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John Witherspoon Interview · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a real y real celebrity joined the Breakfast Morning
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  Speaker 1: everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee Sharlo Mine the guy.
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  Speaker 1: We all the Breakfast Club special guests with us this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Mister John Weatherspoons, mister Weatherspoon, Hey, thank you for having me. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you cold, but I'm happy to be here. You
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  Speaker 1: look good, man, seventy three years young, semi three. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna get go to buy one hundred and twenty.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna got around one twenty about four thirty in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon. You know, you guys interest me man, because
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  Speaker 1: we had Larry King up here a couple of days ago,
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  Speaker 1: and he's eighty one, eighty one, and it's just like
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  Speaker 1: y'all just keep moving, y'all, just keep going. Eighty one.
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  Speaker 1: His wife is like fifty five or something. That's a
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  Speaker 1: good that's a good combination. Yeah, it's a good gal.
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  Speaker 1: What keeps you going? Man? Um working and getting his paper.
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  Speaker 1: I was a broken man when I was coming up.
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  Speaker 1: See yeah, yeah, he'd have been broken a long can.
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  Speaker 1: But but the fact he is that you never forget.
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  Speaker 1: I was from a family eleven kids, right, Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: uh we either had a paper. So you know, now
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  Speaker 1: that I'm making money, I'm doing fine. You know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: keeps me working is uh. I used to go to
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  Speaker 1: school like colders is right now. So I used to
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  Speaker 1: wear two left boots school. My mother made me wear
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  Speaker 1: the two left boots fifth grade. Hey, people say that,
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  Speaker 1: how do you wear two left boots? You've got to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kick your ass out the house. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you wear. But that's the right boot, the left foot,
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  Speaker 1: the right foot. I don't know which you called the
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  Speaker 1: boots with two left boots. Yeah, so, um, you never
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  Speaker 1: forget that when you're growing up. And you grew up
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Louis, Detroit, Detroit, Motor City. My brother used
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  Speaker 1: to wearing at Motown. So I knew all the people.
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  Speaker 1: I knew MYBN gating the temps, and I played basketball
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  Speaker 1: with Attempts and I know Smokey today, I knew I
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  Speaker 1: knew all those people in Detroit. Or were you cool?
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  Speaker 1: You were cool with Bill Cosby Hunt. I met him once,
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  Speaker 1: I think in passing. Really we want to airplane? I think?
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  Speaker 1: And I met Bill cause but I didn't. We were
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  Speaker 1: in the same uh arenas. They will never let me
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  Speaker 1: in the Playboy Club, play mansion. I try to get
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  Speaker 1: in the pay to get in. Let me, I've been
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  Speaker 1: there at one time. When did you go in there? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah for a party. But um so, when you see
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  Speaker 1: everything that's happening with him, and you know he's had
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  Speaker 1: a long, illustrious career towards the end of his career,
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  Speaker 1: his name is just miss mud. Yeah, what do you
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  Speaker 1: what do you have to say about something like that
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  Speaker 1: and those allegations, Well, he must have handsome misunderstanding with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of women, because they don't They didn't particularly
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  Speaker 1: like what he did to him. But he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to do this. You get the paper a club. Women
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  Speaker 1: aren't run around naked right there. So why are you
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  Speaker 1: giving somebody they say you gave them appeal or some
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  Speaker 1: some liquid. You don't need to do that. That's a fetiship.
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  Speaker 1: You've got a different kind of thing going. How do
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  Speaker 1: you avoid being accused of things happening? You know? Did
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  Speaker 1: you ever? Were you ever in a situation? When were
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  Speaker 1: you ever in a situation where you didn't do something
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  Speaker 1: but somebody accused you of No? Never, No, it ain't
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  Speaker 1: happened yet. You're too late in the game. But I
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  Speaker 1: got too much game. Now, Oh no, I never had
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  Speaker 1: that happened to me. But Bill shouldn't. I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing in a situation like this. I think
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  Speaker 1: some people have fetishes though, Like maybe for some people
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  Speaker 1: that's what turns them mind, Like he got too much game.
