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INTERVIEW: Lil Rel Howery Talks 'We Grown Now', Comedians Calling Out Comedians, Personal Life + More · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club morning.
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Speaker 1: Everybody is Steve j n V. Just hilarious, charlamage the guy.
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Speaker 1: We are the Breakfast Club. You got a special guest
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Speaker 1: in the building. Indeed, you got a little round. Welcome back.
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Speaker 1: How you feeling. I'm good, I'm good. This is the
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Speaker 1: last my little press run, so I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: go home.
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Speaker 2: You look very danny slim and trim ro Thank you, brother.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm proud of me.
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Speaker 2: This is consistency, ozimpic working out.
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Speaker 1: I knew he was gonna say that because you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm like sad about that Olympic. Yeah, because people there's
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Speaker 1: other stars that's actually walked up to me and like
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Speaker 1: have said that to me because they're doing it, and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, y'all really doing that to yourself? But
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Speaker 1: not a diabat his head, don't look big pause. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you could tell when people either had surgery or did
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Speaker 1: so crazy. Everything is very real. This is this is
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Speaker 1: what consistency looked like mentally and physical.
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Speaker 3: What made you get there? Just because you've been in
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Speaker 3: front of the cammer so much. It was a own personal.
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Speaker 1: Thing, A lot of stuff because I stopped drinking and everything,
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Speaker 1: and so like, I just wanted to experience this second
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Speaker 1: half of my life and like really be present. And
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Speaker 1: so I just been very focused and I'm happy, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like I'm in a happy relationship.
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Speaker 1: I'm like loving this next part of the game for me.
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Speaker 1: I'm about to direct my first feature and stuff, so
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Speaker 1: I'm really excited.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, did you realize, like when you, I guess the
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Speaker 3: alcohol was more of a coping mechanism that you didn't realize.
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Speaker 1: It was almost not even just coping. It was like
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Speaker 1: I almost started just doing it just because I think
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Speaker 1: one day I was out and I'm like, am I
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Speaker 1: just doing this because of the access to it? Because
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Speaker 1: I didn't really want to drink one day? And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: it's just free. And then I'm like, man, I go
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Speaker 1: to these premieres and stuff and sometimes I don't even
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Speaker 1: remember what the experience is because I'm lit, and so
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to change all that.
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Speaker 2: Well you look good, brother, Thank you. I appreciate it absolutely.
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Speaker 4: To us about we've grown now in this movie.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Because you know, people don't had nothing to promote,
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Speaker 1: So if you see me, I'm promoting, right, I just
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Speaker 1: want to talk.
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Speaker 2: I thought.
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Speaker 1: We've Grown Now is a beautiful, beautiful movie. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not even just saying it, like, this is one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite movies I've done. I mean, I've loved a
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Speaker 1: lot of the stuff I've done, but since get Out,
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Speaker 1: this one has been like the most powerful one I've
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Speaker 1: done in a long time. And the two young men
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Speaker 1: that's starting in this movie a maze. It's a love
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Speaker 1: letter to the Kabrini Green residents and just to Chicago
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Speaker 1: in general, and like it humanizes all those families, not
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Speaker 1: just a Caprini Green, but just projects in general all
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Speaker 1: over the country, because you know how to make people,
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Speaker 1: you know, looking at projects over the years, you know,
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Speaker 1: And so man, this movie does a good job but
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Speaker 1: just showing how beautiful community and family. It's really dope.
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Speaker 4: So it's shot in Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Shot it was shot in Chicago. Yeah, And I.
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Speaker 5: Love that you from Chicago too, So did you get
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Speaker 5: any of that nostalgia.
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Speaker 1: Like just like, yeah, I remember nineteen ninety two when
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Speaker 1: I was like, because that's what the movie takes place.
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Speaker 1: You was born in ninety two? Yeah, man, yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: like yeah, I'm olding the second Bullet Championship that's what
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Speaker 1: he was in. Yeah, it was, it was. It was
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Speaker 1: interesting because even I've been going to all the screenings
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Speaker 1: and I'm still watching it, and it's like I can
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Speaker 1: remember when, like when then Cheril Davis got killed. That's
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Speaker 1: when Chicago got real and we started seeing a lot
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Speaker 1: more of those young people get murdered from the straight
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Speaker 1: bullets and the gang violence. And I remember that kind
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Speaker 1: of being the first summer for me. Well, my parents
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Speaker 1: had to be like, hey, you got it. You can't
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Speaker 1: go here no more. You have to be careful because
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Speaker 1: and we had to, like we had to grow up
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Speaker 1: way too fast just because of that. What made you
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Speaker 1: stay away from more a lot grow my dad, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, like me having a father, like
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Speaker 1: my dad was like one of it's only maybe like
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Speaker 1: two dads in our neighborhood. And when everybody started it's
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Speaker 1: just this is real talk. And that's why like watching
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Speaker 1: movies kind of like eerie a little bit, because you
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Speaker 1: can remember like when all of us went from being
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Speaker 1: kids to like everybody started to kind of join gangs
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Speaker 1: and stuff, and we didn't do that because of my dad.
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Speaker 1: And it was tough because you lost, Like when you
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Speaker 1: see this movie, it's about friendship, but I can remember, damn,
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Speaker 1: that was the last time we was just like kids.
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Speaker 1: And then it got real for everybody. He lose friends,
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Speaker 1: he lose family members. It's crazy looking at ninety two
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Speaker 1: and we're in twenty twenty four. Ever, you remember, like
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Speaker 1: even that year, it was like stop the violence, and
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Speaker 1: it was very and nothing changed. It actually got worse.
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Speaker 1: And that like even when you think about I think
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Speaker 1: about the kids and young people I went to school
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Speaker 1: with that's not here no more because of choices we
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Speaker 1: all made maybe around that time. To be quite honest
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Speaker 1: with you.
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Speaker 3: What's the biggest misconception about Chicago in particular, like those
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Speaker 3: hood and those projects.
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Speaker 1: I just think we forget that it's Famili's in there.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Even in the movie, they play a clip from an
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Speaker 1: old news story. Mayor Daily's talking about Cabrini Green and
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Speaker 1: they're talking about it like it's a war zone, as
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Speaker 1: if it's not people living in those you know, those projects,
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Speaker 1: and then you forget how messed up to Chicago housing
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Speaker 1: authority was they did the ones that dropped the ball,
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Speaker 1: like they wouldn't fix and stuff. Because when the projects
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Speaker 1: first was built and it's actually about to be a
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Speaker 1: National Housing Authority museum. My family is one of the
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Speaker 1: feature familiescause they was in the Jane Adams projects. I
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Speaker 1: actually just did the the voiceover for like when you
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Speaker 1: go to the apartment. They redid it with my mom
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Speaker 1: grew up with her sisters and a brother, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm doing the voice old so you walk in, it's like, hey,
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Speaker 1: me describe it. It was very emotional doing too. But
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Speaker 1: it was they came in there will hope to live
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Speaker 1: in the projects was new. It was a project which
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Speaker 1: is supposed to be something that is a project that.
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Speaker 2: We hope works.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and I think we forget that is what that was.
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Speaker 1: And then at some point, especially when it just became
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Speaker 1: majority of you know, black families in there, they stopped caring.
