Latest / Corie Sheppard Podcast / Episode 241 | Jr Lee
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- 0:02Corie: you nearly have everything.
- 0:03Corie: Good.
- 0:03Corie: Take a sip.
- 0:04Corie: Take a sip, level out yourself right, everything smooth everything is great.
- 0:08Jr Lee: Yeah, god is good.
- 0:09Corie: God is good.
- 0:10Corie: God is good, god is good.
- 0:11Corie: We started our money conversation.
- 0:12Corie: We can start right here too.
- 0:13Corie: Let me go, let me see if the coffee is filling.
- 0:17Jr Lee: I am an open book.
- 0:18Jr Lee: We can talk about anything.
- 0:19Jr Lee: We can talk about anything any, anything I have.
- 0:21Jr Lee: My life is in everybody's eyes.
- 0:24Corie: Well, my first question I really want to ask on behalf of the nation is the thing I see in your comments the most what is wrong with you?
- 0:30Corie: Something wires in touching Something.
- 0:32Corie: You see that in your comments all the time.
- 0:34Corie: A hundred comments saying something wrong with this fella.
- 0:37Corie: So we're going to spend the next couple of hours trying to figure out what wrong.
- 0:40Corie: What is wrong?
- 0:42Jr Lee: I find everything right, I find everything right.
- 0:45Jr Lee: I don't think anything wrong.
- 0:46Jr Lee: Something wrong, something wrong?
- 0:48Corie: Nah, nothing wrong.
- 0:49Corie: One of the most recent things I see you do, I feel I watch it about a thousand times.
- 0:53Corie: You see that Sukuya thing right.
- 0:54Jr Lee: Something wrong with you that video sounds to me one of the dumbest videos I've ever done.
- 1:01Jr Lee: Ever Like.
- 1:02Jr Lee: I don't like watching back my videos, but that video I watched that video like 10 times.
- 1:08Jr Lee: I was like yo, I really strapped it.
- 1:09Corie: Yeah, I see you and all comment like this is really strapped and then Keegan, like it's our one particular take.
- 1:16Jr Lee: We had to do it like five times.
- 1:18Jr Lee: He was like Dan, you're really tracking that Sukunya right now and that that come from Shibutoglu.
- 1:28Jr Lee: I was like imagine trying to track Sukunya tell you who I'm talking about.
- 1:34Corie: Yes, shibutoglu, I was like you know what be good?
- 1:38Jr Lee: I put this in a video.
- 1:38Jr Lee: I'm a manager.
- 1:40Jr Lee: Kwasi was just like Dan.
- 1:42Jr Lee: You just make it so who's your team?
- 1:45Corie: Who's your team when you're coming up With them things?
- 1:46Corie: Who's your team?
- 1:47Jr Lee: Keegan Kwasi and myself.
- 1:49Corie: And who's the Sukwe?
- 1:50Corie: Who played the Sukwe?
- 1:51Jr Lee: Oh, simone, simone Jeffrey, amazing actress.
- 1:54Jr Lee: She went to school With me.
- 1:56Jr Lee: She went to Asher Giles College and she studied Theatre arts.
- 2:00Jr Lee: So I try my best to use her in every so anybody who around me has been around me forever.
- 2:06Corie: Seriously, yeah, I tell myself she had to be trained, because I she did real good, too, she did real good and she didn't laugh because I think, if you ask me to do them things, it would take a hundred ticks while we were shooting.
- 2:19Jr Lee: She was just saying what does man have me doing here?
- 2:22Jr Lee: What this man have me doing here, lord?
- 2:23Jr Lee: What this man?
- 2:24Corie: have me doing.
- 2:25Corie: Her man say suck suck or suck suck.
- 2:26Corie: She say excuse that thing, you know that video is the greatest video I.
- 2:32Jr Lee: You know what people don't like those videos.
- 2:34Jr Lee: What do you mean?
- 2:34Jr Lee: They're shit.
- 2:35Jr Lee: If you look at the video, you'll see more shit, because they don't want the name show up.
- 2:41Jr Lee: Oh, they don't like a video of her man trying to jam us.
- 2:45Corie: No, I feel it's because people are laughing so much they must just forget to like it.
- 2:49Corie: They're just excited to send it to somebody.
- 2:50Jr Lee: Yo, I love that video.
- 2:51Jr Lee: I wish I could do more dumb stuff like that More.
- 2:55Corie: More.
- 2:55Corie: All right, If you're talking about more, let me go back in the archives.
- 2:58Corie: I feel Sukunya come by you.
- 3:00Corie: I want to see greatest man.
- 3:03Jr Lee: I want to see greatest video I ever did in my life.
- 3:07Jr Lee: You remember this.
- 3:10Jr Lee: What's wrong with that?
- 3:11Jr Lee: Sometimes it's how to make a girl come oh, move on line with you and thing Okay.
- 3:16Corie: I started to talk about what everybody here is right.
- 3:21Jr Lee: Sometimes it's how to make a girl come so she don't go away Like come and lie with you and things Okay.
- 3:24Corie: It'll be a few left in the bush, uncle Delroy, but it's not a few in the back here, I don't know, like a sukkun or a sukkun or something.
- 3:28Corie: A sukkun, yeah, give me a big sukkun.
- 3:32Jr Lee: A sukkun, I lie down in the back here.
- 3:34Jr Lee: I lie down naked.
- 3:35Jr Lee: I say sukkun, I come.
- 3:37Jr Lee: Uncle Delroy is actually my Uncle Albert.
- 3:45Jr Lee: Serious, yeah, I have an uncle.
- 3:47Jr Lee: All the characters are kind of based off of somebody, right?
- 3:50Jr Lee: So, uncle Albert, he used to work petro-train.
- 3:58Jr Lee: At that point in time he never bought a house, he never bought a car, but he had a real woman.
- 4:02Jr Lee: So that's why you never really see where Uncle Delroy live with me.
- 4:05Jr Lee: But he's talking about women all the time and I still do not call him.
- 4:13Jr Lee: I don't say I'm afraid of Sukode, sukode, I'm afraid of me that Uncle Delroy, that's one of the first characters.
- 4:19Corie: But when I see that I say nah boy, I just wonder sometimes if he was in her life before.
- 4:25Jr Lee: Nah, I just I grew up in Moruga, mm-hmm.
- 4:26Jr Lee: So I just observe everybody, like that same uncle used to be curling me for laughing.
- 4:31Jr Lee: Yeah, you're always laughing.
- 4:33Corie: Why are you laughing?
- 4:34Jr Lee: Because I'm happy Like why are you not laughing?
- 4:37Corie: You know my house, you say it already house later on boy later on.
- 4:42Corie: You buy that one too.
- 4:43Corie: Huh, you buy that one for him too.
- 4:45Jr Lee: No, no he's, kevin Hart, walking around buying houses for people.
- 4:50Jr Lee: That houses he buy that house, the houses in the cemetery.
- 4:54Jr Lee: Yeah, he had to walk through the cemetery to get to his house.
- 4:56Jr Lee: Oh god, but it's a trip.
- 4:58Jr Lee: Rest in peace.
- 4:58Jr Lee: Love you, man, if you're listening in heaven or hell.
- 5:01Corie: Wherever you went, you did a lot so when I see this latest one, I say nah boy, people say it all the time like something.
- 5:12Corie: And next thing I see recently, right before we get into where this comes, one of the things I watch about you right is that I hear you asking men their age before they start.
- 5:22Corie: Everybody trying to figure out what is your age.
- 5:23Corie: I'm only asking men the age before they start, everybody trying to figure out what is your age.
- 5:25Jr Lee: I'm only 28.
- 5:26Jr Lee: I just went bald 28.
- 5:27Jr Lee: Yeah, I just went bald like everybody think.
- 5:31Jr Lee: I'm just an old man like yo people think it's for real.
- 5:34Jr Lee: Yeah, like the other day I'm live and somebody is like this is how you caring about yourself?
- 5:38Jr Lee: I am a youth man, like I'm going to Lyman.
- 5:41Jr Lee: No, you people think like, don't let him bowl, fool you, I'm 28.
- 5:45Corie: No, but you're challenging that old soul because you're talking about things and doing some skits Like let me give you an example right, About 99 out of the 100 things you ever say to a woman you're dealing with, son, I tell people random things over my lifetime Me and your mother done that's real Yo, you can't do that.
- 6:06Jr Lee: Them.
- 6:06Corie: Thing not made up them thing real them thing, real that I.
- 6:10Jr Lee: So I had a stepfather I used to be.
- 6:12Jr Lee: I used to say, imagine if he and my mother Break up, boy, like it would be awkward now.
- 6:17Jr Lee: So all them take up from, from those thoughts.
- 6:20Corie: So you ever scramble him, like how you scramble Myself.
- 6:22Corie: Okay, he passed away, though.
- 6:23Corie: Okay, so you ever scramble him Like how you scramble him.
- 6:25Corie: He passed away, though he died, he died, he died, he died, he died, he died, he died, he died, he died, he died.
- 6:31Jr Lee: He's a good man, though, really good man.
- 6:34Corie: You want me to laugh.
- 6:35Corie: Love you.
- 6:36Jr Lee: If you're listening.
- 6:36Corie: I love you, You're a good man he had to be laughing started to say but this man, like he was with some people and people, sure I don't know at the age now where you know I've been with women who have kids.
- 6:48Corie: Yeah, they must love you you don't even know.
- 7:01Jr Lee: Bring them gifts.
- 7:02Jr Lee: You give your mother a gift for those things.
- 7:06Jr Lee: I couldn't put this as a clip.
- 7:07Jr Lee: Bring them gifts on tape.
- 7:08Corie: You people getting gifts, just as your mother working for those things.
- 7:10Jr Lee: No, that's, I see, I couldn't put this as a clip and send to these little children.
- 7:11Jr Lee: You're traumatizing our whole generation you're traumatizing our generation.
- 7:14Jr Lee: No, at this age, at this age you know it's 28 people have kids already.
- 7:18Corie: Yeah, there's eyes sticking that thing keeping you back.
- 7:21Corie: Huh, that thing keeping you back.
- 7:22Corie: Huh, that thing keeping you back.
- 7:23Jr Lee: I ain't stopping you, I won't with that child.
- 7:24Jr Lee: No, my mother was a lady with a child.
- 7:26Jr Lee: Yeah, and you know I mean, and it worked out for her well, you and your mother have a real good relationship.
- 7:31Corie: Mommy's funny too, you know.
- 7:32Corie: Yeah, she is.
- 7:33Corie: She's funny too, she is.
- 7:34Corie: I just asked my son before we come here.
- 7:35Corie: I said what's your favorite junily video?
- 7:37Corie: He said, you see, the one of the mother.
- 7:38Corie: Yeah, my mother, my mother is a great person.
- 7:40Jr Lee: She had a real belief in me too, and I made a pact with my mother years ago.
- 7:50Jr Lee: I told her.
- 7:51Jr Lee: I said I'm going to do comedy and I may curse on stage.
- 7:57Jr Lee: It's a lot of fun.
- 7:58Jr Lee: Yeah, I may do certain things, but anytime you feel embarrassedarrassed or you feel like, yeah, my son, let me know and I'm done Like I'll not do that Ever again, got it so I could care less About what somebody Other say to me.
- 8:15Jr Lee: I see, Because like.
- 8:17Jr Lee: Once my mother Is cool with what I'm doing Because, like, I will curse on stage but I wouldn't curse in the house, right?
- 8:23Corie: You know what I mean.
- 8:24Jr Lee: So like, yeah, my mother real, real support me in whatever I'm doing, so big up, mommy, yeah of course, and she's always say I'm going to do the things that she wanted to do, that she didn't have the opportunity to do.
- 8:34Jr Lee: She always wanted to act on them kind of things, oh yeah.
- 8:37Jr Lee: So if I ever do a movie, your poor mother in me, so that's on the cards.
- 8:41Jr Lee: Yeah, one day Good, good, good, as it should be.
- 8:44Corie: So as a real comedy, stand-up comedy fan, right.
- 8:47Corie: So I remember looking at something Dave Chappelle did when he was talking about his mother, because he went performing at school and stuff he started off young, yeah, and he was talking about his mother being in, the mother and the grandmother you come into all these shows and you see a granny listening.
- 9:04Jr Lee: But here's some things here so the thing with my grandmother my grandmother is a cuss, but she don't care.
- 9:09Jr Lee: She'll cuss you out of the church now like she don't care.
- 9:12Jr Lee: She don't care, yo, it's half.
- 9:14Jr Lee: When we went to the Caribbean music award.
- 9:16Jr Lee: For some reason, seeds than me.
- 9:20Jr Lee: So I am.
- 9:22Jr Lee: I am a nominee which I went on to win, right Congrats.
- 9:27Jr Lee: And I am in the back of the auditorium.
- 9:28Jr Lee: This lady is right behind all the stars, I don't know where she get this ticket from.
- 9:35Jr Lee: When I watch on the screen, my grandmother is wanging with spice Wanging Jamaica spice, jamaica spice.
- 9:44Jr Lee: I didn't get that clip.
- 9:44Jr Lee: I was like she even know who this is.
- 9:46Jr Lee: My grandmother is a live wire so I.
- 9:49Jr Lee: I don't want to give my grandmother no arm, no heads up.
- 9:54Corie: She wouldn't be surprised yeah, she know where it's coming from, she know where she's a trip by a little, gemma, she's the greatest we're waiting to see Granny and Skits 2.
- 10:04Corie: She's the greatest.
- 10:05Jr Lee: We waited to see granny's sketch to the dice she not on that camera thing though.
- 10:07Jr Lee: Oh she not on that.
- 10:08Jr Lee: Yeah, she accused of that one, she don't.
- 10:09Jr Lee: Yeah, don't put her on no camera.
- 10:10Corie: She's the greatest boy so when is the earliest you start realizing you're funny or people telling you you're?
- 10:15Jr Lee: funny like, since, like a child, like again, I used to always be laughing and talking nonsense with my cousins growing up Right, and my uncles, and Uncle Albert in particular, used to be like yo, the laughing thing.
- 10:29Jr Lee: I don't know, gemma, talk to this boy, this laughing thing.
- 10:33Jr Lee: For some reason my uncle thought me laughing equates to me being gay.
- 10:38Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah yeah.
- 10:38Jr Lee: He's like man, he's laughing, it's just like like dog.
- 10:42Jr Lee: How me being funny and happy, happy, happy funny gay.
- 10:48Corie: Yeah, in his mind.
- 10:49Jr Lee: So ever since then, like primary school time, like if you talk to any of my primary school teachers, like they remind me of some instances as well.
- 10:58Jr Lee: I forgot about, like my teacher remind me.
- 11:01Jr Lee: A time Earl Fabian came to the school and I ran out of class.
- 11:04Jr Lee: I was like, sir, I want to do what you doing.
- 11:06Jr Lee: And the teacher was like this boy that's run out of class, go and tell this man that.
- 11:09Jr Lee: And they were always saying like ever since I was in the class, being a class clunk, basically.
- 11:16Jr Lee: But back then I wasn't thinking that, yeah, I'm going to be a comedian.
- 11:20Jr Lee: No, I didn't die in Maruga.
- 11:22Jr Lee: You really feel a comedian or entertainer?
- 11:26Jr Lee: It's a prime career in Maruga.
- 11:28Jr Lee: What do you mean?
- 11:28Jr Lee: It is not if.
- 11:31Jr Lee: If you ever told, yeah, people in Maruga say no, thinking, hey, we are become comedians one day.
- 11:37Jr Lee: No, that's not thinking.
- 11:38Jr Lee: Plant a garden, plant a weed, it's alright, that's some good.
- 11:43Jr Lee: So Plant a garden Like plant a weed.
- 11:44Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah, it's all right, that sounds good too.
- 11:45Jr Lee: So what if it doesn't?
- 11:45Jr Lee: You know, hey, I never say that, I know sponsors, you know.
- 11:50Jr Lee: When we plant a weed, do we want to do it?
- 11:52Jr Lee: We don't give a f***.
- 11:54Jr Lee: Hey, wait, wait, you have sponsors.
- 11:55Jr Lee: Oh yeah, I take it back.
- 11:57Jr Lee: I take it back.
- 11:58Jr Lee: We Like Quasi.
- 12:01Jr Lee: You had me watching this, like what's your problem?
- 12:03Corie: Yeah, manager, Everybody's asking that what's your problem?
- 12:06Corie: I'm glad the manager asked me that too.
- 12:08Corie: So back then, what were you feeling as a child, growing up Like where you want to be?
- 12:12Corie: You had early thoughts on where you want to be.
- 12:13Jr Lee: Yeah, I used to be watching the TV like Hal Grease is his name, roy and Gloria.
- 12:22Jr Lee: Oh right, right, right.
- 12:24Jr Lee: I used to really like watching Roy and Gloria on TV.
- 12:26Jr Lee: When the daughter get pregnant, a show is a taxi driver.
- 12:31Jr Lee: He was mad at the taxi driver.
- 12:33Jr Lee: I was, I was, it wasn't.
- 12:35Corie: But the story ended up being weird because he was a relative and of course yeah, they was doing.
- 12:39Corie: They were real funny and real good actors.
- 12:42Corie: Yeah, but they, they were real funny and real good actors.
- 12:44Corie: Yeah, but they was taking serious topics.
- 12:45Corie: Serious topics.
- 12:45Corie: Yeah, yeah, serious topics.
- 12:45Jr Lee: So he came to my school as well, fifth Company Baptist School, and shout to Miss Ghoul Right, miss Ghoul used to just bring all different type of people.
- 12:55Jr Lee: So that was my standard two teacher, because the entire class stayed down in standard two, right.
- 13:00Jr Lee: For some reason, everybody forgets how to read, right, danny, you know how to say it.
- 13:04Jr Lee: Three F's back to back.
- 13:09Jr Lee: The whole class accepted again.
- 13:10Jr Lee: Lenny Went to standard three.
- 13:12Jr Lee: So Miss Gould had to come in and teach us how to sound out words again, how to read, and then, like the class it had, like real underprivileged youths in the class, got it.
- 13:25Jr Lee: So she used to bring in a lot of people to come and talk to us.
