Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Kevin Hart Talks Lil Kev, Advice To Druski & Kai Cenat, Mike Epps, Shaq + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning.
- 0:04Speaker 3: Everybody is Steve, j Envy, Jesse, Hilarry and Charlamage the guy.
- 0:08Speaker 1: We are the breakfast Club. We got a special guest in.
- 0:11Speaker 2: The building who refuses to stop. Ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Hart,
- 0:15Speaker 2: Welcome back, brother. He just won't sit down.
- 0:20Speaker 1: How you yourself.
- 0:24Speaker 4: If nobody else will give it to you.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Life is great. No complaints man. Uh here to talk
- 0:33Speaker 1: about more ship, which means great ship is happening. Uh
- 0:37Speaker 1: still moving, still tracking, still working, still doing the same thing.
- 0:41Speaker 2: But bigger. When the last time you took a break?
- 0:43Speaker 1: Why? Why? Why take a break? We talking about this
- 0:46Speaker 1: all the time every Now you can rest when you die.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I enjoyed doing what I do, So why why am
- 0:53Speaker 1: I looking to rest. I have a good time working.
- 0:57Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like hate my job or my
- 1:00Speaker 1: job doesn't stress me out. I enjoyed the idea of work.
- 1:04Speaker 1: I enjoy the idea of doing something that I set
- 1:08Speaker 1: out to do. Like that's my happy space. Yeah, so
- 1:11Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not resting anytime soon.
- 1:13Speaker 3: Well, congratulations to your egles. Congratulations to your egos.
- 1:17Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations, congratulations. I am a Giants fan.
- 1:21Speaker 1: That's crazy you think me. I mean, I don't work
- 1:24Speaker 1: in the office. I understand what your office did they
- 1:27Speaker 1: Cin Barkley, how about how about that? Just a second,
- 1:33Speaker 1: just a second to talk about that? How how about that? Man? Like,
- 1:40Speaker 1: not a lot of officers can like sit and be
- 1:42Speaker 1: like we fucked up. There's not a lot that can
- 1:46Speaker 1: actually go you know what, man, we really fucked up
- 1:48Speaker 1: on this one.
- 1:49Speaker 2: We did.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Like who's responsible? Like they got a point. That's one
- 1:51Speaker 1: of the few times where they got a point in
- 1:53Speaker 1: each other? Was you guaranteed you who didn't make the
- 1:55Speaker 1: fucking deal? It was you know, I thought it was
- 1:58Speaker 1: our best interest, the biggest gift in forootball.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Man.
- 2:01Speaker 1: So stupid season in New York.
- 2:05Speaker 2: I'm happy he wouldn't have that season in New York.
- 2:07Speaker 2: You don't know what he would have, that's true. You
- 2:09Speaker 2: don't know what they wouldn't want the super.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Bowl, I mean, that's true, but you don't know the season.
- 2:12Speaker 2: That's true.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Coming back healthy, ready to play football. You know, it's
- 2:16Speaker 1: not like he just got good. He's been fucking good
- 2:20Speaker 1: healthy hundred It was the face of the Giants, I
- 2:22Speaker 1: mean one hundred percent. Why do you get her to say,
- 2:25Speaker 1: I just don't understand it, but thank you. I thank
- 2:27Speaker 1: the giants for the gift, one of the best gifts
- 2:30Speaker 1: I've ever fucking like received as a fan.
- 2:32Speaker 5: In saw talk to us about this new two part
- 2:35Speaker 5: documentary you Got One to Call.
- 2:37Speaker 1: She congratulations to Jamie fox Man. This is a Jamie
- 2:41Speaker 1: fox Like idea that he came to me with at heartbeat.
- 2:47Speaker 1: And you know, it was a concept about being one
- 2:50Speaker 1: of the call sheet and the good and bad of it. Right.
- 2:53Speaker 1: He's like, you know a lot of people experience it,
- 2:56Speaker 1: but it doesn't do the same for everyone, you know,
- 2:59Speaker 1: and whether it's the ego, whether it's the money, whether
- 3:02Speaker 1: it's the idea of the money, whether it's the thought
- 3:06Speaker 1: of my career is now about to be, and it
- 3:09Speaker 1: doesn't become like there's so many different, uh concepts attached
- 3:12Speaker 1: to it. I thought it was a great idea, man,
- 3:15Speaker 1: you know, fox is a brilliant mind. And I said,
- 3:17Speaker 1: to make it real, like, we got to go out
- 3:19Speaker 1: and you know, of course happened to all our relationships.
- 3:22Speaker 1: So it started off is just the idea for men,
- 3:25Speaker 1: Like we were heavy on the men's side, and then
- 3:27Speaker 1: we were like, yo, it's dope as fuck if you
- 3:29Speaker 1: have it to where you know there's a male version,
- 3:32Speaker 1: and then we go when we tap into a female
- 3:34Speaker 1: version as well, and really just expand the conversation of
- 3:40Speaker 1: success or lack thereof. And it's, uh, it's dope to
- 3:43Speaker 1: hear all these people talk about it. So I think
- 3:44Speaker 1: people are gonna be blown away by hearing the good
- 3:47Speaker 1: and the bad. Like everybody doesn't fuck with the concept
- 3:50Speaker 1: of it.
- 3:50Speaker 2: You know, we'll be a number one on the cause.
- 3:51Speaker 4: Everybody doesn't fuck with it. When when did you become
- 3:54Speaker 4: number one on the cast sheet? And what does it
- 3:55Speaker 4: mean to be there?
- 3:55Speaker 1: I've been number one for a while. Like I love it.
- 4:02Speaker 1: I love it like I don't. I don't want to
- 4:04Speaker 1: make it very clear. I love it. Think like a
- 4:06Speaker 1: man the first time, No, I mean the first one.
- 4:09Speaker 1: First one was probably, of course paper soldiers way back
- 4:12Speaker 1: in the day. Oh, but you know it's been it's
- 4:16Speaker 1: been a lot.
- 4:17Speaker 2: They will be happy to hear that. He'll be happy
- 4:18Speaker 2: to hit at you.
- 4:19Speaker 1: Paper soldiers shut out today. I think I think for
- 4:23Speaker 1: for me, it's more about you know, it's about the
- 4:29Speaker 1: the idea of building the project. So so you know,
- 4:32Speaker 1: I'm more of the creative behind the scene now, so
- 4:36Speaker 1: to have the idea and the idea come into like
- 4:38Speaker 1: real life and you're like, oh shit, we're doing this
- 4:40Speaker 1: and it's happening. And then the number one on the
- 4:41Speaker 1: call sheet and you're like, following down, that's great. But now, honestly,
- 4:45Speaker 1: I don't really I don't really give a fuck, Like
- 4:46Speaker 1: I'm joking about the number one, But I'm more about
- 4:48Speaker 1: putting other people in place to do ship and the
- 4:50Speaker 1: producing or the development of projects is what thrives, like,
- 4:54Speaker 1: that's what drives me.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Now.
- 4:55Speaker 3: You never left the road.
- 4:56Speaker 1: Why is the road so important to you? Because you
- 4:58Speaker 1: control it, you own it. Uh, there's no small venues.
- 5:01Speaker 1: You do big venues. Like nothing better than stand up coming.
- 5:04Speaker 1: There's no job better than the job of live entertainment,
- 5:09Speaker 1: live audience, Your fans, your connection, your relationship. It doesn't
- 5:14Speaker 1: die right like you can you literally if you if
- 5:17Speaker 1: you treat it like a plant and you forever water it,
- 5:20Speaker 1: the plan is never gonna die right like, So if
- 5:22Speaker 1: it can grow and you have good seasons, bad seasons,
- 5:26Speaker 1: it's always gonna be there. And those fans are just
- 5:29Speaker 1: gonna ride with you forever. So I'm very I'm very
- 5:32Speaker 1: adamant on staying true to stand up comedy. Nothing takes
- 5:35Speaker 1: the place in stand up coming. I don't give fuck
- 5:37Speaker 1: what I'm doing the level that I'm doing at. I
- 5:39Speaker 1: will go and do comedy clubs. I will come to
- 5:41Speaker 1: New York for months on a time and just do
- 5:43Speaker 1: a run of pop ups.
- 5:45Speaker 4: Uh.
- 5:46Speaker 1: That's my muse, that's my stress reliever.
- 5:48Speaker 5: So do you have a specific process, Like do you
- 5:50Speaker 5: ever still go back and visit family in Philly to
- 5:52Speaker 5: like get some get some light core material.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Nah? I mean, you know, I just I think when
- 5:59Speaker 1: you're when you're doing a lot in general, you're you're
- 6:03Speaker 1: always in the space of creative thinking, right, Like, if
- 6:08Speaker 1: you're NonStop, I'm not in the house like I'm I'm traveling,
- 6:11Speaker 1: I'm around people like you're. If you're constantly around and
- 6:13Speaker 1: you're constantly seeing things like, that's where your ideas are
- 6:16Speaker 1: coming from. That's where the urge to talk about more
- 6:18Speaker 1: shit happens, whether young energy or old energy, that's where
- 6:23Speaker 1: my appetite to go, Oh fuck, that's funny, let me
- 6:25Speaker 1: let me go on stage. I'm gonna see who this
- 6:27Speaker 1: is or oh god, this is actually this is a
- 6:31Speaker 1: new fucking like this is a new bait or possible
- 6:34Speaker 1: like idea to get to the bait so I can
- 6:37Speaker 1: fucking get like some dope shit. Once I get excited
- 6:39Speaker 1: about it, then I'm I'm hitting around running. But it's not.
