Most comedians don’t quit because they’re not funny… they quit because of this. In Episode 20 of Only Bombs!, Cuzzin Paul breaks down what it really takes to start stand-up comedy — from bombing on stage and getting humbled at open mics, to the mental grind that makes most people walk away. This isn’t the highlight reel… this is the reality. If you’ve ever thought about getting on stage, or you’re already in it, this is the part nobody talks about. New episodes and clips every week. Welcome to Only Bombs!
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00:00:00 --> 00:00:42 Only bombs only only bombs Yeah, so I want to
00:00:42 --> 00:00:44 I want to start it off I wanted to tell you like
00:00:44 --> 00:00:45 I know we kind of talked about it like outside
00:00:45 --> 00:00:48 But I want to talk I want to tell you man that
00:00:48 --> 00:00:51 um that this is a super special episode this
00:00:51 --> 00:00:56 being Episode 20 and the reason why that is so
00:00:56 --> 00:01:00 special is I have like this thing that that I
00:01:00 --> 00:01:04 wanted to pull up a little statistic from It
00:01:04 --> 00:01:09 is from podcasts or podnews .net. And this was
00:01:09 --> 00:01:13 written in May of 2025. And there's a statistic
00:01:13 --> 00:01:17 about podcasts in specific. It says many industry
00:01:17 --> 00:01:20 sources report that 90 % of podcasts don't make
00:01:20 --> 00:01:24 it past three episodes. And then of the 10 %
00:01:24 --> 00:01:27 that do make it past three episodes, 90 % of
00:01:27 --> 00:01:31 those podcasts don't make it. past episode 20,
00:01:31 --> 00:01:33 and what makes that so special is that this is
00:01:33 --> 00:01:36 episode 20, and I just wanted to say thank you
00:01:36 --> 00:01:38 so much for being that way. I really appreciate
00:01:38 --> 00:01:41 it, brother. No problem. It's all about that
00:01:41 --> 00:01:46 dub. That dub, that 20. Yeah, I wanted to get
00:01:46 --> 00:01:49 you one because, so, when I saw you live, when
00:01:49 --> 00:01:51 I saw you with Marcus Monroe, right? That was
00:01:51 --> 00:01:53 the first time I saw you. I think what I really
00:01:53 --> 00:01:57 liked a lot was that, now normally, normally
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 you can kind of, like, watch a comedian and you
00:02:00 --> 00:02:02 know it's like, all right, is this gonna be good
00:02:02 --> 00:02:04 or is this gonna be like, shit, like you know
00:02:04 --> 00:02:06 within the first few seconds. But what really,
00:02:06 --> 00:02:08 what I loved about you was one, your stories.
00:02:08 --> 00:02:10 I love your stories. I see the direction that
00:02:10 --> 00:02:14 you're going in. And then two, I love the expressive
00:02:14 --> 00:02:18 gratitude that you showed. Like you just, you,
00:02:18 --> 00:02:20 you know, you thanked the crowd for being there
00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 and then you said that, you know, you guys are
00:02:23 --> 00:02:25 gonna see me in the future and thank you for.
00:02:26 --> 00:02:27 Thank you for being here since the beginning,
00:02:27 --> 00:02:30 I think, was something like you said. Yeah? Yeah.
00:02:30 --> 00:02:34 And I thought that was just so cool that you're
00:02:34 --> 00:02:38 also acknowledging that you have a future in
00:02:38 --> 00:02:41 this. You know what you want to do and everything.
00:02:41 --> 00:02:43 And that kind of resonated with me. And I was
00:02:43 --> 00:02:45 just immediately like, dude, I not only want
00:02:45 --> 00:02:48 to get you on, I want you to be 20. I appreciate
00:02:48 --> 00:02:50 that. Because I feel like we kind of share the
00:02:50 --> 00:02:54 same kind of sentiment of success, of just not
00:02:54 --> 00:02:57 giving up. Yeah, there ain't no quit here. Yeah.
00:02:57 --> 00:03:00 I'm from Philly, man. Yeah. I mean, ain't no
00:03:00 --> 00:03:02 quit in Philadelphia. Well, tell me about that,
00:03:02 --> 00:03:06 man. It's a hunger, it's a drive. If you're supposed
00:03:06 --> 00:03:13 to do something, you just do it. And as you heard
00:03:13 --> 00:03:16 on stage, but I share this story whenever I'm
00:03:16 --> 00:03:19 in front of a definitely a new crowd or a new
00:03:19 --> 00:03:24 fan base. The only reason that I even levitated
00:03:24 --> 00:03:28 towards actually getting on stage was my brother,
00:03:28 --> 00:03:31 First Lieutenant Demetrius Montez Friesen Army.
00:03:32 --> 00:03:37 Me too, bro. He hit me on April 8th, 2011. He
00:03:37 --> 00:03:38 was like, are we talking? Because my birthday
00:03:38 --> 00:03:41 is April 9th. His birthday is April 10th. We're
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 three years apart. Oh, happy belated. Thanks.
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 So he called me to wish me happy birthday. He's
00:03:46 --> 00:03:48 in Afghanistan. It's this weird number. You probably
00:03:48 --> 00:03:49 have seen him. You know what I'm talking about,
00:03:50 --> 00:03:52 that pop up on the phone when you call from overseas.
00:03:52 --> 00:03:54 Yeah. At first I didn't answer, but something
00:03:54 --> 00:03:56 was like, pick up. So I picked up and I'm talking
00:03:56 --> 00:03:59 to him. We busted up for like 20 minutes. That's
00:03:59 --> 00:04:00 the last 20 minute conversation I ever had with
00:04:00 --> 00:04:04 my brother. So through that conversation, he's
00:04:04 --> 00:04:07 like, yo, I really think you need to just throw
00:04:07 --> 00:04:09 your hat in the ring and just try doing standup
00:04:09 --> 00:04:10 comedy. He's like, you're the funniest person
00:04:10 --> 00:04:14 I've ever met, Paul. You can make a room full
00:04:14 --> 00:04:19 of people that's crying just bust into laughter
00:04:19 --> 00:04:22 and forget about the sadness that's in the room.
00:04:22 --> 00:04:26 Yeah. So I thought about it and then I hit up
00:04:26 --> 00:04:28 a couple people in the city of Philadelphia because
00:04:28 --> 00:04:31 I was a party promoter. I was actually at an
00:04:31 --> 00:04:34 event that I plan on bringing to Austin called
00:04:34 --> 00:04:36 the Get Familiar Tour, which is something where
00:04:36 --> 00:04:38 I would go across the city. And if you are a
00:04:38 --> 00:04:43 new artist, hip hop, comedian, R &B, whatever,
00:04:44 --> 00:04:45 people need to get familiar with you. So we're
00:04:45 --> 00:04:48 touring around the city, Get Familiar Tour. So
00:04:48 --> 00:04:50 I was actually at the venue. setting up when
00:04:50 --> 00:04:56 he called for that and He said it I start rolling
00:04:56 --> 00:05:02 and I had it literally set for it was a Should
00:05:02 --> 00:05:07 have been May 12th, I believe or May 13th Because
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 I believe it was the winners that he passed away
00:05:09 --> 00:05:14 May 10th of 2011 The idea was for me to go on
00:05:14 --> 00:05:18 stage record it mmm put it on YouTube and then
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 I could send it to him so he could see it. Even
00:05:20 --> 00:05:23 if I sucked, I was going, you know, just show
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 him like, yo, I tried my hand at it, you know.
00:05:25 --> 00:05:26 All right, I'm gonna have to do this. You know,
00:05:26 --> 00:05:31 that was my mindset. But then on May 10th, and
00:05:31 --> 00:05:33 this is crazy, because you see what I just did
00:05:33 --> 00:05:34 with the phone. You see how I was like, yo, I
00:05:34 --> 00:05:38 gotta go get it. I never cut my phone off. Like,
00:05:38 --> 00:05:42 I never cut my, since I've had a cell phone,
00:05:42 --> 00:05:47 I've never really just cut it off. On May 10th,
00:05:47 --> 00:05:52 I had done so much work in party promoting and
00:05:52 --> 00:05:55 doing all this stuff late night on May 9th, going
00:05:55 --> 00:05:57 into May 10th. I was so tired. I actually cut
00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 my phone off. So when I cut my phone back on,
00:06:00 --> 00:06:05 I had, I think it was 20 voicemails. Oh, wow.
00:06:05 --> 00:06:09 I had text messages coming in. I was crazy. And
00:06:09 --> 00:06:13 when I finally called my mom, she's like, get
00:06:13 --> 00:06:19 here to his wife's mother's house on the other
00:06:19 --> 00:06:21 side of Philadelphia. So we're in Austin, so
00:06:21 --> 00:06:24 just think, I had to drive from South Austin
00:06:24 --> 00:06:28 to like Georgetown. But I had to pick up my little
00:06:28 --> 00:06:30 brother on the way, because it's three of us.
00:06:30 --> 00:06:32 So I'm on my way to go pick up my little brother.
00:06:33 --> 00:06:35 And when I got my little brother, he's like,
00:06:35 --> 00:06:36 yeah, mommy been trying to get in touch with
00:06:36 --> 00:06:38 you, whatever, whatever. And I'm like, yeah,
00:06:38 --> 00:06:40 I was like, I don't know what's going on. And
00:06:40 --> 00:06:42 I think we got about 10 minutes from the door
00:06:42 --> 00:06:44 and I looked at my brother in the face, my baby
00:06:44 --> 00:06:47 brother, and I was like, If they tell us that
00:06:47 --> 00:06:51 Demetrius has passed away, I need you to just,
00:06:51 --> 00:06:53 both of us, we just gotta stand strong for mom
00:06:53 --> 00:06:55 and dad. That's what we gotta do right here,
00:06:55 --> 00:07:00 right now. Because I felt it. As I got closer
00:07:00 --> 00:07:05 to the house, I felt it. So when we got there,
00:07:09 --> 00:07:11 the soldiers that still were there presenting
00:07:11 --> 00:07:16 the flag, the folded flag. to my mom, my dad,
00:07:16 --> 00:07:22 his wife, and his son. And mother -in -law. And
00:07:22 --> 00:07:24 when I walked in, I saw it, and I was just like,
00:07:24 --> 00:07:28 damn. So mentally, I wasn't even thinking about
00:07:28 --> 00:07:30 comedy. I'm just thinking about my family and
00:07:30 --> 00:07:33 everything. We had to fly to Fort Knox. Well,
00:07:33 --> 00:07:36 no, we actually had to go to Dover, Delaware,
00:07:36 --> 00:07:39 Dover Air Force Base, and to see them roll my
00:07:39 --> 00:07:44 brother in what looked like a bread truck. And
00:07:44 --> 00:07:48 that little metal -looking casket thing, but
00:07:48 --> 00:07:50 he stepped on an IED, so we don't know what he
00:07:50 --> 00:07:52 looked like, anything. Only one person in my
00:07:52 --> 00:07:54 life knows what he looks like, and that's my
00:07:54 --> 00:07:57 best friend Marv, because that was his job in
00:07:57 --> 00:08:01 the military to not only look at stuff like that,
00:08:01 --> 00:08:05 but file it. That was his position in the military,
00:08:05 --> 00:08:09 so he's the only one who knows what my brother
00:08:09 --> 00:08:12 actually looked like after the fact, outside
00:08:12 --> 00:08:15 of his his group of soldiers that he led or whatever.
00:08:16 --> 00:08:18 And that story gets crazy because that's the
00:08:18 --> 00:08:21 first time I've seen that many grown ass men
00:08:21 --> 00:08:25 cry because the story goes, my brother, obviously
00:08:25 --> 00:08:28 first lieutenant, he's ahead, they're driving
00:08:28 --> 00:08:33 and he told everybody stop. He felt weird. He
00:08:33 --> 00:08:35 goes to step out. He goes about, I think they
00:08:35 --> 00:08:38 said it was about maybe 60 feet out. The IED
00:08:38 --> 00:08:41 goes off but it triggered about 40 other IEDs.
00:08:42 --> 00:08:46 So had they all driven, it's everybody versus
00:08:46 --> 00:08:49 him. So the ultimate sacrifice as a soldier,
00:08:50 --> 00:08:52 you protected your people, but you know what
00:08:52 --> 00:08:56 I mean? So you know, I've had my days. So when
00:08:56 --> 00:08:58 I get on stage, I tell that story about my brother
00:08:58 --> 00:09:00 to not only bring you in, but to let you know
00:09:00 --> 00:09:02 like, yo, I'm doing this seriously. Like this
00:09:02 --> 00:09:09 is for real. Like being funny, being the light
00:09:09 --> 00:09:12 in the room, being that positive energy. That
00:09:12 --> 00:09:14 show that you actually saw me on shout out to
00:09:14 --> 00:09:17 Marcus Monroe and the young ladies that went
00:09:17 --> 00:09:20 up as well as uh The other guy I don't know his
00:09:20 --> 00:09:24 name not gonna lie When I was brought on that
00:09:24 --> 00:09:26 show it was only supposed to be three of us will
00:09:26 --> 00:09:31 be me the dude and Marcus Monroe The promoter
00:09:31 --> 00:09:34 got nervous and he added the two young ladies
00:09:34 --> 00:09:37 because he said he'd never seen me perform like
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39 what did you book me for? If you're gonna get
00:09:39 --> 00:09:42 nervous, so that's why I opened And then I was
00:09:42 --> 00:09:44 cut to what? I think I did five. Yeah, I felt
00:09:44 --> 00:09:48 like five minutes. But I did a five that was
00:09:48 --> 00:09:51 like, I chopped like four different parts of
00:09:51 --> 00:09:53 tens to do the five. I went straight to the funny,
00:09:53 --> 00:09:56 the funny, the funny. The funny, the funny, the
00:09:56 --> 00:09:59 story, the funny, the funny. And I got off. Because
00:09:59 --> 00:10:02 that joke about the Viagra, I know that's a killer.
00:10:02 --> 00:10:04 Like that kills no matter where I go because
00:10:04 --> 00:10:08 nobody's thinking of it nobody nobody even derives
00:10:08 --> 00:10:10 that answer or what's going to be said I actually
00:10:10 --> 00:10:14 had an older lady who uh, I was finishing out
00:10:14 --> 00:10:15 a show one time I was doing like kind of like
00:10:15 --> 00:10:18 the check spot And she was she wanted to go to
00:10:18 --> 00:10:20 the bathroom because she sat in the front row
00:10:20 --> 00:10:22 She didn't want to leave the front row empty.
00:10:22 --> 00:10:25 So she sat there and when I dropped that joke,
00:10:25 --> 00:10:28 she peed on herself So after she peeled herself,
00:10:28 --> 00:10:30 after the show, she's like showing me, her daughter's
00:10:30 --> 00:10:32 like, she's not getting in my car. I was like,
00:10:32 --> 00:10:34 you better put a tile down for your mom. She's
00:10:34 --> 00:10:36 like, no, she's getting an Uber. I'm like, no,
00:10:36 --> 00:10:38 no Uber driver on her pissy ass and they got
00:10:38 --> 00:10:41 damn car. Like, I'm saying like, we don't make
00:10:41 --> 00:10:43 enough money. And then, you know, we can go into
00:10:43 --> 00:10:46 that too. Cause since I've been here in Austin,
00:10:46 --> 00:10:50 I'm the Lyft driver, 2 rides, bro. I am
00:10:50 --> 00:10:54 literally working on a coffee table book full
00:10:54 --> 00:10:58 of stories. from Lyft Rides, bro. So that's what
00:10:58 --> 00:10:59 you're doing right now, is it Lyft Riding? Yeah,
00:10:59 --> 00:11:02 we talk about almost two to three times a week.
00:11:03 --> 00:11:07 That's how I met the promoter that booked me
00:11:07 --> 00:11:09 for the show. No shit. I took him home, we was
00:11:09 --> 00:11:11 rapping, and we're talking, and I just had him
00:11:11 --> 00:11:13 in the back, just cracking him up, which again
00:11:13 --> 00:11:16 is like, dude, you know I can do this, but I
00:11:16 --> 00:11:20 have people who literally follow me on Instagram,
00:11:20 --> 00:11:23 follow me on the Facebook, who were riders, who
00:11:23 --> 00:11:28 were like, yo. You funny shit bro, like I've
00:11:28 --> 00:11:30 had people crying in the car I've had people
00:11:30 --> 00:11:33 like Calling people like you're listening with
00:11:33 --> 00:11:36 this dude is saying like I told my wife I was
00:11:36 --> 00:11:37 like, yo I should have like I should have had
00:11:37 --> 00:11:40 a camera up from day one That captured all it
00:11:40 --> 00:11:41 cuz I didn't think it was gonna go like this
00:11:41 --> 00:11:43 cuz that yeah my first couple of rides I ain't
00:11:43 --> 00:11:45 gonna lie. I was like, you're these awesome people
00:11:45 --> 00:11:48 weird as hell coming from Philly. This is different
00:11:48 --> 00:11:51 This is a different batch of individuals. I can't
00:11:51 --> 00:11:53 even imagine. Like, this is a different batch.
00:11:53 --> 00:11:55 But then you realize it's like, okay, it's a
00:11:55 --> 00:11:57 little New York, it's a little LA, it's a little
00:11:57 --> 00:11:59 bit of the South, it's a little bit of the Midwest,
00:11:59 --> 00:12:01 you know what I mean? So depending on where they
00:12:01 --> 00:12:03 tell me they're from, I kind of know where I
00:12:03 --> 00:12:08 can go with the jokes. I love, I love the maggots
00:12:08 --> 00:12:11 when they get in the car. I love it. Because
00:12:11 --> 00:12:13 you, ooh, I'm about to give you. It's going to
00:12:13 --> 00:12:15 be crazy. Oh, this is going to be rapid fire.
00:12:15 --> 00:12:20 Because you're a leader. Yeah. Your leader has
00:12:20 --> 00:12:22 set up the pins and I've got a bowling ball that's
00:12:22 --> 00:12:25 about this big. And I'm about to just push it
00:12:25 --> 00:12:27 down the lane. I'm getting a strike. And no matter
00:12:27 --> 00:12:32 how you feel at the end of it, I got you. Because
00:12:32 --> 00:12:34 everything, you know, like we all know a great
00:12:34 --> 00:12:39 deal of stuff that they believe in is WWE made
00:12:39 --> 00:12:42 up. And they're riding with it, because if you
00:12:42 --> 00:12:45 really think that Hulk Hogan could beat the Ultimate
00:12:45 --> 00:12:49 Warrior, you're crazy. On a given day, without
00:12:49 --> 00:12:51 the cocaine, Ultimate Warrior probably would
00:12:51 --> 00:12:53 have killed Hulk Hogan. Without the cocaine.
00:12:53 --> 00:12:55 Without the cocaine. Now, on the cocaine, he
00:12:55 --> 00:12:57 might be a step slow, but without the, you know.
00:12:57 --> 00:12:59 I mean, he might get charged up somehow, though.
00:13:00 --> 00:13:01 He's going to get it. He's going to get it. Give
00:13:01 --> 00:13:03 him a red bull, and it's over for you. Yeah.
00:13:03 --> 00:13:09 So, yeah, man, like, I can't. See myself losing
00:13:09 --> 00:13:12 at comedy and the reason I actually decided to
00:13:12 --> 00:13:14 take it full force outside of my brother was
00:13:14 --> 00:13:18 I was doing I was doing artist management hip
00:13:18 --> 00:13:22 -hop R &B spending thousands of dollars in studios
00:13:22 --> 00:13:25 getting songs done and going to record labels
00:13:25 --> 00:13:30 and taking me ends and I Saw myself as you know
00:13:30 --> 00:13:32 without the baby oil in the rape charges. I was
00:13:32 --> 00:13:34 like puff daddy, man I was trying my best to
00:13:34 --> 00:13:37 get this thing going But those artists, they
00:13:37 --> 00:13:39 didn't want to listen, but I'm spending my money
00:13:39 --> 00:13:43 and I'm using my time. So I told myself, like,
00:13:43 --> 00:13:46 yo, if you could put all of this time, effort,
00:13:47 --> 00:13:50 energy, and money into somebody else, might as
00:13:50 --> 00:13:53 well put it into yourself. And if you lose...
00:13:53 --> 00:13:55 then you just stand in the mirror and yell at
00:13:55 --> 00:13:57 yourself versus yelling at some individual who
00:13:57 --> 00:13:59 truly don't care, because they done went in the
00:13:59 --> 00:14:01 studio and dropped their song and they out in
00:14:01 --> 00:14:02 the street know whatever they want. They don't
00:14:02 --> 00:14:05 really give a damn if you throw away. It sounds
00:14:05 --> 00:14:06 to me like they didn't understand the position
00:14:06 --> 00:14:08 that they were in. A lot of them didn't. A lot
00:14:08 --> 00:14:10 of them don't. And a lot of them don't have success
00:14:10 --> 00:14:13 now because of, you know what I mean? I actually
00:14:13 --> 00:14:18 had an artist. So everybody who's seen the movie
00:14:18 --> 00:14:20 Wicked now, there's a song in there called Popular.
