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DAPHNIQUE SPRINGS - Punchline Pasta · Eating While Broke

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  Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guest, comedian Daphnique Springs is in the building.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's up. I'm happy to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm happy to have you cooking for me. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: what are you going to be having us eat today?
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  Speaker 3: Today we are gonna eat chicken top Roman noodles mixed
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  Speaker 3: with boiled eggs.
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  Speaker 1: Boiled eggs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, cut it in half, you drop it in the water.
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  Speaker 1: With it boiled, so there's cooked.
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  Speaker 2: We put the boiled egg in here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yeah, I've seen different ramen with eggs. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I've seen it with the fully cooked
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  Speaker 1: egg in it. So yay for you for giving it
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  Speaker 1: something different. I was telling your publicists, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: can she come with something different? But while you go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and start cooking the noodles and eggs or do you?
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  Speaker 1: Or I guess you could put the eggs in hun.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, I can put the eggs in first. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta take them eggs, just drop them in there.
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  Speaker 1: Just make sure that water ain't too hot? Now is
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  Speaker 1: it hot? Is it warm? Ah?
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  Speaker 2: Not a water cool? Is hell, why want to crak
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  Speaker 2: that bad boy up a little bit?
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  Speaker 1: So take me back to what was going on in
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  Speaker 1: the era of ramen and egg.
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  Speaker 3: Rawmen and egg started off, or when I was in college.
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  Speaker 3: I went to Eastern Michigan University, Okay, and you know
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  Speaker 3: back in the day, you just bad a budgeting money. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then also rawmen noodles was popular. Just it was
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  Speaker 3: like the era of Roman noodles for us, you think.
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  Speaker 1: So, I feel like everyone at some point has the era.
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  Speaker 1: When you go through the phase of ramen noodles, you've
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  Speaker 1: come up with every hack on how to make it
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  Speaker 1: creatively your own ramen noodle.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, And I feel like back when I was
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  Speaker 3: eating it in college that was two thousand and five
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  Speaker 3: to two thousand and eight, I was eating ramen noodles.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was it was a trendy. It was trendy.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody was eating ramen noodles. We didn't care about nutritional facts.
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  Speaker 3: See all of that vegan stuff and that's new stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people don't.
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  Speaker 3: Understand that being vegan and vegetarian. You heard of people
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  Speaker 3: that did it. But back in the day, if somebody
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  Speaker 3: was vegan, you was like, oh, they just gay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: Joking, but but it just wasn't popular.
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  Speaker 3: So now back in the day, people just ate ramen
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  Speaker 3: noodles and stuff like that. And it was just like
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  Speaker 3: the thing you went to when you were in college, boy,
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  Speaker 3: because what happened is that you would get your college
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  Speaker 3: card and on that card, once you run up that money,
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  Speaker 3: you had to learn how to survive past that. Because
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  Speaker 3: when you first get your money, you going, you eating
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  Speaker 3: that pizza, You going to Buffalo Wild Wings, you getting, oh,
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  Speaker 3: you want some wings?
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  Speaker 2: I get get fifty wings on my car.
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  Speaker 3: And then it comes three four months later you realize
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  Speaker 3: you swiped that card and it's like decline, You like,
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  Speaker 3: let me go on over to the store and get
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  Speaker 3: some raw men nodles exactly.
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  Speaker 1: I still I hate to admit this, but I make
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  Speaker 1: jokes with my girlfriends. I'm like, you catch me at
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  Speaker 1: the top of the month, I'm breaded up. By the
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  Speaker 1: end of the month, I don't know. We can't do
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  Speaker 1: nothing yet, go nowhere. By the end that count was solo.
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  Speaker 1: But did you know when you were in college that
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  Speaker 1: you were gonna do comedy? Like? What were you in
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  Speaker 1: college for?
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  Speaker 3: I went to college college for a chemistry degree and chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, chemistry, yep, that's a farm.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good at math and science. Those are my my
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  Speaker 3: things that I'm good at. So you know, I'm more
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  Speaker 3: left brain, business savvy and stuff like that. So I
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  Speaker 3: went to college for chemistry and then I dropped out
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  Speaker 3: ten credits short of a chemistry degree, and I worked
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  Speaker 3: at a pharmaceutical company internship, and then I didn't like it.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, let me go ahead and move
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  Speaker 3: to LA and become actress.
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  Speaker 1: Now you come from two parent household, single parent, can
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  Speaker 1: you give me a little backrou.
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  Speaker 2: So my parents were teenage parents.
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  Speaker 3: My mother got pregnant at sixteen, had me a week
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  Speaker 3: after her seventeen birthday. My dad was nineteen, and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, well, that don't make it. My mom was like,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, that sound a little statutory rape. And
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  Speaker 3: she's like, don't talk about your daddy like that. She
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  Speaker 3: was like, back in the day, it was something called
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  Speaker 3: the Romeo and Juliet law.
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  Speaker 2: So long as they will. She had three years, she
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  Speaker 2: had three years. Okay, you no, she still got his
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  Speaker 2: last name.
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  Speaker 1: They've been divorced over twenty years, but they're still tight.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they still cool. We all went on vacation to
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  Speaker 3: Columbia last year. My mom still has the last name.
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  Speaker 3: She said she just liked it better. It had a
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  Speaker 3: better rein to it. Springs. And so my parents were,
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  Speaker 3: you know, together for some years, and I think when
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  Speaker 3: I was probably like three, they got married, stay married
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  Speaker 3: for about three years, maybe four, and then they divorced
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  Speaker 3: and I stayed with my dad for a while for
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  Speaker 3: some years, and then I went to go live with
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  Speaker 3: my mother. As I got a little older, because my
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  Speaker 3: dad had more kids, I was like, I don't I
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  Speaker 3: don't feel like sharing with all these kids. My mama
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  Speaker 3: just had me. So oh you like, yeah, I like
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  Speaker 3: living a good life.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like when they started when you the more
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  Speaker 3: kids you have, the more you have the budget.
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  Speaker 2: When when my daddy was like, it's time to budget.
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  Speaker 3: We can't eat steak no more at home, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I think I go live with my mama, could.
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  Speaker 2: Go back to living the regular life that I like
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  Speaker 2: to live.
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  Speaker 1: So from like three or four, you lived with him
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  Speaker 1: till like seven.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, my parents were married and then once they divorced,
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  Speaker 3: I live with my father.
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  Speaker 2: So did you run from seven?
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  Speaker 1: Actually? Consciously say, hey, Mom, I'm gonna go with daddy.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: My mom said that she was like she was trying
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  Speaker 3: to find settle herself and work and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 3: and she said she didn't want to leave me with anybody,
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  Speaker 3: and my dad was responsible enough to keep me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because my dad was there to take me to school,
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  Speaker 3: to pick me up from school. We went fishing every day,
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  Speaker 3: so deep fishing, so we were fishing there.
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  Speaker 1: We have such a really good background that I don't
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  Speaker 1: think if we were just standing on the outside, we
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  Speaker 1: would never know, like chemis street fishing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was on the golf team in high school.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people would never know these things about me.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I came from a family of love too.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't realize that until I became an adult and
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  Speaker 3: realized being around other people. Is that a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: not a lot of people, but some people are raised
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  Speaker 3: up on survival. And when you raised up with parents
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  Speaker 3: that love you and always there with you and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that and spend time with you, Like me and
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  Speaker 3: my mom used to go to piston games.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: We were always going to taste festival and festivals and
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that. Like my mom said, anybody that her
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  Speaker 3: friends knew. If I couldn't come along, she wasn't going.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, my mom didn't work, no two or three jobs.
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  Speaker 3: She had one job back in the day, and she
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  Speaker 3: spent time with me when she was, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: between works.
