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INTERVIEW: Rickey Smiley On Grieving The Loss Of His Son, Comedy's Healing, New Book + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in Steve j Envy, Jesselirich,
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  Speaker 2: Charlamage the guy. We are the Breakfast Club Justice, all
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  Speaker 2: maternity leave so long a Rosa is feeling in and
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  Speaker 2: we got a special guest in the.
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  Speaker 3: Building about to mess up. So many people had because
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be in their call. Like am I listening
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  Speaker 3: to the right station?
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  Speaker 4: You got the brother Ricky Smiley here.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome brother, man, Thank you for having me. Man. How
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  Speaker 1: you feeling man, I'm feeling good man. It's a dream
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  Speaker 1: to be here, stopping. Bride lay in the bed and
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  Speaker 1: I sit here and I just scroll and watch all
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  Speaker 1: y'all videos. I've been a fan for years.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say something before we get started with
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  Speaker 3: the conversation. I saw Ricky a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: I saw him in New Orleans at the Inspired No
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  Speaker 3: Lo event, and I went up to him and I
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  Speaker 3: said something that I'm gonna say now. I want to
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  Speaker 3: publicly apologize. I was just about to ask to Ricky
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  Speaker 3: Smiley because several years ago I gave Ricky Smiley Donkey
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  Speaker 3: of Today because a radio executive asked me to. And
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  Speaker 3: you didn't deserve that, brother. So I told when I
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  Speaker 3: saw you, I told you that, you know, And I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to say that again publicly because I feel like
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  Speaker 3: if you if you do something to somebody publicly that
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  Speaker 3: you don't agree with, you should publicly apologize for it.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to. I want to say that to everybody,
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  Speaker 3: all our listeners. I want to. I want them to
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  Speaker 3: hear me say that you didn't deserve that.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I want to apologize to you.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that man the first time when when you
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  Speaker 1: walked up on me. Man, your energy, man, the love
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  Speaker 1: and the respect it takes a you know, a big person.
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  Speaker 1: I know that it was all part of the game
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  Speaker 1: because we have a mutual Uh. One of your employees
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  Speaker 1: is one of my mentees, big man Mac.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, as an intern.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's as an intern.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, got to he is.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I put him on stage. I'm the first one
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  Speaker 1: to put him on stage. We'll talk about that, uhcause
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  Speaker 1: I put a lot of them on stage, gave a
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  Speaker 1: lot of comics their start or whatever. I've been in
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  Speaker 1: the game thirty five years. But I really appreciate that, man,
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  Speaker 1: and and don't feel no kind of way about it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't take it personally. But you know, it takes
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  Speaker 1: a special kind of person to apologize and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought nothing because if I thought anything bad, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even be here. You know what I'm saying. But
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  Speaker 1: I love you. I appreciate you, man. I think you're
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  Speaker 1: doing a factorous job. I met you at the White House.
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  Speaker 1: I was excited about that, and I hear you in
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  Speaker 1: Florida all the time.
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  Speaker 5: We see each other on the road every once.
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  Speaker 1: In a while.
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  Speaker 6: A pleasure me you.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna start that, but now we even got
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  Speaker 2: to go there because I was gonna ask it. One
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  Speaker 2: time everybody was stolen shots and I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just glad.
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  Speaker 3: I know everybody it was shot back to.
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  Speaker 1: From the South. We can go outside and just wrestle.
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  Speaker 6: At this big age.
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  Speaker 3: Might have called wrest somebody might.
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  Speaker 1: Not get up. Yeah, I might pull on something that
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  Speaker 1: yeah got up there. He might have called you short
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  Speaker 1: ball headed.
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  Speaker 3: So many people, you know what I'm saying, whether mister Harvey,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's little du Ball, it's back. So it's just
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  Speaker 3: like what we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, we're getting older. We don't have time.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you got a new book out right now, it's
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  Speaker 2: some side show sideshow talk about what?
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  Speaker 4: What's what's what side show about?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you know the song that your parents, uh, everybody parents,
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  Speaker 1: Let the side show begin, Harry herds about a sad clown. Right.
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  Speaker 1: My job as a professional comedians to go on stage
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  Speaker 1: and make people laugh. And I lost my son about
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  Speaker 1: a year and a half ago, and it's been hard
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  Speaker 1: because the bills don't stop coming. I'm still a performer.
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  Speaker 1: I still have to go on stage, and I had
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  Speaker 1: to dig deep and get in some real deep therapy
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  Speaker 1: to get myself together so I can continue as a performer.
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  Speaker 1: Because if I worked at you know, Amazon, lifting boxes
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  Speaker 1: or delivering packages, that's one thing. But when your job
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  Speaker 1: is to make people laugh, when you're crying on the
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  Speaker 1: inside with the trauma that I experienced, Uh, that's what
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  Speaker 1: the song sideshow talk about.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: See the man with a broken heart. You can see
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  Speaker 1: that he is sad. It hurts so bad. See the
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  Speaker 1: girl who collect broken hearts? Assuming it it's all about
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  Speaker 1: a clown in a circus, performing but dealing with stuff
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  Speaker 1: on the inside.
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  Speaker 3: I've watched you grieve out loud online and the only
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  Speaker 3: reason I don't like that. Have nothing to do with
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  Speaker 3: how you feel. I know how people react. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: when you're already dealing with something, when you're already dealing
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  Speaker 3: with truma, and then you give it to people online,
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  Speaker 3: then they come at you. How did that? How do
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  Speaker 3: you deal with that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? No, it didn't bother me, Charlemagne. My job was
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  Speaker 1: I had to help other people because the reason I
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  Speaker 1: was open with it is a lot of mothers out
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  Speaker 1: there that lost their eighteen year old, seventeen year old,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old, fifteen. My son was thirty two. When
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  Speaker 1: we were in New Orleans. Your books, your book signing
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  Speaker 1: was right after mine, and I had a couple that
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  Speaker 1: had lost their two year old, right, and these are
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  Speaker 1: that's some of the things that I talk about in
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  Speaker 1: the book. It gave me it. It gives you glimmers
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  Speaker 1: of hope and the glimmers of inspiration even during traumatic times. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So my son was thirty two, but this couple sitting
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  Speaker 1: out here crying at my book sign and their son
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  Speaker 1: was only two. And I could have lost my son
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  Speaker 1: at two, but God allowed me to have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty years, thirty two years, So you get a little
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  Speaker 1: gratitude from that, and it's crazy that you can get
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  Speaker 1: gratitude from something like that, you know, and you start
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  Speaker 1: looking at it's a helpful to The book is a
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  Speaker 1: helpful too for people that's going through the grief process,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of people out there and my
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  Speaker 1: book sign has been packed with people that have lost
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  Speaker 1: their kids.
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  Speaker 5: How do you still believe? In New Orleans? Yeah, how
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  Speaker 5: do you still believe?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: You talk about losing your father at the age of six, right,
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  Speaker 2: and then you lose your son. How do you just
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  Speaker 2: not say, you know what, there is no higher power?
