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Welcome
back to the 85th time show.
We got to. You know what's on this.
I don't know if you know this,
but this has been voted
the number one show that black people
have sex to
after 2 o'clock in the morning.
Yep, that sounds good.
I thought you were going to say 2 p.m.
Yeah, that's my job.
Every week I have to go out
and find something that we're number one at.
I have to do a lot of research online.
I have to look in the almanac.
Surveys.
Some people hitting me on email.
Then I type some shit up on the old school
typewriter. Mail it off.
Right. Email it.
Yeah. Cold calls before 9 o'clock.
Right.
I do my part. I do my part.
You do?
Yeah. So shit, we're just gonna keep the street going.
I agree.
This ain't your first time, but you went here giving us good game today.
Yes, sir.
And I'm actually proud of you guys, man.
Oh, before we even get to us, we got to give them the intro to give you.
I'm just to say we got to.
Right, man, it's like, I feel like legend
ain't heavy enough this one of them comedy icons man like you said back in
them days this when you know when that comic view missed on at the height of it
yeah when it was when it was the best when you didn't want to miss it and you
know coming view when they first started these we call BET coast to coasts
right so what they'll do they were come in town with the cameras and tape you at a
club and then take it back and edit it and show it on BET see this how it go and D DL was the
whole spec where you see only you know this type of shit that's why you you comedy
icon one of the goats if they made a Mount Rushmore a comedy man you damn sure
will be on it you got his own mouth triple OG yeah they're 35 years in the game
I'm 31 shit he was doing comedy before you was protein me before my daddy was fucking
with my mama man your daddy hadn't even ate the right shit to make you yet he went
He's a formulae here.
He's talking about he'd eat the right shit.
Fuck you, you, dude.
You was an atom on a piece of bread somewhere with this niggins start.
Yeah, man.
But there, none other, man, none other than the comedy legend.
Yes, sir.
Bruce Bruce.
It's back again.
Listen, man, I told you when you first came, don't let it be the last time, and here we are again.
Yes, sir.
Already dropping good games.
You know, last time you talked about disco duck and, you know, because it ain't
Disco Doug. It was so many great.
I've got to ask you about everybody, man.
We haven't lost people since you was last. We lost Dirty South.
Dirty South. Tyler Craig. Tyler Craig.
Yeah, man. Yeah, and, you know, he used to be a comedian name.
He used to come on. He had a little character. He said, hello, my name is Larry D. Bill, Jr.
Jr. the third. And that was his character he used on stage.
And he said, they say, I can't speech good. Like, that's how he taught. He said, I said, well, I said, I'm working at McDonald's.
I said, hello, welcome to McDonald's.
Would that be for here or there?
He was funny, you know what I mean?
He had funny skit, but that's all they got.
Like I tell everybody, when these young cats,
you're going to do your social media
and you're going to do some things on social media
and you're going to do about five minutes.
It's hilarious, but please have something else
to give the people.
Can't be one dimension.
Because when these people come to see you,
they want to see more than just that little skit you got.
You know what I'm saying?
They want to see a bunch of good things.
We're talking about 30 minutes straight.
That's right.
You got to have it, man.
You got to have it.
So how do you feel?
Because, you know, I studied the game.
Like you said, I don't like to watch people because of, you don't want to take nothing away.
Right.
I like to study how they formulated the jokes, how they said the joke.
Okay, this is their style of coming.
I know, and I had to realize, and the reason why I like to study is because I had to realize the type of comedian I was.
Right.
And I realized, okay, I'm wrong.
Yeah.
I ain't cleaning up.
I ain't, you invite me to a church.
It might be a damn or shit that may slip out.
But we're gonna pray at the end.
That's right.
We're gonna pray at the end.
But as long as you're comfortable at who you are,
doing your comedy, because that's how it's gonna be successful.
Now, if you're uncomfortable, it's gonna look uncomfortable.
They don't see it's not real.
But if you're real doing it, it's gonna come across just a smooth,
tell when it's not you yeah you know I do churches all time you know like the
preachers you know in them back to be yeah I need you to come over and do the
church I'll say well I'm gonna stay paying do it for the Lord I say if I come
to your church I'm doing it for you I'm already doing it for the Lord talk you
better get this money player yeah I would say man you got your goddamn man you got me
you got me fucked up real but look you get the big churches they don't do that right
like you know the big church they say well they call
love offering. Right. You know what you're gonna get? I've been sure they gave me
$20,000 check. I love that. So how do you stay 20 balls? So how do you stay fresh? So when it comes
to we're living in the time now, social media speeds up the process of us. Actually, I'm talking
I'm aging the fuck out. So it's like, all right, we get a joke and he'd be like, ooh, we got
time to practice, but you, but they don't put it on Facebook 10 times. People don't seen it before
they actually came and see it in person then when they seen in the person they love it but
it's like you can't take it with you the extra two three years i just say keep adding to the joke
right just keep punching it up just keep adding just making it sound new and new because if i had social
media 35 years ago let me tell you i had a answer machine and a voice company i had check message
hey who called me we didn't have that's all we had in radio right you know what i'm saying we did
tv we thought it was on top of thing man yeah yeah you know but they just put your shit on the radio all the
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So just keep adding to it?
Just keep adding to it back.
Jokes never die.
Just keep adding to it.
It's like music.
You can go see Frankie Beverly, you go see all these old cats.
They're still doing the same music.
People still want to see it.
They never die.
Sometimes they may do it a little different.
They might tweak it, but it's still the same.
People, with as good is good.
You ever notice, people don't remember comedians that are in between.
They always remember somebody really funny and somebody's really bad.
They don't know, they're in between the name.
Who's in between the, shit, I don't know.
I forgot his name.
But the dude, the bomb, that's the one I thought I want to talk to you about.
They remember that, you know, so.
But what about the sets when you can tell to the crowd and heard it all, the promoters like, man, I'm tired of hearing this shit.
I ain't booking that thing no more.
You keep saying that, like, you told me heard your own jokes?
No, not my shit.
I'm just saying, like, I just listen.
If someone to promote it, be like, I ain't booking that motherfucker no more, man.
Oh, look, let me tell you, from my experience, you could tell, you had been doing it twice as low as me.
It don't matter if your shit.
It's some comedians, they don't have no two cents.
Right.
Sometimes they can put the right shit on and dress their shit up right.
Every last one of them motherfuckers work like they're brand new.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But sometimes they're gonna eat the ground.
Right.
It's all in about how they stand in that shit.