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  Speaker 2: She worked while I was like in school. Basically, so, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I like to hear that. Yeah, so you go
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  Speaker 1: to school, you decide to leave school and trek it
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  Speaker 1: to la. How do your parents receive the news of
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  Speaker 1: you saying no to chemistry and science and math.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my dad is a chemist, so he was just like,
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  Speaker 3: he said, you you only live once, he said, basically said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, college will never go anywhere. He said, It'll
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  Speaker 3: still be there. Said, if you go out there for
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  Speaker 3: a year or two and don't like it, I'll still
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  Speaker 3: be here. You can always come back, he said. But
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  Speaker 3: what happens if you stay here end up meeting somebody
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  Speaker 3: having kids, and you just getting farther and farther away
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  Speaker 3: from your dreams. And my mom's supportive. You know, I've
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  Speaker 3: never been the type to make bad decisions or be
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  Speaker 3: like a child that you had to worry about a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So when I say I want to do something and
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  Speaker 3: my family rallies around it. So when I moved to
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  Speaker 3: la I moved with my grandmother in Inglewood. She had
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  Speaker 3: a two bedroom. My little cousin had just went back
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  Speaker 3: to go live with her mama. So my grandma said,
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  Speaker 3: it's a twin size bed in there, and she said,
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  Speaker 3: you just need to get a little TV. So I
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  Speaker 3: got a little TV, moved in with her and her
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  Speaker 3: husband Inglewood.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that made your parents feel a lot
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  Speaker 1: more better about you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I wasn't here by myself. My mother said
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  Speaker 3: she was glad I wasn't by myself. So being in
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  Speaker 3: I'm going back to her home, you know, California, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not by myself. So I don't know if I could
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  Speaker 3: have moved to California just by myself.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were still how old were you that night?
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  Speaker 3: Twenty When I moved here, I was twenty one and
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  Speaker 3: I moved with ten thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was working at the casino in Englewood.
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  Speaker 3: No, I was working at the casino in Florida in
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  Speaker 3: Coconut Creek, and it was a casino there, and this
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  Speaker 3: older Jewish guy used to come in there and he
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  Speaker 3: would give me five hundred dollars for a cup of coffee. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: just to talk to him for a few minutes, just
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  Speaker 3: regular conversation. It was a lot of regulars in there
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  Speaker 3: that were wealthy people, and they would they had certain
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  Speaker 3: girls that they liked and just wanted the company, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But this man was about in his fifties and he
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  Speaker 3: would just give me five hundred dollars for a cup
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  Speaker 3: of coffee. In three weeks, I say, five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: And then I was just like I had a little
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  Speaker 2: extra other money.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody here, you were already good with money. You make
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  Speaker 1: this move and you decide you want to get into
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  Speaker 1: you said acting.
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  Speaker 3: Or I wanted to move here to get into the industry. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: you know how you just don't know. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: let me go out there and just see whatever I
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  Speaker 3: get drawn into. And ten months later I got drawn
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  Speaker 3: into stand.
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  Speaker 1: Up within ten months yeah, and ten October. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: you could drop the ram and if you want.
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  Speaker 2: So, Am I making enough for two or just one? No?
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  Speaker 3: Two?
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  Speaker 1: You're feeding both of us, Okay, But luckily I ate
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  Speaker 1: before we started taping, so I'm not gonna be as
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  Speaker 1: hard pressed. I'm really excited to hear your story. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna drop that packet in there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you.
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  Speaker 3: Forgot about the pack I didn't forget about the See,
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  Speaker 3: that's why we need you here.
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  Speaker 1: So here, I'll take that. Everyone can hit a crunching
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  Speaker 1: on theh.
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  Speaker 3: And you see how see how people like I'm not
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  Speaker 3: touching the actual roman because some of y'all don't be.
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  Speaker 2: Washing y'all hands. Oh yeah, y'all here just touching stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we keep the sanitizer on the on the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Wonder why everybody got a colim h.
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  Speaker 1: So you're out here? What springs the ten month? Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh, I have an epiphany. This is what I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. What happens?
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  Speaker 2: So it was my ex boyfriend.
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  Speaker 3: So my boyfriend in college was like, hey, I have
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  Speaker 3: a friend out there, LeVar. He said, why don't you
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  Speaker 3: connect with him? Is somebody else we knew in college
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  Speaker 3: but they were a little bit older than me.
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  Speaker 2: So I hit up LeVar.
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  Speaker 3: LeVar was a school teacher out here, and I would
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  Speaker 3: hang out with LeVar and LeVar had a friend, and
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't all the time, but it was just somebody I.
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  Speaker 2: Could hang out with.
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  Speaker 3: Have a friend out here, buddy, you know, very safe,
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  Speaker 3: not trying to hit on me or try to you
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  Speaker 3: know whatever, just that he's looking out for his friend's friend,
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  Speaker 3: right because that's my ex boyfriend, but looking out for me.
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  Speaker 3: So he had a friend that came over there, this
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  Speaker 3: guy named Elijah that was from Detroit as well, or
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  Speaker 3: probably Ohio one of those states. I'm not for sure,
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  Speaker 3: because when you go to college in Michigan, it could
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  Speaker 3: be people from anywhere in that Midwest area. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: Elijah was coming over and he was doing a Brager
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  Speaker 3: show and the Bringer show.
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  Speaker 2: Acting.
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  Speaker 3: When you first started comedy, you do a lot of
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  Speaker 3: breaker shows. That's where you have to bring ten ten
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  Speaker 3: people to get stage time. So I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's for me. That looked good, you know. I said,
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  Speaker 3: can I go up? He said yeah, if you can
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  Speaker 3: bring some people here, you go up. I said, all right,
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  Speaker 3: and I gathered my My grandmother used to come to
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  Speaker 3: all my shows. She's eighty now, so that had to
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  Speaker 3: be she had to be like in her sixties.
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  Speaker 2: She would come with her little my girlma got to shake.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, she come with her wig child and she'll
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  Speaker 3: sit in the front row get roasted. And but she
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  Speaker 3: she was as long as I pay for a little
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  Speaker 3: two drank minimums. She give her a little two SIPs
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  Speaker 3: of drinks and she'll be fine, and she would come
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  Speaker 3: to the shows. That was one person down, so I
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: had to get other people, you know. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I just started from there and I did comedy for
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  Speaker 3: maybe like a year and a half, and then after
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  Speaker 3: that I quit for I think about two years, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Two to three years. Why did you quit because it
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  Speaker 2: was tough.
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  Speaker 3: I think, especially like being a female comic, when you
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  Speaker 3: first get started, it can be a little rough in
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  Speaker 3: the man's world, and then you're kind of dealing with
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  Speaker 3: low tier comedians when you first get started, like people
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  Speaker 3: who have no common courtesy and respect, think they can
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  Speaker 3: say whatever the people or joke any type of way.
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  Speaker 3: I think that as you go up in the game,
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  Speaker 3: you develop a little more hopefully professionalism.
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  Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so now you're spending times in the bars, the bars,
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  Speaker 3: the bars, the bars, that's where you're gonna do stand
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  Speaker 3: up at when you first get started. Then you develop
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  Speaker 3: to the clubs. With the clubs, the clubs have certain
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  Speaker 3: type of people get etiquette, people get a little more
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  Speaker 3: a little more professional. People can still be unprofessional at
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  Speaker 3: every level. But the more you move up, hopefully the
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  Speaker 3: more professionalism, and I think the funnier you get, the
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  Speaker 3: more you get with.
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  Speaker 2: People just respect.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, did you have to deal with, like, I know,
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  Speaker 1: different aspects of the industry women have to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: like guys constantly trying to get with them and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to deal with a lot of that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I deal with a little bit of it, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, I can.
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  Speaker 3: I had a boyfriend ex boyfriend, like he'll fight anybody.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, but you also don't want to be
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  Speaker 3: known as a person that's going around starting ship. But
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  Speaker 3: it's just some people that could be really on some bullshit.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of lower back touching, long creepy hugs.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, yo, chill out, brot high.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, come up from it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do that from a distance.
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  Speaker 3: I think you guys were messing around just from the distance,
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  Speaker 3: and people don't understand how things look in.
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  Speaker 2: The distance, right.
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  Speaker 3: It even feels sometimes inappropriate while you in the in
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  Speaker 3: the moment, but even from the distance, it looks like
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  Speaker 3: people are putting claims on you.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't like that.