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Speaker 1: They didn't fix anything, like even saying the moviehere they
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Speaker 1: getting on the elevators and this just broke, like, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's people now who's still living the price. New York
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Speaker 1: still got their projects up and some of those elevators
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Speaker 1: still don't work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all down the shafts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna ask, you know, growing up, even
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Speaker 1: though it was the projects, even though it was the hood,
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Speaker 1: it made you who you are, right, it made you
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Speaker 1: be able to see things a lot different than a
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Speaker 1: lot of other people would. Now what you having kids,
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Speaker 1: of course they're not going to have that lifestyle, but
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Speaker 1: not necessarily the project and the hood lifestyle. But the
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Speaker 1: being able to see everything, does that concern you at all? No?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I was I watched you all
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Speaker 1: the time, and I saw ares on here and he
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Speaker 1: was talking about like Jordan Peel and those guys. And
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Speaker 1: it's interesting that, like I you know, when you hear
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Speaker 1: like cats, be like, oh yeah, I could tell they're
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Speaker 1: not from the hood whatever whatever, But like our kids now, uh,
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Speaker 1: nothing like that. And so I hopefully we get away
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Speaker 1: from just like what we say what black is because
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, even if if they grew
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Speaker 1: up in the valley or because I mean I live
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Speaker 1: in a valley now, and I mean I could say
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Speaker 1: this on here, I guess, but like my career recently
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Speaker 1: got broken into like twice geez, And it's crazy for
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Speaker 1: me because I'm like, man, the hood, nobody broke in
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Speaker 1: nobody house. They broke in your car, maybe took a
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Speaker 1: bike from the bag, but nobody came to your crib
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Speaker 1: and like being you think things are better because you
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Speaker 1: in this nicer area and it's you got the gates
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Speaker 1: up and all that, and like, no, that's burglary more
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Speaker 1: of a target. And I reacted differently. I'm from the
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Speaker 1: West of at Chicago. You know, you still call the police,
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Speaker 1: but like I like, I like turned into like a ninja,
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Speaker 1: Like I'm like, come while I'm here, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, Like we gonna fight to the death, because
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Speaker 1: it's just something about somebody coming in your your space.
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Speaker 1: It's a different and it blew my mind cause I'm like, damn,
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Speaker 1: that's so disrespectful. Like even though the hood was the hood,
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Speaker 1: you just never it was if somebody broke in somebody house,
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Speaker 1: everybody knew it and we all jumped on them, right,
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Speaker 1: you know what i mean, Like somebody woke somebody up up,
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Speaker 1: you just broke the house, get up, and everybody came
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Speaker 1: out there, like let's what they ask from break into
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Speaker 1: somebody else somebody's house.
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Speaker 2: Did you catch you broke with your house in the valley?
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Speaker 1: No, you know it's a you know that's a thing there,
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Speaker 1: this ring, you know what I'm saying. Even when you
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Speaker 1: look at the footage, which is why like once again
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Speaker 1: you know, being not I don't want to say, you know,
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Speaker 1: some hood, but it's like I'm not nervous. I'm more
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Speaker 1: or less irritated by it because I'm seeing how they moved. Right.
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Speaker 1: Why does it happen so much in California?
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Speaker 2: Just leave stuff out for him?
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Speaker 1: Man, it's it's well, I mean I did this time.
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Speaker 2: I guess.
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Speaker 1: I took the watches and stuff. But you know, it's
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Speaker 1: interesting because it's like it feels like they're only doing
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Speaker 1: it to the black celebrity. I'm like, man, it is
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Speaker 1: some white people I know that got a loan money.
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Speaker 1: I just got here. I just got this place. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I ain't even got nothing. I got all big stuff.
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Speaker 1: You can't run out of here with that stuff. And
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Speaker 1: so like it was just I'm like, I was weird
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Speaker 1: because it's like old white people. I know, a guy
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Speaker 1: like save some jewels. I was like, brother, I just
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Speaker 1: got out here. You wouldn't even know. Yeah, look I
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Speaker 1: just got here. I got some waters in a refrigerator.
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Speaker 1: Where where were you when they did it? Were you
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Speaker 1: was at a screen? And yeah, So I guess, man,
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Speaker 1: I've been trying to you know, it's it's it's trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out what because it once against the second time.
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Speaker 1: The first time they did it, same house, same career, Jesus,
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Speaker 1: and it's been in a four months, man. And the
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Speaker 1: first time they got in because I left the balcony,
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Speaker 1: but I got like, you know, everything's gated off, so
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Speaker 1: I didn't think, like you gotta be. But then I
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Speaker 1: look at the footage and watching these young dudes climb
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Speaker 1: over a gate, and I'm like, damn. But the second
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Speaker 1: time they broke they broke the window in one of
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Speaker 1: my rooms and long and they always say with the
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Speaker 1: police in California, it takes him a long time to
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Speaker 1: get to tell you. It's funny. And I don't give
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Speaker 1: it down what they say. It was like fifty cops
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Speaker 1: that showed up and they couldn't catch this one. They
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Speaker 1: they flashed light in the house. He was coming down
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Speaker 1: the stairs. Oh so they caught him in the house.
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Speaker 1: They didn't catch him.
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Speaker 6: I don't know how.
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Speaker 1: It's fifty y out what and you don't catch this dude.
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Speaker 1: And then they had a meeting afterwards because I was
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Speaker 1: still at the screen for we grown now did they
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Speaker 1: see him run out or not? They saw they saw,
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Speaker 1: they like, they flashed it light. He ran out. The
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Speaker 1: glass he broke. He went back into the media room,
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Speaker 1: ran out, and I got like a big yard and stuff.
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Speaker 1: But like y'all got a helicopter. So I'm like, so,
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Speaker 1: ain't nobody see him.
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Speaker 3: He's a professional professional, Because I know somebody who got
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Speaker 3: their house broken into, and they said the person came
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Speaker 3: off the roof. They said they literally heard the thump
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Speaker 3: and they looked and the person was just on the
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Speaker 3: balcony so they had to jump.
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Speaker 1: When you look at the footage, I'm gonna tell you something.
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Speaker 1: Pants are sagging. It's like, come on, man, Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
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Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: Like I'm not saying I want to be That's what
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I looked at this stuff and like the
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Speaker 1: first time, they only took some Jordan's just because my
10:23
Speaker 1: assistant showed up right away because we you know, I
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Speaker 1: didn't know anybody. I just know my alarm was going on.
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Speaker 1: I just told her to go check at the house
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Speaker 1: and you know, your your hood spiddy senses go out
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Speaker 1: because she came in and refrigerator was open. It wasn't beeping.
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Speaker 1: I was like, why the refrigerator not beeping if I
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Speaker 1: left it over you food? No, because they was using
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Speaker 1: it for the light and they had they was in
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Speaker 1: there hiding, and so I told her to get out
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Speaker 1: the house, like, Yo, you gotta leave a house because
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Speaker 1: they're still in there. Solo.
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Speaker 2: When the police asked you to describe the person, they
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Speaker 2: didn't ask me. They didn't.
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Speaker 1: They didn't, they didn't. I didn't look at all this
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Speaker 1: stuff till I looked at my own footage and I
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Speaker 1: looked at the cameras and stuff. But they, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was what they saw when they flashed the light
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Speaker 1: in there, all black, the mask was moving kind of fast,
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Speaker 1: hand sagging, pants sagging, and a book bad damn.
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Speaker 2: No want to ask you about to go back to
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Speaker 2: the joint pilll things.
