you send pigeons, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: deliver messages. Birds don't even really fuck with us like that,
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  Speaker 2: So why are they always around the pigeons.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen only a few of them, like maybe that,
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  Speaker 3: but it had to be something happening to them, like
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  Speaker 3: somebody had to like run over with a car. But
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  Speaker 3: it was still in the same form. You like other stuff,
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  Speaker 3: get flatten, not a pigeon. That's weird you.
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  Speaker 2: So okay, So we have the same conspiracy. This is
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  Speaker 2: a conspiracy theory. People are going to be like, you
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  Speaker 2: guys are weird.
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  Speaker 4: These are birds.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're bird man made bird they they they're not
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  Speaker 3: like regular like a two can. No. It's kind of
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  Speaker 3: interesting because nobody's ever like accused anybody of cooking pigeons
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  Speaker 3: like it's a it's pigeons just stand alone. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of them in Chicago. I don't know why
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  Speaker 3: we have so many pigeons in Chicago. That's why I
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  Speaker 3: was in Chicago a few months ago, and that's why
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  Speaker 3: I started having this ideal about this. I was down
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  Speaker 3: town Chicago, was a bunch of knits. I went to
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  Speaker 3: what are my favorite restaurants? Uh uh Jjfish.
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  Speaker 4: You know they got the lemon peppers whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So I went to JJ Fish and it was a
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  Speaker 3: gang of pigeons just chilling on the corner and I
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  Speaker 3: was just like staring at them, and it's looking at
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  Speaker 3: how much they don't care.
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  Speaker 1: And not scared of humans, And I'm like, yo, are
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  Speaker 1: you'll even real.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you, I'm so glad to buy you to
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  Speaker 4: my side on this. They're not They're not. They're there's
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  Speaker 4: they've been set here just by on us.
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  Speaker 2: They're reading our messages, and I think they've evolved into
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  Speaker 2: full on like spy robots.
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  Speaker 3: They don't die like I feel like growing up, I
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  Speaker 3: saw the same group of pigeons in my neighborhood my
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  Speaker 3: whole life. I could recognize who the pigeons was. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is how, this is the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: how people fall into these loopholes on the Internet. It's
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  Speaker 2: it's been a pretty wild it's been a pretty wild
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  Speaker 2: couple of weeks for the Internet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so much going. It's always I
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  Speaker 3: feel like the Internet is always wild.
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  Speaker 4: Do you spend a lot of time online?
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  Speaker 3: That's interesting. I think I do without knowing that I do.
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  Speaker 3: You know how some people intentional go looking for stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I don't do that unless it's like stuff I'm really like, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the random stuff I read is like I
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  Speaker 3: like to read Deadline articles. I do that all the time.
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  Speaker 3: Or I like to go to watch like sermons on YouTube.
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  Speaker 3: Uh I did, Like you know, I like to watch
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  Speaker 3: old basketball highlights or like just watch Sometimes I like
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  Speaker 3: to watch random NBA beefs, which is so weird to
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  Speaker 3: be like, I'll do it, like why can't Martin Teresa
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  Speaker 3: McGrady don't like each other?
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  Speaker 1: And then I want to see why, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what the.
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  Speaker 2: Urgent story that's nostalgic though, because there are no beefs anymore.
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  Speaker 1: No, it ain't, and that which is why.
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  Speaker 3: Like like when I did the movie Uncle Drew, one
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  Speaker 3: of the first courses I asked Reggie Miller was like,
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  Speaker 3: why you and Michael Jordan was so angry at that
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  Speaker 3: one game I got into that weird fistfight be cause
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  Speaker 3: they was like they look like they hated each other.
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  Speaker 3: And they both tell two different versions of whatever that
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  Speaker 3: story of which is pretty hilarious. But when you watch
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  Speaker 3: the thing back at the hearing of the stories, you're like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, both y'all are like y'all started it, you know.
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  Speaker 4: What I mean? You're both have fault.
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  Speaker 3: You're both kind of have fault at it, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's really interesting. I like diving into that. It's it's
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  Speaker 3: very weird.
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  Speaker 2: But as a comedian, do you have do you feel
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  Speaker 2: like you have to use the internet for research?
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  Speaker 1: No, not for me.
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  Speaker 4: Where do you get your material life?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, if you watch any of my specials
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  Speaker 3: over time, it's all been life stuff. It's never been like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is topical.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes I jump on things if it's something that stand
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  Speaker 3: out to me and I can't stop thinking about it.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, I don't do a lot of topical stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Are you very political?
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  Speaker 3: Not really, but like if it's personal, then you know,
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  Speaker 3: I guess most politics, but I don't take all politics personal.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I might sound crazy to say,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't take everything personally. I think sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you got to look at people for who they are,
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  Speaker 3: especially politicians.
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  Speaker 2: Man, the fangirling of politicians has been one of one
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  Speaker 2: of the more irritating developments as a as a country
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  Speaker 2: that we have gone through.
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  Speaker 4: I find it.
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  Speaker 2: Very weird that grown adults are groupies for politicians.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's weird to just to overly rock star
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  Speaker 1: a politician.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a serpent they have a job to do.
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  Speaker 4: That's really all it is.
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  Speaker 3: What That's what's interesting about, which is why I'm saying,
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  Speaker 3: is like, you know, I look at somebody like like
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  Speaker 3: finsive with all the craziness of what we have nowadays,
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  Speaker 3: as we see as Republicans, you actually end up like, dang,
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  Speaker 3: John McCain wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: A bad guy.
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  Speaker 4: We did. We did John McCain terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he really he really based off what we say
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  Speaker 3: an American hero is. Yeah, that brother was and he
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  Speaker 3: was respectful. He was never disrespect with to Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 3: He knew they were running for whatever they was running for.
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  Speaker 3: But he's like that ain't got nothing to do with
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  Speaker 3: personally who this brother is. We just don't agree or
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  Speaker 3: how to do some things. He said that type of stuff,
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, dang, we went into this Democrat prisident
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  Speaker 3: mcculliqan thing we might. I wish he would have ran
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  Speaker 3: against somebody else because the brother was John McCain would
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  Speaker 3: have probably been a really good president boll He.
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  Speaker 2: Was certainly a great candidate, and he was somebody who
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  Speaker 2: like at least surfacely cared about the country and he.
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  Speaker 1: Was a real war like a full before like a
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  Speaker 1: real one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, like, yes, I don't know. I think like
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  Speaker 2: I think politics, along with kind of everything else and
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  Speaker 2: how we speak to each other has devolved into place.
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  Speaker 2: And it is due to the Internet in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ways, where we just everything is very polarized either
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  Speaker 2: this or that.
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  Speaker 4: And it keeps switching.
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  Speaker 3: Because it was a time where like the Republican Party
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  Speaker 3: was supposed to be for the people in a democratic
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  Speaker 3: like this, unless people don't really do their homework on
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  Speaker 3: history anything, right, and so because which is weird because
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  Speaker 3: you have to Internet where you can look any you
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  Speaker 3: can look the truth up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, but we also live in a post truth society.
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  Speaker 2: So I like to do this just principally as a person.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have very many principles, but I do like
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  Speaker 2: to stick to a few that I have remaining. And
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  Speaker 2: I recognize that I am a trained journalist, like I'm
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  Speaker 2: not practicing, but I know how to look something up.
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  Speaker 4: I know how to report something.
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  Speaker 2: I know how to say something live on air without
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  Speaker 2: getting reprimanded for lying or you know, getting sued for misinformation.
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  Speaker 2: So I know how to find things that are credible.
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  Speaker 2: I know how to say something so that even if
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  Speaker 2: it is not, it's alleged. It can be said in
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  Speaker 2: a way that I'm not liable. So I like to
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  Speaker 2: know what the truth is. I don't want to base
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  Speaker 2: my opinion other than birds on nonsense.
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  Speaker 4: This one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm smilid too, because alcoholic for me. I like journalists.
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  Speaker 3: I either well, I mean nowadays I kind of use eyepassed,
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  Speaker 3: but I used to love seeing people who have papers
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  Speaker 3: in their hand. Like people who don't have papers in
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  Speaker 3: their hand, don't trust them.
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  Speaker 4: Where are your notes?
