Club Shay Shay - Club Shay Shay - Mojo Brookzz Part 2

Episode Date: April 1, 2026

Download the PrizePicks app today and use code SHANNON to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup! https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/SHANNON Sits down with viral comedian and Emmy Award-winning creator Mojo Brookzz for an unfiltered discussion on relationships, accountability, and modern dating dynamics. The conversation opens with a debate around traditional expectations—whether men should provide financially without commitment and whether women should fulfill traditional roles without marriage. Mojo challenges the imbalance, emphasizing that relationships should be rooted in reciprocity, not obligation. Mojo then shares the origin of his viral catchphrase “I know you f***ing lyin,” explaining how real-life moments shaped his comedic voice. He breaks down how his “toxic” skits are intentionally exaggerated to reflect real behaviors in relationships, holding a mirror up to both men and women. His goal isn’t just comedy—it’s awareness, helping people recognize patterns they may ignore in real life. As the discussion deepens, he highlights a major issue in dating: lack of communication. He argues that most relationship problems don’t stem from money or infidelity, but from unspoken expectations. When partners fail to clearly express what they want, it creates confusion, resentment, and conflict. Accountability becomes a key theme, with him stressing that relationships cannot grow unless both people take responsibility for their actions instead of shifting blame. The conversation also explores double standards in dating, including cheating, forgiveness, and emotional responses. He shares his perspective that women tend to be more forgiving, while men often struggle with ego when faced with betrayal. He also reflects on how modern dating—especially in the social media era—has changed the way people approach relationships, accountability, and loyalty. Co-parenting and boundaries are another major focus, particularly when it comes to navigating relationships with a child’s mother. Mojo speaks on the importance of not creating false hope and being honest about intentions, encouraging men to let go if they cannot provide the relationship their partner truly wants. He also shares his stance on parenting, including waiting a significant amount of time before introducing new partners to children and maintaining a stable environment. Blending humor with honesty, Mojo Brookzz delivers a raw and relatable perspective on love, mistakes, growth, and the realities of modern relationships.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. Who's your favorite comedic actor? Comedic actor? Yes. We forgot to put a mic here because he has the upshaws, even though it's going on. But they had a great set, what, I think by six seasons.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. comedic actor I like Martin Lawrence yeah Eddie Murphy too though right them too right there yeah Eddie took it to a whole new level

but I'm gonna tell but prior started it because he did stircur crazy and silver streak and all that other stuff I think Bruce is a million yeah yeah but I'm gonna tell you somebody who I

it's two comedians that I think of this generation that I think gonna end up being really good comedic actors and that's Drusky yeah and Jack funny from Detroit. Okay.

It's a comedian that I'm gonna send him to you. Okay. Dude dope. You know what I'm saying? And he kind of remind me a little bit of Mike Epps, but he got his own flavor to it. But those two, I think, I think they got the potential to really be like really great comedic actors. You're close to Monique.

Yeah. I've had Monique on it. And Monique is brother, their, sister there. Yes. She's very motherly. She's very nurturing. Yes. But, and she knows she's not everybody.

She's not everybody's a cup of tea. Yeah. But I think she has some great advice. I think people have done her wrong. And when she called people out, they have a problem with that. Yeah. What is it about Monique that called you to gravitate towards Monique? You know what?

It was, Monique showed me things about this business before I even got the opportunity to see them. Mm. Right? And, you know, we would get on the phone. We would talk. She would give me advice. She would come to shows, you know, at little small comedy clubs that, you know, we would be doing and support. And she would always have some feedback on what she thought.

I think, you know, some of the stuff that she went through was unfortunate, you know what I'm saying. But, you know, speaking up for yourself. For yourself, ain't never been nothing wrong. And, you know, she always kept it real, though. She always, like, she'll say this. No matter how she felt about, whoever she felt about, she would say, listen, if Oprah called, you better go. Regardless of how I feel about her. You better go because my fight ain't your fight.

I like that. And, you know what I'm saying? You know, I did the Miss Governor show that was directed and produced by Tyler Perry. And when I did that, regardless of how she felt about TP, she called me, she was like, hey, you know how I feel, but congratulations. I'm about to watch the show right now. So, you know, she's just one of those people that's like, hey, my beef is my beef, whether you love me or not.

You know what I'm saying? If people get on the Internet and they get to talking about her and she y'all's telling her, don't y'all get in the comments again in that. Y'all stay out of that. Right. This is my fight. But I'm just trying to show y'all how to speak up, you know, have your own voice. And she's like, if it's something that you don't like, speak up, say something.

So, no, Monique is definitely like, I mean, we just was texting another day. And the first thing she texts, baby, how does fame feel? And I'm like, Auntie, you know, I'm adjusting, I'm getting used to it. But she's like, well, you already know if you need, you want to talk. You need got some questions. Call me. I'm here for you. So she always been like, she always been like that for me.

I can't talk about it, everybody else's experience. But I know to me, she's always been welcoming. I've been on movie sets and watching her film movies. I've been to shows. I went to her Netflix special when she shot it. So, you know what I'm saying? She's always been, you know, a sweet person to me. And she just, you know, she just one of them ones that don't, she don't play.

When did you realize that you wanted to do comedy? It feels great. When I saw that Bernie Mac. When I saw Bernie Mac. When I saw Burning Mac. This is what I want to do. No, you know what? I ain't going to say that that was the exact.

exact moment. But, you know, my brother and his wife, they used to always be, you know, had me come over to the house and I was promoting parties at first. Okay. So I used to throw these. Party promoted. Man. Then with the days, I was getting ripped off by them club owners. But, man, we used to throw parties, man. And, you know, after the parties, I always be something. And I would go to my brother house and I'd be talking to him and his wife and and I'm telling them, you know, what happened at the party and they'll be cracking up laughing. They'd be like, man, you need to do comedy.

And I'm like, stand up. They're like, yeah, I'm like, I don't know if I could do that. Right. So, um, my sister passed away in 2013. Sorry to hear that. Yeah. And before she passed, she just, I remember the, it was she gave her like, she was on hospital, they gave her like two days of live.

And my sister smoked weed. And she smoked weed to the last day she was here. I remember I went to go see her, man. She was in a bathtub, taking a bath. That was the only thing used to make her feel better was her weed in her bathtub. And she had cancer, like, all throughout her body. And I remember she was in the bathtub, and she had her blunt, and she were in and out, and the blunt had fell in the tub.

And I walked in the bathroom, and I reached in the tub, and I grabbed her blunt. And she woke up, and she looked at me. And she was like, you think she was like, brother. I said what? She was like, you think I'm gonna die? And it was in that moment like, well, I'm looking at her and I'm like, I'm like, no, I'm like, you gonna be all right. She was like, no.

She was like, but promise me this, promise me that you gonna do something. And I remember that, I remember, I tried to handle it up blunt. She wasn't strong enough to lift her hand up. She said, just put it in my mouth. I put the blood in her mouth and I walked out and I remember I went and sat on the front porch of the building that That she was living in my parents on the building in Chicago that she was having her hospice care there And I sat on the porch and I I had to

I kept replaying the conversation like you just got to do something and She passed away the next day And four months later I had started doing comedy and I never And that was your youngest sister No, that was my oldest sister. She was 32. years old at the time. Damn. I mean, Shannon, she was a warrior.

My sister had been shot. You know what I'm saying? She had been shot several times, a few times. She had been shot. And she had cancer, she had cancer for so long. Like, we didn't even, we didn't, like, she was. She came on and tell you, she, she got, oh, you had to tell me, got, I'm good.

You're like, oh, you've been dealing with. You've been dealing with you are. You good. You good. My brother used to take her to appointments and, you know, what had, what had, what had, you What had, what it ended up happening was the cancer had, they had got control of it. And she was in this abusive relationship with this guy and the dude shot her. And when she went to the hospital to, they had to do like an emergency surgery on her.

And when they cut her open to do it, you know, when that air hit the cancer, it spread. Wow. So trying to save her life from that. So she wouldn't have to use the bathroom through a bag for the rest of her life. She ended up having a surgery. And, yeah, that was it. Like, after that, you know, went down hill pretty, you know, pretty fast. But it was just, that was like the moment there where I was like, I got to do something.

Right. And that was it. She was like the last thing to push me over, like, hey, let me go try this. Do you remember what it was like the first time you got on stage? Yeah. Yeah. It was four people there. Huh?