- 13:28Jr Lee: I remember she used to bring in a man named Mr Chacha.
- 13:31Jr Lee: I think he was the CEO of Guardian or something like that.
- 13:35Corie: Oh, so it's not just art or something.
- 13:37Jr Lee: She's bringing in different types of people.
- 13:38Jr Lee: Everybody remember Mr Chacha that he brought.
- 13:39Jr Lee: He come down the road.
- 13:39Jr Lee: He was driving an Audi on the road.
- 13:40Jr Lee: He was driving an Audi, the Audi had nubs on the steering and this guy, he was mesmerized by this.
- 13:46Jr Lee: He was like what?
- 13:47Jr Lee: I was just like yo, chacha, rich, I want to be rich too.
- 13:50Jr Lee: I didn't really care about the car, but yeah.
- 13:53Jr Lee: I would like Mr Chacha.
- 13:54Jr Lee: I would like to meet Mr Chacha again that would be nice he inspired me.
- 14:02Jr Lee: And then she brought errol fabian.
- 14:04Jr Lee: A time they brought nikki crosby, like she.
- 14:08Jr Lee: She brought a heap of people and back then, like in standard too, like when I look back at it now, I was like, hey, like I know I wanted to do this, I just didn't know how of course yeah, but this is interesting, all them things is planned to see that boy, just yeah I mean really know.
- 14:23Corie: I mean when you've seen it, especially a country boy you might be seeing some people on TV look like a fart.
- 14:27Jr Lee: You know it's like I, hey, when I tell my cousin and them from when I was younger, yeah, I want to do this and do that, I was just like you know what I mean.
- 14:35Jr Lee: Like who's the last person you know that that did that from this area, right, right, it's like you had to be in Port of Spain to get these opportunities, you know?
- 14:50Jr Lee: Thankfully, and at this point I was real mad at my mother like at that point in time I was real pissed at my mother as a youth man because she moved me out of Moruga and brought me to Coover Right, like right out of primary school.
- 15:03Jr Lee: Because the arrangement she made with my grandmother is um, I would stay, because I didn't like we was living in Maribel, I didn't like the area, I was missing my cousins and like first year, second year, she said here what you're going to go back to Moruga, uh, you do standard one, then they'll come back and live with me.
- 15:21Jr Lee: In my head I was like she won't forget about that and I am going to stay in Moruga for my entire life.
- 15:29Jr Lee: And yeah, at five she moved me out to Moruga and I was mad at my mother.
- 15:32Jr Lee: I felt like if I lost everything, they're like hey, my cousin's not here, I'm her only child.
- 15:39Jr Lee: So like I'm coming up the road here I'm in a room by myself now I.
- 15:43Jr Lee: So like I coming up the road, here, I, in a room by myself now, like I never had.
- 15:46Jr Lee: I never had my room.
- 15:47Jr Lee: I used to share a room with my cousins.
- 15:49Jr Lee: Like I learned to play by myself.
- 15:52Jr Lee: I did find hobbies, like I just was upset at my mother, but like, when I look back at it now, if she didn't move me out to Moruga, a lot of the opportunities that I would have gotten just being at um, as your boys, college and during the film festival, uh, joining cadets, um, just I end up being in a play, uh, jesus Christ Superstar.
- 16:16Jr Lee: When I was in yeah exactly so.
- 16:19Jr Lee: but like if she didn't, it would have been even more impossible, being quite Moruga, because one she had to find the passage to send me to Port of Spain, which would have been her task, and then it's just far, you know.
- 16:30Jr Lee: So like I was real mad at her, I don't know where I went with this, but yeah, but I'm not mad at her anymore.
- 16:37Corie: Yeah, we can see that.
- 16:38Corie: Only good now, I don't know where it's at.
- 16:41Jr Lee: I can't even remember where it's at just them early influences.
- 16:44Corie: So Moruga is one of them things that was very influential for you.
- 16:47Jr Lee: Yeah, like I, real I just I just go to Moruga real often.
- 16:50Jr Lee: That is my area, boy, I rep that area real hard like so much potential, like such a beautiful place, like it's.
- 16:57Jr Lee: At times, I just stress, I feel like if it's me against the wall and my back against the wall, I just go up the road and I realize like this is not even real.
- 17:05Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 17:07Jr Lee: I have cousins who are home right now, not working and surviving, so like why?
- 17:12Jr Lee: am I fighting up?
- 17:13Jr Lee: It's just.
- 17:14Jr Lee: I just go back to get a reminder like hey, stop taking this so seriously.
- 17:18Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 17:19Jr Lee: This is not real, yeah of course.
- 17:21Corie: So something, something I bring up there.
- 17:22Corie: I want to ask you about right.
- 17:23Corie: When you talk about moving to to Kuva, you know being closer to Tonga.
- 17:26Corie: You see acting in plays, so Jesus Christ Superstar was one film festival.
- 17:32Corie: You said too.
- 17:32Corie: What was that school?
- 17:33Jr Lee: film festival.
- 17:34Jr Lee: We won best environmental film right and I got nominated for the best actor right.
- 17:39Corie: So what was the play with the guy who?
- 17:41Jr Lee: got the best actor.
- 17:41Corie: Yeah, look at that now, boy, his name exists.
- 17:52Jr Lee: I'm joking.
- 17:54Corie: No, I can't survive.
- 17:55Jr Lee: I can't survive.
- 17:55Jr Lee: This is my man.
- 17:56Jr Lee: This is my man.
- 17:57Jr Lee: Anyway, I'll see you at a coffee with him, yeah, let him know, so what do you play about this environmental?
- 18:06Corie: What was it about, do you remember?
- 18:07Corie: Oh, about water conservation.
- 18:09Jr Lee: Okay, I was a man in the school Opening all the taps Right Wasting water.
- 18:13Jr Lee: Ra ra, ra, I figured.
- 18:14Jr Lee: So we run out of all the water.
- 18:15Corie: I tell myself he wasn't a man.
- 18:16Corie: When he can't save, why?
- 18:20Jr Lee: Why can't I be the man?
- 18:22Jr Lee: I don't think so.
- 18:23Corie: Just a guess.
- 18:24Corie: Just a guess.
- 18:25Corie: So you was.
- 18:25Corie: I was going to say, like when you water, that would have been bad.
- 18:27Jr Lee: You was opening all the taps, opening all the taps, letting go the water.
- 18:31Jr Lee: And then, you know, somebody talked to me.
- 18:34Jr Lee: I changed my ways.
- 18:35Jr Lee: Save water tried to be able to get better crime done, everything was just great.
- 18:42Corie: Everything was just safe.
- 18:43Corie: We set the safe water.
- 18:44Jr Lee: All of a sudden, that crime plan yeah all of a sudden that thing, all of a sudden that safe water, bro, it works so by then, somewhere along the way, you're getting into what you're going to do yeah, acting on you after that I was just like yo, this is it serious?
- 18:58Jr Lee: I stopped going to school.
- 18:59Jr Lee: I was like I am home, I am going to do videos.
- 19:02Jr Lee: My mother bought me A camcorder For Christmas.
- 19:05Jr Lee: You're wrong from camcorder time.
- 19:07Corie: Yeah, you've never lived before, for sure.
- 19:09Jr Lee: I was telling somebody this year You're alone, guys, just see this, because I ain't sharing.
- 19:15Jr Lee: I ain't sharing to nobody.
- 19:17Jr Lee: So that's cool.
- 19:19Jr Lee: But actually my YouTube the other day yeah, the same camcorder time the internet you're not working, you're not getting any ticket.
- 19:25Jr Lee: Did you say, alright, this is 11 years ago.
- 19:30Jr Lee: This is the camcorder, my mother, my.
- 19:35Jr Lee: So you're filming, mommy filming.
- 19:37Corie: I am filming, so you're just racing, I'm racing not on top of pot.
- 19:44Jr Lee: I posted videos and my friends and them commented come to school, I am posting videos.
- 19:53Jr Lee: Why is school going on 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock in the afternoon?
- 19:56Jr Lee: Everybody is just like yo come to school.
- 19:59Jr Lee: My teacher is like where are you?
- 20:01Jr Lee: So this is in Ash.
- 20:05Jr Lee: Do you know this?
- 20:05Jr Lee: You just Ask your boys college, ask them Like I give up on school.
- 20:11Corie: This is a more form, so Form four.
- 20:13Corie: So you go.
- 20:13Corie: Nearly done, nearly done.
- 20:15Corie: I was like I'll figure it out.
- 20:16Corie: You ain't getting no more next chance to keep people in class back.
- 20:19Corie: And all that to you.
- 20:21Jr Lee: I started back going because my mother caught on to me of course, of course, of course.
- 20:26Jr Lee: By the time you go back to school, people, people, what they say in most of your videos at the time people like it, they like it serious, but they still laugh, remember because and I think like people gonna laugh at you, yeah, like once you start paying Like my mother, friends, when she allowed me to do the play, because the play was happening during CXC, I think we were rambling during the interview no, I feel good.
- 20:48Jr Lee: What do you mean?
- 20:48Jr Lee: As in the play for CXC, and my mother two friends at the time was telling her you're letting your son throw away his life.
- 21:00Jr Lee: Yeah, you know what I mean.
- 21:01Jr Lee: It's like yo, your son's throwing away his life.
- 21:04Jr Lee: You need to do better.
- 21:05Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 21:06Jr Lee: Like, look at the time he's coming back home.
- 21:08Jr Lee: He had exams just now and my mother was, like my son knows how to balance.
- 21:13Jr Lee: I've trained my son well, right, and I believe he will do good in his exams.
- 21:20Jr Lee: I did.
- 21:20Jr Lee: I just didn't pass maths though yeah, you know what I mean Still didn't pass Mats.
- 21:23Jr Lee: Who did you?
- 21:24Jr Lee: I've shown you pass Mats.
- 21:26Corie: He didn't Well, when I do, when I do sick, I had four passes.
- 21:29Jr Lee: Oh, for real.
- 21:29Jr Lee: Yeah, I repeat every sick.
- 21:30Jr Lee: And he didn't even do a play, he didn't.
- 21:32Jr Lee: He get four passes and he was Go to school.
- 21:41Jr Lee: School is good, school is good.
- 21:45Corie: Good for what?
- 21:45Corie: Good for who?
- 21:46Corie: Good, no, no, no.
- 21:47Jr Lee: School is good School, school.
- 21:49Jr Lee: Let me tell you something about school, because I actually don't like school Right Like to my core since primary school, like when you have to stay for extra lessons.
- 22:01Jr Lee: I made up a whole lie Right Like when he had to stay for extra lessons.
- 22:06Jr Lee: I made up a whole lie.
- 22:07Jr Lee: I told my teacher that I have four siblings, my mother is a security guard and I have to leave now to go babysit these children because my mother will get vexed if I reach too late.
- 22:19Jr Lee: And I do that for like three whole months and at the end of the teacher tried to call child services so my mother had to come in school.
- 22:31Jr Lee: My mother came in school.
- 22:33Jr Lee: My mother was like he's the only child.
- 22:36Jr Lee: What are you talking about?
- 22:37Jr Lee: I am not a security guard.
- 22:42Corie: So you didn't even use the battery at work, you didn't even use the batteryanner real work.
- 22:45Corie: You didn't even use your banner, real job.
- 22:46Jr Lee: No, because I said she work a night shift Six to six in the morning so I have to be home To make sure my sibling's good.
- 22:53Jr Lee: So you didn't get Licks on St Dredd, you wasn't getting Yo.
- 22:55Jr Lee: My brother gets so mad For that, like she, and that day I lie and say I was sick.
- 22:59Jr Lee: So I home Fake sick and she had to go by herself to hear it.
- 23:04Corie: Yeah.
- 23:04Jr Lee: When she walk in the room, I get better immediately.
- 23:07Corie: You see it in her eyes.
- 23:08Corie: You see it in her eyes.
- 23:10Jr Lee: It's like Cause my grandmother when she walk.
- 23:12Jr Lee: She didn't know.
- 23:12Jr Lee: I saw my grandmother First.
- 23:14Jr Lee: My grandmother, I was like I don't know what you're doing In school, but your mother Real vexed and I just I was like I really tell this from my best boy.
- 23:21Jr Lee: I think you should have hold it down.
- 23:23Jr Lee: Yes, it was.
- 23:24Jr Lee: It's like he, mr Ayers.
- 23:25Jr Lee: Mr Ayers, we were so confused about that when you know what, mr Ayers?
- 23:32Corie: when the man pray for you see where this boy going on watching his children pray for this boy and his family come Mr Ayers telling me.
- 23:39Jr Lee: He's telling me you have so much potential.
- 23:42Jr Lee: I wish I could stay for the extra lessons and I like how I say it.
- 23:45Jr Lee: I wish I could stay too and you could.
- 23:51Jr Lee: When I walk out of the class so long, suckers, I get out of play that time all I wear is jockey shorts and like tars I don't remember looking at it I feel like he won that lesson.
- 24:07Jr Lee: Dad, my mother just watched me and she was like I don't even know what to tell you right now.
- 24:13Jr Lee: I was like Bobby.
- 24:14Jr Lee: I'm sorry, I want to do this.
- 24:16Jr Lee: After that, mr Ayers had full dominion over me yeah, boy, yeah, hey, no recess, no lunch.
- 24:21Corie: That good Make up for the time.
- 24:23Jr Lee: And then I do it again.
- 24:27Corie: Form six I used to wake up, oh so you make it to form six, then Mummy was right, you're balloting it.
- 24:31Jr Lee: Yeah, I tell you I get my passes, all right, all right.
- 24:33Jr Lee: And here I was signing up for form six, too, rolling with my friend he going to play football, so he's signing up the form.
- 24:40Jr Lee: And the teacher in the school in Capuchin, my east he's like what are you going to do with your life now?
- 24:45Jr Lee: I said me no, you know, I signed up a form.
- 24:48Jr Lee: I signed up a form and ended up in Form 6 and I hate school.
- 24:53Jr Lee: But the good.
- 24:55Jr Lee: I'm real happy that I went and do Form 6 because it had, I think, two or three teachers, ms Danu and Ms Adar Singh.
- 25:05Jr Lee: So they used to show Caps Got Talent.
- 25:07Jr Lee: So like in Azure, it didn't have that, it didn't.
- 25:10Jr Lee: They don't have much like cultural programs because obviously it's Azure, they're on academics, so they fully on that.
- 25:19Jr Lee: Of course, caps now like real culture, like Caps Got Talent.
- 25:23Jr Lee: And I was like you, real funny Caps got talent.
- 25:24Jr Lee: And I was like you, real funny host Caps got talent.
- 25:26Jr Lee: I see, so they start bringing a host and then they stop bringing a host and I was like you going to host the Caps got talent and that was my other than hosting things in church.
- 25:37Jr Lee: I was like, yeah, boy, like I got you here, I used to take it real serious.
- 25:41Jr Lee: I used to let my mother buy an outfit for me Like I used to take it real serious.
- 25:44Jr Lee: I used to let my mother buy an outfit for me Like yo, we going real hard with this Caps, got talent and things.
- 25:48Jr Lee: So I'm real happy that I ended up in form six.
- 25:49Jr Lee: But while I was going to form six, I used to get up same time as my mom get ready and pretend like if I'm doing something in the kitchen.
- 25:57Jr Lee: Soon as she leave, I used to take off my clothes and go and sleep.
- 26:01Corie: I, this is like yeah, so champion was you.
- 26:05Corie: If Delroy was your uncle, champion is you?
- 26:07Corie: Yeah?
- 26:08Jr Lee: champion is basically me.
- 26:09Jr Lee: Yeah, champion is you.
- 26:10Jr Lee: And then I make it to university too.
- 26:12Jr Lee: Yeah, I started studying.
- 26:14Corie: What are you doing in Form 6?
- 26:15Corie: What's up with you?
- 26:16Jr Lee: Business and entrepreneurship.
- 26:18Jr Lee: Sociology.
- 26:18Jr Lee: Sociology actually made me a sociology and caribbean studies actually made me an angry young man.
- 26:24Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah, because you understand some of the ills in society.
- 26:29Jr Lee: You understand, like, where you come from.
- 26:31Jr Lee: You understand slavery, understanding dentistry.
- 26:33Jr Lee: You understand after it was abolished, like all the struggles that afro and indo-china audience still faced right before independence and after independence.
- 26:44Jr Lee: So like I just used to feel like if then everybody against me were like saying, like I end up becoming one of them, them young men are like everybody against us, are not really looking.
- 26:54Corie: Yeah take off the veil.
- 26:55Jr Lee: Yeah, not really, hey, not maybe I am the problem, maybe I have some issues that I need to deal with on a personal level.
- 27:00Jr Lee: So I went down the road of like the system, the the system, and I'd grow up my hair.
- 27:04Jr Lee: That's probably why I went born now.
- 27:05Jr Lee: Yeah, I grew up my hair.
- 27:07Jr Lee: I was like that I'm being you do the Afro thing?
- 27:09Corie: Yeah, I'm expressing me.
- 27:12Jr Lee: I am the full version of me and like now, in this current moment, like at this moment talking to you, I realize maybe that is why I am me now.
- 27:21Jr Lee: That is why I am me now Like I made a choice back then to just be the whatever version of myself I feel I am, like I have no filters for me.
- 27:33Jr Lee: Like you know, a lot of people will put on a persona and then in your private life you're struggling because you're not being yourself Like I am.
- 27:41Corie: There's a thing here with comedians a lot, eh yeah, and you're a student of the comedy thing, so you see some of them dealing with real, real dark issues so my favourite comedian would be Richard Pryor.
- 27:51Jr Lee: Yeah, serious like, and the reason, other than being hilarious like, he's just himself.
- 27:56Jr Lee: Yo, I use drugs, honest, yeah, I use a lot of drugs.
- 28:01Jr Lee: You know what mean.
- 28:02Jr Lee: I had a messed up childhood like.
- 28:04Jr Lee: I went through this.
- 28:05Jr Lee: I went through that and this is me.
- 28:07Jr Lee: Accept me for me or not, or leave me alone and I saw he was sorry for kissing and and I, I saw I I treat my life not like I.
- 28:19Jr Lee: I express myself like yo.
