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INTERVIEW: Mojo Brookzz on Going From Viral To Sold Out, Working With Kevin Hart & Landing Tyler Perry’s Movie · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up.
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  Speaker 3: Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club. You all finished
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  Speaker 3: or you all done?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's the world's most dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God. Envy is on vacation,
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  Speaker 4: but Lauren LaRosa is here, and we got a special guest.
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  Speaker 4: He's on the Out of Pocket Comedy Tour, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Mojo Brooks.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Mojo.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. How you doing, Jess?
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  Speaker 3: I'm great. Mojo, give me money. I can see it.
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  Speaker 3: I can smell it, nigga, with money.
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  Speaker 1: A few dollars happening right now.
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  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: You're such a bird.
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  Speaker 3: You can smell it with money.
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you. When somebody smell your money, you in denial.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: But he don't be wearing nothing. No cologne, no nothing.
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  Speaker 2: He just be like out of the shower.
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  Speaker 3: Clothes.
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  Speaker 1: No nothing? I wash.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the old school dial. Like the white bar
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  Speaker 2: that don't really smell that much.
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  Speaker 3: I do cologne. Yeah, they just talking.
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  Speaker 5: No, he getting money.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, Mojo?
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed, man. I can't complain, man.
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  Speaker 3: Happy to be here.
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  Speaker 4: We watched you come up through social media. Now you
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  Speaker 4: out here selling out theaters and arenas.
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  Speaker 3: When did you.
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  Speaker 4: Realize you don't have... just followers anymore. You got actual
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  Speaker 4: fans that want to pay for a ticket.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, man, when they started buying the tickets like six,
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  Speaker 1: seven months in advance, you know, I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: my agent and, um, this was maybe about three years
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  Speaker 1: ago and he was like, yeah, man, we just, if
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  Speaker 1: we can start getting them, you know, to buy early,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cause you selling out, you know, I was
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  Speaker 1: selling out maybe like the day before the week of
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. And he was like, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: can get them to sell. I was like, man, black
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  Speaker 1: people don't, uh, They ain't doing six. Unless you Chris
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  Speaker 1: Brown or Usher, they ain't doing. But we don't know
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to be doing six months from now.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. So I think it was, like, last year, like,
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  Speaker 1: we kind of started seeing, like, shows, you know, selling
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  Speaker 1: out four or five months in advance. And then this
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  Speaker 1: year when we put the tour on sale in May,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing went. Wow. Yeah, no, that's when I knew, like,
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  Speaker 1: that the demand was, like, we don't want to miss them,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to get the tickets now. Like, that's when.
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  Speaker 1: And then when they started reselling my tickets for, like,
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  Speaker 1: $ 2, 000 then.
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  Speaker 4: What did you understand about turning that social media attention
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  Speaker 4: into an actual audience? Because I think a lot of
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  Speaker 4: influencers don't understand that. You got people with 5 million
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  Speaker 4: followers who can't sell 500 or nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that just comes with what your actual
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  Speaker 1: show is. Because I think a lot of people blew
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  Speaker 1: up on social media and when it was time for
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  Speaker 1: them to get into the clubs and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: they just weren't ready. They kind of got thrown into it.
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  Speaker 1: So they were learning on the go. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my process has just been a little bit slower than that. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I started doing the skits in 2014,
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  Speaker 1: maybe like six months later, like I jumped on the stage.
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  Speaker 1: And I just kept doing it and kept doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And then my rise on social media was just, it
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  Speaker 1: was like a slow, gradual one. So by the time
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  Speaker 1: that I finally popped, I had already been doing a stand-up,
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  Speaker 1: so I was ready. So when I was coming out,
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  Speaker 1: I was already looking. you know, polished, like I, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because I had been doing it for a while, but, like,
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  Speaker 1: nobody knew that. Like, even now, I was talking to
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  Speaker 1: Godfrey a couple days ago, and he's like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: I thought you've been doing this like four or five years.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing it 12. But nobody knew that because
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  Speaker 1: of how slow, you know, it just took time. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful for that because I'm ready now, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: putting on a show that, you know, people are enjoying. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got people who may come see me and,
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  Speaker 1: one city and they come to another city, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, to see the show. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: cause every show is, is, is different, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: far as, you know, the crowd work and stuff that
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing. But, you know, even a material, you know, I'm, I'm,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I'm here now. Kevin, Kevin Hart
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  Speaker 1: invited me out for the week to kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take me to these comedy clubs here in New York
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  Speaker 1: and show me like how they used to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: build this, you know, how they used to build a
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  Speaker 1: set back then when, you know, when they were coming
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  Speaker 1: up and stuff like that. So just kind of like,
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  Speaker 1: really taking the craft serious. And I think the people
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  Speaker 1: see that. And when they see that, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: spend their money.
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  Speaker 3: That's dope. I want you to talk about that week. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I want to talk, talk about that level of mentorship. Cause, uh,
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  Speaker 4: can be doing a million things. He can call anybody.
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  Speaker 1: He reached out and said, yo, he said, come on. He, so, um,
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  Speaker 1: he had shot the movie 72 hours and he called
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  Speaker 1: me and, you know, we, we kind of talking about
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  Speaker 1: the movie and he was like, uh, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to shoot another special. Um, next month at home
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago. And he was like, man, he was like, Mojo,
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  Speaker 1: I just came and seen you in April. You got
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  Speaker 1: a whole nother hour ready. I'm like, yeah, it's ready.
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  Speaker 1: I said, I've been working on it. You know, I've
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  Speaker 1: been in the clubs all summer. I said, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to the theaters and arenas in the fall. I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, you've been working out. Where you
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  Speaker 1: been working out at? I was like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing the clubs and, you know, I've just
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  Speaker 1: been working on my material in the clubs. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, what my thing is, is
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  Speaker 1: if I got eight shows, in a weekend or nine,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my goal is to, at least from each show,
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  Speaker 1: come out with a new five minutes. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: by the end of the weekend, I got 45 minutes
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  Speaker 1: of material that, you know, I can go and pick
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  Speaker 1: from and say, okay, what do I want to do
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  Speaker 1: with this? And then the next week, I build on
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  Speaker 1: what I like and keep going from there. Kev say
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  Speaker 1: that's not how you do it. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: He's like, it's just not how you do it because
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  Speaker 1: although you throwing new stuff out there, you still kind
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  Speaker 1: of relying on you know, material that you know that's
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  Speaker 1: going to work to kind of make sure you still
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  Speaker 1: putting on a good show for these people that paid
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  Speaker 1: to come and see you. Because you don't know how
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  Speaker 1: the new stuff is going. You don't know how it's
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  Speaker 1: going to go. You know, if you're lucky, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to hit the first time you do it and you're
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  Speaker 1: able to build off of it. So he was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: you need to come to New York. He said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be out there shooting a movie for a
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  Speaker 1: couple months. He was like, come to New York. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he told me the dates. And he was like,
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to work out. He was like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to show you what it's like to build a
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  Speaker 1: set from an empty canvas. And, you know, it's been
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  Speaker 1: comedy boot camp. Like, we've been out, I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: was out last night till like 2.30 in the morning.
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  Speaker 4: Damn.