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  Speaker 2: How do you still remain focused and still have believe
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  Speaker 2: and still have hope and still have all of that
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  Speaker 2: going through the pain that you've gone.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in Birmingham, Man, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I got that old Southern Christian background. I went to
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  Speaker 1: Sunday school every Sunday. So I just have some strong
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  Speaker 1: beliefs in a close relationship with God. Because it was
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  Speaker 1: nothing and nobody to land on. I was in an
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  Speaker 1: apartment in Dallas, Texas by myself, you know, when I
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  Speaker 1: found out that my son passed, and I had an hour,
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  Speaker 1: and I had an hour to make it to the airport,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm packing a bag and on the phone with
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  Speaker 1: my other kids letting them know what happened, and trying
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  Speaker 1: to get myself together and preparing myself to lead because
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  Speaker 1: my family needed me. You know, it didn't really hit
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  Speaker 1: me until a year later, right, But at that time,
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  Speaker 1: my son has a mother and a wonderful stepfather, so
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  Speaker 1: I had to protect them. I had to protect my mother,
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  Speaker 1: who was really close to my son because my mother,
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  Speaker 1: you know, recovering addict. My mother had thirty five years clean.
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  Speaker 1: Had to protect her because they had a real special
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  Speaker 1: relationship because she could identify with his struggle. I had
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  Speaker 1: to protect my other kids. I had two kids in
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  Speaker 1: college getting ready to graduate college. My daughter that got shot,
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  Speaker 1: she was a senior in college getting ready to graduate Bailor.
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  Speaker 1: And then I had my son graduate in Alabama State
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  Speaker 1: and then my oldest daughter. So just trying to get
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  Speaker 1: them and then come and say, hey, here's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon didn't make it. I need you to meet me
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  Speaker 1: at the house immediately, just real calm. I need you
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  Speaker 1: to text me, let me know that you're on your way,
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  Speaker 1: text me when you let me know. Just all of that,
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  Speaker 1: I had to be come. I had to be cool.
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  Speaker 1: I had to get in the car with my uncle's
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  Speaker 1: who was crying. I had to turn the radio own
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  Speaker 1: R and B station. I had to turn on Frankie
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  Speaker 1: Beverley and Maids to go from the airport the house.
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  Speaker 1: I'm comforting them because it reminded them of my dad's death, right,
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm just a child man that sat on
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  Speaker 1: the front road and watch my grandparents go through what
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  Speaker 1: they went through and through my grandfather. I learned how
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  Speaker 1: to handle this situation because that's how my grandfather handled
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  Speaker 1: it as well.
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  Speaker 7: Did you ever, because losing somebody, especially someone so closeer son,
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  Speaker 7: it changes you. Did you ever at first when you
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  Speaker 7: were trying to get to that like, I mean, I
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  Speaker 7: guess I get through it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you ever.
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  Speaker 1: Get through it?
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  Speaker 3: Fit?
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  Speaker 6: Were you?
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  Speaker 7: Were you afraid that when you got back on stage
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  Speaker 7: that first time that, like you just it wouldn't be
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  Speaker 7: the same, Like your ability to kind of push through
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  Speaker 7: and make people laugh wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Be the same. You know, Charlemagne, one thing about funny,
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  Speaker 1: it don't change you when.
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  Speaker 3: You want something to laugh at, especially in the trauma.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when your ass hit that stage, man, them jokes,
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  Speaker 1: come them jokes, like when you get somebody on the
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  Speaker 1: front road laughing. I cried all the way up. My
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  Speaker 1: first show was in Cleveland at the Horrors Casino, and
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  Speaker 1: I cried from the hotel all the way to the venue,
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  Speaker 1: all the way backstage, blew my nose did like that,
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  Speaker 1: made sure my nose was clean, and walked on stage
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  Speaker 1: and got them jokes and cried after I got off stage.
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  Speaker 1: And you know I was coming, but I've been in therapy.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting therapy twice a week, so I was
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  Speaker 1: prepared to go on stage again. My son died on
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  Speaker 1: a That Wednesday, I was back on the radio, and
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  Speaker 1: they said, take as much time as you need. Well,
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  Speaker 1: either you lay in the bed and think about all
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  Speaker 1: of that, or you get your ass up and go
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  Speaker 1: do your morning show and go do your radio show.
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  Speaker 1: Because all the mothers in Chicago and in Columbia, and
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  Speaker 1: in Charleston and in Atlanta, all over the country, their
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  Speaker 1: kids died too much. As given much as required, you
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  Speaker 1: can't cancel the show. God put you in this position
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  Speaker 1: and put you in a leadership position, and you have
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  Speaker 1: to leave. And I still went to the Salvation Army
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  Speaker 1: like I do on a regular basis. I fed the
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  Speaker 1: homeless with my son closed in the car to go
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  Speaker 1: to the funeral home. That was a dark Wednesday. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget it. You have to do it everything, all
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff, and I don't want you to ever
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  Speaker 1: forget this. All of this stuff in me is a test.
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  Speaker 1: It's a test. Our pastor has been teaching us that
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  Speaker 1: for years. It's a test. God is watching you through
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  Speaker 1: your struggles, through your trials and tribulation, and looking at
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  Speaker 1: you seeing how you're gonna handle this. Are you gonna
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  Speaker 1: make it about you? Are you going to use this
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  Speaker 1: situation to help other people? But I was still smart
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  Speaker 1: enough to go ahead and get the help that I
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  Speaker 1: needed in the process because I had to get therapy
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  Speaker 1: because it's trump is a bad car accident.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think you would have been reacting without the
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  Speaker 3: without the therapy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, I probably would have been dead. I had
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  Speaker 1: my son was you know, my son was a comic,
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  Speaker 1: No shot, my son was a comedian. I'm singing some
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  Speaker 1: clips my son. Man. I remember my son headlined his
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  Speaker 1: first gig at the Stardome in Birmingham and I walked backstage.
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  Speaker 1: He was by myself. He had on some uh ship.
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  Speaker 1: He had on some some black pants, and I was
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  Speaker 1: roasting him because he had on a white shirt and
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  Speaker 1: some and some uh suspendens and the black protyle right on.
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  Speaker 1: He said, oh, you told me to dress now. I said, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you look nice, I said, but I said, I said, yeah, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: And he went on stage and performing. I stood backstage
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  Speaker 1: and I I washed him performed and he had a
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  Speaker 1: really good set, and he was doing headlining shows. He
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  Speaker 1: had just started, you know, closing shows. Man. He was funny.
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  Speaker 1: He had a kind of like a sense of human
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  Speaker 1: and uh he was being mentored by Roy Wood Jr.
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  Speaker 1: You know their clothes. You know, we all came from Birmingham,
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  Speaker 1: same radio station, all this stuff. So Roy was giving
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  Speaker 1: him some opportunities. And uh one time, not just the
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  Speaker 1: funniest ship. He was on stage performing. So he had
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  Speaker 1: stayed at my house, fucking left some clothes on the dryer.
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  Speaker 1: You know. He took the clothes out of the washing machine,
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  Speaker 1: put it in the dryer, and then he took all
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  Speaker 1: the clothes and put the ship on top of the dryer.
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  Speaker 1: I was mad as hell, you know, because I like
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  Speaker 1: you to, you know, fow your stuff. Up and put
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  Speaker 1: the man. I went to the Comingy Club. He was performing,
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  Speaker 1: he was on stage. I didn't care. I was mad.