00:14:21 --> 00:14:23 I literally, do you remember when Cable used
00:14:23 --> 00:14:26 to have just the music channels that just played
00:14:26 --> 00:14:29 music? It was like, so one morning, I don't know
00:14:29 --> 00:14:31 what I was doing, but I was flipping, and the
00:14:31 --> 00:14:36 song Popular came on. And I heard it, and I went
00:14:36 --> 00:14:38 out throughout the day, and I can still hear
00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 it. So then I found out what the song was, and
00:14:41 --> 00:14:43 I took it to the producer guy, and he was a producer
00:14:43 --> 00:14:47 artist, kinda like Kanye, and he flipped it into
00:14:47 --> 00:14:50 this. Dope -ass track and we put it up on my
00:14:50 --> 00:14:51 myspace. This is how long ago i'm talking on
00:14:51 --> 00:14:57 myspace dude atlantic records A and r heard it
00:14:57 --> 00:15:00 and was like yo, I want to take a meeting Whoa,
00:15:01 --> 00:15:05 so i'm excited. I call him like yo, bro We got
00:15:05 --> 00:15:09 a meeting with atlantic I need you to be here
00:15:09 --> 00:15:12 at this time today is not the day to be on your
00:15:12 --> 00:15:18 bs i'm near It's called 19 at the Bellevue in
00:15:18 --> 00:15:20 Philadelphia. You're overlooking the city. You're
00:15:20 --> 00:15:24 up top. Beautiful. I done set this up. I'm paying
00:15:24 --> 00:15:26 for lunch, everything, whatever, whatever. Yeah,
00:15:26 --> 00:15:30 you're ready to go. Never shows up. No shit.
00:15:30 --> 00:15:33 So what did AR do? He ordered champagne or all
00:15:33 --> 00:15:36 this stuff on me, because he pissing and wasting
00:15:36 --> 00:15:40 his time. Yeah. So I wound up with like a $300
00:15:40 --> 00:15:44 bill and nothing moving forward. Then when he
00:15:44 --> 00:15:46 finally contacted me two days later, he like
00:15:46 --> 00:15:48 I had to pick my son I'm like I ain't trying
00:15:48 --> 00:15:50 to hear that bro You supposed to grab your son
00:15:50 --> 00:15:52 and bring him to the meeting so they see you
00:15:52 --> 00:15:55 need yeah this it's a life changing thing right
00:15:55 --> 00:15:58 there but the deal is this and and Let's just
00:15:58 --> 00:16:00 be honest because I've had this conversation
00:16:00 --> 00:16:02 with successful and unsuccessful people For the
00:16:02 --> 00:16:05 reason that they are unsuccessful a lot of people
00:16:05 --> 00:16:07 are afraid of success when it's staring in your
00:16:07 --> 00:16:10 face Yeah, you realize like yo, I've got to go
00:16:10 --> 00:16:14 in this direction at this speed and I really
00:16:14 --> 00:16:17 gotta do it, they're gonna probably see my flaws,
00:16:17 --> 00:16:19 they're gonna see what I lack, they're gonna
00:16:19 --> 00:16:23 see that I BS sometimes and I'm not gonna be
00:16:23 --> 00:16:27 able, that shit scares people. And when I sat
00:16:27 --> 00:16:29 there with that young man and I looked him in
00:16:29 --> 00:16:31 his face and I could tell like, yo, you are afraid
00:16:31 --> 00:16:34 of success. But I'm actually glad it only cost
00:16:34 --> 00:16:40 me, honestly I think, I think I dropped about
00:16:40 --> 00:16:43 30 grand in the dude. in a matter of two years,
00:16:43 --> 00:16:46 like 30 racks in the dude in two years. But when
00:16:46 --> 00:16:49 I say great, like he made, I could play songs
00:16:49 --> 00:16:51 for you right now from dude. And you'd be like,
00:16:51 --> 00:16:54 yo, that could be on the radio today. I know
00:16:54 --> 00:16:58 it, but you wouldn't get it out of him. You wouldn't
00:16:58 --> 00:17:03 get it out of him. Karma type situation. I'm
00:17:03 --> 00:17:06 flying back from LA and I'm tired as hell. So
00:17:06 --> 00:17:08 I'm like, you know, shout out to Red Bull. Y
00:17:08 --> 00:17:11 'all need to give me a sponsorship. Arizona green
00:17:11 --> 00:17:16 tea Pretty much right. So I I brought up I don't
00:17:16 --> 00:17:17 know if it's been the PA you ever been to Philly
00:17:17 --> 00:17:20 before Pennsylvania at all? Um, I've just been
00:17:20 --> 00:17:22 through there Florida. So have you ever heard
00:17:22 --> 00:17:26 of Wawa? Oh, yeah Buffalo chicken wrap. So there
00:17:26 --> 00:17:29 you go. Boom. I go into Wawa and I grab a Red
00:17:29 --> 00:17:33 Bull and I come to the counter and I hear long
00:17:33 --> 00:17:36 time no see and I look up and it's the artist
00:17:37 --> 00:17:39 Yeah, is he working the cash register? He's working
00:17:39 --> 00:17:41 the cash register now Let me let me promise this
00:17:41 --> 00:17:43 story cuz I gotta make I got I gotta show his
00:17:43 --> 00:17:46 hair for fucking knew it I'm in there now if
00:17:46 --> 00:17:47 you look under the table right now, you see the
00:17:47 --> 00:17:50 sneaker game bro. Like I do kicks I'm in the
00:17:50 --> 00:17:56 J Balvin rainbow Jordans That all the young boys
00:17:56 --> 00:17:59 in the store looking at my feet. I Got the jewelry
00:17:59 --> 00:18:02 on I'm decked out, but I just came from LA So,
00:18:02 --> 00:18:03 you know if you're in LA, you gotta kind of like
00:18:03 --> 00:18:05 you got a little bit of money I'm not gonna act
00:18:05 --> 00:18:08 like I'm rich But damn it, I gotta at least look
00:18:08 --> 00:18:10 the part. I'm smart enough to understand that
00:18:10 --> 00:18:12 Hollywood is make -believe, so god damn it, this
00:18:12 --> 00:18:15 is my costume. That's it. I get back to Philly,
00:18:15 --> 00:18:17 I'm in there, I'm in that, and he's looking at
00:18:17 --> 00:18:20 me, and he like, long time no see. And I'm like,
00:18:21 --> 00:18:25 you act like that was my fucking choice. Mm -hmm.
00:18:25 --> 00:18:27 Man, bring me up for my Red Bull and a Reese
00:18:27 --> 00:18:30 Cup. Let me get the fuck out of here. Like, can
00:18:30 --> 00:18:32 I get your number? You don't need my number.
00:18:32 --> 00:18:36 And guess what? My number never changed. This
00:18:36 --> 00:18:39 is how I know that I've been doing good business
00:18:39 --> 00:18:43 for the past 20 years. I've had the same cell
00:18:43 --> 00:18:47 phone number. Nice, nice. And a lot of people
00:18:47 --> 00:18:50 that can say that. You could clip that part right
00:18:50 --> 00:18:53 there and make that some, I've had the same phone
00:18:53 --> 00:18:57 number for 20 years. So I'm talking exes, I'm
00:18:57 --> 00:18:59 talking chicks I didn't work with, I'm talking
00:18:59 --> 00:19:01 guys that I try to do business with. That when
00:19:01 --> 00:19:03 they tried to jump into a lane that I wasn't
00:19:03 --> 00:19:06 comfortable with, I was like, no, I'm good. I
00:19:06 --> 00:19:09 never, I'm not running from anybody. Damn. I'm
00:19:09 --> 00:19:11 either Paul Friesen or I'm cousin Paul, or I
00:19:11 --> 00:19:12 was missed out on order or whatever you want
00:19:12 --> 00:19:15 to call me, whichever nickname you came in on.
00:19:16 --> 00:19:19 But I'm still the same guy and I feel solid about
00:19:19 --> 00:19:23 it. I don't lie. I don't lie. Let me tell you
00:19:23 --> 00:19:26 why. Three words. Can't remember shit. Yeah.
00:19:26 --> 00:19:30 It's not. into a story form where I can actually
00:19:30 --> 00:19:32 tell you what I was wearing, where I was at,
00:19:32 --> 00:19:37 the time that was on the clock. And then on top
00:19:37 --> 00:19:39 of that, who the fuck are you for me to lie to?
00:19:39 --> 00:19:42 Let you make the decision. Yeah. Towards what
00:19:42 --> 00:19:46 I'm about to say. Yeah. Why lie to you when I
00:19:46 --> 00:19:48 can just be straight up honest and then I'll
00:19:48 --> 00:19:50 get a hopefully straight up honest answer from
00:19:50 --> 00:19:52 you. Now we can come together and either agree.
00:19:53 --> 00:19:55 Disagree or agree to disagree right and then
00:19:55 --> 00:19:59 we move forward happily. I Don't lie to people.
00:19:59 --> 00:20:04 I don't try to take advantage of people I'm just
00:20:04 --> 00:20:07 a straight -up and down Individual. Yeah as the
00:20:07 --> 00:20:10 shirt says as a shirt says can you see what it
00:20:10 --> 00:20:12 say? Let's see. Can you see what it say? Oh,
00:20:12 --> 00:20:15 I can see what it said No, wait, wait, come on
00:20:15 --> 00:20:22 Be you oh be you all day that's it dude, that's
00:20:22 --> 00:20:25 it That's it. There we go. That's it. Be you.
00:20:26 --> 00:20:29 Be you. I love it. I coined it. I phrased it.
00:20:29 --> 00:20:32 If you take a look on my Instagram, on my Facebook,
00:20:32 --> 00:20:34 on my YouTube, the couple of videos I do have,
00:20:35 --> 00:20:37 you'll see this big ass logo on my chest like
00:20:37 --> 00:20:40 the Superman ass. If I get on that stage and
00:20:40 --> 00:20:42 I start talking about, yeah, I was working out,
00:20:42 --> 00:20:43 you're gonna be like, you lying motherfucker.
00:20:45 --> 00:20:48 But when I do the joke about when I did work
00:20:48 --> 00:20:51 out and I was in that bitch using this machine
00:20:51 --> 00:20:53 like crazy and the dude walked over like, you
00:20:53 --> 00:20:54 know that's for your legs. No, motherfucker,
00:20:54 --> 00:20:56 I didn't know it was for my legs. That's probably
00:20:56 --> 00:20:59 why my back hurt. Like, I didn't know, I didn't
00:20:59 --> 00:21:02 know. I was at a raggedy gym, all the stickers
00:21:02 --> 00:21:05 was removed off the device to show you shit.
00:21:06 --> 00:21:08 And I really was in there like, I was getting
00:21:08 --> 00:21:11 it in. And my man was like, yo, you know that's
00:21:11 --> 00:21:15 for your legs, right? No. As a matter of fact,
00:21:15 --> 00:21:17 I didn't. I sure didn't, but my arms do feel
00:21:17 --> 00:21:19 a little more buff than they did when I came
00:21:19 --> 00:21:23 in here. I'm good, man. Now I know why they was
00:21:23 --> 00:21:30 $5 .99 a month. No instructions. So me, lies,
00:21:30 --> 00:21:35 deceit, doing people dirty. It's not in my blood.
00:21:35 --> 00:21:39 It's not in my energy. It's not like who I ride
00:21:39 --> 00:21:44 alone 93 % of the time. Yeah outside of the lift
00:21:44 --> 00:21:47 ride some 93 % of time. I'm alone I won't be
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 looking over my shoulder wondering if especially
00:21:50 --> 00:21:52 when I was in Philly Jersey, Delaware Baltimore,
00:21:52 --> 00:21:58 Maryland DC, Virginia Atlanta I got time to be
00:21:58 --> 00:22:01 looking over my shoulder man. So whatever whatever
00:22:01 --> 00:22:04 we came to terms We either can do it, we can't,
00:22:05 --> 00:22:07 oh yo, something came up. I really can't move
00:22:07 --> 00:22:09 in that direction right now. Is there a way that
00:22:09 --> 00:22:12 we can postpone it? Is there a way that we can
00:22:12 --> 00:22:14 do it differently? Whatever it is, I'm willing
00:22:14 --> 00:22:18 to talk about it. Let's communicate. Yeah. At
00:22:18 --> 00:22:20 the end of the day, if we can't, listen, I'd
00:22:20 --> 00:22:22 rather tell you ahead of time so that you can
00:22:22 --> 00:22:25 make the necessary adjustments so that you can
00:22:25 --> 00:22:29 get it done versus... Leads you on all the way
00:22:29 --> 00:22:32 to where now it becomes tension. Now there's
00:22:32 --> 00:22:36 a problem. Now I'm an asshole. But most people
00:22:36 --> 00:22:40 know when they can't. If you told me right now,
00:22:40 --> 00:22:43 AP, I need you to do a two hour show. Straight
00:22:43 --> 00:22:46 comedy, make them laugh every 12 seconds. No.
00:22:47 --> 00:22:50 That's not it's not gonna happen that way I probably
00:22:50 --> 00:22:54 can get you every 25 seconds the way I tell stories
00:22:54 --> 00:22:56 But I'm not gonna tell you every 12 like I'm
00:22:56 --> 00:22:59 not I'm not the set up punch set up punch set
00:22:59 --> 00:23:01 up punch set up punch guy Yeah, I'm not that
00:23:01 --> 00:23:03 guy now when I had the opportunity to be that
00:23:03 --> 00:23:07 guy I tried it and I bowed out real quick. Like
00:23:07 --> 00:23:09 you know what? I'm gonna keep working on my 10
00:23:09 --> 00:23:12 hours, which is what I'm doing Yeah, because
00:23:12 --> 00:23:14 some people are asking like P you've been in
00:23:14 --> 00:23:18 this you've done this. Why are you not? The comedy
00:23:18 --> 00:23:24 game needs more individuals who, honest to God,
00:23:24 --> 00:23:27 wanna put the footwork in. I don't mind going
00:23:27 --> 00:23:30 to an open mic. It's the gym. I'm working it
00:23:30 --> 00:23:34 out. I'm working it out. I need to know if I
00:23:34 --> 00:23:36 say it in this voice versus this voice, if I
00:23:36 --> 00:23:39 move to the left, to the right, if I stand center
00:23:39 --> 00:23:41 of the stage, what's the best way I'm gonna get
00:23:41 --> 00:23:45 the laughter as well as the... the reaction that
00:23:45 --> 00:23:49 I actually want. You know, I've watched, and
00:23:49 --> 00:23:51 this is a testament to being in Philadelphia,
00:23:52 --> 00:23:56 the laugh house, where, shout out to my guy Ture
00:23:56 --> 00:23:59 Gordon, amazing gentleman, man. I know people
00:23:59 --> 00:24:02 have their stories about him, but he has to kind
00:24:02 --> 00:24:04 of be the way he is because he understands that
00:24:04 --> 00:24:06 people will take advantage and try their best
00:24:06 --> 00:24:10 to just, you know, use an MFM. So he doesn't
00:24:10 --> 00:24:12 allow that, and I get it. So that's probably
00:24:12 --> 00:24:14 why me and him Connect and we feel the way we
00:24:14 --> 00:24:18 feel about certain things But to Ray Gordon is
00:24:18 --> 00:24:22 the reason you have Kevin Hart Okay, Kevin Hart
00:24:22 --> 00:24:26 went in Kevin Hart wanted to be called little
00:24:26 --> 00:24:28 Kev the bastard. He looked at Kev said I'm not
00:24:28 --> 00:24:33 calling you that wish your name Kevin Hart they
00:24:33 --> 00:24:36 started coming down doing different things somebody
00:24:36 --> 00:24:40 saw him in that particular spot Boom, we have
00:24:40 --> 00:24:43 Kevin. So I've been around to Ray For years i've
00:24:43 --> 00:24:46 watched him i've watched buck wild i've watched
00:24:46 --> 00:24:49 kevin i've watched spank i've watched so many
00:24:49 --> 00:24:51 comedians god rest his soul there was a comedian
00:24:51 --> 00:24:53 by the name of sugar bear who I actually used
00:24:53 --> 00:24:57 to work and promote shows with um richie redding
00:24:57 --> 00:25:00 out of philly uh Man, well really not out of
00:25:00 --> 00:25:02 philly, but his comedy career. I guess really
00:25:02 --> 00:25:06 blew up in philadelphia. Um Shoot I can think
00:25:06 --> 00:25:09 of dark child young lady this little woman standing
00:25:09 --> 00:25:14 about this tall will command a room of 10
00:25:14 --> 00:25:16 soldiers if you let her. That's how good she
00:25:16 --> 00:25:20 is. And I watched her do it at a show that we
00:25:20 --> 00:25:23 had together. Guy Russell, my man Chris Cotton,
00:25:24 --> 00:25:28 who if you Google him, he passed away a few years
00:25:28 --> 00:25:33 ago. When I tell you MTV did tributes for this
00:25:33 --> 00:25:35 brother, like that's how funny he was. He worked
00:25:35 --> 00:25:39 with a lot of writers. He wrote for a lot of
00:25:39 --> 00:25:42 people. He did a lot of work. But I've watched
00:25:42 --> 00:25:45 all of these guys, all these people perfect the
00:25:45 --> 00:25:49 craft. I feel like I would be disrespectful if
00:25:49 --> 00:25:53 I just decide to be like, yo, I'm funny. Book
00:25:53 --> 00:25:57 me now just because I'm funny. No. This is a
00:25:57 --> 00:26:01 business. This is a skill. You should be thorough
00:26:01 --> 00:26:03 at it. You should be able to do it. Turn it on,
00:26:03 --> 00:26:07 turn it off, whenever, however, whenever. And
00:26:07 --> 00:26:09 that's what I saw all of those individuals I
00:26:09 --> 00:26:13 named. we're able to do. I feel like where I
00:26:13 --> 00:26:16 am right now, in the state of comedy, for myself,
00:26:16 --> 00:26:19 for my mind, for my brain, for my brand, I feel
00:26:19 --> 00:26:23 like I can cut it on, cut it off, but I haven't
00:26:23 --> 00:26:29 put in enough leg hours, personally. And I want
00:26:29 --> 00:26:33 them. I want to, you ever watch or play like
00:26:33 --> 00:26:36 NBA Live, like story mode or scene it? So like,
00:26:37 --> 00:26:38 okay, so what they'll do is you'll create the
00:26:38 --> 00:26:41 player, and it'll be like you're in high school,
00:26:41 --> 00:26:44 play a couple games, but in the fans you'll see
00:26:44 --> 00:26:47 added 3 fans, added 2 fans. That's
00:26:47 --> 00:26:49 how I feel about this. Like when I left that
00:26:49 --> 00:26:55 stage from Vulcan, I think I added 35 new followers
00:26:55 --> 00:26:59 on Instagram. And you know, like I know, it was
00:26:59 --> 00:27:02 probably 100 people in there. That's a nice little
00:27:02 --> 00:27:05 chunk. And then on top of that, at the end of
00:27:05 --> 00:27:08 the show, Marcus is right there doing his thing.
00:27:08 --> 00:27:11 I'm just standing at the front, and all these
00:27:11 --> 00:27:13 people walking over to me like, the one guy I'll
00:27:13 --> 00:27:18 never forget. Bro! Fucking been to a lot of shows,
00:27:19 --> 00:27:21 man. I'm gonna fucking tell you. I'm gonna fucking
00:27:21 --> 00:27:26 tell you. The way you started this shit, your
00:27:26 --> 00:27:28 energy, man, I've never fucking seen, you know,
00:27:28 --> 00:27:31 most of the time people open a show. Fucking
00:27:31 --> 00:27:34 ass, man. They're fucking ass and you're like,
00:27:34 --> 00:27:37 oh shit, here's the opener. He's fucking garbage.
00:27:38 --> 00:27:42 But you man, fucking top notch. I was looking
00:27:42 --> 00:27:46 like, appreciate you. I mean, I know what I can
00:27:46 --> 00:27:49 bring to the table. And I honestly, I felt a
00:27:49 --> 00:27:51 little disrespected that they added two extra
00:27:51 --> 00:27:57 people. Like I was ready to do the 20 minute,
00:27:57 --> 00:28:01 John, that I had prepared. I was ready. And then
00:28:01 --> 00:28:03 when I was told that I'm cutting down to five,
00:28:03 --> 00:28:05 but this the business. This is the business.
00:28:05 --> 00:28:09 I've seen it. I've been through it before. And
00:28:09 --> 00:28:11 I was like, all right, well, fuck it. Go out
00:28:11 --> 00:28:13 there and do what you do. You know what I mean?
00:28:13 --> 00:28:15 Glad I am. Spend no money on an outfit or a haircut.
00:28:16 --> 00:28:18 You know what I'm saying? So. I mean, yeah. I
00:28:18 --> 00:28:20 mean, things are good that you got up there.