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Speaker 3: That's that was an interesting thing that Areas brought up
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Speaker 3: what is black and in Hollywood what is considered black comedy.
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Speaker 1: That's interesting. I mean, you know, what's I don't even
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Speaker 1: know how to define what's black like because I think
11:25
Speaker 1: now we just want to be human everybody we're not.
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Speaker 1: We only what they tell us. We are. To be
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Speaker 1: quite honest with you, because everything's different now, which is
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Speaker 1: why like even with like you know, I love what
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Speaker 1: Aris did because he held himself accountable for like mistakes
11:39
Speaker 1: he's made and for right now a lot of people
11:43
Speaker 1: don't admit to that. Everybody just wanted to like if
11:45
Speaker 1: they don't have certain stuff, they're like, well you did
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Speaker 1: something different because it ain't happen for me, so that
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Speaker 1: means you did this. Yeah, it's like it's it's you
11:55
Speaker 1: know what's Let me say this real quickly that I
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Speaker 1: just want to have a meeting. I want to have
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Speaker 1: a like a town hall with all the black comics.
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Speaker 1: We come in one place, no audience there. Whatever you
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Speaker 1: got to say about anybody asked the question in their face,
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to say, Ricky kat Ic, would y'all
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Speaker 1: just all sit down and talk.
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Speaker 3: Rather to the compter Green projects and it had we
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Speaker 3: have to make some I think we just got to
12:20
Speaker 3: figure out what the rules are now because it's just
12:22
Speaker 3: weird at this point, you know, because everybody keeps they
12:25
Speaker 3: just throwing out stuff.
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Speaker 1: Now you know what I'm saying, like we still you know,
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Speaker 1: I think the argument about wearing it, you know, are
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Speaker 1: you will addressing that means this and that and it's like, wait,
12:34
Speaker 1: so what Eddie and Martin. If you looked up to
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Speaker 1: Eddie and Martin and you just saw them doing character work,
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Speaker 1: or you watched them living color and you saw them
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Speaker 1: doing character work, or if David's playing Maya Angelo or something,
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Speaker 1: that's character work to me. So if you look up
12:47
Speaker 1: to people doing characters, why you I just don't understand
12:51
Speaker 1: this narrative of like that's what they they made you
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Speaker 1: do this and do this and do that. I'm like,
12:56
Speaker 1: but I wrote the sketch and I did a stand
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Speaker 1: up routine based on that, Like I think one of
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Speaker 1: one of my characters I did, my hood rat character.
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Speaker 1: That was one of my hit jokes when I first started.
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Speaker 1: So when I decided to write sketches, that was one
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Speaker 1: of the characters I played. I just day like, if
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Speaker 1: you're gonna like show somebody doing one thing, show all
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Speaker 1: the characters. Absolutely I did like a million. I applied
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Speaker 1: to played more old men. Maybe that's what we should
13:17
Speaker 1: say people that play old black men. That's how you
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Speaker 1: make it.
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Speaker 2: Because when Jordan.
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Speaker 3: Peel is interesting, because okay, Ken Peel might not have
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Speaker 3: been your thing, but you can't act like his movies
13:27
Speaker 3: having been some of the dope.
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Speaker 1: But you saw that Key and Peel though. That's what's
13:34
Speaker 1: so weird. It's some really beautifully black written sketches on that.
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Speaker 1: I just think because and you can't, you know, I think,
13:42
Speaker 1: but Areas is one of the most interesting people. That's
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Speaker 1: why I said. I love that he held itself accountable,
13:46
Speaker 1: because like you was on Mad TV, and you did.
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Speaker 1: You did a lot of the mainstream stuff, and then
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Speaker 1: I guess when that stopped because everybody picking choos when
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Speaker 1: they want to be a hood nigga, you know, like
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Speaker 1: all of us. That's really I'm from the West Side Chicago,
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Speaker 1: so I don't need to act like that or try
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Speaker 1: to act hood now that I'm in a certain position.
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Speaker 1: But it's because the athletes do it all the time,
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Speaker 1: like niggas that went to school the whole time and
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Speaker 1: then they get a little money now they want to
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Speaker 1: act like a dope dealer. It's so fucking stupid. It's
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Speaker 1: so stupid. You went the class every day. I saw
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Speaker 1: you with your book, dud. Now that you're in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: you had fifteen chains on. You got a crazy crew.
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Speaker 2: Now, come on, bro.
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Speaker 3: A lot of that could be the Iverson effect too, though,
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Speaker 3: because he isly was just so cool being him that
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Speaker 3: people wanted to be Alan. I that was iverson twenty
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Speaker 3: four cents, but people wanted to be him, so they
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Speaker 3: was imitating him.
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Speaker 1: But you know what's funny, the people that really come
14:37
Speaker 1: from that, you know, they try to grow out of that.
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Speaker 1: They actually try to stay away from that. I was
14:42
Speaker 1: talking about I'm about Fiddela. She laughed, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite drugs dealers. She's like, wait, what
14:48
Speaker 1: did you say? I was thinking about this drug dealer
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Speaker 1: grew up that. You know, everybody I looked up to
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Speaker 1: my dad and my uncle's, but it was one dope
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Speaker 1: dealer in my neighborhood who I thought was the coolest
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Speaker 1: dude in the world. Like that's why I like to
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Speaker 1: wear the jigget suits with the chain because of him.
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Speaker 1: When I saw him graduate, I remember, like I was
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Speaker 1: working in downtown Chicago and I saw him with a shuito.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, damn what you know. He's like, nah, I'm done.
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Speaker 1: You know, I cashed out, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: over to real estate Bent. I was like wow, But
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, it's those guys that really live
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Speaker 1: that life, don't necessarily celebrate it.
15:22
Speaker 3: Is there a difference between being Oh no, we know
15:24
Speaker 3: that the difference, But what is the diff between being
15:26
Speaker 3: black famous and white famous, because I feel like you've
15:28
Speaker 3: experienced both.
15:29
Speaker 1: Well, well not really, I mean only I say the
15:33
Speaker 1: difference is you if you white famous, you could just
15:35
Speaker 1: do what you want, even if you're just a white comedian.
15:37
Speaker 1: I was telling us about I saw a clip of
15:38
Speaker 1: Will Ferrell doing Beyonce, like literally doing what I'm just saying,
15:43
Speaker 1: You're crawling, and ain't nobody going like see he's so
15:47
Speaker 1: you see what he's doing because he acted like a woman.
15:49
Speaker 1: That's why they don't ever say that. They don't bring
15:52
Speaker 1: up missus doubt fire. They don't do none of that stuff.
15:55
Speaker 1: They just do what the hell they want to. They
15:57
Speaker 1: could just act at anything they want to. And I
15:59
Speaker 1: feel bad for actors and artists because you have to
16:01
Speaker 1: be you almost have to be careful because you just
16:04
Speaker 1: don't want somebody saying, oh, that's why you did that
16:06
Speaker 1: and did this. And I'm like, damn, but white white actors,
16:09
Speaker 1: you know, you could just do whatever you want to.
16:12
Speaker 1: That is they free.
16:16
Speaker 5: They don't tuge each other either. They don't like come
16:18
Speaker 5: at each other. They're not they're not talking down on
16:21
Speaker 5: each other, you know, and.