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  Speaker 1: If they said I gave him some pills or anything
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  Speaker 1: woman will get for me, it is I high blood pressure,
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  Speaker 1: peel some chlestol medicine and her blad. I might be
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  Speaker 1: okay because I take them bad appeals to So no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't never been a game like that. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: be careful, though, you gotta be careful. Yeah, well you're
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  Speaker 1: really in the civil rights movement, you told you, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: But we walked down Whatevernue once and I used to
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  Speaker 1: cursh out the TV hill out. Yeah, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I was back in the civil rights movement. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I did all that when I was coming up, man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and Martin Luther King was there. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: we didn't march as much as they did in the house. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody Detroit nineteen sixty something, like players pimps. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they walked ahead the catalacs and the hand comped y'all
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  Speaker 1: drove down the blay Joel with with the woman sitting
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  Speaker 1: there with the red talking about we shall overcome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you still got a light little cart going. No, just actually,
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  Speaker 1: when you die, your head it's straightened out on yourself. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's all that is. When his dad come out to
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  Speaker 1: head my head gonna chap. What's your relationship with Eddie Murphy,
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  Speaker 1: he says, A good friend. Yeah, I'm real good friend
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  Speaker 1: and worked with him. He called me for jobs and
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know him. Gonna get said, I want
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  Speaker 1: spoon to do that. That's really cool. Well, Richard probably
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  Speaker 1: used to do the same thing when I knew Richard.
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  Speaker 1: But Eddie we worked on a vampire and Brooklyn together.
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  Speaker 1: We a lot to get. You're talking about somebody funny
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  Speaker 1: when the cameras are off, that's when Eddie real funny.
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  Speaker 1: You know a lot you saw. Did you see him
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  Speaker 1: out the other night the forty fanniversary? Yeah, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see that. But but the fact that that part didn't
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  Speaker 1: talk about build called me. That wasn't nothing anyway, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was nothing. Eddie got enough money, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do crap like that. Another comedian was telling
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  Speaker 1: me all. Eddie Murphy was scared. I'm like Eddie Murphy.
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  Speaker 1: He got so much money he went to he went
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  Speaker 1: to smashing in the face. I'm gonna go with it,
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  Speaker 1: but I ain't gonna do nothing. That's all that was.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do it, dude? You get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: that too, because I feel like people like Eddie don't
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  Speaker 1: get appreciated by the institutions that they helped establish. With me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a damn. I don't people appreciate me,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't give it day appreciate me or not.
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  Speaker 1: I got some money. Now, I have all the movies
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  Speaker 1: that you've been in. What do you think there is
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  Speaker 1: a part two? A sequel everyone that you've been in?
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  Speaker 1: What would you love to see a part two of it?
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know. You know, Friday, they
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  Speaker 1: need to do another one of those. That's what I
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  Speaker 1: think I make. I make a lot of money on
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  Speaker 1: that one, the original Cash. We gotta be crazy. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: got to come back. Chris King is not coming back.
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  Speaker 1: He got saved, and that's what I'm told. And he
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  Speaker 1: got his U income tax stuff taking care of now
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  Speaker 1: with the government, so now he's fine, right, But me
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  Speaker 1: thinking about my little world. Yeah, I like to have
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  Speaker 1: another Fourth Friday. Already the third Friday they paid a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, so they knew they got to give
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  Speaker 1: your more money on the fourth front. M So that's
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  Speaker 1: the one. I think I ready to come back. And
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  Speaker 1: also I love the vampan Brooklyn. That was a good movie.
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  Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun. Oh yeah, it'd be funny.
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  Speaker 1: And it ended like it was gonna be a sequel
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  Speaker 1: because hardest we've been. He was the he was a
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  Speaker 1: vampire now yeah, and that was a lemousine driver. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but never did they never nobody picked it up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you could disappoint him because I'm thinking myself, boy,
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  Speaker 1: it's him. They're gonna do a sequel on this called
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  Speaker 1: anything like it's gonna be a sequel. He said, you
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  Speaker 1: worked with Robin Williams too on this when you used
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  Speaker 1: to work with Richard Pryor. Yeah, Robin had just come
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  Speaker 1: in town. We were all day players. We only got
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  Speaker 1: about five hundred dollars a week. And Robin had a
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  Speaker 1: little young dude. He was real scared. He's and they
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  Speaker 1: made him an extra. He was an extra in the movies.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Prye would would say, I won't spoon to be
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  Speaker 1: in this scene. Let's spoon do this. Let's spoon do this. Robin.