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  Speaker 1: Doing jokes. And I had put up a pop-up show
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  Speaker 1: at the Brooklyn Improv last night. And, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: sent it out to the email list. It sold out
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  Speaker 1: in two minutes. And, you know, I did my, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I went up there, we locked everybody's phones. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and this is just stuff that I seen him do
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  Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday. So I was like, Wednesday, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to put up my own show. We're going to lock
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  Speaker 1: the phones up. I'm going to go in there and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to be vulnerable. And, the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: that he's been talking about is like, bro, if you bomb,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay. And I think it's hard to understand that
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  Speaker 1: because how bombing is so frowned upon in the community
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  Speaker 1: of comedy. But, you know, you got to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Like you got to go out there with nothing and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with this blank canvas and just go out
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  Speaker 1: there and just talk. And that's kind of what he's
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  Speaker 1: been teaching me. So we did the pop-up show. And
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  Speaker 1: I went up and then Kev came down there and
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  Speaker 1: then I brought him out, you know, as a surprise guest.
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  Speaker 1: And then, you know, he's working on his material. So
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  Speaker 1: just in real time, you know, watching someone like him
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  Speaker 1: have nothing. Like I seen him go up there like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: these are the thoughts that I want to go up
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  Speaker 1: there with. He was like, I'm going to build off
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  Speaker 1: of that. But to watch him, you know, build this
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  Speaker 1: stuff out, like from Monday to yesterday, he already ready.
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  Speaker 1: Like if it was up to me and what I say, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you ready?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't got to say nothing else. Like you, you
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  Speaker 1: ready right now. But I told him I'll come back
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. And he was like, when
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  Speaker 1: you come back in a couple of weeks, all of
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be, it's going to be different.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, I'm going to twist it around. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do this. He was like, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do this joke every single possible way to, to, to
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  Speaker 1: get the best version of it. So, Being able to
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  Speaker 1: see that stuff up close and, you know, when I
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  Speaker 1: was coming up, I didn't have, like, I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: any of it. Anything that I learned, it was on
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  Speaker 1: my own. So I didn't see that. So to see
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  Speaker 1: him doing it, it's like, you know, it's just you
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  Speaker 1: watching the master at work. And Kevin is my idol.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing. That says a lot about you, though,
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  Speaker 3: because you busy.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 3: You got a life.
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  Speaker 1: I just did nine shows in Miami Thursday to Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And then I came straight here.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, I'm very passionate about it. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows that. You know what I'm saying? Me
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  Speaker 1: and him, you know, we had conversations about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where I want my career to go, what I want
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  Speaker 1: my career to look like. A lot of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing right now, we haven't seen a comedian do
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  Speaker 1: since him. You know what I'm saying? An arena since him.
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  Speaker 1: In this space, nobody's done it since him. Wow. So, like,
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  Speaker 1: even a lot of the stuff I'm doing at the club's,
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did a Miami Improv and I broke
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  Speaker 1: the record for the most, you know, shows in a weekend.
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  Speaker 1: These shows were selling out in two, three minutes. The
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  Speaker 1: club like, we ain't seen nothing like this since 2016.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart. Kevin used to do it, yeah. Yeah, so.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: He used to do it.
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  Speaker 3: He left here in New York and Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy. Yeah. So, you know, just having those conversations
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  Speaker 1: with him and him, you know, I think he's putting
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  Speaker 1: the time in because he sees that I'm actually serious
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  Speaker 1: about it. And it's just like, it's not a money
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  Speaker 1: grab for me.
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  Speaker 5: And you're also acting, too. You're in Tyler Perry's Miss
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  Speaker 5: Governor on Netflix. How is that different from actually acting
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  Speaker 5: in a scripted series versus doing improv?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know how wildin' that was. Yeah. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not... Acting on there, I think the only difference
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: is that you're just waiting all day. Like, you would
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  Speaker 1: be waiting all day to shoot one scene.
• 9:28
  Speaker 3: Hurry up and wait.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You're just waiting all day. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: was the only thing that it took for me to
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  Speaker 1: get adjusted to. And then it's just like, you know
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: what happened? Like, it just happened so fast. Like, you
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: do the audition. You know, they negotiate the deal. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you get the role. And now, you know, you're getting fitted. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to learn the script. Yeah. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even meet Tyler Perry. I was just about
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  Speaker 1: to ask you. I hadn't even met him yet.
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  Speaker 3: Still now?
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  Speaker 1: No, he just texted me. He wanted me to call.
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  Speaker 1: I think he had something else for me. Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: He just texted you. But he, no, I hadn't met
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  Speaker 1: him yet. Like, he wasn't on any of the readings,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that we had did on Zoom. And my
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  Speaker 1: first scene, you know, he's directing it. I could just
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  Speaker 1: hear his voice. You know what I'm saying? We standing
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: behind his wall and I could hear his voice and
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a... Was it his voice or my
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  Speaker 1: dear's voice? No, it was Tyler. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so like literally you hear.
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  Speaker 1: I can hear him directing the scene before me. Okay, gotcha. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the scene he was directing, it was a
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  Speaker 1: guy there and he was kind of like struggling with
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  Speaker 1: the lines or whatever. And Tyler put everybody out the room.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, everybody get out. Everybody get out. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we kind of behind this wall and we can hear it.
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  Speaker 1: And he telling the guy, he's like, listen, it's just
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  Speaker 1: me and you in here now. You know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's watching. Just read it. read how it is on
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  Speaker 1: the script but just seeing him do that to make
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: you know the actors on set comfortable because obviously he's
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: saying okay he's not comfortable and I don't know if
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: it's because there's people in here so let me put
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: everybody out and see how it is but I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the back like man let me get my script make
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  Speaker 1: sure I know my lines because I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: have to put everybody out when it's my turn so
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: we walk out and he just sitting there and he
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: just like okay let's do it then he look at
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  Speaker 1: my suit because I had all them crazy suits on
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: he was like what's this suit He looks good in it.
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  Speaker 1: He's supposed to look crazy. So I'm like, you know, Mr. Perry,
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  Speaker 1: with all due respect, I'm going to look good in
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: anything I put on. And with a straight face, he
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, I don't care. We need another suit.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: So people need another suit. But just working with him
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: and just seeing, you know, it's real fast there, though. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it ain't no, you shoot a scene, ain't no, let
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  Speaker 1: me see how that look. No. All right, we moving
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  Speaker 1: on to the next thing. Like, it's really fast.
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  Speaker 5: So if you wanted a chance to say, like, your
• 11:38
  Speaker 5: line again or whatever, it ain't none of that.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: You're going to get two times. And that's it. Unless
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: he say, unless he like, oh, we need to do
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: that again. Like, ain't no looking back at it. Like,
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: it is what, like some of that stuff, I didn't
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: see it until I turn on Netflix and I watch it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say I look. So it was like, it
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: was scenes, it was scenes where I was like, when
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: we got done, I was like, damn, what was I
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: doing with my hands? Like, I don't know what I
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: was doing with my hands. And, you know, then you
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: see it and you're like, okay, you was cool. But no,
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: it's very, He's not staying on anything all day long. Like, it's,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we got everything we need. Okay, we moving on.
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  Speaker 3: Why the hell you ain't called Tyler back yet?
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was coming in here. He texted me, like,
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  Speaker 1: what you doing?
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  Speaker 3: And you were walking down the hall.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what? When he reaches out, it's always,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: it's funny, because before he reaches out, he has someone
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: else reach out first to let you know, yo, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Perry's going to be reaching out to you just to
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  Speaker 1: let you know, answer your phone. and then he texted
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: me and was like, where you at? And I'm like,
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: I'm in New York. I'm about to do Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, well, call me when you get
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: done with that. But normally when he hit me up,
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, he might have something. But I did just
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: do a movie with him, though.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: When you talk to him, tell him to say, Charlamagne said,
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: what's up, nigga? I will.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Just like that?