- 6:42Speaker 1: It's not family generated, it's travel generated. Where am I
- 6:45Speaker 1: going with? Am I experiencing? Who am I around?
- 6:47Speaker 3: Did you had Damon way and say that he would
- 6:49Speaker 3: never do a stand up anymore because.
- 6:50Speaker 2: He was like, people are too sensitive, people are stupid?
- 6:53Speaker 3: Well yeah, basically, you know he says anything, people get
- 6:56Speaker 3: offended too fast, and it's like it's just not worth
- 6:58Speaker 3: the distress.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Uh, I understand, I mean I'm not. I don't. I
- 7:03Speaker 1: don't see it the same way because I don't. I don't.
- 7:06Speaker 1: I don't have that level of give a fuck of
- 7:08Speaker 1: I don't want to do the thing that I love
- 7:09Speaker 1: to do because I'm caring so much about what everybody
- 7:13Speaker 1: else is thinking about what I'm doing.
- 7:14Speaker 5: Like, I don't I think he meant that on you
- 7:16Speaker 5: know how the wayne's used to be like they no limit,
- 7:20Speaker 5: like you talk about anything. But now that since the
- 7:22Speaker 5: new trend is being offended and a lot of people
- 7:24Speaker 5: are just you know, it is what it.
- 7:27Speaker 1: Is though communities. I mean, Dame is Dame. Dame is
- 7:31Speaker 1: a legend. Like if Dame wanted to go on stage
- 7:33Speaker 1: and fucking around, Dame can do what he wants when
- 7:36Speaker 1: he wants. Uh, you know the idea of people being
- 7:40Speaker 1: upset or or fucking triggered. If you're thinking about that, like,
- 7:45Speaker 1: then you're you're going down a crazy spiral. I'm not.
- 7:47Speaker 1: I'm not doing comedy and thinking about the thought of
- 7:50Speaker 1: what you think about what I'm saying like I'm I
- 7:53Speaker 1: have the things I want to talk about. I know
- 7:54Speaker 1: the direction I want to go in. I'm not here
- 7:57Speaker 1: to offend. I'm not here to aggravate or his people
- 8:00Speaker 1: off I'm here to do my craft.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Do you can get away with anything if it's actually funny.
- 8:03Speaker 1: If it's fun if it's funny and it's coming from
- 8:06Speaker 1: a genuine like I'm not being malicious like now, if
- 8:12Speaker 1: you're if your intent is to be malicious behind set
- 8:16Speaker 1: thing and there's no real humor attached to it, it's
- 8:18Speaker 1: just an angry, fucking suggestion, and that's different. But I'm
- 8:22Speaker 1: not in that space.
- 8:22Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not doing Last time you've been angry.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Last time've been angry. It's been a minute. Man, it's
- 8:30Speaker 1: been a minute. I don't get what what do you think?
- 8:33Speaker 1: Like what are you angry about? Like why? Why? Why
- 8:36Speaker 1: are you letting things drive you to the point of
- 8:39Speaker 1: a level of anger that prevents you from doing something else?
- 8:44Speaker 1: Like it takes so much energy to be angry?
- 8:46Speaker 4: Or do you have something that when you even get
- 8:47Speaker 4: to that point, Like is it the gym?
- 8:49Speaker 2: Is it your kids? Is it the stage?
- 8:51Speaker 1: Like I don't I know this is gonna sound crazy.
- 8:54Speaker 1: There's nothing that pressing to make me angry. You can
- 8:59Speaker 1: have a moment, you can frustrated for a moment, but
- 9:01Speaker 1: then I'm a solution oriented That's what I mean. Likes
- 9:04Speaker 1: this Okay. If something happened and it's upset, all right,
- 9:07Speaker 1: well why like why did it happen? Like anything? It's
- 9:09Speaker 1: all office or business related, so like well why all right?
- 9:13Speaker 1: Well now that is the case, Like what are we
- 9:15Speaker 1: doing to basically get outside this box? How can I
- 9:18Speaker 1: help get outside the box? Like me being upset at
- 9:20Speaker 1: you doing your mistake doesn't change the mistake. And by
- 9:23Speaker 1: the way, if this is a mistake you always make.
- 9:25Speaker 1: All right, well, we got to remove you. I'm sorry
- 9:27Speaker 1: but that's business. I'm not angry about the choice, but
- 9:30Speaker 1: it's a it's a professional solve.
- 9:32Speaker 3: Have you apologized yet to Delaware State University.
- 9:35Speaker 1: For what Sean Jackson said?
- 9:38Speaker 2: You was sorry?
- 9:39Speaker 1: Sewn Jackson said, oh sorry, Oh he's talk about when
- 9:41Speaker 1: I said, uh.
- 9:43Speaker 2: I forgot what he said. That's not a college.
- 9:48Speaker 1: It's not a real college. A bunch of niggas, a
- 9:51Speaker 1: bunch of it's a bunch of niggas on the camp.
- 9:54Speaker 1: I mean, first of all, it is all right, but
- 9:57Speaker 1: it's like smart people there too. We're talking about I
- 10:03Speaker 1: used to go to Delaware State all the time. I'm
- 10:05Speaker 1: performed there several times from Philadelphias right up the street.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Delaware State knows. I have no ill will towards them.
- 10:11Speaker 1: I love you guys, but it was a funny bit.
- 10:13Speaker 1: A lot of niggas out there.
- 10:17Speaker 5: You guys, you animated show out little Yes, talk about your.
- 10:20Speaker 6: Life growing up?
- 10:21Speaker 2: Yes?
- 10:21Speaker 6: What made you want to do that animation style?
- 10:23Speaker 2: You know?
- 10:24Speaker 1: Crazy? This has been a this is like, this is
- 10:27Speaker 1: a crazy development, man. This is I want to say,
- 10:30Speaker 1: like seven to eight years in the making before we
- 10:34Speaker 1: could actually do it properly. Shouts out to to Scott
- 10:37Speaker 1: Mills over there at bt Man for understanding like my
- 10:41Speaker 1: world of want and allowing me to do it the
- 10:44Speaker 1: way I wanted to do it. You know, it's an
- 10:45Speaker 1: a doubt animation, uh, And I wanted to like flip
- 10:48Speaker 1: the story of the conversation attached to the hood, right,
- 10:52Speaker 1: Like everybody talks about the hood from one point of view.
- 10:54Speaker 1: You know, the hood is the hood, and people like
- 10:56Speaker 1: the hood is fucked up, it's so bad.
- 10:58Speaker 2: But what you niggas neighborhood?
- 11:00Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, and I think that there's a there's a
- 11:02Speaker 1: positive side to it. You know, there's a there's a
- 11:06Speaker 1: role that everybody plays in the hood, especially when it
- 11:08Speaker 1: comes to kids, families, Like everybody's part of the village.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Everybody's raising everybody's child, everybody is aware, everybody's in the know.
- 11:16Speaker 1: Everybody's trying their best to service and need a good
- 11:19Speaker 1: and even bad shit is happening, you know, when people
- 11:21Speaker 1: find out, there is an energy attached to trying to
- 11:24Speaker 1: solve it and make it better. And this is a
- 11:26Speaker 1: way of just flipping the conversation on the hood upside down.
- 11:29Speaker 1: So it's about me, my upbringing being in the hood,
- 11:32Speaker 1: but having such a high level of love for the hood,
- 11:34Speaker 1: for my family and for all the people around it.
- 11:37Speaker 2: And just Larius is in it keeping her away from
- 11:39Speaker 2: breakfast club.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Come on, just don't listen to that.
- 11:43Speaker 2: I don't.
- 11:44Speaker 1: I don't listen when people say, like I want to
- 11:47Speaker 1: make something very clear, when people say like, yeah, thank
- 11:48Speaker 1: you for giving people a job people earn them, like,
- 11:50Speaker 1: I'm not giving thank you anything. I'm not out like,
- 11:53Speaker 1: hey here, just here's a fucking gift. Like that's just
- 11:57Speaker 1: that's her team, that's people working and saying, hey, this,
- 12:00Speaker 1: it's a good thing to possibly put just up for process.
- 12:04Speaker 1: I mean, you could say no, but when people are
- 12:06Speaker 1: talented and earning things on their own, it's happening the
- 12:09Speaker 1: way it's supposed to be. I'm not I'm not in
- 12:11Speaker 1: the space of know of everything and I'm hand picking
- 12:14Speaker 1: people and doing like that's what that would mean that
- 12:17Speaker 1: I'm fucking I mean the time and the day to
- 12:20Speaker 1: do that and do it and do it and do it.
- 12:22Speaker 1: Then that means that the people around me aren't doing
- 12:24Speaker 1: what the fuck they're supposed to do. So it's your
- 12:26Speaker 1: job to like properly package and you know, put people
- 12:30Speaker 1: in places to make these projects good and it's my
- 12:33Speaker 1: job to see it. At the end stage, we're going, Wow,
- 12:35Speaker 1: this is a great cast, these are great personnel, great roles.