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  Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't like that. We may have to check
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  Speaker 1: on the ramen before it becomes mashed potato.
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  Speaker 2: Sound like you cook?
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  Speaker 1: I do cook. I'm like, yo, that ramen is definitely
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  Speaker 1: gonna be muss. You may want to turn it off, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know what, I'm gonna turn it down because it's still
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  Speaker 3: you know, you got to change it up.
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  Speaker 1: I think how often do you cook?
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  Speaker 2: Probably like three four times a year.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna say, a week, how are
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  Speaker 1: you eating?
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the road, I'm out, I'm eating out.
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  Speaker 1: But that's it's nowadays. It's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's to the point people know me from
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  Speaker 3: restaurants and know my order already.
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  Speaker 1: Like you'll pull up, you'll be like, it's dam neat
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  Speaker 1: and they got your order done in twenty minute.
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  Speaker 2: To see you.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they say, so you want to it's bad
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  Speaker 3: when they be like, you don't even have to say
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  Speaker 3: your order. Because I'm the habit of creature, a creature.
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  Speaker 3: I eat the same thing all the time, so I
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  Speaker 3: ain't changing up too much. So when I like to
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: eat good this week so far, I've ate eating at Boa.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: BoA's expensive three.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Hundred dollars I spent there and then last night I
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: was at Kazana, so I like to eat out. People
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: say what your little vices is? You may not see
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: it on me, but because it's in my stomach.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: You're hilarious. My only vice is expensive cars, oh for real?
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: But how I literally know? I just switch up like
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: every two or three years. I'm not one of those
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: people that own multiple cars at one time, but you know,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: if my bank account grows up, don't ever think I
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: won't be that girl that has the Lamborghini yours and
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you know, escalate or something. I have to have an
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: expensive one car. It's just my cars. I can't do
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: like it doesn't make any sense. But like I would
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: never do like a Ford or Toyota, Honda, I don't
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: care how sexy those cars look. At times they put
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: out some sexy cars, I'll be like, what is it
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: is a Honda? No, no, sorry, and I don't care.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: And they've been improving their looks. Nissan at one point
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: had some nice looking cars. I said, but it's a Nissan,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: so no thank you.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: See.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: I like to be like, okay, what can I afford here? Okay,
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: I can afford that, go down the level?
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: No see, And I always do the top of the model.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Like when I got my new car, I called them
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: and I said, where's the massagers in this? In the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: the car seat had massages and the massagers weren't massaging.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: And the guys were like, well, when you ordered it,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: it didn't have it on the order, And I said, bullshit.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: This is the top model. And I was like, is
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: there a topper model than this? And they're like no,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: and I was like, so then the massagers go in
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: the seats. Nonetheless, I am that person like it has
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: to be the time.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I just have to have seat warmers.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I also have to have the steering reel warmer.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: I also have to have the little alert on the mirrors,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the little you know, blind side alert.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Do you like the thing where they put the speed
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: of the car in the windshield?
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I hate it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I don't like that.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Even if it is on my car, I would take
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: it off.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't like that. I also don't like the
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: lane control. I don't like that. I always turn that off.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Some features are too much.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Even though you could turn that off, you can.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, sometimes I've almost got an accident because I don't
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: hate well in case progressive it's watching. It's always used
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: by signal, but if you don't use your signal for
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: the people out there who don't use their signal that
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I've driven in the car with that was the passenger. Yeah,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I don't like how the car would jerk you back
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: into your lane. I've already made a decision. Bro, we ride,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: you don't drive me.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I drive you.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: No, you could definitely tout it off. Anytime I feel
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: my car do that, I'm like, I'm someone must have
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: hit it. But yeah, I turn that. That is an
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: ultimate get off my car thing.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: In New York, people ran into the back of my
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: car a total of four times.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: No, they just riding. They always trying.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: To get too close to you. Okay, my twin, I
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: don't know. My twin has like, yes, I have a
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: fraternal oh yeah, so, but my twin in the last
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: year has gotten in quite a couple of accidents, and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I'm starting to.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Think I accident.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it because she's never the causer. But
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, girl, like, what's going on? Like do they
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: need to put like, you know, orange caution around your car?
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I don't understand how sound I definitely, I just don't
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: get it. So anyways, going back to what made you
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: actually take the step back, Uh, just.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Just it was somebody I was a manager I wanted
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: to sign when he was like, well, have you ever
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: thought about stand up? Because I swear back in the day,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: when you were an actor and people would see you,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: they'd be like, well, do you know, stand up seems
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: like a faster track into acting. And so I tried
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: that and I got ended up getting back into it
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: and just just building some thicker skin.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: And were you working jobs while you were doing comedy?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: I would say.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: When I first moved here, I immediately joined sag After
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: within the first month.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And then I was.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I thought you have to earn it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: You know, back in the day you could just buy
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: your way into After.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, So I immediately joined after within the first month.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: So I would do background on sets. And when you
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: were background on the set, if you were after, you
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: made a minimum of twenty dollars an hour.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: So I would do that.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: And it's like when I first within the first year
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I came out here, I had built myself up by
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: the end of the year to like, you know, four
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: or five thousand a months just in background working. Because
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: back in the day, you know, years before the pandemic,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: you would be on set for twelve hours, maybe sixteen hours,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: and once it was over eight hours, it went into
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: time and a half. And then after twelve hours of
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: winning to double So we would be on set all day,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: just sitting around, talking whatever, playing cards, reading books, being
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: on your phone. Then you go on set and you
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: work a little bit, you come back and then I
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: got into the commercial world, and commercials were paying like
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: three twenty three for eight hours, and then you would
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: get the overtime and all the smoke bumps and stuff,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: so it paid up. And so how I ended up
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: becoming SAG is because SAG you had to get three
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: vouchers to get into that, and I ended up being
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: an extra on House.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember that show.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: First.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved House.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Shoutouts.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: House was so good that show, Yeah, okay, And the
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: guy asked me the ad was like, hey, are you
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: are you SAG?
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I said no.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: He said I'll bring you back every day until you are,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: and he gave me three vouchers and then I joined
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: SAG because I had the money, and so yeah, I
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: would just always earn money back and forth. With that,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: and that was for maybe like the first I would say,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: three and a half years.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And then you're also doing you after you get through
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the sag after and you get fired from is it
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: House Central Casting? Central?
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Central Casting?
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: And yet you know that that's the mecca out in
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: A baby can fire you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was submits you for jobs, so
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: they can just tell you they're no longer submitted.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: But I believe Tiffany Haatis got fired from there, too,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: didn't she.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: So I was like, it could be a good thing
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: that they fire in certain people. They fire Brad Pitt too,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: If that's the case.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Stars that they got rid of, and it's just like, yeah.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Well that's good. So you get let go and you
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: see it as a blessing in disguise, Yeah, of course,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and then what's your next move?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Next move is say, you know what, I'm going to
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Vegas work the casinos during the summer, come back, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: now I have money to actually I started back doing
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: stand up, so now I have money to actually be
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: able to submit to like colleges and stuff. Because when
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: you do colleges, you go there and you perform in
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: front of the students, but you have to pay you
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: how to get your flight, your hotel, and then it's
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: like a little small fee or whatever to actually showcase.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I didn't I thought the colleges paid, you pay the college.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: No, the colleges pay you once you get the gig.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: But they have showcases. It's called you know, I can't
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: remember what it's called, Naka Naka.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: That's what you do, the showcase and then the pick
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: and then they start.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: So it's a feat to do the showcase, and then
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: colleges from all over are there, depending on the region.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: So if you make it into Naka Naka Midwest, then
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: all the Midwest colleges will be there and you perform
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: in front of the showcase and then the college you
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: booked you. So then I started doing that and then
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: twenty fourteen I called my mom.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: She said, what you got going on? I said, you know,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know. She was like, do you have a
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: plan B. I said no, I don't have no plan B.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: This's it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: This gotta work. We all in I like. She said, okay,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: well you got to be more aggressive.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I said.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she said, she said, I know you you timid.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: You not talking to people, you're not networking whatever. So
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I'm at the laugh Factory Ian Wass Cat Williams. Oh good, yeah.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: And so he was up he was upstairs, and it's
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: this guy who was on the road with him, Big Wheezy.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Big Wheezy is probably six hundred pounds.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Oh big, he's big.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: He got the stairs and it was like no way
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: to get around him. But I found this tiniest spot
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: and squeezed around him because he always make jokes of
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: this story because his big ass walking upstairs, taking up
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: the whole steps in the back of the Laugh Factory,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: going up the steps, there wasn't no two people. Two
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: people could normally go up and down there. Not with
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Big Wheezy.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: It's just him.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: So he going up the steps and I find a
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: little spot, squeeze in front of him, run over the cass,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: like hey can I can I get some shows on
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: the road with you? He said, are you funny? I said,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I said, yeah, yeah, I am lying.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I was lying.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You didn't think you were funny at the time. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: was okay, okay, yeah, But that's what anybody would say,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was okay, I would have money to get booted said,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: can I get some shows with you?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: He said yeah, he said yes, Big Wheezy, give him
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: your number. I said, okay, so I gave Big Weezy.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I yeah, his voice a little bit.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, So you gave him the number. And did they
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: follow up?