Yeah.
Some motherfuckers ain't gonna get booked off.
They don't get booked off.
They get booked off.
They're friends with these motherfuckers.
They don't, you gotta keep your money.
Everybody don't have to do this.
like they didn't get this shit playing out where it's like nigger if I'm cool with six promoters
and they give me three shows a piece nigga I'm working all year right there a nigga ain't
working every weekend some motherfuck like shit I take a show a month but I work every weekend you get
what I'm saying it's like some motherfuckin gonna flow past but some motherfuckin gonna really have to go
get it and all the comedy clubs I hit once a year maybe want me three times a year but I do
every coming club once a year and the theaters I split it you know I might do like this
first part of year from January to May I'm doing all theaters and then from on down I'm
doing a lot of comedy clubs that's how I split it up so I like to go back if I go
in the city I like to wait at least eight to nine months before I go back Bruce what was
your favorite city like when you first went on the road leaving that
not including Atlanta not yeah Houston Texas Houston Texas age time Houston was the
Houston a whole lot different right now.
I'm gonna tell you another city you will believe,
because most people don't believe when I say this,
but to start on in Birmingham.
Well, what?
That motherfucker fuck off the chain.
Start on in Birmingham is off the chain.
That bitch off the chain.
He ain't a way in Alabama.
Bruce Ayers on it, and he talked to you this close.
You know, Bruce, I was, you know,
I was one with Steve Hardy.
And saying about Bruce back up, play, let's give us his way.
I thought you're gonna talk is, I ain't gonna play that.
You know, but his club is out of sight.
It's one of the best clubs in the world.
And in the South, in Burmah.
You tell people that up north, they're like, Brimham, bro.
It's the way it's set up.
It's like a mini, many, many theater.
And it's levels of people just sitting there.
And you can see y'all.
Leeds, Alabama.
You can see it.
And the police do not fuck around.
No, they don't.
I feel like all Alabama.
I feel like Alabama appreciate coming.
Yeah, they do.
They do.
And start on, been there for 50 years, I think, right?
So that, oh, so it's always been a start.
And he got it on the club, guess where you're from?
New Jersey.
From up top.
From the, with the school in the south and stayed there.
And stayed there.
Yeah, yeah, that's a nose.
And people like Birmingham,
because you know, they think Birmingham's still red clay mud.
That's some mansions.
Oh, yeah.
In Birmingham.
Yes, it did.
He got some of that black pussy.
I know what, I know what, kept him.
Property deed, man.
Yeah, yeah.
I ain't going back up top.
That shit make you where you closed there.
Make one of them different.
Some of that Magic City Classic
person.
From that I hear some of that shit.
From that school shit.
Yeah.
We all discombivalate.
But then you know, it's other
comedy clubs out there that are really good.
Like the funny balls are good.
The improvs are good.
I do all of them.
Sell them out.
I did Houston
Comedy Club.
It was smaller before.
It's seated like 300 people in there to see 600.
And I did like 10 shows in that in one week.
I had went on the run that I won't say the name of this particular brand of comedy clubs one time.
Why?
You know how you book a few of them back to back to back.
Do they have two comedy clubs?
They got a bunch of them.
Why don't want to say the name, nigga?
Yeah, man.
I still be working in there.
Okay.
But I had one particular stop where the nigga.
where the nigger, you know how the manager
do the settlement after you do the rent, that shit.
He tried to short me.
Oh, that's why you don't want to say.
I had a whole lot of bread.
But this motherfucker was clearly a drug addict.
And I was like, I can't believe.
Y'all fucking got a whole drug addict running the club.
Like, this motherfucker was clearly on this shit.
Man, that sounds like a club in West Virginia.
This one fucking was clearly on that shit
and tried to short me so he didn't buy the shit.
I'm like, fuck.
Where I made them motherfucking.
motherfuckin' stay there all night calling motherfuckers to get my money.
Let me tell you what happened to me one time.
Years and years ago, he used to be a funny bone in Buckhead in Atlanta on P Street,
right where P Street and Roswell Road split.
When they put the punchline it?
No, no.
It's right where they split, where they built that new little Merrill's shopping mall right there.
You know what I'm talking about?
So I went up there in my Frida Lake truck and you had to audition.
to audition to do amateur night.
So I went up there and I went up there and I went up there to audition so the lady
can call me in office big girl like a Russian prostitute she said oh she was round
you know like you know like your aunt you like bake cakes and stuff and um she called
me to office I'm thinking she's gonna have me on stage she calls me in office to say
do me a minute and 33 seconds I'm like okay
I said right here, she said right here.
I started doing comedy.
She's on the computer.
She's on the computer, she's looking at a watch.
She's trying to see, can I follow instructions?
I did it in three seconds.
She said, okay, you did good.
You can come back night at eight o'clock.
I got out to the truck, I said, fuck this bitch.
I ain't going back up to that club.
So years later went by, I go do this club in Ohio, Dayton, Ohio.
It was called, what was the club called?
she, but it was, I did this club, I walked in and I, and did very well, and I seen this
later, I said, I know this bitch from someone, right?
So when it was time to pay me, she told me, she said, I'm not going to pay you to me
get your phone number, because I'm, I'm attracted to big black guys, and I say, I happen
to be a racist, I said, I do not like white people at all.
And she said, oh, no, you're not racist, you're not racist.
She said, I used to manage a funny ball in Atlanta.
That when they click.
I said, this this bitch that made me audition.
It's like 15 years later.
Don't say, so I didn't say, you know, she said,
you ever went to the funny ball in Atlanta?
I said, never been there in my life.
But she's the one that made me audition for it.
She still wanted that digging lane 15 years.
Oh, she still want me to lay that wood to, I couldn't do it, man.
I couldn't do it, man.
I couldn't do it.
I can put a hump in my back so I can put the hump in the hump back.
That's hilarious.
I'm going to go back and hit it again to get my hump back.
You know what I'm saying?
I remember me and Carlos did a show.
I ain't going to say where is that because we both go there to this day.
No, we both go there.
Packed out all weekend.
The way ideas were set up, it was just the way ideas were set up.
But they was ecstatic because of all the money they made, right?
Oh, yeah.
So he got his check and I got my check.
And they made more money than us off food.
Yes, they did.
So I looked at Los, I said, Loz.
We're tripping.
I think it's time for us to up the ante.
Because we got it.
We just settled because it's just what we were doing.
But I was like, nah, we got to take control of our goddamn brand and our business.
That's right.