It was four people there. Did you know that it was like, was it open mic or something? No, it was like we had put our own showcase on. It was four people there. And it was my mom, my cousins, and it was two other people there that I didn't know. And I remember going on stage and I'm trying to tell these stories, but it wasn't like a real good, it wasn't like a real good, you know, body of work for me to go out, you know, for me to go off of, you know, to say like, okay, this is going to be it. But the night that I bombed, because I end up bombing maybe a few years later, like once I was really getting into it and my social media followers started going up,

I ended up bombing real bad. And they didn't boo me, but it was quiet. And I remember I'm on stage and I got this suit on it. And before I went on stage, it was a host of a dude from Chicago named Comedian Stick. And he brought me up and he was talking about my suits. I was just like Tevin Campbell. I mean, he went in on me, and then he goes up. He goes up, he does this time, and brings me up.

So I go out there, and the suit was tight, like how you be wearing yours. And somebody yelled out. Somebody yelled out, like, man, ain't anybody trying to listen to you with that tight-ass suit on. And I started clapping back at the crowd. Right. And, I mean, it was like 300 people there. I mean, they dying laughing. And then I went to them jokes that I thought I heard, and it was like, it was just started getting quiet.

You know, they got this thing when you're on stage, you're doing comedy. When your time is up, they'll flash a light at you. Right. And at this time, I didn't know that etiquette. So I'm like, why are they flashing this light at me? And somebody yelled out, that means because it's time for you to get your ass off the stage. And I was so hurt. And I was like, man, huh, take the microphone.

So I went and I sat down and I had to listen to every single comedian go up after me, talk about how I had just bombed. And I sat there and I watched it, and I remember sitting there and saying, I don't never want to feel like this again. So when I left, I got in the car, the girl I was talking to at the time. This one I knew I really bombed because as we was driving and I was quiet. And I remember the girl looking over at me and I look over there and she was like, you okay?

You okay? If you get off stage and somebody asks if you okay, you know what just happened. And she asked me if I was okay and I was like, I will be. You should ask that, baby, how do you think I did? I wouldn't ask that. I know. I'm a very self-year. But you know how you had done.

I know it. I know it. You do a lot of crowd work. Are you ever worried about somebody? Because you get on people, hey, you told the one joke like, I know that ain't your lady. You hear with somebody. Yeah. Do you ever get worried about somebody rushing the stage?

Hey, I hope you can squabble. I understand you from shy, but, hey. Let me tell you something. Come on that stage if you want to. I know you got your brother with you, but he might not be able to get there in time. Come up there if you want to. You can put the stand on it? I don't need none of that.

Shannon, I don't need nothing. Oh, you're going to squabble? I'm a squabble. If we got to fight about it, you want to fight about some words? We can fight about it. Damn. But my thing is this, before I go on stage, the number one thing that's important in my prayers

that I always ask God to allow me to be funny and not offensive. Okay. So, you know, when I'm in those, interactions, I'm able to read when it's like, okay, he ain't feeling this, and this may go left. And I know how to go. You'll leave it alone. I know how to leave it alone. Because you know what the dude sitting there looking like, all right, all right.

No, I mean, bro, I didn't hear the dude standing up before him was like, I'd come up there. That happened reasonably. He's like, I'd come up there. I said, but come on. You're going to, what Eddie Murphy say? You're going to live back. But no, man, I ain't lying to you, bro. You know, it's just always about being aware, knowing people, and, you know, being able, you

watching, you know, the whole show, I'm watching these people. Right. So it's like, you know, but the moment you see, you can see when somebody's uncomfortable or they're not really with it. And, you know, you just got to, you got to move on, you know what I'm saying? So I think a lot of times you see a lot of dudes, they stay on it, like they stay on it. And that's when it escalates and something more. Man, let go now.

Yeah, let it go. Just move on. What's the crazy thing to happen to you at a show? Crazy thing happened to me at a show. A lady kissed me on my mouth. You put a little tongue in her? No. Not a little bit?

I was mad. Why are you mad? How'd you look? You know what? Actually, she wasn't bad-looking. Uh-huh. She was not bad-looking, but I didn't want it. What?

That's okay. It's okay for us not to want shit sometimes. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Think about it. If it's a lady, a nice pretty lady outside that I see, I can't just walk out there and kiss her in the mouth? No, you can, nah, you're going to jail. So how does that sign respect for me?

I'm a king. Love yourself. You got a number, did you? Huh? You got a number. That's what I thought. I did not get a number. You got a number.

You got a number. Have somebody made a phone call live during your show? Who did you get, tell us about the story about the guy you was on and you was like, I know you here with something. but I know that's not your people. Wait, wait, wait. Can you begin, your crowd work, you do a lot of crowd. I have, so I think with the phone call thing is, it's like I might ask somebody like, hey, who you hear it with?

And they might be like, oh, this is my friend. Oh, you're in a relationship? Yeah, with who? Where they at? Oh, with my man at home, we'll call them. Let's call them, let's talk to them. Let's see if he really. No, he'll say, no, no, no.

No, they be, I be calling. They give me the phones. I'd be calling people. You know your girl here with the... I don't be, I don't be dressing at you like that, but I'd be like, you know where your girl at? She had to come. Okay, you know who she's in with right.

And they'll know, but, you know, it's always... It was one dude that was at the show one time, and he was by itself. And I called this lady to say, hey, all these girls in here have been trying to talk to him all night long. He'd been turning them down. You know what I'm saying? He's been turning them down.

So I feel like when he'd get home, you should go ahead... Do what you supposed to do? You know what I'm saying? So it just depends on how I go. I mean, you get on the phone. you know, at that point, that's when the improv and that's when you, your comedic time

and got to tap in. You got to make it funny because you can call sometimes and they might not answer. Or you might call sometimes and they might really be mad and you got to know how to, you know, control Why you're in because of a comedy show with it? Yeah. You don't like comedy? You don't like me? Yeah. I had one dude at the show

one time with his lady. He came by itself. His lady wasn't there. I was like, where she at? He's like, she back at home at her father's funeral. I'm like, why you ain't there? He's like, I want to come to you. Damn. You might not be in no relationship when you get back home. That's what I told him.

I said, her father, dad, you're supposed to be there. He said, nah. He's like, I don't know when you're coming back. I said, well, I guess you know he ain't coming back. Now, Mo, it's like, because you guys have social media, you get an opportunity to attract the audience a lot sooner. Because, and maybe this is kind of why some of the OGs are kind of like a resentful of you guys. Oh, my God. Because they had to go, the Chitlin circuit, they had to go little club, little club, little club for years and years and years.

Yeah. In order to build up a following. Absolutely. You guys can do a skit or you can do something funny, kind of like what you do, what Desi Banks does, what Drusky does. And build up, get a million followers. And little of no time. And you got a following where they had to work to build that following. And maybe some, that's what brings some of the resentment towards you guys.

You know what, man. It's so, I feel like this, I feel like this whole thing is so dumb. Yeah. Right? Because it's like, yeah, they had to go from this comedy club to that comedy club, this comic club, this comic club, that comedy club. And nobody knocking it. That's real work.

Yeah. You had to be seen. You had to be chosen. Yes. But we living in the era now where you don't got to be chosen. Yeah. You can make your own way. Yep.

You know what I'm saying? And to me, you know, just like anything else in this, world, comedy has evolved. Yes. Until that. And how people... Just because you do... Yeah, just because you do skits, you know what I'm saying?

That don't... That don't not make you valid. Right. You know what I'm saying? And I think the comedians that's able to transition from online to the stage like me, like the Desi Banks, like the D.C. Unplies. You know, like the country... Definitely shout out the country.

Yeah. Like the country wanes. When you get them type of guy... you know what I'm saying, that's been able to make that transition, you know, doing them skits ain't easy. No. Because if it was,

the OG comedians that's complaining about it would do it. They would do it. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, I do. Like, if we've been able, y'all, they said we couldn't do this and come play their game.

And I just named you the comedians that do that and we go play their game. So if what we do is so easy to set up a camera and do this and do that and it's gotten us where we getting it. If it's so easy, why haven't y'all transition today? If this is the way did it go? I think the thing is, Mo, is that they look at you guys and it's almost like a microwave that you have success so instantly, like two or three minutes. And they like, man, it took us years. It took us 10, 15 years to build up this.

But we're a different age now. Listen to me. I mean, you remember you had to pay your bill? You had to pay your bill. You had to send the check in. Now you can pay it online. Yeah, but I've been doing this for, I've been doing this for,

this will be my 12 year. Okay. You know what I'm saying? People really just now, like maybe over the last four years are just now starting to find out about it. Right. So we minus, we take the 12 minus the four. That put us in eight.