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Big Wheezy follow up? Because Big Weezy had knew me.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Big Wheezy is a really great person, a really great person,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and so he followed up, and you know, he said, hey,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: you come around, we're doing this. And then I got
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: tour days with him?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Right? And did you have to audition for him or
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: did he see you to days or he went based
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: on your word?
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, I got to give you a chance like that,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: just based on.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Just okay, I like that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: If you think you if you think you funny, I
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: give you a shot.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well I'm glad you and to that question the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: way you did. Yeah, yeah, I'm funny.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Stay confident, Yeah, stay confident. So you do the show dates,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: How does it go?
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: They went really good, you know, and I was able
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: to do quite a bit of shows or whatever. So yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: so that was cool, and then you know, went back
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: to the colleges and then right after that, I ended
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: up winning ABFF. What's that American Black Film Festival used
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: to do a comedy winnings competition and you win five
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars and get a showcase with HBO.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Okay and you won it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I won.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, yep, Okay, that's a big deal, big deal. Okay.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Mom is definitely proud. She like, okay, I'm on my
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: way up. Okay. Now do you think that mom conversation
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: is what made you push to the cat Williams?
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you see people around all the time. But
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: I've never been the type.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I went and saw it's the casting director headed casting
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: at BT plus, Robbie reed. She does this thing with
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Devin Franklin and I went recently and he said something
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: that really stuck with me. He said, most of us
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: are sitting on yess, but we're too afraid to ask.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I agree, And I'm one of those type of people.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I don't ask people for help. If you offer me help,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I'll take it. Or if you offer me an opportunity,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I would love it, but I'm not gonna be like, hey,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: what up man, just checking in what you're seeing, what
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: you got like.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I don't do that. But I know people that do
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: that and their career be moving.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: So because I'm not like that, It's just like, am
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: I missing out on certain things because I don't ask
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: such and such can I get on this show? I
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: just truly work off of just being talented enough to
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: where people see me.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And then think of it.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My dad growing up, he used to always do
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: this thing. He used to get on my nerves as
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a kid. He'd always be like, if like, say we
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: want a candy or something, We'd be like, oh, we
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: want to ask you something, be like ask you never
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: know if I'm gonna say no, then we'd always ask it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Of course he'd always say no and be like, man,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: this is stupid. But as I got older, I started
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to say, like, I never take no from people that
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: don't have the ability to say yes. That's like something
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I stand on. So like the other day, I wanted
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Trevor Noah and I knew someone that knew him and
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I sent I was like, hey, man, he's in town.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: His publicist is blocking. No disrespect to his publicists, you know.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, just I just need the proposal
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: in front of him to say yes, yes, that's it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And if you're not comfortable doing it. It's cool, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: I just need him to be the one to say no,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I can have his publicist, canvas, manager, canvas homie. It
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: needs to be him otherwise no, It's like, Okay, maybe
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I'm not going through you, you know. But whenever I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: feel like someone doesn't put that, And that's another thing
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I think people also need to consider is like sometimes
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: when you have managers and agents, they say some managers
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and exactly that happens a lot. It happens a lot
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: more than you think. So whenever I see like a
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: lot of people are always shooting for the top publicist
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that reps everybody, or the top manager that reps everybody,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: you guys are all signed to that same person. I'll
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: tell you right now. There was recently someone that we
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: wanted on the show. The didn't put it in front
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of him went direct. He was like, hell, yeah see
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: see yeah, but go back to your story.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: But so you know, I just did that, and you
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: just constantly just keep going, keep going. How I just
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: success out here because people, you know, the haters in
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: the comments be like, you ain't this, you ain't that,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: But I just success? Is am I doing better this
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: year than I did last year? Did I accomplish more
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: goals and more things this year that I set forth
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: than I did last year? And if I'm doing that,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: then I'm doing good.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: So you do like a comparison to your previous year.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I write down, like I like to write down all
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: my goals for the year, and then I like to
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: write down at the top of the your also write
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: down all the things I achieved for the previous year.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I like that because that teaches you just to be grateful.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Sometimes when we in it, it feel like you're going stagnant.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: But you ever had somebody be like, yo, your podcast
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: killing it?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: But then you be like, yo, it don't feel that way.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: It don't feel like that way in the moment, like
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: it's like shut up, are you?
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Are you? Are you trying to play with me because
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I'm talking to be like no.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I used to work with Nick Cannon, and he used
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to always tell me, like, take time to take it
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: all in, Like you're running, you're running, but you're not
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: taking time to take it in.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: We living for the future to pass.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Most of us are not. We're not. And it got
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to a point where I would get so depressed over like, oh,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I fucked up here or I messed up here, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: my dad would say, like, Okay, that's it. You're gonna
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: start having to hang this stuff on your walls, like
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: you gotta go. This is what you call hang that
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: ship on the wall. And I started putting up like
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: posters in my house. And now I have, like I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: call it the hall of fame of just shit that
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I accomplished, and I put on the walls grants and
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: now I'm like, go, someone, that ship's old. That shit
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: need to come down.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Okay, we got we got better goals.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: But the truth of the matter is I like that
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: because I do goal boards every year, but I've never
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: thought about putting the stuff that I previously accomplished. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: like taking a picture and go, damn, okay, that was
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: on the list. I didn't realize that, you.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Know, But but I think, don't even realize that you
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: accomplished so much.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you really don't, especially if you're a go getter
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and you're consistently moving that goal post. That's a great
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: way to do it. So after you've accomplished like winning
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the festival festal, now you're doing these tour dates. You
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: do the Cat Williams thing, what's the next play?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: The next play was okay, so years ago, this had
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: to be two thousand and twelve, And.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I want everybody to pay attention to how much time
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and consistency his story is taking twenty twelve.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I used to And you know what I love about
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: this city is you can meet some time hearted people
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: that will make you feel comfortable.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I love people who don't chase you away from your dreams.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: And I say that because you could be in situations
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: that make you not feel good, and it can kind
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: of deter you from achieving your goals because you revert
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: to this depressed person or this hermit or whatever, and
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: it pushes you farther away from your dreams. But shout
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: out to all the people out there that make you
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: feel comfortable, that may uplift you, that don't try to
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: be sexual with you or anything like that just make
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: you just really.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Allow you to exist. It was this guy.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: His name is Billy Williams. He used to be on
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: The Martin Show. He's really good friends with Martin Lawrence.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Billy Williams. Okay, okay, so yeah, so he so one night,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: me and we used to always go. I used to
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: go meet him outside of his apartment. You know, never
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: went in. Always just meet him outside pick him up.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: We would go hiking and we would just talk talk talk.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: So one night he was like, hey, meet me, meet me,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Come pick me up. He said, he said, not come
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: pick me up. He said, meet me at Red Lobster.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: I said, okay, Billy, I'm about to go to this party.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: He said, stop by. He said, please just stop by
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: for me. Stop by Red Lobster.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I stopped by. It's him, a girl and Martin Lawrence.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: He introduces me.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: He didn't tell you that that was coming up.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Tall introduced me to Martin Lawrence.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Fast forward a few years later, Martin Lawrence allowed me
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: to feature all of his shows at the Comedy Store.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: And then starting in July, be on tour with him
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: on twelve cities.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing how everything starts to work and full
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: circle of moments and stuff that you experienced in the
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: past and then it comes.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: To fuition in the future. You see what I'm saying.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: So you just never know.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: That's another reason why I like to just stay out
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: of stuff and drama and stuff, because you just never
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: know where things will end up and how people try
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: to treat people good, you know, yeah, but I will