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  Speaker 3: Where your notes? You ain't got no pen? You got
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  Speaker 3: to be to cross something out? Okay, just going off
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  Speaker 3: the dome.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy, it is, it is, it's really
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  Speaker 2: I think it's research is very important, but I do
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  Speaker 2: also realize that everybody is not equipped to do proper research. However,
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: because we have done away with shame, people don't feel
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  Speaker 2: any shame when they do when they're saying something is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so embarrassed when I when I say something it
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  Speaker 2: turns out not to be true.
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  Speaker 4: It's the worst to me.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm like, I told something to somebody something and
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  Speaker 2: they're like, actually, it turns out that ain't what happened.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like fuck, Like I hate I hate having to
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  Speaker 2: hold that out, but that's that's because I don't like
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  Speaker 2: being wrong about things, and I just don't think people
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  Speaker 2: really care.
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  Speaker 4: That's real. I mean, like, but.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the tout about sports journalism.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I'm a big sports fan, so watching
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  Speaker 3: watching what we experiencing now because we have a lot
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  Speaker 3: more athletes doing everything, like I honestly, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if I should say this, but it's almost like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I like people who enjoy what they're doing, like enjoy
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  Speaker 3: what they're watching. Like you know, although I love Shaq,
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  Speaker 3: Charles and Kenny, I am legitimately tired of them because
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  Speaker 3: it don't look like they like basketball No More.
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  Speaker 4: Kenny.
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  Speaker 3: I can't stand for this, like they they literally they're
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  Speaker 3: just they don't even feel like they watch the games.
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  Speaker 2: Well sometimes they be sleeping, but but that is.
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  Speaker 4: The best show on television.
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  Speaker 1: It is not not no More.
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  Speaker 3: It used to be, but it's not like it's almost
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: like I think that's why you have to understand to
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  Speaker 3: like rotate things like I love watching you know, me
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  Speaker 3: and my brother was just talking about this, like I
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  Speaker 3: enjoy watching Dirk no Whiskey. Oh of course, because and
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  Speaker 3: Jamal Crawford to just I mean, look at Hube Brown, right,
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  Speaker 3: And this is why I think it's At first I
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  Speaker 3: used to think about maybe you get older.
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  Speaker 1: I just think they just tied to just.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: How old is Hubie? What do you mean?
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's the point of saying that was Hubie
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: still loves the game.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I love to still hear hub Brown talk about basketball.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: Because he has one hundred years Yeah, but he still
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: likes it.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: So at first when I was trying to say it's
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: because it's aging, but it ain't. It's like he just
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: loved a game. I like people that love the game,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: like that love stuff that they talk.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: I love people that love their job. Period.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, there's nothing more pleasant than interacting with someone who
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: genuinely likes what they do.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Now, it's not about the money.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: The problem is a lot of people do a lot
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: of this stuff, especially entertainment, for the fame and the money,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: not because they enjoy it.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: That's I mean.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Watching Eddie Murphy's documentary was so man, I open it
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: to me because you really hearing from somebody who genuinely
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: love what he does, and it was never about all
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: the other stuff, which is why he never did drugs
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: or drinking, none of this, because.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: He was already doing what it's actually enough to do
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: what you love to do.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: And a lot of us don't know that until we
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: really start loving ourselves and really looking at life from
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: a different perspective the way Edi saw stuff at a
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: young age. I just start seeing that maybe the last
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: few years.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: What has been your your journey in the business in
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: that way, do you feel like you feel differently about
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Hollywood and about comedy and just the process now than
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: when you started.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: No, it's not that I feel different about the process.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: It's not even Hollywood's fault. It's my own, like kind
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: of just dealing with my own like what fame and
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: making all this money and what all that means at
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: some point, and I think for me, like I had
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: to stop participating this stuff that made me not be
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: present for all the great moments I had since I've
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: been doing this. Sometimes you're so scared the rug gonna
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: be taking from under you, you kind of don't pay
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: attention to stuff. So you you know, I've had I've
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: been drinking two years, but you know, and I look,
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: that's just me. Everybody else got their own journey, But
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I was doing it most of the time because I
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: was so it was so much.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Anxiety in these moments, and I didn't know what to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: do with that.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Because you once again, either you have that you know,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: imposter syndrome, and you also like, dang, do I deserve
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: this because you know where world where I came from.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. So the last few years,
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I've loved myself so much. I've been so present. I've
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: been really enjoying myself.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Were you ever drinking when you were on stage?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: I did early on, but honestly, I just started drinking
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: till I was twenty one. So a lot of stuff
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: I started doing was when I was in this business.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: It was stuff I was like I'm never doing. I've
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: never done drugs, thank god. But yeah, but drinking, Yeah,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: that that. And then I stopped for a long time
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: drinking on stage because I want to be present, because
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I saw it like kind of messing with my energy.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: I was still drinking, but I stopped drinking on stage.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: So you felt like drinking sort of numbed you out
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: of what you were to experience.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Because look, I say this, like once again, people I
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: know people who function. Well, I abused it because my
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: intention on drinking wasn't because I was just enjoying it,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, trying to escape.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Yep, where were you trying to escape from that?
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Like honestly, and this is where I'm at now. I'm
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: just owning it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: But like.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: The imposter syndrome took over a lot of the time,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: So especially when I because I didn't drink heavily until
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: like I was around I started thinking, maybe that's how
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: everybody else do it. You start being in that thing too,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: because you're around all these different people you look up
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: to and.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: You see how they move and doing things. I'm like,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: this is crazy.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: And then like you know, I think about like my
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: rise was pretty you know, you know, I did comedy
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: stand up for a long time. But then like you know,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: once I got you know, the Sketch series and Carmichael Show,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: didn't get out it, it was like people pummum and
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: so more or less, the the persona I created for
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: myself was only.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Like fed through drinking, you know what I mean.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Like I created this persona to protect myself and do
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: all this stuff, but then it took away from the
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: experience and almost could have ruined everything, you know, so man,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: you know, honestly, go to therapy really is what changed.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Every day.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh, let me talk about all this stuff
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I buried down. That's really important for me to stop burying.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: And every time it would come up, that's where because
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I didn't drink at home, I literally only went out
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: to drinks. So you imagine like thousands, Like especially with
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: the BK, I had enough buddy to pay for it.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: It was unlimited. Yeah, so I was getting it free
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: and I could buy it like.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: A what do you feel like you were suppressing? Man?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Like you know, I think I didn't properly agreeve my
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: mom's death, I think, and so I kept like trying
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: to figure out ways to deal with that pain.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Death happened like kind of back to by. I lost
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: my mom and I lost my metal other. And then
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: at the same time, I was going through a divorce.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: So I was going through like I failed in this marriage.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: And you know, can I be a good dad?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Would be in a distance, like it was so much
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: going oh and just to just to me do the jobs.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Most of the time, I felt like I couldn't be
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: as present because I would have to think about all
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: the life stuff that was happening at the same time.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Were you talking about these things.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: In your Yeah, I mean like it was different, Like
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I talked about divorce. I made all of it funny,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: which is that's another scary thing. Is like the tears
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: of a clown thing. I know how to make it humorous.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: But it was more passions. I'm not processing it all.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: But but honestly, comedy is what kept me alive because
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I'm like, if I couldntvin some of this stuff, that
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: would have been even worse.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like comedy because of that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Can keep you in a dark place? Nope, it saved
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: my life.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Think about the people who don't go to therapy, who
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: don't do any of that stuff, so all they have
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: is is the substance abuse. Yeah, comedy at least, like
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: let me get it off my chest as much as
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I can.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Like some of my funniest sets.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I remember when I went, like cask Is shopping for
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: my mom to get a cast because I'm the oldest
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: and I had to do like the responsible stuff and
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: my uncles with me. But comedy showed up at the
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: most saddest time, and something hysterical happens, and then I'll
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: go on stage that night and just talk about it,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: like comedy saved my life.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I'm talking more about like the environment of comedy and comedians.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: No, I think we try to blame that, but no,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: because I mean if you think about that, you think
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: about the environment of just this entertainment industry. So it
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: ain't just you know, comedy, you know, even like with
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: hip hop stars and different things, like some dark.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Corners and some places just dark for you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Like, it's not even that you participate in a bunch
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: of stuff.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Man, I tell you watch this Eddie Murphy documentary on Netflix,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: because I think it's some powerful hearing this. First of all,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: we don't get a lot of people. A lot of
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: people haven't survived enough to tell their own story. And
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: the only reason he can do this is because of
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: decisions he made. Yeah, And so hearing this legend who's
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: done things to open up so many doors, so many
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: people who lost a lot of people too because he
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: saw people they a lot of them. Catch that's legends
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: to us. They all came up at the same time.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: You think about the eighties and the nineties, is when
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: we started seeing black people thrive and Eddie met all
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: of those people and saw people come and go, saw
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: people self destruct, you know. So it's really I don't
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: know this. This is a I mean, the last few
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: weeks has been very interesting, just you know. I mean,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I got a chance to meet Eddie and he said
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: something to me that I'm still processing.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: But what do you say?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: He So, Eddie Murphy is the reason why I do this.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: I don't do this without watching Delirious, you know. And
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: then Keen ivy WAYNMS with Living Color, and then Robert
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Townsend with Partners in Crime. But those three guys are
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: just to imagine. So I meet Kean ivy Ways when
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I do the Living Color reboot. I was casting on
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: that and that's a whole, crazy, great story. But I
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: got a chance to be with one of my heroes
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: who hand picked me, and that's crazy. People don't know.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I wrote a show called Name Your Adventure. They used
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: to come on NBC when I was like eight or
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: nine to be on that show. To meet everyone used
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: to be on Living Color. Everybody else was writing adventures
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: to surf and do stuff. I was like, I want
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: to be on Living Color. H And the first letter
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I got to understand how TV works.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: They was like, hey, yo, man, keep dreaming because the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: show was canceled, so we can't name you.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: We can't help that. Up'm like, damn cancel What that means?