16:22
Speaker 1: We're not in person. They a lot of them don't
16:24
Speaker 1: like each other, but they're not like doing.
16:25
Speaker 4: But that's what I'm saying.
16:26
Speaker 5: They don't like go and sit on podcasts or interviews
16:29
Speaker 5: just to say, oh this person did this back in
16:31
Speaker 5: the day or whatever things like that. We had what's
16:34
Speaker 5: his name, Bill Burr up here, love Bilber. Yeah, I
16:37
Speaker 5: love him too, and I wanted to get into comedy
16:39
Speaker 5: or whatever because I'm just talking about that.
16:42
Speaker 1: But Bill Burr, he.
16:43
Speaker 5: Was up here and he was saying, you know, he
16:46
Speaker 5: used to bomb like all the time, and that shocked me.
16:50
Speaker 5: That shocked me because I love him. He's one of
16:52
Speaker 5: my favorite like people to watch like on like Netflix
16:55
Speaker 5: or whatever. So he said he used to bomb all
16:56
Speaker 5: the time.
16:57
Speaker 1: Was that? Did you ever everybody? I mean if you
17:00
Speaker 1: say everybody because not me, well just you ain't you?
17:05
Speaker 1: You know? Oh this is interesting.
17:06
Speaker 7: I can say it's it's not arrested, but just you
17:09
Speaker 7: it's not right here we go.
17:12
Speaker 1: It's not a bad thing because it goes back to
17:17
Speaker 1: this this point. I've been making a lot lately. It's
17:19
Speaker 1: like I grinded the way I did, so you wouldn't
17:22
Speaker 1: have to do a lot of the same stuff I do.
17:24
Speaker 1: We had to do those chitlin circuit hole no all
17:27
Speaker 1: spots with the game still being on and you're gonna
17:30
Speaker 1: bum because they're not They don't care that you're doing
17:32
Speaker 1: a comedy show. They came in there to watch the
17:33
Speaker 1: Bulls game and we happen to be doing a comedy show.
17:36
Speaker 1: Or I mean this stuff like where it's literally whole
17:39
Speaker 1: no all crazy spots. You've been able to kind of
17:42
Speaker 1: walk into this where it's like, yo, you got your
17:44
Speaker 1: audience already. You know, you already have a fan base.
17:46
Speaker 1: When nobody knows who you are and you starting like
17:49
Speaker 1: the person in it don't know who you is, it's
17:53
Speaker 1: that's the toughest thing in the world to make those
17:54
Speaker 1: people laugh, and it's a different grind. So you don't
17:57
Speaker 1: I believe, like I look at like somebody like me
17:59
Speaker 1: and other comics that you know came up with me
18:01
Speaker 1: like that's one of the doors we open. And I mean,
18:04
Speaker 1: which is to my point also when like when people
18:06
Speaker 1: were saying, like, hey, I hate that the veteran comics
18:10
Speaker 1: that talked ship about our group and people under them
18:14
Speaker 1: about what they think they've done, and I'm like, well,
18:16
Speaker 1: your nose and the stuff you went through made it
18:18
Speaker 1: easier for me. Why you don't take that credit? And
18:23
Speaker 1: so for you, yeah, you haven't had You don't have
18:25
Speaker 1: to experience that because you don't have to do the
18:27
Speaker 1: same extremely tough rooms. But there was rooms that other
18:30
Speaker 1: comedians made hard on purpose, so you wouldn't do well.
18:33
Speaker 1: Those don't even exist. The both for it.
18:35
Speaker 3: Like what that's like the chocolate Sundays and all that time.
18:37
Speaker 3: You remember little Dull that Atlanta.
18:41
Speaker 7: That's not what it was, Jack, what's the day thriller.
18:47
Speaker 2: With the mirror Tuesdays? Tuesday?
18:50
Speaker 1: I forgot what it was called, but it was the
18:51
Speaker 1: one of the hardest rooms in Atlanta, in the country
18:55
Speaker 1: t I was there everywhere, and it was if you
18:57
Speaker 1: killed it. Now, I remember, like I I've been sure.
19:01
Speaker 1: I was sweating profusely, but I worked so hard to
19:03
Speaker 1: get them laugh. But I ain't get booed off. You
19:05
Speaker 1: don't even know if you did good. As long as
19:07
Speaker 1: they ain't boo you off, you was happy. And they
19:09
Speaker 1: made that room tough on purpose. They'll make your intro
19:13
Speaker 1: weird all types of stuff. So but but guess what,
19:17
Speaker 1: those rooms rooms existed all across the country, and it
19:20
Speaker 1: made you a better comic. You know what I'm saying.
19:22
Speaker 1: So I mean that those things don't exist like that.
19:24
Speaker 2: No more so.
19:24
Speaker 1: It's not but knock on wood about not bumming. Don't
19:27
Speaker 1: don't say that.
19:28
Speaker 5: I feel you, but no, I still know. But I'm saying,
19:31
Speaker 5: those are the things that I want to.
19:33
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you. I put the challenge up. Do
19:36
Speaker 1: this for yourself, booker show have JB No, no, no, no,
19:39
Speaker 1: have Tony Roberts, have whoever you think is a beast
19:42
Speaker 1: on stage, go up before you all. I'm talking about
19:45
Speaker 1: the hottest people and not even in those arena. Go
19:48
Speaker 1: to a club and do it. And I'm gonna tell
19:50
Speaker 1: you something that is not easy to follow. That's like,
19:53
Speaker 1: that was one of the things I did to be
19:55
Speaker 1: a stronger comic. Like y'alligas not even challenging themselves like that,
19:58
Speaker 1: No more like, I'm like, put me behind the hot
20:00
Speaker 1: this do and guess what I'm gonna do my best bit.
20:03
Speaker 5: First, I've gone behind Tony Roberts at the.
20:09
Speaker 4: Look, that's not even what I was trying to get into.
20:12
Speaker 1: Argue about it.
20:12
Speaker 2: I'm just said a question.
20:15
Speaker 1: Go ahead, ask me the question, but do the thing
20:17
Speaker 1: we do.
20:18
Speaker 4: Know I'm saying I.
20:19
Speaker 2: Was doing you a lot when I used to do
20:20
Speaker 2: the TV show together.
20:21
Speaker 1: Every now, but it wasn't like comedy.
20:24
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was yeah, no this when we was
20:25
Speaker 4: on set and stuff like that.
20:26
Speaker 5: But no, like like, that's what I want to do though.
20:30
Speaker 5: I want to go in a room where nobody knows
20:33
Speaker 5: me because I know, like a lot of us uh
20:35
Speaker 5: comedians that came from social media. We definitely we built
20:39
Speaker 5: that and y'all have paved the way for all of.
20:42
Speaker 4: Us, so we don't have to. But that's what I
20:44
Speaker 4: would like to do, because.
20:45
Speaker 1: It's impossible for you now you host the breakfast club,
20:49
Speaker 1: you're famous l A. I before I even got this job.
20:53
Speaker 5: I don't know how it is now, but that's why
20:54
Speaker 5: I stayed out of l A. I never sold great
20:58
Speaker 5: in LA so by just will put me in rooms
21:01
Speaker 5: where they didn't know me, and I still would make
21:03
Speaker 5: them laugh.
21:03
Speaker 4: But it's different. I can't sell shows.