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  Speaker 1: I went into the DJ booth and got on the microphone, said,
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  Speaker 1: you get your ass on stage. You need to come
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  Speaker 1: foot these damn clothes. And we got into a whole argument,
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  Speaker 1: and the audience was cracking up, and I was for
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  Speaker 1: real and he was laughing, and all said, Yah, when
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  Speaker 1: you get on stage, you come home and get these
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  Speaker 1: damn clothes off my drive, slam the microphone and walk
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  Speaker 1: out the door. That's some funny stuff that I that
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  Speaker 1: I always enjoyed talking about.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, how has.
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  Speaker 1: It been like?
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  Speaker 3: You know, because when you write these books, you put
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  Speaker 3: a lot of you know, you put your most vulnerable,
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  Speaker 3: deepest thoughts into these books. Then you got to go
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  Speaker 3: out here and do this. Yep, you gotta have these conversations. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how's that been for you? I've gotten used to it, okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, once you know how it is, once you
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  Speaker 1: do one interview, you do another interview, you keep doing interviews.
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  Speaker 1: You just get accustomed to talking about it, and then
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  Speaker 1: you developed some really good talking points that's going to
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  Speaker 1: help other people. Because what people have been telling me
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  Speaker 1: is the feedback that I've been getting this, Hey bruh,
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  Speaker 1: it's been helping me out. You know how many people
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  Speaker 1: walk up to me and said that they lost a
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  Speaker 1: loved one and they talk about it, and just because
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  Speaker 1: they hear you on the radio every morning, now they're
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  Speaker 1: coming out to your book sign. I have people walking
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  Speaker 1: up crying. Almost ninety percent of the people that come
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  Speaker 1: out of by the book have suffered a loss and
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  Speaker 1: can't talk about it and do not go to therapy.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been promoting therapy because when you roll your ankle,
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  Speaker 1: you don't pull out.
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  Speaker 3: A Bible, you go to the doctor.
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  Speaker 1: The doctors absolutely the muscle. The brain is a muscle
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  Speaker 1: just like your ankle. Why is it that we black
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  Speaker 1: folks as a stigma that we won't go get help.
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  Speaker 1: That don't mean that you're crazy. You have to get
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  Speaker 1: somebody and talk to somebody that's going to help you
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  Speaker 1: process those feelings and emotion, because you can go into
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  Speaker 1: depression start affecting other organs in the bodies. Some people
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  Speaker 1: don't make it from their loss. They die.
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  Speaker 2: You know a lot of times people you know, we've
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  Speaker 2: been taught as kids you keep the home business in
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  Speaker 2: the house, right, You never really talk about what happens
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  Speaker 2: inside your house, like you said that one's killing you.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, depression, that anxiety.
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  Speaker 5: All those facts, all those failings.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you cry in me, do you know that's
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  Speaker 1: like popping the cap off of a pressure cooker.
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  Speaker 3: You're releasing.
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  Speaker 1: I cried this morning. Yeah, man, I sat on it.
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  Speaker 1: I sat on the side of my hotel bed. I
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  Speaker 1: was having some anxiety. I called a good friend of mine.
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  Speaker 1: She answered the phone. When I heard her voice, I
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  Speaker 1: just started crying. Bro, I just let it out. I
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  Speaker 1: just cried. I just needed to just cry. I felt
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  Speaker 1: it building up yesterday and I just started crying. And
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  Speaker 1: the changing of the season, you know that that affects you.
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  Speaker 1: I think they called it seasonal breathing, no depression seasons.
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  Speaker 3: I've been dealing with anxiety and depression for my whole life,
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  Speaker 3: and I started going to therapy in twenty sixteen. And
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  Speaker 3: when I wrote a book about it in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 3: my dad read the book. And I had a cousin
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  Speaker 3: who completed suicide that week, and my dad told me
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  Speaker 3: it was the week of Thanksgiving twenty eighteen, am homictocking line,
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  Speaker 3: and he told me that between reading my book and
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  Speaker 3: my cousin completing suicide, he told me for the first
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  Speaker 3: time ever that he was going to therapy two and
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  Speaker 3: three times a week. He tried to kill himself thirty
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  Speaker 3: plus years ago, and that in South Carolina they put
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  Speaker 3: him on ten to twelve different medications for his mental health.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember I asked my mom. I said, Mom,
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  Speaker 3: you know Dad was going through all this, and she said,
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  Speaker 3: I thought he was playing crazy to get a check,
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  Speaker 3: because that's what they're doing this sooth. They give you
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  Speaker 3: the crazy check. But imagine if he would have had
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: that conversation with me when I was young, just told
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: me that the way we're discussing it right now, Imagine
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: if we heard, you know, older men in all life
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: having that conversation early, we'd have known that the stuff
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: we was going through was normal.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my granddad never talked about it. My dad died.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: My dad was twenty six. My granddaddy didn't talk about
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: it until it was like eighty five because he would
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: be at my house all the time, you know, and
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: I said, I'd say, well, Daddy, what happened? My dad
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: died here in New York. You know, My dad died
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: of a drug overdose here in New York. And my
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: granddaddy was like, he just started telling me. It's like
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I was there when they bought your dad's body in.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: I stood there like a man. I was standing in
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the morning when they rolled my son'body in there like
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I took that shit like a g I didn't shed
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: a tear. I just made sure everything was done properly,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: you know, bought the barber, inn talked to the barber,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I want my son mustache and beer done. And I
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: stood right there and I took it. But all of
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: that stuff you cried in the cardlestuff, it hadn't really
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: really hit me. It's coming out in small pieces like
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: this morning. Maybe this morning was some of it. And
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I didn't cry at the funeral because my granddaughter was
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: looking at me the whole time, was like pickaboo because
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: she didn't know what was you know, the home while
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: you know she looking at me, we playing because you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: and I just had that memory of my grandparents crying.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Ricky, have you dealt with it because it doesn't seem
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: like you fully.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a process.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Brou Do you have a think about just giving away
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: just stop it?
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: You know, like I don't want to do this anymore.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Was that ever a mo No man, we got to
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: say people, man, my listen, some have to die so
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: others can live, you understand, And you know, no Cross,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: no crown, bro. We have to go through what we
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: have to go through, and we have to talk about it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure just trying to break the generational curse
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: of number one not talking about it, not going and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: getting therapy and getting help and to talk about, you know,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: drug addiction. You know, I had a son and a
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: nephew age thirty two and a niece. I had a niece,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: a son, a nephew all died of age thirty two
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: within two years of each other.
