The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - Gail Bean In The Trap! with Karlous Miller

Episode Date: June 23, 2021

Star of Fx’s hit show “Snowfall” and the possible cousin of Chico Bean😂😂😂 Gail Bean drops by the trap house for a real funny conversation with the coldest in the game Karlous Miller. They talk Great family members on crack, The process of getting into the acting game and Playing the character Wanda on FX’s Hit show. She breaks down how she experienced real crack heads in real life and how she brought that to her character And Karlous concocts what role would be his introduction role on the white Hollywood sitcom. Karlous Miller tells the 85 percenters about about going back on tour. Gail Bean talks about her new boyfriend and the rest of her family life. Karlous gives us his Rihanna accent. Wanda talks about the originality of the 85 south live show and going off the dome. Gail bean gives her opinion on Moniques “bonnet in the airport” commentsAnd Gail tells stories of John singleton on the set! #fx #snowfallHit Our Website for more info: https://www.85southshow.com/Get our custom merchandise: https://85apparelco.com/Subscribe To our Channel: bitly.com/85tubeWATCH KARLOUS' MILLER's COMEDY SPECIAL! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/karlousmil...FOLLOW THE CREWKARLOUS MILLER - https://www.facebook.com/karlousm/DCYOUNGFLY - https://www.facebook.com/DcYoungFly1/CHICO BEAN - https://www.facebook.com/OldSchoolFool/Director - JOE T. NEWMAN - www.ayoungplayer.comProducer CHAD OUBRE - https://www.instagram.com/chadoubre/Producer - LANCE CRAYTON - https://twitter.com/Cat_Queso157It's Jon - https://www.instagram.com/holaj_o_n/ Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I thought she was a witch that didn't like to talk All right I know I'm gonna hold it I'm gonna hold it up and open it on there. We got some more. What's up? We're rolling trains over here. Yeah, I love this. Y'all got to stop stealing out of my PO box gifts.

Yeah, y'all be leaving it up there too long. That's hard. That's hard. We are going to be a lot of things and we're going to put it to be a We are going to do it We are going to do it Are you guys We're going to be in a

We're going to be in a Friday man We are going to do it Friday night How are we sound, Kat? Hello. Hello. Hello. Kay, you've been watching snowfall.

Hell yeah. Right, I'm watching snowfall. That's my shit. What you're going to get you're going to need you for something. I got. I'm going to throw up in the top of a top of our top of all my mind what is Kiyos be sticking in the gull and coming like a shot time. Like that you got to go on that bitch you'd be level.

Like that girl squad, I put it on in the Zobba. I've got different designers all over. Cool so cool to the top of the Rossbrook truck. You know's going to go by. Bech through it all by. I say she's your front line coming through by the soldier out. Now that you got my attention to you've been on. What you've been on this week, J-O-N?

What a new shit at? What a new shit at? My neck had to go down. Like a coldine. I'm blow up a leave. I'm full on this bitch. Now she's so boss. Stellum, McCartney and death are so nerdy.

My feet was a birdie. Oh, yeah, that's eat. Brother Mar-Aroddell, oh, yeah, that's eat. I can put it on a scale, oh, yeah, that's eat. Oh, you don't know. That's beat. Got a bisexual girl, that's eat. Do a professional girl this.

No, man. We don't one in August. Man, Slick. South Carolina August 28th August 28 I'm gonna make sure you have a Kay you got to bring

you got to bring the Chevelle and the Grand National out man I'm gonna make sure you I'm gonna make sure you have it ready we're coming deep What's up, Miss Lady? What's up? Tell me something good.

Man, I'm working on a new project that I think I'm going to make the city proud. Okay, bet. We're about to talk about it. That's what's good. We're about to talk about all this shit. Let's see. What else is good? Shit, a lot.

I'm still alive? Yep. You know what I'm saying? Good acting there. Shit, I ain't got no fucking kids. Yeah, they're coming. They're coming. They're on. on your ass.

They on your ass. You don't got more. I got no kids. And niggas is grammar too. Niggas is posting Woman Crush Wednesday of you ass Wanda now. Man, this is, they be like, look, I have been the type of shit that I've seen.

I've seen it too, that one, I'm telling you. You've been... Niggas is wild. Man, niggas is out here thugging with it. I'll be ready in a few minutes, y'all. Just waiting on Craig to get me this blunt. What is it? I'm in my bag, trying to get one.

I am. Quit touch of shit. Right now. I'm deep in my bag. I'm talking about, I'm like, I'm up to the elbow part. Okay. You jumped in that motherfucker with both feet. Man, I'm trying to get to that shoulder.

Hey, by the end of the year? Shit, about it beginning of the summer. Oh. I ain't planned. I ain't fucked that. Big bag summer. Yeah, because this shit so day-to-day. It could be at any moment now.