21:06
Speaker 1: It ain't the same no more. I mean even the
21:08
Speaker 1: audience is not the same no more. Because you know
21:10
Speaker 1: it's funny, like when I see some of the comics
21:12
Speaker 1: going the road. I don't even know if it's about
21:14
Speaker 1: being funny no more. People just like being in the
21:17
Speaker 1: vicinity of people they see online all the time. I
21:20
Speaker 1: think it's weird, you know, and you don't do that
21:22
Speaker 1: a lot, which is good. I actually like that you don't.
21:23
Speaker 1: But like the people that do that weird turn around show, like,
21:26
Speaker 1: look who all came to see me? I've sold out
21:29
Speaker 1: a bunch of shows. I don't do that shit. I
21:32
Speaker 1: just do this set, get my standing ovation, get the
21:33
Speaker 1: fuck out of it. But look who's al Yeah, and
21:37
Speaker 1: the people just there because they're like, oh, I get
21:39
Speaker 1: to see you in person.
21:40
Speaker 3: I think it's good to do that, though, because I
21:42
Speaker 3: mean one thing I've I hear people say sometimes real
21:44
Speaker 3: they feel like you don't have a base.
21:46
Speaker 2: They think you came out of nowhere.
21:48
Speaker 1: I don't care what they think. Like you, you can
21:51
Speaker 1: go on YouTube just type in Little Rail and watch
21:53
Speaker 1: every stand up series from the beginning to now that
21:55
Speaker 1: I've done, from Who Got Jokes to BT Comic View
21:58
Speaker 1: to uh last Comics Standing. I really took the long
22:02
Speaker 1: route to this. So like, even when people say that,
22:05
Speaker 1: it's actually kind of a compliment because that means I'm
22:07
Speaker 1: such a great actor that you don't even have to
22:09
Speaker 1: see that I did all this other shit to get here.
22:12
Speaker 1: You prefer acting or prefer comedy, I think it all
22:14
Speaker 1: this entertainment. So when you look up to Eddie Murphy,
22:17
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy did it all. So I was like, I
22:19
Speaker 1: always assumed that you had to know how to like
22:21
Speaker 1: do stand up act right like, because I looked at
22:23
Speaker 1: the King and every Wings and Robert Townsend too, and
22:25
Speaker 1: they did everything. So that's why I'm an everything person.
22:29
Speaker 1: I've never thought about this in one category. And you
22:31
Speaker 1: brought up Bill Burr. One of the things I love
22:33
Speaker 1: about Bill Burr. Bill Bird never changed his voice. I
22:36
Speaker 1: saw him do some of the blackest rooms as the
22:39
Speaker 1: whitest man in there and had us in fucking tears.
22:43
Speaker 1: And that's why I got so much respect for Bill Burr.
22:45
Speaker 1: He never because you know, we got some comics, especially
22:48
Speaker 1: white comics, that are kind of appeased to us, and
22:49
Speaker 1: you know, whatever that is, Bill Burr met him. One
22:53
Speaker 1: of the greatest bits I've ever watched. Somebody that was
22:56
Speaker 1: at Jamie Fox's laugh for Palooser was Bill Bird. And
22:59
Speaker 1: it was right after that Detroit that that brawl between
23:02
Speaker 1: the pistons and uh it just looked that up on YouTube.
23:07
Speaker 1: Bill Bird's bit on it because it was so fresh,
23:09
Speaker 1: was the funniest ship him from that perspective of white guy,
23:13
Speaker 1: like he was gonna talk to a big black guy,
23:16
Speaker 1: you know it. And he did that in front of
23:18
Speaker 1: that audience and it just happened, and motherfuckers was in tears.
23:22
Speaker 1: You know. So like shout out to Bill.
23:24
Speaker 3: Bro It was tripping on Tuesdays, tourro tripping on Tuesday
23:29
Speaker 3: was a comedy store.
23:30
Speaker 2: No, that was the thing. Tripple on Tuesday. It was
23:33
Speaker 2: everybody called.
23:34
Speaker 1: This ship tripping on Tuesdays. I was glass you about
23:37
Speaker 1: Jerraw Carmichael, right, you know, he was talking about Dave
23:40
Speaker 1: Dave Chappelle's comedy and we were saying that, you know,
23:43
Speaker 1: comics shouldn't be talking about other comics bits or what
23:46
Speaker 1: they like and what they don't like, because nine times
23:49
Speaker 1: out of ten, I'm sure they have a bit that.
23:50
Speaker 2: People don't like.
23:51
Speaker 3: I don't think comics should say something is offensive because
23:54
Speaker 3: you can easily offend as a comic too.
23:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean I believe that's why Gerard
23:58
Speaker 1: apologized too. I mean, like we can all have all
24:01
Speaker 1: personal takes on, you know, different things that comics. I
24:05
Speaker 1: don't comment on nobody jokes now sometimes I do want to,
24:09
Speaker 1: you know, when we start calling people the gold and
24:11
Speaker 1: stuff or when they call themselves to go. I think
24:14
Speaker 1: it's categories that make that happen. A lot of people
24:16
Speaker 1: still talk shit about Eddie. I think Eddie's a grace
24:19
Speaker 1: of all time. But then you got some people that's
24:21
Speaker 1: done more specials in him, like well, he hasn't done
24:23
Speaker 1: enough specials to be gone that, which it's crazy. He
24:25
Speaker 1: don't need to.
24:26
Speaker 2: You got raw DELIRIOUSM mean god that.
24:27
Speaker 1: And he did that under twenty two, So why would
24:30
Speaker 1: he He don't have to do a bunch of ain't
24:32
Speaker 1: got to you got to do a bunch of specials.
24:36
Speaker 1: He don't have to. Like Eddie, Burpley has been one
24:39
Speaker 1: of the most famous people we've ever Like, my kids
24:42
Speaker 1: know who he is based off him being donkey. To me,
24:45
Speaker 1: that's dope. Where your career has done all these different
24:47
Speaker 1: he's actually showed us how to be a superstar in comedy.
24:49
Speaker 1: He was our first real rock star. But what I
24:53
Speaker 1: mean even with that, like Dave, I think you me
24:55
Speaker 1: and Jerrod talked about this a couple of times. It's
24:57
Speaker 1: just like, you just want to see Dave go a
24:59
Speaker 1: little more person. You know, I was joking with somebody reasons.
25:02
Speaker 1: I'm like that he never he never did a bit
25:04
Speaker 1: about how he got swollen. He just went from skinny
25:07
Speaker 1: to swoll. We never heard Dave Chappelle tell us no
25:10
Speaker 1: reason because you want to hear his comedic jen Zone Nigga,
25:14
Speaker 1: why did you become skinny to swove? Why? It's feel
25:20
Speaker 1: like it happened overnight too.
25:23
Speaker 3: I'm like, what, I've seen him for a while, but
25:25
Speaker 3: I guess when I hear people say that, I'm like
25:27
Speaker 3: his last fashion, he talked about his wife a lot,
25:29
Speaker 3: and he talked about it was the whole Script Club thing, and.
25:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's always been and I love day, but
25:35
Speaker 1: he's always been good at like, which is so weird
25:37
Speaker 1: when he you know, he was at the you know,
25:39
Speaker 1: when he had decided to say something about Kat talking
25:41
Speaker 1: shit about people, and I'm like, and I saw him
25:45
Speaker 1: out and we both was talking about it, like, man,
25:47
Speaker 1: it's fucked up, man, you know whatever. But I'm like, well,
25:50
Speaker 1: I mean you started ship too, you know, like the
25:52
Speaker 1: whole dress conversation really happens because you starting that ship. Really, yeah,
25:57
Speaker 1: I think people forget he's the one that did the
25:59
Speaker 1: interview whatever, Like you know, something pales right over and
26:04
Speaker 1: so that kicked off all that shit, and so like
26:06
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we just be reckless with what we say.
26:10
Speaker 1: I just think we have to be careful about it.
26:11
Speaker 1: And then that's why it's so funny. It's like all
26:14
Speaker 1: these comics say, like black comics are just so interested
26:17
Speaker 1: to me, man like, and then we don't do it
26:20
Speaker 1: on stage, you know, we wait till we do the
26:22
Speaker 1: interviews that have the deep conversations, and it's like you
26:24
Speaker 1: ain't just make a joke about it.
26:26
Speaker 3: But that's what I like about comedians though, beause some
26:28
Speaker 3: of the best conversations, especially here on Brothers, comedians can
26:32
Speaker 3: be deep and then they can go on stage and
26:34
Speaker 3: be super funny.
26:35
Speaker 2: I think that's what.
26:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you need to need the balance of both, because,
26:38
Speaker 1: like I think, if you can't be, if you can't
26:40
Speaker 1: make I think our job is to make things funny.
26:43
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the things I love about
26:44
Speaker 1: Chris Rock when he made he used to make some
26:46
Speaker 1: of the most political things so funny. I mean, you
26:49
Speaker 1: can look at his last special like I could always
26:52
Speaker 1: tell and like and I love Chris, but that was
26:56
Speaker 1: the first time I was like, dang, he really he's
26:58
Speaker 1: not comfortable. Like if he would have opened up with
27:01
Speaker 1: the slap out of black, he's over it, but he didn't. Yeah,
27:04
Speaker 1: and then he started venting and it was like, oh well.
27:07
Speaker 2: Probably because it was live, so he got to save
27:09
Speaker 2: the slap the hold on.
27:10
Speaker 1: Uh. I think if you're smart, you do that ship
27:12
Speaker 1: first so you can get back to what you know
27:14
Speaker 1: is the answers of your standard.
27:15
Speaker 2: Little else is Chris Rock is not smart. That's gonna
27:17
Speaker 2: be No.
27:21
Speaker 1: I just said it up. I don't know. I don't wait.
27:27
Speaker 1: It's like fifteen Rock brothers don't come to the Bronx Brooklyn.
27:34
Speaker 2: You should have led with it.
27:36
Speaker 1: I think if he I think if he was, I
27:38
Speaker 1: could tell he wasn't, which is why I wish you
27:41
Speaker 1: have took his time. Maybe he wasn't ready necessarily. I
27:43
Speaker 1: think he felt like he was pushed to talk about it.
27:45
Speaker 2: But all should have been live. Me neither. I don't
27:48
Speaker 2: like to like, I don't I like going to see comedians.
27:50
Speaker 1: I want to do it live, though. I think I
27:52
Speaker 1: could do it. Yeah, because I mean most of my
27:54
Speaker 1: special has been the first show, so Cat doing it. Yeah,
27:57
Speaker 1: it's gonna be so interesting seventeen. Yeah, it's gonna be
28:01
Speaker 1: very I don't know. I don't know if I mean
28:04
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if I'm.
28:04
Speaker 2: Gonna watch you get tired of he and call you ugly.
28:07
Speaker 1: He don't talk about me no more. Uh, what was
28:10
Speaker 1: your problem with Cat? I don't have a problem with
28:13
Speaker 1: him at all. He's he had a problem with me.
28:16
Speaker 1: He had to know what I didn't know. It was
28:17
Speaker 1: just weird. I didn't have no. I don't have any
28:19
Speaker 1: problem with he just had a I think he like
28:22
Speaker 1: I think you hate dark skinn niggas because he always
28:25
Speaker 1: got some weird ship to say about dark comedians. You
28:27
Speaker 1: don't say nothing about the other motherfuckers. He'd be like,
28:29
Speaker 1: the black motherfuckers are ugly.
28:33
Speaker 6: The last niggas. You would never kiss a girl, Little
28:36
Speaker 6: RealD because you're ugly, Uncle Drew nigger.
28:40
Speaker 1: They made you laugh, but you Cat Wills. I always
28:49
Speaker 1: tell people if Kanye sounded like Cat, he would have
28:51
Speaker 1: been president.
28:52
Speaker 2: MM explain because.
28:54
Speaker 1: Cat has a good way of he could deliver bullshit,
28:56
Speaker 1: so believable. Kanye does no, but we all just look
29:00
Speaker 1: at him. We're like Nigga Cat makes it funny. So
29:04
Speaker 1: it's entertainment even if you think it's a fact. Like
29:06
Speaker 1: everybody took even a half the stuff that catch in
29:08
Speaker 1: the interview, and a lot of that stuff was lies,
29:10
Speaker 1: but it was still like, damn, that's but you regular
29:13
Speaker 1: people at Homeland. See, I knew it. See because you
29:16
Speaker 1: could put in your contract that if you want somebody
29:19
Speaker 1: with you ain't gonna ask the back end points. You're
29:21
Speaker 1: gonna say specifically, I won't rick and smile even on
29:24
Speaker 1: tenth on the call sheet to Why would you believe
29:29
Speaker 1: that people like see, I knew it. You can't do that.
29:36
Speaker 1: You cannot negotiate nothing like that. You can barely ask
29:40
Speaker 1: for like stuff in your trailer. You ask for another.
29:44
Speaker 2: But they don't know, man, you can't.
29:46
Speaker 6: They don't know you See what happened that they have
29:49
Speaker 6: on a dress? Yes, hey did.
29:54
Speaker 2: Grown out when you did? We grown out when you
30:00
Speaker 2: what didn't mean to be in Chicago?
30:02
Speaker 3: Is that pressure because you got to hire I'm sure
30:04
Speaker 3: people want you to hire people from Chicago.
30:06
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. They know you home, They
30:08
Speaker 2: gonna want money.
30:09
Speaker 1: Like, Nah, nobody when I shot there, nobody knew I
30:12
Speaker 1: was still shooting it actually because I was shooting like
30:13
Speaker 1: three other things at the same time. But the Ment Hall,
30:16
Speaker 1: she did a great job directing and writer. I like
30:19
Speaker 1: the fact that she interviewed Kabrina Green residents, she talked
30:24
Speaker 1: to other housing projects, she did her real research. It
30:26
Speaker 1: took her like five years to do that. And so
30:28
Speaker 1: that's why I like, because I don't like when I
30:30
Speaker 1: see Chicago movies or any movie that's about a place
30:32
Speaker 1: somebody is from and you don't talk to nobody that's
30:35
Speaker 1: from there, and you just start making stuff. You can
30:38
Speaker 1: tell in this movie, you know she's from Chicago also,
30:40
Speaker 1: but she wasn't from that area. At least she talked
30:43
Speaker 1: to those people. And when you see the movie, like
30:46
Speaker 1: we did a screen in Chicago and all the Chicago people,
30:48
Speaker 1: like people was in tears watching it, you know, because
30:50
Speaker 1: it's it could be a tear drunker too. It's a
30:52
Speaker 1: beautiful movie, but it's very it's a love it's like
30:55
Speaker 1: so man, and she did a good job of making
30:58
Speaker 1: the Chicago and I love that.