00:28:20 --> 00:28:22 You know what I mean? And then you're building
00:28:22 --> 00:28:24 a rapport. That's it. So I imagine that, you
00:28:24 --> 00:28:26 know, they'll probably think of you for. bigger
00:28:26 --> 00:28:28 shows and everything. Is that your first time
00:28:28 --> 00:28:31 at Vulcan? That's my first time at Vulcan. I've
00:28:31 --> 00:28:36 done Velveeta a couple of times. Shout out to
00:28:36 --> 00:28:39 Velveeta, man. The couple of times I did Velveeta,
00:28:40 --> 00:28:46 they put me on after like the super darkest comedian
00:28:46 --> 00:28:49 or comedian like twice. It was two different
00:28:49 --> 00:28:52 people. But I'm talking like pedophilia jokes.
00:28:52 --> 00:28:55 I'm talking great robbing jokes. I'm talking
00:28:55 --> 00:28:58 there was 20 people, 30 people in the room. And
00:28:58 --> 00:29:01 then by the time I got on stage, it was me and
00:29:01 --> 00:29:03 the bartender, because everybody left. Was that
00:29:03 --> 00:29:07 bad? Yes. Oh my god. Yes, both times. That's
00:29:07 --> 00:29:11 a good old Austin recipe. Yes, it is. So I told
00:29:11 --> 00:29:13 them the next time I come, I need to go up like.
00:29:13 --> 00:29:17 third right i don't like if it's a show you can
00:29:17 --> 00:29:19 believe me last because i know like at a show
00:29:19 --> 00:29:23 you'll have better stock of comedians but lord
00:29:23 --> 00:29:26 have mercy man like you know after somebody talk
00:29:26 --> 00:29:29 about screwing a dog and stuff like that i don't
00:29:29 --> 00:29:31 even really want to go on stage i don't even
00:29:31 --> 00:29:34 want to touch that mic Y 'all need to disinfect
00:29:34 --> 00:29:36 this mic, it's dirty. Did you ever been to Open
00:29:36 --> 00:29:39 Mic where they had like three or four people
00:29:39 --> 00:29:42 who talked about that very same thing? Just like
00:29:42 --> 00:29:44 fucking animals. So I've been here for two years.
00:29:44 --> 00:29:46 I've been in Austin for two years and then my
00:29:46 --> 00:29:49 two years of being in Austin, the first year
00:29:49 --> 00:29:53 I was just creeping in. I would look on the comedy
00:29:53 --> 00:29:57 Instagram, Austin Comedy, whatever it is. I would
00:29:57 --> 00:29:59 go in there and I was just creeping the rooms
00:29:59 --> 00:30:01 and just watch because I was like, all right,
00:30:01 --> 00:30:04 let me see what the sound is for here because
00:30:04 --> 00:30:08 I felt like kind of like New York you have so
00:30:08 --> 00:30:11 many people coming into the city right and out
00:30:11 --> 00:30:13 of the city and there's so many uh as they call
00:30:13 --> 00:30:16 them transplants here I didn't know what the
00:30:16 --> 00:30:19 voice was and I didn't want to get up there and
00:30:19 --> 00:30:23 I hate to call it this but you know do what they
00:30:23 --> 00:30:26 term as black comedy because it's like no a story
00:30:26 --> 00:30:27 is a story no matter if it's coming from a white
00:30:27 --> 00:30:29 person or a black person right you've driven
00:30:29 --> 00:30:32 a car You've had a wife, you've had friends with
00:30:32 --> 00:30:35 dogs, like no matter what, how I tell a story.
00:30:35 --> 00:30:39 Now I do get what they could possibly be talking
00:30:39 --> 00:30:42 about, but it's like, I'm not even in that category.
00:30:42 --> 00:30:45 I'm treading the line of an individual who writes
00:30:45 --> 00:30:49 a book and I want the left, the right, the upstairs,
00:30:49 --> 00:30:51 the downstairs, the middle. I want everybody
00:30:51 --> 00:30:53 to read it. I don't just want one particular
00:30:53 --> 00:30:57 thing. I'm in there and I'm watching and I'm
00:30:57 --> 00:30:59 sitting in the back of the room sometimes and
00:30:59 --> 00:31:02 I'm just like, damn, I feel for the bartender
00:31:02 --> 00:31:06 who has to hear this shit and make no money because
00:31:06 --> 00:31:08 half of them broke as fuck so they're not spending
00:31:08 --> 00:31:12 no money at the bar. You don't even care that
00:31:12 --> 00:31:15 you tip or give a tip to these people, you know
00:31:15 --> 00:31:19 what I mean? Then I get booked for a show at
00:31:19 --> 00:31:22 La Cantina, Flamingo, Flamingo Cantina, something
00:31:22 --> 00:31:23 like that. Shit, I don't even know where that
00:31:23 --> 00:31:26 is. Right on six, right? So I get booked for
00:31:26 --> 00:31:30 this show, I go, I spend $35, I didn't know the
00:31:30 --> 00:31:32 parking situation downtown, so I'm on the parking
00:31:32 --> 00:31:35 lot, I spend like 30 something dollars a park.
00:31:35 --> 00:31:40 I get to the show and the promoter goes, man,
00:31:40 --> 00:31:42 you know when it rain in Austin, people don't
00:31:42 --> 00:31:45 come out. I'm like, no, when you don't promote
00:31:45 --> 00:31:50 anywhere, people don't come out. So it was me
00:31:50 --> 00:31:53 on the stage, the three musicians for the show
00:31:53 --> 00:31:58 that he was having. two bartenders, and he like,
00:31:58 --> 00:32:01 yo, you wanna come outside and help me give away
00:32:01 --> 00:32:03 flyers? I wish I would do exercise at night after
00:32:03 --> 00:32:07 I spent $30 apart. Like, I'm not coming out here
00:32:07 --> 00:32:09 to walk. The people on 6th Street already know
00:32:09 --> 00:32:11 where they're going. And you can't change they
00:32:11 --> 00:32:13 mind with this little square piece of paper that
00:32:13 --> 00:32:17 you shouldn't even have anymore, because you
00:32:17 --> 00:32:18 should have promoted the hell out of this thing
00:32:18 --> 00:32:21 to the point that you know you're gonna get 50
00:32:21 --> 00:32:23 people in the door. You know you're gonna get.
00:32:24 --> 00:32:27 But the problem that I'm seeing in Austin when
00:32:27 --> 00:32:29 it comes down to that and it comes to these comedy
00:32:29 --> 00:32:32 shows and these open mics and all this. They're
00:32:32 --> 00:32:35 just letting damn near anybody promote. They're
00:32:35 --> 00:32:37 just damn they're letting anybody get on stage.
00:32:38 --> 00:32:40 They're just damn near allowing anybody to say
00:32:40 --> 00:32:43 anything. You don't want any tension. And it's
00:32:43 --> 00:32:46 like, yo, it's OK to tell somebody. No, not the
00:32:46 --> 00:32:48 night with that. Yeah. You're going to kill the
00:32:48 --> 00:32:50 crowd that I do have. And I want I need them
00:32:50 --> 00:32:54 to come back. I need I need this 20. to all tell
00:32:54 --> 00:32:56 one person, that's an extra 20, and then that
00:32:56 --> 00:32:59 20 to tell three people, that's 60, and build
00:32:59 --> 00:33:02 this thing to where, all right, now if we have
00:33:02 --> 00:33:06 200 people in the room, 10 % of that 200 might
00:33:06 --> 00:33:09 want to hear them dark jokes. And if that 20
00:33:09 --> 00:33:14 people leave, we still got a crowd. Yeah, yeah.
00:33:14 --> 00:33:17 I do get what you're saying about promoting specificity
00:33:17 --> 00:33:20 of the specific kind of show, right? I do like
00:33:20 --> 00:33:25 barking. what I do with barking is I just kind
00:33:25 --> 00:33:28 of like, I consider it like a warm -up. Like
00:33:28 --> 00:33:30 when I go out, like I'll just sit there and I'll
00:33:30 --> 00:33:33 just be spittin' just jokes. You know, just like
00:33:33 --> 00:33:36 freestyle and just like whatever. And there was
00:33:36 --> 00:33:38 one time, it was at Narbar. I don't know if you
00:33:38 --> 00:33:40 ever performed at Narbar. I've heard of it, I
00:33:40 --> 00:33:42 haven't performed it. Yeah, it's like a freakin'
00:33:42 --> 00:33:45 punk rock kind of place. It's just like, it's
00:33:45 --> 00:33:48 sort of like gloves are off, just fuckin' just
00:33:48 --> 00:33:51 go. Just go crazy, right? And so they were like,
00:33:51 --> 00:33:53 yeah, man, we'll give you a few minutes if you,
00:33:53 --> 00:33:55 you know, bark for us. And I was like, yeah,
00:33:55 --> 00:33:57 sure. So I go in a bark, you know, for a while
00:33:57 --> 00:34:00 and I got a bunch of people in. And then oddly
00:34:00 --> 00:34:02 enough, they had like one of those crackheads
00:34:02 --> 00:34:05 who who kind of like latched on like for some
00:34:05 --> 00:34:07 reason and just liked my jokes. And so he started
00:34:07 --> 00:34:11 pulling people in too. Right. And then so we
00:34:11 --> 00:34:13 go in and there was like maybe like 30 people
00:34:13 --> 00:34:16 that started with nothing. And then and then
00:34:16 --> 00:34:18 when I went in, everybody knew me. because I
00:34:18 --> 00:34:20 was barking. There you go. So they were just
00:34:20 --> 00:34:23 automatically loose. And that's what an opener
00:34:23 --> 00:34:26 does. That's what somebody who you set, you're
00:34:26 --> 00:34:28 setting the stage as an opener. Yeah. I would
00:34:28 --> 00:34:32 love to actually be able to be on tour with somebody
00:34:32 --> 00:34:35 and I'm just the opener. I wouldn't have a problem
00:34:35 --> 00:34:37 with that for a year. Who would you go on tour
00:34:37 --> 00:34:41 with? Man, listen, almost anybody, honest to
00:34:41 --> 00:34:44 God, anybody. I'd do any of the guys from like...
00:34:44 --> 00:34:46 Pause because I know what the Internet's gonna
00:34:46 --> 00:34:51 do with that Yeah, I would go I would go on tour
00:34:51 --> 00:34:55 with any of the gentlemen from like the 85 South
00:34:55 --> 00:35:00 show I love Carlos Chico being DC young fly.
00:35:00 --> 00:35:03 I love their energy. There's a young cat mojo
00:35:03 --> 00:35:06 Brooks I like the way he he does things, you
00:35:06 --> 00:35:09 know I'm saying in relation to the comedy and
00:35:09 --> 00:35:11 his bits and his his timing and even his crowd
00:35:11 --> 00:35:16 work I'm blocking on his name right now, but
00:35:16 --> 00:35:18 there's there's a heavier gentleman that wears
00:35:18 --> 00:35:23 a hat he sits on the on on on like a stool and
00:35:23 --> 00:35:26 he does a lot of crowd work and I actually it's
00:35:26 --> 00:35:28 crazy. I can't think of his name right now, but
00:35:28 --> 00:35:30 uh Somebody, I was in the airport and somebody
00:35:30 --> 00:35:32 thought I was him and I'm like, no, it's not
00:35:32 --> 00:35:35 me, bro. And I actually gave him my card, like,
00:35:35 --> 00:35:37 no, I'm Cousin Paul, I'm not, dang, what is it?
00:35:38 --> 00:35:40 His name gonna pop up in the middle of the, like,
00:35:40 --> 00:35:41 the rest of us talking. It's always like that.
00:35:42 --> 00:35:46 I'm gonna throw it out there. But, uh, if Cedric
00:35:46 --> 00:35:48 the Entertainer was to ever go on tour, I would
00:35:48 --> 00:35:50 love to open up. Oh my gosh, he was great. Somebody
00:35:50 --> 00:35:56 like, uh, my good guy, D .L. Hughley, who I...
00:35:55 --> 00:35:59 I met DL a few times, one particular time in
00:35:59 --> 00:36:01 Atlantic City, New Jersey. I go to his show,
00:36:01 --> 00:36:04 and then after the show, I'm a firm believer
00:36:04 --> 00:36:07 in just walk in and act like you belong. So I
00:36:07 --> 00:36:09 literally just walk backstage and act like I
00:36:09 --> 00:36:11 belong. And the next thing I know, I'm sitting
00:36:11 --> 00:36:13 down there smoking cigars with DL Hughley. He
00:36:13 --> 00:36:15 done kicked his shoes off. We're talking comedy.
00:36:15 --> 00:36:17 We're talking life. We're talking everything.
00:36:17 --> 00:36:26 And then he starts talking. This was 2020. 18?
00:36:26 --> 00:36:28 Dang, did y 'all talk about the kings of comedy?
00:36:28 --> 00:36:33 2017, 2017, 2018. Did we talk kings of comedy?
00:36:33 --> 00:36:35 Nah, we just, like, I was just doing what I was
00:36:35 --> 00:36:37 doing, just shooting the shit. And he was like,
00:36:38 --> 00:36:40 yo, just keep getting on stage. And he kept,
00:36:40 --> 00:36:43 he also said out of his mouth, do those open
00:36:43 --> 00:36:47 mics, do those free shows, just continue getting
00:36:47 --> 00:36:49 the time. If you're going towards this 10
00:36:49 --> 00:36:51 hours that they say you need to be a pro at most
00:36:51 --> 00:36:55 things, All of these minutes count, and you can't,
00:36:55 --> 00:36:57 you don't count the hour it took you to get there,
00:36:57 --> 00:36:58 because you didn't do any jokes, you're not on
00:36:58 --> 00:37:03 stage. But like, every time I do a show, I did
00:37:03 --> 00:37:05 five, I did 10, I did 15, I did 20, I did five,
00:37:05 --> 00:37:07 I did seven, I did three, I did this, that, and
00:37:07 --> 00:37:09 the third. Like the first time at Velveeta was
00:37:09 --> 00:37:12 three minutes. I flew all the way from Philadelphia
00:37:12 --> 00:37:14 to here for three minutes, and then there was
00:37:14 --> 00:37:17 nobody in the room left, but hey, I gotta clock
00:37:17 --> 00:37:20 these three minutes. I had a good time doing
00:37:20 --> 00:37:23 it, and... They're actually still following me,
00:37:23 --> 00:37:26 but it was a lady by the name of Alicia and her
00:37:26 --> 00:37:30 husband from New Zealand. They were left in the
00:37:30 --> 00:37:32 back and they followed me when it was over on
00:37:32 --> 00:37:34 Instagram. So they've been following me ever
00:37:34 --> 00:37:36 since, you know what I'm saying? So, you know,
00:37:37 --> 00:37:40 while obviously you want to add 40, 50 people
00:37:40 --> 00:37:44 per show, if the promoter is not getting 50 to
00:37:44 --> 00:37:47 100 to 300 to 600 people in a room, your odds
00:37:47 --> 00:37:49 are very slim to none of doing that. You know
00:37:49 --> 00:37:53 what I mean? And just before we cut that down
00:37:53 --> 00:37:57 on the promoters here, I need promoters in Austin,
00:37:57 --> 00:38:00 Texas to understand. And if you have 3 Facebook,
00:38:00 --> 00:38:04 Instagram, friends, only 10 % of them are really
00:38:04 --> 00:38:07 paying attention to what you're doing. And then
00:38:07 --> 00:38:11 out of that 10%, 10 % of 3 is 300. Out of
00:38:11 --> 00:38:14 that 10%, that 300 is gonna see over 100
00:38:14 --> 00:38:18 things before the date of your show. So you have
00:38:18 --> 00:38:22 to actually remind them damn near daily. They
00:38:22 --> 00:38:24 might call it spam, they might call it whatever,
00:38:24 --> 00:38:28 but as a good buddy of mine who I was able to
00:38:28 --> 00:38:30 sit and listen to Shaquille O 'Neal talk, it
00:38:30 --> 00:38:36 was like a business meeting for I think HP and
00:38:36 --> 00:38:39 Shaq was talking about advertising on the call.
00:38:39 --> 00:38:42 We have to put it in front of people as much
00:38:42 --> 00:38:44 as possible. It does not matter. The more they
00:38:44 --> 00:38:47 see it, the more they'll remember us. Now, I
00:38:47 --> 00:38:49 want you to think about that. Shaquille O 'Neal
00:38:49 --> 00:38:50 is in how many commercials right now that you
00:38:50 --> 00:38:52 can count. You probably would lose all your fingers,
00:38:53 --> 00:38:55 all your toes, probably if you can't point. Because
00:38:55 --> 00:38:58 he's everywhere. And why? Because he understands
00:38:58 --> 00:39:01 that the more I'm in front of you, the more you'll
00:39:01 --> 00:39:03 support what I'm doing. Didn't he do a commercial
00:39:03 --> 00:39:05 with the General Auto insurance? General Auto.
00:39:05 --> 00:39:11 He's now doing Home Depot. Not Bricklink, Invicta.
00:39:11 --> 00:39:13 He's a part owner of that. Reebok. He's owner
00:39:13 --> 00:39:17 of that. His retail group owns all the rights
00:39:17 --> 00:39:21 to Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe. No shit. I
00:39:21 --> 00:39:23 didn't know that. I know he does shit with Walmart.
00:39:24 --> 00:39:28 Walmart, Papa John's, Rogaine. I don't know if
00:39:28 --> 00:39:31 that's true. No, it's not Rogaine. It's not Rogaine.
00:39:32 --> 00:39:34 Damn, what is it? What is it? What is it? Icy
00:39:34 --> 00:39:38 Hot. I see your back. Yeah, uh the sleep study
00:39:38 --> 00:39:41 now because he has sleep apnea Like it's like
00:39:41 --> 00:39:44 yo, he he was like i'm dying, but I still gotta
00:39:44 --> 00:39:47 make money You know what i'm saying? Like i'm
00:39:47 --> 00:39:50 dying in my sleep. I don't really sleep but when
00:39:50 --> 00:39:54 I do sleep i'm dying in it, but How can I make
00:39:54 --> 00:39:57 money off of me dying in my sleep and now boom?
00:39:57 --> 00:39:59 Yeah, you know what i'm saying? And then uh,
00:39:59 --> 00:40:02 he has the chicken spots You know what i'm saying?
00:40:02 --> 00:40:04 Uh, I didn't know about that. Yeah, you got like
00:40:04 --> 00:40:06 the barbecue chicken spots That's why he's always
00:40:06 --> 00:40:10 some barbecue chicken like that Like he the man
00:40:10 --> 00:40:12 knows how to make money. Yeah, you have to put
00:40:12 --> 00:40:14 yourself in front of people So here's the deal
00:40:14 --> 00:40:16 if you are a promoter in the city of austin if
00:40:16 --> 00:40:18 you are a promoter in the united states of america
00:40:18 --> 00:40:21 If you are a comedian if you are a musician if
00:40:21 --> 00:40:25 you are a clothing designer If you are a realtor,
00:40:25 --> 00:40:29 whatever you do Continue putting yourself in
00:40:29 --> 00:40:32 front of as many people as possible. Why? They
00:40:32 --> 00:40:36 have to see you to remember you. There's too
00:40:36 --> 00:40:38 many impressions going around. You say, hey,
00:40:39 --> 00:40:43 I'm having an event on May 29th of 2026. And
00:40:43 --> 00:40:47 today is April the 26th. That's too many days
00:40:47 --> 00:40:50 gone by for me to remember that you said that
00:40:50 --> 00:40:53 one thing. But if you did a video today, and
00:40:53 --> 00:40:55 you did another one on Monday, then another one
00:40:55 --> 00:40:57 on Wednesday, and every Monday and Wednesday
00:40:57 --> 00:41:01 all the way to the show, and or you sold tickets,
00:41:01 --> 00:41:04 and or you gave away something, and or you came
00:41:04 --> 00:41:07 creative with, hey, maybe posting jokes or clips
00:41:07 --> 00:41:10 from the musicians or whatever that you're doing.
00:41:10 --> 00:41:12 If you're selling houses, you're putting up beautiful
00:41:12 --> 00:41:15 pictures of the house, whatever it is, now you're
00:41:15 --> 00:41:17 embedding memories, and when you embed memories,
00:41:18 --> 00:41:21 people will come. That's just my little having
00:41:21 --> 00:41:23 a degree in marketing. This is a small part of
00:41:23 --> 00:41:27 my life. So with your degree in marketing, let's
00:41:27 --> 00:41:30 say somebody's following you around personally.
00:41:31 --> 00:41:33 If somebody's following you around, what would
00:41:33 --> 00:41:35 be the most surprising thing about you that they
00:41:35 --> 00:41:38 would find out? I'm willing to help damn near
00:41:38 --> 00:41:42 anybody without a fee being attached to it. I
00:41:42 --> 00:41:47 want to see people win, man. If I could see this
00:41:47 --> 00:41:51 podcast, jump from just being known on Instagram
00:41:51 --> 00:41:54 to now you are being streamed on YouTube, to
00:41:54 --> 00:41:57 now you're being streamed on Netflix, to now
00:41:57 --> 00:42:01 you're being streamed on, you know, one of the,
00:42:01 --> 00:42:06 I say Barstool Sports. And I'm able to help by
00:42:06 --> 00:42:09 just pushing, pushing, pushing. Yo, tune in,
00:42:09 --> 00:42:12 tune in. What does that hurt me? Right, yeah.