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: get with your.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Ass if I have to.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: You're hilarious because you know some of.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: These people will try you out here.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: So how so you're now going on the tour with
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Martin Lawrence. I literally just saw that. Yeah, yeah, I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was like wait, wait what of course, my head was like, oh,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: we gotta get Yeah, he's headlined, and I saw that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: was a lot of good names on it is DC
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Young Fly, Chico Bean. There's a bunch of people, Yeah,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Dion Cole, Dion Cole, and you are awesome, Benji Brown.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're from Florida.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're gonna be on all the twelve dates.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be on twelve days. But it's a lot of.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Dates, Okay, yeah, awesome and your special? Are we getting
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: inching closer to your special now?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Yes? So that we got to just go back a
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: So so in two thousand and twenty twenty one, I remember,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I believe it might have been twenty twenty one.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Like yeah, after COVID, right right on the ending of COVID, Yeah, COVID. Okay, Okay,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: so you know Houston never closed. I didn't know, so, yeah,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: they never closed.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: So I was talking to.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Keith no to Dave Chappelle one night, this rapper Trade
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: of Truth had had a comedy night at the House
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: of Blues in Houston. He's a rapper, he does a
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: celebrity weekend whatever.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: So were you out there for that.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: He flies us out and everything and take care of
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: us and we experienced the whole weekend people that he like,
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: and we perform on Sunday. He had Dave Chappelle as well.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Dave Chappelle was talking to me, just like me and
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: you talking. He was like, hey, every comic. He didn't
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: touch me.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: He was like, every comic should live in New York
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: for at least two years. So I kind of took
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: that to heart. I was like, well, shit, you know,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: it's the pandemic.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like nothing really popping in LA and
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: all the auditions is self tape now you no longer
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: have to be here to audition.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: I just had an audition today and it was just
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: self tape, and it's here, it's gonna shoot in LA.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: So everything's self taped now, so you could basically live
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: anywhere else.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Oh I don't know that.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, only commercial auditions are still doing
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: some some of them are still in person. So so
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, cool, I thought about it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: So I hit Keith Robinson. I said, hey, man, what
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: do you think about me move? He's like, I think
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: you'll do good at out here, he said. I said,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna come visit first. So I went out there
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: in September. He got me an audition at the Comedy
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Seller and st passed me.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Wow on the first one, on the first audition. Yeah,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: that's a that's a big feat for New York. Yes,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: because I'm familiar with the New York landscape and the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Seller is one of the harder Yeah, like literally the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: hardest club. Like I know Eagles in that circuit, Eagle
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: past every single club. The Seller was the last one.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: It was my first.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a huge accomplishment. Okay, So so he.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Got me the audition, st passed me in September. I
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: moved out there in November. Oh shoot, yeah, something happened.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I got a booking in with some good money. So
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I was supposed to move November, be in my apartment
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: in November first, but I kind of ended up moving
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: towards like the middle or the end of November twenty
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: twenty one, and then I stayed out there for two years,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: and then I moved back here in January Los Angeles
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: January twenty twenty four.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: And you weren't just doing the October, No, you were
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: doing it all the different.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: The Seller, the Stand, and New York Comedy Club with
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: my three main clubs, which you were doing really good.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I was lucky enough to be able to work those
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: top clubs like that.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: And I also like this consistency is very, very prevalent
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: in your whole story. It's like you heard Chappelle say, hey,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: you need to do two years you didn't play. You
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: were like, oh, you need to do two years there.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I was like, boom, the industry already set up for
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: me to do two years there. So that that works
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: because if I had to audition all the time, I
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: don't know if I would have just if the pandemic
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: didn't happen, I would have just moved out there and
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: then you just go dead for like two years of
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: auditioning and stuff.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: But you know, I was like, all right, boom, everything's
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: a lining.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: But now, but this is the end of COVID Because
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: New York was like Darth Vader during I remember.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Cold in November, but they still were having shown. But
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: this is twenty one or twenty two, well twenty one
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: November twenty twenty.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: One, okay, okay, so you're out there basically, you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: a year and a half outside of the actual first shutdown,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: which this March twenty twenty, so it was still a
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: little like inching, but come twenty twenty two it started boom.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three, it was no and then I left
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: January twenty.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: So much respect to you for how serious you're taking this,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: yeah dream like I mean, well it's not a dream
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: because it's happening. But I'm saying, like, I love how
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: driven you are in this whole story. You're yeah, like
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you have to be made like there's no distractions, there's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: no I see nothing but focus.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: It's really really beautiful.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: And so October thirtieth, my mother said that was her
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: birthday gift to me to shoot her special, and I'm like,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: shut up, no one, but yeah, October thirtieth, twenty twenty three,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I shot my special at the.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Sellar. Yeah, and I love it because the seller is
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: just so willing to help. Shout out to Liz.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: You know, she came in.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I just had say, hey, Les, can I shoot my special? Hair?
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Seeing a couple other people had shot their specials there,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: and you know, I talked to them. They gave me
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: options for a camera crew. She gave me options. She said,
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: it's totally up to you who you want to choose.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: She said, we are here to help there, to help
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: the comic. And I shot my special there and I
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: shot my special A left child.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: What did you say?
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: I shot my special and left?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Oh for real?
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, move back?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you know what I wanted to know. Why did
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: you feel it was so important for you to shoot
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: the special at the cellar?
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: I felt like it was just a great venue. And
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: also like to watch the trajectory of people around me.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: That's what I look at.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: What do you mean by that?
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Just I can map out sometimes off of IMDb, off
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: a social media post, I can map people's trajectory, so
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: like where their career kind of started to start to
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: get like a little leg up, and then where it
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: went fast.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Like the tipping point. Like you can you can see
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the tipping point.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: You can see the growth.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: You can see like the beginning stages when they were
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: still looking raggedy, and then they went up and they
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: was able to get a.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Nice pair of shoes and one good suit.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: And then you started to see that their videos started
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: to go viral here and then they put they shot
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: the special here.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: So I'll watch other people how they move, you know.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, you have to.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: You have to be aware of everybody that is around you,
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: because I didn't know about entering comedy festivals until I
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: saw other comedians in comedy festivals posting their stuff like, hey, y'all,
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I'm in this comedy festival posting it up. I got
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: accepted in on their uh Instagram, so I would write
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: down the comedy festival. I'll go to the website research it,
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: look at the date that they were taking submissions.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Be ready for the next year.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm watching everything.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: You do well since you watched, and I'm about to
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: learn how we take what is this a hard boiled egg?
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have no salt though.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: It's in the back. It's like you might not.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Season your food.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: It's in the back. If you go in the back.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: You know, when you walked in, you were all nice, Oh,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: look how nice it is in that back kitchen.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: This egg might be deformed. What happened to the front
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: half of it?
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: You done gave me all eggs.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: If I.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I never do that, or maybe you
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: boil it the.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Way it could be because it was it was only
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: a small pot and it wasn't fully emerging water, so
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: the yolk kind of went to one side.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we do we need salt because I could
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: call cup but I feel like ramen is already salty.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Did you put all those seasoning packets in it? Just
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: too Yeah? Yeah, nah, that's salty. That's salty. I don't
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: season my food. So when I go in your house,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: if I were to go in your fridge right now, you.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Ain't gonna see no season So I don't even know
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: why I'm over.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: You're talking, but I'm saying, like when you go in
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: your if I was like, hey, I'm gonna swing by
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the house. The first thing I like to do when
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I go to people fruit. Oh it's fruit, So there's
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: something in there.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: So you are going and a lot of green juices?