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Speaker 3: And I want to go back to talking about the
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Speaker 3: rail show. With you and Jessic because I remember giving
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Speaker 3: you props because like Jess was doing her thing as
31:07
Speaker 3: a stand up social media.
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Speaker 2: But to give her that opportunity.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't that we gave it to her.
31:11
Speaker 2: She had learned.
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Speaker 1: She had the best self tape I think I've ever
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Speaker 1: fucking seen, and she talked to herself. This was so
31:18
Speaker 1: weird about it. It was nobody reading from the other side. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I didn't hear another voice, but she was reacting to
31:25
Speaker 1: this ghost voice in a way with me. And Gira
31:27
Speaker 1: was there, like Nigga, this is brilliant. It was so
31:30
Speaker 1: fucking it was such a good ass self tape, like
31:32
Speaker 1: I was. We was almost in shock how good it was.
31:35
Speaker 1: And so it was it was easy for us to
31:37
Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, it has to be Jess.
31:39
Speaker 2: What would you do different about that sitcom? It was
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Speaker 2: on forward the season the season.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't think I would do
31:46
Speaker 1: anything differently about the show. I think the way I
31:49
Speaker 1: did things. You know, I was talking about this recently
31:52
Speaker 1: because I could be honest about it. Therapy made me really
31:54
Speaker 1: understand how like how much I put on myself. I
31:57
Speaker 1: was very stressed out doing that show because I was
32:00
Speaker 1: trying to make something impossible in a way where you're
32:03
Speaker 1: trying to please all these black people around the country.
32:06
Speaker 1: You want to make everybody happy in Chicago. Maybe it
32:08
Speaker 1: was too much you said black just now, bro, because
32:13
Speaker 1: I'm glad I said it like that, because it's like,
32:15
Speaker 1: it's impossible to do that, right, It's impossible to can't
32:21
Speaker 1: please you have to do whatever, but you think it's
32:24
Speaker 1: honest about your voice and what that is. And I
32:26
Speaker 1: was all in my stand up, I'm never like geared
32:28
Speaker 1: like this is towards this audience. I did whatever I
32:30
Speaker 1: thought was funny. I think with that, I was just
32:32
Speaker 1: trying to make sure, like yo, I gotta do this
32:34
Speaker 1: for us and our people and this and that, and
32:35
Speaker 1: so I don't know. It was just some things I
32:37
Speaker 1: could have did better, even just as a leader and
32:39
Speaker 1: things like that. But it was nothing bad. It's just
32:41
Speaker 1: I could do a lot of things better. But I've
32:43
Speaker 1: been doing that. I've been analyzing everything I'm doing from
32:46
Speaker 1: this point. Like when you become number one on the
32:48
Speaker 1: call sheet, it's just a whole different responsibility. Just even
32:51
Speaker 1: the energy you bring on set is a big you know,
32:54
Speaker 1: you just don't think about all this, but I was
32:55
Speaker 1: thrown into the fire.
32:56
Speaker 2: I'm glad you think you was ready.
32:58
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I thought I was, Like I
33:00
Speaker 1: thought I was ready for real. I thought I was
33:01
Speaker 1: ready for those movies I started. But a lot of
33:03
Speaker 1: that stuff I wasn't. It happened so fast, and for me,
33:06
Speaker 1: I like to kind of sit back and be like, Okay,
33:08
Speaker 1: this is how I should take those steps in that,
33:10
Speaker 1: but I didn't. It was happening really fast, and so
33:13
Speaker 1: like now I got a better understand why. Like I'm
33:15
Speaker 1: excited about directing because I'm like, oh, I could do
33:18
Speaker 1: everything so much differently, and you know, but I put
33:22
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on myself and that was that
33:24
Speaker 1: was a problem.
33:25
Speaker 2: I feel like there's no pathway to like do it
33:28
Speaker 2: right right nah, because.
33:29
Speaker 3: Like you could either start off red hot and then
33:32
Speaker 3: you get all these opportunities and you gotta take them,
33:34
Speaker 3: or you take the slower route.
33:36
Speaker 1: But it's two things. It's you know, I think once
33:40
Speaker 1: again said Cray, but being a black man, just being black,
33:44
Speaker 1: like you just it's just more pressure you put on yourself.
33:47
Speaker 1: You don't want to you don't want to mess up
33:49
Speaker 1: what you're doing. As far as entertainment. You don't want
33:51
Speaker 1: to mess You want to represent your family right. You
33:54
Speaker 1: want to do right by your ancestors. You could you
33:56
Speaker 1: just thinking about everything. You don't want to mess, the
33:58
Speaker 1: money up, you want to make she created generational Well
34:01
Speaker 1: you think about this all in like when you just
34:04
Speaker 1: got it. Oh, I got to take care of people.
34:07
Speaker 1: It's just so much, man, And it's like I've learned
34:10
Speaker 1: and once again it's a whoule. We should go to therapy.
34:13
Speaker 1: Talking to a therapist made me break everything down a
34:15
Speaker 1: little different and I repaced myself different now because I'm like, oh,
34:18
Speaker 1: I don't have to like, there's no rush, relax.
34:22
Speaker 2: And you engaged now too. Congratulations?
34:24
Speaker 1: Yeah man, I mean I wet my rings. She wear
34:26
Speaker 1: herds out with.
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Speaker 4: Mine and you can go to her at renaissance.
34:29
Speaker 1: Yeah. That was That was crazy amazing. Was it planned
34:32
Speaker 1: or was it?
34:32
Speaker 2: Was it?
34:33
Speaker 1: How did it happen for people that don't know? I
34:35
Speaker 1: feel like I told this story fifteen thousand times. It
34:39
Speaker 1: wasn't planning planning. I actually saw this is funny. I
34:43
Speaker 1: bought the ring that Saturday call her dad called the
34:49
Speaker 1: kids hit Miss Tina up because I wanted to know
34:53
Speaker 1: which song go, I should proposed to that. I was like,
34:55
Speaker 1: she got all them house songs, like all them songs
34:57
Speaker 1: too fast to proposal.
34:58
Speaker 7: You can't break myself on top, man, But that's yeah.
35:04
Speaker 1: But I didn't know what she was thinking. I thought
35:05
Speaker 1: she was only doing all the renaissance stuff. And so
35:08
Speaker 1: you know, Miss Tina told me love on top and
35:10
Speaker 1: then and and it was funny. We went to a
35:13
Speaker 1: wedding that Sunday and she didn't. I was proposing. I
35:15
Speaker 1: about the ring at the mall. This was so last mall.
35:18
Speaker 1: So we were shopping. I went to it was a
35:19
Speaker 1: Tiffany store.
35:24
Speaker 3: Let me.
35:26
Speaker 1: They'd be ready to buddy, Buddy, No, I got I
35:30
Speaker 1: got it at Tiffany's company at the mall. But we
35:32
Speaker 1: were shopping for the wedding we was going to. It
35:35
Speaker 1: was kJ Smith and uh oh yeah, the Blacks, the
35:39
Speaker 1: Blacks and uh yeah. We was shopping for that. And
35:43
Speaker 1: then I stopped it. I looked at the store like, no,
35:46
Speaker 1: walked down. Let me see your engagement rings. He showed
35:49
Speaker 1: it to me. I was like, give me that one.
