Latest / The Breakfast Club / INTERVIEW: Mike Epps On 'Old Head' Status, "Last Friday" Movie, Touring New Material + More
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Breakfast Club Morning.
- 0:04Speaker 3: Everybody is the j Envy Jess, Hilarys, Charlamagne, the God.
- 0:08Speaker 3: We are the breakfast Club law on the Rosa Philiny
- 0:10Speaker 3: for just we got a special guests in.
- 0:12Speaker 2: The belt of a legend. God damn it, brother, Mike.
- 0:15Speaker 2: I'm serious, Mike, I don't want them introducing you no
- 0:17Speaker 2: more if they ain't putting legends on your motherfucking egge.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Well we got the legends.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Hold.
- 0:23Speaker 4: You got to get to be a legend.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Yeah, you got. I'm getting there.
- 0:29Speaker 2: I don't think it's about age, It's about what you've
- 0:31Speaker 2: done in the game. But you've done yet.
- 0:32Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks, man, I appreciate. I appreciate that, you know, compliment.
- 0:36Speaker 6: You don't feel like legendary status, so you don't feel
- 0:38Speaker 6: it like I paved the way like I'm here.
- 0:40Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, I try to use
- 0:43Speaker 5: those words, you know, the right way, legend and all
- 0:48Speaker 5: of that stuff. But I do feel like, you know,
- 0:51Speaker 5: I put a lot of young comics on. You know,
- 0:54Speaker 5: they don't they don't give me no problems for it,
- 0:56Speaker 5: though they act like they don't know me after they
- 0:57Speaker 5: get on.
- 0:58Speaker 3: But Mike, he always supported us early on. He actually
- 1:01Speaker 3: did our first skit with the Breakfast Club. Remember the
- 1:04Speaker 3: first kid that was the first kit was with with
- 1:06Speaker 3: you and you did.
- 1:07Speaker 1: That for us.
- 1:08Speaker 2: And he used to put money in my pocket because
- 1:10Speaker 2: you used to do the April Fools commember. He's always
- 1:16Speaker 2: at the garden.
- 1:17Speaker 5: Yeah man, so yeah man, And and it feels good
- 1:21Speaker 5: to be able to, you know what I mean, turn
- 1:23Speaker 5: on the young comics, put them on, because I was
- 1:26Speaker 5: once one at one time. I mean I used to
- 1:29Speaker 5: be staying on the stage trying to get on open
- 1:32Speaker 5: up for Steve Harvey and uh D l Heagley.
- 1:35Speaker 2: So you know they hate on you.
- 1:38Speaker 5: No okay, no, no, no, no no. They never hated
- 1:41Speaker 5: on me, but you could tell though. You know, when
- 1:44Speaker 5: you're an older comic or you're an older artist and
- 1:46Speaker 5: somebody new come on, you know, it takes time for
- 1:49Speaker 5: them to be like, Okay, this dude is cool, you know,
- 1:52Speaker 5: or I can work with him. You know, you don't
- 1:55Speaker 5: know how a person's gonna turn out.
- 1:57Speaker 2: So I shouldn't even have said hate, because sometimes I
- 2:00Speaker 2: think that people don't realize how much of a fraternity
- 2:02Speaker 2: comedy is, and they want to see you earn your
- 2:04Speaker 2: dudes before.
- 2:05Speaker 1: They they do. That's right, But nowadays it's different.
- 2:09Speaker 5: Man. You know, artists are getting they just do a
- 2:14Speaker 5: little quicker than we did. We had to really work
- 2:16Speaker 5: for that ship. We had to go hit them stages.
- 2:20Speaker 5: And now they got the social media thing, which is
- 2:25Speaker 5: good and bad because you're getting opportunities premature of you
- 2:31Speaker 5: working for it, so it could be tricky.
- 2:34Speaker 3: Do you respect that or you you you feel like
- 2:36Speaker 3: they should get their dudes first to hit them clubs.
- 2:40Speaker 5: Well, I respect the fact that they It's still a hustle, right,
- 2:44Speaker 5: I mean, to be able to be on the internet.
- 2:46Speaker 1: I still ain't figured that ship out.
- 2:49Speaker 5: I still ain't figured out how to really get the
- 2:51Speaker 5: money off the internet like these young like they on
- 2:54Speaker 5: Snapchat and all this shit. I really haven't figured it out.
- 2:57Speaker 5: But I respect that because that's the new hustle. But
- 3:00Speaker 5: like I said, when it's when it's time for you
- 3:02Speaker 5: to get an opportunity and show and prove you ain't
- 3:06Speaker 5: really been in the gym.
- 3:08Speaker 1: It's kind of like you you you.
- 3:10Speaker 5: Know, you got you got muscles, but they didn't come
- 3:13Speaker 5: from the gym.
- 3:15Speaker 2: But on the flip side, they don't know how to
- 3:16Speaker 2: get money on stage. They don't get they don't know
- 3:19Speaker 2: how to get money in the TV world. They don't
- 3:20Speaker 2: know how to get money in the world.
- 3:22Speaker 5: That's right, and it takes and that that's what I'm saying.
- 3:25Speaker 5: This levels to the ship and you got to keep on,
- 3:29Speaker 5: you know. And I always say I tell people, man,
- 3:32Speaker 5: you know, you might have a lot, you might know
- 3:35Speaker 5: a lot, and it's you know, it's somebody looking at
- 3:40Speaker 5: you like you don't know ship and have a lot either.
- 3:43Speaker 1: For everybody that got a billion dollars Bill Gates and
- 3:46Speaker 1: them they pay that shit in taxes.
- 3:47Speaker 5: They're looking at some black dude like, if you don't
- 3:50Speaker 5: get your little point you were right?
- 3:57Speaker 3: Now, do you like going out on tour with so
- 3:58Speaker 3: many comedians? Do you enjoy if you do?
- 4:01Speaker 5: Well, you know what envy I I'm hosting this tour.
- 4:05Speaker 5: So these are all young comics that's coming up.