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: My dad explained to me, but that couldn't happen. But
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: then I ended up meeting them, you know what I'm saying.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: And then after a comedy show in La one day,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Robert Towns in literally on how with bull of right
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: because he was leaving the show. That's whe the show
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: was at that theater, and he was like, man, you're hysterical.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: That's one of my heroes. And I got a chance
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: to be friends with Robert, now, you know what I mean.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: And then I went to the Eddie Murphy premiere for
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: the documentary and uh so, I mean, look, I've been
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: to other premiers with Eddie, but you know, we never met,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: so I didn't expected anything, but you know, and then
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: it's crazy because I was trying to wait till the
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: next day to watch the documentary that came out at midnight.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I woke up like the beat It video, you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Michael Jesson got up in the bed like this, I
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: got a twist there I gotta watch this documentary. I
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: couldn't even sleep, and so I watched it before you know,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: we had to go up to the premiere next day,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: and so I was excited to see it again. But
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I was like blown away by it, and and I went.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: When the premiere was over, I guess Eddie had just
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: came for the bathroom to go back to the seat
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to grab his wife and family and stuff. But he
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: was standing there, so people was walking out, so he
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: kind of couldn't move, so he was just shaking everybody
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: hand as they was leaving.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh man, I'm getting closer to Eddie Murphy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And I had a wifey's hand. I'm like, oh my god,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I am I about to like meet Eddie Murphy. And
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: you know, I get to him and I shake his hand,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: like man, that was great. He's like, thank you brother,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: you know, and I don't think you do all well.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I was okay with that. I was like, man, that's fine.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I got my handshake. And then Rich who is Eddie's cousin,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: saw I like, what's up a lilareal. Eddie's like, Lorel, man.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: You are funny, man, you are so funny.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: And I was like, I whispered to wife, You're like,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I got to go out there before I start crying.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's like Michael Jordan telling you you're good
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: about But that's part one of that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: That was enough of me.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I could have went home, but she's like, yo, let's
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: go to the after thing. And I was like, all right, cool,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: go to the after party. And she's like, oh, Eddie's
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: over there. I'm like, he don't usually come to these things.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: And I was like, let's just walk over that way,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: and so we kind of walking towards there, and then
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: he was like, hey, man, I'm serious.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I'm serious about what. You're hilarious.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Man, You're funny and you're a great actor.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: So I'm just staring at him, like what cause I
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: didn't expect to hear my hero even though who I'm
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: still proud.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I honestly, it's hard for me.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Tell the story because I'm still like emotionally processing this,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: like every time. I like, I've probably teared up about
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: four or five times in the last six days, like you know.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: But it's like that is legitimately the style of comedy
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I do and know a lot of people.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'm Adie Murphy fan.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: See the way Kobe studied Michael and did all that craziness,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: which I used to think Kobe was crazy because I
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: was Michael Jorge fan.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Like, who is this young dude trying to be exactly
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: like Michael Jordan.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: He got the celebrations and everything. This is insane. But
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: that's I'm like that with Eddie. If you watch my specials,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: the way I for man had to tell a joke,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: it's based off Delirious, is explained what the scenari and
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: instead of just telling the story, you act out every
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: character in that story. And that is how I do
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: stand up. That is exactly I do it exactly that way.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: And so it's a lot of very specific things I've
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: done over time because of my heroes that nobody know
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: intentionally that I did. So when he said that to
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: me and then he repeated it, because after that, I
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: was like, well, brother, you know, if it wasn't for you,
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: He's like, no, no, no, he ain't got nothing to
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: do with me.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: You're great comic, you're a great actor, man.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: And I was like, so the whole time is like
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: a little video be just kind of like being awkward.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: You know, are you normally good with compliments.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm good. Well sometimes, I mean, you know, sometimes.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I'm terrible with compliments. People could be kind of.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Because you don't know if it's genuine sometimes unless you
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: start having a real until you start telling me a
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: real fact about myself, then I'm like, oh, okay, I
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: think that's.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: The real fact about yourself. Then you well, it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Might be like if you say you like my acting,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I want you to tell me what you like me
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: and to believe it.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: It's like it's like.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: If I I walked up to you a couple of times,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: like man, I love what you do, Dad, and then
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: we just start talking sports and I'm asking you questions
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: not knowing I just want to hear you giving me
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: your your taken person.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Like like she really got these stakes.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Giveay to take da Daddy go. That's what I love.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: And so you know, it's because I'm a fan of people.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: And if I say that, I mean it. So I
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: love to be like, this is what I saw you.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I loved you. It is da da da da.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: And so for Eddie to say that in a way
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: he said it, it was like it put another battery
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: in my back first of all, and it was just
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: full circle. And I'm a man of faith, so it's
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: just like, man, God, you so intentional because that I
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: did not expect any of that that night. I was
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: just happy that I was invited. I'm invited to stuff
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: all the time, but that was different to me.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean, like, that's what I'm saying.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: I guess it's like Michael Jordan's saying that you're good
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: at basketball. Yes, Like that's some people, especially younger people,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: do not understand.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Who Eddie Murphy is.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Like if you haven't seen those stand ups, if you
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: didn't know how powerful Eddie was at that time, Like
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: what you're this is the equivalent I was. Everyone thinks
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: that it's it's Chappelle, and obviously it's generational, right it is.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: But that's why I'm saying, it's Eddie, it's Jordan's.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Eddie is And you know what's crazy, He's a part
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: of that, like Eddie, Michael Jordan, all of them in
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: the early eighties. Yeah, magic, every Eddie Murphy is a
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: part of all that craziness.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's yes.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: You know, and we're talk about it. Looks well, I
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: would like I would like in Chappelle to Lebron and
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Eddie to Jordan.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: That's one hundred p which is why I'm Kobe. I
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: don't care what nobody said. I know y'all got y'all
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: fans or y'all fans. Uh rewatch my specials someday and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: see exactly how I did that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Did that do something? Did him sing that to you?
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Do something for your And I know you're so processing
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: it because it's just hoping, but did it do something
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: for your imposter syndrome?