- 28:21Jr Lee: I grew up in moruga.
- 28:22Jr Lee: I have relatives that I grew up in same age as me, same house that went to jail I had a choice to make, as I at a very young age are you going to be this or are you going to be that?
- 28:34Jr Lee: and I choose to be what I am now.
- 28:36Corie: You know sometimes I don't watch a younger self and wonder how make him make them choices.
- 28:40Corie: Yeah, it's a good difference, you know no for real.
- 28:42Jr Lee: I remember we, my cousin and I.
- 28:44Jr Lee: I tell you, my cousin and I, we grew up together.
- 28:46Jr Lee: We're still close to this day because he changed his life, like we put in real work to make sure he changes his life.
- 28:51Jr Lee: You know what I mean like real, real work, real literal tears and prayers, because it's just like yo, this is my brother like we grew up, like yeah, like yeah, so what was I?
- 29:02Corie: going to tell you.
- 29:03Corie: No, you were talking about just your cousin.
- 29:05Jr Lee: The influence, the choices you make and how you oh yeah, Is he drinks Like this one time we started smoking people Right.
- 29:17Corie: You roll up some dick, yeah, yeah.
- 29:19Jr Lee: Right, boom the country.
- 29:21Jr Lee: We get real bad looks.
- 29:23Jr Lee: Yeah, I say, all right, this might be a bad idea.
- 29:28Jr Lee: We T4 on.
- 29:28Jr Lee: Uncle Albert pack a cigarette.
- 29:30Jr Lee: Oh, so you're the smoker for real, like that, right, yeah, uncle Albert is a cigarette man and a beer man and a rum man.
- 29:37Corie: This is a real place.
- 29:38Corie: Got it, got it.
- 29:39Jr Lee: Yo, uncle Albert, let me tell you about this man, right, what am I doing in July?
- 29:46Jr Lee: No, in July Uncle Albert will come home on a fortnight drunk, pick up his quattro.
- 29:52Jr Lee: We go in Parang in July, right now, sun hot.
- 29:57Jr Lee: We go in Parang Pour your pants and you come in.
- 30:00Jr Lee: Yeah, me and his son, me and his jockey son.
- 30:03Jr Lee: Sorry Pour your pants, let me go.
- 30:05Jr Lee: We go in pang, my grandmother see us.
- 30:07Jr Lee: We go in pang koro koro, koro koro.
- 30:10Jr Lee: Sorry, sorry, sorry and he just traveling in quattro and people getting him around.
- 30:14Jr Lee: That's right, it's a maniac, what?
- 30:16Jr Lee: Let me tell you what my family was.
- 30:23Jr Lee: Let me tell you what my family was.
- 30:25Jr Lee: Let me tell you no, come in, you just live with my family, my family.
- 30:28Jr Lee: So we have family in Paramin, right, right, okay, yeah, paramin and Lopino a real Paramin place you come from?
- 30:34Jr Lee: yeah, no, so my my grandmother, father, I think.
- 30:38Jr Lee: He came from Venezuela.
- 30:38Jr Lee: He went to Lopino some back and all happened in Lopino and he moved to Maruga.
- 30:43Jr Lee: Find a wife, leave his wife in Lopino, find a new wife, like how it was back then.
- 30:48Jr Lee: It's expensive to travel in pairs this is why I start a whole new family writing children very Trinidadian story so like them going up Parma.
- 31:01Jr Lee: That's how my whole family Parma one of them started to track somebody's wife up there.
- 31:06Jr Lee: They beat up the whole Parman band.
- 31:08Jr Lee: Men come back home limp in us.
- 31:11Jr Lee: Real bad.
- 31:13Jr Lee: That's the Parman, that Parman there.
- 31:14Jr Lee: Yeah my family is a bad family.
- 31:19Jr Lee: Most of the things that you're seeing is something that probably and I know some of you are exaggerating the exaggeration, but yeah, the beat up the old pal man, the pal man man running to the car.
- 31:30Corie: But you're saying you're getting licks for the cigarette.
- 31:32Corie: Oh, yeah, so you're not a smoker.
- 31:32Corie: You're getting licks for the cigarette.
- 31:33Jr Lee: Right, boom, I get licks for the cigarette.
- 31:35Corie: Yeah.
- 31:36Jr Lee: We teeth the cigarette, we smoke it again.
- 31:37Jr Lee: All of us lock up.
- 31:38Jr Lee: I think Dwight and Anthony Right, we need bathroom.
- 31:47Jr Lee: Not knowing it's our escape.
- 31:50Jr Lee: See this smoke Coming out of the bathroom Because this is the nose and the bill over the house, so this is the only Concrete part of the house, so they think we're hidden.
- 32:00Jr Lee: Yeah, so remember we no more latching all the time, we outside, so nobody really See what we doing.
- 32:05Jr Lee: See, they have a toilet inside now and we smoking in the toilet, not thinking the smoke is going to be in the house.
- 32:12Jr Lee: Bro, my grandmother cracked the bathroom door with the keys, belt, belt, belt, real belt.
- 32:19Jr Lee: Run out of the bathroom, reach on the back, step man and catch me, licks again.
- 32:24Jr Lee: Ridge long stairs.
- 32:25Jr Lee: Who waiting?
- 32:26Jr Lee: Uncle Albert Licks.
- 32:27Jr Lee: So after Long says who ate in?
- 32:28Jr Lee: Uncle Albert Licks.
- 32:29Jr Lee: So after that, three doors back to back.
- 32:31Jr Lee: I say well, I am not a smoker Immediately.
- 32:36Corie: I am.
- 32:37Jr Lee: This is not for me.
- 32:37Jr Lee: I need to do, I need to read.
- 32:39Jr Lee: I need to become a reader.
- 32:40Jr Lee: I'm not a smoker.
- 32:42Jr Lee: So he get the licks and I guess the licks wasn't enough or something.
- 32:50Jr Lee: He was like you know what, let me try weed.
- 32:53Jr Lee: You want to try weed?
- 32:55Jr Lee: I was like I don't want to try weed because he had the last licks.
- 32:59Jr Lee: Imagine the kind of licks you get for cigarettes.
- 33:01Jr Lee: He'll kill you.
- 33:02Jr Lee: You know what kind of licks you get for weed.
- 33:04Jr Lee: At least I didn't smoke weed at a young age.
- 33:08Corie: But at nine, eight, nine Serious.
- 33:10Corie: Yeah, I don't even know when he was getting it.
- 33:12Jr Lee: No, rugel yeah yeah.
- 33:14Jr Lee: He was wild.
- 33:15Jr Lee: So I have a choice To make.
- 33:18Jr Lee: I have a choice To make.
- 33:18Corie: But you're sticking with him.
- 33:19Corie: You see, you see all the working together, you're helping him.
- 33:21Corie: He may come a long way.
- 33:23Jr Lee: He came a long way.
- 33:23Jr Lee: He's been out of prison like maybe four or five years.
- 33:29Jr Lee: Oh, that's good.
- 33:29Jr Lee: Three years, that's good.
- 33:30Jr Lee: Last time he came out he went back in jail like the week of.
- 33:33Jr Lee: Yeah, like I went and picked him up today, monday, and I'm reading the news and I see the picture of him on the news.
- 33:41Jr Lee: I was like how are we making it?
- 33:43Jr Lee: Yeah, man, that was real.
- 33:47Corie: But I know about visiting my cousin in YTC and things, yeah yeah, yeah, but even them things, them things is heavy Thing you talking about, in them moments you finding comedy and things still, because you saying that.
- 33:57Jr Lee: So, like the first time I went to visit him in YTC, there's a table just like this, so he on this side and I on this side, everybody coming out their hands swinging.
- 34:06Jr Lee: He come out Cheeing up Like Hand go on this side, everybody coming out their hands swinging, he come out cheeing up.
- 34:11Jr Lee: True, like hand cuff on foot.
- 34:12Jr Lee: Come on out.
- 34:12Jr Lee: It's like curling.
- 34:12Jr Lee: I tried to curl with the prison officer.
- 34:14Corie: Why you have my cousin like this.
- 34:15Jr Lee: It's like a cousin beat up our whole room, yeah he get locked up in jail.
- 34:21Jr Lee: He get locked up in jail.
- 34:23Jr Lee: So I remember when I leave in there I used to be crying With like tears Because this is my brother, of course.
- 34:29Corie: Of course I mean.
- 34:30Jr Lee: It's not like that's making Tom mistakes, you know.
- 34:33Jr Lee: So yeah, it used to be heavy, but we used to still Make jokes about it.
- 34:36Jr Lee: Like when I visit him, I'll still make jokes About certain things.
- 34:40Jr Lee: Yeah.
- 34:40Corie: I guess Like yeah.
- 34:41Jr Lee: You don't drop the soap.
- 34:41Jr Lee: You know he's.
- 34:44Jr Lee: He's a youth man.
- 34:45Jr Lee: He don't know what they're doing here.
- 34:46Corie: So when you're going back from that film festival, you realise that this is your calling yeah your next step, you started doing videos and things.
- 34:59Corie: Where did it get from videos that?
- 35:01Corie: When you started getting traction from strangers, because if your friends and them tell you it's good.
- 35:04Corie: When did it start to happen where people who you don't know tell you it's good?
- 35:07Corie: When?
- 35:08Jr Lee: it started happening where people who you don't know?
- 35:09Jr Lee: Telling you hey, you're funny.
- 35:10Jr Lee: Um, it take a while, take a long time, like I had stopped doing the videos and started focusing on stand-up comedy yeah.
- 35:16Corie: Yeah, you say stand-up was where you went.
- 35:18Corie: I was with first.
- 35:19Jr Lee: Most people in this era start online and then go to yeah I did it the opposite, like I was doing stand-up comedy I know about.
- 35:25Jr Lee: Like I again, I was in secondary school, form six, and going to open mics late in the night, taking my mother last fifty dollars to go to town and drink.
- 35:36Jr Lee: Yeah, like that lady will support me, like my mother will support me, or psych out, stress it enough I love my mother to death or something, because she believe in something that you couldn't see.
- 35:46Jr Lee: Yeah, you can't see it, it, it, it's hard.
- 35:47Jr Lee: It's tough If you want to be a comedian name the last rich comedian in Trinidad A song like Struggles.
- 35:54Jr Lee: Yeah, songs like that, and even if they, we will get to that just now.
- 35:58Jr Lee: But yeah, so started stand-up comedy Died.
- 36:03Jr Lee: Some people started recognizing me and they were like, hey, you're funny, but I guess it's a niche circuit, right, right.
- 36:09Jr Lee: So a hundred people might know me.
- 36:11Jr Lee: Hey, you're a real funny voice.
- 36:13Jr Lee: I might be walking on the road.
- 36:14Jr Lee: One person might be like I remember you from that thing.
- 36:17Jr Lee: Yeah, you're real funny.
- 36:18Jr Lee: So meet up with people like Kwame Weeks, right, anil, not Anil, and Kenita.
- 36:30Jr Lee: Like a guy from India, his father from India, his mother is a Trinidadian.
- 36:32Jr Lee: He used to live in India.
- 36:33Jr Lee: He come back Trinidad, he live in Canada now.
- 36:34Jr Lee: He actually opened for me when I was in Canada yeah there's a full circle moment that's a proud of that moment.
- 36:39Jr Lee: So yeah, so yeah, kwame Anil and we just used to be going all over Trinidad Literally all over Trinidad, like performing in bars for five people and things yeah.
- 36:52Corie: Seriously the bar thing.
- 36:53Jr Lee: Yeah, like you know, that is a real thing.
- 36:57Jr Lee: Like you have to go out and perform I know we're performing for drunk people and people calling and saying come off the stage.
- 37:03Jr Lee: You, mother, you know what I mean.
- 37:07Jr Lee: People not enough.
- 37:07Jr Lee: And I, I am a teenager experiencing this.
- 37:13Jr Lee: These people are hurting my feelings and they don't care.
- 37:15Jr Lee: They do not care that I am 17 or 16 doing this only game.
- 37:19Jr Lee: I come here to drink, yeah only music so like I, I, that's how we started.
- 37:29Jr Lee: We started doing that.
- 37:31Corie: But what you're doing?
- 37:31Corie: You're just going to the bar and ask them for a minute to perform you, and then we'll talk to them Serious and then we'll talk to them.
- 37:36Jr Lee: Then we used to go to True Talk.
- 37:38Jr Lee: No Lie, you had to pay $50 to perform.
- 37:42Jr Lee: Yeah, I am leaving home with $50.
- 37:47Corie: Just to get one.
- 37:47Jr Lee: The next time my cousin came out of jail I said hey, come and see something new.
- 37:50Jr Lee: We're doing this comedy thing.
- 37:51Jr Lee: Reach up to you and tell him I can't perform.
- 37:54Jr Lee: He's like what do you mean?
- 37:55Jr Lee: You can't perform?
- 37:55Jr Lee: I was like no, you can perform tonight.
- 37:57Jr Lee: Tonight, we'll make an exception tonight.
- 38:02Jr Lee: So like yeah, we, we used to go to all the open mics and it used to have I'm talking like if we used to, like if it was back in, yeah, some days it's 2014, 2015, 2016, like 10 years ago, 9, 10 years ago.
- 38:19Jr Lee: So all the poetry, open mics we'd hear people talking about up and down and my father and I come in and well, i'll't think I joke right after that.
- 38:29Jr Lee: That used to be real heavy.
- 38:30Jr Lee: It's heavy but you used to get through, you used to connect, you used to like you don't feel it to laugh after somebody say the father, I don't feel it to laugh yeah, that's way funny.
- 38:43Jr Lee: I was like why she would say that now before I go on the stage, why the hell put me before that whole heavy energy and I hope you, if you're watching this.
- 38:53Jr Lee: I hope you wasn't lying.
- 38:54Jr Lee: I hope you make up that lesson.
- 38:56Jr Lee: To go and tell some poems, why not?
- 39:00Corie: Why not?
- 39:00Jr Lee: I don't even hope it was real.
- 39:01Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 39:02Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 39:04Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 39:05Corie: I always say I would say, I would say, but that bar, that's interesting to me because that is a level of belly to just go on.
- 39:12Jr Lee: No, but back then, back then you're looking fabricated.
- 39:20Jr Lee: Okay, I didn't care, I wasn't thinking.
- 39:22Jr Lee: This is a bar.
- 39:23Jr Lee: I, like Brenton, performed all like literally all over the place.
- 39:26Jr Lee: There's a lot of gay club I performed in as a youth man, like a teenager.
- 39:31Jr Lee: I didn't know if it was a gay club.
- 39:33Jr Lee: Well, he don't know us.
- 39:34Jr Lee: It's just that gay people we had a good time, I tell you.
- 39:38Jr Lee: Yeah, they laughed.
- 39:40Jr Lee: They laughed there.
- 39:41Jr Lee: They didn't laugh at the band.
- 39:45Jr Lee: So go on, I performed like I was just trying to find my people, like Kwame, and then Kevin Sawyer came along, then Simili Trini, like all of us, was just all over Trinidad trying to find a place to perform, and it didn't matter where it was.
- 40:01Jr Lee: Like I would have performed anywhere, like literally anywhere.
- 40:04Jr Lee: I would have performed.
- 40:05Corie: So where are you getting the tools?
- 40:06Corie: Because stand-up comedy is one of the most difficult things to do in terms of performing arts because it's you and Mike and drunk people.
- 40:12Corie: That's hard.
- 40:13Corie: And it's Trinidadians especially Sprangalang used to talk about this all the time where we have a kind of culture where a man really come in a comedy show to boo or to watch man bomb.
- 40:25Corie: I used to see it in Yanga Tang.
- 40:26Corie: They used to do this big show in Yanga Tang.
- 40:27Corie: I hear you talk to Nikki about some of it.
- 40:29Corie: There used to be big shows in the stadium.
- 40:31Corie: Yeah, and brother, when you get a mic, you have about 20 seconds.
- 40:35Corie: Yeah, you're rumbling starting when you walk out from the back yeah, you know so how you get a how you know what to do to.
- 40:49Jr Lee: But that's a real good question.
- 40:50Jr Lee: Yes, you gotta go with Gordon, I guess, because yeah, it's a good comedy, right yo you?
- 40:55Jr Lee: I literally I can tell a joke here right now.
- 41:01Jr Lee: It works.
- 41:02Jr Lee: And then I go down the road tell that same joke on the crowd watching me this man boy, this short man might come off the stage.
- 41:10Jr Lee: Boy, so like comedy, hey, as I think it's the show, that's it getting paid to try.
- 41:17Jr Lee: Yeah, getting paid for the attempt.
- 41:19Jr Lee: Yeah, literally getting paid for the attempt.
- 41:21Jr Lee: But when they're performing jokes over a certain amount of time, you know what joke work.
- 41:27Corie: I understand you know what?
- 41:27Jr Lee: joke week.
- 41:28Jr Lee: I understand, you know, you know which one going and sneak up on them at the first and they sit them off that.
- 41:32Jr Lee: So like I know which one is that for me, so I would start with that one.
- 41:36Corie: I see, yeah, so let me say something.
- 41:37Corie: When you go to different areas, that's one of the ways, like some might connect and check on us, but in town people don't find it funny, so you work it out there, this carnival I performed at the carnival village in Port of Spain.
- 41:48Jr Lee: Right, you know them sit down there and watch me like yeah, all right, I'm off now.
- 41:53Corie: They want to hear Kaisa.
- 41:54Jr Lee: They want to hear me.
- 41:55Jr Lee: They do not want to hear me, but you got to understand that it's comedy and that's something that I understand now.
- 42:02Jr Lee: I am not here, everybody laugh.
- 42:04Jr Lee: I am here to make who is my audience?
- 42:07Jr Lee: Why my audience laugh like I'm not, like you can't make everybody laugh, like if you do that you'll be unhappy, because every time you go somewhere there's a random place to perform and they don't laugh.
- 42:17Jr Lee: You feel like if you're not good, yeah, but then you could give up yeah, but then when you look back at our next performance you know shelly plays the same jokes.
- 42:24Jr Lee: So it's's not for everybody.
- 42:26Jr Lee: It's like music.
- 42:28Jr Lee: I don't listen to certain genre of music.