Right. You know. I just be throwing shit. Look, something's gonna stick. Look, something's gonna stick. Something about the stick. I always tell people that blessings gonna spin the block. Oh my Lord.

Oh my Lord. They always be worried about the bad karma, but they don't never say anything about the good ones. I tell people all the time. There's some good karma out there too. That's why I stay trying to, you know, put my hands on everything. Two-Chane said something a long time ago. He said grimy.

He said, He said, it was a speech, he was doing grinding, grinding and timing. He was like, just grind, grind, grind, don't worry. Your grind gonna catch up with the time. I know, I hope so. He said, it's grinding. You know, that nigga been named after name, two chains, player circle, uh, titty boy?

I call him titty two necklace. Titty two necklace. Titty two necklaces. Like, two necklaces behind the queen's two titty. Because it's two chains, really, you know, like he titty boy, and then he said he titty two necklace. I was like, that's the coldest shit, you know. Titty, two neck of a sit.

I really wish my name was Titty boy. If you had another name, what would it be? If you had to re-brand, re-brand. Like if I had to pick like a Hollywood name? No, like a, okay, you're funny, but then, like, say you was funny, like, back in the day, Red Fox funny, and then you kind of came back out, but you maybe, like, colored your hair and got a little... You just look younger now.

What would your name be? Salvador Toricio. That's how, niggas will introduce you on the story. how niggas will introduce you on the stage. Stalwood, or Dick Wolf. Dick Wolf. Yep. That's something my favorite name is

Dig Wolf. Uh-huh. Emilio Estevez. Uh-huh. Mr. Balducci. I just want to be important as fuck and somebody come out and say, Mr. Balucho, what's you now?

Yeah. That's it. Yeah. You know, I came and seen y'all at Fox. At the Fox? I didn't. Craig, what the hell you do this blunt? Y'all did good.

Y'all did great. Craig towed this blunt all the fuck up. Craig, all these new rolling tracks, you're gonna make me roll a blunt. You are fired as the blunt. I'm so proud of y'all. Two minutes, everyone, two minutes. Can't smoke this ugly blunt on camera, Craig. 85.

Since you smoke a lot, have you ever like this? Did you ever like did the mask stuff? You know, I have a mask. Yeah, the mask where you like get super high. That's for young motherfuckers who just started smoking them. So you never did like the bongs and the mask? I don't smoke them bitches. I do not smoke no bong.

That is child abuse to your lungs. I'm talking about one hit, I'd be high all day. I know motherfuckers who wake up hitting the bong with patron in it and ice. Oh shit. All types of shit. I don't fuck with it. That is, Tina Bon with your patron? Motherfucking had a patron.

What's the other shit, ever clear? Oh, oh, yeah. They're trying to die twice. Ooh. Yeah. Oh, is this the countdown to bring us on the show? Yeah, we work. No, that's not the count.

That's just the clock that we use to keep time. But we got all the time in the world. Still two minutes. I got my other blunt. Okay. You need anything? I'll probably get another water. Thank you.

No, we got a fridge full of water right here. Yeah, we got water. Oh, I appreciate it. Yours ain't cold. No, no, I'm gonna take it out. I don't like cold water. You want a Capri-San? Look, Nalos. I can't be on the fucking cat. Do you see my lips?

They look beautiful. Can't be on the camera sucking down a capri-side straw? They're gonna be like, at minute, go to minute, 2115. Oh, they're gonna do that in the week. They're gonna be like, like, Go to minute, why it's one to put that shroud in her mouth? They gonna do that in a way, what? Go to minute, 215.

I'm telling you now. They fucking with it. Mm-hmm. What's the only fans, bro? Hey, get the fuck out the camera. That's what they're gonna be like, oh my God. They're like, look, look, look, yeah. It's gonna be a GIF.

You know them aunties on Facebook didn't know you was acting. They had the Wanda picture and the Instagram picture, like, she's doing so good. No, it's the ones who people feel like I went, someone posted Rashida from Insecure and then Wanda from Snowfall. And it was like, what happened? She was a lawyer and now she, like, yeah, they don't know. I don't know it. I don't posted a couple and feel like, oh, my God. It's one guy he started to save Wanda.

Like, each time he did something, thank you. He just wanted to give you that. That's Dad. Thank you. You all, we posted Thirst Trout. Everybody on the squad down, I followed him. One of them, okay, got it. You're single.

Thad ain't had a shirt since November. As soon as we said, this lame on camera, that nigga had a thousand shots. Like that, you'll get your good face on. Him and Roy. God damn Roy put a flower behind his end. I was like, you did this on break. You got both nipples in the picture, Roy.