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: Just like that. Hey, Charlamagne said, what's up, real nigga?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Just like that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I'm scared to say it.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you answer the phone for him?
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: Ask him, when you talk to him, say that. Say,
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: Charlamagne told me to tell you, what's up, real nigga?
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: We did a Christmas party, and like, when he chillin'. He.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: A real nigga.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: He a real nigga. Like nigga niggas.
• 13:07
  Speaker 6: He chillin'. Like, he chillin'. Like, he chillin'. Like, he chillin'. Like,
• 13:12
  Speaker 6: he gonna have a drink with you.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Like, he chillin'. He has a good time.
• 13:16
  Speaker 6: We were just talking about the distribution arm of his
• 13:20
  Speaker 6: company that he just added on in honor of his mom.
• 13:23
  Speaker 6: and how it's going to be able to help so many, like,
• 13:25
  Speaker 6: new independent filmmakers that are, like, coming up. And we
• 13:29
  Speaker 6: were talking about, well, I was saying that I think
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: people know Tyler Perry and know how big he is
• 13:33
  Speaker 6: because it's Tyler Perry, but they don't understand on the
• 13:35
  Speaker 6: back end what it's doing for actors, writers, directors, because
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: people like to talk about the other stuff.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, he don't hire this, he don't hire that.
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: I don't care what they say about him. He pays great.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: That's the first thing. Like, he pay, he make. and
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say this just in case he
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: has something else. He may overpay. Like he may give
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: you a little bit more than what you probably, because
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: it ain't about the money for him. He's, he's really
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: passionate about it. And then he wants to see, he
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: really wants to see our people do well. Like he
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: really wants to see it. So when he's doing stuff
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: like that, it's because he wanted, he don't want it
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: all to itself. And he's created this space for different
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: actors and directors and writers to come in and, and
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: grow and, and, and build their careers and, you know,
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: far beyond. Like I just said, I just did a
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: movie with him that'll be out later this year. And
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: the movie was done when he called and added me
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: to it. And how really is he, so we did
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the movie and he like, man, he was like, he
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: was like, Mojo, I want you to see the movie
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: though so you can understand like what I want to do.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: He was like, so when you leave from set, they're
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: going to bring you to the house and I'm going
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: to have you like take a look at, you know,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: at the movie. So, Man, I ain't never seen a
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: house this big in my life.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: Tell us about it.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Like, bro, you can see the whole city of downtown
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: from his backyard. Like, it's crazy. Like, he got elevators
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: in his house. We get on the elevator, we go down,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: he got this big movie theater. I thought I had
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: a movie theater in my house. I got a room
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: with a big screen TV. He got a movie theater. Like, seats,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: he got a balcony. I mean, it's crazy.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: There's a balcony and a movie theater in his house?
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, the real deal. Like, the real deal. He was like,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: you know, we come in, he was like.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: He got an airstrip, too, you know.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I seen it all.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: He got an airstrip.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: He got all of that.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Runway off.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Everything.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: Is this a new house or didn't he just sell?
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: It's the big joint.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: This one big. This one big. This crazy.
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: I could have swore he just sold one of them
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: or something like that. I don't know.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Charlamagne, you done flew into the airstrip?
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. You like, man, I got the chef
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: making some sliders, wings.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: She was crazy, man.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: That level of mentorship, though, like Tyler Perry, even if
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: he's not directly trying, right, just that, like the exposure
• 15:54
  Speaker 6: to you're seeing his house and he's breaking down his process.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I want you to see this. And Kevin Hart, like, yo,
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: come to New York for the week.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Because of what they see in you.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but at this point in your career, because I
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: know a lot of people discover you from social media,
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: and to get to where you are now, like, are
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: there moments where you're like, damn, like, ooh.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Kevin Hart was like, it's part of
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: the reason why I started doing this. So, you know,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: last night when I bring him to the stage, and,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: you know, he go in, he do his thing, then
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: I come back out, and, you know, he's talking to
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: the people about me and stuff like that, and I'm
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: just sitting here like, damn, like, it was... You know,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: it was just maybe, what, 12, 15 years ago, like,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I was watching this dude on TV, like, damn, I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: want to do that. Like, watch everything he did. Like,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: we talking. Like, he introducing me to people like, yeah, yeah,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I know Keith Robinson. I read your book. Everything, like,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: so when you in that space and even Tyler Perry, like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: we all grew up watching the plays.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? So it's like.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: If you didn't, your mama did, your grandma did.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Somebody did.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Your aunt, yeah, yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: So it's like you sitting there and it's just like,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: you know. Even seeing those names pop up on your
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: phone when they call and text you, like sometimes it's crazy.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: And you used to work at Best Buy, right?
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I think I saw that. I did security. Security? Yeah,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: so I was head of security at a Best Buy
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: distribution center.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: What the hell does that even mean?
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: So, you know, where they keep all the washers and
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: dryers and PlayStations, like the warehouse where they keep all
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the stuff at before they ship them out to the store.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I was head of security over the building. So, you know,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: when the shipments, we would make sure the shipments would
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: come in and everything would be going out that needed
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to be going out. Like, we secured the whole building.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Was it $ 20 an hour, $ 60 an hour?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I think at that time I was getting $ 20. I
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: was getting $ 20 an hour.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: You was like the plug, too, though, because you could be...
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I know you was giving away free stuff. Tell the truth. No, no,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I wasn't.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I wasn't. Most people be doing that. I wasn't. My
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: dad hit me one day. He was like, they got
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: dryers in there? Hey, we not doing that. We not
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: doing that. You not about to get me locked up, man.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: We not doing that. We not doing that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: But you knew how to do it, though, if you
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: wanted to.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: If I wanted to get a dryer out of there,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I did know how to do that. I did anything, but...
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: We wasn't doing that, man. I wasn't going to jail
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: for no dryer, man.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: You was trying to go to the police academy at
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: one point, too.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I was. I was almost there. I did everything. I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: had took the polygraph test. I had took the physical exam.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I had took the written exam. I had did all
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: of it. And then it was like Chicago, because it
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: was the Chicago Police Department, it's like they just forgot
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: about me. When it's time for the next step, I
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: didn't hear nothing. And then, you know, my daughter was born.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I kind of Really started taking stand-up series. I was
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: going to open mics, like, every single night. Like, some
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: of the same stuff Kevin got me doing right now.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: And it's crazy, because being here is, like, reminding me
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of that time. And I forgot about it. Like, I
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: forgot that that work that I put in, really, it
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: meant something. But, no, I hadn't heard from the department until, like,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: at the end of 2017. Like, I started going viral. And, like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: 2018 went past, and then 2019 came. And by this time,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: now I'm making money. Now I'm making like $ 50, 000, $ 60, 000
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: a month on Facebook. And then they hit me up,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and they was like, yo, are you still interested in
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: coming to the police department?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Like, no, hell no. Like, no, I want to, like, no.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: In Chicago, and at that time, they was shooting cops
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff. Like, I'm just pushing buttons
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: on my phone, and I'm making $ 56, 000 a month. It
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: was more than what. They was offering, I think they
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: was offering like $ 75, 000 a year.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: You did security and you wanted to be a cop.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Why you wanted to protect and serve so bad?