- 12:38Speaker 1: I like this. I like this configuration. But justice earning
- 12:41Speaker 1: it definitely giving anything.
- 12:43Speaker 4: And you know, you do take the time to pour
- 12:44Speaker 4: into the next generation. You know, drewski was up here
- 12:46Speaker 4: and Drewskie said that you gave him and Kis and
- 12:49Speaker 4: not a bunch of movies to watch and told them
- 12:52Speaker 4: to get you stud whatever your stupid ass is doing
- 12:54Speaker 4: right now, watch these movies. Yeah, and prepare for the
- 12:56Speaker 4: next level.
- 12:56Speaker 1: That's uh, you know, I like, I like, I like
- 13:00Speaker 1: what the younger generation is doing. It's crazy I'm saying that,
- 13:04Speaker 1: like I'm I'm really am a part of like a
- 13:06Speaker 1: time of old forty five. Well doesn't look it, you know.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Uh that that that older generation of like how we
- 13:23Speaker 1: approach the business, how we approach the craft right like,
- 13:26Speaker 1: And I think it's dope as fuck to see this
- 13:29Speaker 1: new generation navigate differently, like like the comedians of today
- 13:34Speaker 1: did not go and you know work at it the
- 13:39Speaker 1: same way that we did. Like they're they're breaking new ground,
- 13:42Speaker 1: finding ways to be the personalities first and then get
- 13:45Speaker 1: to the stage after and the way they're engaging with
- 13:48Speaker 1: their audience and the way that the audience is responding
- 13:50Speaker 1: to them. I think it's dope as fuck, So, you know,
- 13:53Speaker 1: and being a fan of it, I feel like it's
- 13:57Speaker 1: my job now to figure out ways to like grab
- 13:59Speaker 1: this personnel when it where I can, and you know,
- 14:01Speaker 1: try to push him forward with Kai and Drewski. Kai
- 14:04Speaker 1: is such a monster man, Like I think people realize
- 14:07Speaker 1: how big Kai's audience is.
- 14:10Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Kai's fan base is insane. Like you're talking about somebody
- 14:15Speaker 1: that's talking in front of a computer for hours on end,
- 14:18Speaker 1: and you know, he holds anywhere between three and fo
- 14:22Speaker 1: hundred thousand people the eight to twelve hour periods that
- 14:26Speaker 1: don't move. Like when we did those streams, you know,
- 14:29Speaker 1: you're putting up Super Bowl like numbers. We had at
- 14:33Speaker 1: one point, like nine hundred thousand people in a fucking
- 14:36Speaker 1: stream watching for hours on end. So I told him,
- 14:39Speaker 1: I said, look, man, I want to show you guys
- 14:41Speaker 1: ways to like give your audience more and ways to
- 14:46Speaker 1: do more. So I came up, like with some dope
- 14:48Speaker 1: ass ideas concepts for us to rock in together, but
- 14:53Speaker 1: stay true to the space of what they're doing. So Drewski,
- 14:56Speaker 1: I know he came and he was like, telling you
- 14:57Speaker 1: guys about the movie. I don't want to tell you'all
- 14:58Speaker 1: what it is, but it's a big, big idea that
- 15:00Speaker 1: we're working now. But I was like, to do it.
- 15:02Speaker 1: You guys got to educate yourself on things in this space.
- 15:05Speaker 1: So it wasn't homework. I was like, understand production, Understand
- 15:09Speaker 1: how movies are made, Understand the look and feel, so
- 15:12Speaker 1: that when we're talking and ide eating, you know what
- 15:15Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Like I don't want to talk to
- 15:17Speaker 1: you and you got to go backwards and track what
- 15:19Speaker 1: we're talking about. So the homework quote unquote, the homework
- 15:24Speaker 1: was more about get this concept and then like let's
- 15:29Speaker 1: get to the table and let's make the shit funny.
- 15:31Speaker 1: But I got them really like creating the shit and
- 15:34Speaker 1: developing it and not because you know, it's a chore
- 15:37Speaker 1: a task. It's like, I want you to be a
- 15:39Speaker 1: part of the process so you can understand the process.
- 15:41Speaker 1: And after you do this with me, go do it yourself.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Go do it and figure out ways to you know,
- 15:46Speaker 1: do it with the other people that you're around. But
- 15:48Speaker 1: I think they're fucking talented I think Jewickey is a start.
- 15:51Speaker 1: I think Juwickey's a funny fucking guy man. Naturally. I
- 15:55Speaker 1: think they're fucking like natural talents, and in this it's
- 15:59Speaker 1: like putting them in a position to be what they
- 16:02Speaker 1: are and be the first to come over the bridge
- 16:07Speaker 1: from that space of streaming whatever. Like what mister Beasts
- 16:10Speaker 1: is doing is dope. This game show, big game show.
- 16:13Speaker 1: He's taking everything and the idea of game prize. He
- 16:16Speaker 1: he redefined it right, like, if you really watch it,
- 16:19Speaker 1: what he's done. He redefined the concept of game game show.
- 16:24Speaker 1: We've seen it for years on Who Wants to Be
- 16:25Speaker 1: a Millionaire and all these other shows, but it was
- 16:28Speaker 1: a traditional there was a traditional win and here's your gift.
- 16:32Speaker 1: He broke that model. I'm gonna give him some cats,
- 16:35Speaker 1: some regular people, man, And he did a time at
- 16:37Speaker 1: the time and time again, and then he built the
- 16:38Speaker 1: big ass series and hey, man, fucking streaming platforms was like, hey,
- 16:42Speaker 1: we gotta fuck with this guy. We're gonna give him X, Y,
- 16:44Speaker 1: and Z to do it. We want you to do
- 16:45Speaker 1: it with us. But he controls it, he owns it.
- 16:47Speaker 1: So I'm showing them how to control, how to own
- 16:50Speaker 1: and do bigger things so it doesn't cap out at
- 16:53Speaker 1: the stream. Dreucy said, you actually set him up in
- 16:55Speaker 1: that stream with that, with that, with that little kid,
- 16:58Speaker 1: he said, he said, it was you. Actually, this is
- 17:01Speaker 1: what that's that's what you did.
- 17:03Speaker 2: You did start off, you started follow your leader.
- 17:08Speaker 1: First of all, what you need to understand is where
- 17:10Speaker 1: the cameras are at all times. What I said, the
- 17:12Speaker 1: juice keeper was in his ear. I said something in
- 17:16Speaker 1: his ear. Okay, nobody really knows what I said. He
- 17:18Speaker 1: knows what I said. And then he took the liberty
- 17:21Speaker 1: of going and you know, saying very harsh things. By
- 17:24Speaker 1: the way, you know things. It shouldn't be walk right
- 17:27Speaker 1: out like you. I mean, I don't want to be
- 17:28Speaker 1: around that. I've seen a lot of people get in fights.
- 17:31Speaker 1: I've seen what it's about to happen. I go, I
- 17:33Speaker 1: shouldn't be here, right I shouldn't be here. They're about
- 17:36Speaker 1: to start shooting. By the way, he's got the gun.
- 17:39Speaker 1: I see it. I'm gonna leave right now. So I
- 17:42Speaker 1: just exited the room because I think I think at
- 17:44Speaker 1: the time, I had to go to the vathroom actually,
- 17:46Speaker 1: and then a lot of stuff from what I was
- 17:48Speaker 1: told happened from what I was told. The kids started
- 17:51Speaker 1: crying and stuff like that, and I came back. I
- 17:54Speaker 1: came back and I was like, what's going on? At
- 17:56Speaker 1: that time, I'm the adult in the room trying to
- 17:58Speaker 1: calm ship down, right, man, what's happening? And I think
- 18:02Speaker 1: all the cameras caught me saying that, which is good
- 18:04Speaker 1: for me legally, so I was never attached.
- 18:07Speaker 4: Jukie said he felt like he could make those jokes
- 18:09Speaker 4: because he's fat and y'all were teasing him all day
- 18:11Speaker 4: about being fat or juicy.
- 18:12Speaker 1: First of all, calling people fat is that's aggressive.
- 18:18Speaker 2: When you saw the big thinking of you, I just
- 18:20Speaker 2: want to.
- 18:24Speaker 1: I just want to know what I'm saying. Juicy big
- 18:33Speaker 1: a little bigger, right becase he had problems breathing when
- 18:36Speaker 1: he walks up steps. Yeah, of course, But but you
- 18:40Speaker 1: know that little kid, I think was on his way
- 18:42Speaker 1: to a healthy lifestyle. You got to support that, right,
- 18:44Speaker 1: the little kid because he was talking. I think the
- 18:46Speaker 1: little kid was talking about exercising and stuff, which is good.
- 18:48Speaker 1: And I'm always glad to just be on the positive
- 18:51Speaker 1: side of conversation. That's what I'm about. You know, I'm
- 18:53Speaker 1: a beacon of light Joy.
- 18:55Speaker 5: Kevin that at the level of success that you are
- 18:58Speaker 5: being an actor, do you still have to audition for roles.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Or absolutely not?