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: I was already It's funny, I was already in this
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: great place I am. I mean to the last few years,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I really worked on myself, Like this is the happiest
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I've ever been in my life. I'm so happy. I
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: mean like it's a reflection on you know, just everything
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I did. I did, mind, body, and spirit. I really
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: worked on everything. And so it was really confirmation watching
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: the documentary that I.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Was on the right path. And I'm like, oh, I.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Get it now because once again I was just talking
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: to my hero, Robert Town's. Then other day I I
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: literally talked about meeting Eddie Murphy and I'm like, do
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: y'all understand like I said, Robert Furial though, if y'all
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: didn't exist, you three my heroes, Keenan, Eddie, Robert, it's
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: a lot of things that wouldn't have happened. It's a
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: lot of people that we wouldn't even be introduced to.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: And he was, Man, I love Robert always rushed me
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: off the phone, and I love being on the phone.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Sometime we be on the phone for like an hour
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: and a half and he's telling me the story. He's like, oh, man, man,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: get some sleep.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I ain't gotta go to sleep.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: You can literally keep telling me these stories because it's
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: really fascinating how all of them was a part of
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: this thing.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: They influenced generations of people.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: And it's not just in the field. The field they
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: end was just how they started. Yeah, it was in
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: flu with you to everything for pop culture, some movies, comedy.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: We don't get a halftime show without a living color. Yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: the super Bowl halftime show would not be what it
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: is if it wasn't for a Living color.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And Living Colors stole those ratings. The next year they
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: had Michael.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Jackson, Well, this year it's gonna be the what is it?
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: What's what is it the America first or what's that?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: What are the weird people doing? The fake halftime show?
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Is that a real thing? Oh yeah, they're gonna do it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: But who they get the white people? Who's going to
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: perform the potatoes sour raisin? This halftime show? Is it called?
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: I don't we don't even need to get them. But
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I know they're doing it. That's interesting.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna do well. Benito, where do
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: you think comedy is? What direction is comedy going in now?
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Because I feel like it's it's changed in a lot
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: of ways. How you break into the business has change.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: You've got like creators now you kind of have like
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: TikTok comedians.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, people be funny.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: As hell on the internet, but I don't know that
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: it always translates. Like I always say that I'm hilarious
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: in real life, I'm not as funny on the internet.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: I agree with a lot of comics right now that's
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: been talking about this, we talking about earthquake, has said this.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: I think it might like like a lot of the
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: big names like, look, you're not a comedian unless you
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: go on that stage real and and take the craft seriously,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: if you just doing it on TikTok and do it videos.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I love all that stuff and I think it's great,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: but that is all that is. You're a TikToker. You're this,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: that's what that is. It's not you're not a comedian.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: So you have to go on stage in front of microphone.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: And do some original stuff because a lot of the
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: stuff that's like just think about it. Let me let
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: me say this, like I cause I love a like
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I think about like Drew Ski, all the guys, Dessy Banks,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Country Wayne, It's a gang of people I love, be Simone.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, just hilarious and so it's
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: a lot of people I love. But I do agree
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: where like you know, maybe it's a different term we
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: got to come up with because you know that's that's
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: not what a comedian is.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see I can see that, like maybe
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: a comedy creator or something.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't call Jimmy Kimmel comedian.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Well he's like a host to me.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: But that's what I'm saying, we could easily. The way
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: we've given that to the TikTok is why we don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: give it to him. He does a monologue where he's
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: telling jokes. But would you could tell consider him a comic, No.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: Exactly, but I would consider it like.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: I'm a TikTok comedian. Whytch, you put this hit this
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: pot over my head? Who want to come see me live?
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Cara Top has made a career
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: of that.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's still a comic. Though he's still mix
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: it in with jokes, he is using props.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want I don't want to disrespect Carrot Top.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And he's been doing it a long time. He's got
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: a he's got a Vegas residency, he makes lots of money. Yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I mean I think it's I think it's kind of
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: like everything is in that space now too, because sports
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: gets a lot of this as well, where.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: People are kind of.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: You know, hating on the creek, on the sports creators,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: and you know, for a long time before a podcast
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: took everything over, everyone was like, oh, you're a park.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: You know, you're not an analyst your podcast.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: So there's always like some some resistance from the old
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: guard to whatever is changing in the business.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: To me, I tend to agree with you.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I think that there is a difference between someone who
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: can stand on a stage and tell jokes in a
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: room and make people.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Laugh and I still accept it to what even with
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: the you know, the sports guys like I like, I
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: think we just have to stop trying to define things
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: with old definitions.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Yes, let's let's be okay is yes.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the space has changed and there's there's different ways
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: people consume things like a stand up To me, someone
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: was talking about this the other day about just doing
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: stand up comedy.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I was like, just it's like one of the hardest
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: things to do.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: It's like hitting a baseball in in the Major League,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Like to be a professional stand up traveling comedian is
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: so hard as somebody who speaks for a living. People
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: have anxiety about speaking in front of groups. Now get
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: up and make people laugh, and get up and don't
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: make people laugh and then still continue to do it
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: after Do you remember the first time that you that
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: you bombed?
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I member a million times I bombed.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: You know, you have to bomb if you try and
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: new stuff, not for real like we talk. But once again,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: that's that doesn't exist.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: It's like a bomb bomb are you just try to do?
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: You mean those people could be at some of these
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: bars and they want to watch the game and you're
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: doing stand up, like, no, it has happened?
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Is it happened?
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Plenty of times, especially when you try and new stuff.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: You go into all these different rooms, but you know,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: the chilling circuit don't even really exist like you used to. Man,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: you had I performed at some random I did a
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: baby shower before, but that's that was a part of
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Did you do baby shower jokes?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I don't even remember what I did some of that
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: stuff you freestyle, like, let me see what the moment
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: of this me being in this living room is.
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: In a living room and a baby shower. Yeah, you
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: were hired to do that, or I got fifty dollars.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: Just wait. Someonm was like, you're you do comedy, so
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: come do comedy at the baby shower.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: At the time, my mom was friend that is who
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: also went to our church and say he was like
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: managing me for like two or three weeks. One of
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: the first gigs he got me was the baby shower.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: That's listen, you can't say you can get out the mug.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I've done it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I've done I've done stand up at the craziest places.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Like I don't think you can beat a baby shower.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: You can beat it where man I've done, Like, look,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: I'm open for male strippers.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: You know how crazy that is.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: They just do all these male stripper reviews or whatever
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: you call me, mister G's and Chicago crowd.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Full of women. I warm it up.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: I guess whatever they you know, there was all themselves
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: up back there. I come in to tell some jokes
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: to they was ready. Hey, y'all ladies, y'all read it.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Keep it up for these brothers who about this.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: There is nothing funnier than the male review.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Though it is, but it's like it's so far I've
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: been would do it though, Like I would never hang
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: out the locker room with them because like watching a
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: bunch of brothers like I've been wanted to just go
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: into the bathroom and seeing what.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: To do stretching because you know, they were a weird
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: tassel thing. They like stretching with all the oil.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, doing booty cheeks practice, like making their cheeks. I'm like, yeah,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: I got another band from here. I don't want to
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: be in a locker y'all.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I went to what is it Chippendale's in uh In
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Vegas for my bachelor at party, and actually I had
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: gone before because they had.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: One in Miami at the Old Mansion. It was your
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: bachelorette party.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I well in Miami it wasn't so I'd
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: seen it before.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: And then we were you you were married before.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, I'm the worse. Okay. I was like, damn,
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: what did you call it off? After day?