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: What was that about?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You know, honestly, bro, honestly, and I think this is
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the first time I'm probably ever going to say this,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I really didn't want to do that. You know what
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? I think I was just trying to do something.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: that was going to provide security for me and my daughter.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: And if it was me going out, risking my life
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to fight crime, then, you know, it was going to
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: be that. But what I didn't want to do was
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: just live this life of struggle and, you know, paycheck
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to paycheck because she didn't deserve that.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: So.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to be able to give her
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: something that I didn't have.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: How do you protect the time you spend with her
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: now because you're very busy?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she just called me this morning, like, when you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: coming home. You know, now I'm starting to bring her
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: on the road. Remember when we was in Milwaukee?
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I brought her with me.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: You're very, very active in her life.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just stuff like that. Like, if
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to a cool city, like I just did
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Hawaii maybe like a month ago. I had my mom
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: bring her to Hawaii with me.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: You know, just if I can't, if I'm not home,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: just kind of getting her to me. But now school
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: done started, so, you know, just making sure, like, the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: days that's important to her, you know, that I'm there. Like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: she's like, Dad, the first day of school, I want
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you to take me to school. Okay, I'll be there.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I got her acting classes, so she like that. Oh,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: she want to act. Yeah, she want to act. Yeah,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: so she like that. How old is she?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Nine.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: She was like, Dad, I got my first play that
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: we doing. I'm playing Annie. I'm the black Annie. Oh, wow.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Main character. Yeah, but they did, you know, they did
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: just one little small snippet from the play, but she
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: played Annie. put this Tyler Perry wig on her head.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: But I couldn't make it. But I heard mom put
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: me on FaceTime. So then I'm like, I'm on FaceTime.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And so she get off stage, like I get to
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the phone, she gets to the phone. Like, I just
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: want to let you know, I'm here. Like, like whatever
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: it is. So, you know, just trying to balance it out.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And I think right now, like we've had conversations where
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I tell her like, Hey, daddy is in a process
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: right now of, of like laying a foundation for what,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: our lives are going to look like, you know, moving forward. So,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you know, just be patient with me because I'm still learning.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Nobody gave us a handbook on,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you know, how to be a dad or how to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: just reach it. Like, nobody. So I'm still learning. I'm
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: still trying. But, you know, I promise her, like, the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: things that's important to you, they're important to me, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I'll be here. Her birthday, I don't work. Like, even
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: if it's the day before, I'll fly out that night
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to make sure that I'm home to go to the
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: skating rink. Whatever it is that she want to do, like,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I just make sure that, You know, whatever's important to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: her is important to me.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: And you said they don't have no handbook about being
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: a father. They ain't got no handbook about being a
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: comedian either.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: No.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: So how'd you get into comedy from Best Buy and
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: trying to be a cop?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. So before I was doing comedy,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I was a party promoter. And then I used to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: host a party, so I would always be on the mic.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: That makes sense for your crowd work. Yeah, real quick.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's like, you know, I would get on
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: the mic and, you know, talk a little stuff and,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: You know, we would throw all these parties, and we would, like,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: book certain, you know, celebrities that come out and stuff
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: like that. I had a really successful party promoting career.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: You was an event curator, actually.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I was really doing it. Yeah, I was putting it together.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: And.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: How long you did it? I started party promoting, like, 2010.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I stopped when I started doing comedy, so about four years. Okay, okay. Yeah,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: but the thing is, you know, in that business, it's like,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: you know, where we was throwing the parties, we was
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: throwing them, like, outside of Chicago in the suburbs, and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: you know, fights and stuff would happen. And, you know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the suburbs aren't going to allow so much of that
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to happen before they just start shutting everything down. So
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: they just took all the places that we would go
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to put these events, and, you know, we just couldn't
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: do them anymore. But comedy-wise, though, you know, my family and,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you know, the people I grew up with was always like, bro,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: you funny, man. You know, you should try comedy. And
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: in 2013, before my sister passed away, you know, that
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: was like she asked me, like, I think you should
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: try that. And maybe six months after she passed, that's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: when I just started making sketches. I started making skits.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: And then a few months after that, I started doing stand-up.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: She told you that you should try.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: It before she passed? Two days before she passed. She
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: was like, I want you to do something. She was like,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: you should try comedy.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: You must have always been that kind.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we was together. You don't believe me?
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Not really.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't make it up.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: I don't think you would.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't make that up. If we could ask her.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Man, shut up.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: That's so crazy. So crazy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: So stupid.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I miss her though, but if we could ask her,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: what do you want to do? You got to take
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: my word for it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Was there any moment that you didn't want to do stand-up?
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Or was there a moment where you were like, you
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: know what? I'm done with this shit. Or were you
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: just always funny from the jump?
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: No, stand-up, I kind of, like, from the very first
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: time that I did it, I was like, oh, I
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: like this.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: What I didn't want to do, what I was like,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I was wilding out.
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: You didn't want to do it?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Man, I never wanted to do it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Like, even, like, I enjoy watching it, but I was like,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I think it was because I was afraid of not
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: doing well on the show. I was afraid of that,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: so I used to come up with these excuses, like, oh,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: that's not my style. You know, that's not my thing.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. And then when Nick
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: hit me, it was like, you want to do it?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: And I'm like.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, because I feel like, yeah, you should have you.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Can't say no.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Can't say no.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And then when I, you know, when I got there,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you know how those, you know how them.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, the workshops and everything.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: You know how the workshops, I saw, you know, the workshops,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: they telling you. They will hate you. Oh, my God.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's crazy.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I didn't know there was workshops behind.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: They got to teach you the games and all that.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: I thought that they worked on that. Like, you work
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: on it with your team. You work on it with
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: your team.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that they actually coached you.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: To get on the show. Yeah. To get on the show.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: You got to go through the workshops of them showing
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you the games, how the games work, helping you understand.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Also understand that you're performing on television. It's a lot.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And now, it ain't nice. Yeah.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: But it didn't look like it wasn't your thing, though.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: It didn't because once I got there and, you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I'm hanging out with Chico Bean and DC on Fly
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: and Carlos. And I'm looking at them doing it and
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay. I was so worried about winning the game. Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And I was like, no, this is what I do.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Like we just got to have, we just got to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: have fun with it. Like it ain't even about winning.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: A lot of people overthink it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: But so once I mean that the first rehearsal after
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: workshop was so was for me was so bad. Cause
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: you know, they had you kind of work through the
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: little jokes that you got and it's only comedians in
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: there and maybe the producers. So nobody's really laughing at
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: what you're saying. So, I must have did something and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: it didn't land. And Bobby J, you know Bobby, right?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: So Bobby J was like, yo, Nick, man, they still
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: got flights heading out ahead of the night, man. We
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: might as well go and get, like.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: See, that's how they do. They will play games with
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: your head like that, yo.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I went outside and called my mom and said, I'm
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: coming home. I don't want to do this. I'm coming home. Like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I was like, yo, I got to. I lied and everything.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I got to go. Something's going on
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: with my daughter at the school. I got to go.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: And I went outside and I called my mom and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I was standing out there in that parking lot. I
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: was like, man, I can't do this. They talking to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: me crazy up in here. Like, I can't do it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And she was like, you prayed for this. She's like,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: you prayed for this. So you get here and it
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: get a little hard. Now you want to quit? She said, no.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Go back in there. I went back in. And then
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: after that, it was like, I got comfortable. And then
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I ended up having like, I really had, like, it
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: gets fun right at the end. When it's time to go,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that's when it started getting fun.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Did you really fight your mama?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't beat my mama. I would never do that.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: What happened?