- 19:04Speaker 6: Okay, what are you talking, La Lawrence that he had
- 19:08Speaker 6: said that he does min I.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Think Martin said he had to he pitches, he still got.
- 19:13Speaker 1: To pitch projects that, Yeah, that makes sense if he's
- 19:17Speaker 1: pitching things. I mean, am I Am I really pitching things?
- 19:21Speaker 1: I think I'm pitching ideas to my team. I'm more
- 19:25Speaker 1: in the business of creating the things that I think
- 19:28Speaker 1: best service my want in my my direction and the business.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Like when you think about the dramas, you think about
- 19:36Speaker 1: all the things that I've done as serious like that's
- 19:38Speaker 1: been me so true story. I was like, I want
- 19:40Speaker 1: to I want to kill somebody on camera. I think
- 19:42Speaker 1: it'll be dope, and I want to found a guy
- 19:45Speaker 1: that created Narcos and I was like, Yo, it'll be
- 19:47Speaker 1: dope as fuck if we can collab and talk. But
- 19:50Speaker 1: we developed it and then I was like, Okay, this
- 19:51Speaker 1: is great, let's go and take this out Like that's
- 19:54Speaker 1: developing it and then going to sell it. Fight night.
- 19:57Speaker 1: You know that was me Will Packer, Will telling me
- 20:01Speaker 1: you had the right and not saying, hey, to do it.
- 20:03Speaker 1: This can be dope as fun, but let's do it
- 20:04Speaker 1: this way and put the right people in it. So
- 20:07Speaker 1: like the the creative side of from start to finish
- 20:11Speaker 1: is where I'm playing at now. But like auditioning, I'm
- 20:14Speaker 1: not really auditioning. I think people if they have a project,
- 20:17Speaker 1: they're like, oh, Kevin would be good for this, And
- 20:18Speaker 1: I'm getting those calls, hey, we want you to do
- 20:21Speaker 1: and then I got a decision of if I want
- 20:22Speaker 1: to do it or not.
- 20:23Speaker 6: Like fans is the upside. That's still one of my
- 20:25Speaker 6: favorite movies.
- 20:26Speaker 5: You and Brian Kranston, they they already saw you for
- 20:29Speaker 5: that role.
- 20:30Speaker 1: He said, we want to do the remake. Uh, and
- 20:33Speaker 1: we see you and Brian Cranston doing this. Are you interested?
- 20:36Speaker 1: And absolutely, and Nicole Kipman I was like absolutely, hands down,
- 20:40Speaker 1: But it's it's it's coming out and having an ask
- 20:43Speaker 1: not to saying that I wouldn't audition you would. He
- 20:47Speaker 1: would try to clean it up, trying to clean it up,
- 20:51Speaker 1: anybody trying to cameras there. I just wanted to look
- 20:54Speaker 1: in and make it just look like I'm willing to
- 20:56Speaker 1: do right. I'm not. I just want to guys, if
- 20:59Speaker 1: you understand what's.
- 21:00Speaker 3: What's the last time you got booed? And the reason
- 21:03Speaker 3: I asked because you said you do small shows.
- 21:10Speaker 1: I'm not getting booted and nobody. I'm not getting booed
- 21:12Speaker 1: at this point. Like if even if jokes aren't funny,
- 21:16Speaker 1: you know, you're you're getting the you're getting the credibility laughs.
- 21:21Speaker 1: At at least you're trying to minimum, you're trying things out.
- 21:28Speaker 1: You don't care.
- 21:29Speaker 6: You don't want a damn boo either, don't care.
- 21:31Speaker 1: Honestly, I have no there is no care for like
- 21:35Speaker 1: the level of laughter when I'm trying to figure ship
- 21:38Speaker 1: out now, but I think I've got it all done
- 21:40Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, this set is complete. I'm going
- 21:42Speaker 1: out and I'm struggling. Okay, And that's that's a little
- 21:45Speaker 1: self esteem bruising if that's the case. But that's not.
- 21:49Speaker 1: That hasn't been the case ever. Like when you when
- 21:51Speaker 1: you work the ship and you done worked on the
- 21:53Speaker 1: craft and I'm like, Okay, I got it, I got
- 21:55Speaker 1: it down. This is my set. No, you're not. You're
- 21:58Speaker 1: not running into them problems. Now do you get an
- 22:00Speaker 1: occasional person that you got to deal with in the crowd. Yeah,
- 22:04Speaker 1: but that stuff isn't booing. That's like you know, atmosphere
- 22:08Speaker 1: that's heckling or somebody yelling out and looking for a moment.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Every once a while, you got to show that you
- 22:12Speaker 1: still got that and you know, you put people in
- 22:15Speaker 1: a place comedically and then you move on with the set.
- 22:17Speaker 2: But booing, Now, what about like social media?
- 22:20Speaker 4: Backlund because everybody, for whatever reason was highly upset when
- 22:22Speaker 4: you hosted a NBA All Star Weekend. There was a
- 22:26Speaker 4: a section of the internet that was acting like they
- 22:27Speaker 4: were you know, you know.
- 22:28Speaker 1: What what do you what do you? What energy do
- 22:32Speaker 1: you give that I'm a partner to the NBA, Like,
- 22:36Speaker 1: understand what that means. I'm not I'm not coming on
- 22:39Speaker 1: to be Kevin Hart and have funny moments to the NBA.
- 22:42Speaker 1: The NBA has been a servicing aid to my career
- 22:46Speaker 1: for over fifteen years. Like you go back and you'll
- 22:50Speaker 1: look at how much I've been on NBA T and
- 22:52Speaker 1: T and All Star Weekend, celebrity weekends, all these events
- 22:56Speaker 1: like this you're not looking at. It's it's almost host adjacent, right,
- 23:02Speaker 1: Like the personalities that we lean on because we're familiar
- 23:05Speaker 1: with family and we know how they work. That's what
- 23:08Speaker 1: that is. So the All Star I'm not going to
- 23:10Speaker 1: the All Star Game to trying to create a big
- 23:12Speaker 1: moment for me. I'm there because the energy of the
- 23:15Speaker 1: All Star Game comes with Chuck, Ernie Kenney, myself, Shack
- 23:19Speaker 1: like we've been doing this for years, Like just talking
- 23:22Speaker 1: and playing with one another, bantering on camera. That's not
- 23:25Speaker 1: an easy thing to do. They make it look fucking easy.
- 23:28Speaker 1: They make it look great. That's not an easy.
- 23:30Speaker 6: Thing between you and shit, yeah, that's very easy.
- 23:33Speaker 1: That's not fucking an easy thing to do. Like that chemistry,
- 23:36Speaker 1: that rapport. It comes from like having a real understanding
- 23:38Speaker 1: for how TV works. So you can't just throw new
- 23:41Speaker 1: things in there because it gets weird. People don't understand
- 23:45Speaker 1: the times, peoplen't understand the cuts, how much time you
- 23:47Speaker 1: gotta go cut back to the game. They're trying to
- 23:48Speaker 1: do so much new shit, they're trying to discover it.
- 23:51Speaker 1: So why they're trying to figure it out. Here's personality
- 23:53Speaker 1: that we can lean on, so at least we don't
- 23:54Speaker 1: have dead space or dull moments on camera. That's that's
- 23:58Speaker 1: what that is. So when you understand the tech, the
- 24:00Speaker 1: coalnity behind it. Then you you understand my involvement. I don't.
- 24:03Speaker 1: I don't feed into the other ship like I know
- 24:04Speaker 1: why I'm there, partnership.
- 24:06Speaker 4: Do you ever tell Shack to like really back up
- 24:09Speaker 4: off you could he be kind of sexually assaulting you
- 24:11Speaker 4: in a little bit.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Come on. Only one time with Shack has done some
- 24:16Speaker 1: crazy ship where I was uncomfortable was Real Husbands when
- 24:21Speaker 1: that whole thing that's on the internet that they that
- 24:24Speaker 1: wasn't I wasn't scripted. It was a moment, but honestly,
- 24:29Speaker 1: be real, I couldn't do nothing about it. Yeah, they
- 24:33Speaker 1: gotta cut. This is you know before just before I
- 24:39Speaker 1: put a little size on not to say I could
- 24:40Speaker 1: do something to shock, but I didn't. You know, it
- 24:42Speaker 1: was a very frail version of me. And you know
- 24:45Speaker 1: it was this is when Shaq was like when they
- 24:47Speaker 1: were like just talking about Shaq being a cop and
- 24:50Speaker 1: he really was a cop. To be funny as fuck,
- 24:52Speaker 1: Shack pulled me over on Real Husbands of Hollywood and
- 24:55Speaker 1: you know, like Shack is like basically about the arrestment
- 24:58Speaker 1: and he fucking you know, everybody can't improv the you
- 25:08Speaker 1: don't even have to say this we're not even to
- 25:10Speaker 1: discussing people.
- 25:10Speaker 2: Who haven't seen it. A great show. You should. It's
- 25:12Speaker 2: a great show, but it's not online.
- 25:14Speaker 1: But we're not gonna do is make it scene like something.
- 25:17Speaker 1: So but what he did was he grabbed me when
- 25:20Speaker 1: I got out the car and he just tried to
- 25:22Speaker 1: get a little physical right. It was like you down.