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Like yeah, yeah, a lot of time actually, like a
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: lot of people don't know that I was married. It's
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: actually it works out for me really well online because
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: people like to say, uh, they like to come to
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: the conclusion based off of my opinions and what I'm like,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: that's late for that.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Your theory is debunked.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so the male you it's actually like very funny,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: like it's hard. I don't know, like for me, it
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: was hard to like take it seriously.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: That's Chippingdale's the hood strippers, the brothers.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: They don't it's like a show like they brought up. Yeah,
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: he brought out a motorcycle and he was like doing.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Like the motor motorcycles its brother doing vest. You get
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: just a vest tho he started to vest and them aunties.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: Let me say I some of the it was people moms.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I was like, hey man, your mama was thirsty in
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: that bro Like, oh so it's like that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: You I know what you're talking about. You're talking about
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: the other. No other, I know what you're talking about.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: It you're not talking about Chippingdale's calling it, yeah, calling
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: it a.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Male revew Okay.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Do they go into the crowd, Yeah, okay, then that's
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: not what you're talking about.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Is some different.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Shippingdales and stole what they were already doing with the Hood.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: It made it light hearted, That's what I'm saying. Brothers
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: did that was wild.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: They have like they have coordinated dances.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: They can, but not no, not not like no, not
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: like the Chippydale's day, but like, like, you know what's funny.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: We've seen magic mic the movies and all that stuff
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: based up that nobody's ever did it about these Hood brothers.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: I know what you're doing these lounges.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I'm saying, somebody's getting bent over in the lounges. Yeah, yeah,
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: that's not happened in Chippingdale's. They might bring one woman
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: on stage and like do a little cutty Chris Brown thing.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: That ain't what you're talking about.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of it's a little more sweaty. It's
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: a lot.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: It's it's actually like only doing only did two of them,
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: because for me, it was it was a lot to
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: see literally these older black women. I know, I've seen
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: it like church visits in they're losing and it wasn't
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: It was just the thirst, the thirst of it because men,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: we try to be kind of cool when strippers doing anything.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: You know, you alays get one of two that's doing.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: It's because you guys like yeah, put it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: On my lips, like, oh, come on, that's because you
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: guys think they like you. We know, we know that,
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: we know what.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: This is about. This is for tonight, This is right now.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: I got thirty five seconds and so he moves on
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: to the next tip. I'm gonna get mine. That's mean,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: y'all are in there like maybe if.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: I'm cool enough and you're not.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: That's not true all the time. Okay, I'm just keeping.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Okay occasionally occasionally, but we are different.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Mind math to that.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: It's a math to pull in the supper Canada.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm married now, I can't tell about.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: This about I don't know if we want to go yeah, definitely.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, so you did a baby shower, you did you
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: open I still don't understand why a comedian would be
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the opening.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: Up for that.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: You talk about like most comedy shows are full of women,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: so getting them to laugh, warming them up, like you
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: got to have a host.
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess you would have a host. Yeah.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Now like a lot of times too if the person
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: who hosts those things all the time, like they kind
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: of don't have nothing to warm up with. They like,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: let's get somebody to do do a ten minute so
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: easy money.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, So baby shower male review. That's a gentle way
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: of putting it.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: I mean I've done some.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: I've done the you know, the female stripper joints too,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: for female strippers, because females, you know, when it's women's strippers,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: it's more of a mixed crowd too. Sometimes women that
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: come see women dance, you're not gonna necessarily see most
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: brothers coming.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Out of the ladies.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Back in that time. This is like we talking about
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: like early two thousands.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: So you opened for women's.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Strippers when I we's a review. So this place called
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Mister Jesus is a do it for everybody? Like it
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: had it like where they could do it for women.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: That's off of that's in Beauty and Black.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: No, that's a strip club. See you don't get it.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Like Chicago's a different.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: I know, I've never heard of a place.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Like it in some places that they hire know about
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: strip clubs, about the step below strip clubs.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: That's what's interesting.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: This is why I find fascinated about, Like people love
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: to put all the craziness with Hollywood when I'm like
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: fam in the hood. You know they're doing all this
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: freaky shit too, doing everything it lounges.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: In the hood, the lounges be No, it's I'm confused
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: as to what you're saying here.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: So what you're confused about?
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: What I'm confusing? If I'm going to a strip club?
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: I have seen the Movie Players Club. Yeah you've seen
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: the Movie Players Club.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, So imagine like people hiring these strippers who may
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: work at a club at other venues outside of just
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: a strip club. It's like throwing a bachelor party when
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: it's not a bachelor party.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, so you gotta be really funny then not really,
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: it's a good crowd.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Like these are people who come to comedy shows anyway,
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: they're not different people. You think these are different people
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: that go see strip These might be the same people that.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: Saw me last week at the comedy club. The strip club.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is and it's not the strip club.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: It's a review okay, so male and female reviews.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: I feel like that's a lot of those wives that
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: that got away with coming to that because they didn't
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: know it wasn't a strip club.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: This is a very this is a very specifically titled
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: we're just going out with the girls time.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: So this is why ladies Night has a bad connotation,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: because we're just doing classy things on Ladies Night.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because now it has a weird difference. Imagine when
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: they first started this stuff, the stuff you can get
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: away with, we.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Can get away with nothing now because everyone has phones
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: unless you are.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: I mean they probably like but nobody's going If you
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: think about it, who's really your women always smarter than me.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: I think some you know, thirsty dudes might do stuff
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: you don't tell them not to, But I mean I.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Feel like everybody is cooked when it comes to the phones.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Now, that's depending on what generation is at these things
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: like older generation.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Gener like the iPad holding the iPad.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Up taking pictures.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Very lucky that I am of the generation that I
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: am from because I was born in eighty seven.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: So I in eighty seven. Damn old. No, don't know, No,
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: not old.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I'm old. But I was born in the seventies.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, so ten years old? Ten years old than me?
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: No, seventy nine okay, so you're not even ten years
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: older than me.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: I'm not old. Who young?
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Young?
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: And who? How do you brother? It's a good age, man.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: I can't wait till fifty. I'm actually excited for forty.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: That's good.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like as you've gotten older? I mean
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: obviously so you did a lot of work on yourself.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: Do you feel I don't less they compel, but like
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: I think, I don't like to speak on men's business.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: But you know, women, we do like to have open
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: conversations about therapy. We you know, at least in my
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: friend group and with you know, the women that are
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: close to me, we have pretty transparent conversations about you know,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: checking each other, you know, checking on each other, holding
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: each other accountable if one of us isn't taking care
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: of ourselves or something like that. And it's not coming
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: from a place of critique or hate. It's actually coming
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: from a place of care.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: I think we in a good place. Me and my homeboys. Man,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: my boys are call my friends like we do talk
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: now for real. It ain't just like hey, let's go
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: watch sports and then maybe I'll bring this up.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: But like, no, have you aged into that? Yeah?
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: I mean because I had to start working on myself,
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: had to be comfortable. You know a lot of us
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: still grew up in that, you know, the older generation
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: where this stuff was taboo. But you know, I just
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: know how more healthier that is to have these conversations
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: with my friends, my homeboys.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: So I do, I really do.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: And you know, you know a lot of us are
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: raising sons and and so that's very important to make sure.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: And it's interesting because the the younger generation. My oldest
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: son is fifteen, they already have a better mindset. Man,
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: you know, my kid and his friends. But like they're
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: not like I'm like, dang, we was a lot more
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: creepier and weirder at our time, y'all. Like they like
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: be like, no, Dad, that's wrong, and it didn't okay,
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: So this is really interesting.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: But man, like I love that now that me and
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: my homeboys happening some real, real, real heart to heart conversations,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: and it's I feel like for a long time everything
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: would have to be like we also were watching the game.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: It was always all about that.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: It's funny. Most males try to have those conversations. They
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: literally meeting to watch the games just so they can
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: have somebody to talk to.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: But then you got the environment got to be open
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: to it. Because somebody was.
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: Like, man, shut up, man, anybody killed, but oh the
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: we need to talk about our wives and life.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: It was like, yeah, that's crazy man, Yeah the Lakers
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: win today.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Just no, I mean that's true. I think like it's
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: it is a generational thing as well. I joke that
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: our generation gaze the next generation therapy water drinking water. Uh,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: and we cut down on the cigarettes, like we those
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: are those now. I don't know, you know, we got
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: some other things we still need to work on as millennials,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: but I definitely think we have passed that.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: I mean even homophobia, Like the teenagers see that they
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: look at that, they're not like they look at all
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: that so different than what we did. They're not They're like,
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: yeah's gay, so Oh yeah, you.
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: Just tryed like it's just it's just so casual.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's the point now, I don't know, it's
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: as new as the I don't forget what they called
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: it furries or something, but like like kids, they like
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: act like the animals and they just accept it, and
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what, it's just a lot going on furries is.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm from Pittsburgh and for the National Furry Convention
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: That was new to me, man I as I have.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: I have quite the whites. Boy got on pajamas. Well
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: because he's a lion.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: I'm like, oh okay, okay, yeah, I have a solid
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: very education from it being there once a year of
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: the furries just descend on on Pittsburgh.