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: It was a joke he said on Wild N' Out
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: one time where he was like, you got beat up
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: and you hit your mama and you told your mama,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: your mama said, you go back there and whip that
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: boy ass and you fight me.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I beat the shit out
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of my mama. That's funny. Which is, you know what,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: it's crazy though. Like, that was one of the first
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: jokes I was doing when I got into stand-up. This
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: is like, seriously, really about learning stand-up. So that joke
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: has been told 50 different ways. Bad Bunny. It's what
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: they call a stock joke, right? Everybody's done a joke
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: like that. But we've all experienced, everybody mama to tell you,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: you either go out there and fight them or you're
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: going to fight me. And, you know, that joke been around.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So that was like one of ones where like I
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: was doing and I thought I had something. It was like,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and then I seen like five other people do it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I got to stop doing that one.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: but nah that's not.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: My mama never told me that shit my mama tell
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: me sit your ass in the house you done got
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: beat up you know what I mean.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: Sit your ass in the house a lot of black
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: moms it's a black mom thing man but my mama never.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Told me that either she didn't believe my mama used to.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Talk to my brother like that but never me Yeah, yeah.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: She knew what to do with you, man.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: She knew you were smart.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: You were the reader.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: No, no. Because when I got my ass kicked, I
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: got my ass kicked.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: So it was like, boy.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And ain't nobody got time to go to the hospital.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Come on, go back to the house.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: You don't want to sleep. They just hit you in
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the head.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Just stay in the house. Just stay in.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: I didn't even know that you were doing comedy so
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: long before you actually popped. I honestly thought that you
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: had just popped up, too.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: But you said you've been doing comedy for 12 years.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: Do you remember that exact moment where something just... flipped
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: and your star did start to rise.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you was there.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Well, I was.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you was there. You remember when, you remember, what
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: was this, Blake, what was it, 2022? It was 2022,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and we was at the Erie Crown Theater, and they
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: let me close the show.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: So, and it was like, it was that night. It
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: was like, you know, Yeah, we was in my hometown, but,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of people still didn't really, like,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: know about me at the time. And I think it
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was me, Jess, B. Simone was on there, Ricky Smiley.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Was it D-Wrek? Darren Brand.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: No, not D-Wrek.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Darren Brand. That was the real talk comedy, too. Oh, okay, okay.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: Shout out to Big Baby out there.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So, and you know, my boy Blake back here from
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: BMN Entertainment was like, yo, we want you to close.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah. Yeah, I closed. Like, I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: ain't never done nothing. Like, it's for 4,500 people out there.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'll do it. And I'm sitting there,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I was like, I can't believe I just told them,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you know, that I'm going to do it. But I
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: remember going on stage and, you know, when that last
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: comic come, they started trying to beat traffic. So I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: come out and they like, oh, who is this? So,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I see people getting up and start walking
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: towards the exit. And I think after that first laugh, right,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I saw people like kind of stop. And then like
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: they kind of turned around. And then the next thing
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I know, I started seeing people come back to their seats,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and I had never seen that. I had never seen, like,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: people actually leave and turn around and come back to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: their seats and sit back down, and they watch me finish,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: and I think that night, I was like, you know what, like,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I'm made for this. Like, I really, I can do
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: this at a high level.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting, man, right?
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: And you did it in your city.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: In my city.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: So that's how you felt comfortable, too. That's what's up.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: It's interesting, though, because, like, social media teaches.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: comedians how to make people laugh in like, I don't know,
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: 30 seconds to a minute or something like that. And
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: it's really no audience other than the reactions from the comments.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: So what bad habits did being an internet comedian give
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: you that you had to unlearn once you got on
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: that stage?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: That early on, just I had to learn that whatever
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you're doing on the internet, it does not matter when
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: you get on stage. It doesn't matter. Whatever you've done
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: on there, I don't care how many views or millions
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of views you got, like, it doesn't matter. Like, it
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Like, at that point, it's you and them.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: And it's about what you do, what you're about to
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: do right now. Not what video you did, not the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: video that got them here, but it's like what you
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: finna do right now. And I had to let who
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I thought I was go in order to find out
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: who I really was and my identity on stage. Because
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: who I thought I was from, you know, social media,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: it just had nothing to do with who I was
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: going to be on stage.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Ain't no editing, no jokes.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: None of that. My bad.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Let me say it again.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: None of that. Get one chance.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: I don't think you're a real comedian until you can
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: do stand-up.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't agree with that. Okay. You don't
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: think Drewski's a real comedian?
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: He is a comedic actor. Yeah.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Well, he's a comedian.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: See, I thought that too. I thought if you are
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: a comedian, then you do stand-up. That's what I thought.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: I don't like that you said Drewski. You could have
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: said anybody else. Drewski funny as shit.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Drewski never did stand-up, though?
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: He did. He tried it. He tried it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, I thought he did.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: But he don't do it now, though.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Actually, I don't know what he used to do on stage.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I used to hear about Drewski going on stage.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: He was doing his... It could have been.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: But this was before this.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: No, yeah. Okay, well, I didn't hear about that. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: thought he did. I've never heard that. I know the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: first tour that I knew that Drewski was doing, I
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: know that was when he failed on the stage that time.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: He wasn't doing stand-up. Yeah. He wasn't doing stand-up, but... Yeah.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Drewski's a comedian.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: I think it's different types of comedy.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's different types of comedians.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: That's true.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: So I'll say this. I take that back. I think
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: that the highest level of comedian is stand-up.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Is stand-up. And I respect that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, because that shit is tough.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: That's the hardest part. I think that's the hardest part
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: of being... Like, if you can do stand-up, that's the hardest...
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Most people... After what they say, the greatest fear in
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the world is public speaking. Yeah, man. So most people...
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: can't even get in front of people and talk. So
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I agree with that, that stand-up is hard. But I'm
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: not going to say just because you don't do stand-up,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: you're not a comedian. Drewski's a comedian.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Definitely a comedian. I think we talked about that with
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Drewski one time. He tried stand-up.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: I remember somebody told me that they went to go
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: see him. He tried stand-up before all that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Could have been.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that he never did. I
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: can't say that he never did or that he didn't.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I just haven't. I just know from what I've seen
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: him do as far as being on stage, he's taken
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: his show from social media and he took that on
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the road. But I never know. Maybe he has to
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: try to know, like, maybe it's not for me.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? So I'm not saying that
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: he didn't, but what I'm saying is that he's a comedian.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: He is. Because, listen, there's some great stand-ups that aren't
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: good comedic actors.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: That's the truth.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Like, Drewski, one of the best comedic actors I've seen, period.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: You know, not to name no names, but there's some
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: stand-up comedians that aren't good when they get in front
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: of the camera.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: What is another? Right.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you afterwards. Okay.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: All right. Well, what are some other comedians that don't
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: do stand-up?
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I can't think of any. That don't do stand-up? Yeah.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: There's some white ones for sure. Yeah.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: There's black ones too.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: There's some black ones.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I just can't think of it right now.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: They just do sketches. They make you laugh online, but
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: they're not touching that stage.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of those guys that's doing that, but.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I think you talking about like older comics.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Keegan-Michael Peele.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: No, they do stand up. I don't think Jordan Peele
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: do though.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Keegan do.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: They listen to both of their names.