- 42:31Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah, yeah, not for you, and same with you.
- 42:32Jr Lee: You know what?
- 42:33Corie: I mean Of course, of course.
- 42:34Jr Lee: Like.
- 42:34Jr Lee: It's our people who don't like cursing in stand-up comedy, so they wouldn't come to a junior league show.
- 42:39Jr Lee: Or they might come because they could just tolerate me, because they, like me, know what I mean.
- 42:43Jr Lee: But there are some people who will find kevin sawyer 10 times funnier than me and he is, I believe, kevin, so he's one of the funniest people in the whole wide world.
- 42:51Jr Lee: So he has his style of comedy.
- 42:53Jr Lee: I have my style, like everybody.
- 42:56Jr Lee: There's genres not like you know so you just gotta appreciate who appreciates you, and I'm not trying to make everybody laugh I post something on tiktok the other day and somebody's just this is comedy.
- 43:07Jr Lee: Yeah, it's not comedy for you.
- 43:09Jr Lee: You go up the road, you find what works for you.
- 43:12Jr Lee: You taking time out your day with a fake profile to comment that's what it's about to be, I don't mind.
- 43:18Jr Lee: I don't mind you telling me I'm not funny.
- 43:20Jr Lee: You're right.
- 43:20Jr Lee: You're well in your right to tell me I am not funny.
- 43:25Jr Lee: Yeah, me, I am not funny.
- 43:31Corie: Yeah and I am well in my right to tell you.
- 43:32Jr Lee: But my problem is why are you hiding to tell me that?
- 43:34Jr Lee: No, tell me for real.
- 43:35Corie: Let me tell my cousin from maruka to come and talk to you let me tell you how bad that is for me from my generation when I grew up on social media.
- 43:41Corie: So for me, social media is done hiding, yeah.
- 43:44Corie: Because if I come to tell you today, hey, you're not funny to me, yeah and.
- 43:47Corie: But I said you're hiding by to me, yeah and.
- 43:48Corie: But I said you're hiding by saying it online, but you're going behind a fake profile too, yeah, no, it's our people who will come up to me and be like boy.
- 43:54Jr Lee: Well, you know, I don't really, I'm not really no big fan of you, but my wife, cool with that, like you are well in your right especially if you buy a ticket.
- 44:13Corie: You can tell me anything.
- 44:14Jr Lee: I have your money in my bank account so, like you can tell me anything and I appreciate, I appreciate feedback, it don't matter.
- 44:16Corie: Yeah, no, I genuinely appreciate feedback.
- 44:17Jr Lee: Yeah, but I appreciate sound and wise feedback.
- 44:19Jr Lee: You can't just tell me I'm not funny, just so now we take that, something I want to read.
- 44:24Corie: You know where's that?
- 44:25Corie: I justy, I ain't so sure I could read it now.
- 44:27Corie: Now, all hell could break loose here.
- 44:28Corie: You know, I'm frying it.
- 44:30Corie: Two things actually.
- 44:32Jr Lee: I'm real open on this interview.
- 44:34Jr Lee: I hope I don't get no backlash here.
- 44:36Corie: Kyle Hennessy is a charm.
- 44:38Corie: Thanks for the suggestion.
- 44:40Corie: He said the goal is not to be the funniest or the biggest.
- 44:42Corie: The goal is to to fulfill my purpose and take care of my family emotionally, financially and spiritually.
- 44:47Corie: That's what I mean.
- 44:47Corie: Yeah, that's that real.
- 44:50Jr Lee: That is me.
- 44:51Jr Lee: What let me see that post.
- 44:52Jr Lee: What time I post that?
- 44:53Jr Lee: Oh, they didn't say the time.
- 44:55Jr Lee: That's probably me.
- 44:56Corie: Like the 8th of June.
- 44:57Jr Lee: No, but that's probably me what time of day, 3 in the morning sometime.
- 45:04Jr Lee: On Facebook I share some of my most genuine Tuscaloosa people who follow me long time.
- 45:08Jr Lee: So they genuinely, they know who I am.
- 45:11Jr Lee: So that is a real thing.
- 45:13Jr Lee: Like I am not here, yeah, but I have to be the funniest when I go out there, boy, if I'm not the funniest, I go in home and that is not me.
- 45:21Jr Lee: Like I am here to fulfill my purpose.
- 45:24Jr Lee: I believe my purpose.
- 45:25Jr Lee: I believe my purpose is to bring joy and laughter to people who need it.
- 45:28Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 45:30Jr Lee: Got it and then, right after that, it's to take care of my family to the best of my ability, of course, of course.
- 45:36Jr Lee: And once I do that, I am happy, I am very happy.
- 45:40Jr Lee: That's why I can tell they have no problem.
- 45:41Jr Lee: People tell me I'm not funny.
- 45:49Corie: I don't find I funny.
- 45:49Corie: Yeah, let me let me dead that now.
- 45:50Corie: Right, there are a few comedians who, uh, like you mentioned kevin soy, like you see people talking about him, as he very, very different genre, as you say, very calculated method.
- 45:54Corie: Best, he's sitting in his pocket for a long time he's sitting without, yeah, like I watch him talk for a long chapelle is one of the people who has seen do that.
- 46:02Corie: I was able to go and see chapelle a couple years ago and when you watch him TV how long he talking for before he got a laugh when you're in the arena you feel the tension.
- 46:11Jr Lee: Yeah, it's like what's going on here.
- 46:12Corie: You know you're going to get a laugh, the payoff coming, yeah, but you are one of the people who, for me, when I look at some of the comedians I was watching out growing.
- 46:23Corie: Yeah, them is two people who I see where them don't tell no joke in a dread when you see them, yeah, that's laugh because they're ugly, you know.
- 46:30Jr Lee: Say that's laugh one time.
- 46:31Corie: I was going to say that you, I was going to say that yeah it's me ugly bald short fat.
- 46:36Jr Lee: It works as.
- 46:37Jr Lee: I can it works out for me like I already have advantage over here.
- 46:42Jr Lee: A bald short ball and shot and a fat Laughter out the door.
- 46:46Jr Lee: I don't even know how to say that I won.
- 46:49Corie: But you get in there all the time like day to day life.
- 46:51Corie: People don't come up and tell you like hey, say something funny yeah say something funny, do something funny.
- 46:58Jr Lee: I look like a puppet, a party.
- 47:01Jr Lee: I'm not in a good mood right now.
- 47:03Jr Lee: Let me do something funny Actually.
- 47:05Jr Lee: Maybe do something funny Actually, vex.
- 47:06Jr Lee: Yeah, I remember, like the other day, my mother in the hospital.
- 47:08Jr Lee: Her lady said she passed me.
- 47:11Jr Lee: She was there smiling.
- 47:12Jr Lee: I said, lady, I don't know what's going on with my mother in the back there.
- 47:15Jr Lee: You feel that?
- 47:16Jr Lee: She's in the hospital.
- 47:17Corie: Yes, I thought you were like in Tonga or something, when they come from the hospital In Tonga.
- 47:23Jr Lee: I was like, lady, my mother is sitting back there right now.
- 47:26Jr Lee: You feel any mood to tell a joke?
- 47:28Corie: But if you say that people will laugh, you know what I see the other day?
- 47:31Jr Lee: She didn't laugh.
- 47:31Jr Lee: She was like oh, my God, I didn't know.
- 47:32Jr Lee: Oh, okay, okay.
- 47:34Corie: Exactly.
- 47:34Corie: I see a man post something.
- 47:37Corie: When you went in the stadium to watch football in a suit, what caused that boy?
- 47:40Corie: You?
- 47:40Corie: See everybody going to leave my house in that suit.
- 47:43Jr Lee: No, I'm not going to leave my house in that suit.
- 47:44Jr Lee: I had a gig right in Port-au-Prince, mate, right, but you walked from the gig or you could have changed.
- 47:54Jr Lee: No, you know what time.
- 47:55Jr Lee: I reached the stadium In the 70th minute, so if I changed my clothes I would have missed the game.
- 48:01Jr Lee: I'm a patriot, I Patriot and I support the national teams heavy.
- 48:11Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah, if I'm in talk, I'm going to make the game regardless of what I have on, but next time I'm not coming.
- 48:14Corie: That means I'm not the only person, Salera, because somebody make a video Aman, welcome to me.
- 48:17Jr Lee: Why you have to be so unnecessarily extra.
- 48:20Jr Lee: Aman Salera, yeah, why are you in me?
- 48:29Jr Lee: But that statement will extra.
- 48:30Jr Lee: Yeah, why you choose unnecessarily?
- 48:30Jr Lee: You know, I show you even right now for creative writing.
- 48:33Jr Lee: You use it as a statement against me.
- 48:36Jr Lee: You didn't get that statement.
- 48:37Jr Lee: Why you use it as an extra.
- 48:38Jr Lee: Why you use it as an unnecessarily extra.
- 48:41Jr Lee: You use it as an adjective right in front of an adjective.
- 48:43Jr Lee: That got me so mad, that one, that one, make my feet to fight but I see you in that thing.
- 48:53Corie: I'm thinking, boy, from the time people see you by the gate they must be laughing because somebody got a video you watching the game.
- 48:58Corie: Seriously, yeah, I come to watch the game.
- 48:59Corie: You know what time I watch that that thing looks.
- 49:01Jr Lee: I came to watch the game.
- 49:03Jr Lee: I just had like if I, honestly, if I had changed my clothes.
- 49:06Corie: I would have missed the whole game.
- 49:07Jr Lee: I missed the whole game Because we was going home and I was like yo, we'll talk like 30 minutes and she made her, let me go yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah and then we went.
- 49:14Corie: But Lizzie Mack again, like Larry Joseph, he's a working pack shooting TSTT right.
- 49:23Jr Lee: So what it is we were talking about.
- 49:25Corie: I just I'm sure listen, I see you.
- 49:27Corie: I see you interviewing Nicky Crosby.
- 49:28Corie: I feel real good when I see that, because that's a whole with the year you born.
- 49:34Corie: With my quick maths you could meet a lot of people your age who don't know who's Nicky Crosby.
- 49:38Corie: I thought it's half my lot, right.
- 49:39Corie: So it means you study anything.
- 49:41Corie: You know them.
- 49:43Corie: You know what I mean.
- 49:44Corie: You ain't just no bouter, you know.
- 49:46Jr Lee: I am a I am a student and fan of comedy Before Before I'm a comedian.
- 49:51Jr Lee: I'm a student and a fan of comedy.
- 49:53Jr Lee: Yeah, so like I am not, I am not one of them who, just doing this Like I really love this.
- 49:59Jr Lee: I could sit down and take you In a comedy show Like I.
- 50:03Corie: I love comedy.
- 50:04Corie: Yeah, I in need same boat.
- 50:05Corie: I need same boat.
- 50:06Corie: When I see you talking, it feel good yeah and and in talking to her I was watching you doing a real quick match.
- 50:11Corie: In your head you see 17 000 and how much dollars for a ticket 40 dollars and I see you multiply before.
- 50:16Corie: I see it in your head quick.
- 50:17Corie: So they tell me you're making money because this man said you know how many people get.
- 50:22Corie: It's something you want to do.
- 50:26Corie: You can't hear casually like why are they doing this on all your shows?
- 50:29Corie: It's something you I know the whole comedy circuit.
- 50:32Corie: You're seeing yourselves in bigger venues like stadiums.
- 50:35Jr Lee: I would like to do a stadium.
- 50:36Jr Lee: I would like to do.
- 50:37Jr Lee: You know, like Russell Bees, I did a Scotiabank arena the other day.
- 50:43Jr Lee: I was like I wish I could do Scotiabank Arena.
- 50:45Corie: Right.
- 50:45Corie: So when you were in Canada, what arena did you do?
- 50:48Corie: We did a club.
- 50:48Jr Lee: It was a club.
- 50:49Jr Lee: Yeah, we did a club.
- 50:50Jr Lee: It was like 460 people and then we did You're saying 400, like it's a little bit of people like 400 drunk people.
- 50:56Jr Lee: Shout out to my boy, jb Jambore.
- 50:59Corie: Right, yeah, we pulled it off and then we did like 60 people, right, and then we're doing the comedy club in this month, the 27th of this month.
- 51:12Corie: So how much adjustment it is for you on stage, like when you go there and you see 60 people, because, like again you come in this room today.
- 51:15Corie: Yeah, I've never heard so much people talking here since people coming, everybody's be quiet.
- 51:19Corie: Everybody's go back inside.
- 51:20Corie: Nobody not back inside.
- 51:21Corie: Everybody right here so how much of an adjustment it is for you when you have a small room or small venue versus when you're doing four, five hundred people I am more afraid of a small room yeah yeah, like a big room hey I guess it'll come out anyway, I am I'm a dot in that room, like you know.
- 51:38Jr Lee: I mean there's so much other people, they're studying, but like what, what happens in the smaller room, though I'm a bit more intimate, right.
- 51:45Jr Lee: So I will talk like I was talking to you right now, like you know.
- 51:47Jr Lee: I mean I'll tell my jokes but also have a conversation with the audience and they enjoyed us.
- 51:51Jr Lee: So when we did ottawa, like we got um, it's called our encore, like we're gonna bring you back like yeah and that's.
- 51:57Jr Lee: That's like the the second time that ever happened to me really.
- 52:00Jr Lee: Yeah, we had a real good time in ottawa because it's like 60 people like and it was people from it had somebody almost from every island got it, so like we were just basically learning from learning stuff from from each other.
- 52:14Jr Lee: So the only adjustment is like I might be a little bit more intimate, I might slow down my pace a bit, got it.
- 52:19Jr Lee: So I had hitting like bam, bam, bam like and I say hey thing I'll say this, say that I might talk to people in the audience a little bit more.
- 52:26Corie: So that's the only adjustments I think we'll make yeah, the crowd work is that thing like again going back to Sprangalang.
- 52:32Corie: Like Larry Joseph was real.
- 52:33Jr Lee: He was precise, very, very careful he was more on the skits.
- 52:36Jr Lee: I don't do skits on stage that is real surprising to me.
- 52:40Corie: Your skits on fire online, all of them.
- 52:42Corie: So you're going to there's not some of your plans.
- 52:44Jr Lee: I don't think so?
- 52:45Jr Lee: Um, I, so I actually started doing them, started back doing them, them skits on them, because I wanted more people at my shows.
- 52:54Jr Lee: Right, that is the only reason why it was marketing really it was marketing for these shows.
- 52:58Jr Lee: It just turned out better than I expected it.
- 53:01Jr Lee: I was just like if I do this skit, I want to sell out napa.
- 53:05Jr Lee: I could sell out napa.
- 53:06Jr Lee: Based on doing these videos, I think I can get 1500 people.
- 53:10Jr Lee: I see.
- 53:11Jr Lee: I see, it just did way better than I expected.
- 53:15Corie: It was never to be the skits man really so you didn't plan to continue it long term either.
- 53:20Jr Lee: It's something I taught you to do for a little while yeah, it's just like, here I go, do these skits here, sell my tickets and have a good day.
- 53:26Corie: Mmhmm, like, have a good day like you feel you're known now for for these skits?
- 53:31Corie: Yeah, for sure.
- 53:32Jr Lee: So now I have to teach my audience that hey this is the thing this is actually what I do yeah because they don't know me for that.
- 53:39Jr Lee: They know me for skits, only they.
- 53:41Jr Lee: They want people who used to follow me but know that hey, he's a stand-up comic, like he's funny and real, like got it, got it so.
- 53:48Jr Lee: Like that's why you'll get comments like where's this, what's going on?
- 53:52Corie: understand.
- 53:52Corie: Yeah, I want to read something else you post I suppose real wild yeah, your facebook different from your instagram and tiktok in it very reflective.
- 53:59Corie: You see, this morning kevin kevin sends a picture to our group chat.
- 54:02Corie: It reminded me that it's okay to fail.
- 54:04Corie: Years ago when I had here we'll fine about that now we did a show and no one showed up, like absolutely nobody.
- 54:10Corie: Instead of sulking sorrow, we actually performed for each other and the staff at the venue.
- 54:14Corie: Life is really what you make it.
- 54:15Corie: Go out there and do your thing.
- 54:18Jr Lee: Real story.
- 54:18Jr Lee: Yeah, that's in our room.
- 54:19Jr Lee: I remember that show like we reached there.
- 54:23Jr Lee: Nobody like literally just the staff and the staff and then they came outside.
- 54:29Jr Lee: They watched the show with us and it's one of the best shows I had, like we.
- 54:31Jr Lee: We made each other laugh and it's a real good thing when you make comedians laugh as well.
- 54:36Corie: I suppose, yeah, comedians are a little harder to laugh than the average man when he was there.
- 54:39Jr Lee: You see, you see Kevin in the audience.
- 54:41Jr Lee: Kevin, have a Like he's done a performance, like you're killing it.
- 54:46Corie: You know you're on fire, I'm killing it.
- 54:49Jr Lee: You know.
- 54:49Jr Lee: So, like To us, just Like it wasn't, it was Kevin Sawyer, myself, jerome, I can't remember if Pam he was there.
- 54:58Jr Lee: Lyrics Was a good bit of us.
- 55:02Corie: Yeah.
- 55:02Jr Lee: Like maybe 10 of us there, as well as the staff, and we just perform for each other and that is part of it.
- 55:09Jr Lee: Like before, I was getting likes on Instagram and before we were selling tickets, like I was performing for nobody else.
- 55:16Jr Lee: See, it can't get discouraged.
- 55:17Jr Lee: Now Lots of people will get into this and they'll be like yo, but I'm not getting the likes, I'm not getting the shares, like shares and like I do inside of comedy and nobody coming to the shows.
- 55:27Jr Lee: Like, hey, it's all part of it, I, I've done it and I'm fine I remember you still do little small shows and people I know will be like in one of these days I'll come to your small show and they know me.
- 55:40Jr Lee: You see a little your little, your little show, your little show.
- 55:43Jr Lee: Remember me jive.
- 55:44Jr Lee: A man tell me jive.
- 55:45Jr Lee: Um, I will totally do one of them, little videos for me, for my business boy.
- 55:49Jr Lee: I'm like, yeah, I'm going to think about doing a video for your little business.