- 25:24Speaker 1: But it's like like everybody doesn't improve the same comedy.
- 25:28Speaker 1: Comedy is an art. Like you ever see comedians when
- 25:31Speaker 1: they try to like improvate, some of them go too
- 25:33Speaker 1: far or they don't know when to stop, like, hey man,
- 25:35Speaker 1: we got it in the scene, like you can't go
- 25:38Speaker 1: over there like oh yeah, well your mama And you're like, well,
- 25:40Speaker 1: you can't break up moms because we don't know who
- 25:42Speaker 1: our moms are in the scene.
- 25:43Speaker 4: It's like I just googled it and it says hashtag
- 25:46Speaker 4: calls of the week.
- 25:47Speaker 2: Hey yo, nah shock you straighted by lady Kevin Hart.
- 25:51Speaker 2: You literally took that man in the pound town.
- 25:53Speaker 1: This is this is what you're doing. That's actually that's
- 25:56Speaker 1: actually nuts. That's nuts. That's what he He grabbed me.
- 26:01Speaker 1: He grabbed me, throws me over the over the carr
- 26:04Speaker 1: and he and he he starts humping me. So I'm like,
- 26:07Speaker 1: I remember around face and you're gonna tell you how
- 26:14Speaker 1: let me tell you what I can tell charlat Mayne,
- 26:15Speaker 1: and Charlamayne is perfect like that is a nasty man
- 26:19Speaker 1: like that in this brief time, I just found out
- 26:22Speaker 1: a lot about him. By the way he starts describing stuff.
- 26:24Speaker 1: You're very graphic, nasty man. I just told you, just
- 26:27Speaker 1: describing with you. He grabbed me and he fucking like
- 26:30Speaker 1: throws me over the car. He's like, you don't know what.
- 26:32Speaker 1: He starts humping me. I remember Ralph that rest of
- 26:35Speaker 1: the episode, right. I remember Ralph was directed episode. I
- 26:39Speaker 1: remember I looked at Ralph. I'm like, hey, did y'all
- 26:41Speaker 1: did joab is it pages? Something happened? And they was like, uh,
- 26:47Speaker 1: they were like all right, Uh nobody wanted to say
- 26:49Speaker 1: ship to Shack. They're like, all right, we got it.
- 26:52Speaker 1: So let's just move on. We just we just moved
- 26:58Speaker 1: on talking about that, trying.
- 27:04Speaker 2: To get you again off weekend.
- 27:05Speaker 1: Just shut up?
- 27:07Speaker 2: Did you get triggered a little bit? I saw you.
- 27:08Speaker 2: He was creeping up.
- 27:10Speaker 1: That's a very I'm older and I'm in a much
- 27:13Speaker 1: more controlling state in my in my life where you
- 27:16Speaker 1: know I would say something to you know, don't do that.
- 27:20Speaker 1: You know he got to stop it right, like a
- 27:24Speaker 1: firm stop that right. But in that moment, that was
- 27:27Speaker 1: shock trying to be funny. That's my that's my nigga.
- 27:30Speaker 1: I have so much love.
- 27:32Speaker 4: Do people know the role or just generation? Do they
- 27:34Speaker 4: know the pivotal roll shock play in your career.
- 27:36Speaker 1: The pivotal road And I don't think people do know
- 27:39Speaker 1: the pivot? What is the pivotal role? Sounds crazy?
- 27:42Speaker 2: I'm being serious.
- 27:43Speaker 4: We don't know when he when he had the shock
- 27:44Speaker 4: comedy All Start Weekend, Yes.
- 27:46Speaker 1: Yes, and he's referring to like the special that actually launched.
- 27:52Speaker 1: I would say, like the the bigger side of success
- 27:55Speaker 1: to my comedy career, no bullshit is Shacks All Star
- 27:57Speaker 1: Comedy Jail. That was a phenix you know what crazy thing.
- 28:00Speaker 1: I did it as a favor. It was a favor
- 28:04Speaker 1: Like I was like, oh man, I can't really do shit.
- 28:06Speaker 1: I'm about to drop my special, so I don't really
- 28:08Speaker 1: want to like go and do this. It was like, no, Kevin,
- 28:10Speaker 1: come on, like we need a headline that we want
- 28:13Speaker 1: you to come to be quick. And it was like
- 28:14Speaker 1: just a gig an All Star weekend, you know, like
- 28:17Speaker 1: we're on to tape it, and I was like, all right,
- 28:18Speaker 1: I'm gonna put like a different fifteen minutes on this man.
- 28:21Speaker 1: And I don't really you know, I'm not really pressed to.
- 28:23Speaker 1: I'm not really pressed about it like that. So I'll
- 28:25Speaker 1: give you all this fifteen and I'll save the other
- 28:27Speaker 1: shit for my special. So it's like a toss away set.
- 28:31Speaker 1: It was a toss away fifteen minutes set, like a
- 28:34Speaker 1: backlog set. I was like, I get all this and
- 28:36Speaker 1: shit ended up being the biggest. So shouts out to
- 28:39Speaker 1: the big dummy himself.
- 28:41Speaker 4: I want to go back to number one on the
- 28:43Speaker 4: call sheet because Sterling K. Brown did an interview with
- 28:45Speaker 4: He said that people wanted to put him number one
- 28:46Speaker 4: in the call sheets, but he was superstitious about it
- 28:49Speaker 4: because he'd been successful enough not being number one, so
- 28:51Speaker 4: he was okay with being number two.
- 28:53Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
- 28:55Speaker 1: I don't I don't mind that, you know what I mean,
- 28:57Speaker 1: as somebody that's been there. When when you're there and
- 29:00Speaker 1: you've you've experienced whatever the conversation attached to it is,
- 29:04Speaker 1: it's not the same level of important, right, like it's
- 29:08Speaker 1: it's not important, like I was joking about earlier about
- 29:10Speaker 1: the idea of number one of culture, but it's not
- 29:12Speaker 1: that important to me. I don't. I don't give a fuck.
- 29:14Speaker 1: I don't. I don't care about top billing. I don't
- 29:16Speaker 1: need my name to be first. I don't need my
- 29:19Speaker 1: name to be the biggest when they first put the
- 29:21Speaker 1: movie or the TV show out, Like, if that's more
- 29:23Speaker 1: important to you, I'm like, all right, let them get it.
- 29:26Speaker 1: I don't. I don't really, I don't really give a fuck,
- 29:27Speaker 1: and not in a dismissive way. But if that's what
- 29:30Speaker 1: you need to make you feel better, to make you
- 29:32Speaker 1: feel like a valuable piece to the puzzle of this project,
- 29:36Speaker 1: absolutely give it to them. Like I can. I can
- 29:38Speaker 1: take those back steps because you've been there, Like it's
- 29:42Speaker 1: like the idea of start them, it's not it doesn't
- 29:45Speaker 1: thrive or I'm not thriving in the space of being
- 29:48Speaker 1: a star, like you've you've been there. I could give
- 29:50Speaker 1: a fuck. Like you condemn the light as much as
- 29:52Speaker 1: you want, I don't. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it's like you,
- 29:55Speaker 1: you don't, it doesn't. It's not driving my reason to
- 29:59Speaker 1: get up in do so I think what Sterling is
- 30:01Speaker 1: referring to, it's saying like, look, man, I don't really
- 30:04Speaker 1: like that I've done it. It's better for me to
- 30:06Speaker 1: do this. Let somebody else deal with all the headache
- 30:08Speaker 1: of vat that's what he's doing and shouts out to
- 30:10Speaker 1: them too. Man, the show is incredible right now.
- 30:13Speaker 2: So when you in the rock do a movie, who's
- 30:16Speaker 2: number one on the coature?
- 30:17Speaker 1: I let him get it? But he's DJ's an asshole. Yeah,
- 30:22Speaker 1: he's an ass Let him get it.
- 30:23Speaker 2: I'm joking.
- 30:24Speaker 1: Yeah, No, DJ, by the way, he trumps me every time.
- 30:27Speaker 1: What do you mean, it's not even conversation. I don't
- 30:29Speaker 1: even bring it up.
- 30:31Speaker 2: You number one on this right because the box office numbers, like,
- 30:35Speaker 2: how do they?
- 30:36Speaker 1: I think he deserves to be number one when we
- 30:38Speaker 1: do the project. He's an international superstar. Not to say
- 30:43Speaker 1: that I don't have international success, but I don't think
- 30:46Speaker 1: that we're equal in that regard. I think that his
- 30:49Speaker 1: movies have performed and done crazy business internationally. Uh, and
- 30:55Speaker 1: when we do the projects that we want to appeal
- 30:57Speaker 1: to the world, you should be first. I'm coming in
- 31:01Speaker 1: and I'm on that train with you. I'm adding value
- 31:03Speaker 1: to it, But I'm not bumped by you being first.
- 31:07Speaker 1: We put an amazing cast together to help us get
- 31:09Speaker 1: those audiences when we do. But I don't. I don't
- 31:12Speaker 1: feel any type way about that. I think he deserves
- 31:15Speaker 1: it and he should have it.
- 31:17Speaker 4: Congratulations too, man, you got is announced that you're working
- 31:21Speaker 4: with the Indiana Paces.