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: Yo, he was doing Jordan.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, Will Ferrell.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Will Ferrell does.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Do stand up.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: He does do stand up?
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Does Roy Ward Jr.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Do stand up? I don't know who that is.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Roy Wood Jr.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Definitely.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: This is all wrong then.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: He's really good. I don't know who Roy.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Wood is, Jesus.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: If I show you him, you know.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Who he is.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: I'll show you him.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: This was an aggregated list.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Roy actually offended you.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: You even said his name just now.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: I googled black comedians that don't do stand-up and Google AI,
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: which is an aggregated list, so it can be wrong.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: They had Roy Wood Jr. 's name listed.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's wrong. Can I see?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Yes, hold on.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I've done a show with him before, so I know
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: that show. Oh, okay.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: You know him.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: What else are you building?
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, I do. What else are you building, Mojo? Sorry.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I got a special coming out soon.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I was just about to ask you about that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: You know it's going to live?
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Do I know where it's going to live?
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Can't say yet, though.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: No. Okay.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: But it's coming. Some movies. Got some movies. I just
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: wrote a movie. Right now, I'm working on a TV show.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: that uh me and um kenya burris uh we've been
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you know we met up and you know we're talking
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: about something so we're still in the early development stages
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: of it you know about to get really get to
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: start writing it they just kind of put me with
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: a writer um the other day so we're gonna get
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: together and kind of start writing the tv show um you.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Got an international tour in the works well you.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Know i just came back from the uk um uh
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: maybe like two months ago so I did seven sold-out
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: shows out there. I did five in London. I did
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: one in Manchester, one in Birmingham. So we going to
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: expand on the U.K. dates next year. Australia. We going
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: to go to a couple places. I want to do
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Africa next year.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: That's dope. How different is it doing shows in the U.K.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: than doing them here in the.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: U.S.? In London, it's just like here. Yeah.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Because I've done shows in London before, but how different
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: is it for you? I've never asked another comedian from
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: the U.S. How is it? Because I thought it was
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: real different.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: So when I did Manchester and Birmingham, I thought those
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: cities were way different than actually being in London. But
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's more so, like, the laughs are like, ha-ha, okay,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: what you got next?
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: What's next, right?
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: And they just laugh different. But in London, though, I'm
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: not going to lie, they were laughing, like, stuffing their
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: feet and rocking back and forth. It was like, you know,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I thought it felt like I was at home.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Niggers.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I wasn't going to say that.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Because it wasn't just them.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Like, it was something, you know, the UK got something
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: of everything.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And it was very, like, the crowd was very much, like,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: diverse when I went out.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: He said it wasn't just them.
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: He said it wasn't just them.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Why would he say that? It wasn't just them.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: Did you do crowd work over there?
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: And they talk back to you in an accent?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's actually, you know what? And,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you know, going over there, because that's mainly what they,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: What they knew me for was my crowd work. So
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: they wanted it. They wanted it so bad. From the
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: second I called, hey, call somebody. And I'm like, well, damn,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I just got here. Can I warm up?
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess they just know by now, but
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: they really be just calling people.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: And now it's gotten so bad now where I damn
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: near got to do a disclaimer when I get there. Like, yo,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: don't actually call nobody.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Let that naturally, like, it's going to come to me. Like,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: just let it happen. And if it don't happen this show,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: y'all will see the clip from the show that it happened. But, no,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: they just, you know, it's just about asking the right
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: questions that will lead you into that. But they give
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: me their phones, their cars. I don't know. I don't know. Me, personally,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I hate to say this. I wouldn't give me my phone. No.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: And it'd be unlocked too you could just go in the.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Phone i'll be reading messages and everything but i don't
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: know your shit i'm just happy to see one of
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: my favorite comedians come in and shit read my.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Shit yeah there you go and that's how it is
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: and then you know now it's to the point where
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the other person answered the phone now and i'm like
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: yo oh man mojo what you what you calling me
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: for so it's just but it's fun yeah it's funny
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: it's fun and it's and it's different like but I
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know why they give me them phones.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: But these are things that comedians don't do. You're thinking
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: outside the box. I mean, it ain't even something that
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: you like. calculated to do. It's just something that you did.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: Never seen a comedian do that before.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: That's different. And for me, it's just like a natural thing.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I got trust issues. So if I'm asking you a
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: question and the other person ain't here, let's call them.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Just like I told you about my sister. When you
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: questioned me, like, if we could, I would call.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: That was my trust issues.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. I seen it come out of you.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: You saw it, right? And I know you seen a lot.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I don't even say that. Listen, you know, because we
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: hear all these crazy.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: He don't even need a sob story.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: He's good.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: But you know what?
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Shut up.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: But I don't... That's one thing I don't have. Like,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: you would never hear me say my upbringing was horrible.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't... Like, I grew up in a two-parent household.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: My parents been together almost 40 years. Okay. You know,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: we wasn't rich, but we wasn't broke. You know what
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I'm saying? Like, I got to do things I wanted
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: to do. I got to go places I wanted to go.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: So that'll never be my story. But I have lost
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: people that were close to me along this journey that
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: has kind of, like, shaped and formed the way that
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I've gone. That's just real stuff, though.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: You be everywhere, though.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: I saw you do farm chores with Matt Matthews. You
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: are not built for the farm life.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: No, no, not at all. That was crazy. Did you
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: have fun, though?
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: It was a good collab. It kept me laughing.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: You should go. Where? To the farm. Oh, my God. Jess,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: you would be crazy down there. You would be crazy.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: You should go.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: You went out there in your Gucci.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: In my Gucci.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I had my chains and everything on.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Yup.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Your shades.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what you thought you was going to do?
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I wasn't ready for it. And, you know, I should
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: have knew better because we went to the pumpkin patch
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: when I was a kid.
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: And they wanted me to milk the cows.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: At the pumpkin patch? Yes.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: Some pumpkin patches have animals.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: It's interactive for babies.
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: What are pumpkin patches?
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: I ain't never seen no cows.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Why do you always think I'm lying? It's all lying. Jesus.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Because I know you effing lying.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Why do you think I'm lying?
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I don't think you lying. I'm just saying.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: They wanted me to milk the cows. I didn't want
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: to do it.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Who told you your mom told you that story?
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: My mom was like, go ahead. All the other kids,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: she's like, go ahead. I was like, no, I'm not
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: touching that. I'm not doing that. She's like, I'm doing it.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I did not do it.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Do you remember that or your mom told you that story?
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I remember it. I'll never forget it. A lot of
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: people don't understand this. If you talk to any comedian,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: most of us, our memories are insane. Some of the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: stuff that we can remember so vividly, that's why a
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: lot of the stories that we can tell sound the
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: way that they do because Like, it's that vivid. I
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: remember so much. Now, here's a lie that I tell.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I love when a person volunteers a lie and lets
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: me know they have a lie.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I remember being in my mom's stomach.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, okay. Tell me more.
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: Shut up.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I say this all the time, though. No, I think
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I remember it, but I could be lying. I'm probably lying.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: What do you remember?
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: You know what it feels like?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Peace.