- 4:12Speaker 1: He didn't start with me, though, no he didn't.
- 4:16Speaker 5: He's young to me because he you know, he came
- 4:19Speaker 5: up after me. But for the most part, all of
- 4:23Speaker 5: them are young comics that's trying to get to the
- 4:26Speaker 5: next level, which is film and television and whatever that is.
- 4:31Speaker 5: But yeah, it's cool man, you know, I'm secure for
- 4:34Speaker 5: myself and I'm secure with my comedy act. I go
- 4:37Speaker 5: on tour with anybody all today, all day, I tell him,
- 4:42Speaker 5: I tell him all. I had Bubba Dove yesterday, just
- 4:45Speaker 5: telling him. Man, it's good how you're transitioning. It's good
- 4:49Speaker 5: that you're able to transition. Some comics can't do it.
- 4:52Speaker 5: Just make sure that you keep focusing on the next
- 4:56Speaker 5: level while you on one level, while you're doing stand
- 4:59Speaker 5: up up, make sure you position yourself so that when
- 5:03Speaker 5: you get an acting opportunity, you can.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Act, because that's what happens a lot of times.
- 5:08Speaker 5: A lot of a lot of them blow up. Then
- 5:09Speaker 5: they get a movie opportunity and can't act. So why
- 5:13Speaker 5: are you doing stand up and you coming up? Go
- 5:15Speaker 5: to some acting classes, man, watch movies. Start positioning yourself
- 5:20Speaker 5: for it.
- 5:20Speaker 6: I think me and Jess were talking about this before,
- 5:22Speaker 6: and I was telling her like like the way that,
- 5:24Speaker 6: like even with Martin, he brings her on his like
- 5:27Speaker 6: you know, different stages. I think that two way street
- 5:29Speaker 6: that you're talking about is really important because they're teaching
- 5:31Speaker 6: you while you're teaching them, especially because like I feel
- 5:34Speaker 6: like sometimes comedians who come up the way you come
- 5:37Speaker 6: up when they shut out like the just hilarious is
- 5:39Speaker 6: the Desie Banks or whatever. You get so behind the
- 5:42Speaker 6: times that it just doesn't come off well a lot
- 5:45Speaker 6: of times.
- 5:45Speaker 4: And I think for.
- 5:47Speaker 6: You guys and what you do, you're trying to figure
- 5:49Speaker 6: out social media. If it doesn't come off well, then
- 5:52Speaker 6: fans kind of start to look at you a little differently.
- 5:54Speaker 6: You got to battle so many different things because they
- 5:56Speaker 6: don't Yeah, it's what's here right now.
- 5:58Speaker 4: So the fact that you're getting that.
- 6:00Speaker 1: On Instagram, like, you can't get around that because you
- 6:04Speaker 1: who are to.
- 6:07Speaker 2: Watch about it's not just older?
- 6:13Speaker 4: You know, Listen when you said wasn't young? I looked
- 6:22Speaker 4: it up.
- 6:23Speaker 6: I thought he was way younger. He's forty seven.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Was younger?
- 6:27Speaker 6: I thought, was like not too. I thought he was
- 6:29Speaker 6: like maybe forty.
- 6:30Speaker 4: He gives young energy.
- 6:31Speaker 6: But I'm saying I just think that it's dope to
- 6:34Speaker 6: see people embracing it because they be hating, like a
- 6:37Speaker 6: lot of the old his be hating.
- 6:38Speaker 4: And it's crazy because.
- 6:39Speaker 2: What just oldad that word around a lot with that.
- 6:43Speaker 6: Why are you upset about being called older? That's a
- 6:45Speaker 6: gift to age and to have what you had.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Not it's just how you said, Well, I don't mean.
- 6:51Speaker 4: I don't mean in no way. What I'm saying to
- 6:52Speaker 4: you is is that I know what you mean.
- 6:54Speaker 6: I think it's fire to see you doing it, because
- 6:55Speaker 6: a lot of people don't and you're not about it.
- 6:58Speaker 5: A lot of older guys I don't know how to
- 7:00Speaker 5: you know, they don't really don't know how to embrace that.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Man.
- 7:03Speaker 5: But like I said, man, that's what we're supposed to do.
- 7:06Speaker 5: We got to keep on given, handing it down, handing
- 7:10Speaker 5: it down to each other, because I'm gonna be in
- 7:12Speaker 5: a position one day I'm gonna need one of the
- 7:14Speaker 5: young dudes to.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Put me in.
- 7:17Speaker 5: That's what Red Fox and Eddie Murphy put Red Fox in.
- 7:20Speaker 5: He looked out for Red Fox, gave him. Yeah, hell yeah.
- 7:26Speaker 5: Now let's get message. What you want to ask me.
- 7:39Speaker 2: Exactly what Kevin hart tigned going to be the entertainment
- 7:42Speaker 2: is all for the pacers and fever. You are from Indiana,
- 7:45Speaker 2: like you super famous from Indiana, right, and then built
- 7:49Speaker 2: the whole community in Indiana. How did that make you
- 7:51Speaker 2: feel that they didn't call you for that?
- 7:54Speaker 1: Well, you know what I thought about it.
- 7:56Speaker 5: I was I was the ambassador for the man's uh
- 8:01Speaker 5: All Star in Indiana this past All Star.
- 8:07Speaker 1: And keV should have called me if he was in Indianapolis.
- 8:12Speaker 5: Because I definitely called him when I was in Philly,
- 8:15Speaker 5: but he didn't answer the phone.
- 8:16Speaker 1: I wanted to call him and say, hey, man, I'm.
- 8:18Speaker 5: Downtown at the Eagles game because I was. We had
- 8:22Speaker 5: to show it in Philly, and I was calling him
- 8:25Speaker 5: to tell him, Man, I'm downtown Philly. Boy, they're going
- 8:27Speaker 5: crazy at the parade. But you know, everybody got they
- 8:30Speaker 5: different different things about how they feel. Man.