Roy turns on both nipples. Jay and Wham be doing them, I am pretty for those shoes. Go to my store if you want to see what I did. This man can be close to the camera. These bitches gonna see these eyes. Oh my god. I don't even know why they're trying. I don't even know why they're trying.

Craig get all the holes. I love Craig. That nigga posts a picture with crumbs on his lip. And they got... Oh. Oh. Oh.

Hey, Joe changed his Instagram every time I said, don't care me. Hey, man, he's smoking Joe. That bitch to be like, Joe from the Schmole. God damn cat on the 85 South show page argue with CNN, these bitch-ass niggins. I'm like, cat, cat, cat, you can't get political on the brain page.

Can't be doing it. You can't be doing everything on the world, man. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Yeah, buddy. All right, let's get some, let's get some motherfucking order in the court. All right. J O.N., how you feeling

the day. Not a man, many words. I felt like that answer was not enough for you. He was waiting on more. It's plenty for me. It's the people who watch the show. They'd be like, man, you don't never let J.O.N. say nothing. They act like when the cameras is off, I'd be like, you better not see shit.

I'll make sure that nigg is Mike there every time we get on this goddamn show. He don't want to say nothing. You've always known his name as J-O-N? No, it was John at first. Oh, okay. Then he changed it. Okay. Because I kept like, hey, John, he would not answer me.

So he's J-O-N formerly known as John? Yeah, but if you call him John. Yeah, he told me it. Nothing. Okay. He is committed to that. Okay. I saw his own brother call him John once.

I think he kept walking. What if you did? What if you did that? Just break your name down. No, it's K-A-R-L-O-U-S. Carlos? No, K-A-A-R-L-U-S. It's too long, huh?

What's y'all, what's your mama man? Okay. I don't talk to it anymore. His voice should be, he'd be trying to sound too sexy. I hate this name. Hey, no, she got some weed? No, man. Fucking phone sex operator voice ass dick.

Mm-hmm. That's why they all hate me. I'll be talking about all these niggins right before now. They love him. Mm-hmm. These gay stand me. You were over there checking if we unfollowed you. Dad, we don't want to see your fucking chips.

Look, damn, before this phone now. I'm gonna go and tell you, they all unfollowed you. They all unfollowed you, Thad. All the viewers will follow you. No, they won't. They don't know how to spell Thad. No, they don't, bro. I'm telling you.

All right, Kat. What's Gail Bean sound like over there? Oh, thank you. She sounds beautiful. All right, close your ass. Say something, Gil. Something. Oh.

Y'all ready to get this shit started. All right, welcome back to the eight-past-south show. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Stop everything, man. Stop everything. We get some very important people in here sometimes. Now, check this out.

We got one of my favorite new actresses in the building. She over there, killing shit, over there on snowfall, and all kinds of various other projects. You might see her pop up on insecure or something. She is just a dope-ass. black woman doing her thing. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe it's Chico Bean cousin.

Yo shit's a little, McGill Bean! I believe you're... Are you Chico's cousin? That's the first question. You sure? It ain't a lot of beans. You know what? Bean is not my last name.

Come on now. But see, I didn't want to get people illegal because then I didn't want them to be digging. Well, damn. Yeah. We're going to stick. We're going to roll with Beans. Is that his last name?

Yeah. That's his real one. Oh. It's Chico his real first one. Nope. Okay. Y'all might be related. You see how y'all be in there?

Yeah, yeah. All right, man. Okay. What's been going on, man? Man, ain't shit. First of all, it's good to see you. You look amazing and great and all those. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. You doing your thing, and you're killing it, and you act great as fuck and super talented. I mean, look, I'm just trying to stack and stay out the way. You do it a damn good job. You're doing it a damn good job. I mean, you are America's favorite show right now.

Oh, thank you, America. Yeah, like the whole, the whole cast, the whole America. The whole America. Oh, yeah. I can't speak for the white people because I don't know them like that. Okay. I mean, I know a few of them. The ones I know watching.

Okay, okay. And the ones that haven't seen it, they're like, I didn't know. I'll check it out. Okay. I don't know none of the ones who just like, nope. Okay, I take that. I'll take that. I appreciate that.

Man, just give me the whole rundown. How did we get here? Well, you? Let me just say congratulations. This is fine. This is fine. I walked in, and I was like, oh. You know, then they told me, you know, we're fans,

but we're just being, you know, nice and everything. And I wanted to be like, oh, my fucking God, this nigga I came up. But I was just like, oh, this is so nice. They don't know about the ground we was out here. went down way before all the lights and cameras and action. I've seen you grind. Back when I was in school, you was really getting it like in the slave dungeons.

Come on. Like really chopping bricks. Like, this is beautiful. This is beautiful. Thank you. Just to see you on your whole journey. So, you know, when we first met, it was Cloud 9. Come on.