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: No.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: What?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you what I've seen, but it's like,
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: if you ever close your eyes and flash a light
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Like on your life.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, I do that all the time.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: That's what it look like.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: You can close your eyes and you'll see stuff. It
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: looks like you're looking at something. Like right now I'm
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: doing it. Like I can see stuff behind my eyelids.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it look like.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: I do that.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: So y'all are doing it all the time.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Like wow.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I told you.
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: We ain't never heard you talk about your eyes.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: If you do it in the shower, it feel like
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: you in your mother's womb. What? I'm serious.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: You are dumb.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Because you have no idea what that fucking feels like.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: You just up and trying to relate with Mojo.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: And now both of y'all see her lying.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I remember. Now that you said it, I feel like
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: I remember too. I remember.
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: That's just niggas who don't handle more questions. They're so
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: damn dumb.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: I do that all the time.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: I just close my eyes and I flash lights in
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: my face.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: You know what I wanted to ask you, Mojo? People
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: give you flack sometimes for doing crowd work. Like people
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: who do crowd work aren't real comics and you don't
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: have real material.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: What do you say to that?
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Come to a show. You know, like, I'm not selling
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: out an arena because I don't have any material. Because
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: it's only so much crowd work you can do in
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: an arena, if any. You know what I'm saying? You
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: got this big old space. There's people way up at
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: the top. It's not intimate to them. They don't want
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: to hear you just talk to them all night. My
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: thing is, what I don't understand is that if a
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: comedian is on stage 60 minutes, And I mean, there's
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: some comedians that do it, that just go up there
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and just wing it and stuff like that. But I
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: would just say, just, I always say, just, well, come
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: to a show. The people who say that haven't been
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: to see me.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: I did the We Don't.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Want Tour with Mike Epps. I wasn't doing crowd work.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I wasn't doing crowd work. So now what? Go look
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: at the, go look at the reviews on that tour
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: and see what the people were saying about me. Like,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: It's not just that, but I think, you know, crowd
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: work is something that everybody can't do.
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: It's something everybody can't do. Jess is great at crowd work.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Well, she great on her feet.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Great at crowd work.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Jess is great, but that don't mean she don't got material.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: You got to go to a show. We show you
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: what we want you to see. I'm not about to
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: post my set that I may want to put this special...
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that. I may want to make
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: this a special. Why would I put it on the internet?
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: It's dumb. Me showing you the crowd work clips is
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: me showing you, yo, I'm funny. The people are having
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: a good time. We laughing. Come and see. It's a
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: good time. It's more to this than that. Here's the thing.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Anytime you go to another level, they're going to move
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: the goalposts. They're going to say, oh, well, he's doing
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: that because of this or whatever. Well, now it's this. Oh,
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: he's a social media commentator. They're going to keep moving goalposts,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: and I'm going to keep moving over with them. You
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? I hate that.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: And it's a stigma put on crowd work, too. Well, actually, yeah,
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: it is a stigma. People see one. You got certain
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: comedians that go and plant people in the audience. I
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: can tell that's not what you did. You know what
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: I mean? You can visibly tell. a comedian who just, somebody,
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: he might be up there, somebody might yell something out
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: and then you just start fucking with them. You know
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: what I mean? Versus, you can tell when it's teed up.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: You can tell.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I done seen some, I done seen, I done
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: seen some clips where I'm like.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: And those are the people that give the crowd workers
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: online a bad name. It's like, everybody don't do that shit.
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: Everybody don't have.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: To do that.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Don't have to do it. Because it's, honestly, I tell
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: people all the time, like, just the average person has
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: something interesting about them. It's just asking the right questions.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? And then when we on stage,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of times what's actually coming out of our
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: mouth is not even what's going through our mind. You
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? We observing the room. I did
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: one show in Dallas, and the whole show, I really
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: didn't do too much crowd work. When I got to
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the end, I seen these two dudes maybe five rows back,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: and I just noticed all night long Like, I'm like,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: it's something.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: About these two guys.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. But one of the guys was like, he wasn't,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: you know, he was trying to make it look like
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: they was two homeboys kicking it. But the other dude
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: was like, no. We on a date. So I had
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: to ask, yo, what y'all got going on? You know
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Because I didn't observe this all night long.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: And as soon as I said something to the dude
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: that was trying to make it look like it was cool,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: he put his hand on his head and put his
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: head down like that. And they called us.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: So you just outed people?
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: No, I didn't out them. They came to the show.
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: But see, it was the guy, the one who gave
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: it away was the guy who was acting like he
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: was the homeboy.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he gave it away.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Right, he gave it away.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: If he would have just been like, we on a
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: date now, it wouldn't have looked suspicious to me. Like,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: what's going on?
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: You think gay people look suspicious?
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: No, see, now you on some bullshit. You on some
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: other shit now.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Stop playing.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think they look suspicious. No, I'm saying... The interaction,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: it was more so like he wasn't fully comfortable with
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: being out.
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: And there was a lot of people around him. And
• 47:38
  Speaker 5: he had a comedian's show who was known for doing
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: crowd work. So he like, ah, man, this nigga ain't
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: about no mother looking straight as I can.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: So did they kiss by the end of the thing?
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they did when they left. You
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying?
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: When y'all finished, when you finished like roasting.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't request that. I didn't know.
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: I didn't request that.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: Because he got trust issues. So now he don't believe
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: they gay unless they kiss. Like I'm not, I don't
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: need to see it.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: He's also a little fluid too.
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: So make sure you're accepting of the community.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: So wait, you don't, you don't accept the community.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not fluid. I'm not gay.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: You're not gay. Okay.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I don't accept being gay.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. You don't accept it?
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: I don't accept being called gay because I'm not gay.
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: That would be wrong.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Why would I pretend?
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wait, who? No.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: Why would I pretend?
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: You be up here every day. I laughed maybe for
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: like two days when Dame Dash... I think he called
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: you gay, and he was like, I'm not. He was like,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: you are. The you are was like, he had evidence.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: He knew.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: He knew. You are.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: Like, I've been in his ass or something. Like, he
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: sucked my dick. No, for real.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Like, when you said that, you are.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. When you have that type of conviction,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, goddamn.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Man, listen, when he said it, I was like, yo.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, he knows something.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: You are.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I'm like, he know something. I said, Charlamagne been keeping
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: it quiet on the crib. Did you see.
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: Him when we did the tip-top with Saucy? Did you
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: see him?
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Baby, happy.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: Charlamagne been keeping it quiet on the crib.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: Just full of joy on the crib.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: He was. And you look like.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Yo, it's crazy how you like to make fun of
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: gay people.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't. I don't like to make fun
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: of gay people. My thing is this. Is that, you know,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: love who you want to love and be with who
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: you want to be with. I got a niece that's
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: a lesbian.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: She's an idiot, yo.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: He really is. I support the community.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: I love when people see their careers flash before their
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: eyes and they think they do.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Like, what the fuck?
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: He ain't never had a problem with gay people.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: He sure has. And Charlamagne, this is shit he do, y'all.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: He come on to Breakfast Club. Mojo. What do you
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: think about trans in the WNBA, Mojo? What I think
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: about who?
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Transgenders in the WNBA.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: But he on some bullshit. And here's the thing. Where
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: the camera at? Right here.
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: Look right here.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: To the community? I don't want no problems with y'all.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want y'all marching outside my shows. I don't
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: want none of that.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: It's him.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: I'm going to give y'all the address down here.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Y'all come down here and see him. All I'm saying is.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: Man, they've been marching outside of here before.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, y'all done had every letter.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: They done been down there for you? Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Especially the T's.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Well, I'm going to say this.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: That was Duvall's fault, though.