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Why because you know what you mean?
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: You buy the document.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: It's like the average person isn't getting enough vegetable intakes
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: because even when we do eat vegetables nowadays, we're putting
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: so much salt and seasoning and boiling them all the way,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: he says, So it's better. It's really good to juice.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: So then I just buy the juices instead of using
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: my juice machine.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Where do you buy your juices at?
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I like to get mine at Trader Show Trader joels, Yeah,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: I try to drink one a day. It's thirty days,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: so ninety dollars a month because they about three dollars.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Walmart is another good places to get them too.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go do that.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I juice every day.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Your say you say you juice every day like you're
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: the one making it.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: I'm Barney. Well.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: First of all, I will say this, I just discovered
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Trader Joe's recently, and it in the.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Last couple of years.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Mine was like the last three months. But I will
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: say this, Trader Joe's makes it so easy if you
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: don't know how to cook. Have you walked through their
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: frozen food sex show?
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: But this guy was telling me you need to get
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: their orange chicken.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Bro I just made that orange chicken last night.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: How was it? It was delicious, So I say, it's
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: like prebade and everything.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's literally like even their karaoke chicken, like you
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: could buy their stuff. And I get a rice maker,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: which I used to like, always buy rice about.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: The inciant rice. Nowadays I used to do that.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: But if you the cheapness or the frugal part of me,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: or the becoming a mom part of me, I decided
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: to go to Target. They sell the mini rice maker
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: for twenty bucks. I promise you you get one bag
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: of bassetti or jasmine rice. However you like your rice.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: It takes like thirty minutes.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Because I don't know how to cook. Rice is hard
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: to cook.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I promise you this rice cooker will change the game.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: It's twenty bucks. You go on the Target. You get
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: your little twenty dollar rice cooker. It comes with the
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: little measuring cup. You put a cup of water, two
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: cups of water, a cup of rice. You have the
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: best tasting rice. And the cool thing is that ain't
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: nothing with the devil if you if you leave, you
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: can come home and the rice is so warm and
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: the cooker mm, so you have fresh rice.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: So why even go out?
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah? And then Trader Joe's, you could get the orange chicken,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: get a bag of broccoli, put it in the stove.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Within ten fifteen minutes, you have a whole meal with
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: a leftover. Now I'm Chinese, yep, I promise you, because
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I used to spend so much on Chinese food, like
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: once or twice a week. But Trader Joe's has the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: ultimate hack.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: I'm a transracial cooker.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: You're I'm telling you. I promise you if you just
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: take another look at that Trader Joe's frozen aile, you
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: won't have to eat out as much.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: And Trader Joe's damn ploys always got a good attitude.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: And they be like, you want us to help you
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: to your car? And I'd be like, come on, strong man, shit,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: that's all I need is a Trader Joe man in
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: my life.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: And the U And they give like your kid a
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: bunch of stickers, And I don't really like that because
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: you know, my house will be covered in stickers that
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I can't get. OK, But my daughter likes it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: She'd be like, where's my stickers? Oh? So she come
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: to expect it.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: So this is a good dish. But I mean, I
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: probably would never do this again. I like the Ramen
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: without the egg.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: I'll never do it again either.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Who would have ever thought, because when we grew up,
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: ramen was like a struggle meal. Now they selling rawmen
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: in restaurants and naming the restaurant Ramen, and then they're
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: selling these dishes for twenty twenty five dollars.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I will. I'll say this though, I've never gone to
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Ramen place and actually spend No, I'm lying, I took.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I did buy one Ramen dish once, but yeah, I
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: can't my brain in my brain, I can't do it.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: But anywhere you eat now it's expensive. You could go
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: to McDonald's and it's like seven dollars fry.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: I like to get a coke and a small fried
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: and that'd be seven dollars.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, I gotta tell you this quick little half that
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I just discovered the other day, and my homie was
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: laughing at me. I don't know that this is every
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Taco Bell, but Taco Bell released like a frozen slurpy. Ooh,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: and they have like a dragon fruits frozen slurpy. Okay,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: I'm forty Okay. Little stupid things like really excite me. Yeah,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and I call my homie and I was like, yo,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: treat yourself today. He's like, what you're talking about? I said,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Taco Bell has a happy hour. I didn't even know about.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: From two to five hour, they got a happy hour
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and you could get these slurpees for a dollar thirty.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I was calling him, like, yo, this is the best
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: day ever to keep dragon bro.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: He was.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I just finished the surpee and
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: he's like. I was like, but I want another one.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: He's like, turn around. I say, you know it. I
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: turned around, went back and the guy at the Taco
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Bell was laughing at me. He was like, a Taco
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Bell and get one, yo, I promise you that dragon fruit.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: You know what. I like.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: It's better than the seven day beer.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: Are you cherry lemonade from Chick fil A? No, it's seasonal.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, a real piece of crack heaven?
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Really, but is it unhappy hour? Do they give a
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: happy yes? I think the happy hour makes it seem
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: like a little bit more like riskale, like oh my god,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: I'm really coming up.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but uh, I will say, shot gotta be flirted with. Yeah, yeah,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: somebody gonna come in there flirting.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but yeah, no I promise you it is
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: the best slurpye And I don't know if they do
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: it with every Taco Bell, but I just recently was
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: at a Taco Bell and they were like happy hour
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: two to five, and I was like what, and I
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: loved it even more. But it is the best slurpee.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: It is by far trump's all the other slurpees. I
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: love it. But in another hack, I learned.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Fruit too, but that wasn't popular when we were dragging
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: fruit no fruit when we were kids.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Have you actually eaten it though?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I've never had one, oh for real yellow.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: And pink one.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't get it from a not Trader Joe's.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: I never seen it in there, Whole foods, whole foods.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: I I have eating one broke. You think I'm ever
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: in whole foods?
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Yo, you gotta try that dragon fruit though I don't.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: I don't even know, Like if you showed me a
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: dragon fruit, I wouldn't even know what it looks like.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: It has like porcupines on them a little bit. Okay, Yeah,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I like the slurpee.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I like exotic fruits.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: That's my little vice, exotic fruits. Yeah, yeah, No, I'll
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: stick to the I just never know what parts to
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: eat and what parts not to or what have you.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: So take me through the special, you release its anticipate, like,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: bring me to the anticipation of like you get it back.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: How you feel watching it? Did you watch it? It
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: took me.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I swear to god, it took me three weeks to
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: watch it.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: What do you mean three weeks?
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: They sent it to me and then they was like, hey,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: did you get it. I couldn't stomach watch it myself.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Have you not watched yourself before?
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Watched it before?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: No, just other stuff you've watched, But when you watch
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: your special.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I couldn't stomach watching it. It took me three weeks
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: to ask you. And I had talk called Keith Robertson.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, man, it took me three weeks,
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: and he was like, he was like, he said it
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: took me. He said it took him a month on
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: his first one.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: So you mean like you would you would want to
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: click it and you just didn't click it.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: I would say every day I would get up and
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: watch it, because you gotta go over and watch it.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: You gotta send them back.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then you paid for the production, right, do it?
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Yep?
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: And oh my man.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: For three weeks.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: My team was That's another reason it came out so
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: late after Like, it didn't come out so late, but
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: it came out like five man months after I shot it.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Because it took me.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: It was five months later.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: It took me a month.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I know if it was my team, I would have
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: gotten phone calls, text messages, emails. They'll find a way
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: to be like, hey, what what what did you watch it?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: You watched it? No, I'm saying. The production side, they
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: weren't like, hey, what's going on?
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, but they also have other people that they're
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: working with, so they were just waiting for me to
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: They didn't hit me.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: After three it's like, hey, is everything okay? Did you
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: get it?