00:42:12 --> 00:42:15 if you actually are giving great content, good
00:42:15 --> 00:42:18 situation, good energy, then now people will
00:42:18 --> 00:42:20 look at me like, yo, we can actually listen to
00:42:20 --> 00:42:23 Cousin Paul because when he does give information,
00:42:23 --> 00:42:28 it's decent information. But if I saw your product,
00:42:29 --> 00:42:32 your business or whatever still needed some help
00:42:32 --> 00:42:36 to be placed in front of the masses, well, let's
00:42:36 --> 00:42:40 work on that first. I am the type of person who,
00:42:40 --> 00:42:44 if you do a squiggly circle, is like, yo, this
00:42:44 --> 00:42:47 is what you started with. Don't worry, we can
00:42:47 --> 00:42:49 get it to a full circle where it connects at
00:42:49 --> 00:42:52 some point. You gotta work towards that. Again,
00:42:52 --> 00:42:53 that's putting in hours. That's putting in the
00:42:53 --> 00:42:56 work. That's learning the craft. That's figuring
00:42:56 --> 00:42:58 it out. That's earning your talent. Earning your
00:42:58 --> 00:43:00 talent. A lot of people feel like, oh man, I
00:43:00 --> 00:43:03 woke up this morning and I made the lady at the
00:43:03 --> 00:43:06 doctor's office laugh. I'm gonna be the next,
00:43:06 --> 00:43:10 no you're not. She probably was like, his breath
00:43:10 --> 00:43:12 stinks, he don't know it. Like you have no idea.
00:43:12 --> 00:43:14 It takes work, you know. It's a lot of work.
00:43:15 --> 00:43:18 How has your jokes evolved throughout the years?
00:43:21 --> 00:43:27 Very first large show, Philadelphia. There was
00:43:27 --> 00:43:29 600 people in that room. 600 person room? 600
00:43:29 --> 00:43:32 people in that room. Who was the headliner? The
00:43:32 --> 00:43:35 headliner was Smokey Suarez. Smokey Suarez? Out
00:43:35 --> 00:43:37 of, I think he's out of Philly, but he works
00:43:37 --> 00:43:41 a lot in New York. Oh, okay. Wow. Holy shit,
00:43:41 --> 00:43:44 that's a lot. So I did the show that I was supposed,
00:43:44 --> 00:43:49 no, no, no. I didn't do the show that I was supposed
00:43:49 --> 00:43:51 to do when my brother got, when my brother was
00:43:51 --> 00:43:57 killed. And then fast forward May to June, Father's
00:43:57 --> 00:44:00 Day weekend, me and my dad and my brother go
00:44:00 --> 00:44:02 to the grave. lay some flowers for my brother,
00:44:03 --> 00:44:06 then we go to dinner. I was asked to do like
00:44:06 --> 00:44:09 an open mic that night at a place called Mill
00:44:09 --> 00:44:13 Creek Tavern in Philly. So the guy was like,
00:44:13 --> 00:44:15 well, you know, I know you didn't do the first
00:44:15 --> 00:44:17 one, but if you want, you can have five minutes
00:44:17 --> 00:44:19 on this. I'm like, all right, cool. So I show
00:44:19 --> 00:44:21 up. This is actually, I think this was still
00:44:21 --> 00:44:25 on, I believe that show was still on YouTube.
00:44:26 --> 00:44:30 So. I go and I do it, and I start out by, you
00:44:30 --> 00:44:32 know, hey, this is Father's Day. This would have
00:44:32 --> 00:44:35 been my brother's first real Father's Day, but
00:44:35 --> 00:44:37 obviously he's not here anymore. You know, I
00:44:37 --> 00:44:40 shared a story. So now I got everybody. So then
00:44:40 --> 00:44:43 I go right into this material. And I got a couple
00:44:43 --> 00:44:45 of chuckles. I got a decent amount of chuckles.
00:44:45 --> 00:44:47 Like, the video's up, so it's not like I can
00:44:47 --> 00:44:49 lie. What kind of jokes were you telling then?
00:44:49 --> 00:44:52 It was about credit. I really hated my girlfriend
00:44:52 --> 00:44:55 at the time. Yeah. Was it like just a set up,
00:44:55 --> 00:44:57 like set up punchline? Set up punchline, but
00:44:57 --> 00:44:59 then it was, it was, it was a few stories. It
00:44:59 --> 00:45:03 was like, uh, my credit score is better because
00:45:03 --> 00:45:06 of her, you know, cause she, she's showing up.
00:45:06 --> 00:45:08 She's showing up with finance and life for me
00:45:08 --> 00:45:11 to a point. And, um, you know, she, she, she,
00:45:11 --> 00:45:14 she just got on my nerves. She was one of the
00:45:14 --> 00:45:17 relationships that it was like, uh, she was like
00:45:17 --> 00:45:21 on 12 step program to being a better man. I had
00:45:21 --> 00:45:24 to use her as the steps to get to the top. And
00:45:24 --> 00:45:26 then, you know, once it was all over, you know,
00:45:26 --> 00:45:27 we kind of we kind of reconciled a little bit
00:45:27 --> 00:45:31 as friends, but we damn sure wasn't wasn't good
00:45:31 --> 00:45:35 at being boyfriend, girlfriend. So the jokes
00:45:35 --> 00:45:40 were set up punch. It was about. My background,
00:45:40 --> 00:45:44 15 years as a teacher in either the school district
00:45:44 --> 00:45:46 of Philadelphia or private schools. Oh, wow.
00:45:47 --> 00:45:50 And then I own daycare centers in Philly. You
00:45:50 --> 00:45:52 own daycare centers? So I owned, 20 years. 1999,
00:45:52 --> 00:45:54 we shut down the day that the pandemic started,
00:45:55 --> 00:45:57 and then we never reopened. Wow. Literally, I
00:45:57 --> 00:46:00 owned daycares. I ran centers. People in the
00:46:00 --> 00:46:03 city of Philadelphia know me from owning daycares,
00:46:04 --> 00:46:08 doing real estate, promoting the parties, managing
00:46:08 --> 00:46:12 the rappers. In Philadelphia, when I would move
00:46:12 --> 00:46:16 around, it was hard to move around without running
00:46:16 --> 00:46:19 into somebody I knew. or somebody who wanted
00:46:19 --> 00:46:21 to talk to me about something and it was like,
00:46:21 --> 00:46:23 yo, I just want to have a drink tonight. Yeah.
00:46:24 --> 00:46:25 I just want to have dinner. You just want to
00:46:25 --> 00:46:28 relax. Just want to, you know, almost almost.
00:46:29 --> 00:46:31 likened it to what Eminem was saying. Like, I
00:46:31 --> 00:46:33 just want to sit with my fucking daughter. You
00:46:33 --> 00:46:34 know what I mean? Like, I didn't have kids at
00:46:34 --> 00:46:37 the time, but Em was like, yo, like, just let
00:46:37 --> 00:46:40 me enjoy this moment. Did you see that thing
00:46:40 --> 00:46:43 about him, like, where he goes and I think Haley,
00:46:44 --> 00:46:46 it was a prom, and then he just, like, stuck
00:46:46 --> 00:46:48 his head out just so he can watch, or no, no,
00:46:48 --> 00:46:50 it was homecoming. He just stuck his head. It's
00:46:50 --> 00:46:51 the only thing he could do. Yeah. Because he
00:46:51 --> 00:46:53 was like, you know, he's so damn famous. He was
00:46:53 --> 00:46:55 in a classroom watching on like a TV or something.
00:46:55 --> 00:46:57 And then he just like went to go like grab the
00:46:57 --> 00:47:01 memory real quick. I was like, it's crazy. That's
00:47:01 --> 00:47:05 crazy. It's crazy. Yeah. OK. It got to the point
00:47:05 --> 00:47:07 in the city of Philadelphia. And my best friend
00:47:07 --> 00:47:11 to tell you, I had a car that had like I was
00:47:11 --> 00:47:13 feeling myself. I'm not going to lie. I had like
00:47:13 --> 00:47:16 logos on the car on the plate and everything.
00:47:16 --> 00:47:19 Yeah, man. And we're at a mall. I was at the
00:47:19 --> 00:47:20 mall called the King of Prussia Mall. This mall
00:47:20 --> 00:47:25 is huge. Yeah, so I'm in the mall and then I
00:47:25 --> 00:47:28 get a DM because I think I think Instagram was
00:47:28 --> 00:47:30 really like starting to pop I get a DM and I
00:47:30 --> 00:47:32 was like, yo, I saw your car. Where you at in
00:47:32 --> 00:47:37 the mall? Shit. Yeah, very next day. I took that
00:47:37 --> 00:47:40 car to the dealer traded in and got me a Nissan
00:47:40 --> 00:47:45 Maxima. Hell yeah. It's like, yeah, I'm good
00:47:45 --> 00:47:49 because now nobody and then I deep dark tinted
00:47:49 --> 00:47:52 the windows that way you couldn't Because I felt
00:47:52 --> 00:47:55 like shit, like people know who I am and where
00:47:55 --> 00:47:59 I am. And if somebody decides that they want
00:47:59 --> 00:48:04 to see if I'm worth what it looks like, I could
00:48:04 --> 00:48:06 be putting myself in potential danger. You know
00:48:06 --> 00:48:08 what I mean? And I didn't want that at all. It
00:48:08 --> 00:48:11 was like, I don't want, you know, because while
00:48:11 --> 00:48:14 yes, I had businesses and I had things that was
00:48:14 --> 00:48:16 making money, what people weren't looking at
00:48:16 --> 00:48:19 was how I was running my business. So my daycare,
00:48:19 --> 00:48:23 for instance, 20 years out of 20 years. I made
00:48:23 --> 00:48:26 40 do the math on that that's only 20
00:48:26 --> 00:48:30 a year Why did I only take 20 a year? Well,
00:48:30 --> 00:48:33 the one thing that you'll notice and know about
00:48:33 --> 00:48:35 anybody who's a teacher What do they complain
00:48:35 --> 00:48:39 about how much they're paid? Yeah, I made sure
00:48:39 --> 00:48:42 that my teachers my staff Whoever was in the
00:48:42 --> 00:48:45 building was paid top -notch that way. I wouldn't
00:48:45 --> 00:48:49 have turnover Like everybody else because when
00:48:49 --> 00:48:52 people are paid they happy yeah, okay I only
00:48:52 --> 00:48:55 make 20 grand, but I also have other outlets
00:48:55 --> 00:48:57 so it might be 20 grand from this But then I'm
00:48:57 --> 00:49:00 going 20 grand from this and I'm going 20 grand
00:49:00 --> 00:49:02 from that and then I'm making 40 in the school
00:49:02 --> 00:49:05 district Yeah, I'm doing all right. I heard something
00:49:05 --> 00:49:07 about that about a guy who did something similar
00:49:07 --> 00:49:10 with them in his restaurant Yeah, you have to
00:49:10 --> 00:49:12 he paid a I want to say that he actually gave
00:49:12 --> 00:49:14 him like I think it was like 70 grand a year
00:49:14 --> 00:49:16 or something like that You know, and it was,
00:49:16 --> 00:49:18 you know, that's just. You probably had the best
00:49:18 --> 00:49:21 servers. You probably have the best line cooks.
00:49:21 --> 00:49:23 You probably have the best. And they're going.
00:49:23 --> 00:49:26 And guess what? Because they know if I lose this
00:49:26 --> 00:49:30 and I got to go over to over to Bob's Big Boys,
00:49:30 --> 00:49:32 I'm going to make minimum wage. I'm going to
00:49:32 --> 00:49:34 be treated like crap. I'm probably not going
00:49:34 --> 00:49:36 to get the tips. I'm not going to get the type
00:49:36 --> 00:49:39 of type of clientele. It's going to feel like
00:49:39 --> 00:49:41 shit every day at work. You're not going to leave.
00:49:41 --> 00:49:43 You're going to feel like, damn, I really screwed
00:49:43 --> 00:49:48 up. Yeah. And. So for me, in business, it's always
00:49:48 --> 00:49:50 been, take care of everybody, you're going to
00:49:50 --> 00:49:53 be good on the back end. Yeah, I have kind of
00:49:53 --> 00:49:55 the same mentality because I have dreams and
00:49:55 --> 00:49:58 ideas about where I want this to go. This is
00:49:58 --> 00:50:00 sort of like the root, but it's going to turn
00:50:00 --> 00:50:04 into something soon. And the whole thing is to
00:50:04 --> 00:50:07 do just that very thing, because I'm like, man.
00:50:07 --> 00:50:11 If there's something that I'm successful with
00:50:11 --> 00:50:13 and I'm of the success that I can bring people
00:50:13 --> 00:50:15 with me, I'm like, I just want to bring people
00:50:15 --> 00:50:18 with me and I want to take care of them. Like,
00:50:18 --> 00:50:21 get people out of it because it sucks. It's an
00:50:21 --> 00:50:25 absolute must to make sure that those around
00:50:25 --> 00:50:29 you are taken care of if they are helping you
00:50:29 --> 00:50:31 with your dream. Yeah. You know what I mean?
00:50:32 --> 00:50:34 Like, lo and behold, like I said, I got here,
00:50:34 --> 00:50:36 I'm in Texas, I'm trying to find good jobs, whatever.
00:50:37 --> 00:50:40 And I'm gonna be real, man, I did, so far I think
00:50:40 --> 00:50:45 it's 160 applications. I've had like 14 interviews.
00:50:46 --> 00:50:49 Out of those 14 interviews, 10 times I was told
00:50:49 --> 00:50:51 I'm over -qualified. I'm like, gee, a job, bro.
00:50:51 --> 00:50:54 I just would prefer a job over doing Lyft, you
00:50:54 --> 00:50:58 know what I mean? If I know I can make $1
00:50:58 --> 00:51:01 a week by going to this job, then that's better
00:51:01 --> 00:51:05 than... Fishing around for rides and trying to
00:51:05 --> 00:51:08 make there. Yeah, we okay cool. So it didn't
00:51:08 --> 00:51:12 work out that way then the other four I think
00:51:12 --> 00:51:13 I probably did shoot a little higher than what
00:51:13 --> 00:51:16 I should have but you know, it's alright I got
00:51:16 --> 00:51:18 to the interview. So obviously you saw someone
00:51:18 --> 00:51:20 a resume. Yeah, you know, whatever whatever but
00:51:20 --> 00:51:24 uh The one job that really took me off though.
00:51:24 --> 00:51:27 I go a lot to you Enterprise rental car man,
00:51:27 --> 00:51:30 like I'm like I can't It was overqualified to
00:51:30 --> 00:51:32 rent a car. Like I press a couple buttons and
00:51:32 --> 00:51:35 what the hell I run their credit card. If you
00:51:35 --> 00:51:39 think right like What told me I was overqualified
00:51:39 --> 00:51:41 I'm like, I don't know that's fucking insane.
00:51:41 --> 00:51:44 So but then I went into an enterprise, you know,
00:51:44 --> 00:51:46 I'm like that's you're doing lift That's like
00:51:46 --> 00:51:48 your whole thing, but I wouldn't I wouldn't enterprise
00:51:48 --> 00:51:52 down in San Marcos and I saw the two guys that
00:51:52 --> 00:51:55 was there I was like, okay, you guys one of some
00:51:55 --> 00:51:57 college kids with no experience who really don't
00:51:57 --> 00:52:00 give a damn and if you fire them, oh well. You
00:52:00 --> 00:52:02 know what I mean? Disposable people. Disposable
00:52:02 --> 00:52:07 people. I kept trying to tell people, even during
00:52:07 --> 00:52:08 the interview, I'm like, I don't want your job.
00:52:09 --> 00:52:12 Whoever's interviewing me, don't look at it like
00:52:12 --> 00:52:15 I'm coming, I don't want your job, I just want
00:52:15 --> 00:52:19 income. So that I don't have to do silly crap.
00:52:19 --> 00:52:21 You're just trying to survive. That's it. But
00:52:21 --> 00:52:24 I've been able to. Like literally I get the text
00:52:24 --> 00:52:27 almost every week. You've made more than most
00:52:27 --> 00:52:29 Lyft drivers, but I done figured out the game.
00:52:29 --> 00:52:30 I done figured out where to go, where to be,
00:52:30 --> 00:52:33 how to be there, and get the maximum dollar,
00:52:33 --> 00:52:36 whatever, whatever. And I also learned how to
00:52:36 --> 00:52:38 get the tips, cash and or on the app. I figured
00:52:38 --> 00:52:42 out what to say, how to say it, how to keep the
00:52:42 --> 00:52:45 car, you know what I mean? Hey, it's been working
00:52:45 --> 00:52:50 out for me. You probably looked at my IG. You'll
00:52:50 --> 00:52:52 see the commercial at the top for Pair of Thieves.
00:52:52 --> 00:52:54 That came off of an Uber ride when I was working
00:52:54 --> 00:52:58 for Uber. I literally picked up a guy, and it
00:52:58 --> 00:53:02 was cold in Austin. And I'm in shorts and a t
00:53:02 --> 00:53:05 -shirt. It was 70. And my man's bundled down
00:53:05 --> 00:53:09 with a scarf on and a scully hat. I'm like, bro,
00:53:09 --> 00:53:12 it's really not that cold. We're talking. And
00:53:12 --> 00:53:13 I'm like so we get where you're going and he
00:53:13 --> 00:53:15 goes, uh, yeah i'm producing this commercial
00:53:15 --> 00:53:19 tonight today here in uh, austin and it was january
00:53:19 --> 00:53:28 2020 um, uh 2024 2023 2024 So I drop them off
00:53:28 --> 00:53:30 and before I drive them off I get I always keep
00:53:30 --> 00:53:31 my car in the car i'm like yo If you guys need
00:53:31 --> 00:53:34 any extras, let me know. Yeah, I literally go
00:53:34 --> 00:53:38 to the next ride And my phone starts ringing
00:53:38 --> 00:53:39 as I'm picking up the people, like they're getting
00:53:39 --> 00:53:41 in the car. And I'm like, hold on real quick
00:53:41 --> 00:53:44 for me. I'm talking. And when I got off the phone,
00:53:44 --> 00:53:46 the rider was like, oh my God, you're going to
00:53:46 --> 00:53:49 be in a commercial. They're like, yo, our main
00:53:49 --> 00:53:51 person dropped out. Can you come? Yeah. When
00:53:51 --> 00:53:53 you need me. They said, can you be here in an
00:53:53 --> 00:53:55 hour? I sure can. I looked. Their ride was four
00:53:55 --> 00:53:58 minutes. I dropped them off. There was a church
00:53:58 --> 00:54:01 somewhere near here. It was like a Catholic church.
00:54:01 --> 00:54:04 I dropped them off. I cut the app off. I ran
00:54:04 --> 00:54:07 to my house. took the quickest shower, but I
00:54:07 --> 00:54:11 hit all the hot points, got dressed, came back,
00:54:11 --> 00:54:14 boom. I'm right there prominently in the commercial
00:54:14 --> 00:54:16 for a pair of thieves underwear. Now I did ask
00:54:16 --> 00:54:18 them, can I take my clothes off and show off
00:54:18 --> 00:54:20 the underwear, but they didn't want that. They
00:54:20 --> 00:54:22 just wanted me to catch the underwear. I would
00:54:22 --> 00:54:26 have been like, yes. I'm like, take them off.
00:54:27 --> 00:54:30 Dude, I love pair of thieves, man. Softest underwear
00:54:30 --> 00:54:32 ever. They're amazing. Yeah pair of thieves.
00:54:32 --> 00:54:34 Look at that. I keep bringing all up this fan
00:54:34 --> 00:54:38 I made 200 bucks for like an hour worth of work,
00:54:38 --> 00:54:40 which you know shit, you know, it's like our
00:54:40 --> 00:54:43 work, but then The commercial actually aired
00:54:43 --> 00:54:45 and I'm getting texts from people around the
00:54:45 --> 00:54:48 country like yo peas that you Yeah, that's me.
00:54:48 --> 00:54:52 That's cool. I tried I tried to tell them put
00:54:52 --> 00:54:55 let me put a pair on they sell out Dude yeah,
00:54:55 --> 00:54:57 there was a time at Target because I went and
00:54:57 --> 00:55:00 I would go get like the two -pack and then and
00:55:00 --> 00:55:02 then yeah, dude There was a time I was like man.
00:55:02 --> 00:55:04 They're just not a target anymore, but that's
00:55:04 --> 00:55:06 where I got him wrong Yeah, you know I think
00:55:06 --> 00:55:09 they're at Walmart pretty much, I want to say
00:55:09 --> 00:55:12 exclusively, either there or their website, but
00:55:12 --> 00:55:13 that pair of thieves or something about them
00:55:13 --> 00:55:16 underwear, man, they're freaking amazing. So
00:55:16 --> 00:55:19 I got that commercial, and then from there I
00:55:19 --> 00:55:23 got a commercial for, it was like a real estate
00:55:23 --> 00:55:26 commercial, one of those. The hell's the name
00:55:26 --> 00:55:27 of it? I've never even seen it. I know I was
00:55:27 --> 00:55:29 there. It was funny. I was the token black guy
00:55:29 --> 00:55:32 at this cookout. No shit. Were you the one cooking
00:55:32 --> 00:55:34 though? No, it was Shaq. No, you weren't the
00:55:34 --> 00:55:36 one cooking? I was just there talking. It was
00:55:36 --> 00:55:38 like two Caucasian ladies, and I'm just standing
00:55:38 --> 00:55:39 there. And this is pretty much what we're doing,
00:55:40 --> 00:55:41 like this, while they're shooting a real commercial,
00:55:41 --> 00:55:43 and we're just in the background doing this.