That was eight years of me making skits and going to do shows that maybe only 50 to 80 people was at. Is that not worth enough to consider that a grind? Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, experience Bruton Mars live in Toronto.

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Win your way to Bruton Mars. every day you listen is another chance to win. Ready for a different take on Formula One? Look no further than no grip, a new podcast tackling the culture of motor racing's most coveted series. Join me, Lily Herman, as we dive into the under-explored pockets of F-1, including the astrology of the current grid. Lewis Hamilton, Crapicorn Sun, Cancer Moon. Wouldn't you know it, Michael Schumacher is also a Capricorn Sun, Cancer Moon? The story of the sports most consequential driver strike. We have one man who, upon hearing that he was going to be fired, freaked out, and apparently climbed out the window of the bathroom.

And was Daniel Ricardo's illustrious F1 career, a success story, a cautionary tale, or some combination of both? He started getting all this attention, and he maybe started to think, I'm bigger than this, I'm better, and plenty of other mishaps, scandals, and sagas that have made Formula One a delightful, decadent, dumpster fire for more than 75 years. Listen to No Grip on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm John Green. You may know me as the author of The Fault and Our Stars, and now I guess also as the co-host of The Away End, a brand new world soccer podcast. I'm Daniel Alarcon, a writer and journalist, and John and I have known each other since we were kids. My first World Cup was Mexico 86. I was nine years old.

I watched every game, and I fell in love. On our new podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the math. of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team. Very debatable. And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan. I love this game.

I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, it's beauty. Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. Listen to the Away End with Daniel Alarcon and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What's up? I'm Miles Turner. And I'm Brianna Stewart. And our podcast, Game Recognized Game, has never been done before. Two active players giving you a real look at our lives and what we actually think on and off the court.

Nothing's off limits. We talk trade requests. What's the vibe of that when it's like your star player is like, well, I want to leave? And then actually now I'm going to stick. We talk tanking. I mean, honestly, like, I might get in trouble for this answer, but I think it's, like, definitely happening in the WBA. And yeah, we talk about our mistakes, too.

They pulled me to the side and was like, hey, man, we got a call last night, man, you can't be rolling around the city like this tonight before games, you know, you know, doing this, doing whatever. And of course, family stories. They'll be like, Mommy, why did you miss that? Mommy, do you play basketball? Check out Game Recognized game with Stuy and Miles on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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available on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. You know, I think people just look at it like we're just setting up a camera and we're just doing this, but it's stuff that go into that. You know, you do realize. And Andrew Shultz told me that. He said, making money, the easier it is that people think it is to make money, the more envious they become of you.

So people think that just because you can sit up a camera and have a microphone, It's like, it's not that easy. It's not. And the fact of the matter is that a lot of people like, I want to do a podcast. They're like, well, how many days I say, you know, for the most part, during football season, I do five shows of nightcap. I do two shows, probably two shows a week of club, shay, she, she.

So, man, that's too much work. But listen to me. I said this earlier. Why get mad at me for doing what you're not willing to do? Thank you. That's all it is. Right. You're not willing to do it.

But see, that you're not willing. because I'm doing something that you're not willing to do, now I sold my soul. Now I'm a part of the alumni. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it is because you weren't willing to do that. You know what I'm saying?

You got to think about it. This probably hands down the hottest podcast in the game. Appreciate you back. You understand what I'm saying? And we saw, I've just seen Kat Williams on a few podcasts. None of them did. Right. You know what I'm saying?

Right. So it's the ingredient. and what you're cooking with. You got the ingredient. Yeah. We work at it. And I think the thing is, a lot of time I tell people

is that within the first couple of minutes, the people that come on my pod, they realize I'm not judgmental. I'm not here to judge them. No matter. Because I feel you have a story to tell. You can tell your story without putting its most salacious detail

on full display. Absolutely. People tell me things that they haven't said on any other podcasts and people, well, you messy. How am I messy? You do realize. if somebody tells you a story

and you only hear that person's the side of the story, you're being messy. Because the other person didn't say anything. Here's the thing. I've never heard you. I've never heard. All I've ever seen you do is listen. That's it.

That's it. And my thing is if somebody sit here and y'all doing an interview and they talk and like what I'm supposed to say, hold on, you can't say that because I don't know if that's true. Right. Thank you.

So I get, I understand. 100,000% deceit that you sit in. And I think a lot of times people, you know, like you said, man, they just want to find something, you know, with everything. You know what it was, though, Mo? And when people ask, I said, let me ask you this. Some people that have had podcasts, I said, if Kat was on your podcast and was saying exactly what he said on my podcast,

would you have stopped him? Hell no. So why are you mad at me that I didn't stop it? But it's just like, who are you to stop him, though? Like, who are you to, like, why would you say, now you can't say Ricky Smiley, right, wasn't supposed to be money. Just like when Ricky, just like when Ricky said what he said,

I didn't stop him. When Said said what he said, I didn't stop him. It's too sad. My thing is, three sides. It's the truth. It's they side. I don't know because I don't live in that world. Yeah.

And I think the thing is what a lot of people got upset about is that cat peeled a layer back that unless you walk in those and live in that world, you didn't know. You didn't know. So people didn't know that they had, like, I didn't know it was like that. Oh, you'd be surprised. Comedy Beef is like the rap game.

Comedy Beef is like, bro, listen, when I saw the interview with the Cate interview, I wasn't like surprised, you know what I'm saying? Because even early on, you know, even early on in my experience of coming up in this game, bro, I was doing a show in 2018, and I'm not going to say none of the comedian's name. I've seen a bunch of comedians just standing around talking about one comedian. Talking about just one comedian. And right after that,

every single one of those comedians that I've seen having that conversation about that one comedian, I've all seen them at some point with that one comedian. You know what I'm saying? So it's just like, bro, at the end of the day, bro, people be hating. They do.

But you know what? They only hate when you're successful. If you're doing bad, ain't nobody hate- Ain't nobody got nothing to say. If I'm, it's not until you doing better than now. Yeah. So now it's like, oh, he ain't that funny or he ain't this or he had to do that or he only got that because of this. And it's just like, bro, run your race.

Yes. Forget what he doing. I agree. Forget what he doing. Like, where am I, what, what are we, what are we, why am I focused on what he's doing? doing. Right. You know what I'm saying? When I need to be putting more into what I'm doing, I think it's just too much carrying on about what other people are doing. Man, run your race. When they're running them races, you don't ever see one of them look over to see what this one at.

Yeah. Well, you run the race. If I'm in lane three, I can't be in lane five. I can't be over there. I got to be at my lane. I can't be over there. But, you know, that I think that's what people just need to focus on themselves, focus on your career, on your journey. And wherever the chip's Let them lay. Social media comedians. We mentioned it. Yourself, Drewski, Desi, Country Wayne.

Country Wayne. I mean, you see you guys, and all of a sudden, it starts out as social media. And I think the thing is that the OGs want to see, okay, yeah, y'all funny on social media, but go in that club.

Yeah. Because doing skits, you can't do no skit, can't do no skit on stage. You got to just tell them jokes. We got to bring it. Hey, you got to be funny. You got to be funny.

Whether you're telling a story or you just rap, rap, Yeah, you gotta have something. You gotta have something. You know what? You know, I've seen all those dudes you just mentioned. Country Wayne. I've seen D.C.

I've seen Dessie. And, you know, the one thing that I can say about all of us is that we really did put the work in. You know what I'm saying? And I think for a little while, we was putting it in to be accepted by these, These OG comedians, you know what I'm saying? And you will be trying to go and trying to go and trying to prove and trying to prove and trying to prove.

And I'm going to tell you something right now. And this is to whoever coming up behind me or whoever coming up behind, whoever, whether you're coming or not, listen, don't worry about what they're talking about. Don't worry about it. Don't put that pressure on yourself to feel like you've got to do this because of what this comedian going to say or what this comedian think about. What your journey is. Run your race. Do the work. Take it serious.

That's the biggest thing I think with the OGs, though. They feel like I feel like they think a lot of the guys are not taking it serious. They just out here getting the money. You know what I'm saying? And when you do got guys out there that just going on stage and getting the money and they're not producing a show, it hurts the industry in its hole. You know what I'm saying? Because I'm going to tell you something.

It's social media comics that didn't come before me that couldn't do nothing on the stage. Right. And when it's my turn to walk through the door, now they are little hesitant to give me what I want because of what he did. Yeah, he failed. So be, that's my thing. Just be intentional about it. If you want to do it, do the work.