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: Can you talk a.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Little bit about that, like just in real time when
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: they were here dealing with the addiction and trying to
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: help them through it, and like also wanted them to
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: get better, but addiction, understanding it like it kind of
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: takes over where it's not it's not even just them anymore,
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: Like it's it's a big beast.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The only thing I regret I didn't have a
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: good understanding of the illness because I had a a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: niece and a nephew that was cool and come and respectful.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: But it didn't affect my son that way. You know,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: my son would go off about stuff, you know, and
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: it damaged our relationship or whatever because I didn't understand, like, Hey,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I'm your dad. You can't say that to me. You
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: know I'm driving around looking for you to fight you
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the street. You know I raised you,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: I cooked food for you. You know what I'm saying.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I wash your clothes. You slept in the bed when
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: me when it was thunder. Don't say that to me,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: you know. So I just didn't have a clear understanding
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of that. But I did everything I could to save
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to save his life.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Did you ever blame yourself at all?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Oh? No, that's one thing I never felt. I never
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: felt guilt. Now, you know, I felt a lot of stuff,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: but guilt was not one of them. I did everything
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I could as a father to save his life, you know, rehab,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the seventy grand off the bat boom like like, you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: we did that twice, and you know my mom was
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: trying to help him. I just couldn't. I just couldn't
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: get him. I just couldn't get him to get him.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Well, would you do anything different? As a dad during
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: any of those times and reason.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Before I have six, so I like to that's that's
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a good question. Uh. I wasn't tough on him. He
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: was the one that I caught him. I was tough
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: on my other kids, like like the other kids was
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: like I was just really really really really tough on them,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and he was the one that I just kind of
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: caught on and did everything for and took it because
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: that was my first born or whatever. I just wish
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: that I was tougher. I know that sounds strange because
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: it sounds like I should say I should have been
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: easier on him. I was easy on him. I should
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: have been tougher on him like I was the other kids.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: What do we call tougher though, beause I you know,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: we come from the era I was getting beat with
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: extension cards and my daddy made me take a bath.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I gotta go and beat my kid. I don't even
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: touch my kids at all, right, So what do you
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: call tough?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I just wouldn't give him, you know, I don't think
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I brandon. I hit him. I popped him a couple
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: of times when he was about fourteen, made him go
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: stand in the corner and go do that little right there.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I would to make sure those legs and those cats,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I didn't. By the time
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I started getting tough on him, it was time for
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: him to go off to college, you know. But the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: other kids, like Malik went to military school then he
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: went to IMG Academy, would say he had a military mindset.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I think this, But I tried to do that for
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Brandon because I sent him to the National Guard, you
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So my son served. He had
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a flag drake off his because he served our country.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: But I just think I caught on him a little
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: too much, and he just loved on him. And he
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: was the one I loved on, hugged on, you know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and just up under me all the time.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. It's hard when you're a parent now
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: did Like I said, who the air? We grew up
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: and I'll be talking to my nine year old like
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: she a basketball player, like, but you wouldn't have survived
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: in the nineties with my grandma and my mom and Daddy.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Was going to be right. But the key is it's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: good that you talked to her with that coach, boys,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: because we have to give kids, more of what we
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: had as opposed to what we didn't have. You know
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, You like who you are. You like
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: how you turned out right get that same thing.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: To your kids and the evall version of you.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I'm sure in through therapy, I've learned to love every
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: version of me. That's what you got to do in life,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: you know, like every version of you served the purpose absolutely.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: In chapter twelve year book, It's let the Tears Fall,
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: you said that it took you a year for all
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: of this to really like hit you. Yeah, what was
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: that day like when you were like, I'm feeling it
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: like that first time?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: That one year anniversary. A few days before that one
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: year anniversary, Man, it hit me like he had just died.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: And I was sitting I had just got off the air.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I was down in South Florida because I didn't want
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: to be in the house, but that one year anniversary,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to go get away, and man, it
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: hit me, man, and I was I did some crying,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and I I think I think it was a bad
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: mistake for me to be there by myself. But I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: just kind of sat on the couch and just cried
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: pretty much for a couple of days, like like really
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: cried because the only difference was I didn't have a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: casket and some flowers and some condolences. Right, I had
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: all of that to keep me distracted doing when it
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: actually happened, I had to protect everybody. But that one
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: year came in and uh, it was like it was terrible.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: What about the chapter when the addiction chases the bloodline?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Was that difficult to write because you know, you got
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to go through your whole generational lineage with that. Was
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: that a difficult chapter right now?
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't. It was just being being open and honest.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: My dad struggled, my mom struggled. I had wonderful grandparents.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: My granddad talked to me every day church, Sunday, school.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: You know, hey, here's a trumpet, play that, here's some
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: PMO lessons. Let's go do that a little from little
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I did trumpet, little football, did it all. My grandparents
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: kept me busy with the splending instruction, talk to me
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: every day so I didn't have to. I didn't have
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: those issues. And then he always talked about how my
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: dad died, so don't do this. So I just stuck
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: with it, and to this day, I don't drink or smoke.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: I always wonder how grief impacts people who lost their
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: parents at a very, very very young age. Does it
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: hit you later in life? You see somebody out with
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: their parents and it hits you, like, what is it?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: It did when I was when I was a kid.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: But what hurt me about my dad's death was watching
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: my grandparents cry like that on the front row. I'm
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: in therapy for that. That comes up in therapy. That
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: wipes me out. Wow, that wipes me out more than
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: my son's death. Why I'm a grandmama's baby, like you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: understand you from the South, like watching my grandparents cry
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: like that on their front row. Man, I can't get
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: over it. Even when my grandparents died, the only thing
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I could think about. Their casket was in the same
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: spot my dad's castle. Well, the only thing I could
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: think about was them crying on that front April the eleventh,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four. Wow, I will never forget it, man,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: It just it tears my soul out of my body.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I can deal with my son and death. But that's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: that's what I struggled with more than anything. Wow. And
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: that's why I didn't cry at my son, you know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: because my granddaughter was watching.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Man, I don't even want to traumatize her like that. Like, man,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: dang boy, yeah, life is mother.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Listening up there talking about it because about.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: But that's what I understand about that. That's why that's
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: why I noticed, like just putting this out there to
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: the world and having to relive all these stories and
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: retell these stories, is it therapeutic or does it feel
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: like you open it up?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Man? This is therapy because if I go and get
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: in that car and start crying, that is helpful. It
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is helpful to cry. It was helpful for me your
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: CRD this morning. You understand. I'm good.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: But I also think what you're doing is helping people
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: that don't know how to deal with it and can't
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: talk about it because now they have a friend in
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: you in this book and they're saying, well, let me
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: see how Ricky dealt with it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Let me see what the troubles he's going through. It