We can't go for the deal that we just been going through.
the past six months,
we got to come in here
and it's damn it about time
if you go on by your way
and I got to go on by my way
we were doing it together
but it was like
we need more than this
and we need to have a bigger percentage
and this is what we need to do
and ever since that day
yep, froze their ass out
totally but this is what you got to do
you remember this, whatever the door
do the food and drinks is going
to double it. Right.
I was at one club. I was at one club.
Yeah, I was at one club
and the guys were ready to pay me, and he was on the computer.
He said, I'd be right back, and I looked at the computer.
The door made $78,000.
Food and drinks was $190,000.
So something is wrong with that picture.
I'm like, am I getting pimped like a mother?
Yeah.
I was getting pimped.
Oh, yeah, you got pimped.
But when I came back the next time, though.
Yeah, I need all my.
Got to have it.
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I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant.
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See, that's why, that's why
when they say,
get the dough, we'll take care
of the food because they know for a fact,
if you keep them sitting down,
they're going to eat, drink
all night
long. Over and over again.
All night long. I sold out
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Yeah.
I beat you by a pound.
By a pound.
By a pound.
Let me tell you, you ever heard a comedian named James Gregory?
Yes.
He's a white dude, real southern.
And he talked like this.
It was two old brothers, you know, and then, you know, they had never been to the city, you know.
When he do the Starner, he only do the South East Comedy Club.
They don't even know him up north.
go to the start on he do the whole month he do all four weeks when he go to
Tennessee he do all he do once a money he said they have to bring a but wiser
truck 18 wheeler and parking in the parking lot 100,000 cases 100,000 cases they
say they don't sell much liquor but they sell a lot of beer them good old boys been
there god damn he's fun and the motherfucker you know what I'm saying but he his name is
James Gregory he
got up in age now but he's still funny man but he do every all the clubs in the
south and he do one he do one club a month make a hundred thousand a month
man you was on uh you probably you remember you was on coming to the stage too
yes i host that show yeah i host coming to the stage you know when i fought with you the
extra hard you check master p. about that shit yeah yeah when he was talking like i
wanted to bruce bruce bruce hit it i said because you can't do that
We didn't have to prove your shit.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
You can't pop your shit, man.
You don't talk about it, shit, right?
I'm scared he gonna beat me up, you know?
But you reminded his head.
Yeah, I didn't let him know you.
I throw this carot on your ass, nigg.
I've been practicing this shit for three days.
I'll fuck him up.
But you know, ATL, we front ATL.
We show love everybody.
Music, that's how we are.
People, you know, they ask me, man, how y'all do such?
I say, man, we show love in the A tier.
When, when.
when um two short made all the skinny girl let bruce bruce hit and then yin yang came back
said get crumped with it get loose with it like short said let bruce bruce bruce
everybody always showed love name stapled in the rap name he put me in a song i was uh in
jacksonville florida and there's a club called club carousel it's closed now and i had to open up for big
i never made him i was on stage johnny man he put me in the song hypnotize
And they say Bruce Bruce who, it's a Bruce who do something to us, talk goes through us.
Girls want to do us, screw us, who meet Poppy and Puff.
And he told me, he said, I'm going to put you my shit for real, you know.
Man, you're trying to make a nigga go back and listen to that shit, really?
Yeah.
He said.
He said, Bruce, Bruce, who do something to us, talk goes through us.
But I never will put two and two together.
Yeah.
So it's always love, man, and that's what it's all about.
It's showing love.
You gotta be no fool, but if you can help a person.
Well, that dope is a motherfucker.
Yeah, you'd be able to ride for a long time.
Let me tell you something, man.
Mike else, my right here, man.
Mike called me here, left Atlanta and moved to New York.
He said, man, they want me to audition for Fridays.
I say, what are you waiting on?
And he said, man, I don't know.
I said, man, he's looking for something I like you.
He called me a week later.
He said, guess where?
I said, you got the part.
He got the part.
off like a rocket.
Don't.
Don't.
You just need that push sometimes.
You know what I'm saying?
And let people know you believe in a man and encourage him because don't hate.
Yeah, you weren't never on that type of shit.
You were like a real OG, even though you were slick young in this shit yourself.
I'm a cool.
You ever notice.
You never heard anything about me in the people.
I can understand.
I ain't never heard nothing bad.
You ain't gonna hear nothing.
I don't play that man.
I want everybody in my beat.
You think I'd be on a little bit hip hop on me.
Man, I fight anybody on that show.
Fuck you're talking about.
Football attack on four nigg.
Four niggins.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
But you just, you can stay clean and make money.
Yeah.
Because you brought up, no, he'll bring up, but I'm saying.
It always was solid shit when they talk about you.
Dirty South.
I took her to the Bahamas.
She was on a road me.
Oh, man, I don't know.
She was in the Bahamas.
Crazy.
Yeah.
Dirty Simon weighed by 92 pounds back in the day.
She was going to take her leg and put it all the way up,
just holding up in there like that.
Way about 902 pounds.
Charlotte is Charlie. They thought they were brothers and sisters. People thought they were brother and sisters.
But they look at them now, they're making a living. They're doing, they're doing great things, man.
Yeah. And I'm proud of them. You're a pioneer, man. You know, like you guys, man, I'm proud of you guys.
I appreciate it. They told me that when you come on the show, I was, y'all don't know, I was here 8 in the morning, but they told me that.
I'm sitting at 5, but they said, no, no, 8 to 9. I said, okay, I'm gonna be there, man.
Because I love this texture. I like this. I like this.
to see people win.
It's all about winning.
And that's what community's got to understand
about comic clubs.
You see him brag, but if you're not selling tickets,
you can't put asses in a seat,
and people are not making money.
You need to make money,
and then you can come back and do it again next year.
You know what I'm saying?
Just do it next year.
But everybody, people are so arrogant
and thinking they all that, and you can't say
off all the two tickets.
Right, right.
You gotta sell it out, man, get down.
Can't give away for the two.
No, you have to pay for the room.
They got the paper the room,
And then they got to make the money off the food and drinks.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
And you came from an era where motherfucker wasn't sharing the stage,
wasn't doing, what, putting a nigga on?
Wasn't doing nothing, man.
I see a dude they're going in front of you
and do too much time on purpose.
So you can't do your stuff.
And that's not the way you do it.
That ain't cool.
That ain't cool, man.
I had one show that I was doing, man.
I was in Florida and a dude supposed to do like 25 minutes.
He on an hour and 10.