00:55:43 --> 00:55:45 So we're literally saying stuff like... So where
00:55:45 --> 00:55:48 did you get the best drink in Philly? And I was
00:55:48 --> 00:55:50 just like, oh, you can go to the such bar in
00:55:50 --> 00:55:53 Philadelphia. I was like, but this is our conversation
00:55:53 --> 00:55:55 while they're shooting the real shit, but you
00:55:55 --> 00:55:57 can't hear what we're saying because we're in
00:55:57 --> 00:56:01 the background. But I was the black guy in the
00:56:01 --> 00:56:03 back of this cookout. I was like, I don't care.
00:56:04 --> 00:56:08 40 minutes of work and you make $200. I was like,
00:56:08 --> 00:56:11 okay, cool. So my first two commercials made
00:56:11 --> 00:56:15 me $400. I put it in the account. all of the
00:56:15 --> 00:56:19 day. I've been, Michael Druck, if he would just
00:56:19 --> 00:56:22 go ahead and hire me and put me on his list.
00:56:23 --> 00:56:25 I'm Cousin Paul. I am America's favorite cousin.
00:56:25 --> 00:56:27 I don't care what nobody says. I just need to
00:56:27 --> 00:56:30 be cast as the cousin. I'm a good cousin, man.
00:56:31 --> 00:56:34 I'm the guy you can talk to. I'm gonna give you
00:56:34 --> 00:56:36 some answers. I might even just listen to you
00:56:36 --> 00:56:38 and let you hear what you're saying, because
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40 you probably already answered your question and
00:56:40 --> 00:56:43 what you're saying, but because it's in here,
00:56:43 --> 00:56:46 You can't really hear it, but once you say it
00:56:46 --> 00:56:49 out loud, it's like, damn, I did kind of just
00:56:49 --> 00:56:52 answer myself. Yes, you did. I'm glad I was able
00:56:52 --> 00:56:57 to help. I'm a listening ear, man. That's just
00:56:57 --> 00:56:59 me being me, though, because you got to be you
00:56:59 --> 00:57:02 at all times. Be you. There you go. It's right
00:57:02 --> 00:57:07 here. There you go. I used to do extras. I used
00:57:07 --> 00:57:10 to be an extra or whatever. There was a show.
00:57:10 --> 00:57:13 It was very short -lived. It was with Cole Hauser.
00:57:14 --> 00:57:20 from Yellowstone and Anthony Anderson. And yeah,
00:57:20 --> 00:57:23 it was, what's the show called? Oh, Kville. It
00:57:23 --> 00:57:26 was called Kville. And in my current job, I'm
00:57:26 --> 00:57:31 an EMT. And ironically, like I was an EMT on
00:57:31 --> 00:57:34 the show, right? And they had this one scene,
00:57:34 --> 00:57:36 it was like the typical scene. Foretelling, man.
00:57:36 --> 00:57:39 Foretelling. I know, right? It's weird, right?
00:57:39 --> 00:57:42 But they had this one scene where we had to do
00:57:42 --> 00:57:44 the... the thing where, you know, you bust through
00:57:44 --> 00:57:46 the hospital doors and you're running down the
00:57:46 --> 00:57:48 hall and like, you know, everybody's like, is
00:57:48 --> 00:57:50 he going to be all right? And all that stuff
00:57:50 --> 00:57:53 like that. And and so we were about to do that
00:57:53 --> 00:57:57 scene. The director yelled action. And I go to
00:57:57 --> 00:58:00 I was in the back of the stretcher and I go to
00:58:00 --> 00:58:03 push the stretcher and it wasn't moving. And
00:58:03 --> 00:58:05 he was like, action. And I was like, oh, no,
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07 I was like, what the I'm looking at the wheels.
00:58:07 --> 00:58:09 I'm looking at everything. And I want to at this
00:58:09 --> 00:58:11 time, I didn't know shit about stretchers. You
00:58:11 --> 00:58:12 know, and I was like, what the fuck is going
00:58:12 --> 00:58:16 on, dude? And all of a sudden the doors fly open.
00:58:16 --> 00:58:19 They go, cut! What is going on? And Anthony Anderson,
00:58:19 --> 00:58:21 who is right there behind me, he starts laughing
00:58:21 --> 00:58:23 his fucking ass off because he was holding a
00:58:23 --> 00:58:28 stretcher. I was like, dude, only one of us here
00:58:28 --> 00:58:34 will lose our jobs, bro. I was like, dude. I
00:58:34 --> 00:58:36 mean, you know. I was like, I'm not really an
00:58:36 --> 00:58:38 extra. You're about to turn me into a minus,
00:58:38 --> 00:58:42 bro. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. But yeah, no, there
00:58:42 --> 00:58:44 was a, you know, doing that extra stuff was really
00:58:44 --> 00:58:46 good. I got to meet Denzel Washington, and I
00:58:46 --> 00:58:48 was the biggest of Denzel. Denzel? Denzel? His
00:58:48 --> 00:58:51 name is really Denzel. Denzel. I didn't know
00:58:51 --> 00:58:54 that. But because people say Denzel, he just
00:58:54 --> 00:58:56 rolled with it. But his name is actually Denzel.
00:58:56 --> 00:58:59 Denzel. Oh, dude, thank you for telling me. You
00:58:59 --> 00:59:01 might actually appreciate this more than anybody.
00:59:01 --> 00:59:04 Go ahead. Let's talk. So, dude, you'll never
00:59:04 --> 00:59:07 believe a movie I just saw for the first time
00:59:07 --> 00:59:10 like a month ago. All right. Hit me with it.
00:59:10 --> 00:59:13 Training Day. That's not a bad one. It's not
00:59:13 --> 00:59:15 a bad one. I can give you one worse than that
00:59:15 --> 00:59:18 for myself. But tell me why you didn't see it,
00:59:18 --> 00:59:21 then I'll tell you. It just didn't look like
00:59:21 --> 00:59:23 up my alley kind of thing. And I think what it
00:59:23 --> 00:59:25 was was, you remember that movie with Christian
00:59:25 --> 00:59:30 Bale called Harsh Times? No. I'll have to check
00:59:30 --> 00:59:32 that one out. It's just one of those LA gangster
00:59:32 --> 00:59:35 movies. That kind of thing, just like a gangster
00:59:35 --> 00:59:37 movie kind of thing going on. And I just never
00:59:37 --> 00:59:40 really been appealed by that. It's just mostly
00:59:40 --> 00:59:43 the LA thing. LA doesn't really appeal to me.
00:59:45 --> 00:59:47 That's a good thing. Yeah, it's not a bad thing.
00:59:48 --> 00:59:52 So training day, I guess Because of the I guess
00:59:52 --> 00:59:54 the genre I was like, you know, I never watch
00:59:54 --> 00:59:56 it dude. It's literally my top one of my top
00:59:56 --> 00:59:59 five business It's an amazing movie. It's amazing
00:59:59 --> 01:00:02 movie. I was like dude I was blown like dude
01:00:02 --> 01:00:04 me and my girlfriend afterwards. We're like,
01:00:04 --> 01:00:08 what the fuck was that? You're like, oh my god.
01:00:08 --> 01:00:12 That movie was amazing. Like it was just it really
01:00:12 --> 01:00:14 was training day is one of those I don't want
01:00:14 --> 01:00:18 to call it sleeper films, but if you definitely
01:00:18 --> 01:00:23 aren't a Denzel or Denzel fan, or you haven't
01:00:23 --> 01:00:26 followed him, or you're just not into certain...
01:00:26 --> 01:00:29 That movie gets put in a box probably with Boys
01:00:29 --> 01:00:31 in the Hood or something like that, but it's
01:00:31 --> 01:00:33 not that. No, it's not that. It's not that. But
01:00:33 --> 01:00:37 because you see certain elements in the clips
01:00:37 --> 01:00:40 in the... It'll make somebody think, ah, just
01:00:40 --> 01:00:42 another gangsta ass movie with black people in
01:00:42 --> 01:00:44 it. No, it's actually deeper than that. It's
01:00:44 --> 01:00:46 a lot deeper than that. It is really deep. It's
01:00:46 --> 01:00:49 a whole lot deeper than that. And there's an
01:00:49 --> 01:00:53 appreciation for movies like that. And this is
01:00:53 --> 01:00:55 something that I've learned over the past. I
01:00:55 --> 01:00:59 just turned 44. And I'm thinking to myself, like,
01:00:59 --> 01:01:01 I got to go back and watch a couple of movies
01:01:01 --> 01:01:04 because I'm pretty sure the meanings of some
01:01:04 --> 01:01:06 of the things that they're saying is some of
01:01:06 --> 01:01:08 the things. that were going on are going to mean
01:01:08 --> 01:01:11 something totally different to me now that I've
01:01:11 --> 01:01:14 had life experience than what I saw when I was
01:01:14 --> 01:01:19 18, 19, 20. I didn't know anything. It was just
01:01:19 --> 01:01:20 entertainment. Oh, that's dope. Oh, look how
01:01:20 --> 01:01:23 he shot him and threw him over the balcony. But
01:01:23 --> 01:01:27 now it's like... See why you shot over the balcony
01:01:27 --> 01:01:30 price been 30 grand on this record career You
01:01:30 --> 01:01:47 better hope that you don't slip off It means
01:01:47 --> 01:01:50 something different give my money after you spent
01:01:50 --> 01:01:52 some money spent some time put your heart into
01:01:52 --> 01:01:54 something and somebody does something to you
01:01:54 --> 01:01:58 and it's like, like you can't even die regular.
01:01:58 --> 01:02:00 It has to be a special death. You know what I
01:02:00 --> 01:02:03 mean? We're going to feed you to the dogs, bro.
01:02:05 --> 01:02:09 So my movie, and I probably would have lost my
01:02:09 --> 01:02:11 black card back in the day in all honesty. First
01:02:11 --> 01:02:14 off, I went to a historically black college university,
01:02:15 --> 01:02:19 chain university, 1837. It's supposed to be and
01:02:19 --> 01:02:21 it's a fight about it, but we're not fighting
01:02:21 --> 01:02:26 about it. We're the number one HBCU in the country.
01:02:26 --> 01:02:29 Like we're number one. Not like in rank or anything.
01:02:29 --> 01:02:34 We were the first HBCU. So I go to HBCU and I
01:02:34 --> 01:02:37 had never seen School Days. I don't think I've
01:02:37 --> 01:02:39 ever seen either. Let me write that down. School
01:02:39 --> 01:02:44 Days, it is D -A -Z -E, produced by Spike Lee
01:02:44 --> 01:02:47 and it's all about the fraternal life. on a historically
01:02:47 --> 01:02:52 black campus, as well as the politics of living
01:02:52 --> 01:02:55 on a historically black, going to school on a
01:02:55 --> 01:02:57 historically black campus and things like that.
01:02:57 --> 01:03:02 But I had never seen it. So I get on campus and,
01:03:02 --> 01:03:06 you know, the Q's, the Kappa's, the Delta's,
01:03:06 --> 01:03:09 the Divine Nine, all of them, I'm seeing it,
01:03:09 --> 01:03:13 but it's not resonating with me until... Maybe
01:03:13 --> 01:03:16 like a year in when I finally learn their history
01:03:16 --> 01:03:18 and everything. Oh, okay. This is cool This is
01:03:18 --> 01:03:21 something worse possibly, you know supporting
01:03:21 --> 01:03:25 or whatever I never really had an interest because
01:03:25 --> 01:03:28 I have I have brothers, you know, and then I
01:03:28 --> 01:03:33 have friends already and I'm not good wearing
01:03:33 --> 01:03:37 one color Like yeah, I'm not trying to be a smart
01:03:37 --> 01:03:39 ass But like the cues are purple and gold the
01:03:39 --> 01:03:43 cabas are red and white the iotas are like Brown
01:03:43 --> 01:03:46 and yellow. And then that's a whole fraternity
01:03:46 --> 01:03:49 thing. Like that's their color. So now you kind
01:03:49 --> 01:03:52 of pigeonholed a little bit that once you go
01:03:52 --> 01:03:55 over, you kind of wear something or whatever
01:03:55 --> 01:03:58 with that. So now if I want to be flying my red
01:03:58 --> 01:04:04 and white new Jordans, but I'm a cue. Oh, it's
01:04:04 --> 01:04:06 not even like it's gonna be an attitude or a
01:04:06 --> 01:04:08 problem. Like I don't want to see that. But for
01:04:08 --> 01:04:11 me, I just was like, it felt like Like what you
01:04:11 --> 01:04:14 said, it felt like gang shit to me. Like, oh
01:04:14 --> 01:04:16 yeah, like that's what it kind of felt like.
01:04:17 --> 01:04:19 It felt like that. But here's the other part.
01:04:19 --> 01:04:21 And let me, let me back up because I know I'm
01:04:21 --> 01:04:24 gonna get criticized. When I went to school in
01:04:24 --> 01:04:28 1999, I was 17 when I walked into college. I
01:04:28 --> 01:04:33 literally graduated high school a month after
01:04:33 --> 01:04:36 turning 17. So I turned 17 in April, graduated
01:04:36 --> 01:04:39 high school and then I started college at 17.
01:04:39 --> 01:04:43 So I'm young, I don't really like, I know stuff,
01:04:43 --> 01:04:46 but I don't know shit, I'm 17. Like when I would
01:04:46 --> 01:04:49 tell girls on campus I'm 17, they're like, oh,
01:04:49 --> 01:04:50 I'm gonna show you some things, and boy, well,
01:04:50 --> 01:04:53 I'm willing to let you show me whatever you want.
01:04:53 --> 01:04:59 Right, teach me. And I was thinner, I played
01:04:59 --> 01:05:04 sports, and lo and behold, when I turned 18,
01:05:05 --> 01:05:08 And this is how I got into the real estate stuff.
01:05:08 --> 01:05:10 When I turned 18, me and my mother was in a car
01:05:10 --> 01:05:13 accident. My eighth grade year, this guy rear
01:05:13 --> 01:05:15 -ended us. We were on our way to the high school
01:05:15 --> 01:05:18 fair, and I hurt my knee really bad. So I didn't
01:05:18 --> 01:05:22 play basketball, ninth grade year rehabbing.
01:05:22 --> 01:05:25 And when I turned 18, my mother and father never
01:05:25 --> 01:05:27 told me. They never said anything to me. When
01:05:27 --> 01:05:29 I turned 18, my mom was like, let's go to lunch.
01:05:29 --> 01:05:31 I go to lunch with my mom. And we're downtown
01:05:31 --> 01:05:32 feeling like, well, how did you pick downtown?
01:05:32 --> 01:05:34 I was like, nowhere to park, whatever. So I'll
01:05:34 --> 01:05:36 shut up. We go to lunch. Then she goes into this
01:05:36 --> 01:05:38 building. She's like, I got a meeting. I want
01:05:38 --> 01:05:41 you to sit in on it. The lawyer's office was
01:05:41 --> 01:05:44 my check from the accident on my 18th birthday.
01:05:45 --> 01:05:49 So now I'm 18 with some money. Oh, shit, dude.
01:05:49 --> 01:05:54 Back on campus with a car, money. Yeah. I got
01:05:54 --> 01:05:57 influence now. I'm an original influencer because
01:05:57 --> 01:06:00 now I can say, all right, well, I ain't eating
01:06:00 --> 01:06:02 at the cab. That's trash. Can I ask how much?
01:06:02 --> 01:06:05 Is it rude? It was like 40 grand. Damn, dude.
01:06:06 --> 01:06:08 I wouldn't know what to do if I was 18. I put
01:06:08 --> 01:06:13 it. I put 30 away and I took 10 and I literally
01:06:13 --> 01:06:15 stretched that 10 through the last three years
01:06:15 --> 01:06:19 of college. But that 30 went towards buying the
01:06:19 --> 01:06:21 first property. You know what I'm saying? And
01:06:21 --> 01:06:24 then from there. You played it smart. I had to.
01:06:24 --> 01:06:26 I was older brother. Not only am I the older
01:06:26 --> 01:06:29 brother. I've seen a lot of people lose Yeah,
01:06:29 --> 01:06:31 I've got uncles who are who are fucking losers
01:06:31 --> 01:06:34 like sorry like but it's the truth like I have
01:06:34 --> 01:06:37 a joke right now and it's like if the Illuminati
01:06:37 --> 01:06:39 was like you could be a billionaire tomorrow
01:06:39 --> 01:06:42 Which uncle you want? I got him which one you
01:06:42 --> 01:06:45 want me to sacrifice. I got one of those shit
01:06:45 --> 01:06:48 I got no they don't like nobody missed these
01:06:48 --> 01:06:51 motherfuckers like I will whatever it takes like
01:06:51 --> 01:06:55 that's the joke, but it's real like because My
01:06:55 --> 01:07:01 mother is a stone -cold motherfucking hustler.
01:07:01 --> 01:07:09 I watch my mother work her job, do hair, sell
01:07:09 --> 01:07:12 costume jewelry. During Christmas, she would
01:07:12 --> 01:07:15 take a wire hanger, take the paper off, turn
01:07:15 --> 01:07:19 it into a circle, take yarn, tootsie rolls. They
01:07:19 --> 01:07:21 call them footsies, the different color, different
01:07:21 --> 01:07:25 flavors. She would... twist them on and make
01:07:25 --> 01:07:29 candy fucking wreaths out of them shits. She
01:07:29 --> 01:07:31 would make about 100 of them, sell them at about
01:07:31 --> 01:07:33 $20 a piece, people would custom order, oh I
01:07:33 --> 01:07:36 want this strawberry, the bon bon joints, I want
01:07:36 --> 01:07:39 that, or I want this. And she would get the candy,
01:07:39 --> 01:07:41 she would make them, say she sold 100 of them
01:07:41 --> 01:07:44 at $20, that's the two grand she's using to buy
01:07:44 --> 01:07:46 her Christmas gifts. Oh damn, that's a wonderful
01:07:46 --> 01:07:49 woman right there, man. She was off on Tuesday,
01:07:49 --> 01:07:52 she would drop us off at school, say 8 a .m.,
01:07:52 --> 01:07:55 drive from Philadelphia to New York, go to Canal
01:07:55 --> 01:07:58 Street, get the costume jewelry, drive back to
01:07:58 --> 01:07:59 Philadelphia, she got about an hour, hour and
01:07:59 --> 01:08:02 a half, hit a couple hair salons, sell the costume
01:08:02 --> 01:08:04 jewelry, then be right at the door to pick us
01:08:04 --> 01:08:06 up from school. That's a hustlin' motherfucker.
01:08:07 --> 01:08:12 She now has her property portfolio, we own the
01:08:12 --> 01:08:15 building that we did the daycare, we took care
01:08:15 --> 01:08:22 of that. She does right now mobile notary. She's
01:08:22 --> 01:08:25 69. She just turned 69 April 24 20s of birthday.
01:08:26 --> 01:08:28 So she's getting high on this thing called life
01:08:28 --> 01:08:33 without marijuana She literally you can't stop
01:08:33 --> 01:08:38 my mom from starting doing Going after a business
01:08:38 --> 01:08:41 or a business idea I hear it and that's where
01:08:41 --> 01:08:46 I got it from like I yeah, I learned early Nice
01:08:46 --> 01:08:50 no 11th grade year I went to a high school, it
01:08:50 --> 01:08:52 was called Parkway program, it was called Parkway,
01:08:53 --> 01:08:55 schooled out walls. Like we were able to go off
01:08:55 --> 01:08:57 campus, it was pretty much like a college situation,
01:08:58 --> 01:09:00 but a high school. We called all the teachers
01:09:00 --> 01:09:03 by first name. So it was Cathy, it was like,
01:09:03 --> 01:09:05 this is how, this was the culture that they had
01:09:05 --> 01:09:08 started back in the 60s. My uncle Warren, God
01:09:08 --> 01:09:11 rest his soul, was a student. My cousin Carlton
01:09:11 --> 01:09:14 was a student. So we all like, I'm family legend
01:09:14 --> 01:09:19 into this thing. One morning, I'm like, yo, I
01:09:19 --> 01:09:22 just want pizza today for lunch. So I like, mom,
01:09:22 --> 01:09:24 can I get five dollars for pizza? I don't know
01:09:24 --> 01:09:27 what the fuck was going on, but finances must
01:09:27 --> 01:09:29 have been tight in the bitch, and I'm an adult
01:09:29 --> 01:09:31 now, so I know. It's been moments where you,
01:09:31 --> 01:09:33 five dollars, you're like, man, I ain't fucking
01:09:33 --> 01:09:35 got it. Yeah. My mom walked in the room, she's
01:09:35 --> 01:09:37 looking at my face. She said, you know what the
01:09:37 --> 01:09:39 fuck I used to have to do for lunch money? I
01:09:39 --> 01:09:42 was like, what? I saw weed. I was just like,
01:09:42 --> 01:09:46 god damn. So, uh, what do you want me to do with
01:09:46 --> 01:09:53 this? Because I'm fuck I'm literal like if you
01:09:53 --> 01:09:57 tell me Like so am I getting the five or not?