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: No, yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: That is that's definitely an adjustment that we've given them.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: And beating our kids. We don't. I don't think people
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: beat their kids anymore like if we were our kids.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: It's like we really probably really fighting them, like you
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: want to fight me back. I mean, I'm not just
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: not just like whoopings. You know a lot of that
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: stuff was passed down from you know what I mean,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: So like no, I never been a whooping dad. But
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: then you do have to figure out what your authority
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: thing is with them, you know what I'm saying.
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And then every kid's different.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: I have no children at also, I have no authority
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: to speak on this soever, but I I do think
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: those are like the things that we've adjusted for or
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: at least open the door to have real conversations about
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: with the next.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Whooping and is totally different, you know what I mean.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: I've had both frequently.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Do I remember actually the last time that I always
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: say beat, like beat my ass, but like it was,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: it was a there's a variety of things, so whatever
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: the last time that I got a whooping, we'll call
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: it that. And I remember it specifically because my mom
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: clearly had realized I had aged out of it. So
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: she had had a day and she was taken a bath,
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: as moms do, and you know, you can't open the
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: door for nobody, so she went and that's that's her piece.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: She's gonna go take a bath, and she was like,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: don't open the door. I don't care who comes to
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: the door. I don't care if it's your father. Don't
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: open the door so I can go relax. She didn't
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: say the last part, but now being older, I know that.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: That's what it was for.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: So she's in the she's in the sub and we
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: have one one bathroom in our house now also house
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: as old as old as fuck, so you can do anything,
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: you can hear it. The neighbor kid. We got all
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: of our clothes from hand me downs in the neighborhood.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: So the neighbor kid came over with a bag of
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: hand me downs from the girls who live next door.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: I wanted to go through them before my sister did,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: because my sister and I had to share everything, so
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: if I.
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: Can claim like one or two good pieces, you know.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Before she got on it, it was up, but I
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: couldn't open the door, so I was like, I'm a
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: sneak it. So I like slowly opened the door. He
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: started talking. I'm like shit, straight back, He's like, what's
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: going on?
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: It's like a drug deal? Shut the door all quiet.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Soon as soon as I locked it, Joy, I just
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: already like you she ain't getting out the tub, so
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: it's like a it's a later.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Whooping, which is even I thought you get one on
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: water whooping.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I was I was too big. I was like,
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: I was probably like twelve or thirteen, so.
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: I'm like going upstairs. She's like, who'd you open the
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: door for?
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Don't lie, I heard the door open, so and so
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: brought over the close like I thought it was okay
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: because his neighbors. She's like, did I tell you even
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: if your father don't open the door? Because now I
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: can't relax. So when she came downstairs, she was like,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: you know, is this you know why I'm opening right?
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: And I was like, yeah, because you told me not
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: to and I did it anyway, so I deserve it.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: She was like, okay, now she still whooped me, but
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: she was like after that, I didn't get whoop again,
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: and then it was like different punishment, but like she
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: was like, all right, obviously you've you've matured to the
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: point where like the pain is not the point, you know.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: So that was the last time. But I used to
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: get it a lot. That's interesting story.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: I was also the oldest, so I did I managed
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: to strategically put it on my younger brother and sister.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Well I'm the oldest too, so like but I also
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: learned my lesson right away. The last time I got
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: a real whooping was I don't you know, Like the
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: real whooping was when I turned all the water. I
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: don't know, you know how you learned something like I
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: had to turn to like the falses off. So I
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: did it to all of them, like ooh, this is
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: you turned the water off. And so they was calling
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: the water company and he's like, who did this?
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: And it's like.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: I forgot why? What made me admit to it too?
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Like it was like if they did a good enough
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: threat or something or either make it lighthearted, like hey, come.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: On, oh they tricked you, you could tell me it
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: was me.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: And it bragged about it like it was on the
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: way to church telling everybody you don't have whoop because
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: he turned all the water over the house.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: That's manipulative. Though I know I was, I was pretty good.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: I was probably no I was bad. I stually don't
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: know lying about this.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: I was a good teenager, but I was I was.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: A bad I was a good kid for the most part.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: Now, I wasn't fights all the time.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: We would get whoopings for like or yelled at a
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: punishment because me and my brothers and when you're raising boys,
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: it does get a little more aggressive.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: Breaking ship.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: We're fighting, you know, we're fighting over the game playing
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: NBA Live, and full blown fist fights breakout, you know
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: what I mean?
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought with my my my younger sisters a
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: year younger than me, and my younger brothers a year
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: younger than her. So we would fight fist fight constantly.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: And I was always fighting kids in the neighborhood. So
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: when I was, I don't know, I was. I was
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: going through a phase where I just was fight all
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: the time. And I beat up this this boy and
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: the neighborhood and his mom called my mom. It was
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: like Peter or something, and she was like, your daughter
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: keeps beating up my son, so you need to tell
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: her to stop. So my mom came to me and
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: was like, hey, why you keep beating up Peter, Like
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: you gotta stop beating him up.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: I was like, Peter need to watch his mouth and
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: then I'll stop beating him up.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Peter, I don't know whatever his name is, but like
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: I was just I mean it might have been but sorry, Peter,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: you know you just actually I'm not sorry, Peter.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: You shouldn't hit like Peter were that was that was
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: like Pete, Well, I wasn't bullying.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm firmly believed that we need to bring
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: back a little pop in the mouth every once in
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: a while.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to check somebody. But that's I'm not
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: saying you bully Peter.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: It's just the name Peter, Like it's like he sounds
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: like prime for bullying. I know.
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: If you fight somebody name, look, it's like, oh damn,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: well look into you know. No, I was.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I was a good teenager though, but like all of
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: those things, all those things are are done now.
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: You can't fight anymore either.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: It's interesting, like I remember watching like Saved by the
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Bill and certain shows and watching what their high school
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: experience was, bullies and things like that. But I'm on
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: the West Side of Chicago. Like, no, we had like
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: full blown gangs here. I don't have one person out
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: here just bullying everybody, Like we would jump this dude if.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: It was one dude, I'm the bully. What gang?
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: You? In those shows, we're always fascinating to me, like who,
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: because who's just both? I mean, I guess I know
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: that this was his experience for some people.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: But yeah, like you.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Think drugs was different, like, you know, but they did
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: the save about the bill episode about speed, Like what
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: the hell is speed? So I can stay up and
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: study speed? You know it's real crankheads in my neighborhood.
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: Y'all doing a whole episode about some fucking speed so
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: somebody can stay up studying, right, and that's why. And
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: then they do the thing at the end of the episode,
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: if you have a friend who has a problem with speed,
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: please down speed.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: My friend's mama's don't crack. You got a fucking number
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: for that.
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: He has to pick up his own fucking report card
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: because mama'sn't crack.
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: Y'all talking about some damn.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Speed, crazy crazy and there's just one big, big, big
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: forehead ass bully that nobody ever steps through. And then
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: silently somebody who's just some of the quarterback is finally like,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: you're not going to pick on them anymore. No, I
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: guess in some places it was like that, but yeah,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: that was that. I always watched that thinking that was
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: a really crazy, uh.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: Wish for that, Like I wish that it was that peaceful,
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, and like that was actually
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: something I end up talking about a therapy, how like
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: I had normalized all the gang ship. I grew up around,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: and you know, my family was amazing, So it wasn't
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: like I didn't grow up with two parents, but we
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: still lived in the neighborhood, you know, and so the
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: things I saw it just normalized was kind of wild,
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, like normalized, Like having somebody
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: die every year from twelve until now was normal to me.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I realized those are like kids because we was all
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: the same age until I rethought.
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: About that, Like, yo, that was a twelve year old kid.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: I know that was my homie, but that's crazy.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was the ear you know, when you
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: think about the early nineties, it was like when all
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: that stuff first really took his height. It's like, damn,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: I was around with dry Bys first started.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think, like what you were saying earlier,
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: to the point about Eddie still being here, like we've
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: lost so many legends that we don't really really even
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: have that many to like tell the stories.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: They can't tell their own perspective of it, of their journeys,
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: which is crazy. That's what makes that documentary legendary, because
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: it's like, damn, how many.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Of our legends have we ever seen him? Tell the perspective.