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: is normal.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: I can feel this way because a lot of times
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: people feel like they're on their own, yeah, and they
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: don't have those feelings.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: So that's that's one amazing thing about this this book.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about something else for a thing you
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: put on a lot of comedians, Ricky, and I think
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: that coming from the South, right, people don't. I don't
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: think people realize how big you are sometimes like this,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't think they
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: realize how how much money you got number one, but
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: rich you are, and just how big you are. And
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I think it's it's almost a stigma with comedians from
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: the South, like they don't get the respect that they deserve.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I just do it for the love
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: of the art. Charlemagne Envy. I remember cussing d Ray
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Davis out snatching a drink out of his hand because
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: he was too young to be drinking. Hey give me that.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: You know. I had a little comedy club back in Birmingham,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the comber Zoon, So I would I would have like
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: d Ray Corey holcom Cory Hoakan was like, hey, man,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I ain't never been outside of Chicago. I'm like, okay, cool,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: let's go on the road. You know, I would take
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: those guys on the road. Corey holc them, d Ray Davis,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: h a lot of them, man, that Tyler. Some of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: them have passed away. You know. I would just take
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: him on the road to help him, because that's what
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Steve did for me. You know, nobody have to don't
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: nobody have the food. You know what I'm saying. Some
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: people can just ignore you. Steve was one of those
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: guys man that was helping and training company down I
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: started November thirteenth, nineteen eighty nine. Wow, that's the first
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: time I went on stage. I met Steve before he
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: did show Time of the Apollo and then tell you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a story I wrote about it in my first book,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and just talk about the discipline and the structure of comedy.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I was dressed like a like flavor flave because I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: thought that was the thing I'm doing the show with Steve.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And Steve was like, listen, he said, people pay money
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to see us perform. Your outfit is nice, he said,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: but tomorrow I want you to come dress better. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: want you to dress he said, I want you to
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: dress nice. You know. Bruce, as the owner, was standing
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: in the door watching. I was embarrassed. I felt bad.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I felt like my career was over. You know, my
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: feelings were hurt. I was like, oh shit, you know,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I don't want to blow an opportunity with Steve Harvey Man.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: He said, you can go ahead and introduce me. He said,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: but tomorrow, let's get it together. Say yes, sir, you know,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: because you can't say nothing nowadays. You can't correct nowadays
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: because everybody says it. I said, y'all give it up
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and show your love right now. But Steve Harvey, queen,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I'll never get a queen the tea to come on
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: for the love of money, off that New Jack City
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: soundtrash and he came up. I'm talking about. It was
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: electric and I wanted to stay there and watch man.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I ran out that damn comedy club door. I jumped
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in my nineteen seventy nine to YO the Corolla Force Speed.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I peeled out of that company club driving. I drove
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: all o way across town, ran in my apartment, put
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: on a suit I had mare from Jeans West because
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I used to work at Jeans West, you know. Put
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: my suit on boom time and I'm running driving back.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I made it back to the country club just in time.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: When I walked back in the day, he was like,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: all right, y'all been for god man show. My name
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: is Steve Harvey. Peace. When I walked back up there
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and had that suit on, no nigga, not tomorrow tonight.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: That's what's up right now.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: What Steve said to you when he saw so.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You damped me up and he you know how you do?
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You let me up and down? And he said, Si,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk to you after the show.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I said, yes, sir, And Steve's annoying man.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Now o'kay with nobody, you know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: After the show? He said, follow, he said, following this
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: car right here. I followed him back to the hotel room.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I sat on the edge of the bed and took
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a little notepad in the pencil, and he lectured me
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: for about two hours, and me and another comedian sat
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: on the edge of the bed and wrote notes, how
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to do this? Why not do this? You did this
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: joke wrong? Why are you cussing on stage? Why are
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: you dressed like this? T A T and T is
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: in the audience? You need to do this da da day.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I took all that stuff. I took it serious because
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I wanted to be great. I wanted to be better
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: at at what I did, and I ended up opening
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: up for the Kings of Company. I did some shows
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: where I did a few dates with the Kings of Company.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You had to ride with Steve. You don't get your
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: own limousine. You have to ride with him. So you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: have to be disciplined. Get into the limousine, keep your
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: mouth closed, slide all the way up, put your back
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: to the driver. Speak when spoken to. Had to share
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: a dressing room for Steve. We frant brothers. But I'm
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: not ever comfortable enough just because you're a que and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I'm a cue. I'm finna come in here like I'm entitled.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Be quiet and speak when spoken to. That's discipline I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: got from my grandparents.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Who's the other comedian on the bed with you?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I was probably is Sir walk Yeah, a comedian that
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: lives in Burningham, Sir Walt, and he was mentoring a
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: lot of us, but he was really into teaching. Come
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on with him sitting down. I mean we're sitting there.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: He's standing up, walking back and forth, and he's talking
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to us. And I remember a couple of times I
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: was about to nod because I was so sleepy, because
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I go to bed really and but that that was
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: something that was life changing.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Well you still like that. I changed the title Little
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: my first book cause of Steve. I was gonna name
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: my book I Don't give a Fuck and neither should
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: you a self help guide or how not to give
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: a fuck. And we was driving around in a ranch
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: in Georgia and I told him that title. He looked
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: at me and he said, I gave you anough no
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: playing that, ain't it. He said, that's the problem with y'all.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Y'all don't give a fuck. We need y'all need to
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: give a fuck. All people need to give a fuck.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Same thing. Lecture me for about an hour, and I'm like,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: all right, I got it.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big brother Mentor. I was supposed to be on
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: his morning show and we had a big argument sitting
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: in this truck, and then Rashaan got on the phone said, no,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you need to do your own thing. We're gonna use
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: nephew Tommy. He said, you go over here. If it
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: don't work out, you can come be on the show
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: with us. Wow.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: So hold on, You're supposed to be a co host
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: on Steve Harvey show.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: So Steve was gonna give me. When Steve left Radio one,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: they said, who do you think? They said, He said,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Ricky smileing. So I went down there to do the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: morning show with Steve for two weeks so he can gradually, Hey,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: turn the show over the list, Hey, I'm gonna be
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: going in two weeks, but Ricky Smiley gonna be taken over.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: The chemistry was so good and we were so fun.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I was just throwing them all kind of ally oops,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: making him recycle jokes, and we were just so funny
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: on the air together. Were looking at each other like,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: hey man, we need to we need to, you know,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and me and Steve had it. We was like, Okay,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna stick together. I'm gonna go to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: New York with you, and we got in the car. Rashaan,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: our other frat brother with Steve, managed that, you know.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Ra Sean said hell no, He said, no, you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I just have this idea that you should go over here.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: We're gonna bring in you tell me and if it
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: don't work out, you can always come back. But let's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: give this a try and see how you do.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: Was that tough to hear that?
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Because you because think about it, like you go to
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: New York with Steve Harvey. It's like you say, what
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: do you think? Was it hard to accept that? And no,
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: you should not it wasn't.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Because once Steve gave me that look when he did
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the fun and he just kind of you know that look,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you know, look when you give you that that big
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: brother look like Okay, we're gonna go ahead. You're not
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: gonna argue with him, right, Who do you do that
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: for that?