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  Speaker 1: Let him stand in the corner. But you know he
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  Speaker 1: give Robin spots. So Robin was the lawyer when I
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  Speaker 1: was charged with raping a white woman. Remember that he
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  Speaker 1: was our lawyer. And let him at lib. We both
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  Speaker 1: at lib. And it's a funny scene. You got charge
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  Speaker 1: of raping a white woman. No, I did you ever
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  Speaker 1: get accused or something? No, no, no, I never. I't
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  Speaker 1: got a job ripping no white Did you appreciate Robert
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  Speaker 1: Robin was a cofine was drugs there he went, a
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  Speaker 1: coke fine or drug dealer. He loved cocaine, and one
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  Speaker 1: time he saved me. You know, I was you know,
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  Speaker 1: I would hit everybody coke. But one time I bought
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  Speaker 1: a Grandma cocaine in my own and I had had
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  Speaker 1: no idea how much you get you, I know, you
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  Speaker 1: get that little power for one hundred dollars. I was shocked,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm hitting my little cokea I had a
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  Speaker 1: little spoon around my neck in the back of the
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  Speaker 1: communist store, and so Robin come in there and I'm hit.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't joke yeah, man, and Robin came to they want
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  Speaker 1: to hit my coke. He I get in the cope. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Rob here I getting the spoon off my neck. He
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  Speaker 1: went into my little vowel with a little brown violin,
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  Speaker 1: hit that coke and turning to the side and fip
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  Speaker 1: some coke and yeah, damn, Robin, idn't know you hoover
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  Speaker 1: back and clean the company coach was regular back then, though, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like well you know, well, you know what when Richard
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  Speaker 1: Pride come on stage, the cope man would have somebody's
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  Speaker 1: at the door to give Richard, give his bodyguards and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: cope to give it to Richard. Um, if you like it,
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  Speaker 1: I got you can buy more. That's what they do.
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  Speaker 1: They give you a lot of They wouldn't give it
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  Speaker 1: to me, but they give it the Richard. But Richard
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  Speaker 1: probably his biopic. Had they asked you just for some consulting,
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  Speaker 1: like maybe some good stories. Well I knew, well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what happened in the comedy store back then. I
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  Speaker 1: was there MC, the host of the show, and Richard
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  Speaker 1: would come in. I didn't know he's in the room.
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  Speaker 1: He'd be sitting in the back and he would say
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  Speaker 1: I would come Richard, how are you doing? Man? What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing here? You gotta come back see how
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  Speaker 1: you're doing Spoon. You know, but I know he want
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  Speaker 1: to go on stage, but I need to coach him in.
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  Speaker 1: They're going on stage, right. He would never come there
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  Speaker 1: and say I want to go on stage. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: I do something, I said, Richard, want to drink and
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  Speaker 1: get your drinking. Yeah, it's gonna get me into there.
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  Speaker 1: So I know to give him. I give him a drink.
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  Speaker 1: Now I leave and come back again. So I said, Richard,
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  Speaker 1: so you okame in everything. I won't gonna stay. He said, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I just come see how you're doing Spoon. So I
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  Speaker 1: walk away again and then uh, third times we just
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  Speaker 1: go up on stage and that everybody know that you
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  Speaker 1: we get big stars coming to the Comedy Store. He's okay.
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  Speaker 1: So when I go up there and say, he said,
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  Speaker 1: what am I going? I see it going. Next, I
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  Speaker 1: put him on He stepped the hour in the half. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Then you have his secretary camm me next day and
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  Speaker 1: say tell Spoon, thank you for putting me on stage.
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  Speaker 1: Was getting me on stage? Wow? He was that. He
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  Speaker 1: was that kind of cool on the Comedy Store Mitchy Shore.
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  Speaker 1: Sammy Shore's wife, she took it from him when they
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  Speaker 1: got a divorce, and uh, Pauly Shore's mama. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was all kind of legal issues with that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's between the two brothers. Yeah, and his sister because
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  Speaker 1: Mitchie is so feeble now and I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: know her name. Do you still go to places like that?