So I asked to promote, I said, man, you're gonna get your ball on stage?
Oh, broo, bro, bro, back in scared, cause he's ripping.
I say, man, let me tell you something from a business standpoint.
This is a union theater.
It's sure gotta be over at 11 o'clock.
By a certain time.
So when I came off, I said, when he came off stage, I said, since I'm scared, you already
don't pay me.
Do you want me to do the 17 minutes he left me to do?
Or you want me to do the 4 or 5 minutes you pay me to do.
Because see, when you go over 11 o'clock, they charge to promote the fire along the minute.
every time you go over.
And that would have been on him.
He said, do the 17 minutes.
I said, I can't hear.
Right.
Do the 17 minutes.
I would do 4 to 5, just for sure you, man.
I'm scared, player.
Drop the mic.
The bill would have been 500,000.
But see, the people, man, it mean,
because they feel cheaper.
We came to see, Bruce Bruce.
But see, that's the thing.
You got a name when, when comedy was coming up,
like, if you hear your name,
or Bruce was gonna be, like, they're gone.
Like, you're certain people,
you know, you gotta tell what they've been.
been in like oh who it is such and such on who it at man am i going to see that push ad
well bruce yeah bruce bruce i have fun i have fun on stage man i really do man i enjoy watching
watching you as a young end as a young man who didn't understand half this shit that y'all was
saying and then some of the stuff i did you got to understand i'm nine 10 watching comment view
and i'm like these motherfuckers having fun on stage every time y'all was on stage and you were the best
You were the best host.
Well, you know, and they paid me better than anybody.
Pout and shit, like...
Pop it, O.G.
Pop it, O.G.
A lot of them that host, they gave them, like, $50,000, $60,000.
And when I came in, I had the right people on my team,
they gave me $100,000.
100,000.
Women, $100,000 for my clothes.
They have clothes made.
They paid me a half a million.
Mm.
Mm.
You understand what I'm saying?
So what I did, I made sure everybody that was on my team working with me, I made sure
they were taking care of.
Because see, as long as you, you give, give, it's going to come back.
You cannot beat God giving, the more you get in the more he'll get back.
You can't do that 35 years when you ain't did the shit the right way.
That's right, man.
So you got to take care if you.
You cannot have Carlos and DC doing it and then not pay them and then think they still
supposed to be cool.
They ain't nobody cool with that.
Pay the man, keep it moving.
You're going to get it back.
how do you see him how do you see him he can hear what like I said I had to write
people on my team so they call white people you know what I'm saying right now they make sure
I had a hundred thousand dollars just for my clothes I were having suits made and that's what
them niggas was getting paid and you know and then they paid me a half a meal to do
car review but I went down the way we did it was in New Orleans and we was there for 30
days. I did five shows a day of Wednesday,
I was off Monday, Tuesday, and I had my man,
Renardo Ray, who was really coaching me like a mentor,
showing me everything, and then they came back. It was the next
year in Miami called the Caliente, and they had Arnaz-J
hosted, but they called me back to heaven.
So, once again, you're on TV. Now, material is being
shown on television. That's right.
And like you said, you're doing five shows.
This is a lot of being funny.
I'm talking about as a professional,
not knowing what you're going through in life,
but you got to go on stage and handle your business.
That's right.
Now, with this material that you're saying,
you know what, y'all can have.
Yeah, because I still got the material on DVD right now.
Everything I did on BT, I got all that material that I did.
And I was just doing stuff that was on the news, you know.
Current events, crowd, work type of.
So I can do a joke now on President Biden and how he fell back.
and the lady called him, but it really didn't happen,
but I made the shit up.
I said, he fell back real slow,
and lady called me, he said, thank you for everybody.
And then Donald Trump said,
I wish my wife was here,
and he didn't realize she was sitting right there.
He said, I wish my wife was here.
I said, the bitch is right there.
And he don't even see him, so I just made up
to the stupid stuff like, no, my other wife.
Oh, yeah, he don't give it down.
Real wife.
Not this motherfucker.
And I mean, Donald Trump, man.
He just, they believed everything you see.
When he said, make America great again,
Oh, they ate that up.
People ain't voted, 50 years came out and voted for him.
But, you know, that's the way, that's the where we live in.
Somebody was in traffic today, they still got the Trump and Pence stick on nature.
I'm like, bro, they don't take that shit on man.
He's such a bullshit and he convinced everybody, all the white people in America, that he helped everybody.
Why you fuck with Trump?
He's the only person that can help the blacks.
And they believe that.
Hey, especially when he gave that goddamn what, the love, the, what, the, what, the, what, the, what,
what they would be yeah when he said that money through I like Trump ain't
manned them niggins a lot of people have ruined a lot of people I said I've seen
this girl in Woff House in Fayfield and she she came she came over to the table
and she walked a real slice what's wrong with you she said I just went down to
Miami and got my breast done I'm a stomach and my booty done to come back and
work at Woff House I said no she was eating a oh and I say where you get the money she
said the PPP. I said, can you count for that money that you got? She said, well, I said,
well, you're going to be the finest bitch in jail. I said, because you don't got your whole
body fit and you don't got six million? God, and the doctor still laughing at that bitch.
She's got a bread, stomach done, everything, hands done. She's going to be in jail,
fine as a motherfucker.
You know, my people like, Bruce, you know, you can get the money.
You don't have to pay this back.
No, I don't want it.
I don't want it.
You don't.
I don't want it.
They gave my dumb-man cousin's the money.
Well, it's a certain amount.
Yeah, he ain't.
$100,000 on bar.
Come on, man, July 16.
May you know what time it is.
C., Queen City, Charlotte, North Carolina.
We coming to the Bochanger Arena.
With the Bober and Biscuits.
See how excited she was?
That's how excited y'all better be.
July 16 when we come to the QC.
Come to the show.
July 16, come to the show.
Come on.
You got to walk away from the camera.
Yeah, see that?
See that type?
You're working on two things.
QC. Sharp, July 16, O'Hangles Arena.
Come to the show.
Oh, shit, my baby.
She's going to be doing dread and the apocalypse.
She's going to be doing dreads and apocalypse.
If you want your dreads, go to see it.
July 16, she's going to do them for you.
At a discounted price, if you get your tickets today.
She smells your maid.
Smell like incense.
No cats.
She smelled like cocoa butter made from scratch.
made from scratch.
And we were selling
July 16th
and Charlotte, North Carolina
and the boat
down for the grade.
You'll is,
sure is.
So get your ticket.