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: Because you talk a lot about people that you mentor
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: and and you help, but like, who's somebody that you
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: do that for that? Like we might not know about
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: that might have started in your clubs or just unknown,
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: and now it's like taking over comedy wise.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Oh man, little duvall with somebody that I that I
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: have a real good relationship with that I was doing
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: some you know, mentorship because remember I was the host
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: of Company View in two thousands with a lot of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: people mentored just by being on that show, right right,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: that's what That's what eighty five they told me. So
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: that I'm tripping, like like Carlos Miller was like, bru,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I met you when I was fourteen years old. You
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: was in a hotel. I got excited. I'm hearing these
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: stories and stuff. Man, not realizing the impact on company
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: because I'm on beet Monday through Saturday. Like when when
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Comedy View really blew up. It was in Atlanta, and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: then I hosted again Charlotmane in two thousand and four,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and then the year after two thousand and two thousand
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and one, I had my own little TV show, The
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Way We Do It Us Time, you know, and I
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: was doing all these characters and all these voices and
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff, And so when comics needed
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: help and needed mentorship, I would always, you know, hey,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: dress nice, Hey, stop cursing. Does that curse word make
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: that joke funny? Are you cursing just to be cursing?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: That's a real thing. I just had that conversation with
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: a comic. I say, hey, man, you curse too much.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: The cursing is not making the joke funnier. But if
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the curse word is a part of the punchline, then
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: use it, I said. Because it's like I give the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: onion example, Like, like you eat an onion, it's nasty,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: but if you take it and chop it up in
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: sawteed and get some flour on it, and you're still
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: eating an onion, but you can't taste it. It's just
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: an analogy that I use with comics, and I make
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: them redo the joke, and I say, damn, you did
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the same joke and got the same laugh, got a
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: bigger laugh because people are not offended. You know what
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. So you know it's no training and stand
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: up anymore. You know. Back then, in the eighties, late eighties, nineties,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: comics go pull you to other side, Mark curry them.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: They would pull. George Wallace got on my ass so
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: bad one night.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Why you was bombing?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: What? No man? I did some jokes behind him after
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: he closed it, after he headlined the show. I didn't
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: know any better. He said, you don't do them, damn
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: joke temping me. God, damnit, I make what phone call
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: your career open? Damn motherfucker. I said, I'm sorry. He said, yeah,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: you said good night, read the announcement, and bring your
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: hands back to morrow. I said, yes, sir, and I
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: came on back. He was nice to me the next night,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: and he won't admit it to this day. I said, Joey,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: you remember me said I didn't do it, shut up,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: but it was good. I needed that shit. If I
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: got a boogie in my nose, tell me, don't let
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: me be out here bad. Pull me to the side.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: And help me.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: But you can't even do it. You feel like you
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: do that nowadays and somebody will be like, oh man,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: he threatened me, hurt my feeling. He hate me, hating
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: so to be offended me.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's like what man, I tell comics man, because that's
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: the only with asked Corey Hokerman asked Dray Davis. I
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: used to get at them all the time about little stuff. Man.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, man, you I think d Ray was
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty when I bought him to Birmingham. I said,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: you can't drink nothing, you can't have that. Give me
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: that fussing at him about little stuff, man. And now
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: he's great and we laugh about it all the time.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: He's just gonna always be my little brother or whatever.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: They all come to the house. If you ever come
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to Birmingham, you know you're welcome. I cooked my ass
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: off or whatever, sons I wish you're right, y'all always welcome.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Now, there was a rumor that in your contract he
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: said that you had to wear a dress.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Oh man, don't pay that stuff.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: God, maam, honey, put some fly on.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: And so so so I'm then I started doing comedy
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: eighty nine man, you think there's a contract somewhere. I'm
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: just I knew that. That didn't bother me. Were bothered me?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: He was People believed it.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, they did, because it's always been that thing
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: about the wear of the dress. To not wear the
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: dress to it's comedy.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Listen, it's comedy. I grew up watching Flip Wilson. Flip
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Wilson is the greatest of all time. And right when
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: you landing at Flip Wilson, he turned around to do Geraldine.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Me and my im wanna sit down and watch that
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: with my grandmother. My characters came. Man. I was doing
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: prank phone calls on the radio. I was doing Bernie's jinkins.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: And whoever would have thought a character that you do
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: on the radio calling funeral homes and all this stuff
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: turned into a character and somebody asked you to play
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: the character in a movie or whatever. You know, it's
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: funny that all that stuff is tamboo. Now they do
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that in Philly.
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: Mother knows they do.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: You ever heard it?
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: And they do the calls.
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: I just thought about that when you said that. I
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: don't know if they got it from you, but mother
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: knows they call people all the time.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: But that's the thing radio everybody.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: I started. I listened to the Jerky Boys and then
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Craners Mercer, but the characters developed. I do. I do
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: a redneck character. I do Beubert, I do Bernie Jingings,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I do Joe Willie. I have a gospel quartet, Joe
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Willie and the Duderrama Nairs. You know, I do a
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: little Darren Precious. I do a lot of characters. I'm
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: i'm I'm talented. I played the trumpet, I play the
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: French one. I played the bass guitar, I played the tube.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I'm an organist. I played the beat three hammon at
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: church on Sundays. You know what I'm saying. I study music.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I'm just multi talented, and you can't make everybody like you.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I have never did anything, had any beat with any kind.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I had one beat with a coming and it was
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a que beef for twenty years, and that was Arnie's J.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Me and Arnare's j could not freaking stand each other.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: We have because a show happened, and you know, comments
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: get there early and go on first. You know, Artie said,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: got that and didn't do the order or either. Something happened,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: but we had beef. Nobody knew about it, right, And
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I'm shure God worked nobody knew about it. COVID came.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting on Delta. I'm in for a lot of
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the airport, getting ready to fly to Atlanta where I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: can drive home, you know, And I see a dude
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: getting on a plane with a mask on. He got
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: fishing rods Well, who fished? Arn SJ. Lavell Crawford and
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: What's my Man? Shadik Houston. Those are the three comics
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: that really fish. They fish fish, they go fishing. I said,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: it's Ron J. I had spoke to IRONJ in twenty years.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: And so I got up and he was sitting right
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: next to me, and he sat right next to me.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I don't say nothing.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: That's God.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: I saw as I said, I know that's Ron HJ.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I hadn't talked to him in twenty years like we had.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't so ugly beef, like I'm gonna kill you,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: just like forget you, forget you or whatever. And you know,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I'm a Christian person. I'm all about resolving and loving
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: on people because that's my heart. And I grabbed his
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: arm and he did it like that, and I looked.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: I grabbed it and he's like like what, And I
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: pulled my mask down. Man. He started laughing. He started laughing.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: So Charlemagne, give me your hand, the other hand, the whole,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the whole, the whole flight. Me and Jay like this
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: because when he started telling me that the twenty years,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: all the people that passed away, everything that happened him,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: we cried the whole flight from full lot of them
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: to Atlanta. I said, now I apologize. He said no.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: He said, my wife been trying to get me to
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: call you for years, been on me about that. I said, nah,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you don't have to. It was just love because because
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I had always said, if I see on the show again,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tackle him. I can't Cat. I saw
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Cat one time and he had said some stuff that's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: before the internet came out, and said some stuff, some
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: stuff years ago. He was roasting all the comedians that
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: wore a dress, that play a character. You know, he
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: was roasting I was talking about it on the Fox
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: one day and I'm driving down Fourteenth Street in Atlanta.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I saw Cat walking across the street and I had
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: my granddad in the car. Then my ford f one
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: pity and Uh, you know, I'm one of the type
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: of dudes I'm gonna be carrying. I'm like, hey, Cat
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: was up. He was walking the Starbucks. I never forget it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: He said, come on, have a couple of cough with me,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: a cup of coffee with me. So I went over there,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: and before he went the Starbucks, he came around. I said, hey, man,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Cat Weaven. I said, this is my granddad or whatever.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: My granddad saw you on TV before my Granddadthery said yeah,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: and Cat stood in the door had a conversation with
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: my grandfather or whatever. And that was like one of
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the last times I saw him. And there was no
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: issue because it's all love or whatever, because you know,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I never did anything to him.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: If I did, you know, I'm always open man enough
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: to apologize.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: He felt like he was clearing the record on because
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: I think he or was it that he was supposed
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: to play a role? You said, well, what I did.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: When I went out there, I auditioned for that part,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and uh, that's what I really auditioned for. I didn't
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: audition for the Santa Claus. If I'm not mistaken. The
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus role was supposed to be for what's his name?