Study, do the work. Just because you threw him the ball and he dropped it. That don't mean you don't throw it to me. Throw it to me? I won't catch it. I'm going to catch it. I'm going to catch it. L.A. kept throwing you the ball.

He kept on it to you. Are there any guys that, Who have you collab with? I don't know if you collab with Danzy or you collab with Country Wayne or Druski or any of these guys. Is there anybody you want to collab with? You know, me and Desi have been talking about doing something together for sure. Definitely would love to work with Druski. Me and Country Wayne, we didn't talk about doing it.

I mean, we do a lot of talking about it. You know, a lot of us, you know, we're busy. But I think, you know, the conversation that we've had, especially me and Desi, It's been very intentional about, you know, getting something done. But I think for our generation of comedians, we got to, we need that. Yeah. Like, we need that. And I was, me and Desi was talking a couple weeks ago, and I was like, bro, we got to put out a movie.

We got to do something. Yeah. We got to do something. Because I like to see the O.Gs. I like to see when I'm looking, I see Bruce Bruce and LaBelle Crawford, or I see some more, and I see a lot of the people that I saw on Comic View and Death Comedy Jam, and I see these people touring together. Yeah.

That makes me feel good. Yeah, I mean, like I said, me and Desi, as far as like doing shows, it's definitely me and Desi is definitely talked about coming together and potentially doing a tour together. I think for the culture, I think that would be dope. Right. Have you seen the TikTok influences that are not doing good anymore? The TikTok, they're showing the trend, a past influences that were doing really well,

but now they're working regular jobs. I ain't saying that? Yeah. Damn, who that happened to? It did. But you know, man, that's what I tell people all the time. Everybody want to be an influencer and, you know, you hear about all this money you can make on that. But what people need to understand is those are not our platforms.

Yeah. At any given moment, they can change the algorithm. They can change the, and you have to be able to have something. You got to be able to doubt. So my thing of it has always been, bro, like I told you, in 2020, man, I was bringing in about $60,000 to $80,000 a month. on Facebook. Damn. Yeah.

Now they didn't cut it down, you can only ask somebody they make it. Man. It used to give you like, what, $5,000, $6,000. Now they didn't cut that thing down like $1,500, $200. Man, I ain't that low. But they cut it. Because Matt Wright said the same thing. Listen, you know what, my guy, Traymo, a comedian that's from Birmingham, Alabama, he

told me this a long time ago as far as the YouTube and all that. It's peaks and valleys to it. Right. So he's always telling me, hey, when you hot, Make sure you take a little bit of that money and you put it up. Yeah. Because you don't know when the algorithm might change. When they're going to change the algorithm, they're going to change it.

And they don't call you and say, hey, well, let you know next month you may make an 80. No. You're going to make $2,500. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So you got to, with that, I feel like, you know, it's real. If you're a social media influencer and you're doing all that, you're making the money, take that money and invest that into something, a business,

Or if you're getting all these followers, find you something to sell. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. In my case, it's tickets. Yeah. Because that's the way Matt Reich, we had him on. He said the same thing. He said, I got 20 million TikTok.

And because you change the algorithm, now they can't see the stuff that I'm doing. They only show your stuff to 10% of the people that follow you in the ethics. Yeah. Because they don't want you to get too big now. Then you won't need them. Then you won't need them. So you've got to remember, this is not yours. It's your page, but it ain't your platform.

Jack Bunny, you mentioned him that he's a guy. I remember using the video encouraging Jack Funny after he had a bad set. So when you had your bad set, you said you really didn't have no OGs, but your girl, you was driving home and, you know, she's like, you're all right. You're all right, yeah.

You was encouraging, like, bro, it happens to everybody. We got to fight back. Yeah. And Jack really, you know, that particular night, was a homecoming show for me. And Jack, you know, I had been talking to Jack and like, man, you know, you should try a stand-up. Just for the very reason that we're talking about. Like, you know, I know he's killing it online.

But, bro, you need another. Like, it's so, I don't think people really understand how much money is in stand-up. If you got a following, you got people that's willing to come see you. Man, there's some paper out there. And I'm telling him, like, bro, people want to see you. So I'm like, man, you got to. you know, you got to figure out a way, you know, to try to expand on that. And he was like, well, I want to try to stand up.

Now, to his defense, it's on me because the night that he bombed, it was a thousand people in the audience. And he wasn't ready for that. Right. You know what I'm saying? And me knowing what I know, I knew. I knew like, eh, he might not be ready for this. And we talked and he was like, no, I'm ready.

I'm ready. And he went up there. And I didn't, I was watching it from the side. And one thing about me, I don't like to see people bomb. No. It's just something about it. It hurts you. Yeah.

And so I went back downstairs. And I remember he came back down and everybody was coming to my dress room like, man, he bombed. They bombed. They booing them. So when he got downstairs, that's when I went to dress room, I didn't even know that they were filming. I didn't know his cameras out. But it was just like, I know they're feeling though. You know, I know what it's like to go up and you don't deliver and you sitting there like,

damn like you know am I funny or not and it's like hey bro you stepping into some new territory a lot of dudes wouldn't even went out there yeah you did you did the hardest part you know what I'm saying so I said let's figure something out I said come to the room we're gonna figure something out he came to my room he told me a little bit of stuff you said we punched it up he went back out there he had a better set but it's to me bro I'm one of them dudes where I I want to see everybody win right you winning is not going to stop my motion No. Because what's for you going to happen to you?

It's not going to stop my emotion. So when he was, so me picking them up and telling him like, hey, man, go right back out there, go, you know, go get it again. You know what I'm saying? That's because I want to see you win. Right. I really want to have, I really, at one point, we all go on vacation and we all talking about that time compared to right now where we all doing well.

Right. So, you know, with Jack, it was just like, hey, let me pick him up because I didn't want that to put a sour taste in his mouth from where stand-up comedy really is. You see their money in comedy? You know, I'm sitting on about a thousand jokes, Mo. Come on now. Come on now. Let me tell you something.

We can go on tour together. They allude to hear what you got to say. We can get a set up. My manager here right now. Let's get a set up. Let's get a set up. Mojo and Shay-Shay. Yeah, yeah.

Coming to a city near you. I know you fucking lie. That's not everybody, too. Now did everybody tour. You've been on a lot of Tyler production, Tyler Perry production. I've been on one. One? Yes.

You want to go to more? You want to go over like, okay, I'm stand up. Because you see, it seems like that's a lot of natural progression. You see pride, you see Murphy, you see Martin. Definitely want to act. Jamie. You see all these guys in it. And that seems to be the natural progression.

Yeah, yeah. Seinfeld. Yeah. I definitely want to act. And I would definitely work with Tyler Perry again. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. You know what, man,

TP, just a quick story about him. That show we did, Ms. Governor. I remember we showed up. We showed up to that. And I hadn't met him. I hadn't talked to him yet. I had just got the road. And he had sat in on like a table re we had did.

And you couldn't see him. You can just hear him. And I remember the first week that we was there, I shot a couple of things. and they had to end up rewriting a lot of the script because we had Joe Marie Payton on there that, you know, the mom from Family Matters. Okay, yeah.

So the way Tyler shoots, he shoot, it's fast. He ain't got time for... Talk too much money. Yeah, he ain't got time for that. So they end up rewriting a lot of the script and giving me her parts. Wow. So I remember the first...

I had left for the weekend to go do some shows. Because as I'm filming this, I'm still doing my show. Yeah, yeah. So I left, when I did some shows, I came back, and it was a scene in the show where I sat on this statue. And I improv the whole scene, and it was a new scene for me. It was actually supposed to be Joe, you know, Marie's scene. And I remember after we finished the scene, Tyler grabbed me, said, let me talk to you for a second. And he was like, hey, how much you getting paid?

And I told him. And he was like, I'm going to bump that up. He kept his word. Wow. I made some good money. So, I don't get what they say about. Right. You know what I'm saying?

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What about the sex scene? With a woman? Yeah. I do that. You know you gotta be able to control yourself though, Mo. Who? You. What you mean? Control myself?

You can't be all you're like, the camera's around. You gotta be chill. What did that mean, though? You can't be like, you know. You're trying to say I can't get hard? Because if it's a sex scene, yeah, you can't. Who, who say you can't?

You can't. You better put some eyes. You can, though. They'll put like a sock on her to some. I'm pretty sure they got something for that. How are you going to do a sex scene y'all kissing and you don't, and nothing happens? You got to be able to control it. Shake, shake. So you're telling me you could do a sex thing. Can you do a sex scene? No, I ain't saying, no, no, no, no. I can do a sex scene, but what, so who in the scene?