Come on in here, man.
This is a third grade teacher
and she will be giving out books
July 16th.
Charlotte, North Carolina,
get you a ticket.
Books for the kids.
He ain't even asked for a nothing.
What do you got?
This stupid motherfucker talking about
I am for a bus day ass.
God, what you're getting for?
Man, you ain't gonna believe this shit.
What?
I got no foe for 2200.
I'm like, yeah.
That nigger shit won't be wearing flat at all.
That ain't.
That ain't gonna be able.
You can't tell that niggily in a now.
Hey, man.
I want to find him again, $2,200 more.
That's crazy, bro.
You bleed that dog, Nick, man.
You feel that all that paper.
I was sure.
care of that PPP. I ain't won't. I told them for, I was straight during pandemic.
No man's a lot of questions. What's 22 are me?
All my series is in the fridge room.
I don't know none of that PPP, P.P. P. Money.
No more than 22. He got them. He got them.
I turned. I don't need help.
That's all I had to tell him. Even though I need to help, I don't need it.
You know, we were talking about early how things go around and everything.
When I was a young man, I was managing a restaurant, I told it was a barbecue restaurant in Cobb County.
So I got wrong.
Do you all right, y'all know what it is? You know what I'm saying?
He wrong.
everybody in the restaurant who was sitting in.
He said, what the manager?
They say, he's in the office.
So I'm in the office, I'm in there.
And the way I had the safe set up,
I can turn the knob all the way to the left
and open the safe.
But if I turned it to the right, it's lock it.
So I had to reopen it.
So I got nervous, I turned it to the right.
I said, hey, man.
I said, I'm trying to open the save, man.
Give me the money, and I'm gonna kill you.
You know what I'm saying?
I said, look, man, I got some kids, man.
I gave him the money, man.
He left out of the door.
Man, I seen this, nigga in Kroger,
30 years later in Cascade.
I said, hey, nigga, you robbed me.
Oh.
He said, man, I was on that shit bad, man.
I was on that shit bad, man.
He said, man, I'm going to key.
I told you I'm going to key.
I was going to key.
And it was really him.
Right.
Rob shit out of you.
You don't forget.
My man, that joke took about, I think I had to save about $800.
He took all of us.
I was in crook and I was at the produce.
I said, Nick, you're right.
I'm gonna be like that.
Yeah, man, I was on this kid, bad.
Is he doing better, boys, you don't do it.
He's probably to rob your ass again, you know what?
No, he'd seen Jesus that day, you understand?
Yeah, he would see Jesus.
So I keep the pistols, yes, sir.
Yeah, so.
He ain't going out, babe.
He would touch to him of his garment.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
He got wrong about it, man, talking to somebody.
But you know, the Mexicans got a hustle now, man.
What is?
They stand on the road with a poster.
and they had a wife and the kid in the kid yeah and they say we need to pay our rent
and I like that caught me like four times I really I don't do I gave money to
right now I'm gonna be one see like don't bring them kids into it don't not kids
them are grown folks because I know what you're talking about yeah
they grow for me they grow on little people bro. I caught him on break that little
dude smoking a cigarette we make it work we're making it work we're making it work
Do you know
Do you know
Do you know if they don't have a job
But they're going to stay at home people
Don't know?
Oh, shit
What face they made, Lowe?
Hey, my friends, my friend.
How are you doing?
Bro, they be out there doing school.
I don't know.
Those are my kids, a little bit of people.
People.
We're back.
We back.
We back.
God damn.
Damn.
Y'all only gave me 30 minutes today.
Why that's part of the rush time I see the hair.
They're like, holy!
That's a little bit of person.
That ain't going to be sure you.
A little bit boy man.
Right, I'd be feeling sorry for, bro.
They'd be having them kids sitting on no cardboard boxes and shit.
Hey man, that post would be perfect.
Have y'all read the post?
I mean, they'd be perfect.
Who wrote this?
It's in English, though.
It's like they did it.
Yeah.
But they can't speak no English, but the whole post in English.
That's like, they get one at the time.
When you ask for them?
Hey, man.
It's like they went to Kiko's copier and had that movie.
Somebody selling them, I'm saying.
Read it on them.
Signy.
Signy.
But they're funny, man.
But it's got to be.
Something to it because they add down the time. They get somebody. I'm talking about a different location, but Syed Street
You're like when you you know I want to do it now. I want to do it for real. I want to do I want to get a poster come about there and go out there
I didn't want to see they're going to believe you they're going to know you they're going to be I want to see how I want to see how I want to see what it were how much should be fun is that'd be fun that'd be fun that's a good ad content I ain't I ain't never gave nobody no money who had a dog
y'all all the ball got a dog well I know that dog
I'd be like, how the fuck I get with this?
Man, I had a place in LA for 28 years.
Every bomb, I know had a dog up there.
No.
Every one of them.
One dude walked in the 7.11, man, I was in there.
I thought we were gonna get wrong.
He said, everybody, throw your motherfucking hands in the air.
And wait, I'm like, you get this, dog.
Hey, look at this.
Get your ass out, get out, get out of a goddamn son.
Get out of stuff.
He would laugh, like, but I had to give him five long,
and that's funny.
You had a spotting Callie for 28 years?
28 years.
That money, man.
Yeah, man.
I had a place, and I had a place to, my first apartment was on Hollywood Boulevard between
the Brea and Fairfax, and then I moved in the grove right by the farmers market between
the Brea and Fairfax, yeah.
Twenty-eight years, man.
Comey, man, man.
Oh, man, I mean, you could do what you want to do, man.
I got guys that work for me, I got a guy been with me 22 years.
The guy that used to be with me, he passed, he would have been with me 28 years.
Through the pandemic, I paid them every week for two years.
They was off for two years.
I paid them because if I didn't pay it,
they're gonna be borrowed money from it, so.
Yeah.
You know what I said they're gonna pay right?
That's better than PPD, though, that.
I just wanna make sure they're taken care of, man.
But just do right by me.
You know, just do right by me.
At any moment, I can hit you up.
I'm telling you, man, I'm telling you, man.
I don't have no problem with no money, man.
Yeah, private.
You know, I take, you know, my Christmas, I took
my family to on a cruise took 30 people how you do that because right now I'm
about to cancel the trip I told me we were going I said oh day we're going at
B and we went we went on the cruise and I took 30 people and I took I bought
the plane tickets and everything now in July we go on to Disney World Spirit or
Disney I'm talking about I'm talking about Spirit that you haven't been
fucked up Spirit of Dick spirit of Delta no we flew
Because I fly Delta.