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: He played in the First Friday, the comedian that passed away?
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Oh man, that was that was that was on drugs
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: and stealing and breaking the people house Johnson. I think A. J.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Johnson was supposed to play and this is what what
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I heard or whatever, and they put me in that
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: role because at that time I was on B E
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: T and stuff like that. But I did audition for it.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: That's what I went out there and read for my
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: manager at the time, came on the air, cleared that up. DAVIDY.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Talbert came on on Instagram and cleared up the fact
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: that there's no country. He had hired me, uh to
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: play my role in the movie first Sunday before he
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: hired he cleared he cleared that part of.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: But q Q classifier too. You said that you did
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: audition for money, Mike, but when they saw how you moved,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: they thought you'd be better for Santa Claus exactly.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: And I don't have no have no beep. I love
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: everybody if there is an opportunity to resolve, That's why
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: I'm the rap beef and stuff with the rappers get killed.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I don't want comedy to ever come to that. You know,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: that's not what I do. That's not how I was raised.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: You know, we're from the South and we just don't.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: We don't. We don't do that.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about some of the revolutionary stuff
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: I feel like you've done in radio. I feel like
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: this nation, you know what I'm saying, we had never
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: seen that before. And I mean, you know, as a radiohead,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: to see radio personalities on TV in that era, that
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: felt like watching Howard when Howard did it on E right,
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: So that was that was a revolutionary thing. And also
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: making the move to urban ac Yeah, like knowing when
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: it was I don't know if you knew it was
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: time or like how that happened.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: It just happened perfectly. We you know, we was on
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: hip hop stations and it was great. But we was
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: getting older. You know, I'm in I'm almost fifty brat.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: You know, we all in our forties or whatever. We
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: ain't got no business playing certain stuff because we just
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna naturally age. You just can't, you just
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: can't can't be on the radio. We don't even know
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: who some of the some of the we didn't know
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: who some of the rappers are that were playing like
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: who is this? Now? Brat Brat the first female rapper
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: sell over me and she's like, who you know? You
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: got you got the back seller song this who is
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: We're looking over the top of our glasses.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: Making funny that I used to watch y'all funny.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but but we just naturally got older. And then
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: when Tom join her retired, they just slid us over
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: and and now we look, we're playing R and B
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: songs and now just relaxing in the morning, We just
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: we chill.
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: Whose idea was it to throw or to get Porsch
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: on the show on this Nation?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that was so good. Well Porsche, uh,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: she would fill in for Brad Porsche Kane did a
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: great job and she would fill in for Brat. And
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: then they said, hey, you want to do this nation?
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: So anybody came in and filled. Then the producing and say, hey,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: we can get you some makeup right quick? Can you
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: do this nation? Here's the script and it's nothing, just
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: reading a tele prompt and hen talk about what we
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: have already talked about on the radio. Then we were
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: doing Thisnation while we was on on the air, so
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: doing commercial breaks, we would shoot a scene from this nation.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Wow, Oh, I don't know why I thought that was
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: the show.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Man we was doing. We was shoot when we first started.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: We was in that damn same room for six hours.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: We was working out, asshole, And what.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: Did you What did you know you wanted to do radio?
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Because radio was not a job for everybody.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: People say they love radio, right then when they got
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: to get there an hour before and two hours after
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: and they can't move it, especially with comedians because you
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: guys are on the road, you might not be able
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: to go on the road somedays.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: So when did you know that I'm gonna stay with
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: this man?
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: I used to listen to these two white dudes named
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Mark and Brian. You remember Mark and Brian Charlamagne. They
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: big and la Mark and Brian. They had this big
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: ass morning show. But they came from Birmingham. These are
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: first dudes I used to hear doing characters and they
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: did some prank phone calls. So I used to listen
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: to Mark and Brian in high school. They went to
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: l A and became famous fame, but they came from Birmingham,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and uh, I was like, y'all listening to white dudes
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: on Kicks one on six. You know, That's how I
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: got in the soft rock. That's why I'm set up
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: here listening to Fleetwood, Mac and the Eagles and Stilly Dan.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: You know, i'd be on some chill stuff. You have
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: to listen to that stuff, you know. But I was
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: crazy about radio and I wanted to do it. And
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell y'all something I drove. When they put
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: up the new station, hip hop station in Birmingham ninety
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: five seven. Jam, you know Dasiah Yeah Days came from
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: our radio station. Wow, Dasha came from our radio.
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: She used to be Yeah, she used to be up here.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: She's on will list now right?
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Talk about another abou another day? Think about.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's on with Kelly and that TV show whatever.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: Kelly and He used to be Ryan and Kelly.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: Right, she's on that. And then Roy Wood Jr. Came
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: from We All come from w b HJ ninety five seven. Jam.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I drove sixty miles every morning just for the opportunity
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: to be on the radio, and I got paid nothing.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I was hungry and I wondered. Steve used to tell me, Hey,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: get on the radio. That keep your name out there.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: They keep your brand out there. So now, Charlotte Man,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I do my comedy shows during the week I don't
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: do comedy clubs on weekend. So I do a show.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: I just go do a seven o'clock show at the
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Emprov and I do the Emprov Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: That's my four shows and get it in like that.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I'm in bed at nine o'clock. Show start at seven.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I'm back at the hotel sleep and uh, and I
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: have my weekends off.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: You want to seven?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: No, no, you said the show started. I want to
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: show start at five.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: When you said, David, I don't know why I thought
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: of Egypt with Dajah Wood. She is she used to
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: be Earthquake co host on b LS.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah with the short haircuta.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: She DJ on right Kelly and whatever. Kelly's Kelly and Ryan.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: I think no Ryan left to do Wheel of Fortune.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so yeah, man, we we had that was
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: a great station. We won, took down the number one
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: station and uh and just doing good radio morning show
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: boot camp, learning about breaks and timing and all that stuff.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: I take Radio serious Man show to rep air checks,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: you know, listening to yourself playing it back like I
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: take it serious and if you're not serious about but that's.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: A lost start.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that is a lost start.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Doing radio the proper way, absolutely, air checks, doing when
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: to go into breaks, teasing, looking at clocks, that is
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: a lost start.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you better hit that fifty three better? You know
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: about that fifty three?
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: What do you what do you love more? Standable radio?
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Oh? Oh god, damn, that's a good question. Radio don't
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: give you butterflies. Radio is just sitting in here, like
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: right now, I'm comfortable, it's cool or whatever. Stand up
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: gives you a little bit of nzie because you got
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: to perform. You got to go out there. People paid
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: money to see you perform. But my stand up is
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: being great. I'm I'm probably funnier than not ever being.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: I got a special coming out. We in negotiation with
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart right now to release a comedy special. Oh yeah,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: I haven't done done a comedy special in like twelve years.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: But it's funny as hell. It's probably my Dave Talbert.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: He directed it, him and his wife Lynn. They directed it.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: It looked good. It's gonna be funny.