- 31:22Speaker 1: Now I'm beat working with the Pacers.
- 31:23Speaker 2: Heart Heartbeat entertainment, heartbeat. Is it working with the Paces?
- 31:26Speaker 1: Yes, heart beat it.
- 31:27Speaker 4: To be the official cultural curator to provide entertainment and
- 31:31Speaker 4: live experiences for fans in the Indianapolis CAUs.
- 31:33Speaker 1: Yes, yes, what.
- 31:36Speaker 2: Is it?
- 31:36Speaker 1: What does the seventy six about?
- 31:38Speaker 2: We're speeding with the question. First of all, what does
- 31:39Speaker 2: that look like?
- 31:40Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for our company, right like you're. Our
- 31:44Speaker 1: company is a creative engine for any resource that allows
- 31:49Speaker 1: us to be right like we are a business. So
- 31:52Speaker 1: our business thrives when we can implement ourselves in places
- 31:56Speaker 1: to create or elevate a brand, a company, an entity
- 32:01Speaker 1: and activation, whether it be live entertainment, storytelling, etc. Indiana
- 32:07Speaker 1: with the Pacers and the Fever have an attraction coming.
- 32:11Speaker 1: I think they have an all star coming up. But
- 32:13Speaker 1: it's more about they're like, look, we're looking for ways
- 32:16Speaker 1: to expand and elevate what we've done. They spent a
- 32:19Speaker 1: lot of money on a new facility. They have a
- 32:22Speaker 1: team that's thriving, a younger team the Fever or thriving
- 32:27Speaker 1: with star power, etc. So they're like, how do we elevate?
- 32:31Speaker 1: How can we better tell our story? And I'm like,
- 32:33Speaker 1: that's what we do, you know, and me having relationships
- 32:36Speaker 1: with you know, the owner of the team and presidents
- 32:40Speaker 1: of the teams or cmos that are a part of
- 32:44Speaker 1: those entities, It's like, look, that's what we do. We
- 32:47Speaker 1: tell stories very well. So to market, promote and better
- 32:51Speaker 1: define that for you, that's our business. Let us show
- 32:54Speaker 1: you how we can make that business a service to you.
- 32:57Speaker 1: And they gave an opportunity and I was like, dope,
- 32:58Speaker 1: let our company do it. So it's not a Kevin
- 33:00Speaker 1: Hart thing, like everybody assumes that Kevin Hart is the
- 33:04Speaker 1: driving factor or the source. It's the entity. The entity
- 33:07Speaker 1: has to do things outside of me, our entity to
- 33:11Speaker 1: fucking thrive. Like that's a fact. So whether it's the
- 33:14Speaker 1: fucking Pacers, I got business with the Falcons, I got
- 33:18Speaker 1: business with the Eagles, the Giants, that's one that I
- 33:21Speaker 1: don't know if I would touch because they don't know
- 33:23Speaker 1: good stuff. They may let me go, but it's it's
- 33:28Speaker 1: it's how many of those can I do? Step and repeat?
- 33:31Speaker 1: So the Pacers will use as an example once we
- 33:33Speaker 1: do it well, and from that example, I'll go to
- 33:36Speaker 1: other fucking NBA teams or the NBA in general, Like
- 33:40Speaker 1: I'm looking to be a better partner for the NBA.
- 33:43Speaker 1: How do we better tell stories for your brand? How
- 33:45Speaker 1: do we better promote and market you? How can we
- 33:48Speaker 1: amplify or activate differently? Like these are words in the
- 33:52Speaker 1: business that companies desperately want to hear from potential party.
- 33:56Speaker 2: That's an interesting question because what you about to say
- 33:58Speaker 2: about the.
- 33:58Speaker 3: Sixers not just saying how did the seventy sixers feel
- 34:01Speaker 3: like that? Because you are such a seventy six's fan,
- 34:03Speaker 3: I feel like they might look at it like why
- 34:04Speaker 3: you over there and mess with them?
- 34:06Speaker 2: You hear this is home because it's heart Beat the
- 34:07Speaker 2: company and Kevin Hart the individual.
- 34:09Speaker 1: I promise you that they wouldn't even blink an eye
- 34:12Speaker 1: because they understand business. Kevin Hard is still a seventy
- 34:16Speaker 1: sixers fan. His company, Heartbeat, is doing a service for
- 34:19Speaker 1: another company. Hey, keV you think you could do this
- 34:22Speaker 1: for us too? Would your company be interested in doing this? Absolutely, guys,
- 34:25Speaker 1: this is not anything Kevin is specific. I'm still going
- 34:30Speaker 1: to Sixers games. I still sit courtside trash right now.
- 34:33Speaker 1: I mean, right now, we're not We're not in the
- 34:35Speaker 1: best position. But I'm still a fan. I'm I'm an
- 34:38Speaker 1: Eagles fan. But if there's business that can be done
- 34:42Speaker 1: for another NFL entity that wants to tell stories, well
- 34:45Speaker 1: we're gonna tell those stories for the entity. That doesn't
- 34:47Speaker 1: mean that our brand can't do that. It's a company,
- 34:51Speaker 1: you know. I know that you guys were talking to
- 34:52Speaker 1: Mic about it. You're like, yo, is that crazy? Like
- 34:54Speaker 1: this isn't Kevin Hart. I'm not. I'm not going to
- 34:56Speaker 1: the to the Pacers and man, it's time for me
- 34:59Speaker 1: to check narrative. Oh, this is what my company does.
- 35:03Speaker 1: Is that simple, well, heartbeat call Mike Epps to do
- 35:06Speaker 1: absolutely like we By the way, if you here's here's
- 35:09Speaker 1: an example, right if All Star weekend is coming up
- 35:13Speaker 1: there and we're like, okay, hey, we have ideas to
- 35:16Speaker 1: service a bigger like a bigger process that people can
- 35:20Speaker 1: probably gravitate towards a little different from what they've done
- 35:23Speaker 1: in the past. Here's how we're gonna make the All
- 35:25Speaker 1: Star weekend in Indiana when the women are playing. Here's
- 35:30Speaker 1: how we can make it different. Here's what we can
- 35:32Speaker 1: bring to the table, women round tables, a women, cold
- 35:35Speaker 1: as balls, et cetera. Is there a comedy activation women forwarded?
- 35:39Speaker 1: Does Mike want to bring and be responsible for comedy
- 35:42Speaker 1: from Indian Absolutely? Like that's when you tap in. All
- 35:45Speaker 1: you are is the servicing hub. We're the hub. Now
- 35:49Speaker 1: it's our job to go and grab everybody to make
- 35:51Speaker 1: this thing underneath the hub better. It's not you desperately
- 35:56Speaker 1: need that. So in this case, hell yeah, Mike. Come on, Mike.
- 36:00Speaker 1: By the way, this is your city. What's dope about
- 36:03Speaker 1: the city that we can do with you? What do
- 36:04Speaker 1: you want to do? How do we help you? Like,
- 36:07Speaker 1: that's that's partnership. But if the thought triggers you at first,
- 36:12Speaker 1: what this is my saying, well, then you don't even
- 36:15Speaker 1: you don't even get to the next stage of opportunity.
- 36:18Speaker 1: The opportunity comes from understanding the idea, Oh oh do
- 36:22Speaker 1: I can't I can do something? Oh bet? And I
- 36:25Speaker 1: want to do this too? Absolutely. Here, here's how we're
- 36:27Speaker 1: gonna do it. Like that's that's business. That's how business
- 36:31Speaker 1: is done. That's how you get to the place of success.
- 36:34Speaker 5: So there just hasn't been an opportunity for Heartbeat to
- 36:37Speaker 5: call Mike yet.
- 36:39Speaker 1: No, just we literally just have We just did the deal, gotcha.
- 36:43Speaker 1: And now that we are doing the deal, well, now
- 36:45Speaker 1: you got to tap in to the culture of the city.
- 36:48Speaker 1: You had to tap into popular names and faces from
- 36:50Speaker 1: the city. You got to tap into the athletes that
- 36:53Speaker 1: are the stars in the city. Now you go and
- 36:56Speaker 1: you say, guys, here's what we're thinking of. Here's how
- 36:59Speaker 1: we make this special. But here's how we do it
- 37:01Speaker 1: with you. Is this a collaborative thing that makes sense
- 37:04Speaker 1: for you? Dope? Okay? If so, great, If not, well
- 37:07Speaker 1: what does cool? Okay, we like that. All right, let's bill, let's.
- 37:11Speaker 2: Expand he's gonna call you to do something.
- 37:14Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean me and Mike's relationship now we're we're
- 37:20Speaker 1: ten times. But it took a long time to get
- 37:22Speaker 1: to where we are now. But I'm I'm happy at
- 37:25Speaker 1: the road of like dumb shit because it got us
- 37:31Speaker 1: to a place of real grown man shit. And you know,
- 37:34Speaker 1: it's it's not We're not We're not doing the dumb
- 37:37Speaker 1: like tweets and shit, no more like Mike call me,
- 37:40Speaker 1: I'm calling you and we we talked, so you know
- 37:42Speaker 1: when that did, Mike was the first one we got
- 37:44Speaker 1: on the phone. We had a conversation, and me and
- 37:47Speaker 1: Mike are are very much on the same page. And
- 37:50Speaker 1: I think, you know, a lot of the disconnect's from
- 37:52Speaker 1: assumption and and that's what that's the realization that came about.