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  Speaker 1: Just pop up yourself and oh no, I haven't done
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  Speaker 1: it in twenty some years. I had the son and
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  Speaker 1: go to the comedy store. Now laugh. You don't work
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  Speaker 1: out no more. You just do some great shows. If
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  Speaker 1: I want to try something new, I tried on on
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  Speaker 1: the stage and where I'm working. That's never go to
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  Speaker 1: the comment store and try out when I do David Ledimature,
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  Speaker 1: I used to be so nervous all that stuff. Man,
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  Speaker 1: seven minutes, I do that stuff. I go on to
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  Speaker 1: show work at work. But he's my friend, so we
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, he had asked me different questions. That's
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  Speaker 1: not even on the list. So that makes it funny. See,
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  Speaker 1: we can be ourselves. But you're the old ge now,
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  Speaker 1: so that like you're too old to get booed anybody
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  Speaker 1: gonna do you know, I'm gonna all at me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was in a constitution. Oh, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what the dude said, way back to forty two
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  Speaker 1: hundred people somebody back there. You can't talk about back
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  Speaker 1: there and acknowledge it. But then he stopped. Tobody Brown
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  Speaker 1: probably told him, shut there, shut up. Do you get
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  Speaker 1: mad at you know, some of your old stuff like
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  Speaker 1: bank bank, bank, bank, you know, or you know, thirty
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  Speaker 1: forty fifty minutes in the bathroom, like, oh yeah, do
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  Speaker 1: you get mad at that? Because when you're what I
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  Speaker 1: was going to introduce you, I almost said, and now
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: we had the bank, you know, because no, did you
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  Speaker 1: get mad at no? Hell no? No. That made me.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe somebody don't want about to say, like dynamite.
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  Speaker 1: What's his name, Jimmy Walker didn't want people say dynamite.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, that's what me living where I'm living for
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: that ad lib? Was that written in the script. It
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  Speaker 1: was a boomerang because the whole scene in Boomerang was
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  Speaker 1: ad lib. There was no script. Richard Pryde, I was
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  Speaker 1: in LA. I mean Eddie Murphy said he wants Spoon
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  Speaker 1: to play David Allen Grill's daddy in boomerang, and and
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  Speaker 1: so a pairmount. They were over budgeted already on the boomerang.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I said, My scene won't even had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the movie. It's just me coming
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  Speaker 1: and visit my son. They said they don't want um Spoon,
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  Speaker 1: whoever he is, to do play this new scene. And
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  Speaker 1: they told Reginald Hutland, we don't want anybody who was
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  Speaker 1: just spooning anyway. And Richard and Eddie said, I want
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  Speaker 1: Spoon to play the part. We're not gonna finish the
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  Speaker 1: movie until you do it. They flew me all away
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  Speaker 1: from LA to New York, and I picked all them
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  Speaker 1: clothes I put on. I picked all that out and
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  Speaker 1: I wrote it. I went in my little dressing room
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  Speaker 1: and wrote my little stuff down what I'm gonna say, So,
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  Speaker 1: I said, all you gonna do is ask me when
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  Speaker 1: I walk in and do how do I pick my clothes?
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  Speaker 1: So first first wim me shot the scene. Mark Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: was the one open the door. Richard saw, Eddie saw
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  Speaker 1: so much how much last week begaining. He told Martin
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  Speaker 1: to keep walking to his seat. I'm gonna do the
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  Speaker 1: scene with Spoon. They're amazing. So he and I did it.
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  Speaker 1: We had Sindbad on him, and Sindbad said that Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: never liked Bill Cosby, So I wondered, You know, you've
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: been in the game a long time. Did you ever
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: get any backlash from Hollywood just being black? Just for
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: you being black? Oh? Really? You know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why Hollywood didn't like made tons of tons of money,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: tons of money out of it. Bill Collpley made out
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  Speaker 1: like he didn't made it. Maybe didn't like Hollywood. Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: love Bill Callsby, Brendan try to call, gave him the
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  Speaker 1: job he used to be the president of Paramount. He's
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: the one that hooked Bill Callsby up. Bill Cosmick can't
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  Speaker 1: say nothing or whatever had been in his misunderstanding with
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  Speaker 1: them ladies. It's his fault. I don't know he should
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: have put a mask on. But about the way as brothers,
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  Speaker 1: you still cool? Oh yeah, man, they made me. They
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  Speaker 1: got me the best job. I had a regular check
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  Speaker 1: coming in every week. That check was there. Oh, y'all
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  Speaker 1: should have seen that money. But I never had a
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  Speaker 1: series before. Yeah, you gotta really had them serious. You
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  Speaker 1: know you're doing the series. We did a hundred shows
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  Speaker 1: five years. That check bum bum Bang Bang bang bang
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  Speaker 1: series is better money than its regular money, But is
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  Speaker 1: it better money than a movie. We'll see the thing about.