01:09:58 --> 01:10:00 So she wound up giving me like four dollars or
01:10:00 --> 01:10:02 something like that And I'm like, so are you
01:10:02 --> 01:10:05 asking me or giving me permission to go out and
01:10:05 --> 01:10:08 shut up boy? I'm just letting you know that you
01:10:08 --> 01:10:10 know, I wasn't able to just ask for money. Okay,
01:10:10 --> 01:10:14 I get it. I get the point So from from literally
01:10:14 --> 01:10:16 like that point forward and even though before
01:10:16 --> 01:10:19 that The number one thing that I know that's
01:10:19 --> 01:10:22 lacking in family and community and everything
01:10:22 --> 01:10:25 is nobody's Afraid to embarrass their parents
01:10:25 --> 01:10:28 anymore or their family anymore So I couldn't
01:10:28 --> 01:10:31 imagine being that guy who just does something
01:10:31 --> 01:10:36 so obnoxious So crazy so out of pocket to where
01:10:36 --> 01:10:39 it brings embarrassment to my mother my father
01:10:39 --> 01:10:41 The rest of the family, even if some of them
01:10:41 --> 01:10:44 are idiots, let them be the embarrassment. I
01:10:44 --> 01:10:45 don't want to be a part of that conversation.
01:10:45 --> 01:10:48 Yeah. So when it came down to managing money,
01:10:48 --> 01:10:50 making money, running business, doing whatever,
01:10:50 --> 01:10:53 like I said, 20 years on a daycare, my mother
01:10:53 --> 01:10:56 was the proprietor. She started it. I just jumped
01:10:56 --> 01:10:58 into the business and helped her do everything
01:10:58 --> 01:11:00 that was necessary. First off, I was the one
01:11:00 --> 01:11:02 with the college degree. When you have a college
01:11:02 --> 01:11:04 degree, you can be the director, you can be the
01:11:04 --> 01:11:07 third and it helps you with. the system that
01:11:07 --> 01:11:09 they have in place is like, OK, we have somebody
01:11:09 --> 01:11:12 that's college educated running it. And then
01:11:12 --> 01:11:14 it trickled down to how I selected the staff.
01:11:15 --> 01:11:17 You know what I mean? So it was a whole ordeal.
01:11:17 --> 01:11:19 That's a whole nother thing. You just kind of
01:11:19 --> 01:11:22 figured it out, man. This is where the experiences
01:11:22 --> 01:11:26 that I've had with running business, the experiences
01:11:26 --> 01:11:28 that I've had with doing stuff on the street,
01:11:29 --> 01:11:32 the stuff in between of doing the clothing, because
01:11:32 --> 01:11:35 I started my first clothing line in 2000. on
01:11:35 --> 01:11:41 my college campus. My last year of college, I
01:11:41 --> 01:11:44 didn't even take the loans. I paid it cash. They
01:11:44 --> 01:11:47 thought I was selling dope. Oh, no shit. That's
01:11:47 --> 01:11:49 not the first time I've heard that. It's not
01:11:49 --> 01:11:53 the first time I've heard that. If you do the
01:11:53 --> 01:11:56 research on Paul Fries, first and foremost, there
01:11:56 --> 01:11:58 wasn't a lot of tax returns filed. Personally,
01:11:58 --> 01:12:02 it was because of the job and the structure and
01:12:02 --> 01:12:04 the way that I would make money outside of the
01:12:04 --> 01:12:07 school district. Didn't like I was all setting
01:12:07 --> 01:12:10 stuff so much that I wouldn't even I wasn't even
01:12:10 --> 01:12:13 thinking about that But people would see cat
01:12:13 --> 01:12:17 like this guy got something going on and he always
01:12:17 --> 01:12:21 out at night And all his cars have ten He's always
01:12:21 --> 01:12:23 got the new sneakers on like so people were looking
01:12:23 --> 01:12:26 at me and they're like do you sell drugs? I'm
01:12:26 --> 01:12:28 like, I don't sell no goddamn drugs. I don't
01:12:28 --> 01:12:31 have the time for that. Like I right I've met
01:12:31 --> 01:12:34 drug dealers. I know Some of the top notch ones
01:12:34 --> 01:12:40 in Philly. Jersey, Delaware, Atlanta. Not my
01:12:40 --> 01:12:42 calling. First off, you got to run the streets.
01:12:43 --> 01:12:45 Do I look like I run? I'm not running, shit.
01:12:46 --> 01:12:50 It's not my thing. I actually, and this is a
01:12:50 --> 01:12:52 crazy story, but very true. Again, if it don't
01:12:52 --> 01:12:56 tie to memory, I can't do it. One of my very
01:12:56 --> 01:13:00 last parties before I moved over to work at this
01:13:00 --> 01:13:07 nightclub. in Philly We were doing This gentleman,
01:13:07 --> 01:13:09 I'm not gonna say his name, but he was turning
01:13:09 --> 01:13:12 30 and he knew he's about to get life He knew
01:13:12 --> 01:13:15 he was about to get life. He knew it. He knew
01:13:15 --> 01:13:17 it Yeah, so he hit us up. He like yo, we was
01:13:17 --> 01:13:19 told you got one of the hottest parties in the
01:13:19 --> 01:13:22 city I want my people to come in I want them
01:13:22 --> 01:13:25 to be free and I need 30 bottles of everything.
01:13:26 --> 01:13:29 Oh shit. So now what that means is He wants to
01:13:29 --> 01:13:32 pay bottle service. So at the time, Serac had
01:13:32 --> 01:13:35 like three flavors, but he wanted 30 bottles
01:13:35 --> 01:13:40 of each flavor. Hennessy, 30 bottles. Rose, everybody
01:13:40 --> 01:13:43 wanted Rose at the time, 30 bottles. So it was
01:13:43 --> 01:13:46 like 10 liquors that he ran off. He wanted 30
01:13:46 --> 01:13:50 bottles of each times whatever we were charging
01:13:50 --> 01:13:55 per bottle. Holy shit. I pull up. My man sitting
01:13:55 --> 01:13:57 in a black Escalade all blacked out and then
01:13:57 --> 01:14:00 this is the time when I had my little my little
01:14:00 --> 01:14:03 Infinity joint that was you know decent too.
01:14:03 --> 01:14:05 Yeah, so I pull up I parked behind him I get
01:14:05 --> 01:14:07 in the truck I get inside the truck. It's a gun
01:14:07 --> 01:14:11 on the dashboard motherfuckers playing scarface
01:14:11 --> 01:14:16 There's 40 in cash Sitting there. God. He's
01:14:16 --> 01:14:20 like, all right, that's your cover The people
01:14:20 --> 01:14:24 getting in and my bottle service, right? Yeah,
01:14:24 --> 01:14:26 yeah, yeah, definitely should cover right? Yeah.
01:14:26 --> 01:14:29 Yeah, I Called my girl at the time the one that
01:14:29 --> 01:14:31 did the jokes about and I'm like, I'm not coming
01:14:31 --> 01:14:34 home. I Don't want you to like if you don't have
01:14:34 --> 01:14:36 to leave the house. Don't leave the house I'm
01:14:36 --> 01:14:38 not coming home because in my mind. Mm -hmm.
01:14:38 --> 01:14:44 I got this 30 this I mean it's 40 and I Went
01:14:44 --> 01:14:47 straight to the airport parked my car in the
01:14:47 --> 01:14:52 joint and went to Avis and got a rental. Mm -hmm
01:14:52 --> 01:14:55 Money in the backpack and now I'm moving in a
01:14:55 --> 01:14:58 rental for like four days because I'm like I
01:14:58 --> 01:15:00 don't want them to follow me say somebody take
01:15:00 --> 01:15:07 the bread then it's like I owe X oh Shit, I see
01:15:07 --> 01:15:09 see most people like why did you just go buy
01:15:09 --> 01:15:12 the bottles? I hear you but he we did this at
01:15:12 --> 01:15:15 like nine o 'clock at night So this is a movie,
01:15:15 --> 01:15:18 now I got to make it till morning. Dude, it sounds
01:15:18 --> 01:15:21 like training day, bro. I got to make it till
01:15:21 --> 01:15:22 morning. You're making all the stops that you
01:15:22 --> 01:15:25 gotta do. I get to the bank and this is how I
01:15:25 --> 01:15:29 learned that you can only deposit $9 before
01:15:29 --> 01:15:31 they have to send off the thing to the IRS. So
01:15:31 --> 01:15:35 I literally gave her $9 , boom, put that
01:15:35 --> 01:15:38 in. I go over Jersey because you couldn't get
01:15:38 --> 01:15:40 Rosé in Philly. because it wasn't legal in Philly
01:15:40 --> 01:15:43 for whatever reason, Commonwealth, stupid shit.
01:15:43 --> 01:15:45 I go over there, I put the order in, now I'm
01:15:45 --> 01:15:47 giving them money, poop, poop, poop, poop, poop.
01:15:48 --> 01:15:50 They like, yeah, we can have it all by Friday,
01:15:51 --> 01:15:53 or have everything by Friday, whatever, whatever.
01:15:53 --> 01:15:59 So now I still got like 20 grand left on me.
01:15:59 --> 01:16:02 I go get a hotel, now I'm tired. I'm like, I'm
01:16:02 --> 01:16:05 not going to, I'm not, because even if, motherfuckers
01:16:05 --> 01:16:08 see my face, I wasn't. Man, I ain't sleep till
01:16:08 --> 01:16:13 that shit was over. Dude, oh my God, man. Honestly,
01:16:13 --> 01:16:14 I don't even think I blinked while you were telling
01:16:14 --> 01:16:17 me that. I was like, dude. This is my life. And
01:16:17 --> 01:16:21 people are like, yeah, you can't tell me shit
01:16:21 --> 01:16:24 about party promotion, about event marketing.
01:16:24 --> 01:16:30 I'm at DMX and fucking the Ritz Carlton. He's
01:16:30 --> 01:16:32 sitting at the bar. Here I am acting like I'm
01:16:32 --> 01:16:34 fucking rich. I'll buy him a drink. I should
01:16:34 --> 01:16:36 have had that motherfucker pay but yeah, oh my
01:16:36 --> 01:16:39 god, man, you I appreciate that. I'm like, you
01:16:39 --> 01:16:41 really talk like that. Expo will give it to you.
01:16:41 --> 01:16:45 Yeah, you really talk like that and my guy m
01:16:45 --> 01:16:48 dot And and all my team PR guys will tell you
01:16:48 --> 01:16:50 like I'm just me and him sitting there Literally
01:16:50 --> 01:16:52 this close just talking at the bar and they like
01:16:52 --> 01:16:55 you really went over there to start talking to
01:16:55 --> 01:16:57 them Yeah person dude, that's badass. Oh, he's
01:16:57 --> 01:17:00 a person like yeah If you look on my IG, you'll
01:17:00 --> 01:17:03 see the picture of me and Paul Mooney, man. I've
01:17:03 --> 01:17:05 had a two -hour conversation with Paul Mooney
01:17:05 --> 01:17:07 maybe about a couple months before he passed
01:17:07 --> 01:17:11 away, bro. It was the most amazing two -hour
01:17:11 --> 01:17:13 conversation I've ever had in my life. What are
01:17:13 --> 01:17:15 some highlights, man? What did you all talk about?
01:17:16 --> 01:17:18 The people are stupid. They're dumb. They're
01:17:18 --> 01:17:19 there. I love that conversation. They're there.
01:17:19 --> 01:17:21 They're there. They're there. You tell the jokes.
01:17:21 --> 01:17:22 Whatever you want to say. You say what you want
01:17:22 --> 01:17:24 to say. If it's from your heart, you say it.
01:17:24 --> 01:17:26 If it's in your heart, you say it. Damn it. If
01:17:26 --> 01:17:28 it's on your mind, you say it. You don't hold
01:17:28 --> 01:17:30 anything back. Your voice is to be heard. Your
01:17:30 --> 01:17:32 voice is not to be held back. God damn it. Don't
01:17:32 --> 01:17:34 you hold your voice back. I was looking like,
01:17:35 --> 01:17:37 I promise I won't. I promise. I promise I won't
01:17:37 --> 01:17:40 hold it back. And I'll stay true. I'll stay honest.
01:17:41 --> 01:17:43 And I want this to work. Like I want this to
01:17:43 --> 01:17:46 work. And this was like, I'm like year four,
01:17:46 --> 01:17:50 maybe five in this. The stint and the time that
01:17:50 --> 01:17:53 I've taken to do this is a gentleman by the name
01:17:53 --> 01:17:55 of Brad Trackman. I don't give him much credit
01:17:55 --> 01:17:58 because I don't feel like he did anything. But
01:17:58 --> 01:18:01 the one thing he did was be the facilitator of
01:18:01 --> 01:18:05 a comedy class. And me having to go every week
01:18:05 --> 01:18:08 and do the writing and do whatever, even though
01:18:08 --> 01:18:11 He never showed like he was interested in anything
01:18:11 --> 01:18:15 that I was saying or whatever. When it came time
01:18:15 --> 01:18:18 to set up who was gonna headline that class show,
01:18:19 --> 01:18:23 it was me. With a standing O, you know what I'm
01:18:23 --> 01:18:25 saying? It was me that wound up getting booked
01:18:25 --> 01:18:27 by helium after that. It was me, you know what
01:18:27 --> 01:18:29 I'm saying? And then my sister, Patrice DeVoe,
01:18:30 --> 01:18:33 at But Is She Funny, she will fucking tell you.
01:18:34 --> 01:18:36 We worked our asses off and you can see it in
01:18:36 --> 01:18:38 everything that she's doing right now. You know
01:18:38 --> 01:18:39 what I'm saying? Like she's killing Virginia,
01:18:40 --> 01:18:45 DC, Maryland, L .A., been overseas, like she's
01:18:45 --> 01:18:48 a fucking beast. And when people ask, like at
01:18:48 --> 01:18:51 one of my shows in Atlantic City, I sold out
01:18:51 --> 01:18:53 Atlantic City twice, Tropicana Casino twice,
01:18:54 --> 01:18:57 me, footwork, on the ground, promoting, doing
01:18:57 --> 01:19:00 shit, like twice, sold that shit out. matter
01:19:00 --> 01:19:03 of fact how many people were talking we're talking
01:19:03 --> 01:19:08 400 plus on the first one shit the second one
01:19:08 --> 01:19:11 was 340 because we used the smaller venue yeah
01:19:11 --> 01:19:14 and it was on black friday were you aware of
01:19:14 --> 01:19:17 austin and like austin's comedy scene back i
01:19:17 --> 01:19:20 wasn't aware of it until we came down here for
01:19:20 --> 01:19:22 so my wife is from austin uh -huh that's how
01:19:22 --> 01:19:27 we ended up in this area okay um she's born in
01:19:27 --> 01:19:30 port other texas moved to austin raised in austin
01:19:31 --> 01:19:34 went to Texas State, then went to St. Edward's,
01:19:34 --> 01:19:37 and then we met while she was finishing her doctorate
01:19:37 --> 01:19:40 at the University of Pitt. But we met in D .C.,
01:19:40 --> 01:19:43 which is crazy, right? I do like D .C. though.
01:19:43 --> 01:19:49 D .C.'s fucking amazing. So when we came down
01:19:49 --> 01:19:53 for, so we got married. And then three months
01:19:53 --> 01:19:54 after that, her brother walked her down the aisle,
01:19:54 --> 01:19:56 because her father passed away when she was a
01:19:56 --> 01:19:59 kid. Her brother walked her down the aisle, and
01:19:59 --> 01:20:01 then her brother wound up having a heart attack
01:20:01 --> 01:20:04 and dying. So we came down for the funeral. When
01:20:04 --> 01:20:06 we came down for the funeral, I was in the middle
01:20:06 --> 01:20:10 of doing some work with a couple of comedians
01:20:10 --> 01:20:14 in Philly. And Austin had come up. So because
01:20:14 --> 01:20:16 I knew he was coming here, I just looked it up.
01:20:16 --> 01:20:19 And that's how I found that Velveeta Room spot.
01:20:19 --> 01:20:21 That I did for the first three minutes. Oh nice.
01:20:21 --> 01:20:23 So like we're gonna be here for about a week
01:20:23 --> 01:20:25 anyway because of the funeral Yeah, i'm just
01:20:25 --> 01:20:27 gonna like I might as well just do something
01:20:27 --> 01:20:29 because there's nothing that I can do They already
01:20:29 --> 01:20:32 had like like the funeral stuff kind of squared
01:20:32 --> 01:20:36 away and what's gonna happen So i'm here as the
01:20:36 --> 01:20:39 buffer to my wife and her emotions and plus she
01:20:39 --> 01:20:41 whatever she needed to get out She needed to
01:20:41 --> 01:20:44 do with her family if she need me, she know hey
01:20:44 --> 01:20:47 pete. I need you and all right i'm here And she's
01:20:47 --> 01:20:49 like yo go go tell your jokes go do whatever
01:20:49 --> 01:20:53 like she knows Paul her husband Paul and cousin
01:20:53 --> 01:20:56 Paul two different worlds like yeah, I mean Paul
01:20:56 --> 01:21:00 Friesen is All this stuff don't matter Yeah cousin
01:21:00 --> 01:21:03 Paul all this matters like I'm the the alter
01:21:03 --> 01:21:07 ego is that yeah, I get it the other guys more
01:21:07 --> 01:21:10 more more relaxed that's where you know the Provider
01:21:10 --> 01:21:13 cigars come in the play shout out to Brian I
01:21:13 --> 01:21:15 mean, that's where the liquor comes in the play.
01:21:15 --> 01:21:18 I'm big on the bourbons and stuff like that Nice
01:21:18 --> 01:21:21 cousin Paul smoke a little we sit back zone out
01:21:21 --> 01:21:24 and they go Tell you do you think two hours worth
01:21:24 --> 01:21:29 of jokes? Yeah, make it super funny So yes, we
01:21:29 --> 01:21:34 yeah that the Austin scene popped up then Then
01:21:34 --> 01:21:38 when I got here everybody and their mama that
01:21:38 --> 01:21:40 I would say hey, yeah, you know, I do stand up
01:21:40 --> 01:21:44 whatever whatever Have you been on kill Tony?
01:21:46 --> 01:21:48 Yeah, yeah, and I had to look it up. Yeah, I
01:21:48 --> 01:21:50 look it up What the hell is killed Tony's and
01:21:50 --> 01:21:53 I'm looking up and I watch a couple of them.
01:21:53 --> 01:21:55 Mm -hmm And I don't care if I catch flag for
01:21:55 --> 01:21:58 this I really don't give a shit the only black
01:21:58 --> 01:22:02 people I see move on kill Tony the great black
01:22:02 --> 01:22:06 people I'm not gonna do that. I can't do that.
01:22:06 --> 01:22:09 That's my folks We have issues just like any
01:22:09 --> 01:22:12 other culture has issues and I'm not gonna make
01:22:12 --> 01:22:16 My money off the back of our issues to a point
01:22:16 --> 01:22:20 that I'm not helping Now what I say helps us
01:22:20 --> 01:22:22 move forward then I'll say it but if I'm just
01:22:22 --> 01:22:26 going Yeah, stop on our no. Do you think you
01:22:26 --> 01:22:28 can just go on there and maybe change that? I
01:22:28 --> 01:22:31 don't think that their culture is going to allow
01:22:31 --> 01:22:33 that. I think I'll be wasting my damn time. So
01:22:33 --> 01:22:35 I might as well continue doing what I'm doing.
01:22:35 --> 01:22:39 Staying positive in my community. Bringing forth
01:22:39 --> 01:22:44 the things that I do have in mind. Because there's
01:22:44 --> 01:22:48 things that I've already done in Philly, Jersey,
01:22:48 --> 01:22:52 Delaware. Making sure I'm accurate. Philly, Jersey,
01:22:52 --> 01:22:55 Delaware. And then I kind of want to bring, I
01:22:55 --> 01:22:58 want to bring here. I've been looking for the
01:22:58 --> 01:23:00 people here who put together certain cultural
01:23:00 --> 01:23:04 events and things. And I found that. On the east
01:23:04 --> 01:23:06 side, there's like a couple of libraries and
01:23:06 --> 01:23:09 a couple of places on that side. I don't have
01:23:09 --> 01:23:10 specific names. I have a bunch of stuff written
01:23:10 --> 01:23:13 down at the house, but I'm going to start plugging
01:23:13 --> 01:23:16 myself into them because the number one thing
01:23:16 --> 01:23:20 that I do is a cookout that I started when I
01:23:20 --> 01:23:22 was doing something similar to this during the
01:23:22 --> 01:23:25 pandemic. I had a buddy, me and him, we set up
01:23:25 --> 01:23:27 our Instagrams, we would go top to bottom on
01:23:27 --> 01:23:29 the Instagram, and we did this show called Difference
01:23:29 --> 01:23:33 of Opinion. And from that show, we would highlight
01:23:33 --> 01:23:37 a small black business in Philly, because nobody
01:23:37 --> 01:23:38 could actually do business during the pandemic.