- 55:53Jr Lee: You can go to your little food business.
- 55:56Corie: Imagine telling me look who you're telling that to man.
- 56:00Jr Lee: But I don't consider myself anywhere honestly.
- 56:04Corie: Yeah, I consider it so.
- 56:05Jr Lee: I don't.
- 56:10Corie: But in comparison to what we have in mind in terms of your goal here.
- 56:13Jr Lee: No, in comparison to life, to real life, like I don't get consumed by popularity, right like this is not real to me, like I just go, man, I don't wash where still like this is not real to me, bro.
- 56:22Jr Lee: Like I again, I just here to take care of my family.
- 56:25Jr Lee: I fulfill my purpose, so like, and one day everybody might say f*** Lee, we don't like him anymore, or I get old and nobody know me anymore.
- 56:36Jr Lee: So if I allow myself to be consumed by popularity and whatever I have going on now, I'm losing the element of Javel Sean JK Limo and I don't ever want to lose the element of myself, not disregarding who I am.
- 56:51Jr Lee: Now I understand you know what I mean, but just understand it's an extension of who I am in reality.
- 56:57Jr Lee: You know, yeah, like I still have cousins struggling with us.
- 57:01Jr Lee: Let's go.
- 57:01Jr Lee: I know real friends who I grew up with in school that go into it you know what I mean in school that go and shred.
- 57:12Jr Lee: You know I mean and I try my best to not get caught up in whatever I have going on that you lose that, that side of yourself, that, hey, I was just a poor youth man in my room.
- 57:17Corie: You know, like everybody who accomplish a lot, only people I talk into here, for instance, especially people from my generation, and before that was always a concern for people who choose, let me say, public life.
- 57:27Corie: Right, but I always wonder about your generation now if it's more difficult for you because of social media, because we grew up in a time where your public life used to end in a dread.
- 57:37Corie: You used to sing and you'd go home and nice it, but you'd have no point.
- 57:40Corie: In a day now when somebody not watching your video Like Instagram thing, they show you how long somebody watch your video, for your own must be months long, so you never have a point with nobody watching it.
- 57:51Corie: Is it harder to disconnect and come away from it because of the social media?
- 57:53Jr Lee: thing, no, I.
- 57:53Jr Lee: I is disconnect yeah, I I am disconnected right now, though I when I tell you like I am not consumed by this, like I am really not, um, I'm thankful and grateful for everybody that, that, that that watch your videos and they support it and stuff like that, but like I am not one of them who just like yeah boy, I have a video there, oh God, I'm winning right now.
- 58:18Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, you know you know I and I'm the talking totally like I am having fun with my life because clearly I tell somebody this the other day, like I got in two real dread accidents in my life.
- 58:37Jr Lee: So this is probably why I have this morbid thought of like I we gonna die one day and I'm not gonna like, because I'm a public figure, stop living my life like that's never going to happen.
- 58:49Jr Lee: Like I got in two real bad accidents in my life.
- 58:52Jr Lee: I don't drive, I'll never back up again.
- 58:56Corie: Shit, Wait, wait.
- 58:56Corie: You might have to bleep that out and get a sponsor.
- 58:59Jr Lee: Oh yeah, I will never drive a certain car again, right, bro?
- 59:09Jr Lee: Bro, like I Like.
- 59:10Jr Lee: So this is why I live my life With my life, to please me, sure and sure that it's not Affecting the people around me, right?
- 59:15Jr Lee: So my mother, my cousin, ikel and I Leave in Maruga, coming up the other night, tire blowed, Car flipped four times, nice, like it was real bad, real, real, real, real bad.
- 59:31Jr Lee: And in that moment my mother fell out the back of the car on the highway.
- 59:38Jr Lee: So it's like mommy, mommy, like no answer.
- 59:41Jr Lee: So like for about 10 seconds, bro, I felt like if my life was over, like I felt like everything that I love was gone, like for real, like I was like you're like this, this is gone.
- 59:57Jr Lee: This is when I'm a closest cousin.
- 59:58Jr Lee: Like he didn't answer the first call as well.
- 1:00:00Jr Lee: So I was like yo, my close cousin, and my mother and I alone, alive in this moment.
- 1:00:06Jr Lee: Like yo, where's this?
- 1:00:08Jr Lee: And then like, crawl out of the car.
- 1:00:11Jr Lee: And then my mother's like oh girl, oh girl, I just can't move, I can't move.
- 1:00:14Jr Lee: And I was just like yo, I could have died in this moment.
- 1:00:18Jr Lee: My mother, I could have lose everything.
- 1:00:20Jr Lee: Like everybody that close to me, I could have lose them and, like you know, like this, yeah, like you know, like this, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:00:26Jr Lee: So the next day, passing the site of the accident, you know, the grass started to grow back up.
- 1:00:33Jr Lee: I was like that is, how quick life is, that's?
- 1:00:36Corie: the life boy.
- 1:00:40Jr Lee: Yeah, that's like life is moving so fast.
- 1:00:42Jr Lee: I'm like why, holy, no, no, why I am trying to stifle who I am or stifle what I want to do because of what somebody else would think about me.
- 1:00:51Jr Lee: I would die one day and nobody would care.
- 1:00:54Jr Lee: They would care for a moment and with half people I would be sad.
- 1:00:58Corie: But the grass will grow back.
- 1:00:59Jr Lee: Yeah, the grass will grow back.
- 1:01:00Jr Lee: It will have a next junior league, it will have a next whoever, and life will keep moving.
- 1:01:04Jr Lee: Life will keep evolving, so I'm not allowing myself to take myself so serious that you stop living.
- 1:01:13Corie: Yeah.
- 1:01:13Jr Lee: I understand I could literally walk out of here right now and die Let me know I hope it do happen.
- 1:01:20Jr Lee: God forbid.
- 1:01:20Jr Lee: Nothing would God is good, but like that's what I but to me this is very, very true, Very, very real.
- 1:01:25Corie: I live my life like that now.
- 1:01:26Jr Lee: Obviously, it's still have like it's at times that you'll be worried, but I don't think that I'm afraid.
- 1:01:33Corie: Right.
- 1:01:34Jr Lee: I'm worried at times.
- 1:01:35Jr Lee: I'm worried about.
- 1:01:36Jr Lee: Hey, maybe this might.
- 1:01:37Jr Lee: Maybe this show that we're doing in Canada July 27th, barbados August 6th and Grenada August 14th and crinidad got spotted.
- 1:01:46Jr Lee: The tickets may not sell.
- 1:01:49Corie: I'm worried.
- 1:01:50Jr Lee: Yeah, you do, but it didn't stop you from living it wouldn't stop me from doing, because I understand, like I don't ever want to be.
- 1:01:57Jr Lee: The worst thing I think I can be is is sick and living with regrets.
- 1:02:02Jr Lee: I understand you whatever happened to me in my life, like I had this conversation with my mother the other day and I was like mommy, like I know I'm your only son, I'm your only child and if I die prematurely God forbid you'll be sad, and I don't.
- 1:02:17Jr Lee: I don't ever want you to be so sad that you stop living.
- 1:02:22Jr Lee: You know, what I mean.
- 1:02:23Jr Lee: Like your son, live a full life.
- 1:02:25Jr Lee: I live up for my age, bro.
- 1:02:26Jr Lee: Like your son, live a full life.
- 1:02:26Jr Lee: I live a for my age, bro.
- 1:02:27Jr Lee: I'm 28.
- 1:02:28Jr Lee: Like God bless me, I bought a house at 27.
- 1:02:31Jr Lee: My mother has a house.
- 1:02:33Jr Lee: I got a house at 27 for my mother.
- 1:02:35Jr Lee: Like God bless me.
- 1:02:36Jr Lee: Like so many things that people live their life trying to achieve, achieve it at a young age, like I, I live a full life.
- 1:02:44Jr Lee: Like, let me just say, I live a full life let me chance to plenty more life.
- 1:02:48Corie: We are drinking.
- 1:02:48Corie: What's happening?
- 1:02:49Corie: I do, yeah to more life.
- 1:02:52Jr Lee: But, like, I've lived a full life and I allow myself to continue living a full life because I understand life short, you understand it fully.
- 1:03:00Jr Lee: You understand it 80 years on this earth is not plenty, it's not a long time, it's not plenty like just the other day black people couldn't vote and all kind of craziness in our in the 1900s like yeah, like what you put it earlier too.
- 1:03:12Corie: You know we ain't so sure if we're gonna never see that again I might come back.
- 1:03:15Jr Lee: I hope not, I hope not, I hope not, but like my that I might think they're like just live your life I wait here.
- 1:03:22Corie: I think it's an important message for you to say to people.
- 1:03:24Corie: You know the tour.
- 1:03:25Corie: Let me talk about that now as you bring it up.
- 1:03:27Corie: So I was looking at your travels to Canada the other day and you said that was good.
- 1:03:32Corie: Let me tell you something about me as a trainee.
- 1:03:34Corie: You say you're a patriot and you're watching the soccer warriors on them teams.
- 1:03:36Corie: Right, why is he watching all the men the same way?
- 1:03:41Corie: Men watching the football team Same?
- 1:03:43Corie: When I see early videos well, the one today I wish I could get my hands on that that is crazy, Crazy, Crazy.
- 1:03:50Corie: But when you see what we're able to travel and do and them types of things, how is it?
- 1:03:57Jr Lee: What would be your first international show?
- 1:03:58Jr Lee: Canada, canada, just now, last year.
- 1:04:00Jr Lee: I see, I see, and I think it's only a year now.
- 1:04:04Jr Lee: Really, no man, I promise you, there's only been a year, that stuff popping off.
- 1:04:09Jr Lee: Seriously, I've been around bubbling, but it took me 10 years to get here now, wow, yeah, literally 2013, 2014.
- 1:04:19Corie: Well, yeah, I guess.
- 1:04:19Corie: So now, yeah, straight out of secondary school.
- 1:04:22Jr Lee: Right, right, yeah, the first big one was the Jamaica versus trinidad mother's day show that um, john paul right and g martin does.
- 1:04:32Jr Lee: Right before that I did a show with dr j.
- 1:04:34Jr Lee: Shows with dr j wasn't a comedy show, it was a party.
- 1:04:36Jr Lee: But if it's comedy stuff that I did, john paul and g martin mother's day clash last year mother's day.
- 1:04:44Corie: But let me ask you something when I was seeing you pop it up, so I guess it's gonna help you to pop up.
- 1:04:48Corie: Yeah, for sure, the online thing, but I also saw you doing like interviews and parties where you'll go and talk to people.
- 1:04:52Corie: Yeah, I think that's another one of the areas where I don't like the comparison thing.
- 1:04:56Jr Lee: But men like Oliver and Larry George, they just you used to get people to say some really before I just trying to sell tickets like doing all them things.
- 1:05:11Jr Lee: One of my mind is I hope one day people buy tickets.
- 1:05:14Jr Lee: That's what it was all about.
- 1:05:15Jr Lee: It was always about when people come and see me.
- 1:05:18Jr Lee: My biggest goal was I want to sell out Napa and we did it so now we'll be looking at what is the next.
- 1:05:26Corie: The next step yeah, what's the next step?
- 1:05:27Jr Lee: But the first thing was was was JP, and then right after that he was like yo, I want you to come back up for Red, white and Laugh, and that was in November.
- 1:05:34Jr Lee: So it was in and out, and then I spent like two weeks in November, yeah, and in that two weeks it's solidified like hey, like it's have a, the opportunities are here, just how the pain they work like, and that's what I'm trying to figure out now.
- 1:05:49Jr Lee: So I'm I spend a lot of time trying to figure out like how we could be touring not just me, because, like I you come up with a crew.
- 1:05:58Jr Lee: yeah, not only I come up with a crew.
- 1:05:59Jr Lee: But like, how can Junior Lee do this?
- 1:06:02Jr Lee: And then, from Junior Lee doing this, other comedians down the road could do it as well.
- 1:06:07Jr Lee: Like how can I help pave a way?
- 1:06:09Jr Lee: I understand, how can we as a team come together and create a route?
- 1:06:14Jr Lee: Like when I was coming up and I see the older generation of comedians and us, we are disjointed.
- 1:06:21Jr Lee: Sure, yeah, nobody.
- 1:06:21Jr Lee: Never do this.
- 1:06:22Jr Lee: Like, hey, come on, I'm going to take you on tour.
- 1:06:23Corie: Originally they're not comedians no, like everybody said Ahsoka, atis, calypso.
- 1:06:28Corie: And business people.
- 1:06:29Corie: Everybody said is that a thing here?
- 1:06:31Jr Lee: If I could change that a little bit.
- 1:06:39Corie: I think I did great audience.
- 1:06:40Corie: I don't know if it's surprising to you or not, but it's almost like I have 45 as your mother age.
- 1:06:45Corie: So the thing about it is I don't like it, my mother.
- 1:06:48Corie: I mean, what you're doing here is you're you know, tell me, use the thing on whatsapp to find lyrics I might try, but the thing about it is like it's almost no reason somebody at 45 should find somebody at 28.
- 1:07:02Corie: so funny, the average age in this room, the aggregate age here, is 127 years old.
- 1:07:07Corie: Yeah, the ball is all leggy hills outside, right.
- 1:07:09Corie: So I have a partner, for instance.
- 1:07:11Corie: He's not active on Instagram Mm-hmm.
- 1:07:12Corie: He's well, but not all he sends is your videos.
- 1:07:15Corie: You find that you have that broader audience when you're on the streets like it's surprising to you and you.
- 1:07:28Jr Lee: You know I, I am surprised that anybody watch my videos.
- 1:07:30Jr Lee: Honestly, I am all.
- 1:07:30Jr Lee: Every day I wake up.
- 1:07:31Corie: I am surprised and I know I probably be singing morbid at all, but I am like I am.
- 1:07:34Jr Lee: I am walking in my dreams or it's like I am literally living in my dreams.
- 1:07:40Jr Lee: So I am surprised, like one thing I know for a fact like I don't create content for children, true, but children just hide and watch it.
- 1:07:47Jr Lee: I used to hide and watch Richard Pryor.
- 1:07:49Jr Lee: Oh, I suppose it's the same it's the same.
- 1:07:52Jr Lee: You hear somebody some of the things I say, you know, like if you listen to a Richard Pryor album, yeah, it's wild, it's wild and I had to find it on youtube, yeah, you know, I mean.
- 1:08:02Jr Lee: So I used to listen to that, quite like my mother at that age, you know.
- 1:08:07Jr Lee: I mean so, like when people say they, they find my stuff and hey, I don't watch nobody, I, I don't be on instagram thing, like I am impressed, I, I'm just like we were like, you know, I mean, even at some days we may feel dumb people watching you all the time, all the time, all the time, yeah and them other guys doing the same thing too, of course, yeah, samson and Kyle and Jordan and the, the, the Kuva Lords and Kevin Sawyer like everybody just doing the thing.
- 1:08:35Jr Lee: They all hold groups.
- 1:08:36Corie: I see my mother and them will be sending me things and they say see me, say this.
- 1:08:39Corie: And if you see this and that's why I say only generation will change them gaps.
- 1:08:43Corie: You know, because you have the opportunity.
- 1:08:45Corie: When you say, watching richard pratt on youtube, the young person in 1980, something 1990, had a go ahead, nikita, and he was your father, used to sell records and things, yeah, so you had to go there and buy the actual record.
- 1:08:56Corie: You don't?
- 1:08:57Corie: have the money, yeah, and then we're gonna play it on the record player in the living room yeah so, they yeah so like you could.
- 1:09:03Corie: You could appreciate.
- 1:09:04Corie: I hear you say when you was with I think it was Kivo, on the Monday morning podcast.
- 1:09:10Corie: I've seen that interview you did there and you said that's Kivo and Kyle, is it?
- 1:09:13Corie: Yeah, kivo and Kyle.
- 1:09:14Corie: I used to hear you say when they're talking about Fever, I hear you say John Agitation.
- 1:09:17Corie: I was like where, john Agitation, I'm a student, I'm a literal student comedy.
- 1:09:25Jr Lee: Yeah, this is what I always wanted to do like, so I was researching everybody, like I wanted to see who are the, the comedians from the Caribbean, like just talking to Nicky.
- 1:09:36Jr Lee: As much as that is an interview.
- 1:09:38Jr Lee: That is not.
- 1:09:39Jr Lee: I wouldn't say that is an interview.
- 1:09:40Corie: That is me talking to somebody who I admire of course I used to get to see it in the interview yeah, and I wish I could do it with everybody else.
- 1:09:48Jr Lee: You showed up, yeah, and she told me about somebody named Salush.
- 1:09:51Corie: I didn't even know it had a Salush yeah, I hear you casually say what's the name?
- 1:09:55Corie: You're saying I didn't know but I think it stalks into.
- 1:09:59Corie: It's like no, I don't know who's talking to me.
- 1:10:02Jr Lee: But, like as soon as I came over to the interview, I'll Google it.
- 1:10:06Jr Lee: Like I'll try and find this place, I'll try to listen to the material, see what it used to be like back then.
- 1:10:10Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 1:10:11Jr Lee: Like now, it's two different styles, of course.
- 1:10:13Corie: Yeah, Completely different.
- 1:10:15Corie: Completely different, but I think the impact is the same man, because again, nikki and them telling you about them shows we're selling out, like after Carnival had one where maybe if it's not Ash Wednesday, it's Saturday after Carnival.
- 1:10:27Corie: Like when is our last jam now?
- 1:10:28Corie: We used to have a comedy show, a Caribbean comedy festival.
- 1:10:31Corie: It could be around the Glasgow and you're seeing people from all up the islands and it's brutal yeah, you used to be huge.
- 1:10:36Jr Lee: It's brutal.
- 1:10:36Jr Lee: You used to be huge.
- 1:10:37Jr Lee: Sell all these things all.
- 1:10:39Corie: Everybody would go there, like all people would go at Fetno, and it reminds me of some of the comedians we talked to.
- 1:10:44Corie: Nikki Crosby is one, rachel Price is another one Sprang.
- 1:10:47Corie: Tommy how was the Tommy Joseph show.
- 1:10:49Corie: I was all the country.
- 1:10:50Jr Lee: It was good.