I'm a 10 million miles on Delta.
Talk your talk.
And we went wrong.
And we went right.
That man just dropped this shit like it don't be nice either.
Yeah, right.
So I wouldn't know like package deal because I'm about to cancel this.
D.C.
I paid me everything for my family.
My daughter and her husband and three of my grandkids.
I got 10 grandkids.
And, and my wife.
Because I'm your grandchild.
That's it.
My wife and her sister got six.
That's my nephew right there with the dread.
You were on the trip too, Nick?
Oh, yeah.
Now, he couldn't go.
He had been bad.
He's being bad.
Yeah, he punished.
Yeah, he got punished.
He's still sad about the shit.
That nigg was looking like that while he was trying to do.
But now, now, this is like July we're going to this.
I'm taking this.
Because I'm doing things in the family that we couldn't do.
We couldn't afford to do.
Right. You know what I'm saying?
You remember when you couldn't go the way.
Your mom said, we got to stay home.
You, you're on a vacation.
You're all.
Y'all probably went to griffin to your aunt to y'all.
But that's the only one.
You're going to your grandma out.
Whole spring break.
Man, that ain't going out of town, man.
My baby mom's like, what's gonna do for the kids
for spraying break?
I remember six flag was $1.95
to get in.
$1.95 cent.
The next year, when they went up to $295.
My mom said, then I lost their goddamn land.
I owe a dollar.
They ain't charged $2.95 to get a $6.
Man, she may not go to $0.9.
Hey, man.
Let me tell you something, man.
Man, we live in an apartment in the block, paying $45 a month, right?
My mama, our sister, my uncle, my mother's sister, four-grown people working.
They went up $20 on the rent.
My uncle called him me.
He said, these crackers are lost their goddamn.
He said, somebody got to get a second job.
He said, there's nowhere in the hell he's going to be able to pull it $65 a month.
And they were dead too.
I was standing at the table.
I said, that's a lot of money.
Got them $65 money to kill me.
Hey, hey, look.
They want to kick somebody out of the water.
The other bottle cut was in 1970,
convertible 442, 455, power one of the power, everything.
Car note was $80 a month.
Look, finance it.
Two years, the insurance was $2 extra.
My great ad and said, boy, let me take some.
so you get behind that's a hundred and sixty god damn dollars like to lost that
motherfucker twelve times no more than we're to represent the 12 time man I'm
talking about fully equipped the cut is now saying hey man like the lost it 12
time see the old player didn't play my granddad didn't play man
dahlsky he was black raw your blue eyes I'm gonna talk he didn't play no games
So, my uncle went in the Army, 1967, came home, green break, head turts, sideway, and
shit.
He's going to drive that cutler.
My grandmother said, you can't drive that cutler's to you, get some insurer.
My uncle said, I'm grown.
My granddad said, I was right down when you were born.
He said, well, you ain't driving that country.
He gets a minshare.
Monk said, I'm going to drive it away.
My granddad said, let me get through eating potato pot, then he didn't tell me how you feel.
So I'm thinking that my uncle going to tear his ass up.
He just got out of the army.
Man, my great dad had to slug them off him.
off and through the yard like a lawnmower.
No.
In uniform.
In uniform.
In uniform.
And then he told him going to house
to get your son to eat.
He didn't drive that damn color.
She.
Old school play.
I'll tell my uncle about that now.
He's screaming now.
He's about six to seven and eight now.
He's laying.
He said, you remember that?
I said, man.
Man, my uncle was a trip.
He had a wife, man.
She was about six hundred pounds easy.
He used to climb up in a tree and tried to watch
he thought she was cheap.
My grandmother said that big-ass gal
I ain't going to go no one, but to the kitchen.
Hey, Ruth, which uncle that was, you said, was short, but...
That's my old uncle, talk about the cook.
Hey, tell him how your uncle used to be with the...
He was short, man.
He was five feet tall and a nine eight in the waist.
Looked like an egg with a bell.
That motherfucker.
Yeah, nice.
That mother told me one day, don't make me take that belt off and beat your head.
I'm thinking myself, cheat, I could be in the middle of y'all.
I'm thinking, I'm going to be in the middle of your husband.
Pulling that mother.
Ha!
They're going to still hit me to y'all.
That's me.
How long is that belt?
The belt is fucking amazing.
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Real talk me.
That's what I'm very much.
important, like if you do have nieces and nephews, stay in their life, man, because
it's so easy to get sidetracked with the streets yet, and I'm going to tell you, they
build a jails every day to lock them.
Jail ain't going to play for me.
I got my ex-wife had me locked up, man.
I was in that five days, I came out.
It was a joke in that playing bass guitar like he was Busa College.
Oh.
I said, how long you be there?
About eight months, I got up, moved to the other guy at them side.
I didn't want to sit by this moment.
You're too comfortable in here.
Right.
But it's talented people.
people in jail, but you don't need to be in jail.
I'm gonna tell you, man, I knew everybody there.
Everybody that was working in jail,
I went to school with him.
What you doing here?
She had me allowed to give me the big number,
you know what I'm saying, and they call.
But they was bringing some guys in.
And there was a young dude, he was young,
he was crying, and I walked beside him.
I didn't even look at it, I said, look at man.
I said, I don't know what you're in here for it.
I said, I don't care.
I said, what you need to draw them tears up.
I say, they see any sign of the way.
weakness, they're going to get you. I said, tighten up, wipe your face, try your tears, keep it moving.
He said, all right, he wanted to end up seeing him. He ended up seeing him. He thanked me for that.
He didn't joke in jail. They see you crying, you know. Oh, yeah. They think you weak, man.
Oh, yeah. They're going to take you the truth. I want to go downstairs with a girl. I said, take me with the women at.
He's talented you going to go out. Man, them girls can rape men now, man. Yeah, they will. They will.
Damn, boy.
Jail ain't for nobody, man.
No, not for no real player.
No, not for no real player, man.
It's too much money out here to be made.
Man.
Yeah.
Financial literacy though, man, how you do it, man?
I just got it, man.
I don't blow money.
I make sure I take care of my family.
I take care of bills, and I just, my wife always say, why you got so many cars?
I said, where you got so many shoes?
Well, you ain't buying the motherfucker.
I'm buying you.
You know what I'm saying?
You know what I'm saying?
Right.
Long as ain't nothing lacking at home.
Yeah.
You shut the fuck up.