- 8:33Speaker 1: You know who goes to Indiana. I'm still trying to
- 8:40Speaker 1: figure out.
- 8:40Speaker 5: Who the fuck want to go there and do something
- 8:43Speaker 5: in Indiana other than myself.
- 8:45Speaker 1: I'm the only fan they got.
- 8:48Speaker 5: Outside outside of the outside of India, outside.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Of what they fans are in that city, you know.
- 8:56Speaker 5: So you know, hey, man, it's it's politics and then
- 8:59Speaker 5: and and a lot of times people that are not
- 9:03Speaker 5: in a business like people are not in comedy, people
- 9:07Speaker 5: are not in the rap game that run entities.
- 9:10Speaker 1: They don't know they think they think me and.
- 9:14Speaker 5: Kevin sitting in the backyard drinking iced tea together, you
- 9:17Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. So you really can't get upset
- 9:21Speaker 5: about it, but it's.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Enough for everybody, man, you know what I mean.
- 9:25Speaker 5: Kevin, he put it, he put on, He put on
- 9:27Speaker 5: enough young comics and people.
- 9:29Speaker 1: So yeah, I didn't get slighted about that. Man. It's cool.
- 9:32Speaker 2: So y'all talking though, the fact that you called him
- 9:34Speaker 2: and he was in Philly.
- 9:35Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. We me and Kevin
- 9:37Speaker 5: talk man. And again, man, I'm everything I do now.
- 9:42Speaker 5: I put an age on it, you know what I mean.
- 9:44Speaker 5: So I think about it, and I'm like, Nope, you're
- 9:47Speaker 5: too old. Nope, you're too old. Nope, you're too too
- 9:52Speaker 5: old to talk shit, too old to be broke. I'm
- 9:55Speaker 5: too old for all of that, you know what I mean.
- 9:57Speaker 5: You just get to a point in your age where
- 9:59Speaker 5: you just hey, man, I'm just trying to get what
- 10:02Speaker 5: I can get out of it.
- 10:03Speaker 2: And you know, but I know you're gonna reach out
- 10:07Speaker 2: for you to do something when he put that together.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, well that's what I'm saying.
- 10:11Speaker 5: I was just on the phone with him, telling him
- 10:13Speaker 5: that that's what we gotta do.
- 10:15Speaker 1: The white boys do it.
- 10:16Speaker 5: They You already look up, all them white boys be
- 10:19Speaker 5: together doing movies and television together. While we can't do it,
- 10:24Speaker 5: but we do like the black people do.
- 10:26Speaker 1: Like we love fussing with each other too. That shit
- 10:28Speaker 1: is fun.
- 10:29Speaker 5: Who oh shit, I guess it's systematically, you know what
- 10:36Speaker 5: I mean. We cannot get away from race, We cannot
- 10:40Speaker 5: get away from slavery. It's just keep on. It's just
- 10:43Speaker 5: a thin line of that shit still in the community.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Man.
- 10:48Speaker 5: And if you match it up to back end slavery,
- 10:52Speaker 5: it's still the same. You know, they used to take
- 10:54Speaker 5: one brother, one brother and put some clothes on it
- 10:59Speaker 5: and have him sitting on the porch with a lemonade
- 11:01Speaker 5: looking at the rest of the dudes out there in
- 11:03Speaker 5: the field.
- 11:03Speaker 1: They still doing that ship and we still forgetting it.
- 11:08Speaker 5: It's like, hey, if you standing up there with some
- 11:11Speaker 5: clothes on and you got to lemonade in your hand.
- 11:14Speaker 1: And you see them brothers out there in the field,
- 11:17Speaker 1: they ain't got nothing. You got to sneak out the
- 11:19Speaker 1: house at night, man, to go get them something. Man.
- 11:22Speaker 5: And if you the man, if you the man, you
- 11:25Speaker 5: can't be afraid to be standing next to another black
- 11:28Speaker 5: man because you scared he gonna get some shit. That's
- 11:32Speaker 5: hayten shit too. If you the man and the people
- 11:37Speaker 5: the powers that be. It's paying you and making you
- 11:41Speaker 5: who you are. If you not and you don't want
- 11:43Speaker 5: to stand next to it, that means you don't want
- 11:46Speaker 5: the powers to be, to see them, you're trying to
- 11:49Speaker 5: you're trying to be you know. That's what I don't like.
- 11:53Speaker 5: You know, Iceqbe. I got in the business through ice Cbe.
- 11:57Speaker 5: I didn't get in the business through you know. And
- 12:00Speaker 5: white people like who they like, and I'm you know,
- 12:02Speaker 5: I'm not really like that dude.
- 12:04Speaker 1: That they like. Ah, because you can't rub on.
- 12:06Speaker 5: My head and pat me on the ass and dog
- 12:08Speaker 5: I don't play none of that ship. So and I
- 12:11Speaker 5: think they figured that out. Okay, this is a nigga.
- 12:13Speaker 5: We can't do that with not gonna do it with them.
- 12:16Speaker 5: So you know, hey, but.
- 12:17Speaker 2: You've had a great career. I mean, the Shaws is
- 12:19Speaker 2: killing fifth season, fifth season season.
- 12:23Speaker 4: I swear by that show the love.
- 12:24Speaker 1: I appreciate it. And that came from my idea.
- 12:27Speaker 5: That came from an idea that's about my hometown and
- 12:30Speaker 5: loosely based on my life.
- 12:32Speaker 1: You know. So I'm I can't complain. I'm grateful, I'm happy.
- 12:36Speaker 5: I ain't gonna be for nobody you know, you know,
- 12:40Speaker 5: ship man, I'm.
- 12:42Speaker 1: Just trying to continue to live on and do what
- 12:46Speaker 1: I do. How many kids you got, Michaels h seven.
- 12:50Speaker 2: And you think about it, you think you got some
- 12:59Speaker 2: kids out there?
- 13:00Speaker 1: I hope not. You not. You ain't that kind of guy.
- 13:05Speaker 2: I'm glad you know that you ain't.