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: That's why they got to keep making all these different
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: documentaries about different people at different times.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: They got to get those to capture those stories because
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: they're telling stories about the generation before them too, which
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: which you know can be lost, and their influence that
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: they they carried, and that I think that's important. History
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: is so important to me, like it's it's something that
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: I think we take for granted, and now you know,
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: you're seeing so much erasure of history. That cultural history
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: is very important to the times as well, Like I
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: think comedians are really important to telling the story of
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: what's happening in society as well. Like that when you
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: go back and rewatch some of Eddie's specials, you're watching
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: some of these, you know, incredible Richard Priory.
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: Richard was so Richard really by Adie.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: We never we didn't get a chance to see him
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: necessarily graduate into unto to his whatever, the more adult
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: version of whatever that is.
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: Richard.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: We got a chance to see that man like his
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: You know, Richard was way more political than we give
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: him credit for. Yeah, just because he knew how to
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: break it down where we all understood it. But you know,
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: he talked about police brutality, He talked about drug use,
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: he talked when he stopped using the N word and
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: why he did it, and it just you know, That's
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: why I think even Eddie might I think he might
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: have said in this documentary to rewatch it. But like
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Chappelle's a lot closer to what Richard was doing as
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: far as that goes, you know what I'm saying.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I mean, I think all of the arts
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: and I mean I talk about this a lot because
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I just feel very strongly about it, Like the arts
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: have a responsibility, not each each person in the arts,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: because everybody has different lanes, you know, but if you
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: have any touch on that lane to contextualize and like
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: tell the story of what's.
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: Happening right now.
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: Because comedy, I think, is very powerful in the way
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: that music is powerful in that it crosses different cultural lines, black, white,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: different minorities, It crosses men and women, it crosses class
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: like something is funny is funny, And you have all
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: kinds of different people that go to comedy shows, Like
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: you might have a certain demographic for a certain comedian,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: but there are you have the ability to talk to
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: people from from all different angles, travel a country to
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: places that you know, people were in LA.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: We're in a bubble.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: We go to you go to you know, some random
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: city that's sold out in Middle America. You know, you're
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: talking to people who don't have don't get the LA experience,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: don't travel to Miami, to New York to maybe never
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: seen anything that goes on in Chicago. Their idea of
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: Chicago is it's like a total war zone and there's
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: no people that live normal lives there.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: And I think.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Comedy is powerful in that way, in the same way
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: that music is that it can it can reach people
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: in a different way.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: But that's why I like, I do feel like, you know,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: a lot of us now that's coming up in this
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: time are almost underappreciated, even though we're doing things like that,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: but it's not highlighted anymore. The sillier and it's even
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: with hip hop a lot of times, like you know,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: some you know the albums. To me, that's like, well,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: people saying something they're not as praise as somebody just
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: talking about doing drugs and passing out, you know what
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. So it's really interesting, man, Like I wonder
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: sometimes can we have a full circle moment where you
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: do pay attention to the people who know how to
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: deliver things, not just from what looks good online or
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: a few clickbait things, but really saying something. You know,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: I look at like people like Ali Sadik, who's a
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: stand up comic who's just killing it right now, Ryan
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: Davis who had a special come out recently, Josh Josh
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: last name dang Josh Johnson, who's just like it's people
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: doing some very unique, great things. And you know, and
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: the reason why I include myself in it like I've
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: been able to, like cause I'm still able to make
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: things really funny. But it's like like I did an
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: interview with Van Lath, you know Van, and he was
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: telling me one of his favorite business the one I
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: did about you know, the slack with Will Smith and
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: Chris Rock, and I said, he was like, man, I
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: remember watching you say it real. And I told my mom,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: this is what I mean when I was saying what
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: I was saying, because and I said it, I wasn't
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: like I read it. I wrote that that whole special.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: I actually freestyled it so like it was really what
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: I thought. And so it wasn't like I didn't have
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: time to like, let me, make this makes it? I
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: said exactly what I you know, and it was like, yo,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: I didn't think what well Will did to Chris was right,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: but I get it. And I went into a whole
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: thing about why I get it right, And so like
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: those type of things we don't like. The clickbait would
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: be somebody saying something quick about it, and I was
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: whooping if that, but not like this very that makes
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: you think about it in this broader way, you know
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, because you know, every everything has a
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: reason to even if when it's wrong. It's like, you know,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: oranges stories are interested. Man, you know what an x men.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: I remember watching Bagdido's Orange story. He'd be like, damn,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: I get.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 4: It, brother, you know the oranges story does matter.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: That's my that's my main makes sense, Like yeah, it
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: kind of kind of makes sense why you would take that.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: Path, Like what other path was?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: You said?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: Is right? Yeah, but like I did, did he have
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: did he have choices? Like joker? I think? You know,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: it was like it's tough to come out of that
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: on scates.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, this is messed up. I get it.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: No, I think it's hard because everything is so quick click, click, swipe, swipe,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: swipe that it's it is hard for people to get
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: the full nuance of things.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 3: And we love to give it to one person, right,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: So like they're like Chappelle is the only guy that
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: can do that, and it's like, no, I've seen other
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: people like Josh Johnson right now. The way this other
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: is delivering new material based off everything that's happening all
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: the time, it's absolutely brilliant. It doesn't even make sense
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: to me why he doesn't have a talk show. He's
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: been doing our long monologues every single week.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: He's on Daily Show now.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not his own show, and he's still
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: hosting that with whoever it's not.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: He definitely deserves his own show.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: He's going he's doing something we've never I've never seen
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: that before in real time, which is like I bring
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: that up also to say, like the internet is open
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: for all of us.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: You know, if you're a stand up comicing you don't
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: want to do the skits and the crazy stuff, then
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: do what Josh is doing.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Don't be so married to your material.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: If you feel like you're a beast on that stage,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: then be able to put some new stuff out of
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: their week.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Well, people are also very afraid to fail these days,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: which I think it's I think there's no better time
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: than right now to try something because unless you are
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, even even if you do something, it's terrible
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: and trying for that reason, you're getting.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: But it's to be trying. You should be trying things.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: Joy is tough. It's really tough. It's not you know.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: I think about like even when you have a TV
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: show now, you know, back in the day, what they
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: used to do. They used to even show the pilots
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: on some random night They're like, we're gonna show you
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: a special episode of.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: Give me a Break.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: Before it ever came out, like oh this is cool,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: and it gave time for something to breathe. Like even
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: when you think about the first few episodes a few
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: seasons of Science Field wasn't great, but once they got
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: they they gave them time to get their legs up
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: under them.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: And you don't have that time no more.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: Maybe not for a.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: Show, but if you're starting on the internet, you're starting
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: on your own.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: That's interesting you say that, yes and no, right, because
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: at some point you do want to graduate. I think
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: we in a weird time also, like you know, I
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: brought a country. Why like somebody who's making like the
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: brother's making a lot of money on YouTube and YouTube
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: is just trying to figure that out. YouTube did YouTube?
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: You know they had their own China at one time.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: Copra Kai was on an origin a show on the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: YouTube channel before it went to Netflix and became a
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: huge show, which is so crazy to me.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: It's like y'all gave up too quick.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: But I think the problem with YouTube where they messed up,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: and maybe that's what they're going to do different. Now
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: all these people who's getting all those views, you're paying
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: all this money to bring them in as executives. I
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: know you don't think like that, but they showed you
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: that they know how to build an audience and do
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: that put them at the fourth do something different than
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: the other studios.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: It's never done.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: Was combat forces with talent, Yeah, instead of trying to
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: do something separately.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: Like those people know their audiences like they they know
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: them better than you do. They know what people respond to.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: I That's one thing with me, Like I don't. I'm like,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: I know my audience is people that hate my ass,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: Like I know, I know who I'm talking to. I
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: know exactly who is consuming my content. I appreciate y'all.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the engagement. It's one thing we know before
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: we get you out of here, that we want to
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: talk about this Christmas movie which I will be watching
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: Unexpected Christmas, Yes, co starring Tabitha Brown.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: It's in theaters now. So tell us about the movie
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: this movie is.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: I believe it's like a new kind of Christmas classic
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: in a way, and it's a different twist to it
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: because we've seen a lot of different Christmas movie and
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: especially it's a lot of black Christmas movie. But I
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: home got a bunch of them lifetime doing it, and
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: that's that's actually great. That actually makes me really really happy.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: So to see all this but ours it stands out,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. He was able to put
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: it in movie theaters. But my character, man, this dude
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: gets kind of caught up in Dayton two sisters that
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: he didn't know with sisters, and you know, and that's
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: what the craziness ensues.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: I try not to say too much because I want
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: people to enjoy it. But like every screen, everybody has
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: seen a movie they like really love it and I.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: Love that great. Well, make sure you go and check
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: that out. I am going to watch it. Like I said,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: I love Christmas movies. You know what's in a very
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: underrated Christmas movie?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: What is it? Is it lot?