Right.
I don't like that, man.
I get down.
See, I grew up not having nothing, so when you get something, you got to really hold on
to it.
You know, you got to take care of yourself.
You know, I'm getting people called across the field.
They're like, have you ever ran by a car washing this motherfucker?
Right.
Or when you get gas, can you throw the shit in the trash, the gas station?
Man, that's how women to keep that car, though.
They don't give a fuck.
It's crazy, man.
And let the kids do what.
I don't tell them too much.
You got a joke.
You don't tell him my friend.
I'm telling you something.
When I grew up, shit fucking around and I'm like,
I'm like, bro, tell them throw the chick
Let me let's shit away.
You know that cooch man.
But you got to, you got to teach your children.
See, my uncle taught me how to cook.
My mother taught me how to clean up.
My other aunt taught me how to clean.
My mother taught me how to keep my ass clean.
She said, I'm going to want no stacking air man.
Faye.
Man, I'm taking a shower.
My mom ran there.
Hold on.
Let me show you how to wash your hair.
I'm 17.
You know.
Two rags and one.
One big head towel.
Woo.
Dicked this flank.
If you get this fling.
Yeah, man.
No, you're crazy, man.
Come, white that ass, go straight to his face.
Yeah, man.
Y'all, y'all, you're one for two.
How you were one, my boy?
I just found out you got a U and two, though.
No, I get that ad and I cleaned it back out.
Shit.
I did you found that you got a huge in two?
I have a fan ragged in a man.
Did y'all see on social media,
this lady was 42, 43,
and she started dating the boy that was 21,
And in 2015, in 2017, they had a child, and then in 2019, they had a child.
And she finally realized the dude that she was dating was the son she put up for adoption.
No.
She was fucking the own son.
Probably about that the last minute.
They got two kids together.
So he's a daddy brother.
Uh-huh.
Or an uncle.
He's a brother.
Oh, he's a dog.
He's a brother.
He's a brother.
He's a brother.
He's a bratty.
Hey, braddy.
That's my bratty.
Yeah, he better to cut this shit up.
He'll end up being his own granddad.
He is already.
If he doesn't have a son and they had a little brother.
Fuck the world we live in there, man.
Why have you been doing that shit?
It is, man.
You say you're about to do the special.
Yeah, I'm going to do it later this year, man,
so I definitely want to come back and let you and push it.
But I'm going to do it.
It's going to be me.
It's going to be mine.
I'm creating it.
Target.
Time for.
You don't do it special.
I did it since, in 13 years.
My mother died and 13 years ago,
and I dedicated to her.
I don't know if y'all remember that,
but I dedicated it to my mom.
But let me tell you what was crazy.
My mother passed on a Monday.
No, she passed on a Wednesday,
but I had her funeral on a Monday.
I had to fill my show that Friday.
Mm-hmm.
But I had to get it to them.
I gave it to him in Boston.
Some things just got to do.
You got to push your way through, man.
You got to keep pushing, man.
People don't know the comedians are the most traumatized people.
We just got to find a way to laugh at our pain.
Because we know God got us, and we know it's always going to be a better day.
But that'd be our therapy.
Life is good for the soul.
In that moment, we forget.
That's right.
See, a lot of people go to church, they understand.
The Bible said, Mary Hart is just like medicine.
So, Mary Me Happy, if you keep yourself happy, you heal yourself.
You know, I used to be a preacher back in the day.
Talk your talk.
I did, man.
But God didn't call me, my ex-wife did.
You know, so...
Mm-hmm.
She said, you could do that.
I said, I said, okay.
I'm so stupid.
How many people have you had in congregation?
By 14, I would preach it to.
Oh, oh.
Hey, yeah.
I'm getting it to him, son.
He said, by 14.
My 14.
Because they play with coming up short all the time.
All the time.
Like I told you earlier, the guy that put me in a comedy, he wrote my first say, he used to do a joke about a preacher baptized a dude.
He dipped him.
He kept dipping and said, do you believe?
You know, every time he comes up the dude coughing.
He said, dipping me, do you believe?
He could cough him.
He said, do you believe?
He said, do you believe?
He said, I believe you're trying to drown the shit out.
You know, you know, I used to hang out with preachers for real.
Right.
My cousin old Jack named preacher, you know what I'm saying?
He used to hang out with his other preaching.
I didn't know the preacher carried a pistol on his ankle.
Yes, sir.
So he in the church shout, you know, the Holy Church.
He's shouting the gun and I fell on the floor.
And I said, bam, he looked at him out for this floor.
He said, thank you, Jesus.
He picked it up.
Pick the gun up.
And I'm preaching something else.
Yes, he is.
You don't see in the custom preacher?
Yeah.
There's two three on.
Matthew.
Yeah, Thaddy's.
But it's another one now.
Geno Jen.
Yeah, Gino was crazy, man.
Man, I ain't saying that that is in a minute, though.
No, I ain't seen him in a while.
What about that light skin dude?
Yeah, I definitely.
The light skinned dude who'd be reined out of the Bible.
Oh, the skinny one.
Yeah, he was like, shut up, bitch, you're, you're going to talk about a hole.
No, he'll tell you that in church.
That's a little, that thing.
And people support that.
Yeah.
That is one wild.
That is a wild.
Yeah.
You don't see, Kermy?
Is it Kermy told him to want to be screaming?
Currie Thomas or something?
Yeah, but God!
Yeah.
What about a digger with the spark,
the, what he called?
The miracle water.
That one looked evil.
Peter Pop-off.
He looked evil.
Yeah, with the prayer cloth.
Yeah.
He got the water.
The water he sent to you.
And he said, yeah.
The miracle water.
His name is Peter Popoff.
But why would they show that on B.T.
at three in the morning?
Because ain't nobody seeing that shit.
What you're doing the three in a month?
You're probably sleep race.
It's supposed to be.
But I see that shit.
Yeah.
He'll start coming on after uncut.
He got every monster point in the head.
And it had extremely black.
He died in there every week.
They're going to raid this shit and be like,
it's not fucking water.
It's PCP.
And I'm going to put me in that line, too.
I remember when I got the Miracle Water
and I opened in my mail box, it was $450,000.
I'm like, bitch, look at you.
I paid all my bills and I got money to spar.
What is spark?
Well, we can't walk.
They walk.
I'm running.
Yeah.
I'm African preaching for the head, too.
Oh man, they're fun of them off.
But do y'all know back in the day when there were Indian days, you know, and any, you
wouldn't any smoke the piece, pipe?