- 1:10:50Jr Lee: It was good.
- 1:10:51Jr Lee: Yeah, tommy's a general, rachel's a general, them is own crowds.
- 1:10:56Jr Lee: I actually rate Rachel too.
- 1:10:59Jr Lee: I pull away and I was like she gonna do her own shows.
- 1:11:01Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 1:11:02Jr Lee: Like big respect to Risha Price.
- 1:11:04Jr Lee: You know what I mean, like Tommy Joseph, them men and them paved the way.
- 1:11:09Corie: It's just like real respect to them, of course, like some of the things I see in you doing now, because when I see your collaboration with Yuma or the way, for instance, you have a good relationship with a lot of artists, when you call everybody to say good morning, yeah, nobody would know you was calling for nothing serious, that's how everybody answered.
- 1:11:25Corie: Bungee said hey, hey, hey, what's going on?
- 1:11:27Corie: He?
- 1:11:27Jr Lee: started laughing from the time you called Yo.
- 1:11:29Jr Lee: You know Bungee is actually one of the first celebrities in Toronto to be able to like acknowledge me.
- 1:11:36Jr Lee: Serious Me too.
- 1:11:39Corie: First person.
- 1:11:39Corie: Who's who knows acknowledge anything I do as Bungie?
- 1:11:42Jr Lee: yeah, bungie, yeah, like he's watch everything.
- 1:11:43Jr Lee: Yeah, bungie, commenting something I do, I was like yo, I make it.
- 1:11:46Corie: I had a screenshot, all of that.
- 1:11:48Jr Lee: I showed my look deep in my phone I can have that screenshot there.
- 1:11:51Jr Lee: I was like I make it, I done.
- 1:11:54Jr Lee: I's a million, you know shots to Bungie, like when nobody I remember Bungie used to invite me to his parties and things like as a youth man like nah bungee, bungee.
- 1:12:05Corie: I'd rather inspire me yeah, like when you say, as a youth man at 28, it's me right me at my age?
- 1:12:08Jr Lee: no, I was younger, I feel like, because I've been around so long I seem old too.
- 1:12:12Corie: 100%, that's what I'm telling you.
- 1:12:13Corie: Like you're in a past life, you're old, so no, but I just know the name, which is a blessing.
- 1:12:21Jr Lee: You know when you think about how much people just I started as a camera operator.
- 1:12:24Jr Lee: Yeah, like when comedy and things wasn't working out, I used to be doing camera work when you say just video work for people yeah, I travel with Charles and things already.
- 1:12:33Jr Lee: Yeah, doing more like videos for social media.
- 1:12:36Jr Lee: Yeah, shooting and performing and things chopping it up.
- 1:12:40Jr Lee: I remember the first time I was in university this is probably Contributed to me Leaving university.
- 1:12:46Jr Lee: I am Trapped with Charles and Charles gave me 700 US dollars.
- 1:12:50Jr Lee: That was the end of it.
- 1:12:51Jr Lee: I was like Yo School long.
- 1:12:53Jr Lee: Why go back To the?
- 1:12:55Jr Lee: Why go back To the?
- 1:12:55Jr Lee: Why go back?
- 1:12:57Jr Lee: I studied marketing.
- 1:12:58Jr Lee: I'm marketing Charles now.
- 1:13:00Corie: Yeah, you're studying marketing.
- 1:13:01Corie: To go and work in marketing.
- 1:13:03Corie: He didn't have it already hey, finish your degree.
- 1:13:04Jr Lee: I can't agree with you.
- 1:13:05Jr Lee: I can't finish my degree.
- 1:13:06Jr Lee: What are you doing?
- 1:13:06Corie: what are you doing you?
- 1:13:08Jr Lee: just say that it's a drop, it's a drop which party was doing that university.
- 1:13:13Jr Lee: Yeah, he saw the girl oh, nice, nice, nice.
- 1:13:15Jr Lee: I was like I can't go UE because our girl is in trouble in UE.
- 1:13:17Jr Lee: Is it a little one helping him straight and narrow?
- 1:13:19Corie: I'm not sure the Lord is why am I in my pants?
- 1:13:28Corie: I didn't I don't know, I don't want me to say, but so me, rachel, all of them had a part.
- 1:13:34Corie: A part maybe was sharp in them, or where they make the name Bill Trotman I just see him doing a art exhibition.
- 1:13:42Corie: As well was the Calypso Tent and the events around the carnival, and that's why I find it such a parallel to what you're doing, because that's a big part of like when I see you.
- 1:13:50Corie: What's the thing with you?
- 1:13:51Corie: my minister, vibe minister vibe yeah so when I see you walk out in your band launch and it reminds me because the Calypso Tent is changed, let me, it's different now.
- 1:14:01Corie: What people, how, people get entertainment for sure but you in the mix with those artists and those spaces and stuff, it's something deliberate, something you have in mind in terms of your progression, or you just selling tickets still?
- 1:14:10Jr Lee: no, no, no.
- 1:14:11Jr Lee: Like well, now I genuinely get good with some of them, sure, some of them, that's Lyman, some of them it's like hey, let me do this and they'll be up for it.
- 1:14:19Jr Lee: Cool with them, like voice voices to come and support my shows way before pretty, you know what I mean.
- 1:14:26Jr Lee: So like I, tej and I, tej and I have a real good relationship, like that, I'm a Belgian like this, I go and check Tej's studio way before tour we bus, cause we bus the same year, kinda we get popular the same year.
- 1:14:41Jr Lee: So like somebody hits, I hate yeah before you hit the reference yeah, when it was just an example of a song, you know what I mean.
- 1:14:49Jr Lee: Like, I genuinely get good with plenty of them, so it's not like a fake relationship.
- 1:14:55Jr Lee: You might always wanted to play in humor.
- 1:14:57Jr Lee: Got it?
- 1:14:57Corie: always wanted to play in humor at a time when you didn't have F a fet on your road.
- 1:15:01Jr Lee: Yeah, and then, like, plex carried me.
- 1:15:04Jr Lee: You know Plex, captain Plex, he's a real great.
- 1:15:07Jr Lee: I don't want to say videographer, plex is a, plex is a cinematographer, plex is a director, plex is very artistic.
- 1:15:19Jr Lee: Plex is one of the after Keegan speaker.
- 1:15:21Jr Lee: I will rate Keegan Over everybody in Trinidad To be good.
- 1:15:25Jr Lee: Keegan is the boss, remember, keegan is the dad Right, so Keegan Is the dad, yeah.
- 1:15:33Corie: But Plex is good.
- 1:15:35Jr Lee: So Plex have introduced me To Sean Because he put me In a ad To do Something for somebody In Miami Right that time I didn't even have a visa Got it so I was like, wait, everybody go to Miami.
- 1:15:46Jr Lee: I don't even have a visa, I can't even go.
- 1:15:48Jr Lee: I had this ad for this carnival band, and Sean Bilkett was like you're talented, you're talented, boom, boom, boom.
- 1:15:55Jr Lee: And like we met a couple of times, he took a chance on me and he was like yo, do this, do that.
- 1:16:05Jr Lee: Then he was like you know, I'll take you and Keegan to St Lucia and you'll do whatever you want to to create content for the brand.
- 1:16:14Jr Lee: And that time nobody.
- 1:16:15Jr Lee: He just kinda believed in me in that moment so yeah big up, sean Bickert.
- 1:16:20Jr Lee: He really took a chance on us.
- 1:16:21Jr Lee: That's how the relationship with Yuma built and from then to now just a real good energy.
- 1:16:27Jr Lee: It's literally family.
- 1:16:28Jr Lee: You know they have a family brand.
- 1:16:30Corie: Yeah, for sure they are definitely family.
- 1:16:33Corie: Yeah, that's good.
- 1:16:33Corie: It feels good to see that.
- 1:16:34Corie: That's why I feel reminiscent of the greats that I see come through the tent and the tent is a hard piece of work too, eh.
- 1:16:40Jr Lee: Yeah too, eh, yeah, so yeah, that's the racial pressure.
- 1:16:42Jr Lee: She was one of them who I know for a fact I can't stand up and I don't what do you mean?
- 1:16:47Corie: let me move on from that.
- 1:16:48Corie: That's not true.
- 1:16:49Jr Lee: Let me establish that like again, remember I tell you I can't make everybody laugh.
- 1:16:53Jr Lee: No, them will boo me that is cool too.
- 1:16:56Corie: I don't think it ever times sprang along.
- 1:16:59Corie: I hear like it's that thing guys here know you're going to listen to this and you hear a thing where they record from Tommy in the tent, from back then playing and thing with youths you understand them.
- 1:17:09Corie: Men do that every night in tents and destroy the place.
- 1:17:12Corie: But I'm going back to that show in Napa.
- 1:17:13Corie: Was Napa the show where the mic cut off and they cut off the?
- 1:17:16Jr Lee: nah, that was Napa that was Napa that that has gone through the pandemic, that even that Marshall came to.
- 1:17:22Corie: Yeah, they expected that.
- 1:17:23Jr Lee: You know you was coming out, so you walk out I just walk out, like when I on my way to the venue, I just get like a heap of messages you invite Marshall here.
- 1:17:32Jr Lee: I was like you think I am Marshall and I'm about to message Marshall and tell him come to my show, be for real.
- 1:17:40Jr Lee: God, marshall, next to me right now, like what do you mean?
- 1:17:44Jr Lee: So I think if people like probably showing me, so I coast into it because like why do you?
- 1:17:49Jr Lee: I have a big night tonight.
- 1:17:50Corie: Yeah, you're in a full class.
- 1:17:51Jr Lee: Yeah.
- 1:17:52Jr Lee: So boom, somebody sent my bitch.
- 1:17:55Jr Lee: Yeah, he's in the front.
- 1:17:56Jr Lee: I was like like this, this guy and me, yeah, and it was.
- 1:18:04Jr Lee: It was one of my worst performances ever.
- 1:18:08Jr Lee: Like I had a real bad performance, like I was real mad at myself too.
- 1:18:11Jr Lee: And then that night and this is, this is the next thing too like I always wanted to sell out the show.
- 1:18:15Jr Lee: I sell out the show.
- 1:18:16Jr Lee: As soon as the curtain coming down, my mother collapsed and end up in the hospital that night.
- 1:18:20Jr Lee: So I didn't even get to celebrate that night.
- 1:18:22Jr Lee: I was just like and again, that is what I understand that life can change real fast.
- 1:18:27Jr Lee: That's why I don't take anything for granted.
- 1:18:29Jr Lee: I don't get consumed by it.
- 1:18:31Jr Lee: Got it so fast forward the show's this Saturday.
- 1:18:35Jr Lee: I get a call the Monday Junior.
- 1:18:38Jr Lee: Who is this Junior?
- 1:18:43Jr Lee: What do you mean?
- 1:18:44Jr Lee: Oh, your mother's going.
- 1:18:45Jr Lee: Hey, let's start playing now.
- 1:18:47Jr Lee: Who is this boy?
- 1:18:49Jr Lee: Call cut off.
- 1:18:50Jr Lee: I got a call from a weird.
- 1:18:53Jr Lee: I never even see that area called in the life of us.
- 1:18:55Jr Lee: That area called is a weird area called.
- 1:18:57Jr Lee: I don't know where you get that number from.
- 1:18:59Jr Lee: Junior, it's Marshall boy.
- 1:19:01Jr Lee: I'm T boy.
- 1:19:01Jr Lee: Say what's going on.
- 1:19:04Jr Lee: He said how's mommy feeling?
- 1:19:05Jr Lee: Mommy good.
- 1:19:05Jr Lee: Hey, here's what's going on.
- 1:19:07Jr Lee: I'm doing a comedy thing in New York and now I got my visa off.
- 1:19:12Jr Lee: Hey, look at that boy.
- 1:19:14Jr Lee: So I missed Miami Cannibal, but I got my visa right the time Miami Cannibal happened.
- 1:19:18Corie: It's 2022 here Right?
- 1:19:21Jr Lee: He said, yeah, yeah, I will come up.
- 1:19:22Jr Lee: I do have a work permit so he was like all right, even though you do have a work permit, come and see how this be.
- 1:19:28Jr Lee: Then I went to new york, first time in new york and this is why, like he don't know this, but like marshall could call me for anything honestly and I would probably do it because, like, when we was there, marshall introduced me to Russell Peters, afion Crockett.
- 1:19:45Jr Lee: Like and he didn't introduce me as like a little boy from Trinidad, like he introduced me as, hey, this is one of the greatest from Trinidad boy.
- 1:19:56Jr Lee: All you need to know him.
- 1:19:58Corie: But you know it's so funny because you're saying that when he see you on what you call a bad night.
- 1:20:02Jr Lee: Yeah, and he see me on a real bad night, that's a terrible night, though Terrible night.
- 1:20:06Jr Lee: Hate that show.
- 1:20:07Jr Lee: I tried to watch that footage.
- 1:20:08Jr Lee: I tried to watch that footage this morning and I take it off.
- 1:20:11Corie: No, but my son, zachary, showed me a piece of it this morning again when we had seen it when it happened.
- 1:20:15Corie: Yeah, when you're on stage, you're not thinking.
- 1:20:23Corie: Should I say this?
- 1:20:24Corie: Should I do this?
- 1:20:25Jr Lee: No, dan, you come to my show.
- 1:20:26Jr Lee: This is my show.
- 1:20:28Jr Lee: I'm spending my money to do this.
- 1:20:30Jr Lee: How you could come to something that I spend my money on to tell me what to do?
- 1:20:34Jr Lee: You crazy, are you insane?
- 1:20:39Jr Lee: I spend it myself, it's here.
- 1:20:41Jr Lee: Are you coming to tell me what I cannot say?
- 1:20:44Jr Lee: You see, what I'm saying can't save with you.
- 1:20:45Jr Lee: You're just going over.
- 1:20:46Jr Lee: Wherever I feed, the same, I try to save my shoe, because I spend my money for my shoe, even though sponsors might spend money too.
- 1:20:55Jr Lee: But hey, they supported me.
- 1:20:57Corie: I'm sure what happened is why I know we got to do some edits to make sure we keep these sponsors.
- 1:21:01Corie: Everybody knows who I am, of course, yeah, I think people know, and I guess well he know too, because he's in the audience.
- 1:21:07Corie: But boy, he laughed that much.
- 1:21:09Jr Lee: He and his wife nearly fall off the chair.
- 1:21:11Corie: He laughed and I guess, again, that's the thing about it.
- 1:21:14Corie: I hear Kyle say it with oozing funniness.
- 1:21:15Corie: You just and he.
- 1:21:19Jr Lee: That time we randomly saw each other at some airport and we had a real long conversation like he just had real knowledge.
- 1:21:27Jr Lee: Like you were, you just start right, yeah and then he didn't like the information he gave me, like it's just like life, you know.
- 1:21:34Jr Lee: So I appreciate we're not that close, we're not best friends, you know I mean like so nobody messaged me.
- 1:21:39Jr Lee: I feel like marshall and I just be talking to each other right through everybody for can get tickets to go places for sure, that is not a relationship.
- 1:21:46Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 1:21:47Jr Lee: I have a number here for him.
- 1:21:49Corie: I don't think people want that strange number whatever strange number you call, the people are going to call and ask you and next place we'll see you pop up.
- 1:22:00Corie: How did collaboration?
- 1:22:00Corie: How did the collaboration with Queen's?
- 1:22:02Jr Lee: Flip come about.
- 1:22:02Jr Lee: I think I messaged the December 31st Oliya's night.
- 1:22:08Corie: Right this last year.
- 1:22:09Jr Lee: Yo bro, love your content.
- 1:22:10Jr Lee: Man Hoping we can do a collab before I head out.
- 1:22:12Corie: Right, oh, you was in New York at the time.
- 1:22:14Jr Lee: Yeah, I was in New York and he responded.
- 1:22:16Jr Lee: So his wife is actually Trini, of course, so his sons watch my stuff.
- 1:22:21Jr Lee: So when I message he was like yo, who the f*** is that?
- 1:22:24Jr Lee: Who the f*** bro?
- 1:22:25Jr Lee: Yeah, so he was like nah, he real cool, whatever, whatever.
- 1:22:32Jr Lee: And he came to my uncle's restaurant.
- 1:22:36Jr Lee: If you're in New York you need to check out Just Fishy, flatbush Avenue, beverly and Albemarle or higher up on Flatbush, greatest Fool in the whole wide world, boom the outside.
- 1:22:45Jr Lee: So he pulled up to my he and Nicholas pulled up to to my uncle restaurant.
- 1:22:51Jr Lee: Sullivan.
- 1:22:51Jr Lee: Yeah, and then they had food.
- 1:22:53Jr Lee: They enjoyed the food, whatever.
- 1:22:54Jr Lee: And then we keep talking and he was like yo come up to the crib.
- 1:22:58Jr Lee: And I was like, well, I don't leave Keegan, no way.
- 1:23:07Corie: Is.
- 1:23:07Jr Lee: Keegan coming or we not coming, and this is if you invited me anyway, just so you understand before, or whatever, because it's me, keegan and Kwasi, and I might carry one of my cousins from Ruga, so like you can invite me and invite my team.
- 1:23:24Corie: These are the guys that.
- 1:23:26Corie: Not saying anything.
- 1:23:26Corie: That's I understand what you mean Like.
- 1:23:30Jr Lee: These are the guys that work with me everyday.
- 1:23:31Corie: Like.
- 1:23:32Jr Lee: It's a team, as much as you know.
- 1:23:34Jr Lee: Junior Leeds have two people Behind Junior Leeds Making Junior Leeds work, so you have to Extend the same Courtesies you have for me To them.
- 1:23:43Jr Lee: So when I tell him that he was like yo, alright, you all come.
- 1:23:49Jr Lee: When I went to the house he was like I really respect you for standing your ground, like I really respect how you say you're not coming unless your bedroom come and Queens Flip and his wife and kids like they accepted us like family.
- 1:24:04Jr Lee: Like we cook, we make rotis on youtube we make a roti.
- 1:24:07Jr Lee: He gave me two of his whole houses.
- 1:24:09Jr Lee: Are you living like this?
- 1:24:10Jr Lee: He was like don't tell anybody.