- 37:57Speaker 1: But I have no it will no be towards anybody,
- 38:01Speaker 1: damn sure, not Mike. And you know, right now, the
- 38:04Speaker 1: priority between me and Mike are figuring out the thing
- 38:06Speaker 1: that we're going to do together. And you know, I
- 38:09Speaker 1: told Mike like it's a it's a real thing, Like
- 38:12Speaker 1: we haven't done it because of this disconnecting our relationship.
- 38:15Speaker 1: We've never been on screen together. We did Real Husbands
- 38:18Speaker 1: together in the beginning. Mike did an episode and that's
- 38:23Speaker 1: the only time when we've ever jousted it on camera.
- 38:26Speaker 1: And I was like, at this point in our career,
- 38:28Speaker 1: like we're we're not fucking nobody but ourselves, So you know,
- 38:32Speaker 1: how do we make it work? And he's like, yeah, keV,
- 38:34Speaker 1: like how do we make it work, And it's a
- 38:36Speaker 1: it's a mutual understanding. And I think now having that
- 38:39Speaker 1: as a priority, his fans will be happy. My fans,
- 38:43Speaker 1: I think will be happy, and I think it'd be
- 38:44Speaker 1: dope for the culture when we do it.
- 38:46Speaker 2: Yeah, where is that version of hallm Nights for this era?
- 38:49Speaker 1: It's hard, it's hard to happen because the idea of
- 38:54Speaker 1: it being just one is what people can't let go of,
- 38:58Speaker 1: which mean like that doesn't have to be this one star.
- 39:01Speaker 3: But Harll of Knights wasn't just one star.
- 39:03Speaker 1: That's why I worked, That's why I worked. Richard didn't
- 39:06Speaker 1: give a fuck about Eddie. Eddie didn't give a fuck
- 39:08Speaker 1: about Richard, right, like the two biggest fucking comedians you know,
- 39:14Speaker 1: minus the bullshit. The only person that was missing that
- 39:16Speaker 1: should have been in that, you know, Cosby in some
- 39:19Speaker 1: degree right a showing of him. But they had Red Fox,
- 39:25Speaker 1: Robert fucking Harris. Like if you go on, you look
- 39:27Speaker 1: at the names, you know, fucking Dela Rees like you
- 39:31Speaker 1: you look at the names and the people in Harlem Knights.
- 39:34Speaker 1: You looked at a fucking conglomerate cast of hard hitting
- 39:38Speaker 1: comics of color. We don't have that to date. The
- 39:42Speaker 1: attempts to do it. Shouts out to Chris rock Top five. Yeah,
- 39:46Speaker 1: putting comics in. Whether you are a fan of the
- 39:49Speaker 1: movie or not, the attempt was I want to see
- 39:52Speaker 1: I want to see comics of color share the screen together,
- 39:55Speaker 1: and I want to get down. Tracy Leslie like I
- 39:58Speaker 1: want to get down. Let's let's go back and forth.
- 40:01Speaker 1: Let's do some ship Death of the Funeral. Chris attempted
- 40:06Speaker 1: to put comics together. There's not a lot of the damn.
- 40:12Speaker 2: I would say life to a certain extent.
- 40:14Speaker 1: Life is dope. But you had Eddie and you had
- 40:17Speaker 1: Martine Guy Tory, and you know, we didn't we didn't
- 40:24Speaker 1: have like a woman a woman figure in life. But
- 40:29Speaker 1: I think, like you've seen the attempt, but there is
- 40:31Speaker 1: no like, there is no initiative where it's like, Okay, look,
- 40:37Speaker 1: we're all gonna fucking share the same level of pay.
- 40:42Speaker 1: We're all going to play on the back end. This
- 40:43Speaker 1: is how I would approach it. Everybody's gonna win on
- 40:45Speaker 1: the back end. Okay, let's remove money from the idea.
- 40:49Speaker 1: This isn't about who's getting the money or who's doing what.
- 40:52Speaker 1: It's about the project. So we're gonna do our best
- 40:54Speaker 1: in this project to put people position to win. Winning
- 40:58Speaker 1: mean memorable moments, that's funny, et cetera. But to do
- 41:02Speaker 1: it right, everybody's not gonna be on the same page
- 41:05Speaker 1: like you kind of. You gotta have an understanding of
- 41:07Speaker 1: who has to carry the weight here for the people
- 41:10Speaker 1: here to fucking get in and get down. When you
- 41:12Speaker 1: can have that conversation and people are okay with it,
- 41:14Speaker 1: all right, it's great, but that conversation can never be
- 41:17Speaker 1: had because people are bumped out the gate. I ain't
- 41:20Speaker 1: work with him, I ain't work with her. I ain't
- 41:22Speaker 1: doing mother fuck that they got me like, I ain't.
- 41:25Speaker 1: I ain't the funny. I'm like you, you can't even
- 41:27Speaker 1: get to the fucking second page.
- 41:29Speaker 5: And even when it comes to like the younger comics, man,
- 41:31Speaker 5: it's been a few of uh like like DC young
- 41:35Speaker 5: Fly has countless scripts that he has and he's trying
- 41:40Speaker 5: to get all of us like in this generation, but
- 41:43Speaker 5: egos and and I wish she gonna be getting and
- 41:46Speaker 5: who's gonna be the main character?
- 41:47Speaker 6: I ain't working with her or how he you know
- 41:49Speaker 6: what I mean?
- 41:50Speaker 1: So the problem with the with the younger generation of comics. Man,
- 41:54Speaker 1: I made money so fast, good money, yeah, like not
- 41:59Speaker 1: like not little money. They made money so fast. So
- 42:02Speaker 1: it's definitely the idea of doing that for that fuck
- 42:05Speaker 1: that I do it. I'm over here again. It's like
- 42:09Speaker 1: the identity come here. I mean, just just made money,
- 42:14Speaker 1: still making money, right, Like, just understands that road money.
- 42:18Speaker 1: That road money is a different type of money. These
- 42:21Speaker 1: comics or new comics influencers turn com I'm making real money.
- 42:25Speaker 1: So until you get to a point where you understand
- 42:29Speaker 1: the money isn't going to drive your next stage of success.
- 42:34Speaker 1: If your next stage of success or want for success
- 42:37Speaker 1: is attached to IP projects, whatever, you cannot do it
- 42:41Speaker 1: by yourself. You need the helping aid of other talent.
- 42:44Speaker 1: I don't give a fuck who you are. I'm saying
- 42:48Speaker 1: this as a pounds a pound conglomerate in the business,
- 42:52Speaker 1: respectfully and humbly, a conglomerate. I stacked the deck. I'm
- 42:57Speaker 1: not looking to fucking be on screen and be the
- 43:00Speaker 1: only personals. I stack the fucking deck winning where I can,
- 43:05Speaker 1: by the way, and I'm very I'm very thankful to
- 43:09Speaker 1: the other names that are willing to come and work
- 43:11Speaker 1: with me and do things with me. I was excited.
- 43:15Speaker 1: Samuel L. Jackson is doing Thank you God, sam Don Chittle,
- 43:20Speaker 1: Oh thank you, Taraji, Oh thank you, Terrence, thank you
- 43:26Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm thankful. You cannot be the only one
- 43:32Speaker 1: into that younger generation. My message to so many funny
- 43:37Speaker 1: like I can go down the list, DC young Fly,
- 43:41Speaker 1: he just mentioned Country, Wayne does he Banks, fucking Drew Ski,
- 43:44Speaker 1: Coss not just you got pretty v you gotta be small.
- 43:47Speaker 1: You got all of these fucking Carlos, Ryan Davis right
- 43:51Speaker 1: here eighty five thought all those guys, you got all
- 43:54Speaker 1: these fucking great new emerging pieces of talent. Want to
- 44:00Speaker 1: tell you right now, talent caps out where it is
- 44:05Speaker 1: when what you do is all you think you should do.
- 44:09Speaker 1: In other words, like if I'm just doing stand up
- 44:12Speaker 1: comedy and then doing stand up comedy, I do the
- 44:15Speaker 1: theaters and the arenas, Okay, I can't do that every year,
- 44:18Speaker 1: and that's it. It will flatline, it will die down
- 44:22Speaker 1: at some point, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but
- 44:24Speaker 1: at some point it will digress. So if you don't offload,
- 44:27Speaker 1: and you don't figure out I'm tapping into this, and
- 44:30Speaker 1: I'm tapping into this, I'm tapping into that this thing
- 44:34Speaker 1: there's one source of energy that you have, it'll get
- 44:37Speaker 1: a little dim. That light ain't gonna fucking flicker the same.
- 44:40Speaker 1: So if they don't tap into each other and figure
- 44:43Speaker 1: out the way to make each other a valuable resource
- 44:46Speaker 1: and asset, it will tap out. We're assets to one another,
- 44:52Speaker 1: Like say what you want man, the rock or assets
- 44:54Speaker 1: to one another? Man, dj Ain and I we will
- 44:57Speaker 1: get on the phone. Were talking now, Hey man, it's
- 44:59Speaker 1: harm of for us to do something. You gotta figure
- 45:00Speaker 1: out the next thing. What you're thinking. I don't know
- 45:03Speaker 1: is that Jumiji three is another part what you're thinking.