- 13:06Speaker 1: That kind of guy.
- 13:07Speaker 4: But you're not either, don't.
- 13:09Speaker 5: I'm not.
- 13:10Speaker 2: Now she has a naptime playing what you're talking about.
- 13:12Speaker 5: But but back in the day, keeps.
- 13:17Speaker 6: Up all the smoke went. Just focus over here. I'm
- 13:22Speaker 6: trying to keep you in again, good graces. Yes, So
- 13:24Speaker 6: don't lean into what he's doing.
- 13:27Speaker 2: You can talk about your old day, old days.
- 13:29Speaker 5: The old days, they old days, slanging it like a pistol,
- 13:35Speaker 5: slanging it man. But you know what though, Hey man,
- 13:40Speaker 5: if you can survive anything and be there to talk
- 13:44Speaker 5: about it, it's it's cash money, that's right.
- 13:48Speaker 1: I don't care what it is. If you survived it,
- 13:50Speaker 1: you're standing there talking about it. It's cash money.
- 13:52Speaker 2: That's why we're looking to magic Johnson so heavy now,
- 13:54Speaker 2: that's right, that's right Johnson.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you'll forget sometimes.
- 14:02Speaker 2: You forget that he got. Yeah, you see what I'm
- 14:05Speaker 2: saying some.
- 14:05Speaker 1: Of the women probably do too. They probably they forget
- 14:08Speaker 1: that you are crazy.
- 14:11Speaker 3: You got a young child too, Yeah, so how was
- 14:13Speaker 3: being old head because we all had raising that young child.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Man. I love it. They're giving me life. I gotta,
- 14:20Speaker 1: I gotta.
- 14:20Speaker 5: I got a son four years old, and I got
- 14:22Speaker 5: a daughter, uh five, and they give me life.
- 14:27Speaker 1: I mean like, and I ain't no old type dude.
- 14:31Speaker 5: I can get him run right now, fast as I
- 14:33Speaker 5: want to and do whatever I want to do.
- 14:35Speaker 4: Why are you looking at me when you said that?
- 14:37Speaker 6: You looked at me when you said that that you're
- 14:39Speaker 6: not no old dude, no old type dude.
- 14:44Speaker 4: I meant it by like iconic legend ag like you
- 14:47Speaker 4: have that.
- 14:48Speaker 2: You have it, you know what I mean?
- 14:49Speaker 4: Like you got that. I didn't mean it like think
- 14:51Speaker 4: about it.
- 14:52Speaker 2: You only you fifty four. You gotta five old four
- 14:55Speaker 2: years old, So think about that. Steve Harvey sixty eight.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Yeah, Eddie Murphy and his six they look good, going good,
- 15:02Speaker 1: like we.
- 15:02Speaker 2: Got to live sixty nine.
- 15:04Speaker 1: I think that's right.
- 15:05Speaker 4: Let it over here too. I didn't mean it that way.
- 15:08Speaker 4: I mean so good.
- 15:11Speaker 1: Old her wig looked, mate, she ain't gonna wig on
- 15:14Speaker 1: thank you.
- 15:15Speaker 4: I appreciate it. It's growing from the scot you hate her.
- 15:18Speaker 6: Yeah, he just happy because his face surgery is new,
- 15:21Speaker 6: so he's still giving one color on the face.
- 15:25Speaker 4: So that's what he What.
- 15:31Speaker 2: The fuck did I just walk into talking about his
- 15:34Speaker 2: old face?
- 15:37Speaker 5: Yeah, all tree of y'all, Man, I say, I love
- 15:41Speaker 5: that that.
- 15:42Speaker 1: That was my best interview, y'all.
- 15:44Speaker 2: It was only twenty.
- 15:46Speaker 5: I love that interview. It was so hilarious. All tree
- 15:50Speaker 5: of y'all. Don't say my name, no mo Yeah, man,
- 15:55Speaker 5: I love it.
- 15:56Speaker 1: Man.
- 15:56Speaker 5: But right now I'm on this tour right now, shout out,
- 16:01Speaker 5: shout out to be in entertainment.
- 16:03Speaker 4: You done with the mess because I did have some
- 16:05Speaker 4: other questions.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Better about a couple of minutes later.
- 16:10Speaker 4: Okay, So thang, the I mentioned all the smoke.
- 16:13Speaker 6: You had to come up with the apology after sitting
- 16:16Speaker 6: on all the smoke, and you talked about learning how
- 16:18Speaker 6: to finally get to it's white. Yeah, when you said
- 16:21Speaker 6: down all all the smoke podcasts with my Barnes, because
- 16:23Speaker 6: even you said that you were you wanted to get
- 16:26Speaker 6: to a point where you were treating women one hundred
- 16:28Speaker 6: percent right or something like that. And I think people
- 16:29Speaker 6: took it the wrong way because you've been with your
- 16:31Speaker 6: wife for a while. I saw y'all at NAACP Image
- 16:35Speaker 6: Awards looked amazing. But does that even come back up
- 16:38Speaker 6: in conversation with your relationship or how does she handle
- 16:41Speaker 6: you been able to joke like you just did about
- 16:42Speaker 6: things now that that has happened.
- 16:44Speaker 5: No, my wife's a grown ass woman. She's she's she's
- 16:48Speaker 5: the truth. My wife is the truth, and she's a
- 16:52Speaker 5: grown woman.
- 16:53Speaker 1: She don't pay attention to none of that Patty ship
- 16:56Speaker 1: not Patty. She ain't. She ain't no little girl.
- 16:58Speaker 5: So yeah, she can decipe from when I'm saying something
- 17:01Speaker 5: that that I might not have meant.
- 17:03Speaker 1: The right way or whatever.
- 17:05Speaker 5: She know when I'm talking ship and when i'm you know,
- 17:08Speaker 5: she know me. So I didn't say nothing to really
- 17:13Speaker 5: offend nobody, you know, But it is the truth.
- 17:16Speaker 1: It takes me in a long time to get the
- 17:18Speaker 1: ship together.