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Not Last Christmas with uh oh my god, I never
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: forget it with Queen Latifa where she has the Last Holidays.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: You do we consider that a Christmas movie? Well, of
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: course it has to be a Christmas movie. Was it
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: around Christmas? That's a great movie.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: I loved Last Holiday.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: It was cool. Ja, Yeah, it's Christmas. That's great.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: That's a great that's a great take action. That's one
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: of my favorite movies to watch.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: It's so good.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: Wow, oh unexpected Christmas, the Christmas.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: That's wow.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: But but I tried out to get right Tomatoes too
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: much credit.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: No, but like Roten Tomatoes is one of those things
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: where it's like, if it's good, we'll take it.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: If it's not, fuck you.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: Because because yeah, but it's like you do you don't
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: want to get cut because I just I just think
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: critics overdoing it nowadays.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: Man, well everyone's a critic, so it's just it becomes
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: too much. But yeah, that that is that is one
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: of my that was one of my comfort movies. Last Holiday.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: I love that movie. It's so good and it's so silly.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: The choir single and they don't know she's about to die,
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: so f like I've seen it so many.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: Times, Like I love Last Holiday. That's that's great. That's
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: a great movie. It's such a good movie.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: So I appreciate it. And nobody talks about that movie much.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: I know, y'all gotta get on it. It's if you.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: I mean, I believe everyone has seen that movie. Everyone
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 4: hear saying thought they exposed at the table. He thought
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: he was about to eat her.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I love how quiet they get it.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, Oh my god, she's dying. You try
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: to embarrass her.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: She's just gonna die any second of a horrible disease.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: That is something I feel like could happen to. I
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: love that movie. That's such a good movie.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, so Unexpected Christmas in theaters right now. Latest comedy
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: special rail Talk is streaming on to be comedian Lowrel
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: on Instagram and Eddie Murphy thinks he is very, very funny.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: And a great actor as well, which is great. I
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: love that for you. That made me so happy.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: You know what, you should really really enjoy that compliment.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: You should you should internalize that and make that a
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: part of your person out.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: It's the greatest thing, Especially when I've been going through
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: my growth. It was like this, wow, and it actually
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: made it all make sense like that. I'm thankful that
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: I decided to take that journey to better myself and
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: see things from the different because I was able to
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: be present for that.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: I've gotten some pretty great, great compliments from people that
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: I admire in the business before. I'm trying to think, like,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: if who's your person, Well, Oprah definitely, I think people
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: have a have a very you know, I don't speak
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: to what people think of Oprah now, but like Oprah
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: is the one, Yeah, and Howard Stern. I mean, Eddie
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: Murphy would obviously be an incredible.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: Compliment.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: But do you have anybody maybe it's Oprah like that. Literally,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: I'm not even lying to you. I name my three
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: people Eddie, Robert Keenan, and I've had but Eddie is
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: my top person. Well, I knew that I have an
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: emotional reaction to the guy that inspired me to do this.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if Oprah was like, you are an
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: incredible interviewer and television host that that would it would.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: Be very hard for me to move on from that.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, So so, for example, a core part of my
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: personality is that Larry David said that something that I
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: did was funny, So no one can tell me I'm
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: not funny, Like, I mean, what's who can tell me
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not funny? Yeah, So I dressed up as him
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: for Halloween one year, the the Fat Whah Disguise episode.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember that one nailed it
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: and it got it was showed to him and he
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: was like, that's really good, that's funny. And I was like, well,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: I'm funny now, and that's the end of that conversation.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: But yeah, Oprah, for sure. I mean if Howard, if
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: Howard Stern.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: Appreciate my work, that would those two would probably be
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: be the top two. And then also Larry David, which
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: I already got, So I got one of them. That's good,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: So we're we're well on the way. But yeah, I mean,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: I think I think it's also important to like receive
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: peer feedback as well. Like I've had the opportunity obviously
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: to work with Colin, to work with Skip to you
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: know Steve and a Smith is a friend of mine, like,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: and they all.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: Have told me that my work is great.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: Also, I got in love from like majority of my ogs.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's big to me and even peers. So I've
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: gotten a love.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: But the guy who.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: Inspired me to do this delirious.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: Like I literally had this best of Eddie Murphy cassette
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: tape I would listen to every single day. I know
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: what voices he did before he ever did the voices.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: I'm talking to Rich about this and I know we
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: gotta go, but like Rich's cousin we was talking, I
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: was like, man, the bit he do about getting hit
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: by a car.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, I thinked it.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: That's literally the voice.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: He uses the barbershop guy, and that's the first time
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: he ever did that voice.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: Synked it. Oh man, he got it.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's those little things man that.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: Like, if once again people watch how I've moved and
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: done things and character work and all that stuff, coach
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: it's based off. Yeah, it's all like I truly study
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: Eddie Murphy.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: Also, if Michael Jordan said that he watched my show
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: and that he liked it, that would change things for
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: me as well, but unlike you, who is a gracious, kind,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: hey oled person, I would just annoy everyone with how
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: much I think of how great I am now because I.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: Got better than you all.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: No, thank you so much for coming down.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you watching the podcast and making some time
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: in Rainy Laeda to come and see us.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: This was fun. Thanks for having me, Thanks for coming.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: That was a great conversation. Love talking to a little while.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: Make sure you go and follow him on social media
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: and check out his new movie Unexpected Christmas.
• 1:13:55
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• 1:14:00
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• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: This question is coming from a former foster youth.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: What made you decide to get involved with that type
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: of work? So, my family growing up was a foster family.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: We had foster youth in our home throughout.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: My entire childhood.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: We had children that stayed with us for a couple
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: years at a time. We were also a weekend home,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: so when children were in between their more permanent housing,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: they would stay with us over the weekend, and we
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: didn't have a lot of space in our house, so
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: whenever they would come stay with us. They would stay
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: in my brother's room, and my sister and I shared
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: a room, so my brother would either stay with us
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: or sleep in my parents' room. And so I had
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: a lot of experience around not just people who were
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: in the fosters, kids who were in the foster system,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: how they reacted to new spaces, showing up to our
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: house not having much of anything. I always tried to
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: make them feel comfortable and also simultaneously try to give
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: them their privacy in space. We only had one bathroom
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: in our house, so it was always, you know, trying
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: to balance a whole family of people and you know,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: this child or sometimes it would be older than me,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: but a kid who we don't really know, who is
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  Speaker 2: in an unfamiliar place, obviously going through a very traumatic experience.
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  Speaker 2: So I had a lot of proximity to the foster system,
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  Speaker 2: to some of the issues of the foster system, to
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  Speaker 2: the traumas of the foster system, from being a family
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  Speaker 2: that had foster kids.
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  Speaker 4: In and out of their home throughout my whole childhood.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I feel very strongly about this and
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  Speaker 2: its flaws, and I think it also just taught me
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  Speaker 2: a lot about you know what goes on in our
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  Speaker 2: country with taking care of kids, and how easy it
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  Speaker 2: is for children who are in the foster system to
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  Speaker 2: end up in an abusive home. I mean, I was
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  Speaker 2: in an abusive home and that was my parent, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, he wasn't abusive to any of them, but
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  Speaker 2: the environment still was not a great environment. And I
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  Speaker 2: can't even imagine some of the other spaces that these.
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  Speaker 4: Children had seen throughout their youth.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's a very heartbreaking situation for anyone
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  Speaker 2: to be in, and I, you know, I just empathize
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  Speaker 2: very deeply with the experience, having seen it firsthands as
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  Speaker 2: a child myself. So that answers your question and you
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