I mean, obviously going to be somebody hot. Like who? I'm going to see if I control it is not. Zoe South Donald. Yeah, she's going to really. you get to know me. Bro, I mean, I don't think that's a thing, though, but you do know that they have like, they have like, I forget what they call them,

but it's people that, you know, when they do sex scenes, you know, it's people that come on and set to make sure that everybody's comfortable, you know, with everything that's going on. But I don't think that you cannot not be a right. I mean, it is. But you can't do no open mind. You gotta be like, got to be like.

Why you think that? You ain't, you ain't, you ain't never seen Monster Bar with Hallibir. Yeah. She wasn't, that wasn't just no one like that? Yeah, they did. I don't know what. Billy Bob Thornton was going crazy. For sure.

Was going crazy. I felt some type of way. Give me a sex thing. Call me Billy Bob. You crazy. You crazy. I wasn't being on a while enough. Oh, man, I was scared of shit.

I was so scared. So what is it because it's like with Wild and I, I mean, it's just like you joaning. It's like you had to, like if you go to an HBC, you are you with the boys. It's not really that, though. It's not? You know what? I did one season. Okay.

And, you know, they got all these different games that you play. Yeah. I mean, yeah, you joan. Do you know about any of the games beforehand? I don't know if I could answer that. Okay. Fair enough. I feel like that's cheating.

Yeah, okay. I feel like if I say that. But no, I think, I definitely, I think we can't say that. You know, when we get there, you know, we don't know who we plan against. Okay. You know what I'm saying? We don't know that. But you get there, you figure out who your team is, and then y'all go out there and do your thing.

But it is improv. Yeah. You ain't, like, it is improv. But, you know, that was my first time, like, it was my first TV job. Right. So my thing, my thought process of it was I got to make sure that I get a bell and not a buzzer. Right. I got to win the game.

And it's not about winning the game. It's just about being funny within the structure of the game. So when I'm watching guys wilding out legends like DC Unfly and Carlos Miller and Chico Bean, I'm watching them do their thing. I'm like, they ain't even playing the game. No. They die. So once I started to learn that, then I. I started having fun, but I ain't gonna lie.

It was a point up there, man. I felt like boot camp, man. I called my mom. I was like, man, I think I'm going to come home. I ain't lying. And, you know, shout out to my mom because she was like, baby, you made. You're not stay your ass up there. She was like, you made for this.

She said, this is what you wanted. And I went back in there. And I end up, you know what I'm saying? Having a good season at the end of the season, Nick texted was like, hey, man, I could tell you was a little nervous at first. But once you liked in, you tapped into some superstar shit. Wow. Do you think Nick get the flowers that he deserved?

No. He should get, Nick should get flowers every day. Nick put a lot of people on. Yes. A lot of people on. Yeah, yes. Like a lot of people. A lot of people that you didn't have come sit in these shares,

they had to cross paths with Nick Cannon. Since coming into money, what's some of the, what are some of the perks of having money, probably more money that you ever envision having, that you get to go places, you get to do things? What's the best part of now being Mo Brooke? I could do whatever I want to do whenever. I can go wherever I want to go when I want to go.

I can eat wherever I want to eat. You know the best thing about it is if I needed four new tires on my car. You go get four new tires. I can go get four. I don't got to rotate the ones in the front. Yeah, but you're putting, yeah. If I got to get the brakes and the roads done, I can get all that done. I'm not worried about it.

Right. You know what I'm saying? I think it's the little things that when you get some money that you be like, Man, I ain't got worried about that no more. That you took for granted. Yeah. Investments? We're getting into that now.

Because you talked about, like, okay, when things are good, hey, make sure you stay somebody at back. So here's the thing. Saving money is, I can save some money. Right. You know what I'm saying? Now, you know, I'm at a point now where it's like I want to make my money, make some money. Yes. So I don't think any investment is the right investment.

I know I'm investing something that it may not work. You know what I'm saying? But it's about really making a right decision with the money and, you know, where I want to put it at. But it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's in your skit. Yeah. How was, I mean, obviously, you know, you run that by, you run that by your co-parent. It's like, look, I'm thinking about putting. I run away.

Oh, come on, mo. See, man, see, Mo. She's going to call me up, man. Let her call you. No. Let's just for, for the. But camera, can we say, you talked about with your co-parents, look, I'm thinking about putting my daughter, putting her in.

I'm not going to lie to the people. That's my daughter. But don't you, but y'all, y'all run things by each other more? I might, I might pick her up and say, I might be like, I'm coming to pick a layup today. We're going to shoot a skit. That ain't running by? You're like, hey, what do you think about me of putting a lid on your skit right here?

What do you think about that, babe? I mean. Why? Shannon. Let me tell you something about me and my baby mom. My daughter, right, is, is, is, is, that's both our daughter. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Go parent. Yeah. My baby mama trusts me enough to know that if I say, hey, we're going to do something, she's not, I'm not, I'm not running it by her, though. And it, like, that ain't one of the things I'm going to run by her. Okay. If we're going to run some stuff by, it ain't going to be her being. And because here's the thing, my baby mama post stuff with my daughter all the time.

And I don't say nothing. I don't like, you don't got to run that about me that you're going to do a video with her. Like, you know, you know what I'm saying? Long as it ain't nothing, you know, crazy. Right. You know what I'm saying? But other than that, now, running a skit, that's my daughter. Man, you know how much stuff I pay for around here?

Yeah, she's just helping. She's helping you buy some most, get some more stuff. Man, I'm paying this too. I'm paying for a lot of stuff around. Right. I ain't trying to hear it. I ain't trying to hit it. When you put it in a skit, did you run it by your daughter?

What did she? What did she think about being? She loves it. Does she? She loves it. If I call it right now, baby, we're going to do a skit. What are we going to do? What are we going to do? She'll come to the house, Daddy, can we do a skit today?

You know, my daughter is, I mean, she just me all over again. Honestly, like, she's funny. She got a comedic time. I don't want her to be a comedian. Yeah, or you don't? No, I don't want to be a comedian. But if that's what she chooses to do or she choose to be an actress, Like, I'm a support of a thousand percent, but she definitely, she got, she got, she got, she got the pedigree to do all of this stuff.

Like, she's going to have her own channel one day and, you know, and be doing our own thing. And her mom supports that. That's why, that's really why I say, I don't got to run. She's support with, you know, whatever I do with her. What type of dad are you? Man. Cream puff. Yeah, I'm soft.

Well, my daughter, you know, sometimes, man, I look at her and cry. You know, I don't think, you know, it's not a love in the world that can compare to the love that you get from your daughter. Yeah, yeah. You know, and now she's nine years old, so now I feel like a little relationship. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, we in a car. She wants to ride in the front seat.

She want to hold hands. She want to go here. She want to go do that. Daddy, can we do a date? You know, and it's like, all that stuff. I don't know. I'm soft, man. Like, she asks for where she gets it.

And now I'm getting to a point where I kind of get. got to get a little bit more stern because she's about to pop into that. That teenage. Yeah. They're different, Mo. And I'm worried about. I heard that, man. No, no, no, no.

I ain't telling what I heard. So all that, so all that, you're going to be my number one forever. That don't mean nothing. All that. They're going to come with time. They're going to be starting wanting piercings and tattoos and boys coming to the equation. Boys coming well. Into the equation.

Okay. Not to the house, though. Yeah. To the house? The thing is, look, my daughter did a very good job. I only met one of my daughter's boyfriend. You know what, but that's how it should be because of who you are. I'm not about to just bring anybody to meet my dad.

They didn't play that. Yeah, like that is, I feel like it should be something sacred. Yeah. I mean, my kid, my son, I met two of his girlfriend, and the second one I met, he married. See, my mama met a lot of girls I was dealing with on accident. Trying to sneak them out the house. Hello. You bring a...

What? To my mom out? Yeah. Man, you crave. Oh, yeah, that's a new generation. Ain't no way... Hey, that would never happen. What?

Back in the day? Hell no. Let me tell you something. It wasn't okay at first. Well, I had to gradually, like... Mm-mm. Yeah, no, man, listen to me. Ain't nobody...

Ain't, no, no. Your mama weren't going? My grandma went playing that. And ain't nobody... Hey. You know what my parents' thing was, though? They always prefer. that if we were at home, they always knew where we were.

I would prefer you not do it. That's what I prefer. That's what you prefer? Yeah. Ain't nobody, ain't no sex going on here but me. Wait, who said we were having sex? You don't do that. Because you were sneaking about the house.