- 45:05Speaker 1: I don't know what you're thinking. Let's talk. Let's figure
- 45:07Speaker 1: it out. Hey man, you know who I want to
- 45:09Speaker 1: work with? Who I haven't worked with? Man, Men, interest,
- 45:11Speaker 1: I gotta get down with I' yet to do something.
- 45:13Speaker 1: I'm tapping into other energy. I don't want to be
- 45:16Speaker 1: the only source of energy. That's the only way that
- 45:20Speaker 1: you continue to move forward. Writers, producers, I want to
- 45:23Speaker 1: work with you, man, you're doing amazing things. You're an
- 45:27Speaker 1: amazing writer. How do I work with you? Ki? You're
- 45:29Speaker 1: doing amazing shit in the streaming space? Man, I got
- 45:31Speaker 1: some shit to show you I'm gonna work with you
- 45:33Speaker 1: like you. You gotta tap in. That's what people are
- 45:37Speaker 1: afraid to do, and they're afraid to do it, especially
- 45:40Speaker 1: in our culture because we feel like there can only
- 45:42Speaker 1: be one right.
- 45:43Speaker 4: That's some good as advice too, though, because you know
- 45:45Speaker 4: that is the toughest thing trying to convince this this
- 45:48Speaker 4: generation that there is another level and what you're doing
- 45:51Speaker 4: does have an expiration d If you don't diversify your portfolio.
- 45:55Speaker 1: It's building correctly. And by the way, don't have to
- 46:00Speaker 1: do it all in one day.
- 46:01Speaker 4: Man.
- 46:02Speaker 1: You know, I'm almost thirty years strong in this fucking business.
- 46:05Speaker 1: Don't You don't have to do it all in one day.
- 46:08Speaker 1: The discovery is exciting when you start to figure it
- 46:11Speaker 1: out and you start to see the things that you're
- 46:13Speaker 1: changing or things that you're driving towards work. That's the
- 46:16Speaker 1: exciting part. And the exciting part is that you're like,
- 46:19Speaker 1: oh shit, I actually can't do the shit that I'm
- 46:20Speaker 1: thinking about, Like, oh fuck damn. I started off doing
- 46:24Speaker 1: these videos and now the videos have turned into a business,
- 46:26Speaker 1: but now the business has turned into a touring job.
- 46:28Speaker 1: Now my radio job fucking all sets promotes the fucking touring.
- 46:32Speaker 1: By the way, my businesses are connecting. The dots are connecting.
- 46:37Speaker 1: Say what you want. You can hate me or you
- 46:39Speaker 1: can love me. I connect dots. I connect dots very well.
- 46:44Speaker 1: Every piece of this machine somehow connects in some way,
- 46:48Speaker 1: in some shape, in some form. So at the end
- 46:50Speaker 1: of the day, if this piece dies, well you can't
- 46:53Speaker 1: kill this one. If this one dies and this one dies,
- 46:56Speaker 1: well I got this one. If these three die, well,
- 46:59Speaker 1: they don't know I got these. The dots are important, man,
- 47:03Speaker 1: and that younger mindset in this business today is a
- 47:07Speaker 1: cash driven mind. The money will come. I'm telling you,
- 47:12Speaker 1: the money will come. The ideas don't have relationships, and
- 47:16Speaker 1: partnerships don't. That's the difference.
- 47:19Speaker 3: Ken, gotta go to guys, heart man, appreciate I do.
- 47:25Speaker 3: Got one last question, kept, Do you have a sign
- 47:28Speaker 3: like you know because people interview you all the time, right,
- 47:30Speaker 3: and it gotta get to a point where you be like,
- 47:32Speaker 3: I'm tired, I gotta go.
- 47:32Speaker 2: Do you have.
- 47:35Speaker 1: Scratch your head twice and you pick and I just
- 47:37Speaker 1: be like, that's it, wrapping up.
- 47:41Speaker 2: We've been here.
- 47:42Speaker 1: I think we did. We got everything, We touched everything.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Little keV dropping I'm excited about it. Adult Animation BT
- 47:49Speaker 1: plus ones getting shots out to BT. Shouts out to
- 47:52Speaker 1: my amazing team and heartbeat Man. Shouts out to Mike Stein,
- 47:56Speaker 1: Tiffany Brown who works so hard. Shout out to Malcolm.
- 48:01Speaker 1: Oh god, I just dropped the name of my other right,
- 48:02Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. On our development side who helped get this.
- 48:06Speaker 1: Shout out to Wanda, Uh, Dione Cole, Uh, so many
- 48:11Speaker 1: other names, Yes, so many.
- 48:14Speaker 3: Your name Johnson, increased more neighbors.
- 48:17Speaker 1: Yes, there's so many people, uh that are part of
- 48:19Speaker 1: this project that have made it what it is today.
- 48:22Speaker 1: And once again, this is a passion project. Man. This
- 48:25Speaker 1: is uh, this is a piece of I p that
- 48:27Speaker 1: I worked on for a long time and to have
- 48:29Speaker 1: it finally come to light as dope as fuck, it's
- 48:32Speaker 1: funny as fuck. Uh, it's raw, it's edgy, you know,
- 48:35Speaker 1: and it's a it's a it's a true testament to
- 48:38Speaker 1: my mom and dad who aren't here. So r I
- 48:39Speaker 1: p to the hearts upstairs and maybe down you know
- 48:43Speaker 1: my dad. They say he could be I don't know.
- 48:46Speaker 1: I don't know, so uh, you know, just in the
- 48:48Speaker 1: middle my dad. Shout out to Pops, whoever you are. Yeah,
- 48:54Speaker 1: I don't know what side uh this is.
- 48:57Speaker 2: You don't want to feel.
- 48:58Speaker 1: I don't want to assume. I don't want assume. I
- 49:00Speaker 1: don't say if if God ever closed the door, my
- 49:02Speaker 1: dad might have been on the outside.
- 49:05Speaker 2: Uh.
- 49:05Speaker 1: But it's a testament to them, So I can't with
- 49:07Speaker 1: you guys, enjoy BT plus watch it, lock it in,
- 49:09Speaker 1: not one of them, call sheep, shout out the fox,
- 49:11Speaker 1: lock it in?
- 49:12Speaker 2: Uh, and you're at Radio City Music all weekend, tonight.
- 49:15Speaker 1: Friday, and sundayday and last for not least, Man, I
- 49:21Speaker 1: want to give a big shout out to my guys
- 49:24Speaker 1: before I go. You know, I've talked about the younger generation.
- 49:26Speaker 1: I've talked about you know, energy and servicing energy. I
- 49:29Speaker 1: want to talk about my energy source for the reason
- 49:31Speaker 1: and or just for quick moment plast the couple boys. Man.
- 49:33Speaker 1: Shout out to Naim, Shout out to Spank, shout out
- 49:36Speaker 1: to Joey Wells. Uh. You know, I'm excited about comedy
- 49:40Speaker 1: still because my guys still make me work, Uh, Naim,
- 49:44Speaker 1: pound for pound, Nameland, the funniest motherfucker's on the planet. Uh,
- 49:47Speaker 1: constantly creating, constant developing new materials, spank one of the
- 49:50Speaker 1: funniest people in the planet, Joey, uh build me for
- 49:53Speaker 1: years when of the funniest people on the planet shouts
- 49:54Speaker 1: out to those guys for making me stay as sharp
- 49:57Speaker 1: as I am by being as sharp as they are.
- 49:59Speaker 4: Now anybody here is iron Governors. Governor Gretchen with My
- 50:01Speaker 4: Loved Name wrote about Naim in her book. Man talks
- 50:04Speaker 4: about how when she gives speeches, she quotes naimesh shop
- 50:08Speaker 4: week motherfucker.
- 50:09Speaker 1: You know listen, let me tell you some about name.
- 50:11Speaker 1: Name is the most emotional comic. So we talked about
- 50:15Speaker 1: like comments and like that Name used to go to
- 50:17Speaker 1: Ticketmaster and he would read like the comments, like he
- 50:20Speaker 1: would read them all. So he coming like the dressing
- 50:23Speaker 1: room after the show. He'd be like, did you see
- 50:24Speaker 1: what they said about me?
- 50:27Speaker 2: No?
- 50:28Speaker 1: What they say this is bullshit? Like now why are
- 50:34Speaker 1: you reading that? I just go on it. But it's
- 50:36Speaker 1: once you win it, you win it. Like he would
- 50:38Speaker 1: really like he would go back and forth with people
- 50:40Speaker 1: like what then you talk about obviously you got there late,
- 50:42Speaker 1: Like he was like, he would go back and forth
- 50:45Speaker 1: with people, Yes, we'll take a baster. He would go
- 50:48Speaker 1: to people that had like bad things to say.
- 50:52Speaker 2: I love him.
- 50:54Speaker 1: That's it. I'm done. It's the Breakfast Club. It's Kevin.
- 50:57Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 51:00Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club.