- 17:19Speaker 5: And every woman that's with a man, it's got to
- 17:22Speaker 5: be a little bit more patient than we are with
- 17:24Speaker 5: them because it takes a while. It takes a while
- 17:27Speaker 5: for a man to you know, get her ship together.
- 17:31Speaker 5: It's I mean, we we got were fighting up against
- 17:33Speaker 5: so much temptation.
- 17:34Speaker 1: It's like, damn, it's like, whoa. You gotta be a.
- 17:38Speaker 5: Certain kind of guy to really survive and navigate through
- 17:42Speaker 5: the world.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Charlamae.
- 17:43Speaker 2: We was just talking about Whoopi Goldberg the other day.
- 17:45Speaker 1: Is that what you want?
- 17:49Speaker 2: She looked good last night. She did look good, you
- 17:52Speaker 2: know good.
- 17:52Speaker 1: She on the view.
- 17:53Speaker 2: She looked a little a little fluffy, but she looked
- 17:55Speaker 2: her skin was right, skin was right. You know, body
- 17:58Speaker 2: looked right last night night with compliment, nothing to do
- 18:04Speaker 2: it nothing.
- 18:08Speaker 1: Well, let me find out.
- 18:13Speaker 5: But this tour that I'm.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Yeah, because this is what I came to promote, this tour.
- 18:18Speaker 2: This tour we didn't want, we want this tour.
- 18:21Speaker 1: I came to.
- 18:22Speaker 5: Promote this man because we got some young, bad comedians.
- 18:25Speaker 5: And if you're in a city and you ain't seen
- 18:28Speaker 5: this tour, I mean probably a lot of y'all probably
- 18:30Speaker 5: seen wilding out you know them a little.
- 18:33Speaker 1: It's all right, wilding out, you know, don't shock and
- 18:37Speaker 1: wilding out.
- 18:38Speaker 5: I'm just saying, they do a tour, but you'll do
- 18:41Speaker 5: to Cannon and there they're doing a tour, but we
- 18:44Speaker 5: do it. This tour right here is this is the
- 18:48Speaker 5: best young comics coming up in the game right now.
- 18:52Speaker 2: How did it become like a staple tour? Because, like
- 18:54Speaker 2: I remember, it started a few years ago. Yeah, but
- 18:56Speaker 2: like every year since y'all been doing this. So how
- 18:58Speaker 2: did it become like a staple tour?
- 19:00Speaker 5: Well, shout out to my man Blake Man promoter out
- 19:03Speaker 5: of Chicago. This young brother has been promoting for a
- 19:07Speaker 5: long time.
- 19:07Speaker 1: He does a great job.
- 19:10Speaker 5: He started out before I started, Before I came along,
- 19:14Speaker 5: he had d Ray. He was doing like d Ray
- 19:18Speaker 5: so many other shoes shows in Chicago for New Year's Eve,
- 19:21Speaker 5: and they were selling out sometime two and three shows, man,
- 19:24Speaker 5: ten twenty thousand people. So when he put this tour together,
- 19:28Speaker 5: you know, I came along and like I said, Man,
- 19:32Speaker 5: we come on, man. You got Country Wayne, you got
- 19:35Speaker 5: Little Duval, you got Corey Holcomb, you got Tony Roberts,
- 19:38Speaker 5: you got.
- 19:39Speaker 1: Bubba dubb Manjo.
- 19:45Speaker 5: Man, these tell me any young comics is better than
- 19:49Speaker 5: these young dudes.
- 19:50Speaker 1: These young dudes O G is in the now.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Corey is o G. See, I don't think nobody's funnier
- 19:55Speaker 2: than a lot of the o G. Like Corey is
- 19:57Speaker 2: one of the funniest world to me.
- 20:00Speaker 1: Wrong, Yeah, he gonna say what he want to say,
- 20:03Speaker 1: how you want to say it. He don't care. And
- 20:06Speaker 1: and and that's the great thing.
- 20:07Speaker 5: We it's a nucleus of young dudes, and we throw
- 20:11Speaker 5: in a couple of old guys in there.
- 20:13Speaker 1: But it's still a young, happy hopping tour, you know
- 20:16Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So this tour is good. Man. We
- 20:20Speaker 1: was in Brooklyn last night.
- 20:21Speaker 5: They messed around and put us today after the fight,
- 20:24Speaker 5: so we didn't get the crowd. Last year we did
- 20:26Speaker 5: ten thousand people in plays and this year we only
- 20:30Speaker 5: did about four thousand.
- 20:31Speaker 1: But you know, the fight. The fight kind of messed
- 20:35Speaker 1: us up. But this tour, it was weird.
- 20:36Speaker 2: It was on a Sunday. I didn't even know y'all
- 20:37Speaker 2: was in time.
- 20:38Speaker 3: We thought you were coming up here to promote God.
- 20:41Speaker 2: Because I don't even know. I didn't even know I
- 20:43Speaker 2: was gonna go.
- 20:43Speaker 3: But then we wasn't gonna go.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Comedy show, Yeah, out all the time show. I was
- 20:52Speaker 2: gonna ask, how do you how do you.
- 20:54Speaker 3: Well, what's the worst show that you see? And how
- 20:57Speaker 3: do you talk to a comedian about getting booed? The
- 20:59Speaker 3: reason I asked Charlamagne toast all the time ain't nothing
- 21:02Speaker 3: funny in the comedian being booed.
- 21:03Speaker 1: Right.
- 21:04Speaker 3: Then over the weekend, I happen to turn on and
- 21:05Speaker 3: I see a good friend Donelle getting booed. So how
- 21:08Speaker 3: do you talk to a comedian after that?
- 21:11Speaker 2: What do you tell them?
- 21:12Speaker 1: Big brother advice?
- 21:13Speaker 5: You know, every show is different, man, you know, but
- 21:16Speaker 5: getting booed as a comic, that's a tough one. That's
- 21:20Speaker 5: a tough one because it's a reevaluation of who you
- 21:23Speaker 5: are and what you do. And don't be no older
- 21:26Speaker 5: like Downell, he's too goddamn old to get booed.