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  Speaker 1: If you're working on ABC, NBC, Box Network, ABC network, CBA, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: network television, you're gonna get the big bucks. I'm working
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  Speaker 1: on on cable, and that's not the same money you
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  Speaker 1: get on regular TV, you know. But we were getting up,
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  Speaker 1: Like when I was on Tracy Morganshaw made a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money because Carci warn The money about were the
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  Speaker 1: producers and they produced big time stuff, right and what's
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: the name from satanay Lad was wanted the producers. The
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  Speaker 1: head of st Michael Michaels wanted to producers. Um, so
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  Speaker 1: you get a lot of money on those, but cable
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  Speaker 1: you don't get this. You don't get the same money.
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  Speaker 1: So you said, the Boondocks and Black Jesus gonna pay
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  Speaker 1: you well, which not as much as I need I deserved.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: No boon Knocks is gone. That's cancer. I know. The
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: last season was so bad. Yeah, well because Amma Gruder
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  Speaker 1: did not write those scripts. He got tired and they
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: fired him. So they got somebody else. They trying to
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: get somebody to to imitate my voice. We didn't want
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: to do it if Amma Gruder wasn't around. So they're
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: gonna try to get somebody. Did the whole casting thing
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: to see who can talk like Granddaddy, that wasn't you
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  Speaker 1: last season? Yeah? That was me? But they couldn't find anybody. Yeah,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: so that means we really tried him double, We really had.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: I tried them to end boy. Then they had to
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: pay me a whole season. I ain't nuther one word.
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  Speaker 1: They paid me a whole season. Wow? Who that money
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  Speaker 1: looked good you seeing that check? Yeah? Man, you know
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: that that that bucked me because I was such a
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: big fan of the Boon Doctor and I'm like, how
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: can they take something that Aaron and just say you're
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: not You're not part of it? Him? That's cold because
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: he sold his rights to television. He sold his rights
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: to TV to never said your stuff until they give
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: you twenty million dollars. Wo. He sold his rights and
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: he can do a movie. But he's doing other stuff now. Yeah,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: like Black he's doing Black Jess. That's gonna be a
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: big head. You wait to this next season back, there's
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: gonna be a gonna be a bigger They did the
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Little show here look easy show ten episode to see
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: if anybody liked it, and it went over big time.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: And now this this new season coming, they say it's
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: gonna they rode a lot of new stuff and it's
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: gonna be two cold. You play a homeless person? Or
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: how the how did you prepared for that role? Did
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: you go slip on the street every nothing? No, I
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: used to two left boots. I know a boy, so
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: um no. You know what happened was they didn't know
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: that I want to take the role. They said, just
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: do the little scene up front in the first one.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: So I looked at the scene and they gave me
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: all the scripts for the whole season to read and
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: see what I like about. So I add them out
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: of the lines of this one. I sa, this might
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: be a good little role for me to play the
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: homeless man. So I didn't. They loved it, so they
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: we negotiate it and I got and I'm one of
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: the most favorite characters in the Black Jesus and I
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: live in I live in a cardboard box. And I
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: don't wash up when I go to the show. I
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: don't call my half, I don't brush my teeth. I
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: go over there. I'm telling you. It's funniest role. I
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: have a lot of fun doing it, and Court would
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: tell you we have such a good time. That don't
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: take you to a bad place though, because you said
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: you grew up poor like you know you like. I
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: can't wait to get out these homes clothes. Matter of fact,
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: the clothes I'm using on this show the same clothes
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I wore on Hollywood Shuffle and I played the home
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: say the whole outfit. You wouldn't believe it. Eighteen years ago.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I saved the outfit in the bag and put it
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: in my clothes in my garage and I found the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: found the clothes, Wow, And I gave it to the
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Waters department. They did four or five copies of the
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: same clothes and gave me my old outfits back, same clothes.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I will you look at Hollywood Shuffle when I'm sitting
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: on the ground eating the whole cakes and they didn't sell. Yeah,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that's the same house. Wow. But you're gonna be for
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: them in this weekend, Yeah, he'll Yeah, I know where
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I'm being, you know, comedy comedy club. It's the time,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: the times, Yeah, eight thirty tonight and ten three. I'm