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, I'm watch it tomorrow. Then that's what
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: made me really double down.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: To watch it. Did you Did you watch it with
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: anybody else? It was really good? It was really good.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Was really good.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I feel like you got to say it.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: No, I don't have to say it. First of all,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: I have too much history when it comes to comments.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I liked it. I thought it was very relatable as
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: a female dating Scenkle like everything. I was also like
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: cruising the comments. Of course you have to cruise the
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: comments to see what they're saying. Everybody was so excited
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: about you in a cat suit.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had a little cameltoe. I didn't realize I had.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I wasn't even looking at that. Well.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: The man said it, and I was like, oh, that's
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: a baby, I said, But you gotta be hard.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Some people appressed nah, I just I have two.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: Like really negative comments, and I blocked those people from
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: the YouTube, so they're not showing up on the special.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: Not because I don't I don't want anybody to see
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: a negative comment about it. It's because people choose to
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: attack you. And it's like, yo, I hate women like this,
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: What does it have to do with the special?
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Bro?
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: What did I do to you?
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: It's like some people in the world wide of it.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: See that's what I remember. I had a show in
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: New York and this guy was like, I don't think
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: you're funny. I said, I grew up in the era
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: where you can't just say that to people. If you
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: don't like something, just wait till you leave say it
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: to your friend.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I think when it comes
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: to comedy, it's what I think, it's not.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: It's not just about comedy in society. People feel like,
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: even I just saw something with Raven Simone and her
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: wife and she's like, hey guy. Her wife had said
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: she had never seen the That's So Raven show prior
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: to being in a relationship with Raven Simon, which nobody
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: that meets me isn't obligated to see all about your
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: show and all of my work, and you know what
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: I mean. So it's like people were giving this woman
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: death threats. But see, we live in a world now
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: where people can just type whatever they want and it's
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: no accountability. Back in the day when I went to school,
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: you talk bad about somebody, you're liable to meet them
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: on to meet them after school at three o'clock and
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: get your ass beat or get in the fire.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: But I also don't think we were in like our
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: era is probably the Aol Instant Messenger era. It wasn't
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: as no, none of that. Facebook came out.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: Facebook came out when I was in college and I'm
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: thirty seven. Yeah, so Facebook didn't come out till I
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: was in college. Because when I first went to college,
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: you had to have a die edu. When I first
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: joined Facebook, I had to have a die edu and
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: because I heard about it in two thousand and four
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: when I graduated high school. But I couldn't join because
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: I didn't have a die edu. You had to be
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: at the university, and that was when they first first Yeah,
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: when you went to community college, they don't still don't
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: give you an email do edu at most community colleges.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: So I had to be at the because I didn't
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: go straight to college.
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: But I'm saying that I think the social media error
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: gave people a lot of confidences to.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Say whatever they want to people with no accountability and
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: so with that, So that's the reason why I deleted
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: two comments, because it's like, Yo, what does this have
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: to do with anything? You're just attacking me because you
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: woke up and decided you hate me. This has nothing
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: to do with the special, has nothing to do with anything.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: You're just a miserable person and I think you can
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: run into that on the internet. Yeah, yeah, and you
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: attack me every day every day.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: I black people.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I always say this too, like every day every comedian
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: has their audience, but I think most people laugh at
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: what they can relate to. So if I don't think
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: a comedian is funny. Like I tell people all the time,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I like people that have like childhood trauma, like the Sebastians,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: the bill Birds, Like if your mom and your parents
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: were terrible, y'all give me that comedian John Wasamo, give
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: me all those motherfuckers, and I'm like, gonna have fun
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: all day. I enjoyed your special because I could relate
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: to it, and that's what makes it funny. So it's
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: very terrible when people can say to a comedy or
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think that comedian is funny. It's really subjective
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: to what you can relate to.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: Like I can't say somebody successful is not funny. Yeah,
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: you can't say that somebody that's really building up in
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: upcoming isn't funny, you know what I mean.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: It's just like they're just not funny to you.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: But you get people that go in and if this
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: person's not funny, they're there, they look like this, and
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: they look, what does that have to do with anything?
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: You're just that's called bullying. Cyber go to these.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Pages and these people are just yeah, No.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: I've had people comment on our show because I usually
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: wear like a backwards hast I've heard people go into
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: comments like why is this fifty year old wearing backwards?
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I'm like you, I'll go to their page like I
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: know you ain't talking ship.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: And then I have God tell me recently, that's why
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: you old and you and don't nobody want you? And
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: I was like, do you really actually looking at me, sir?
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: Do you actually think nobody wants me? My face looked
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: the same with or without makeup on. Do you really
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: think I'm walking in the world and every man is like,
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: forget her, we don't want her.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Like no, But I do think that the people do
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: need to address like the insensitivity, because I will say, sick,
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: a sick part of me, Like, I'll scroll through all
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the comments and the ones that are negative are the
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: ones that get my attention. I do a little chuckle.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'll be like you want to respond to though,
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: why I don't The positive ones you'd be like, Then
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: a negative one you'd be like, you.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Know what you go to they paid you look at them,
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: but it's always.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Whoever you, whoever's dissing you. When you look them up,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: you'd be like, come on, man.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: And I was like, that's why you got buck teeth
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: I said, ma'am, do you know what buck teeth are?
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: Buck teeth is on your two front teeper.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Did you respond to her?
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: She had a gap this big?
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: Did you respond on? Did you respond?
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: I don't remember, Okay, sometimes I respond to people sometime
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: like this one girl recently, she was like, y'all look
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: old for millennials. Y'all really baby boomers? You know, baby
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: boomers will be like sixty.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: And stuff like that.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: And I was like, girl, I said she and she
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: I went to her page. She had a you know,
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: little light bo in a BBL that didn't match. I said, girl,
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: you talking. I said, you went to the Dominican Republic
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: and got all that surgery and they could unbig your back.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: That's hilarious.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: I said, your back is huge. And she was like, oh,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: you just mas.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: She been arguing for the last I stopped responding after
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: like two comments she been arguing with because people keep
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: finding stuff.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: She been arguing with people in those comments for the
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: last two months.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: That's funny. I think, yeah, I think there's a space
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: for people that are over opinionated on the Internet, and
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: again it's just to bring people down. I can't understand
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: what it's rooted in I've never really been. I'm one
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: of those type of people though, Yeah, but I'm more
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: like I like reading through comments. I just like reading
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: through comments, skimming to see what the gist of what
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: people's opinions are. But I don't know, I think I
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: think the whole comment thing is just.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: I think blocking hurts them the most.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Blocking and people you go to their page.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: They aren't even following you, or some people was like
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: they follow you.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: And what I don't like about it is that some
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: people get mad at you for having an opinion, but
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: they have an opinion about you having an opinion.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: So why is it okay for you to have an
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: opinion but not me to have an opinion?
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't, it doesn't. I just think that there's
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: certain people that live for that. I'll go back to
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: my twin. My twin doesn't really attack people online, but
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I will say, like, she'll literally lose sleepover fights on
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: social media, and I'll be like, she'll call me. She'll
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: start with I know you don't care, and I'm like, yeah, yeah,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: I listen, but she'll she knows that whatever she's about
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: to tell me, I'm really not gonna give a fuck
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: about like or she'll like going on a rat with
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: like Beyonce and some ship and she just yeah, yeah,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I'll be like, I don't get it.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: But there's a certain type of people that are really invested,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: like they will lose sleep, they will get upset, they
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: will and I.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: Promise little Uzzi Bert had a purse. I was like,
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: look at him with that perse on. Do you know
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: I got death threats for that? They said they was gonna.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: Kill me, girl, I don't know. They're crazy, un alive me.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Are you able to make money off your socials now?