What you're sneaking about the house for? Because I ain't want my mama to see some of them. I had a girl leave out your size one day. So you do like a $2.50? No, that was when I was just doing anything. I got money now. Ah! Ha!

I got money now, man. So how close is your parenting to what you endured growing up? Oh, it's way different. And I ain't going to say it's way different. You know, some of the, you know, the values and stuff like that that my parents and still the nuts, like I teach her those things. The only difference is it's the position that I'm in to give her the things that I didn't get to have when I was a kid. You know what I'm saying?

And there was things that I would ask my parents for that they would tell me no. Yeah, for sure. No, I ain't going to be able to do that. And I don't do my daughter like that. If she's earned it, she can get it. Damn, you don't say no? No. Yeah, you're going to definitely have to tighten up.

I know. But what am I saying no to? Daddy, can I get some toca-boka? Can I play Roblox? You know, Daddy, she don't ask for nothing. Daddy, can I get some new clothes? What's wrong with that? You're going to have to say no at some.

I do say no sometimes. To what? She might be like, like if I come home off the road, that first day when I come home off the road, I really prefer that date to myself. Right. She'd be like, Daddy, can we go get some Habachi? Not today. I say no.

It ain't, it ain't, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But for the most part, for the things, if she shows me, hey, I really want this, and she's earned it? Yeah. You know, with whatever she's doing in school or, you know, in sports, whatever she's doing, If I feel like she's earned it, then I'm gonna get it. Your, your, your, my dad, hold on. My dad used to say no to everything.

Am I lying? No. No. He was the king of no. And get no yes. Bro, listen to me. We'd be like, pops, can I get $20? No.

What'd you do with the last $20 I gave you? That was three weeks ago. Yeah. That 20 gone. Yes, no. My dad was the king of no. I don't want to, I don't want to, man, that no used to hurt. You know what he used to hurt the most?

We go ask our mom and she'd say, go ask your dad. That's why I came to you because I already know you're going to say no. But she would get in trouble if she would say yes, knowing he was going to say no. So she just started, I'll go talk to your dad, got to go ask your dad. Her childhood is going to be a lot different than yours. Absolutely. It's co-parenting and you lived in the home with both of your parents. Yes.

And, you know, like you said, with like like my grandfather and grandmother like whatever he it was never if he said no it was she said no if she said no it was he said no ain't no well I'm gonna give it to you your dad said you couldn't have it but I'm gonna give it to you anyway no sir no my mama wasn't like that no my mom and I you know what I want to tell you crazy story so my brother that's my brother right there bro when he he he stayed getting bad grades in school. And when they had that first PlayStation

that came out, it was the PlayStation 2 or whatever it was, but it was the first place, the next one, right when the Xbox came out. And he wasn't supposed to get nothing. My mom still went to the best back. We were going to basketball every day

to find this PlayStation for him. And she'd get him a PlayStation, then he decided, I don't want the PlayStation, I want the Xbox. She'd go take it back and get the Xbox. Now, he ain't, he ain't supposed to get this.

Yeah. But she got it anyway. Uh-oh. Don't tell, what she tell her. Don't tell y'all dad, I got this for y'all. Do you know, my dad used to sit down and play the Nintendo 64 with us. He used to play the baseball games and NFL 2K.

He used to play all that with us, right? So we got this Xbox, and the graphics at this time was through the roof. He come up past the TV, like, damn. This is the Nintendo 64? We're like, yeah, we got new controllers and everything. Come sit down and come play. He ended up playing the Xbox with us. Don't even know.

Don't even know. not going to find out till he see this. I'm not lying. But my mom, bro, my dad, my dad was strict. And my mom was the balance that we needed. Okay. She was the balance that we needed. Yeah, sometimes she might have went against the grain against what he said.

And she got us that. But I'm glad that she did because if that, if she would have went with every note that he said, it's a lot of stuff we wouldn't have got. Right. And that's not a knock against him. against my father because he's an amazing father, but he, it was just, he, he. Father's hard on boys. Man, bro.

You know what, my dad today and who he was back then is two totally different men. Because he definitely different with your daughter than he was with you. Oh my God. If I, if I, if I raise my voice, you can't, you can't yell at it like that. You used to yell at me all the time. Man, yeah, whoop I ask. some of the greatest whippers I've ever had came from Terry Brooks

I'm telling you that right now some of the greatest whoopas I ever had came from him and like I said it is it made me a better man you said something very interesting it's like how did your parents prepare you for the real world and your dad you said

preparing you to be a man knowing that at one time at someday you're gonna have you're gonna leave this home you're gonna have your own family you're gonna be out there in the real world And I've got to teach you enough that when you're away from here, you'll know right from wrong. You'll do right from wrong even though I'm not standing over your shoulder. You know what?

With my dad was the little things, like I just said, we asked them for $20. I ain't got it. And I feel like that taught me like, hey, ain't nobody going to give you nothing. If I can't get it from the man that created me. Right. To give it to me, nobody's going to give me nothing. So that right there instilled to me, like, I don't want to be. I'm gonna ask nobody.

As much as we heard no, it made me never, it may, anytime I hear no, even in my career. Right. I'd be like, don't worry about it. I'm gonna do it myself. Right. All because of that, you know, with my dad. And with my mom, you know, when I was younger and I used to always make excuses for everything. That's why I'm so big on accountability now, is you?

My mom used to be like, you know what I'm gonna call you? Excuses, excuses. The real world don't care about your excuses. When you get out there, nobody gonna care the reason why you late to work. why you late to work. Nobody's going to care about the reason. Nobody cares about your why. And to this day, like, if I get ready to make an excuse, I hear it on my head. excuses, excuses, excuses, so, you know, my parents definitely did a great job of letting me know, like, hey, the world ain't going to be nice to you. They don't care about your excuses. They don't care

about your whys. It's either you're going to make it happen or you're not. make it happen. You stay with your pants until you was 30. 30 years old. Damn. Mm-hmm. Man, get your big rusty old ass out of the people house. See, that's the problem right there.

That's the problem. Black people so be raised so, you're so ready to kick their kids out of the house? Yeah, 18. Why? Why? Why? Why?

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But you know, but you just said, you know that the world, you know how the world is. If I love you, why am I going to send you out there to that? And I know you're not ready. Look, my daughter, I think my daughter stayed until she was probably right, 20. And then she got her own, well. She wanted to get her own place. She wanted that for whatever reason.

I wanted that for her. I know you did. Because at 20, she can't do what she wanted to do in your house. Hell no. No. She can't do what she wanted to do at my house at 25, 35, 45, 45. None of that. Don't nobody sex at that house but me.

But you? That's it. But you. Ain't no, ain't nobody. Ain't nobody doing it but you. But me. Yep, but everybody on live can hear. Did your daughter, did they hear that?

Unfortunately. Oh my God. Tell me about it. Oh, my God. That was the most embarrassing part. The kid, it got to be. It got to be. Dad, dad.

She was the first one. My oldest is the first one. What'd you say? What you said? Hell, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You weren't sorry. I was.

I was. What part are you sorry for? Because your most private and intimate moments. Yeah. Is being heard. Heard. Man. You know, I'm a very private.

And that's why you don't see me out nowhere. I don't be out and about. We saw you walking through the airport with that dog. Oh yeah, I got a couple with you. Bro. When you looked at that dude like, what? Bro, I still don't know how, I still don't know. I still don't know.

I still don't know because you got to realize that was an international. That wasn't a regular L.A. I was in L.A. but it was international determine because the dog was coming from overseas. Oh my God. You had them too.

You were holding like a little football. I thought I saw the guy. I thought I saw the guy film and I was like, but who would know I'm here? So when I'm like, that man people know you. Listen, you think you think you could just walk down the street

and ain't nobody going to look at you and be like, damn, he'd do something. Yeah. But I'm saying, though, who would know on a random Tuesday or Wednesday that I would show up at international? Nobody knew. How did you not know? It was just somebody at the airport like, damn, they're going to Shannon Sharp. They don't got, somebody done told them that Shannon Shark was going to be.

You a big deal, bro. You know what I learned? Bro, I got a lot of friends in the NFL. And for the first time, sometimes I meet them, I don't know what they look like because they always got a helmet on. Yeah. You didn't know, you didn't took your helmet off, bro. and you, bro, I didn't know, man.