- 21:30Speaker 2: Record, I do want to get you a comic.
- 21:33Speaker 1: He was judging, okay, judging, and.
- 21:36Speaker 2: One of them white boy groo and boy wasn't feeling Lord,
- 21:43Speaker 2: he didn't gotna know. I was trying to because I
- 21:45Speaker 2: ain't texted BT it get mad that you mentioned that
- 21:49Speaker 2: right now? He was hoping that with the white people.
- 21:52Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know what.
- 21:55Speaker 5: Every day is a different day, man, you know what
- 21:57Speaker 5: I mean? And some days you're gonna have your jokes
- 22:00Speaker 5: are gonna work. I could do a joke one night
- 22:04Speaker 5: and it blows. It's kills in Detroit, and then I
- 22:07Speaker 5: go to Brooklyn the next night, and it ain't popping,
- 22:09Speaker 5: but it's just different energy.
- 22:11Speaker 1: You know, different cities, different energy. But if you do
- 22:14Speaker 1: get booed, gotta go reevaluate your self. You gotta go
- 22:18Speaker 1: think about some ship that you said and did.
- 22:20Speaker 5: You can't get booed again because that shit all get
- 22:23Speaker 5: you kicked out the business.
- 22:24Speaker 3: What's the toughest city to perform?
- 22:28Speaker 5: The toughest city to perform? It used to be New York,
- 22:33Speaker 5: but I would say Chicagogo because because everybody's funny, just
- 22:38Speaker 5: the average human being out there in Chicago, they funny
- 22:41Speaker 5: as hell. And they sitting there looking at you, like
- 22:43Speaker 5: what you're gonna say, Joe? You know that's one of
- 22:47Speaker 5: them towns.
- 22:48Speaker 1: Is like they come to criticize your ass.
- 22:53Speaker 2: You congratuate your daughter got accepted to the New York
- 22:55Speaker 2: University drama.
- 22:56Speaker 1: And why university?
- 22:59Speaker 2: University? How did that make you feel as a father?
- 23:05Speaker 1: Oh?
- 23:05Speaker 5: Man, this is the thing. I didn't graduate from high school.
- 23:09Speaker 5: I was in I was a special aired student. And
- 23:13Speaker 5: for my daughter to graduate and go to NYU, it's
- 23:18Speaker 5: it's a compliment, you know.
- 23:20Speaker 1: And I had to give her mother props as well.
- 23:24Speaker 5: Her mother did a great job with her, But my
- 23:27Speaker 5: daughter is running.
- 23:29Speaker 1: Around n y U.
- 23:30Speaker 5: And that's the same place I ran around doing comedy
- 23:33Speaker 5: at in the village. I used to sit in that
- 23:36Speaker 5: Washington Park and with no money and watch people and
- 23:39Speaker 5: people watching.
- 23:41Speaker 1: And now my.
- 23:41Speaker 5: Daughter's running around that same area in college. So man,
- 23:46Speaker 5: I'm grateful, and I just thank God that that I
- 23:49Speaker 5: was able to raise a child to be able to
- 23:52Speaker 5: go get an education.
- 23:53Speaker 1: You know.
- 23:54Speaker 2: So that's what it is. Because he was a special
- 23:57Speaker 2: Hell yeah, I had. I was in there for a
- 23:59Speaker 2: semester because I felt a class. So I wasn't like
- 24:01Speaker 2: I mean, I feel a standing out his test.
- 24:04Speaker 1: But they had me in.
- 24:04Speaker 2: One math class that was specially with a specially. I
- 24:08Speaker 2: wasn't in special specially.
- 24:09Speaker 1: No, you was in there, nigga, I don't know what
- 24:13Speaker 1: it was there for thirty minutes.
- 24:17Speaker 2: Man, I want.
- 24:22Speaker 4: People, but like you was outside.
- 24:25Speaker 5: With the But special education is not about the short bus.
- 24:34Speaker 5: See a lot of people get it twisted. There are
- 24:38Speaker 5: kids that are slow learners. They don't know how to
- 24:41Speaker 5: learn as fast as other kids.
- 24:43Speaker 2: That's how it was.
- 24:43Speaker 5: I could read a whole book and tell you couldn't
- 24:45Speaker 5: tell you what it was, but you got to give them.
- 24:48Speaker 5: Kids a break too, because you look look at Elion Musk.
- 24:52Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a dude.
- 24:53Speaker 5: You could damn you could tell he wasn't doing ship
- 24:56Speaker 5: in the class room, you know what I mean. But
- 24:59Speaker 5: look who he is, look where he's at, and and
- 25:02Speaker 5: not to pick them up or to knock them down,
- 25:04Speaker 5: but you gotta give people a chance. You don't know
- 25:06Speaker 5: what a kid gonna turn out to be. And that's
- 25:09Speaker 5: how I am. I mean, man, it's it's so hard
- 25:11Speaker 5: to I run into people who treated me like shit,
- 25:15Speaker 5: and I still treat them nice because I know they
- 25:18Speaker 5: don't know. I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna give you a
- 25:20Speaker 5: break cause I know you didn't know I was gonna
- 25:21Speaker 5: be somebody, and I'm gonna still treat you nice.
- 25:24Speaker 1: Because you didn't know.
- 25:26Speaker 5: But that also taught me you treat people who you
- 25:31Speaker 5: might not really have it at the time. You gotta
- 25:32Speaker 5: treat them good too, because you don't know what the
- 25:34Speaker 5: hell is gonna happen.
- 25:35Speaker 2: I don't respect people like that, do I judge people
- 25:37Speaker 2: based off how they treat people that can't do nothing
- 25:38Speaker 2: for him.
- 25:39Speaker 1: That's right.
- 25:40Speaker 2: So you gotta treat the custodian the same way you
- 25:41Speaker 2: treat the CEEO. I don't respect that if I see
- 25:43Speaker 2: you talking to Custodia, but you treat the CEEO nice.