That's why I smoked it.
You know they smoke weed, right?
Yeah.
Right.
That was weed.
Right.
They see crazy shit.
Go tell running bull.
You know, they always named the kids by what they see when they born.
So running bull, they saw a bull.
I made this shit up.
I made this shit up, but it was good.
Look, I'm over here like, they do.
I'm just sitting there.
Them Indians, man, them cheap, you hide, I'm on them.
You got to watch what you say.
They watch our shit on the reservation.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, what would they like to call themselves skins?
Yeah, they were trying to give it.
They said I'm going to prove.
My travel tattoo.
Yeah.
They don't want to get that paper.
Yeah, they do.
Yes, sir.
I got to prove.
Yes, they do.
My tribal tattoo.
But Cherokee.
But Cherokee.
some East Coast skin tribe.
It's like the ones that that's lost and they're like,
I'm an Indian, they're like, when you ain't really got no paperwork.
So who are you, Cherokee, that cool?
Cause when I had to do the movie over there in Montana,
yeah, we had skins in the movie.
And we had like 40 different tribes.
You know me, I'm gonna, I ask questions, I don't get a fuck.
When God plays my footsteps at, I gotta ask,
I ain't just gonna look at you and not ask like,
what that mean, bro?
You feel, me?
are you where you from they I'm talking about they telling them a majority of them
migrated from Canada yeah and they came down and it's a lot of skins in Canada
and what if they came up but if a lot of people don't understand don't look
they look like Mexicans yeah they do that's because they are booja that's what I
want you to know that's the thing about it everybody we're all Mexican
They look, Mexicans here just waiting to happen.
Yes, they do.
They'll put a roof on the house in one day.
And they're gonna start on another roof that same day.
No care.
And let you know, I got two jobs, me know.
At least get it set up in the morning.
They get it set up.
You ask one message he brings back eight.
You're like, hold up, hold up.
Everybody, no payroll.
No one, I got it. You pay me and I pay them.
Yeah.
I'm like, I'm only giving you a hunter.
I don't say it out loud.
I said, I said,
How much are you paying that motherfucker?
That's funny.
That's part of the above.
Guys, they're insensitive and racist.
Hey, the Mexicans, a fair rate.
Blacks and the Mexicans get along great.
They're both good people. They're the best people, aren't they?
Don't we like the blacks and the Mexicans?
I learned that shit.
from Trump. We got the best Mexicans, the best blacks.
Give it up for my African-American.
You're the best.
Look how I'm standing over there.
Oh, you're seeing him better.
What's talking about Trump?
He farted in a motherfucker, man.
It's a clip of Trump where he came out and said,
you know the blacks built this country, you know that, right?
Yes, you guys built this, did a fantastic job.
He said that shit?
Yes.
He did.
He said, you guys did a fantastic job.
Good job.
You did a fantastic job.
You know you built this, right?
Donald Trump was true.
That motherfucker funny, man.
He really gets the white people going.
What do you have to lose?
I was like, ooh.
Hey, bro, what he said?
That shit, he knew he was going to win.
He said, your school, your educational load, the crime waiters.
African Americans, what do you have to lose?
Yeah, what's right?
God damn, niggins in the crowd like shit.
You know, you got a boy.
He's going to really be.
pandering the black people look at what Joe Biden did he fucked you bitch and the click
you claim and listen America before I go broke like junk I fuck with a dog like
Vic knock that rock that bitch that they have no stats with his shit he just
say the shit and that'd be it they got shit to back it up the blacks are dying at a
record number nobody wants to say
anything they just need to have a fan right there every time he get on the
podium you need to put a fan right there so that's gonna fuck him up
he got a shag under back I like how you say some of this some of that should be
the truth and then it'd be a lie at the end yeah some shit they could never
happen you know dragons are eating people in record numbers people are scared to
go swimming I'm gonna get people back swimming I'm gonna take care of it
The white foote would be behind him.
Cheese like a bull.
Listen, Donald Trump said the dragons are eating people,
and he's going to do something about it.
I do those goddamn Harry Potter movies
that looked a little bit too real, you know what I mean?
It's right there in the movies.
What is it?
It's right there in the movies.
They put it in the movies.
They're doing magic, and dragons are eating people,
but we know he's going to take care of it
because he said he was.
They believe it.
Well, let me tell you something.
I remember, I don't know what the fuck we was at.
Some white woman just got rage out of nowhere and just got on the phone.
I'm literally behind the car waiting on my people to get out of the car.
So I'm saying, I'm minding my bit.
It's a beautiful day.
This bitch got behind her car.
I was on the phone like, yeah, and Donald Trump, he's the best.
What Obama do?
I said, bitch, fuck you.
She said, I'm calling 911.
I said, what the fuck?
And then he said, that bitch, it started with me.
That's how it be, though.
I got the fuck on, though.
I was scared here.
I'm gonna get back in the car, y'all at home California.
You know, Obama, he's at home chilling, man.
He ain't studying that shit.
I ain't standing that.
Damn.
He got my house in Asthma, Carolina.
Yeah.
And he's chilling like a villain.
He gonna call you.
You're gonna be like, why did you tell him I stayed in Africa?
35 years in the game.
He can come.
Before we get out of here, you gotta give us,
give us the secret just staying in the game.
35 years.
35.
The secret is staying consistent, staying true to yourself and true to the people.
Because when people love you, they're going to come see you.
They're going to come see every single time.
And just keep a little ahead.
Don't lose your mind.
Fuck y'all.
Fuck all your.
You got time to do that.
Just, hey, thank you.
Have a great night.
We'll see you next time.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
People are going to come to see you, man.
How people come to see me all the time, man, just from years and years and years and
And they're going to support you.
Just stay consistent, stay humble.
You're the greatest, man.
Yeah.
But get that money, baby.
First and foremost.
Well, you know what we had in our new spot.
I like it, man.
That's your first time over here.
I like it.
Don't let it be your last.
It won't be, man.
I'm going to come back, man, because I'm going to promote my DVD when I do it, man.
I hadn't decided what I'm going to do with that, but I'm going to do more than 30 minutes.
Most of these guys are doing 30 minutes.
I'm going to get to him.
Come on.
I'm going to get to him.
I'm going to get to him.
I've been working on the road now, so it's going to be good.
Oh, shit.
There you have it, folks.
85 South show, Bruce Bruce.
We out of here.
Yeah.
Let's take a picture.
Let's do it.
For the memories.
Let's do it.
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