And then I get the dog and so I got to go over there because I got to get this lady the money. And so I pull it to the corner and for that, I had to lost track because I saw him,

you know, I'm looking straight ahead but I can see out of my peripheral that I can see him. I was like, damn, this dude, he's filming. I'm saying to myself, he's filming. But I got to go over

to the corner because this lady, I got to make sure this lady gets back through because all she did with she dropped the dog. Yes. Yeah, but you know what? It was the face you made

with the dog. Yeah, because I'm like, it was like, You was holding it. You was holding it like this. And it was like, what? Like, it was like, you can't. Yeah.

I'm like, seriously? For real? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but it was how you can't hold a dog like that. You're too big. He was two pounds. How am I supposed to hold it? Yeah, like this.

Now you want Peter. Now you want Peter to come knocking on my door. Now I'm really going to get careful. But you, but you, I think the thing is now, is that. I think that's when I kind of started realizing, like, my life is really, really different. It's different, yeah. Because more people started to know, more people know me from TV than when I ever play. People don't even realize that I play.

Because people see me in the airport and walking like, I see you on them shows. How do you know so much about sports? And I didn't even know. I didn't know. I didn't want three Super Bowl. They don't. Because I've been, you know, I retired in 2004. I remember when you did, you was over there with the Raven?

No, I was Broncos. I went back to that. You went back to Denver? I went back to Denver. Who was the quarterback when you went back? Brian Greasy one year and then Jake Plummer. Oh, Jake Plummer was a bad boy. Brian Greasy was nice too.

Yeah, he played okay. Yeah, okay, no, no, no. He must not be that good then. No, no, no. Because the way you just said, he played okay. He played okay. He won airway. But no.

They do the hell. They're only handful of people that were Elwhil. Trent Dilfer was your quarterback. In Baltimore. Yeah, we won the Super Bowl. Yeah, you want to get that many balls in you, though. You know, I led it to. Jamal Lewis took y'all all the way there.

Well, we had a nice defense. Y'all hit it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Ray, Ray was over there, too. Okay. We had a very nice defense.

Speaking of, speaking of teams, bears, they're about to go to Gary. No, they're not. How do you feel about that? They're not going to Gary. They go to Gary Bears. No, they're not. No, more Chicago Bears.

They don't call the New York Giants and New Jersey not Giants. But they play in New Jersey. How far? But Jersey ain't that far. How far is Gary, Indiana from Chicago? Bro, like, from Soldier Field is like 20 minutes. Hey, y'all ain't no more monsters of the Midway? Yes, we are.

No, you're not. Who said we ain't even confirmed that we're going to any honor? What y'all trying to do is holding people hostage. Who? Y'all tried to hold the citizens of Chicago hostage to build your own. You're saying y'all like, I'm the president of the Bears. If it was up to me. They're holding you hostage too because you've got to pay your tax.

Listen, listen, I hope that they get it done for it to be in Illinois. Yeah. I honestly want them to stay in Chicago. I want them to stay out the lakefront. I don't even want them to put a dome on the place. No. I like the car. But I like the car.

But I'm going to tell you when I knew we needed a dome, I was at the last playoff game when we played the Rams. And I was in the suite that night, but we had to walk, you know, had to walk outside to get in. Man, I swear to God, it was so cold. I said, I don't care where they put the damn dome at. Just put it up because I can't sit down.

But that's your advantage. But is it really an advantage? Hell yeah. How? How? The Rams came right in and beat us in the snow. Yeah. But that doesn't happen very often.

No, we should have beat them. Yeah. But listen, I like the cold, and I think it was, I think the bare weather was a real thing back in the 80s. And maybe when we had Erlach or them, like we used to play the cold-tied advantage. But I've seen Tom Brady come there and put up four-five touchdowns and a half on us in the snowstorm. You do realize like Tom played in New England, so it get cold there too. It do. You think they go put a dome in Green Bay?

No. That's the thing, the frozen tundra. They should never do that in Green Bay. They should never do that in Chicago. I agree. If y'all listen to me, leave the top over. I saw you painted, you know, your quarterback, Caleb. He catches a lot of flag.

He's a hell of a player, but he paints his nail. Nobody mentioned it. When they were losing, it was because of the painting nail. Now that they're winning, don't nobody mention the painted nail. No. You notice that? No, they don't. And my thing is,

I love Caleb. You know what I'm saying? He's a hell of a pleasure. He's only going to get better. He's only going to get better. And he's a real deal. He's a real deal quarterback. You know what I'm saying?

Just some of the stuff that day. The Oscar plays that he can make. It's just unreal. Yeah. It's just unreal. Just being a soldier field, that pass he threw up to send us to overtime. Oh, yeah.

I still don't know how he did that. When he started running backwards, I put my head down. Yeah. And I looked up and the ball was in the air. and from the suite you see Komet catch the ball and the stadium go up. I was in so disbelief. The TVs in the suite was about three seconds delayed.

Yeah. People were celebrating. I had to look up at the screen to make sure that I had just seen, you know, what I saw. But, you know, his nails, you know, his mom does nails. And that's kind of what I think inspired him to do that. And, you know, talking with his mom and talking with his dad,

You know, he come from a solid family, man. I just, you know, I hate that there's so much attention focused on that and not what... Not his play. Not his play. You know what I'm saying? But I think now the reason why when I was doing my Bears videos, the first thing I kept on saying, hey, Caleb, French tip on me is the show people, we don't care. No, no. As long as we winning, I take them get his toes done after every game.

Jail said. Whatever you need. No chip. Whatever you need. Justin Fields. He was there for a couple of years. And I remember Bryce Young came out. And they passed on Bryce Young and they kept Justin Fields.

Now they get an opportunity for the number one pick again. I say they're not going to pass again. They've come to the realization that Justin Fields can't get it done. For whatever reasons why it's not all his fault, but they're not passing on Caleb Williams because they believe he's a once, a generational talent. Absolutely. You was there with Justin and you see some of the links that he took and some of the booze,

the criticism that came along. How difficult was that for you to see a brother going through that? You know what, man? I really don't think people really understand how great of a human being Justin Fields is. I've been a Bears fan, you know, for so many years. And Justin was the first Bears quarterback that I had ever met. Wow. And, you know, I think that he had potential to be a good quarterback in his lead.

But I think the way that it was handled as far as putting help around him and getting an offensive line, I just don't think he ever got a chance with no team that he's been on, whether it's Chicago, whether it's Pittsburgh or whether it's the Jets. And I think until he, if, you know what I'm saying, because you know how to lead you is, is that, hey, if you ain't getting it done, here, they'll try to get you out the league, you know, as quick as they can. Absolutely. But I think if he ever gets the opportunity

to go to an organization that's really going to support him, support them, I think we might see a different, I think we might see a different player. I still believe in them. I was hurt to see him go. Yeah. You know, when they traded them to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh.

That was, I remember I saw the headline, my heart dropped. You know what I'm saying? Because you got to think all those years he was there, we was losing. Yeah. But it didn't feel like it because of some of the plays that he was making. Right. I mean, dude, breaking runs. I mean, it was throws.

He was making some throws too. So, no. You and Gary Owen made a bet during the season that your team would have a better record than he is. Yeah. And right on Q. Yeah. What'd your bet? So, no, so the bet we played the Bengals, and the bet was who.

Oh, they came, y'all came back and beat them in the last play at the game. Yeah. So the bet was whoever lost, the other person had to do a video. Okay. Pretty much crowning the other one because what a lot of people don't know is that last year, me and Gary Owen, when we were on tour, we were going back and forth on records, breaking at the comedy club. Right. So he might go to one club and he might set the record at eight. go and do nine. It was one club. I went and did nine. He came and did 11. So we was

already having this back and forth thing and then we played the Bengals and that's kind of, you know, how that happened. Are you surprised that he recently got married? Are you surprised that the kind of hate that he was receiving on his special day? I didn't see that he was getting no hate. I don't know what it is. People just don't want people to be happy. No, you know what? I don't care. You could, looker, you can marry this bottle. You can marry a donkey. I bet you do it want somebody to marry. No, but I'm just saying, but, Mo, when do we become so obsessed with someone that we don't have to be with, we don't have to live with, we don't have to do anything for? When do we become so invested in someone's life?

When we start letting people in our business. Okay. That's when it happened. You know what I'm saying? And I'm going to say this, I'm happy for Gary Owen. I am too. You know what I'm saying? And just not even, not even just with the marriage, with all the success that he's having, you know, in the comedy game, selling out the shows, he bounced.

into the theaters. Gary doing his thing. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And I feel like this is one of the probably the happiest times of his life right now. You know what I'm saying? He looks happy. So I, listen, he deserve everything that's coming to him right now.