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be all over the place, recently shot stuff.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just recently shot it. Okay, Yeah, I paid
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: for it myself and I just went on stage and
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: killed the ass. So I'm really excited about that.
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: And what made you?
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: I mean, Kevin Heart's Kevin Hart. But a lot of
• 48:41
  Speaker 7: people go to Netflix too, like, how did you decide
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: where you were gonna? Who was gonna house it?
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna, We're gonna see we in negotiation now
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: because I just did an interview with Kevin Hart and
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: he asked me about the like I just shot one.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: I said, you wanna you want to present it?
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: Okay, so I started started that.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's a good friend of mine. I absolutely
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: love him. Great dude, a great dude, Kevin Man, Jamie Fox,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: all of them have been good to need my whole career.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know Eddie Murphy was a fan
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: that I met Eddie Murphy at his house or whatever.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Went over there one day. I had a meeting with
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Tracy Edmonds I think they were dating at the time,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: and she said, ed play your prank phone calls the line,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: I look like you lying? You are you serious? And
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I ended up going over there and there's some comments
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: over there and we had barbecue chicken, collar, greens, cornbread,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: macaroni and cheese. It was like we had some real soap.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: And that was my first time to meeting Eddie Murphy. Man,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: that was that was a pleasure. So that when you
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: get to do stuff like that. And I'm on tour
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: with Martin Lawrence right now, so that's my big brother.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: So the funny thing is you talk like you not
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: wanted you not wanted them you in a conversation.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just just humble, man. I'm still like, I kind
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: of still feel like I'm kind of like just still
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: young and in the game because I feel young and
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: in the game, and I know I'm a little older
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: and up and trying to coach younger comics and I
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: just kind of sit back and not try to do
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: too much. But I just try to make sure when
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: I do do something that is special and that is
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: awesome and that is funny. And my karaoke nights uh
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: uh be sold out. My karaoke I see my karaoke
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: nights sell out faster than my comedy shows. My co
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: host has down syndrome. What my co host, Big Chris
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: has down syndrome and he is the funniest damn person.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: If you look at my huh, you can see no I.
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: Would seeing her trying to laugh, I was gonna ask you,
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: like call me last night.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: All you have to do. All you have to do
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: is look up.
• 50:44
  Speaker 6: I'm looking at it and Big Chris and that was
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: it was the he know all the song.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: He gets up there and he's saying you can't get
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: them off stay. I said, hey, Chris, you're not getting
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: payd you need to chill. Okay, I have to calm
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: him down.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: I know how to that I did come about? Like,
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: how did that?
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: How did that idea?
• 51:00
  Speaker 6: He smiling Big Chris?
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: You're so messy Chris, not even what's all he be doing?
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: What you made him?
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Saying you never didn't know he cut your grandma.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Now I'm going you really can't risk go on, here
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: we go.
• 51:23
  Speaker 6: I haven't say this is big Chris.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, big Chris, Chris doing his thing.
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: Man, that's my call, Chris.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: Though you better pay double. He only make down payments.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny as hell. So so he like the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: bring ladies on stage and sitting in the chair and
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: play a R. Kelly song and he serenate them like
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the capitals. I got.
• 51:56
  Speaker 6: Down on one stage.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: You just got the one out there. I got this
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: white the audience out. I take him on the road
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: with me. We do we do the im proving for
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of the in Daniel Beach selling out as
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: a set. He just I bring him on stage in
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: the middle of carry and I have to keep have
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: to set boundaries for him. And he he loved y'all. Oh,
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: he loved y'all. He watched y'all all the time. He
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: always he got his phone.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: I bought him Chris Man.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He always showing me something that y'all. Hey, he
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: wants to come on back. When I come back, I.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Would come on, you come for the special.
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: Bring him up here.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, someone of my special come out, will come
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: up here to promote. I bring big Chris. That'll be
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: my gift to your ass because because see we had
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: the same kind of here, because we laugh at the
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: same Chris took me to the cemetery. I think you
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: had a cousin and died, and this particular cemetery. You
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: go there. You have to follow this red line. It's
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: in Birmingham. He followed the red line. He was at
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the grave crying and I looked up at it. It
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: was all Bear Brown was a former head coach of
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Alabama back in the seventies. I said, and I didn't
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: tell him that. See, you ain't ship what you said.
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: He took you to the cemetery.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Somebody had died and it was at the wrong grade.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: But I just let him let him. I didn't want
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: to tell him that he was at at Paul Briant Gray.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: So I had to get him back to the car,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: took him and got got him something to even take
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: him home.
• 53:31
  Speaker 5: Fricky smiling, ladies and gentlemen.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Brief is grief, man, he got it out.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Show is out right now.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: My god, you appreciate you for joining us. Bro a
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: stranger man. You could come up here any time. You
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: would tell those radio politics and we want.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: You to come.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Look if y'all ever in Miami. I have a boat.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a boat camping. I go to the Bahamas every
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: fucking weekend in the summer. I dare you to take
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: a weekend off and we broadcast on the boat. You
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: as anybody asked Jeff Johnson, as David Talbot, we go.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I tell I drive all the way across the ocean
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: to them and the Bahamas it's only fifty five miles
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: off the coast of four out of there, and I
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: drive my boat. We go all the way to the Bahamas.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: I have a house that I rent. You are more
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: than what If you just get the full out of that,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about ship.
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: I got you be there too. You said the boundaries
• 54:21
  Speaker 6: on the boat, don't you don't, Chris?
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Did you see what I had them to do on
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the front of the boat.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Hold on, hope you ain't had them like a phantom emblem.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: You're finished, scream bro Let me.
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: Let me let me uh no picture this is Instagram
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: or TikTok.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Let me see. I can't hear. It's just slow because
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: I don't I couldn't get to figure out that Wi Fi.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. You've been a screen
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: when you see Christal on these Okay, here we go. Ahead.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: When I tell you you're gonna you're gonna follow down
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: when you see this video, I can get to it.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Where is it?
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be a me going on social media?
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because he's been saying, here we go, Here we go.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: You ready watching them?
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: Watch you gotta put this in the video?
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Man?
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: Cut it out, man, I can't laugh at that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Cut it out.
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: I cannot laugh. Is somebody holding it?
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: That is not funny? Man.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: You gotta like the fan even know when you think
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: about the Phantom, what's that called in you?
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: The Phantom one?
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: The Rose Ray stuff, and he got a list in
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: front of man. Man, you stupid man.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: The spirit that's in the video.
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, it's Ricky Smiley.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Bring Chris and she's looking.
• 56:03
  Speaker 7: You're surprised, right, uh yeah, m hmm I thirty two, mhm.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: That my head.
• 56:18
  Speaker 6: I still sitting You're right, Big Chris. Back to Big Chris.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: I saw some video on somebody was trying to get
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: at you, was trying to get at you. I watched
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: that the baby was the baby was Halloween? No, the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: baby Babby.
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: That didn't work out, work out, They didn't go past
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: the interview. Where was it going.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Not?
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: You sit back down.
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: Side right now. And it's the Breakfast Club.
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club