01:23:39 --> 01:23:41 So it was like, all right, if we have 1
01:23:41 --> 01:23:44 people watching this, if I put this up on the
01:23:44 --> 01:23:47 screen, hey, this is by Cousin Paul, you can
01:23:47 --> 01:23:48 follow him at such and such and such, this and
01:23:48 --> 01:23:51 that and the third. Boom, boom, boom. And then
01:23:51 --> 01:23:54 at the end of it, when you load it up on Instagram,
01:23:54 --> 01:23:56 you could do your blur. We would tag them in
01:23:56 --> 01:23:58 it. We noticed that these businesses started
01:23:58 --> 01:24:00 getting people following them, people supporting
01:24:00 --> 01:24:05 them. So like you said, I didn't know about the
01:24:05 --> 01:24:11 20, but on our 30th show, we did an actual black
01:24:11 --> 01:24:15 business cookout. And it wasn't even about being
01:24:15 --> 01:24:19 black. It was taking people from the red. Black
01:24:19 --> 01:24:23 which is business terminology. Why is black Friday
01:24:23 --> 01:24:25 the biggest holiday because business trying to
01:24:25 --> 01:24:27 go from red to black But what happened was we
01:24:27 --> 01:24:30 started moving this this thing and it you know,
01:24:30 --> 01:24:32 we did it the first year We did the second year
01:24:32 --> 01:24:33 and then when I went to do it the third year,
01:24:34 --> 01:24:37 it was decent then the fourth year I had some
01:24:37 --> 01:24:40 Caucasian people get upset. Why is it black and
01:24:40 --> 01:24:44 it's like It's not that, go back to the tail
01:24:44 --> 01:24:47 end, like you came in and I understand what you
01:24:47 --> 01:24:49 see, but there are some white folks on this list.
01:24:50 --> 01:24:54 We're trying to get more, bring them to me. We
01:24:54 --> 01:24:57 were charging $35 per spot, which is unheard
01:24:57 --> 01:25:05 of to vend. In Philly, I had a park, I think
01:25:05 --> 01:25:09 it was six baseball fields worth of space. What
01:25:09 --> 01:25:12 and then on the other side was the football field
01:25:12 --> 01:25:15 so that's a hundred yards this way and yeah that
01:25:15 --> 01:25:19 way We had all that grass. I gotta feel I want
01:25:19 --> 01:25:22 to feel this I want I want vendors all over this
01:25:22 --> 01:25:25 joint. So we literally talking about festival
01:25:25 --> 01:25:27 That's pretty much what I was putting together
01:25:27 --> 01:25:32 on the low Wow, dude First year was 60 people
01:25:32 --> 01:25:35 the second year was 150 people the third year
01:25:35 --> 01:25:42 was 220 vendors no shit By myself. By yourself?
01:25:43 --> 01:25:47 By myself. I couldn't find a team of people who
01:25:47 --> 01:25:50 would come on board and actually do the work.
01:25:50 --> 01:25:53 My dad was out helping me pick up trash. My mom
01:25:53 --> 01:25:57 would come out. My aunties, I would also do food
01:25:57 --> 01:26:01 for nothing. We would make food. You want a hot
01:26:01 --> 01:26:03 dog? You want a hamburger? You out there? But
01:26:03 --> 01:26:06 the purpose of it was have the vendors. It was
01:26:06 --> 01:26:08 always on Father's Day weekend. Most people forget
01:26:08 --> 01:26:10 about fathers. So it was like, all right, you
01:26:10 --> 01:26:13 got the park. Y 'all can set up a barbecue on
01:26:13 --> 01:26:16 this side. But at the same time, over here, we
01:26:16 --> 01:26:19 got music. We have bounce houses. We have vendors.
01:26:19 --> 01:26:22 You can come over. So by year three, I want to
01:26:22 --> 01:26:26 say 30 % of that park was people who were set
01:26:26 --> 01:26:29 up with their families. Then we had the bounce
01:26:29 --> 01:26:32 houses in the middle. And then right here we
01:26:32 --> 01:26:35 had the 220 vendors. I linked that with Citizens
01:26:35 --> 01:26:38 Bank. They did first time home buyer classes.
01:26:39 --> 01:26:41 No, Quality Real Estate in Philadelphia did first
01:26:41 --> 01:26:45 time home buyer. Citizens Bank taught people
01:26:45 --> 01:26:50 in the community the variations of checking and
01:26:50 --> 01:26:53 accounts for your money. Because most people
01:26:53 --> 01:26:55 only think checking and savings was way more
01:26:55 --> 01:26:58 than that. even if you don't have a lot of money,
01:26:58 --> 01:27:01 you need to at least know like, hey, when I get
01:27:01 --> 01:27:05 my tax refund check for $8 , maybe I should
01:27:05 --> 01:27:09 put four grand this way versus I get a tax refund
01:27:09 --> 01:27:11 check for eight grand. You don't have no kids,
01:27:11 --> 01:27:14 do you? I do. You do? So you never seen, you've
01:27:14 --> 01:27:17 seen a check that was, your face was like hell
01:27:17 --> 01:27:20 no. You never seen a refund? Right now, no. Right
01:27:20 --> 01:27:22 now, no? Okay. Yeah. Well, I've seen people,
01:27:23 --> 01:27:25 especially with me running daycares, They get
01:27:25 --> 01:27:27 nine grand ten grand bags. They got two three
01:27:27 --> 01:27:31 kids and what they do with that money You pour
01:27:31 --> 01:27:33 again in a month and a half. Yeah, you know,
01:27:34 --> 01:27:36 yes it away But if you understand how banking
01:27:36 --> 01:27:38 works if you understand how stocks work if you
01:27:38 --> 01:27:41 understand how putting money away and just closing
01:27:41 --> 01:27:44 your eyes on it and walk off You know if you
01:27:44 --> 01:27:46 understand New York life insurance and stuff
01:27:46 --> 01:27:49 like that You know when they put this money into
01:27:49 --> 01:27:52 these accounts if you're doing $20 a week from
01:27:52 --> 01:27:55 out of your paycheck that you will not miss No,
01:27:55 --> 01:27:57 people act like you'll you will not miss it But
01:27:57 --> 01:28:01 if you've done that since you were 20 25 30 on
01:28:01 --> 01:28:04 up and you think about hey This money's going
01:28:04 --> 01:28:06 in this account. Well, you actually don't think
01:28:06 --> 01:28:08 about it and then you check it ten years later.
01:28:08 --> 01:28:14 It's like Wow, I Shit I got I got 40 grand sitting
01:28:14 --> 01:28:17 here that I didn't even you need got 40 in your
01:28:17 --> 01:28:19 checking but you Because of investors that were
01:28:19 --> 01:28:24 made when your behalf. Yeah but I had to teach
01:28:24 --> 01:28:30 and bring these things to the community. And
01:28:30 --> 01:28:33 that was where I was getting a lot of the questions
01:28:33 --> 01:28:35 about, what do you do? How do you get your money,
01:28:36 --> 01:28:38 Paul? And I'm like, this, this, this, and this.
01:28:38 --> 01:28:42 I've never sold dope. I sold marijuana one time,
01:28:42 --> 01:28:47 one time. A friend of mine left a bag in my car
01:28:47 --> 01:28:51 and it was a lot. And he was already on his plane
01:28:51 --> 01:28:53 back. He's like, man, damn, I was supposed to
01:28:53 --> 01:28:54 drop that off at my house. I was like, you want
01:28:54 --> 01:28:56 me to take you there? He's like, no, man, you
01:28:56 --> 01:28:58 can have it. And I'm on campus, and it's literally
01:28:58 --> 01:29:02 like we would have this event called May Weekend,
01:29:02 --> 01:29:06 which is kind of like a spring homecoming. So
01:29:06 --> 01:29:08 I'm bagging it all up. I'm like, well, look,
01:29:08 --> 01:29:10 there's about to be about 8 people on the
01:29:10 --> 01:29:13 campus. Somebody going to want some weed? Yeah.
01:29:13 --> 01:29:17 That weekend. I sat on the hood of my car and
01:29:17 --> 01:29:19 people would send people over and boom, boom,
01:29:19 --> 01:29:20 boom, boom, boom. Damn, dude. By the end of the
01:29:20 --> 01:29:23 day, I had about, I probably was way shorter
01:29:23 --> 01:29:25 than what I was supposed to be, so I let you
01:29:25 --> 01:29:28 know I'm not a drug dealer. I want to say I might've
01:29:28 --> 01:29:32 made like two grand, but he was like, yo bro,
01:29:32 --> 01:29:35 that was probably like $10 a week. I didn't
01:29:35 --> 01:29:36 know. People was like, yo, these the fattest
01:29:36 --> 01:29:39 bags I've ever had. I don't goddamn know. No
01:29:39 --> 01:29:44 shit. I just was trying to get them out. Want
01:29:44 --> 01:29:46 no stems, want no sticks, want no seeds, you
01:29:46 --> 01:29:49 know what I mean? Oh my God. So then when it
01:29:49 --> 01:29:51 came around like that next year, it's like, nah,
01:29:51 --> 01:29:53 that was a one -time thing. Ball slam. Yeah,
01:29:53 --> 01:29:55 that's never happening again. Never happening
01:29:55 --> 01:29:57 again. Damn, dude. It was a fire sale. It was
01:29:57 --> 01:30:01 a fire sale. It was a fire sale. But outside
01:30:01 --> 01:30:03 of that, I've never. I sold drinks Thursday,
01:30:03 --> 01:30:06 Thursdays. Oh, yeah? Out of my dorm. I did do
01:30:06 --> 01:30:09 that. I did do that. I'm guilty of that. Yeah.
01:30:10 --> 01:30:15 But I was 19. I had gone down. It was a store
01:30:15 --> 01:30:18 in Delaware called Tally Ho. And the young lady
01:30:18 --> 01:30:20 there was fond of me. She thought I was cute.
01:30:21 --> 01:30:23 She knew I wasn't 21. And this is when Hypnotic
01:30:23 --> 01:30:27 first came out. Everybody in my home wanted Hypnotic
01:30:27 --> 01:30:30 and Hennessy. So I would go. I would get five
01:30:30 --> 01:30:34 bottles of each. And on Thursdays, my shots were
01:30:34 --> 01:30:36 coming like it was like a little plastic tube.
01:30:36 --> 01:30:38 Put them in there, boop, boop, boop. Five dollars
01:30:38 --> 01:30:41 a tube. It's a college campus. Was that actually
01:30:41 --> 01:30:44 any good? Like hypnotic? I've never, I've never
01:30:44 --> 01:30:45 had it. You know what's funny? I don't think
01:30:45 --> 01:30:48 I've ever had it either, but I just, I sold it.
01:30:48 --> 01:30:50 Yeah. But see, I listened to Biggie, never get
01:30:50 --> 01:30:54 high on your own supply. Like, so it wasn't for
01:30:54 --> 01:30:56 me, it was for them. It wasn't, it wasn't for
01:30:56 --> 01:30:58 me to taste it. Nah, I did taste hypnotic by
01:30:58 --> 01:31:00 itself. Yeah, it tastes like smurf piss. I don't
01:31:00 --> 01:31:02 give a damn. Smurf piss. It was just blue shit.
01:31:02 --> 01:31:04 Dude, I don't know. It just never looked like,
01:31:04 --> 01:31:06 I don't know. I was like, I just never wanted
01:31:06 --> 01:31:09 to try it, you know? Like, I've tried Hennessy
01:31:09 --> 01:31:13 before. That shit was like too much for me. I'm
01:31:13 --> 01:31:15 not really good with liquor. My craziest drink.
01:31:16 --> 01:31:21 Shout out to my brother Marvin. 99 bananas and
01:31:21 --> 01:31:25 151. We used to call it a 250 shot. 99 bananas
01:31:25 --> 01:31:30 and 151? A rum? Yeah. You take two of those.
01:31:30 --> 01:31:34 Dude, that's insane. And I promise you, you dancing
01:31:34 --> 01:31:37 all night. Yeah, like it just it just take over.
01:31:37 --> 01:31:40 It would take over your body. You're a flaming
01:31:40 --> 01:31:44 banana I tried I tried one of those When I was
01:31:44 --> 01:31:48 about 35 and my life was upside down after half
01:31:48 --> 01:31:50 the shot I'm surprised you still don't have a
01:31:50 --> 01:31:53 hangover, bro. After my half the shot. My life
01:31:53 --> 01:31:58 was upside down 151 151 and now if I drink 151
01:31:58 --> 01:32:00 it's got to be Don Q because I actually was able
01:32:00 --> 01:32:04 to go to Puerto Rico and go to the story I see
01:32:04 --> 01:32:07 how they make everything out of there, man. I
01:32:07 --> 01:32:10 don't drink no other rum. Outside of Zacapa 23,
01:32:11 --> 01:32:14 when it comes to rum, I'm Don Q all the way,
01:32:14 --> 01:32:15 man. Yeah, I remember when I was a teenager,
01:32:16 --> 01:32:20 it was a Bacardi. Trash. Garbage. You know it
01:32:20 --> 01:32:23 now. Garbosh. You know it now. But back in the
01:32:23 --> 01:32:25 day, man, that's what we were trying to get our
01:32:25 --> 01:32:28 hands on was Bacardi. Yeah, Bacardi was the name.
01:32:28 --> 01:32:30 It was the name. It was Bacardi. It was Bacardi.
01:32:31 --> 01:32:35 I like the bat. Definitely a great logo. Definitely
01:32:35 --> 01:32:39 a great logo. The Don Q isn't any of the super
01:32:39 --> 01:32:41 greatest logos. No, it's literally just the name.
01:32:41 --> 01:32:44 It's a Q, but they make the best stuff. That's
01:32:44 --> 01:32:46 funny that I just used the word, man. First time
01:32:46 --> 01:32:49 I ever cursed in life was doing my spelling words.
01:32:50 --> 01:32:52 You ready for the word? What's the word? Garbage.
01:32:53 --> 01:32:56 Garbage I just kept saying garbage garbage And
01:32:56 --> 01:32:59 I would call it that's garbage. Yeah, but nobody
01:32:59 --> 01:33:03 called it for like almost a year, right? Yeah
01:33:03 --> 01:33:05 garbage, yeah garbage. Yeah, I remember growing
01:33:05 --> 01:33:07 up my siblings You know when you have like a
01:33:07 --> 01:33:09 younger sibling, you're always trying to fucking
01:33:09 --> 01:33:11 make them curse Yeah, you know by saying shit
01:33:11 --> 01:33:13 and you figure out like oh man, they're saying
01:33:13 --> 01:33:14 something bad You start to exploit that, you
01:33:14 --> 01:33:16 know, so then you make them yell it. I don't
01:33:16 --> 01:33:18 know man That's how I used to do when I was a
01:33:18 --> 01:33:22 kid Mine I'm the oldest. Oh, yeah, so you understand.
01:33:22 --> 01:33:25 Yeah, how many under you three? Yes, I had two
01:33:25 --> 01:33:28 I had two and my middle brother man Demetrius.
01:33:28 --> 01:33:32 God rest his soul, bro. Like he was he was Super
01:33:32 --> 01:33:35 mild manner. Yeah, but he goes zero to a hundred
01:33:35 --> 01:33:38 like that whereas though I'm more Alright, man,
01:33:38 --> 01:33:42 like I don't really like to fight. I can I have
01:33:42 --> 01:33:45 yeah, I don't have a problem with it Yeah, but
01:33:45 --> 01:33:48 if I can avoid it for I don't like touching men
01:33:48 --> 01:33:52 That's first off. Yeah, it's too like cuz I'm
01:33:52 --> 01:33:54 a big guy been a big guy my whole life Even when
01:33:54 --> 01:33:56 I was playing football basketball, whatever.
01:33:56 --> 01:34:00 I'm a big guy always had broad shoulders People
01:34:00 --> 01:34:02 like to grab so then it turns to a wrestling
01:34:02 --> 01:34:06 match. I watch wrestling. I like wrestling. Yeah
01:34:06 --> 01:34:09 you know, not in a homo way, but it was like,
01:34:09 --> 01:34:11 oh, it's kind of like the gay shit I saw, because
01:34:11 --> 01:34:12 it was like, why these dudes humping on each
01:34:12 --> 01:34:15 other like that? Like, when Yokozuna would put
01:34:15 --> 01:34:17 his face in his ass and people feel like, that's
01:34:17 --> 01:34:19 gay shit, dog. You licking ass, you don't even
01:34:19 --> 01:34:22 realize it. There are some pretty suggestive
01:34:22 --> 01:34:24 moves. Yeah, like, you know what I mean? So I
01:34:24 --> 01:34:27 never really cared for that. But my brother,
01:34:27 --> 01:34:31 man, God rest his soul again, man. Like, we used
01:34:31 --> 01:34:33 to catch the bus in Philly to school every day,
01:34:33 --> 01:34:36 except the bus, public transportation. My brother
01:34:36 --> 01:34:38 had like this narcolepsy shit, man. He'd just
01:34:38 --> 01:34:41 fall asleep as soon as he sit down. He'd fall
01:34:41 --> 01:34:45 asleep. So now people throwing shit at him, trying
01:34:45 --> 01:34:47 to throw stuff in his mouth. You know how it
01:34:47 --> 01:34:50 sounds like to sock somebody at 8 o 'clock in
01:34:50 --> 01:34:53 the morning? We got kicked off the bus once.
01:34:53 --> 01:34:57 We had to walk almost four miles. There's no
01:34:57 --> 01:35:01 cell phones. We're talking 96. No, we're talking
01:35:01 --> 01:35:06 93, 94. Cause I went to high school in 95. Yeah,
01:35:06 --> 01:35:09 93, 94, we, it was no cell phones, no pagers.
01:35:09 --> 01:35:11 So we get kicked off the bus. We just got to
01:35:11 --> 01:35:14 make it to school before they mark us absent.
01:35:14 --> 01:35:16 You know what I'm saying? Then call the house
01:35:16 --> 01:35:18 and say we didn't come. Or tell them that we
01:35:18 --> 01:35:21 was late. Cause now we got to explain why we
01:35:21 --> 01:35:23 late. Again, didn't want to be an embarrassment
01:35:23 --> 01:35:26 to our parents. So now we four miles from school
01:35:26 --> 01:35:29 with backpacks on trying to like run down certain
01:35:29 --> 01:35:31 blocks to get to the school. It was crazy. Yeah,
01:35:31 --> 01:35:33 I remember the stories. Me and my brother could
01:35:33 --> 01:35:36 tell if he was still here, man. Like it was it
01:35:36 --> 01:35:38 was wild or like somebody would say something
01:35:38 --> 01:35:42 to him and he just pop them. So now we're fighting
01:35:42 --> 01:35:47 like we got to fight. And then I have. Twenty
01:35:47 --> 01:35:51 seven female cousins, my grandma had 10 kids.
01:35:51 --> 01:35:54 No way. This is back when you could have 10 kids
01:35:54 --> 01:35:57 and survive on the planet. Yeah, right. She had
01:35:57 --> 01:36:00 10 kids and out of all of her kids, we're the
01:36:00 --> 01:36:02 only set of three boys. Like my dad didn't have
01:36:02 --> 01:36:03 any girls. As much as he wanted one, he just
01:36:03 --> 01:36:06 never had. So now when I'm around them, I have
01:36:06 --> 01:36:09 to protect them. So when guys would say certain
01:36:09 --> 01:36:12 things, now I got to pop this thing. It's on.
01:36:12 --> 01:36:16 Yeah. And we're talking 29th and Girard in Philadelphia,
01:36:16 --> 01:36:19 so that's kind of West Philly, where it was rough.
01:36:19 --> 01:36:22 I'm coming from, I lived in, it's called Logan,
01:36:22 --> 01:36:24 but then I went to school in Mount Airy, which
01:36:24 --> 01:36:28 is, they had lawns. It's a whole different, like
01:36:28 --> 01:36:31 there was no, I grew up in a concrete jungle,
01:36:31 --> 01:36:33 but then I go to school where they have lawns.
01:36:33 --> 01:36:35 My mom wanted us to have the better education,
01:36:35 --> 01:36:37 and I appreciate her for that. That's why she
01:36:37 --> 01:36:39 was a hustler, man. Hustler. Taking care of you.