- 1:24:12Jr Lee: Don't tell anybody, it's on my elevator it's on my elevator in his house.
- 1:24:22Jr Lee: I thought I had a house.
- 1:24:23Jr Lee: I don't have a house, that is a house.
- 1:24:26Jr Lee: Yo, you did this from social media.
- 1:24:30Jr Lee: Imagine, yes, I bro, let's keep at it, let's keep at it.
- 1:24:33Jr Lee: So, like he's literally big bro now, like he's yeah.
- 1:24:37Jr Lee: And then same thing with me, jive, like I met me, jive in york, same marshall show.
- 1:24:41Jr Lee: I see, I see, I, I see I see Same Marshall shoe, mm Marshall.
- 1:24:45Jr Lee: Well, I met him before we got open for him in Trinidad.
- 1:24:48Jr Lee: Already, there you go and yo me jive, carry me and buy clocks to me, yeah.
- 1:24:52Jr Lee: And I say, you know I could pay for it.
- 1:24:55Jr Lee: I can't pay for it.
- 1:24:59Jr Lee: That time I broke the teeth, except some.
- 1:25:02Jr Lee: Yeah, bro, first time in New York I go over 600 US.
- 1:25:06Jr Lee: You know, he's working on exact money.
- 1:25:09Jr Lee: Exact 600 US.
- 1:25:11Jr Lee: That is so much money I went to New York with and I bought a phone.
- 1:25:15Jr Lee: So I'm no way.
- 1:25:17Jr Lee: My grandma gave me 200 dollars, my uncle gave me 100.
- 1:25:20Jr Lee: I think my father gave me this one thing.
- 1:25:22Jr Lee: And now I'm making me rest of my money and give him a small thing.
- 1:25:25Jr Lee: And now I'm making me a sandwich and I'm running from dinner.
- 1:25:26Jr Lee: Nah, don't worry, I ain't even like that I ain't even like, I don't want it.
- 1:25:30Jr Lee: He said, boy, why don't you take up the shoes ever?
- 1:25:32Jr Lee: Then you know you have a.
- 1:25:35Jr Lee: So now he he buy clothes to go there with my old Puma, that jeans and that t-shirt that I buy from Primark or Primark.
- 1:25:46Jr Lee: I paid $2 for this t-shirt, a SpongeBob t-shirt.
- 1:25:50Jr Lee: That's why I'm looking to go out there with that SpongeBob t-shirt.
- 1:25:53Jr Lee: Yo, marshall, don't watch me like a joke, I swear.
- 1:25:56Jr Lee: So he was like, but I think he realized that really he didn't want me to buy anything.
- 1:26:03Corie: Well them fellas, they walk the same road.
- 1:26:05Jr Lee: Yeah so he was like what pants you wearing?
- 1:26:08Jr Lee: I said I'm wearing pants.
- 1:26:10Jr Lee: He said, no, pick up my pants, pick up my pants.
- 1:26:13Jr Lee: And hey, he shows him his eyewear.
- 1:26:17Jr Lee: We never forget that.
- 1:26:18Jr Lee: I don't even know if you remember, but I was like, yeah, I bet you remember.
- 1:26:22Jr Lee: Yeah me again me and Keegan me and Keegan rolling me and Keegan yo me and Keegan rolling, we real rolling, like I used to be at scrumming, hanging out at Keegan car like this.
- 1:26:37Jr Lee: I used to be leaning on that Keegan Swift, suzuki Swift, I lean on the car, so this one we supported talking to women on the road.
- 1:26:43Jr Lee: Swift, you're the Suzuki Swift.
- 1:26:44Jr Lee: Are you leading all the cars though?
- 1:26:45Jr Lee: Hey, this one, we support it Talking to women all over the world.
- 1:26:49Corie: To all the four.
- 1:26:50Corie: Yeah, I played.
- 1:26:51Jr Lee: Scrum loud in the car.
- 1:26:52Jr Lee: He got mentored to me man, so where?
- 1:26:55Corie: you know him.
- 1:26:56Corie: Did you just primary school, or was he close?
- 1:26:58Jr Lee: We wasn't close in secondary.
- 1:26:59Jr Lee: We went to different schools, same area, and we just seen him around and I used to do a podcast during the pandemic and he was like yo, I can pass you and I was shooting this in my house but I know him, but we not that close but I know him.
- 1:27:13Jr Lee: So I was just like tell somebody to come to my house boy.
- 1:27:16Jr Lee: But he was cool with the cool for Lord, so he was like hey, she tell the man I will come that way and she was like cheers the man, real cool, la la la.
- 1:27:24Jr Lee: And I was like all right, now, let him come.
- 1:27:26Jr Lee: And he came and he was just willing and he was just willing.
- 1:27:30Jr Lee: And we, we go in everywhere.
- 1:27:32Jr Lee: I remember we just doing gigs, popping up and performing at shows and things for gas money Like this is right there.
- 1:27:39Jr Lee: This is 2022.
- 1:27:40Jr Lee: Hey, 2022.
- 1:27:41Jr Lee: Hey, if you're focusing on something and not making money, just continue working.
- 1:27:45Jr Lee: It will work out.
- 1:27:46Jr Lee: Trust me, if you're good at it.
- 1:27:47Jr Lee: If you're not good, your dog's dead.
- 1:27:50Jr Lee: So he'll perform for Gas Money forever.
- 1:27:57Jr Lee: Hey, I'm joking, he'll make it.
- 1:28:01Jr Lee: Everybody makes it.
- 1:28:07Corie: He's making it somewhere.
- 1:28:08Jr Lee: Everybody.
- 1:28:08Jr Lee: You'll make it somewhere.
- 1:28:10Jr Lee: Wait on me here While you're making Nah, but yeah, so we roll it.
- 1:28:14Jr Lee: Yeah, and he was real dedicated to it, but he, he just Kegan had At times, quasi believe in me too, sure you know, but Kegan Was around and Kegan had just Real believe in me too, sure you know, but Kegan was around and Kegan just real believe in me.
- 1:28:26Jr Lee: In times I didn't even believe in me, though he was like nah, you're going and do real good in this show, alright, alright, you're not letting me.
- 1:28:33Jr Lee: He tell me I was going and do good in the Napri.
- 1:28:35Jr Lee: I showed him Marshall wasn't too, and it do good, though, clearly it do.
- 1:28:39Jr Lee: Yeah, I remember this one time somebody tell him, you know, they study juniorly, juniorly, juniorly Study to create your own stuff.
- 1:28:48Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 1:28:49Jr Lee: Go out there, get jobs as a videographer and thing no.
- 1:28:51Jr Lee: And we had the conversation and I said, kegan, like you got to do what you want to do at the end of the day, right.
- 1:28:57Jr Lee: But like, if you're rocking with me, bro, I promise you as long as I live, bro, I promise you as long as I live, I will always make sure both are we good.
- 1:29:07Jr Lee: I'm a man of my words.
- 1:29:09Jr Lee: I mightn't do something when I mightn't do it exactly when I say I'm going to do it.
- 1:29:12Jr Lee: If I say I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it.
- 1:29:15Corie: But you're in the Queensflip thing.
- 1:29:17Corie: You know, yeah, and you know well his son, yeah.
- 1:29:20Corie: So you know, you respect the fact that you and I'm a real dog, like we get real yeah, we remember he, he closer to mean age.
- 1:29:27Jr Lee: Yeah, he's like 23 or around here, so we can relate more to each other and his father, like when he was, when he was flip, was like um, flip was like yo, why you going on sleep?
- 1:29:36Jr Lee: You know he had enough.
- 1:29:38Jr Lee: I was like all right, later, what now?
- 1:29:40Jr Lee: So he was just yeah.
- 1:29:43Jr Lee: So like, yeah, keegan, stay Keegan.
- 1:29:46Jr Lee: He took a day and then he came back.
- 1:29:47Jr Lee: He was like alright, dog let me do it and since then to now, like I don't go anywhere without Keegan.
- 1:29:53Jr Lee: Like Keegan is my dog and there's some people who come round and we'll do the stalker.
- 1:29:58Jr Lee: Yeah, like Keegan, keegan is the man who's make it happen for real.
- 1:30:03Jr Lee: Like every video that you see I post, it's Keegan.
- 1:30:07Corie: Smith, and only at that rate now were you posting almost every day, every day, almost every day, yeah, and it's actually Samson introduced us to that.
- 1:30:12Corie: I remember him talking about that.
- 1:30:14Jr Lee: Samson introduced us to that and Samson was like yo bro, like I tell him?
- 1:30:19Jr Lee: I was like, if you post the videos, I promise you you can sell out your shoes, got it?
- 1:30:23Jr Lee: And I started doing it then and before Keegan it had Ronaldo and Shari, right Like Ronaldo and Shari, and I literally started together.
- 1:30:32Jr Lee: So Ronaldo, now is RM Visuals, you know Ronaldo and, yeah, everybody knows Ronaldo, I've seen.
- 1:30:38Jr Lee: And you know Shari too.
- 1:30:40Jr Lee: All right, good times, thanks, man.
- 1:30:42Jr Lee: Yeah, so Ronaldo Shari and myself, we started together, got it Like straight out of school, was Ronaldo Shari and I by Gael, by Gael, gael, I was one of the men by Gael.
- 1:30:59Jr Lee: Serious.
- 1:30:59Jr Lee: St James and Synergy.
- 1:31:01Jr Lee: I did the both of them.
- 1:31:04Jr Lee: I was doing camera work by booting them.
- 1:31:06Jr Lee: Serious as I used my telly I just wanted to make it as real hungry so I meet real low because I know they might watch you interviewing and they'll be like I'll never mention that jesus renault's actually just in canada with me.
- 1:31:18Jr Lee: Oh, again, here's some inside scoop.
- 1:31:22Jr Lee: You know we actually did a TV show in Canada.
- 1:31:24Jr Lee: Oh nice, so that's during lunch.
- 1:31:26Jr Lee: Yeah, it's supposed to come out in October.
- 1:31:29Jr Lee: These guys, jermaine and Triffon, from Canada, they reached out to me on Instagram and I thought, was that a prank?
- 1:31:34Jr Lee: And I was like yo, bro, you're so funny, like we want to be doing this TV show.
- 1:31:38Jr Lee: We're doing season two and we wait to be on it.
- 1:31:43Jr Lee: And ting, ting, ting.
- 1:31:44Jr Lee: I was like all right, all right, cool, all right.
- 1:31:47Corie: But you say film is part of your plan.
- 1:31:49Corie: It's something you will do.
- 1:31:49Jr Lee: Yeah, I want to do a film.
- 1:31:50Corie: And what about theatre?
- 1:31:51Corie: Because I went the other day, right, I went to see a show called 78.
- 1:31:55Corie: I ain't knocking the plate because it went on a little too long, but I, like Queen Swift, I always look at my bed at some point.
- 1:32:05Jr Lee: I want to head out, I'm tired but Rudy was ridiculously funny.
- 1:32:09Corie: But I was wondering if there's something you could say.
- 1:32:11Corie: No, nah nah nigga why boy so?
- 1:32:23Jr Lee: I said yeah, nah, yeah, nah, no.
- 1:32:28Jr Lee: Very good man, bro, like Kwesi.
- 1:32:33Jr Lee: Kwesi is a man, as we tell him.
- 1:32:34Jr Lee: He didn't fit in the Delray, take on stage, it'll be real funny.
- 1:32:37Jr Lee: It's like if you ever see me do that, just know things real bad.
- 1:32:42Jr Lee: Ah, the f***ing verge of doing it.
- 1:32:44Jr Lee: Whatever you think doing it, whatever you think doing it is.
- 1:32:47Jr Lee: Ah, the verge.
- 1:32:47Jr Lee: I'm right there.
- 1:32:47Jr Lee: I just need a push, I need a move.
- 1:32:55Jr Lee: Come on here, what my towards telling me to tell you, I go up the road and I do it so.
- 1:33:00Jr Lee: So I went to Rody and showed him how to do it, not doing it.
- 1:33:02Jr Lee: So I went to Rody's show the other day.
- 1:33:03Jr Lee: It was very funny yeah.
- 1:33:05Jr Lee: Rody is good for it.
- 1:33:06Jr Lee: Rody is good for it.
- 1:33:07Jr Lee: I.
- 1:33:07Jr Lee: I know you, yeah, but even Queen's Flip, I can switch from these skits to that kind of long form content that's actually why we're trying to do long form now, because Queen's Flip was like bro, these skits is good, but you need to do long form by the next thing got you, got you.
- 1:33:23Jr Lee: Yeah, I mean like you need to do that because I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what is the next move, because after we don't make money, from instagram by the way we do.
- 1:33:33Jr Lee: Yeah, you could tell, right?
- 1:33:34Jr Lee: Yeah, look at what.
- 1:33:35Jr Lee: No, I could tell about my own bank account, nothing, yeah.
- 1:33:40Jr Lee: So like, so like, but I'm not going to tell you.
- 1:33:45Jr Lee: So like, every day I'm sitting down trying to figure out what after the skits thing, what next?
- 1:33:58Corie: But what next?
- 1:33:59Corie: Where you feel next, where you feel is your next search.
- 1:34:01Jr Lee: I want to tour.
- 1:34:01Jr Lee: I wish, as a comedian, I could be all over the world telling my jokes Got it?
- 1:34:04Jr Lee: You know what I want to tour?
- 1:34:04Jr Lee: I wish, as a comedian, I could be all over the world telling my jokes Got it, you know what I mean?
- 1:34:06Jr Lee: Yeah, and just set up my life like that.
- 1:34:08Jr Lee: But like it's a figure, it's up because, as much as the day, the day any one of us stop being ha, ha, ha on Instagram, the support is going to leave.
- 1:34:18Corie: I understand what you mean.
- 1:34:18Corie: Like you know, I was watching Trevor Noah time coming from South Africa and the accent slice.
- 1:34:25Corie: I used to feel like our accent.
- 1:34:27Corie: Sometimes you can't break into the SNL and the David Letterman and them kind of things.
- 1:34:31Corie: That's something you're willing to do, like if you get them, if I get them.
- 1:34:34Jr Lee: I can't look.
- 1:34:35Jr Lee: I was telling I was telling David.
- 1:34:37Jr Lee: I was telling David about this guy named Jerry Bednub and I learned about him from Jump On Right.
- 1:34:42Jr Lee: Jerry is a Trinidadian from Pinal that was in the 40-year-old Virgin Horse with his accent, really, as among other shows, other TV shows and movies.
- 1:34:54Jr Lee: So the possibility there.
- 1:34:56Jr Lee: And he was a stand-up comic performing at where is he Comedy Club name?
- 1:35:02Jr Lee: Oh, yeah, the f***.
- 1:35:04Jr Lee: But he was performing in all those big comedy clubs, of course, in LA and in New York and stuff.
- 1:35:08Jr Lee: He performed alongside Robin Williams, let's see, he's like 90 now though.
- 1:35:13Jr Lee: Oh wow, but he's a Trinidadian.
- 1:35:15Jr Lee: Like I think it's out there, like I wish we could just unlock it and figure out how to do it, because it have a lot of caribbean comedians touring the world, you know, yeah, I, I don't know what, what is our hold back or what we doing wrong, but I need to figure it out no, but by the time I play, by the time this come out, you on tour, the tour is where is this?
- 1:35:38Corie: toronto barbados sanguinea barbados and there's one promoter who just doing a tour is different.
- 1:35:43Corie: Um what do you mean?
- 1:35:44Jr Lee: a promoter.
- 1:35:44Corie: So in other words, is there a promoter who put you doing it.
- 1:35:47Jr Lee: I look like a man that need a promoter.
- 1:35:49Jr Lee: I really hear you asking the kid.
- 1:36:00Corie: I hear you asking the kid why don't you put on your own show?
- 1:36:04Corie: 't you put on your own show?
- 1:36:05Jr Lee: so you put on your own thing?
- 1:36:06Jr Lee: no, we partner with different people in the islands got it, got it so people that work with us, so the people that was bringing us to the islands for Carnival.
- 1:36:14Jr Lee: We pitched it to them that, hey, come and be a part of this right, and they were very, very up for it.
- 1:36:21Jr Lee: Like JP Jumbo is my boy, like we going on work together probably forever.
- 1:36:26Jr Lee: Like once I do in a show, I always make him a part of the show because he treated me good when nobody was taking me on, you know what I mean so we partner with him to do Canada partner with Empty Concepts and Barbados, because last year I missed my flight to Grenada, ended up in Barbados at Empty Concepts.
- 1:36:44Jr Lee: That's Liat for sure.
- 1:36:45Jr Lee: No, I missed my flight, that was on you.
- 1:36:48Jr Lee: They didn't miss me, I missed them.
- 1:36:50Jr Lee: I am going to the airport and I've seen my flight taken off.
- 1:36:55Jr Lee: I was like I tell him Kegan, kegan, I don't have your flight leaving.
- 1:37:01Jr Lee: He goes and that is me flight leaving down there, we fly leaving.
- 1:37:01Jr Lee: And he said that is we fly leaving.
- 1:37:02Jr Lee: So I had to talk to the people and then the Changa said I fly it.
- 1:37:10Jr Lee: Have a man telling me it have no flight, you have to leave on Sunday.
- 1:37:12Jr Lee: I was like I cannot leave on Sunday.
- 1:37:14Jr Lee: Carnival is Monday, what it is Monday today.
- 1:37:17Jr Lee: Oh, you telling me quite so many who are.
- 1:37:19Jr Lee: We get out no flights.
- 1:37:21Jr Lee: And then a lady came Shawnee, big up.
- 1:37:25Jr Lee: Shawnee, shawnee, you have a ticket to any of my shows anywhere.
- 1:37:28Jr Lee: You will once you're there, to your sweet self.
- 1:37:29Jr Lee: So Shawnee was like, yeah, what's going on?
- 1:37:34Jr Lee: I can send you Barbados today, or that's how, the Bucca Hotel room, and you'll get a flight from Barb.
- 1:37:39Jr Lee: I said Sean, he bucket right now, let me go Jump on the flight.
- 1:37:43Jr Lee: I didn't even know Barbados Carnival was that day.