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: So I don't attack people, I just block them. So
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm pretty good at roasting.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Really good.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I could read you for filth on there, okay.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Like a housewife mixed with your your comedian nightmare of roasting.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: But it's like you can't respond to people back in
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: that way because if they started to report me, and
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: people started to report me, they can.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Demonetize my page. So I just block them.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: I just non no longer argue with them or if
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: I say something. It's just it's very common things that
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: it's like your back is big, that's not nothing triggering,
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: but if I was like, you ugly fat bitch, that
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: those are stuff that they can demonetize your page or actually,
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: you know, get you your page taken out, taken off. Yeah,
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: I've seen that happen to a comedian recently. He was
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: going in on people that was seeing stuff about how
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: he looked, and he went back and they took his
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: whole page.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Oh shoot, well, going back to your special, I did
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: your grandma watch it? And no, I don't know.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: I don't. Sometimes don't want my family watching my stuff.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Well that's what I want watch it, but you know,
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: I don't just be like.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: Hey, grandma, I watched a special, you know, but.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: No, they like your mom she knows, yeah, because she's
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: all on.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: My social media. But my family do. But I don't.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Also, not my grandparents. They would need help setting it up.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: You have to go over there, put it, put YouTube
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: on the screen, set it up.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: They can't. They can't asset stuff like that on their own.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, it's just that I know, since
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: you talked about I wonder I understand being related to
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: a comedian, like you're not going to always keep up
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: with everything they do. But I was just curious when
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: they do watch your stuff? Do they are they like
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: letting you do you? Or do they try to get
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: in the weeds and say, like, why was she performing
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: like that? Okay, perfect, because I'm not.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: Doing anything derogatory. I'm just telling the stories that you
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: told me.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're telling well, you're telling your truth. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious if there's anyone in your group that does
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  Speaker 1: do that. Okay, cool, and you prefer.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: That way, right, because they want to ask me for
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  Speaker 3: money here and there, so they ain't gonna really rock
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: the boat. Yeah, And I'm not going on there saying
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  Speaker 3: you dumb and you stupid. I'm attacking anybody. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: basically saying, my grandma got the shakes, and I do
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  Speaker 3: talk to my grandma. People like you don't talk to
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  Speaker 3: your I'm like, I do joke with my grandma like that.
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  Speaker 2: She like it. My grandma like it. I love this
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  Speaker 2: favorite word is nigga your grandma's.
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  Speaker 3: Favorite word, and the family has asked her to stop
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  Speaker 3: saying it. My mother hates it, and my mother has
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: asked it. So I said, hey, so sometimes I call it.
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  Speaker 3: I say hey, Grandma. I was like, look at that
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  Speaker 3: nigga over there. She said, yeah, I don't like that nigga.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: So we joke like that because that's her favorite word,
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  Speaker 3: but she don't like She don't like to say it
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  Speaker 3: around the rest of the family, so we joke with
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: it together.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: That's your favorite word. Atactor for saying it.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Your special looks like you and your grandma have a
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: good relationship. You guys have a very cute, flirty, like
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: fun relationship.
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  Speaker 2: Yo.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: The craziest thing happened. So I took my grandparents at
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: the other day. I like, I told her they'd be
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: in Inglewood, so I took them about this something to eat.
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  Speaker 3: So my grandma husband, he gonna say. The guy came
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: over as Hispanic guy helping us at the table.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: He gonna say. He said to the guy, Tim, you
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  Speaker 2: speak good English. I said, you can't say that to him.
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  Speaker 2: He said what he said? He don't got no accent.
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  Speaker 3: So the guy laughed because he wasn't offended. I said,
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  Speaker 3: I said, grand daddy, he's American. People are from other places,
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  Speaker 3: are born in America. I said, you were born in America.
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  Speaker 3: He said, yes, I was, But he just laughed because
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: you can't how would you get mad at somebody that
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: this man is eighty nine years old. But when he
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: said it, I was like, yo, you just saying whatever
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  Speaker 3: you wanted to this guy. I mean he was in awe,
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  Speaker 3: like really wanting an answer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, my grandparents are characters like what the Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see that. I just think watching the special,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I definitely could see that you guys have a good relationship.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: How did how was the receiving of the special and like,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: did you accomplish everything you wanted to in regards to
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: the special?
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, I feel like as far as everything I wanted
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: to put out in a special, you know, and then
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: just starting prepare for the next one.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: That was my next year. Are you starting already to prepare?
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You gotta write new jokes and then don't you have
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: to practice on the road for a while. Yeah.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: So what I like to do is because everybody in
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: the world hasn't seen the special, and everybody that come
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: out the shows haven't seen the special, is just to
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: start to weaving new material in between.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: So you don't go up there just doing because to me,
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: when people come to come buy tickets, they bought tickets,
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: some hire a babysitter, some actually bought a new outfit,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: buying drinks, They're going to go out to eat maybe
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: before and after, or.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: They're gonna eat there. They're spending money.
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: So I don't think you should allow someone to spend
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: money and you just doing all new stuff that you
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: don't know whether or.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Not it works.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. I agree with that.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: So what if people when people come out to see
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: you on the road now they can expect a mix
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: of the new and.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's other stuff I have that didn't make
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: the special as well.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: So yeah, awesome. And now where does the transition for
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: podcasting come in?
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: I had started podcasting years ago, but I stopped Okay, Yeah,
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: so I feel like you gotta let show people know
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: your personality.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that. Now, how how much? So you've
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: been doing it for how many years? You took a break?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Took a break for two years?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Okay? Is that the two years you did in New York?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Ok it was just harder for me to get
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: resources and stuff out there, just because I lived in
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: New Jersey. I didn't live in New York.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you did. You didn't know New Jersey City,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: You did New Jersey, New Jersey.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: I did a city, you know where Edge Order, New
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: Jersey is no so edge Order, so all the New
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: York sees.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: We see all of New York.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: Soon as you look out my window, you can see
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: all the skylines to the buildings in the water in
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: New York. So we live right there. I live by
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: the water, so we can see New York. So I
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: lived over there, and it wasn't It wasn't an area
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: where the transit weren't very well New York, New Jersey.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: New Jersey City has good transit, you know, but not
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: out there. So it was hard for a lot of comedians.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: And some of them was like, oh, Uber over there.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: And somebody one day was like, yo, it's one eighty
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: one way to get to you.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: I said, yeah, I think who was it?
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: I think Safe the Sounds lives over there.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know that.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I think he did, because I think he said that
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Jour on the interview when he's talking about Brooklyn.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, for Brooklyn was like an hour and fifteen to
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: thirty minutes away with me.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he was talking about Brooklyn.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: And then I didn't even go over there, even though
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: I loved it as much because it was so far.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a three hour shits in the car
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: well from Jersey. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: But see the seller and all that stuff was only
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: like twenty It would take me about twenty four minutes
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: to get home and it would take me about thirty
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: five minutes to get to the city.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's not bad. That's not a bad trade off.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: All right. So how can your fans keep up with you? Now?
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, make sure you always follow me on social media.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: But to find everything about me, you can go to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: my website www dot iamdsprings dot com.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: I am dsprings dot com. You heard it here first.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: And any tips you would like to give to anybody
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: trying to follow in your footsteps before we close out, I.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: Would just stay stay consistent. I think that's the biggest thing.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: I think that's definitely consistency. Consistent as much as you can. Yeah,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: and then that other thing that you mentioned earlier in
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: the interview about asking.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but sometimes don't ask when you're before you're ready.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: You think, so, I do thinks. So I think you
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: can like blow that one shot yeah okay, yeah.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Or you could just get a bad rip.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Just think, be consistent and do the work, the foundational
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: work first, and then once you get to a certain
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: place where people are like walking up to be like Yo,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: that was really good, Like I like that, then you're
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: ready to maybe start asking people, oh, can I do
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: your show at the end. Prov But don't just say, Hey,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: I'm starting comedy, can I do your show at the Yeah?
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: You know, so you gotta be specific when you talk
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: to people, because they'd be like, oh, yeah, That's all
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: I needed to know was go up and ask for opportunities.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: It's like, now you don't want to pre prematurely.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: To do the foundational work first. All right, guys, thank
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: you so much for tuning into another episode of Eating
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: While Broke. Follow up with D Springs is I am
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: D Springs yep, I am Springs dot com. Peace out,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: bye bye. For more Eating While Broke from iHeartRadio and
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