35:51
Speaker 1: He was like, yo, you don't want to like brou
35:52
Speaker 1: I gotta go. He was like, that was the fastest
35:55
Speaker 1: seale level. I know how much it is, Like, no,
35:57
Speaker 1: just get.
35:57
Speaker 2: It, and which was it?
36:00
Speaker 1: Nobody tell me my house got broken, which is weird.
36:06
Speaker 1: They took the wedding band. I just, oh my god,
36:09
Speaker 1: I just bought the wedding band. This mam fucking found
36:11
Speaker 1: it was. I thought I hit it good m I
36:15
Speaker 1: guess I didn't. But yeah, he took the wedding band.
36:19
Speaker 1: Now I gotta get another one. I'm like, damn, did
36:21
Speaker 1: I get the receipt was in the bag. He probably
36:23
Speaker 1: just took the bag. I'm so stupid. I really should
36:25
Speaker 1: have took it out the bag and all time, like
36:27
Speaker 1: literally received everything that your nice. No, it was it
36:31
Speaker 1: was hidden in the first of all, I want these
36:33
Speaker 1: niggas back in my house. I'm not They took anything
36:39
Speaker 1: you could take. Yeah, it's like I really can y'all
36:43
Speaker 1: hear me, Hey, don't take the ship out. There's nothing
36:45
Speaker 1: else left if you If you try to take something,
36:48
Speaker 1: that's gonna be heavy and I'm gonna catch your ass.
36:50
Speaker 2: They cleaned you off. That good.
36:51
Speaker 1: Not that good. But they took all the jewelry. The
36:53
Speaker 1: couch was there, so yeah, you need a dog, bro,
36:55
Speaker 1: but go ahead. Yeah, I mean I did you got
36:57
Speaker 1: to see That's what I needed them. I'm scared of dogs.
37:00
Speaker 1: I don't want to have a dog. I'm scared of
37:05
Speaker 1: door withany. I went to Tiffany got the ring and uh,
37:11
Speaker 1: you know, went to the wedding on Sundays. It was
37:12
Speaker 1: tough for me not to say no because people kept
37:14
Speaker 1: bringing it. Win it, It's gonna happen. I'm like, And
37:18
Speaker 1: then you know, went to the concert for her birthday
37:19
Speaker 1: because it was her birthday weekend. The kids almost messed
37:23
Speaker 1: it up. It was way too excited about I was
37:24
Speaker 1: going to a concert, like, yo, you got it, chill
37:27
Speaker 1: and she was like, I wonder why they was so
37:29
Speaker 1: helpful and yeah, we did it that. I almost messed
37:33
Speaker 1: it up because I went to the bathroom and Love
37:35
Speaker 1: on Top came on while I was paying. I remember yelling.
37:39
Speaker 1: I was like ah, I was like okay, brother. I
37:41
Speaker 1: was like, I'm good you okay brother, No, not that funny.
37:50
Speaker 1: And I ran and washing hands. Yes, I watched, was
37:53
Speaker 1: making sure he was if he yelled. I did watch
37:57
Speaker 1: my head, I promise you I did. I'm my hand washing.
38:00
Speaker 1: I actually look at people that don't do I judge
38:03
Speaker 1: the funk out of here that don't wash their hands.
38:06
Speaker 1: That makes me so fucking mad. I was just wash
38:10
Speaker 1: my hands. I ran out and I couldn't find the seat,
38:13
Speaker 1: which was all funcause you know, to be moving like
38:15
Speaker 1: you make people moving. I left, so I had to
38:18
Speaker 1: step I had to walk back out, retrace my steps
38:21
Speaker 1: all that I was sitting over there found it. It was
38:24
Speaker 1: a camera man standing there shaking his sweating because he
38:26
Speaker 1: wanted to put us on camera. And Jay hooked that
38:27
Speaker 1: up and uh, yeah, I proposed and it was beautiful
38:32
Speaker 1: and she was ready to go. I was like, uh no,
38:34
Speaker 1: I bought these fucking tickets. This wasn't free. I actually
38:37
Speaker 1: bought my tickets and uh but it was just a
38:40
Speaker 1: beautiful moment. She was so happy and she and she
38:43
Speaker 1: did the whole black girl, you know they walk away
38:45
Speaker 1: through this thing you watching the proposal, waving the eyes
38:54
Speaker 1: and ship. Uh and yeah, she said yes, and it was.
38:58
Speaker 1: It was beautiful and it's fun. And we've been and
39:00
Speaker 1: people can saying when the date is, but we've really
39:02
Speaker 1: been playing in the marriage, like and that's easy, we
39:05
Speaker 1: could do that shit, but like, I want to make
39:06
Speaker 1: sure everything's in order by the time we get into
39:09
Speaker 1: that fucking new place and all that.
39:11
Speaker 3: That's a great perspective. Now I'm not playing for the wedding.
39:14
Speaker 3: I'm playing for the marriage.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, pound.
39:16
Speaker 2: On that a little bit, bro, you said, let's expound
39:19
Speaker 2: on that a little bit. What is the preparing for
39:20
Speaker 2: the marriage?
39:21
Speaker 1: I mean, like, you know, we're talking about you combined
39:23
Speaker 1: and finances. We have seven kids between us, so we
39:26
Speaker 1: need to make sure it's the right home we have.
39:28
Speaker 1: You know, everything has to be in order, and even
39:30
Speaker 1: just us and communicating. I love talking to her every day,
39:35
Speaker 1: Like it's even when I'm on the road, I'm on traveling.
39:38
Speaker 1: We stay on the phone till we fall asleep still
39:41
Speaker 1: and we talk about everything. You know. Sometimes we don't
39:43
Speaker 1: agree on a lot of shit, but we talk it
39:45
Speaker 1: out and I love that shit. I love how deep
39:47
Speaker 1: I conversation. I just told her the other day we
39:49
Speaker 1: was having one of our crazy deep ass conversations. I said,
39:51
Speaker 1: you know something, that's what I fucking love about you
39:54
Speaker 1: so smart. I love having these deep ass that I
39:57
Speaker 1: can't have with nobody else. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So I'm happy, man, Absolutely, you look happy. You sound
40:04
Speaker 3: happiness right.
40:05
Speaker 1: The movie is out right Now we've grown now and
40:08
Speaker 1: we appreciate you for joining us. It's congratulations to Yeah,
40:13
Speaker 1: this is fucking new studio, is roomy, is nice?
40:17
Speaker 2: Shipped on our green room, though.
40:18
Speaker 1: Because it wasn't, first of all, the first place. He
40:21
Speaker 1: took me to somebody office. I'm like, this, ain't nobody
40:23
Speaker 1: get here working And took us to a conference room
40:28
Speaker 1: that looked like it was meeting there until I saw
40:30
Speaker 1: the bottle of hot sauce. Then the bottle of hot
40:39
Speaker 1: sauce in a conference room just pulled out some hot
40:45
Speaker 1: sauce in the bit of a meat and I heard it,
40:48
Speaker 1: and you said, is it No, I did not say
40:50
Speaker 1: that it was a nigga that working his ass in
40:54
Speaker 1: the wrong room. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, little real it's
40:58
Speaker 1: the breakfast club. Good morning. Wait, that adds up Earth
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Speaker 1: in the morning at breakfast club. H