Gary is somebody that I feel like, hey, he waited his time. His time is here. Yeah. And, you know, he found somebody that he can do it with. Yeah. Man, let him do his thing. I think a lot of people still kind of salty because, you know, he was married once before to a black woman.

Yeah. He got caught cheating. Yeah. But at the cheating thing. Right. You know, they don't. But he said that she was cheating too. Oh, I ain't hear that part.

Yeah. Well, they was cheating. What were we talking about? We cheat those. Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah. Allegedly.

Allegedly. You got a local hometown hero. Grew up in Chicago and D. Rose in Chicago. Yeah. What's it like to have somebody that grew up in your area go off and then come back for the Bulls. He alleged. What DeRose did, we watched them

at the McDonald's All-American game at the United Center. Semionion, he was doing his thing. And when he was with the Bulls, bro, that was the closest we've been to getting ready to win us another championship when Derek Rose's on there when he won an MVP. But you realize

LeBron was on the East 2 already. Yeah, LeBron, but you remember that series, though, it had to take for LeBron to start garden there yeah yeah yeah so i'm i'm gonna say that and i know you and lebron know you i know that you know what i'm saying and i hey lebron you do you do your thing but you know i just uh i feel like the bulls should have did a little bit more but derrick needed one more piece right to help him get over that lebron train you have a relationship another uh chicago uh little dirt you have a relationship

with little dirt yeah have you spoken to him recently no i haven't heard the last time i uh seen le dirt We were at the Bears game in London. Really? Yeah, we were both at the Bears game in London. Well, there you're going to wear up there to support your team like that? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. You white.

A little bit. A little bit. No, man, we were both in London for the game. And this was after we had worked together. I was in one of his music videos. And the next, I want to say, like, maybe a week later, Like I talked to him at that at the game. He was having a big concert in Chicago, and he was like,

I'm going to leave some tickets for your sister. Yeah. He left the tickets, and I want to say maybe like a week later, they came and got him. But I haven't, you know, I haven't heard from him, but, you know, praying for him. I'm hoping that, you know, whatever this situation is that, you know, that his innocence is proven and he get out of that. Give me your five, top five Chicago rappers all the time. And you include YN's in this, so they don't have to be all over you.

So, you know, because it's different now. My top five all-time Chicago rappers. Let me do my Y-Eans first. Okay. A little dirt. Yeah. G. Herbo. Yeah.

Okay. Kanye. Yeah. Common. Yeah. Twister. Okay. You got a nice little hit list.

Yeah. People sleep on Twister. They do. Yeah. He liked that. Yeah. The gang culture in Chicago. How did you not get caught up into that?

Whether the two-parent household, were they very strict on you, you had an older brother. So how did you navigate not getting caught up into that culture? Who said I won't game-banger? Tell a joke. Who said I want game-baker? My brother right there, he was the game-banger. He was game-banger. You know what, though?

It was just, I played ball. You know what I'm saying? We both played football. And I was at one high school at first, and I end up, you know, getting into some stuff over there. My mom, I'm like, you got to go to school with your brother. So I end up transferring to the high school he was at, and I'm not knowing that he's affiliated with the gangs over there.

So when I get over there, the gang members running up on me, my first day in school. And I got to go find him like, man, the game, the Latin, there was some Latin, they won kings. They were some of them, they were LPs or whatever that was. And I kind of mocked them. Yeah. And they told me out of school, it's up. So I had to go find my brother.

I found my brother. And I'm like, hey, they said. Yeah, they said, I'm in trouble. And he howling it. But he was a gangbanger. And I was, because I was guilty by affiliation. Right. So I was game maker.

Well, first of all, you know, light skin, you know, y'all going to catch it anyway. Yeah. Because they don't think y'all can squabble. Y'all can't do nothing. Y'all too pretty. You know, y'all in the mirror all the time. You know, Shannon, bro. Man.

I really, you know. And I know that this is the perception of us, but I'm telling you, when I tell you that I really can get like that. Yeah. And I'm not just saying that, just to say it. Like, I really can get like that. Oh, man, you can't get on, Mo. You ain't bumping like that. All you want to do is tell jokes, make somebody laugh.

Then my brother go right there. I got security, and we'll fight together for I'll let them fight by itself. What I have you got security for? What you mean? What you mean? Why I got security for? Just usher you, just going to get in the car. No.

No what security said, going to get in the car. No, you got a man, Shana, you got to understand. Comedians are the new rappers. You see all this shit? They have that. They can get that, Mo. They can get that. Yeah, exactly.

They asked for it, man. I ain't about to find out about it. But that don't mean come trying to get it because I said I'll get to you, but, man, man, you're walking around, bro. Here's the thing, man, it's different now. It is different. And it's like, you just don't. want to end up in a situation where you'd be like, damn, I should have had somebody with it.

Yeah. You're right. Are you a sister in Globe beefing? Huh. Is my sister in Globe beefing? Yeah. You know that ain't my real sister. Oh, I thought that was your real sister.

No. I do it. No. No, man. Uh-uh. No. I thought that was crazy, though. Just with her sister coming out.

She had a glow obligated. And I met, I met Glow. Glow is such a beautiful. I had on. She's unbelievable. Oh, my God. She's great. I love a glow.

And I think it's tough when you get success and you got family that need help. They feel obligated, though. They feel obligated. They do. And not just family. Man, you know I've been knowing you since you was six years old. And? I know you too.

I still know you. It's real. That's real. You ain't fit to get no house or no car? That's real. It's real. How many people, man, listen, people I ain't heard from them forever called. Like, man, I need a little help.

I ain't heard from you. Yeah. I ain't never gave me nothing. You know, I remember like we went to the first Super Bowl and people were calling for Super Bowl ticket. Now you haven't seen me play in a preseason game, a regular season game.

And now you're going to come to Super Bowl. Or a postseason game. So the first game you're going to see me play is the Super Bowl. You're crazy. But you know what? That's the same way. If I do shows in Chicago,

bro, I get so many phone calls from people like, hey, I need tickets. Like, I did a Chicago theater. And that was the biggest show I ever did in Chicago. And I had, bro, I had a guest list of almost 100 people. No, that's money at your pocket. You understand what I'm saying? No, you get 20.

You do 20. And I'm going to say this. Chico Bean taught me this. He said, bro, I'm going to tell you the same thing I'll tell my people. You can come see me for free anywhere in the world. anywhere in the world. But when I'm at home, you got to buy a ticket.

Like that. And that's the new motto. So I'm letting y'all know, September 11th, I'm doing the Win Trust Arena in Chicago. Do not, I ain't got no tickets. Bown. When it goes on sale, you better buy out.

I like that. It's real. You travel and you, if you come to another city and come see me, man, the ticket's on me. Yeah. Because you didn't put the effort in

to come and support. Yes, yes. But we're right here at the crib. You being lazy. Yeah, come on, bad ticket. I saw Mr. Tenonism. My boy. He came to see you.

Yes. I'm cool, man. Yeah, we had him on the show the other night. Did y'all? Yeah, we did. Oh, y'all show did because I saw, man. And you know what? I was like, and I saw him on the Sherry Shepherd show.

And I was like, you know, I'm so happy for him, bro. I am too. Because he was just such a, you know. And I'm so happy to other thing going the other way. Me too. Because he did it wrong. Me too. And, you know what?

And when I brought him on stage that night at my show and I said, we're not playing about you. I was letting him know right then and they're like, hey, if that situation, I ain't, ain't servicing you what it needs to. Hey, say that. Yeah. And we get you out of that. We'll figure out something. Yeah.

I got people wanting to invest in restaurants for them. I'll offer to invest in opening a restaurant for them. What's next, Mo? What's the next up for you? Man, I'm writing movies. I just wrote a movie right now and it's bad. Really? Yeah, it's bad.

Are you in it? Yes. I'm in my Eddie Murphy bag. I'm playing a couple different characters, but it's bad. Special. Already done. It's in the can. It's in a can. We're getting ready to send it out to They're getting the sound and stuff done on it right now and We're gonna send it to a few streamers Netflix being one of them

Yeah, yeah, and it's that you say you're in your Eddie Murphy bag but another guy that writes is Q'd yeah, you talk to Q for as Q'd for any advice I met Q once at Mike Eft's a 55 birthday party okay and And we briefly talked about He just said, hey, I heard about you. He said, I'm going to be checking you out. So hopefully that means they're going to call me for that next Friday. Ride along with something. Call me.

Make sure you go check out Mojo Brooks, We Them One's Comedy Tour coming to a city near you. Mo. Thank you for coming on a coach. My boy. Thank you for all. Thank you, man. Thank you. Ready for a

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