- 1:37:45Jr Lee: That was the Monday, so I reached Barbados into Carnival.
- 1:37:48Jr Lee: I don't know who Kwasi that guy Kwasi's the manager of the year.
- 1:37:51Jr Lee: I don't know who Kwasi knew.
- 1:37:52Jr Lee: In Barbados, a man came pick us up.
- 1:37:55Jr Lee: We had a happen to be Mario.
- 1:38:05Jr Lee: Mario treat us good.
- 1:38:06Jr Lee: So this year we're going back Barbados to play in Aura.
- 1:38:07Jr Lee: And why not partner with Mario after Mario show?
- 1:38:09Jr Lee: us love and Mario is a promoter.
- 1:38:11Jr Lee: Why not partner with him to get the show going?
- 1:38:12Jr Lee: But a promoter booking me for the show, that is a tricky thing for me yeah, I understand.
- 1:38:20Corie: I heard a little bit when you was talking to Nicky.
- 1:38:22Corie: I can see he prefers to do your.
- 1:38:23Corie: I prefer hear why I prefer to do my own shows right.
- 1:38:26Jr Lee: A promoter bringing his audience.
- 1:38:28Jr Lee: His audience may not necessarily like me, they might like the promoter and they'll come and support the promoter.
- 1:38:35Jr Lee: So now it might have a mixed room where, hey, these people already know why we're talking mouse on stage and now the audience wait now if they know, junior lee doing this show.
- 1:38:45Corie: They've come to have a good time.
- 1:38:46Jr Lee: You're coming to see me, you're coming to you know come, you know, following a brand new following junior league.
- 1:38:51Jr Lee: Yeah, so it's like.
- 1:38:52Jr Lee: That's why I prefer if I'm doing a show, I'll partner with the, with the promoter, because if a promoter booked me, me promoting the show on my instagram is a whole different conversation.
- 1:39:03Jr Lee: You know know what I mean.
- 1:39:05Corie: Yeah, that's a Kevin Hart thing.
- 1:39:06Corie: That's a currency.
- 1:39:07Corie: I don't know about the.
- 1:39:07Jr Lee: Kevin Hart thing.
- 1:39:08Jr Lee: This is a Kwasi thing.
- 1:39:09Jr Lee: Kwasi is the problem, not me.
- 1:39:11Jr Lee: I want to promote everything on his channel.
- 1:39:15Jr Lee: Kwasi is the person stopping it from happening.
- 1:39:17Jr Lee: Salute to Kwasi.
- 1:39:18Corie: Kwasi and Shigen.
- 1:39:19Corie: That's a different check.
- 1:39:20Jr Lee: That's what Kwasi said check Never quasi say that I had different money, making it difficult to us.
- 1:39:24Jr Lee: It's not me.
- 1:39:27Jr Lee: I don't know anything about business.
- 1:39:29Jr Lee: I ain't sure about that school.
- 1:39:29Jr Lee: I don't know nothing about business.
- 1:39:32Corie: A few times.
- 1:39:33Corie: A few times.
- 1:39:34Corie: But, brother, listen, thanks for coming in.
- 1:39:36Corie: I appreciate you coming.
- 1:39:37Corie: Congrats on everything you're working on to do interviews.
- 1:39:40Jr Lee: Yeah, this was real fun, though I talk about real in this though.
- 1:39:43Corie: That is good.
- 1:39:43Corie: That is good, and I'm hoping that by the time you go and all them shows sell out, because I think where you do continue to rise and rise and rise and I don't see how you're going and do things that don't sell out, going forward Easy.
- 1:39:57Jr Lee: Nah, I don't feel that can happen.
- 1:39:59Jr Lee: Real you, dad, you doesn't see so much.
- 1:40:02Jr Lee: You saw my head this year and next year, that's different to what you do?
- 1:40:05Jr Lee: No, it's not Like it's not.
- 1:40:07Corie: You don't feel so I know.
- 1:40:08Jr Lee: so, bro, they could switch any time.
- 1:40:11Corie: But wait a minute.
- 1:40:12Corie: So you didn't realize by now that the way you're watching Nicky Drina interviews or my son watching you, I appreciate that.
- 1:40:19Jr Lee: Yeah but he could switch any time.
- 1:40:20Jr Lee: He, but he could switch anytime.
- 1:40:21Jr Lee: He could hate me tomorrow.
- 1:40:22Jr Lee: Yeah, what form form here now?
- 1:40:24Jr Lee: Form one, form one.
- 1:40:26Jr Lee: He could reach form five and be like, no, that's too early man.
- 1:40:29Corie: But then he got out of form one man?
- 1:40:31Jr Lee: Yeah, but they mightn't be.
- 1:40:32Jr Lee: They may not know me.
- 1:40:33Jr Lee: Look, I went to school the other day and they didn't know.
- 1:40:35Jr Lee: They had a general idea for yours, but they didn't.
- 1:40:39Jr Lee: Who was a big comedian to me?
- 1:40:41Corie: Sure sure, sure.
- 1:40:42Jr Lee: You know what I mean so that I could switch.
- 1:40:43Jr Lee: And thanks so much, zachary.
- 1:40:45Jr Lee: Zachary, zachary, yeah, thanks so much, zachary.
- 1:40:48Jr Lee: You know what I mean.
- 1:40:49Jr Lee: Zach, yo, you're the best bro, at least I know.
- 1:40:56Jr Lee: Hey, zachary, you're one.
- 1:40:57Jr Lee: Zachary supports me right now and don't stop Even when.
- 1:41:03Jr Lee: I'm an old man.
- 1:41:04Jr Lee: Come to the show, zachary.
- 1:41:05Jr Lee: When I walk up I stick.
- 1:41:06Jr Lee: I try to tell my jokes.
- 1:41:08Jr Lee: You know who's that?
- 1:41:09Jr Lee: Paul Kings Douglas.
- 1:41:10Corie: Yeah, boy.
- 1:41:11Jr Lee: He's still selling out To this day.
- 1:41:12Jr Lee: If I could create that, bro, and only support me Till whenever I could build my house.
- 1:41:18Corie: No, brother, listen, you're creating it.
- 1:41:19Corie: You're creating it.
- 1:41:20Corie: Don't doubt that, don't doubt that, don't doubt that.
- 1:41:22Corie: I point it out that you're creating it because why see Paul Kings and them doing their time?
- 1:41:26Jr Lee: You're doing that now You're in it my content.
- 1:41:28Jr Lee: That's real weird.
- 1:41:29Corie: Yeah, I would imagine.
- 1:41:30Jr Lee: No, you find some.
- 1:41:33Corie: If I don't think it's of a person across the age spectrum or the different races or background or religion who may have one video they could come back to and that way, that way, I like Keegan even more.
- 1:41:44Corie: You know, we can, keegan say you really shakira square?
- 1:41:47Jr Lee: Yeah, keegan Keegan.
- 1:41:47Jr Lee: I don't know if it's funny.
- 1:41:49Jr Lee: It's what I do Like if I do a movie.
- 1:41:51Jr Lee: Keegan have to be in the movie.
- 1:41:57Jr Lee: You go do the movie.
- 1:41:57Jr Lee: You go do the movie.
- 1:41:58Jr Lee: You go do the movie.
- 1:42:00Jr Lee: You don't have to use bad words.
- 1:42:01Jr Lee: I'm telling you that one Old lady she's so sweet, the daughter was like mommy, you don't want the same life.
- 1:42:09Corie: Oh, the daughter said you don't want the same life.
- 1:42:11Corie: But wait, let me ask you this One more question before you go.
- 1:42:13Corie: It's not a time for you to get locked up.
- 1:42:14Corie: You can have 10 more questions I fear they'll talk to you Because none of them are.
- 1:42:19Corie: But um, it's not that I need to get lock up for customers and things, that's how we perform in closed areas, you wouldn't see my customers.
- 1:42:28Jr Lee: So when you reach the stadium, okay, go when we.
- 1:42:31Jr Lee: I'll have to do a clean act, boy.
- 1:42:33Jr Lee: Oh, I'll have to pay out Anyhow.
- 1:42:39Corie: Pay it now.
- 1:42:40Corie: When we have to pay, I don't mind.
- 1:42:41Jr Lee: I don't mind you.
- 1:42:42Jr Lee: I know why.
- 1:42:43Jr Lee: You know, as we hear we talk about paying for things, I find you should be allowed to eat a nappa oh, they don't have that or at least have a drink of us.
- 1:42:51Jr Lee: That is shit, and I hope all the backwaters are allowed with the book.
- 1:43:00Jr Lee: Let me drink a nappa Boy.
- 1:43:01Corie: That's a different kind of show you're talking about.
- 1:43:03Corie: You know here why.
- 1:43:05Jr Lee: Bro, in some of the most prestigious theaters across the world, I can have a drink.
- 1:43:09Jr Lee: We can put a cover over it.
- 1:43:11Jr Lee: Yeah, that's true.
- 1:43:11Jr Lee: You know what I mean we not going out there and eat a barbecue or a roti or a pain out and dote up the place like I tell you, I saw Chappelle, right, it was in Florida, florida and the Hollywood.
- 1:43:21Corie: I forget the name of the arena now.
- 1:43:22Corie: We went twice.
- 1:43:23Corie: We went to see Chappelle once, and I hear you mentioned Bilbo too, which is one of the greatest to me.
- 1:43:28Jr Lee: Yeah, bilbo is a general.
- 1:43:29Jr Lee: Yeah, I went to see him.
- 1:43:30Jr Lee: George Carlin like yo.
- 1:43:31Corie: You know these men.
- 1:43:32Corie: Yeah, jesus Christ, he was definitely in a different life, but Bilbo, the Bilbo show, was better than the Ch.
- 1:43:39Corie: Chabelle was drunk.
- 1:43:41Corie: You know the comedy special you have out now called I can't remember the name of it often, but the last one on Netflix.
- 1:43:48Corie: We went and see that before it came out.
- 1:43:50Corie: It was really, really good.
- 1:43:52Corie: But he was real drunk, which was a kind of funny thing in itself, because first time you see this person you watch for so long, and then the Bilbo show was real good because he was aces.
- 1:44:04Corie: He just had one opener and then he come out and he destroyed.
- 1:44:07Jr Lee: But how long he perform for, maybe an hour and a half, right?
- 1:44:08Jr Lee: So that's the thing with Trey.
- 1:44:09Jr Lee: If I do a show and I bring one opener and I come and perform for that time they'll be like yo, what the f***.
- 1:44:13Corie: But we need to change that dread.
- 1:44:17Jr Lee: Shows here is going too long.
- 1:44:18Jr Lee: I spend a Listen me, so done Two hours.
- 1:44:22Corie: Well, Chappelle was like that.
- 1:44:23Corie: Chappelle had Donald Rawlings, first a DJ and then him, and Chappelle was nearly two hours but he was real drunk.
- 1:44:28Corie: He forget punchlines.
- 1:44:29Corie: He was a mess but it was nice seeing him.
- 1:44:31Corie: But the thing I talk about is the arena sold drinks, so like if they sell you water they just uncover it.
- 1:44:38Corie: I guess they're just trying to make sure you can appell the man on this stage, but they could control what they sell, and I think we need to do that.
- 1:44:44Jr Lee: Bro, look, king's Theatre, which I hope one day I could sell out in Brooklyn.
- 1:44:47Jr Lee: Yeah, you will, thanks, I'll sell it, I'll come, alright.
- 1:44:52Jr Lee: Well, no talking again so much.
- 1:44:53Jr Lee: We could literally have a drink there, like why make the experience so uptight?
- 1:45:01Jr Lee: Like, come on, like alright, just add the cleaning feet to the bill, you know?
- 1:45:06Jr Lee: I mean, maybe I'm talking from a place of privilege no bonus.
- 1:45:08Corie: All right, there's somebody trying to come in.
- 1:45:10Corie: Yeah, like he could.
- 1:45:12Corie: It's gunshots.
- 1:45:12Corie: Oh okay, just make it somebody working upstairs don't kill me, right?
- 1:45:21Jr Lee: no, but yeah, that's something you want to see change.
- 1:45:27Jr Lee: Yeah, like, bro, come on like, add it to the, the fee, the 5,000 to the fee, the cleaning fee.
- 1:45:33Jr Lee: That way Napa makes more money.
- 1:45:35Jr Lee: Of course I have a good time.
- 1:45:37Corie: Yeah, what do you mean for you?
- 1:45:39Corie: You talking about for you to eat alone or the audience no, the audience you think the audience will have a better time if we could just do it, of course, Because, alright, you have 15 minutes to go, so I gotta drink.
- 1:45:48Jr Lee: Get some food and come back inside.
- 1:45:49Jr Lee: We could cut that.
- 1:45:51Corie: Dredd, let me tell you something I find that whole intermission thing need to go.
- 1:45:55Corie: Yeah, when you see them, fellas Chappelle in particular, that whole system you cannot record what he's saying.
- 1:46:02Corie: And Bilbo was worse because that was before the election and he was real talking red state versus blue state thing For real.
- 1:46:10Corie: Yeah, bro, people was real uncomfortable because Florida at the time was a Republican state.
- 1:46:14Jr Lee: Yeah, red state yeah.
- 1:46:15Corie: So when the red state jokes come, everybody laugh.
- 1:46:17Corie: And then when the blue state thing come, I realize it's only me laughing, four black people when I hear what's wrong it's kind of feel uneasy we see only people laughing, and that's it now.
- 1:46:27Corie: But them, fellas and them have a science, don't they?
- 1:46:29Corie: Their phones lock up.
- 1:46:30Corie: You go in, you do your thing, but it's a short show, you know, it's two hours you know what's the thing?
- 1:46:34Jr Lee: I haven't seen one of those big shows yet.
- 1:46:35Jr Lee: Boy, listen, like we go into Canada a show on the 26th, so we reach it in the 25th, so we buy tickets.
- 1:46:43Jr Lee: You're gonna take it in?
- 1:46:44Corie: yeah, because every time we try to see a show it's just always sold out, boy boy, when you go to a show they will come back and more upset, you know, because if you're upset about some of them things now I find like again you play with Rudy.
- 1:46:53Corie: They could have do it without the intermission.
- 1:46:58Jr Lee: Just do the play.
- 1:46:59Corie: Prince will sit there Uncomfortable after a while.
- 1:47:02Corie: Yeah.
- 1:47:02Jr Lee: And you remember, we are learning.
- 1:47:04Jr Lee: We are learning Um Industry, so like we need to go see shows like that, so we know how to To go about doing it Now.
- 1:47:14Jr Lee: Like Again, the next thing we try that we.
- 1:47:16Jr Lee: So One of the things we try, that is that Alright, you see me perform here and you hear the joke.
- 1:47:23Jr Lee: Next week we're at our next venue.
- 1:47:25Jr Lee: I hear that already.
- 1:47:27Corie: You know how to just write a good joke well, I can tell you them, men, when you go there, if you go to states, you hear the same joke.
- 1:47:34Jr Lee: Yeah, they have a set.
- 1:47:34Jr Lee: They have a set that they will do what you do too.
- 1:47:37Corie: I mean, use, use the same thing as them.
- 1:47:38Corie: They will adjust, they will, things will happen.
- 1:47:40Jr Lee: They will do crowd work the foundation set is is there and they run the whole year with that, and that is what I try to do.
- 1:47:47Jr Lee: I try to run the whole year with it.
- 1:47:49Jr Lee: One of the things that we're trying to do right now is create the culture of open mics where a man could come and test and I feel like I have to be funny no I cannot be funny and become funny with this idea that I have in my mind.
- 1:48:02Jr Lee: You know I mean, but like we do have that culture.
- 1:48:05Jr Lee: So that's something I want to work on, maybe when I come back from touring, like I'm done when I come back in september there, like we can work on painting at some pop-up shows.
- 1:48:18Jr Lee: Some men could just come out and be themselves like comedians in canada, new york, bro, they're performing every night and that is why they can turn over so fast.
- 1:48:26Jr Lee: We know we might keep our joke for two years, three years, because we do have the space to make it happen.
- 1:48:32Corie: You ought to go in bars and try to do it.
- 1:48:35Jr Lee: I guess I decided it was real nice.
- 1:48:36Corie: I guess you signed.
- 1:48:37Corie: This was great.
- 1:48:38Jr Lee: I gave it to us.
- 1:48:39Corie: It's real good, and we know your time expensive too we adding it up.
- 1:48:44Jr Lee: It's not we adding it up, I am the most.
- 1:48:46Jr Lee: Hey, it's quasi on them.
- 1:48:48Jr Lee: I'm going to make shows out to everybody that I didn't get to mention.
- 1:48:54Jr Lee: It is a debut shows to Leslie and Katen.
- 1:48:57Jr Lee: Shows to Renalo Matamoros.
- 1:48:59Jr Lee: Shari Petty yeah, scene production.
- 1:49:03Jr Lee: I am visuals visuals.
- 1:49:04Jr Lee: You see visuals?
- 1:49:04Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah, shari Petty.
- 1:49:05Jr Lee: Yeah, scene production.
- 1:49:05Jr Lee: Rm visuals visuals.
- 1:49:06Jr Lee: You see visuals?
- 1:49:07Jr Lee: Yeah, yeah, grassroots Sheridan.
- 1:49:13Jr Lee: Sheridan Edwards.
- 1:49:14Jr Lee: He is one of the first people that gave me $1500 to shoot anything.
- 1:49:17Jr Lee: Yeah, and he used to be like Danny Green and make it.
- 1:49:19Corie: You know, I mean that's why you tell Nick you ain't accepting no $1500 for no.
- 1:49:23Corie: Show you getting that for video.
- 1:49:25Jr Lee: I never say I ain't accepting 1500 for no show.
- 1:49:28Jr Lee: You never say that.
- 1:49:28Jr Lee: I just say hey, all the comedians who listening right now, just remember there was $1,500 back in the days.
- 1:49:35Corie: Yeah, that's something like that $1,500 is my price.
- 1:49:38Corie: Brother, that's a million.
- 1:49:41Corie: This was nice.
- 1:49:42Corie: This was nice.
- 1:49:43Jr Lee: I appreciate it, it was nice, I was going to duck in.
- 1:49:45Jr Lee: Hey, I got no-transcript.