- 25:46Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yours out of here. Man, this is we
- 25:50Speaker 5: are the ones too it man. I'm your host, Mike,
- 25:53Speaker 5: and we're gonna be coming to every local city we're
- 25:56Speaker 5: going to.
- 25:57Speaker 1: We'll be in Hey, let me help you. Let me
- 25:58Speaker 1: help it.
- 25:58Speaker 3: Detroit on the seventh, on the eighth, come on Fairfax
- 26:02Speaker 3: on the ninth. Come on March fourteenth, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 26:06Speaker 3: Let's go, fifteenth Alabama, twenty first, Tennessee. Hit him with,
- 26:10Speaker 3: twenty second South Carolina, Greenville, twenty third, seven five seven, hem,
- 26:14Speaker 3: Come on the twenty eighth, Columbia, South Carolina, Come on
- 26:18Speaker 3: twenty ninth, North Carolina, and the thirtieth Charlotte, North Carolina.
- 26:21Speaker 5: You only got a website, man, go get Yeah, we
- 26:23Speaker 5: got a website, But that shit he just did it's
- 26:25Speaker 5: really gonna work. You got a shout out there. How
- 26:32Speaker 5: long Bafors Club been going, Man, it'll be.
- 26:34Speaker 2: Fifteen years this year, fifteen sixteen years.
- 26:36Speaker 1: Do you know the first time I met him, he
- 26:38Speaker 1: was working with Wendy William.
- 26:39Speaker 2: Yeah, how was that was?
- 26:40Speaker 1: He sitting on that apple with but he was sitting
- 26:42Speaker 1: in the corner quiet.
- 26:43Speaker 5: Really, Yes you was on the show, but you wasn't
- 26:47Speaker 5: saying shit, he's on time out.
- 26:49Speaker 1: And then I looked up.
- 26:50Speaker 5: Again and I seen I seen you with. I'm like
- 26:53Speaker 5: this dude, that was the dude. That's a show and
- 26:58Speaker 5: he ended up with a show.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Be Alas absolutely remember that.
- 27:03Speaker 5: And she had she wasn't even man, it was crazy.
- 27:06Speaker 5: So man, I'm proud of y'all than you, brother, I said,
- 27:09Speaker 5: I've seen dj MB before he got in the game.
- 27:12Speaker 5: I said, just see you just out and about doing
- 27:15Speaker 5: ship in New York. I said, man, you guys really
- 27:18Speaker 5: came up.
- 27:19Speaker 2: You know, I want to ask you. We had Joquee
- 27:20Speaker 2: up here.
- 27:21Speaker 5: Yeah, jack Quee, he said, you know.
- 27:24Speaker 2: What man, Mike Mike Michael front for one second and herself,
- 27:38Speaker 2: Queen said, and I told my own believes. He said,
- 27:41Speaker 2: you told him he was the next Marvin Gay.
- 27:44Speaker 5: Well, I told him, I said, Jock jack Queeese, I
- 27:48Speaker 5: told him.
- 27:49Speaker 1: He could be.
- 27:50Speaker 2: Why you lie to that man like that was it
- 27:52Speaker 2: a lie? Yes? Good?
- 27:55Speaker 1: You can't sing to you?
- 27:58Speaker 6: Absolutely, you said he you look at him like Marvin Gay,
- 28:01Speaker 6: Like he's like our generation's Marvin Gay.
- 28:03Speaker 4: I think people were.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Like I told him, Michaels hot man, Michael, Mike wanted
- 28:06Speaker 2: to make you feel good that day.
- 28:08Speaker 5: Hey man, let me tell you something, man, the man
- 28:11Speaker 5: can it's probably some little girl out there that think
- 28:14Speaker 5: this niggas Marvin Gay.
- 28:16Speaker 1: And you gotta sometimes.
- 28:17Speaker 5: You have to say, man, I'm I'm I'm about empowering
- 28:21Speaker 5: the youth, and I'll tell them that they can be
- 28:24Speaker 5: the president, knowing damn well they can't.
- 28:27Speaker 2: You ain't gonna tell none of these little young comedians
- 28:29Speaker 2: they can be. They can be.
- 28:30Speaker 1: Richard Bryant, Yeah, told all of.
- 28:32Speaker 3: Them, appreciate you for joining us.
- 28:41Speaker 1: Brother, told them all.
- 28:48Speaker 4: Mike's Club coming this year.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Club.
- 28:51Speaker 5: No, I ain't gonna do no club because I'm still
- 28:54Speaker 5: trying to figure out why I'm like.
- 28:56Speaker 1: I told, and I told I was like, I had
- 28:58Speaker 1: to sit down.
- 29:00Speaker 5: Up y'all gott to bring some white men on here
- 29:01Speaker 5: and grill them. You can't just grill black people. That
- 29:05Speaker 5: shit ain't right.
- 29:07Speaker 2: You.
- 29:07Speaker 5: I know we make money off clickbaiting and ship, but
- 29:10Speaker 5: clickbait them white folks. Get some of your NFL players
- 29:13Speaker 5: that you know was fucked up. Get him on the
- 29:15Speaker 5: show because real Cat Williams that ship he did.
- 29:19Speaker 1: It was good, but it was bad. It was it
- 29:21Speaker 1: was It was good.
- 29:22Speaker 5: Because we enjoyed it, but damn man, he hurt them
- 29:27Speaker 5: dudes feeling saying all that crazy shit. So we got man,
- 29:30Speaker 5: we gotta we gotta balance it out, man, Shannon Sharp,
- 29:33Speaker 5: if you're listening, get we want to see you interview
- 29:35Speaker 5: some of them football players, some of them white football
- 29:38Speaker 5: players that was in.
- 29:39Speaker 1: The NFL that was fucked up, just a bouncing I.
- 29:43Speaker 5: Don't know race ship, but you can't just interview black
- 29:46Speaker 5: men and let them pour out they all they pain
- 29:49Speaker 5: on television, on these on these podcasts. Man, that's some bullshit,
- 29:54Speaker 5: you know, because we more than just problems.