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: just joking. I knew it was got Um eight and
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: tomorrow Saturday and one show Sunday at eight. Okay when
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: a candemy waters on Sunday, I don't care about candy water.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I never didn't watch that crap that they make all
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: the money. They got all the big breasts in Apprentic,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: they got all the cars, all the house. Then they
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: give themselves trophies. The hell with them? Eight to ten Friday,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: eight ten Saturday, and eight on Sunday. Check out John Witherspoon,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Black back Back, Black Bank bab Man. I have a
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: cooking shot on YouTube called cooking for Poor People. Looking
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: for people, got to start. It's gonna be a lot
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: of parking on that. No, you know, puking chicken. Okay, chicken,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: and he's goned cooking for poor people because when you're hungry,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: everything tastes good. It was a good recipe. It was
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a good quick what you want? Huh? Chicken? I like
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and I like chicken. You should eat a chicken rosemary
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: chicken with the pestal pasta. That don't sound like for
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: something poor people? No, you ain't got him buster. You
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: go in the yard and get you some pesto. Let
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: me and some up um, whatever, and you get the chicken,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: you cook it in the pan, okay, and make some
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: pasta with some pesto sauce. Ontime got you, Yeah, but
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: you get rosemary, Rosemary. I got rosemary in my garden,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: cooking for poor people because when you're hungry, everything tastes good.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: But I do a lot of funny stuff. My stuff
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: is funny. It ain't like I'm just cooking that serious. Yeah, oh,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm talking about everything in the world. I'm doing
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: the isis and doing about the ices people in it
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and jumping. I call it ears ears, and I ain't
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: ain't mess with it. I had to make funny about ices.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: What do you think about older men dating younger women
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: like a twenty five ye old day and seventeen year
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: old twenty five year old making seventeen that ain't old.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: It ain't no heck no seven. To make it eighteen
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: in case something go down, you're gonna cover yourself. She's legal, Yeah,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: but make it eighteen. You can't in chefteen because you
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: know you don't want to be on TV and and
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: handcuffed and everything shirt with T shirt to cross your
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: shoulders twenty five and eighteen bang bang bang bang bang
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: bang bang bang. I wish I can getting me up.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I get it. I take a thirty five year old woman.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: You're still here. It's still fin got groupies. But I
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: have a wife. Oh but but a Roman thirty five
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: yeard woman. They're fine. You still bang bang a young
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: girl every nowthing. No, that's not too old. I mean
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I look at the girl, little girls and huger. I
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: might hug him a little too long. That might be
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a little molest than there. But no, I don't do
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a messing. I count my money. I'm telling you have
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: no idea how how happy I am to be counting
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: my money. Oh, I know you got it all them
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: because all the stuff you've done. I'm sure you've just
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: been saving your check the bl plus, I bought property.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I got about eight homes there. I had a probably
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: building Beverly Hills, and I'm out the water and grass,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and they called the police on me. No, they did
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: not really call the police. Yeah, some old lady said,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: some black man I hit water in the grass. He
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: might be vendor. Sorry, mister Witherspoon, I'll be so mad.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: If you was Mexican, they wouldn't have called the water
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the grass. Okay, let him go, all right, But you
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: gotta make yourself because you work hard. You're supposed to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: enjoy yourself when you when you work that hard, enjoy yourself.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You drive like you drive an old school catalac or something. No, No,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I have a I have about eight cars. Wow, old
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: cars like what. I have a nineteen sixty four Morgan.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: It's an English car, I know, with the round with
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the overlights, over lights. Yeah, and I have a nineteen
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: sixty four Triumph t R four. You know what that
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: looked like? Okay, I have a nineteen fifty five Bentley.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I have a nineteen eighty four Rose Royce. And I
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: have a nineteen ninety five range Rover. I have a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: nineteen two thousand and four Range Rover. But but I
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: love cars. Yeah, seven two Mercedes, nothing new, enohing new
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: because I know them old one. Sometimes you gotta you
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: gotta a lot of work with them old cars. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you're buying when they're all pristine. You don't buy them
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: like you know, with no tire zone around June. But
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us. Man John Witherspoon is the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. Good morning, you boy,