01:36:39 --> 01:36:43 But yeah, man, like, I had to fight so much,
01:36:43 --> 01:36:47 so like. Yeah. You ever had a battle? Like battling
01:36:47 --> 01:36:50 neighborhood kids? That shit rang out one time
01:36:50 --> 01:36:53 with my family, like my siblings. Dude, it was
01:36:53 --> 01:36:55 like I was just walking down the street, man,
01:36:55 --> 01:36:57 with me and this dude. Oddly enough, his name
01:36:57 --> 01:36:59 was Logan. That's kind of funny that you said
01:36:59 --> 01:37:02 that, actually. I'm not even joking, dude. And
01:37:02 --> 01:37:04 dude, me and Logan were just walking down the
01:37:04 --> 01:37:07 street. And we used to walk our kid siblings
01:37:07 --> 01:37:10 home. We're coming home from school. Me and Logan
01:37:10 --> 01:37:12 were in the same class and everything. And so,
01:37:12 --> 01:37:15 dude, we get right around the corner, and we're
01:37:15 --> 01:37:16 just like, where the hell are these damn kids?
01:37:16 --> 01:37:18 We look, dude, one of them is about to throw
01:37:18 --> 01:37:20 a rock at the other. And they're just, all of
01:37:20 --> 01:37:23 them are battling. We're like, what the fuck
01:37:23 --> 01:37:25 did we miss, dude? So I'm sitting there trying
01:37:25 --> 01:37:28 to run around and break it up. I was like, dude,
01:37:28 --> 01:37:30 I had never seen no shit like that before in
01:37:30 --> 01:37:32 my life. Kids are throwing dirt at the house.
01:37:32 --> 01:37:34 I was like, what the fuck is wrong with y 'all,
01:37:34 --> 01:37:37 dude? They're like this big. Yeah, I was like,
01:37:37 --> 01:37:42 what is a deal terrorists? Yeah, yo, man got
01:37:42 --> 01:37:46 god rest his soul man young dude named Raheem
01:37:46 --> 01:37:49 Raheem was the short fat kid. Yeah, like a lazy.
01:37:49 --> 01:37:52 I kind of like Biggie. It's a lazy. I Sure, he
01:37:52 --> 01:37:55 was husky. He was always funky like right Yeah
01:37:55 --> 01:37:57 to this day what I'm thinking is they had no
01:37:57 --> 01:38:00 water in the house. Like it just couldn't yeah
01:38:00 --> 01:38:05 every Friday It was like clockwork I get off
01:38:05 --> 01:38:10 the bus at the crib, my man Sean, he has Sean
01:38:10 --> 01:38:14 in the headlock just whooping on Sean. Every
01:38:14 --> 01:38:16 Friday I had to get this kid off of him and like
01:38:16 --> 01:38:19 beat the hell out of this dude. Every freaking
01:38:19 --> 01:38:21 Friday. Until it got to the point one Friday,
01:38:22 --> 01:38:26 I was like, you know what? I'm going down. my
01:38:26 --> 01:38:28 cousins or my aunt house after school. Like,
01:38:28 --> 01:38:30 I'm not even going home. Like, Sean gonna have
01:38:30 --> 01:38:32 to figure this shit out on his own. And that
01:38:32 --> 01:38:34 weekend, he got his ass whooped the whole weekend,
01:38:34 --> 01:38:37 because it's protected wasn't there, right? So
01:38:37 --> 01:38:40 I get back home, like, Sunday night, and they
01:38:40 --> 01:38:43 like, yo, where was you at, man? I was just like,
01:38:44 --> 01:38:47 man, I found peace of mind, bro. That is so funny
01:38:47 --> 01:38:49 that that happens, like, when you defend people
01:38:49 --> 01:38:51 so much and you're not there, and they get their
01:38:51 --> 01:38:53 ass whooped. And then they go, where the fuck
01:38:53 --> 01:38:56 were you? And it's like, dude. Dude, you had
01:38:56 --> 01:38:58 six to eight weeks to learn how to box. I know,
01:38:58 --> 01:39:00 man. That's plenty of time for Kung Fu, bro.
01:39:01 --> 01:39:05 This dude had a guy come charge at me. We were
01:39:05 --> 01:39:07 playing basketball. I actually got this cut on
01:39:07 --> 01:39:10 my knee. It's like I had to have, I think, nine
01:39:10 --> 01:39:13 stitches. I used to ball. Like, I could play
01:39:13 --> 01:39:15 basketball. I broke my finger. Like, I was a
01:39:15 --> 01:39:20 basketball head. Damn, dude. We busting these
01:39:20 --> 01:39:24 dudes' ass. He got, I jumped, and dude pushed
01:39:24 --> 01:39:28 me out the air, and when I fell across the thing,
01:39:28 --> 01:39:30 it was like a piece of glass shipping to my leg.
01:39:31 --> 01:39:35 I saw it, and I just immediately just start beating
01:39:35 --> 01:39:38 the dog snot out of this dude. So now I'm limping
01:39:38 --> 01:39:40 home, I get home, my mom take me to the hospital,
01:39:40 --> 01:39:42 get everything, whatever. So when we get back
01:39:42 --> 01:39:45 to the house, it's this lady and little boy sitting
01:39:45 --> 01:39:49 on my step. and she trying to ask the little
01:39:49 --> 01:39:51 boy. The little boy lied and said that I just
01:39:51 --> 01:39:54 started beating on him. But then when the mother
01:39:54 --> 01:39:56 saw the stitches and I told her what actually
01:39:56 --> 01:39:59 happened, she was like, you push that boy because
01:39:59 --> 01:40:03 you ain't no good at basketball. So I'm like,
01:40:03 --> 01:40:05 now, I'm like, damn, I felt bad. I was like,
01:40:05 --> 01:40:06 now you're going to get his ass whooped by his
01:40:06 --> 01:40:08 mom when he get home because now she embarrassed
01:40:08 --> 01:40:11 that you had her sitting on these people's steps
01:40:11 --> 01:40:15 waiting for however long they was waiting. So
01:40:15 --> 01:40:17 yeah, I don't think I saw that kid ever again
01:40:17 --> 01:40:20 after that. He wanted to be Jordan, but he was
01:40:20 --> 01:40:23 one of the mon -stars. Man, dude pushed the shit
01:40:23 --> 01:40:25 out of me. I remember that. I went flying, bro.
01:40:25 --> 01:40:26 That's crazy, man. Because where we was playing
01:40:26 --> 01:40:28 ball, obviously it wasn't no glass, but where
01:40:28 --> 01:40:32 I wound up falling at. So that was a hell of
01:40:32 --> 01:40:34 a push. So appreciate it. And now I got this
01:40:34 --> 01:40:37 ugly scar on my leg the rest of my life. So it
01:40:37 --> 01:40:41 is what it is. But I still wear shorts. I don't
01:40:41 --> 01:40:44 wear shorts. I can't wear shorts. Me, I look
01:40:44 --> 01:40:46 like a meatball with like two chopsticks walking
01:40:46 --> 01:40:49 around. Stop it. Yeah. You look like what you
01:40:49 --> 01:40:52 tell yourself you look like. I'm a supermodel.
01:40:53 --> 01:40:55 No, I really look like that, though. Even at
01:40:55 --> 01:40:58 384 pounds. I'm actually down 22 pounds since
01:40:58 --> 01:41:00 you saw me. It doesn't look like it yet, but
01:41:00 --> 01:41:02 I'm slowly coming down, man. I'm at Crunch Fitness
01:41:02 --> 01:41:04 now. Oh, hell yeah. Working it out. Good for
01:41:04 --> 01:41:08 you, man. When I get to 250, everybody hide your
01:41:08 --> 01:41:10 wife. I know I'm married, but just hide your
01:41:10 --> 01:41:14 wife. With the confidence I got now, I get down
01:41:14 --> 01:41:18 to my football playing weight, 225, 230. It's
01:41:18 --> 01:41:21 game over, man. Damn, good for you, man. I'm
01:41:21 --> 01:41:23 glad. It sounds like it's working out, whatever
01:41:23 --> 01:41:27 it is. Just water, lots of water, more walking.
01:41:28 --> 01:41:30 Doing lift and uber, I actually put on like 60
01:41:30 --> 01:41:32 pounds. You sit in a car, and I would do late
01:41:32 --> 01:41:36 night, so I'm drinking all these 89 cent QT big
01:41:36 --> 01:41:39 cups of soda. And you don't realize, like...
01:41:39 --> 01:41:43 How fast that sugar turned into weight. I know
01:41:43 --> 01:41:46 what you mean, man. I got out of hand, too, myself,
01:41:46 --> 01:41:48 dude. I've been doing the same thing. I've been
01:41:48 --> 01:41:50 just trying to cut back. I'm going to keep you
01:41:50 --> 01:41:51 accountable, and I'll ask you to do the same
01:41:51 --> 01:41:55 for me, man. Yeah. You ain't losing me. This
01:41:55 --> 01:41:57 ain't just one interview. We're going to do whatever's
01:41:57 --> 01:42:01 necessary to get this bomb squad situation up
01:42:01 --> 01:42:04 and out into the atmosphere, man, because this
01:42:04 --> 01:42:08 is a dope setup, and I appreciate you even. From
01:42:08 --> 01:42:11 the beginning, from meeting you that night at
01:42:11 --> 01:42:14 Vulcan, just the energy you gave me was like,
01:42:15 --> 01:42:16 all right, he really actually paid attention
01:42:16 --> 01:42:19 to the couple of minutes, because I'm not gonna
01:42:19 --> 01:42:23 lie, man, I wanted that 20. I honestly felt like
01:42:23 --> 01:42:27 if I'd have got the 20 minutes, and I've had
01:42:27 --> 01:42:31 this happen, so I'm telling the truth, when I
01:42:31 --> 01:42:34 leave, people were ready to leave too. You know
01:42:34 --> 01:42:38 what I mean? Like I've done shows where when
01:42:38 --> 01:42:42 I got off, people kind of checked out after that.
01:42:42 --> 01:42:44 It was like, all right, it can't be nothing better
01:42:44 --> 01:42:47 than this. And then at the end of the show, they
01:42:47 --> 01:42:50 would say stuff like, well, I didn't let you
01:42:50 --> 01:42:52 go last. And I'm like, I don't know, you gotta
01:42:52 --> 01:42:56 ask. You know what I mean? And even at that particular
01:42:56 --> 01:43:00 show, I directed like four people to the dude
01:43:00 --> 01:43:03 who booked me. It was like, you gotta ask him,
01:43:03 --> 01:43:05 man. I don't know why I only had that little
01:43:05 --> 01:43:07 bit of time. And I think the two young ladies
01:43:07 --> 01:43:12 were decent. I've never told another comedian
01:43:12 --> 01:43:15 that they were bad. I just feel like everybody
01:43:15 --> 01:43:22 has to find their people. I think everybody has
01:43:22 --> 01:43:25 to find their group. And once you find your group's
01:43:25 --> 01:43:28 success, you pretty much... You were in a canoe
01:43:28 --> 01:43:31 and you were on dry land. Once you find your
01:43:31 --> 01:43:34 people, that's the water, and now you can paddle
01:43:34 --> 01:43:38 yourself on to where you need to go. Like I said,
01:43:39 --> 01:43:42 35 out of that 100, that means 65 % either. Out
01:43:42 --> 01:43:47 of that 65, they didn't see me on the way out
01:43:47 --> 01:43:50 and or, hey, I was funny enough to be funny,
01:43:50 --> 01:43:53 but. no real interest in seeing anything going
01:43:53 --> 01:43:55 forward and that's fine. I don't have a problem
01:43:55 --> 01:44:00 with that. But 30 % of a room, that's a big piece
01:44:00 --> 01:44:02 of the room. I don't care what nobody say. And
01:44:02 --> 01:44:07 for five minutes, and only did like four. In
01:44:07 --> 01:44:10 my mind, I think I only did really four jokes
01:44:10 --> 01:44:14 outside of a couple of things. If you do comedy,
01:44:14 --> 01:44:16 you know that you can make damn near anything
01:44:16 --> 01:44:19 funny. So it was certain point like, like when
01:44:19 --> 01:44:21 I spoke to the gentleman in the front about his
01:44:21 --> 01:44:26 hair, like, you know, I don't really, what the
01:44:26 --> 01:44:30 fuck do I know about here? But you know, hey,
01:44:30 --> 01:44:33 you know, it was funny and made them laugh and
01:44:33 --> 01:44:35 made him all right. He feels comfortable now.
01:44:35 --> 01:44:37 Not only does he feel comfortable, I can see
01:44:37 --> 01:44:39 that down that made that person feel comfortable.
01:44:39 --> 01:44:41 So now I'm getting you. Now that I got you all.
01:44:42 --> 01:44:45 Bang, bang, bang. Story about brother. Bang,
01:44:45 --> 01:44:48 bang. All right, everybody. There you go, man.
01:44:48 --> 01:44:50 Dude, there's a lesson to be learned with every
01:44:50 --> 01:44:54 minute, man. Every minute. But dude, thank you
01:44:54 --> 01:44:56 so much. Is there anything that you want to put
01:44:56 --> 01:45:04 out before we wrap it up? Bro, outside of everybody
01:45:04 --> 01:45:10 just BU, everybody else is taken. At BU, my cousin
01:45:10 --> 01:45:18 Paul, the brand is alive and well. BUTshirtco
01:45:18 --> 01:45:23 .com is definitely getting ready to launch. CousinPaulcomedy
01:45:23 --> 01:45:27 .com is getting ready to be relaunched. I took
01:45:27 --> 01:45:31 down a lot of stuff off of the internet because
01:45:31 --> 01:45:36 I went to a show and I heard some stuff, but
01:45:36 --> 01:45:40 I just did a show with this gentleman. And I'm
01:45:40 --> 01:45:43 like, that's my jokes. You know what I'm saying?
01:45:46 --> 01:45:49 Because I feel like I'm creative enough to lose
01:45:49 --> 01:45:52 one or two I said I I don't know if I'm creative
01:45:52 --> 01:45:56 enough to lose 30 But I really do now feel like
01:45:56 --> 01:45:58 I'm creative enough to lose 30 but back then
01:45:58 --> 01:46:03 so I like kind of scrub the internet a bit of
01:46:03 --> 01:46:07 Shows even my one hour. I took that down like
01:46:07 --> 01:46:11 because I didn't feel comfortable no Having anybody
01:46:11 --> 01:46:14 take pieces of that and turn it into something
01:46:14 --> 01:46:19 larger I forget the name of the movie, but it's
01:46:19 --> 01:46:21 like this movie that does interviews of all these
01:46:21 --> 01:46:23 comedians, and Carlos Mencilla was like, yeah,
01:46:23 --> 01:46:25 I'll steal your joke. I'll just make it Mexican,
01:46:26 --> 01:46:28 you know what I mean? And it works like that
01:46:28 --> 01:46:31 here. If you know anything about comedy, the
01:46:31 --> 01:46:34 rule pretty much is if I get it to TV first,
01:46:35 --> 01:46:40 it's mine. And I've seen in New York and even
01:46:40 --> 01:46:42 in LA, At these comedy clubs, you have these
01:46:42 --> 01:46:46 people who write for NBC, Fox, whatever, whatever.
01:46:46 --> 01:46:47 They're in the back of these rooms and they're
01:46:47 --> 01:46:52 jotting. These comedians are on stage. They're
01:46:52 --> 01:46:54 telling their truths. It's something they've
01:46:54 --> 01:46:58 set and they develop. And now you have somebody
01:46:58 --> 01:47:04 who nobody knows, but they're a writer for The
01:47:04 --> 01:47:08 Daily Show or whatever it may be. And they go
01:47:08 --> 01:47:11 back to work like they... Like they demand, you
01:47:11 --> 01:47:13 didn't come up with that. No. But this comedian
01:47:13 --> 01:47:16 won't know because they probably don't watch
01:47:16 --> 01:47:19 the Daily or watch Big Bang or watch whatever
01:47:19 --> 01:47:23 to notice that. Yeah. Hold up. That premise is
01:47:23 --> 01:47:26 super familiar. Yeah, it's familiar. It's yours.
01:47:26 --> 01:47:30 Yeah. So it happens. It happens. It sucks. Until
01:47:30 --> 01:47:34 I get myself to a position where I when I say
01:47:34 --> 01:47:37 something, I know that it's going to go up on
01:47:37 --> 01:47:41 a platform that People will be like, yo, that's
01:47:41 --> 01:47:44 Paul's. I decided like, hey, I'm not putting
01:47:44 --> 01:47:48 a bunch of stuff on Facebook, Instagram, whatever,
01:47:48 --> 01:47:50 whatever. Like, I'll do my corny joke of the
01:47:50 --> 01:47:53 day. Half of those are probably from like a Laffy
01:47:53 --> 01:47:57 Taffy I eat, so I don't care, take it. Public
01:47:57 --> 01:47:59 domain, you know what I mean? But if I come up
01:47:59 --> 01:48:02 with something, you'll be able to tell like,
01:48:02 --> 01:48:06 yo, he came up with that, and I'm riding with
01:48:06 --> 01:48:08 it. It's probably gonna be a t -shirt to go with
01:48:08 --> 01:48:10 it and a hat too. You know what I mean? Hell
01:48:10 --> 01:48:13 yeah, dude. I can see you doing like lift jokes.
01:48:13 --> 01:48:15 Oh, I can't wait to actually. You know, like
01:48:15 --> 01:48:17 lift me up or something. You know what I mean?
01:48:17 --> 01:48:20 Yeah, it's about to be a whole ride share series,
01:48:20 --> 01:48:22 man. Oh, that would be awesome, dude. We could
01:48:22 --> 01:48:24 do two hours just sitting here and me telling
01:48:24 --> 01:48:26 you stories about some of this ride. I had to
01:48:26 --> 01:48:28 knock a ride share dude out, I'll tell you off
01:48:28 --> 01:48:30 -air, but I had to knock out one of my riders,
01:48:30 --> 01:48:34 man. Damn, dude. I had to drop him. And it's
01:48:34 --> 01:48:37 crazy because I did an open mic. Yeah? and I
01:48:37 --> 01:48:40 had all my jewelry on, and I was out by the domain.
01:48:41 --> 01:48:44 So when I knocked dude out, because he was Caucasian,
01:48:45 --> 01:48:47 I called the cops, and I was like, you, this
01:48:47 --> 01:48:53 is what happened. 13 cop cars showed up. There's
01:48:53 --> 01:48:55 nothing going on out there, they ain't got nothing
01:48:55 --> 01:48:58 to do. So they're looking at me, and they're
01:48:58 --> 01:49:03 like, I'm like, jewelry on, diamonds going, and
01:49:03 --> 01:49:06 they're like, yo. Why are you driving Lyft with
01:49:06 --> 01:49:09 all that on? Dude, that is funny though. Cause
01:49:09 --> 01:49:14 I can't. Cause you're balling, dude. You get
01:49:14 --> 01:49:17 off stage, your energy level's at like a billion.
01:49:17 --> 01:49:20 I'm not going to go home and go to sleep. My
01:49:20 --> 01:49:22 mom's like, just go ahead and make some money.
01:49:23 --> 01:49:25 Cause they ain't pay me nothing to do what I
01:49:25 --> 01:49:29 just did. So I was out there and dude said something
01:49:29 --> 01:49:32 super inappropriate. The craziest part, I just
01:49:32 --> 01:49:35 had surgery on my left shoulder. My rotator cuff
01:49:35 --> 01:49:37 was still 100 % torn. I hit him with my left
01:49:37 --> 01:49:42 hand. Dropped him. God damn. I'm right handed.
01:49:42 --> 01:49:45 I'd have killed him with my right hand. Hell
01:49:45 --> 01:49:49 yeah, man. He woke up and the officer was like,
01:49:49 --> 01:49:52 sir. His first words were, I'm so sorry, I should
01:49:52 --> 01:49:56 have never hit him. They were like, you're not
01:49:56 --> 01:49:58 pressed charges. I was like, my two year old
01:49:58 --> 01:50:01 daughter is harder than him. I'm good, bro. man
01:50:01 --> 01:50:02 that's really nice of you that's really nice
01:50:02 --> 01:50:05 of you man i should have i should have but what
01:50:05 --> 01:50:07 am i gonna gain man you're just you're just spreading
01:50:07 --> 01:50:09 kindness all over the place all over the place
01:50:09 --> 01:50:13 all over your face that's it all right brother
01:50:13 --> 01:50:15 man thank you so man this has been excellent
01:50:15 --> 01:50:19 yeah it has my success to you brother um you
01:50:19 --> 01:50:21 too as well man we're gonna definitely get you
01:50:21 --> 01:50:24 some uh bu gear and hopefully some things that
01:50:24 --> 01:50:27 you can give away as gifts to you others that
01:50:27 --> 01:50:29 come in. Yeah, that would be great. That way,
01:50:29 --> 01:50:32 you know, everybody get a little something. Yeah.
01:50:32 --> 01:50:34 Remind them to just be you. Don't get on this
01:50:34 --> 01:50:36 podcast telling them damn lies. Because we're
01:50:36 --> 01:50:38 going to do the research and find out you a lying
01:50:38 --> 01:50:41 mother. We're going to fish you out. That's right.
01:50:41 --> 01:50:44 That's it. And that's a wrap, brother. Oh, yeah.
01:50:44 --> 01:50:45 Appreciate you.