- 29:58Speaker 1: We we we everything, man.
- 29:59Speaker 5: We we got talent, you know, we got families, We
- 30:03Speaker 5: were entrepreneurs.
- 30:04Speaker 1: We all of that.
- 30:05Speaker 5: So we have to keep shedding the light on the
- 30:08Speaker 5: positive part of that. We already they already, we already
- 30:12Speaker 5: got enough negative light.
- 30:14Speaker 1: So we want to podcast.
- 30:16Speaker 5: We want to start bringing people on the letter even
- 30:18Speaker 5: though you know people don't want to hear that ship.
- 30:20Speaker 1: But man, let's talk about some positive.
- 30:24Speaker 2: Ship on these you know, like Naptown Productions, Naptown production.
- 30:28Speaker 2: Got Good American Family that come out on WHLU this
- 30:30Speaker 2: Sunday Night Family.
- 30:32Speaker 5: Yeah, I produced the show Good American Family with Ellen Pompeo,
- 30:37Speaker 5: another Naptown production. Shout out to my team TC, my
- 30:42Speaker 5: man Nile, shout out to Big shout out to my wife,
- 30:46Speaker 5: you know, because that's where it starts. You know, before
- 30:48Speaker 5: you leave a house, you got to be all the
- 30:50Speaker 5: way right. So big shout out. Everybody should give my
- 30:53Speaker 5: wife a prize because she's the ones that's getting me
- 30:55Speaker 5: to these TV shows.
- 30:56Speaker 1: And you know what I mean.
- 30:58Speaker 5: But I was able to douce that show man and
- 31:01Speaker 5: it's all white casts based out of Indianapolis. If you
- 31:04Speaker 5: haven't ever seen the movie The Dwarf, that's what it's
- 31:08Speaker 5: about about this young girl who played to be an adult,
- 31:14Speaker 5: but she was really a kid and they adopted her
- 31:18Speaker 5: and she was trying to kill him.
- 31:20Speaker 2: But anyway, has approached you about Last Friday.
- 31:23Speaker 5: He called me the other day, Wow, said we're doing
- 31:26Speaker 5: just finished the deal. Oh wow, so we're doing the
- 31:29Speaker 5: Last Friday. Man And big shot out to qube Man.
- 31:33Speaker 5: That's another brother that has put so many brothers on man.
- 31:38Speaker 5: This dude, man, this dude, put so and don't really
- 31:42Speaker 5: get the props for it. You know, put me Chris Tucker, Bernie,
- 31:47Speaker 5: I mean name him. The dude gave dudes opportunities, and
- 31:50Speaker 5: that's what I'm doing on the Upshaws man I got.
- 31:53Speaker 5: I just had Scarface on the show acting. I had
- 31:56Speaker 5: PG Pablo on the show. I had so many comics
- 31:59Speaker 5: on the show. And you know that's what we do.
- 32:02Speaker 1: We turned. We were turning.
- 32:03Speaker 5: On black men, putting black men in the position where
- 32:06Speaker 5: they can feed their family and build legacies.
- 32:08Speaker 2: Have you seen the script for lats right.
- 32:10Speaker 5: I haven't seen the script, but I'm pretty sure it's good.
- 32:12Speaker 5: And we're gonna bring in the new comics. We're gonna
- 32:15Speaker 5: put the DC young Flies and all of them in
- 32:17Speaker 5: with the old GESU. It's gonna be a good ass.
- 32:19Speaker 2: Chris Tucky gonna be part of it. Through you, Chris,
- 32:21Speaker 2: they're gonna combine all the world.
- 32:23Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get Chris Tucker.
- 32:25Speaker 5: You know, we need to get Chris Tucker on that,
- 32:28Speaker 5: because people still love Chris Tucker. He's still smoking. He
- 32:31Speaker 5: laid it down, he put the positioned me to do it.
- 32:34Speaker 5: So Chris, if you listen to it, we need your
- 32:36Speaker 5: baby boy, come on back. You know, wh y'all thought shooting,
- 32:39Speaker 5: well know when we start shooting, But the deal done,
- 32:41Speaker 5: The deal's done, and the Upshaws keep watching up Shots Man.
- 32:45Speaker 5: Shout out to Wanda Sykes, shout out to to Kim Fields,
- 32:48Speaker 5: the whole cast.
- 32:50Speaker 1: I love them people.
- 32:51Speaker 5: Man. Unfortunately this is our last season. But no, we
- 32:55Speaker 5: did five seasons.
- 32:56Speaker 6: You know, but when I tell you my grandmama, they
- 33:01Speaker 6: swear by the.
- 33:05Speaker 4: By last season, the show was changing.
- 33:09Speaker 1: The kids are getting older, you know what I mean.
- 33:12Speaker 5: It's had is run, you know, and sometimes those shows
- 33:17Speaker 5: do that. Man.
- 33:18Speaker 1: You know, me and Tiffany had this have a show now, okay.
- 33:21Speaker 5: That we're about to do together, dope. That's like the
- 33:23Speaker 5: up shows. It's gonna be about the bar, like Cheers,
- 33:27Speaker 5: Black Cheers.
- 33:27Speaker 1: It's gonna be off the hood, dope. Yeah. Okay.
- 33:30Speaker 5: So so man, we're gonna keep the ball rolling. We're
- 33:32Speaker 5: gonna keep some entertainment in your face, you know.
- 33:34Speaker 2: That's right, and support everything tour that's we didn't want to.
- 33:40Speaker 4: I'm coming like three to tour dates, so you know
- 33:42Speaker 4: I didn't mean to come on, yeah.
- 33:44Speaker 3: Come on, no, I ain't gonna take that it's Mike
- 33:47Speaker 3: As it's the Breakfast Club.
- 33:48Speaker 2: Good morning, wake that ass up in the morning.
- 33:52Speaker 1: Breakfast Club