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: I got a daughter, and... If my daughter was playing
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: a sport, I would want her to play against other girls.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: 100%. Same. I don't have a problem with that. I
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: think they should make them a league.
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, I agree with that.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: I think the community is big enough that if they
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: made their own league, people would come and see it.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: People come and see it.
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: They make a lot of money. But now you're transphobic.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: Those are the rules.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Who's transphobic?
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: You are.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not transphobic. Those are the rules, Moses.
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Yo, I can't hit you with the you are.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: You are.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Yo.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not transphobic.
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Those are internet rules.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: Stop playing with him.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Get your.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. I've had trans members come
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: to my show, and I treat them the same way
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: I treat everybody else. And I think that's really, if
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: we're being honest... I think that's why the community don't
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: really have a problem with me because they don't really
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: want to be treated different. They just don't want to
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: be disrespected. That's all. That's all it is. I'm not
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: disrespecting them. That's just my opinion. I think they should
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: have their own league. You know what I'm saying? Playing
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: with the women and stuff like that, I think the
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: T's got a little advantage. For whatever reason that may be.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Not for whatever reason.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be honest with you. I think I'm
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: going to bleep all of this just in case. Because
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: you got such a great future.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: And you didn't say nothing wrong.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I feel like I ain't said nothing wrong.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: You didn't say nothing wrong.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: You talked a little long.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: I just didn't expect you to really answer any questions.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: You talked a little long.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: I didn't expect you to answer none of these. Cut this.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Cut some of this down.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Once the joke stopped, I would have just stopped. I
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: would have moved on.
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: But you knew I was bullshitting. I don't understand why you- No,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: he's also bullshitting.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: He's going back to clarify.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: It's the pressure that is put.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: On you because of the community.
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: I had to clear my name.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I had to clear my name. No, I had to
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: clear it.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: No, once the joke stopped, you stopped.
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: What you're doing is letting them make it worse.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: They making it worse. All right.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: None of these questions require the real response. No.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: But I mean, it is a thing going on, though,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: about the WNBA. It is. It is. That's a real thing.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: It ain't nothing.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: It ain't, I mean, anyways. Pocket comedy tour, man. Don't
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: get them.
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: Tickets if there's any left because Mojo's selling out everything.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Mojo, you sold out for months though already, right?
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: Is there like an email distribution list that some people
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: get on to find out?
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: Man, listen, right now in New York, I got 15,000
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: people on the wait list to see me right here.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: That's amazing.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: And I got two shows sold out already at the
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Beacon Theater November the 15th for the New York Comedy Festival.
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, dope.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: That's what's up.
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: I'm at Latin New York Comedy Festival as well.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: That's dope.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: We coming to check you out somewhere. Where was it?
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: You said the Beacon Theater.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: November 15th.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: That's the same day you there, Jess?
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm there the 14th and the 15th, so
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: you can still see both.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Both of us. All right.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: We don't got nothing else to do, man.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Just sit up here and be gay.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Can you do crowd work with him and take his phone?
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, he most definitely kills people with alopecia.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Is that what happened? Yes, it is.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: If he bend his head down, you'll see where it
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: was fighting back, but it stopped. It's way... Why you
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: don't go?
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: You know they do it.
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: You know they got the new shit, though.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: You can go to Turkey. Yes.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: I don't want to do that shit, man. I'm good
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: with a bald head. You wouldn't look good bald.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't. You ain't never seen my dad. No,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: if you see my dad, you're going to be like,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I look just like my dad. You'll be like, he'll
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: be fine.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: I'll be all right.
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: Put your head down so he can see what I'm
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: talking about. You see where the hairline's fighting back? Like
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: we're trying.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: It's definitely trying.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: But it just, look, right here.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, turn around, turn around.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: I told you, boy.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: You a fucking hater. Oh, my God.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: You a hater.
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: You mad.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: I'm not having bullshit.
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you thought you had one.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: But you can go. Why don't you go to Turkey?
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Because I look dumb. No, you're not.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, I will. I come back now with a hairline
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: and shit. People be like, what the fuck?
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Man, we be looking at TV like, hold on.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: He going through a midlife crisis. Like, I ain't got
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: time for that.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: He did something different. You see what I'm saying?
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Boosie Fade in big jeans is dumb.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: He really dumb. I think, though, I think that you
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: should just for the one time. Because when the last
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: time you had hair?
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: Let me see, it's 2026, probably 20... He had an
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: afro too. I don't even remember, bro. Way before, like
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: early 2000s.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Early, early 2000s.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: You don't miss it?
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: No, man.
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: Why there's too many fly ball dudes out there?
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: What you mean?
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: That's so disrespectful, Mojo.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I go with Charlamagne with hair and this came up.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Let me see what.
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: This was you?
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: He tried to grow it.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: Him and Chico Bane. Yeah, that was during COVID.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: I had to let Chico have it, though. I was
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: going to try to keep up with Chico, but nah.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Chico did all right, though.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: He ain't still going.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Chico got like this back here and this in the front.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: You know what's so funny? When I grew it out, right?
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: I grew it out during COVID. Went to the barber.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: I said, man, just give me a face. See what
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: it look like. He did it and he was just like.
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: Nah, man.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Man, just don't cut this out.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: He kept leaning back, looking at you.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying? See, I love a barber
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: This ain't going to work. Give me the razor.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: This ain't going to work. Snoop to my barber tie, man. Mojo, pleasure, brother.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Give me all your social media stuff. Man, I appreciate
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: y'all having me. Mojo Brooks with two Z's. M-O-J-O-B-R-O-O-K-Z-Z.
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: And your website?
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: MojoBrooks.com. That's where you get your tickets, man. Sign up
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: for the email list, please, y'all. You know, they reselling
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: these tickets at these crazy prices. I'm not getting none
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: of that money. When y'all pay $ 2, 000 for the ticket.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: I don't get that. Y'all giving it to these scalpers
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. They not cutting me in. Now,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: if y'all want to pay that much for the tickets.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: I make them that much. Let me know.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: I can bump them up if that's what y'all want
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: But then the scalpers will bump theirs up. They'll buy yours,
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: and then they'll bump it up even more.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but then I feel like if I go to
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: the highest of what the scalpers are doing right now,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: then that mean the scalpers will have to sell them
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: for double that, and they not paying that.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: But you selling merch and stuff at the shows. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: We got merch and all that stuff. And meet and greets,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: I got my meet and greet package that come with
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: it where I get to take pictures and stuff like
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: that with the fans afterwards. You know, they always ask,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: is this like Chris Brown? And I'm like, no.
• 56:56
  Speaker 5: They want you to get freaky with a mojo?
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: It's not Chris Brown. You didn't pay the Chris Brown price.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: I do offer that.
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Y'all do. If you want to upgrade to the Chris
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Brown thing, it's $ 1, 000. You can do any pose.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: They can do any pose. The girl hop on you, whatever.
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: For the $ 1, 000? Yeah. For the $ 1, 000, I might come
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: back with you after this show.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: So if them two gay guys that was at your show.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: Gave you $ 1, 000.
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: See? See?
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: This is shit. Why you thinking about them?
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Where the camera at?
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Right, right.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Dame Dash.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: He is.
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: You said it.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: Mojo Brooks.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: Appreciate y'all, man.