Shout out to Rose Ride. He did People Connector. Yep. And I just used to come up there and try to get any. gyms that I could. So just witnessing you guys grinding day in, day out, and watching all the seeds that y'all planted

come to fruition has been inspired. And I feel like all the things that I've learned here, you know, I'm from here, from Stone Mountain. Come on now. Really helped me when I went to L.A. and was grinding and being able to see like, oh, it takes time, but it's coming. You know, just don't give up. Stay down

and come up. And then, you know, one day I see you on Wilden out. One day. And I said, motherfucking Carlos' ass, the damn gig. Had to. Shit. Come on.

So, I mean, I just, I went out there. It was audition after audition, a million owes. Yeah. I remember every single one. But. I heard the rumor. What? Tell me.

I heard you was this close to being in the past all later. Listen. I know people. Listen. Your name came up. It depends on how much you're gonna pay. Do you remember the pine saw lady? I remember the pine saw lady.

She was kidding. It would have either been her or I would have gladly been the Popeyes lady. No. Yes! No! Yes! Fuck no! Why not?

She's making monies! To me, she on the same level as Flo. Progressive. She... Who don't eat that Popeyes? And they came out with the chicken sandwich? Rebranding. All right

See, because Burger King Tried it with Mary J. Blatt. I've never seen that. What? Because, exactly, it was a fiasco. I never seen that. Yeah, she was singing about the chicken sandwich or everything. Well, see, I can't sing.

Well, I'm just saying, I never said you couldn't. What would I do with Pinesaw? You would take it to another level. Okay. Yeah, man. Mm-hmm. So what was that? grand like it, L.A., especially being from the South.

And that's a very strange place. You know, they look down. Well, I will say this. Everybody, L.A. is the place where it's a, it's an air of, like, who are you and what do you do? And why do we give up? Right. And they'll not be doing what I'm doing. It's a hint of that in there, too. Okay.

When you're leaving, nigga. Yeah. Oh, okay. Okay, okay, I thought you were saying, I better not be doing what you're doing. No, you're going. I was like, what you're doing? They don't like what you do out there.

Yeah, yeah, it's not a collaborative, supportive. And going there is definitely like starting all over from the scratch from bottom light. If you did a lot to them, it's like you've done nothing. Because you didn't do it there. Exactly. Excuse me. So going there, like I said, I didn't know anybody. So it wasn't like I was plugged in and had nobody to ask or call.

I was literally like, okay, God, I'm going to need you to be my agent, my manager, my publicist, and get me in the door somewhere. Right. So I was, like, on Actors Access, on L.A. casting, like, looking up auditions online, like, really trying to get my foot in a door. Right.

I ended up submitting to a boutique agency out here. Because as soon as I moved there, I had just got my agent, like, right before I moved. My very first agent here. And then I moved, and she was like, oh, you're in L.A., I'm going to have to drop you. Stupid. So I was like, damn, she didn't even ask my situation. Like, you didn't know if I could fly back and forth, self-tapes.

And I asked her, and she was just like, nah. So I said, okay, cool. Well, you know, thank you for your time. She wasn't a good agent. She wasn't. It's cool, though. Then I told my husband, I was like, damn, I don't know what to do. That was my first agent.

Like, I'm really lost. I don't know what to do. He was like, just submit to some agencies in the Southeast, submitted to one. And this lady called me, she talked to me on the phone for like an hour, and she was like, okay, I'm gonna sign you. And I think that year she sent me four auditions. And I tell people all the time, it's not quantity is quality.

She sent me four, I booked one, and that went to Sundance Film Festival. And that brought, like, so, it garnered so much attention and exposure. I got Next Generation 10 breakout actors. I got, like, a bunch of stuff. Thank you. That's what we do over here.

Thank you. We celebrate that type of shit. I like that. We don't wait until some shit happening to tell you you great. We'll tell you right then. Thank you. Oh, okay. All of y'all, I hope you all have a nice life.

Yeah, we're fucking with you over there. So then, like, other agencies and management companies were more so knocking at my door. I decided to, you know, stay loyal and wait. I was like, I want to give my agent a chance because she got me this. She was black. She was very educated. She ain't black no more? She is black

You're right You're right Should be happening What's the baseball guy Sammy Sosa Yeah He did that shit on purpose That didn't shit happen to him

Okay, but Michael Jackson did not do it on purpose No Okay, that's all that No Okay You sensitive? I'm just saying Michael Jackson is a fucking legend

Okay I mean I'm sorry And the thing is, like, I feel like I really hurt you. I got this conspiracy theory that we really don't even know what he looked like. Because we never got to see him. Because, like, when we saw him, he was already Michael Jackson. Like, how much of that shit was just like, we seeing him as like, ah, how much of that shit was really there?

You have? Yep. Okay. Because I was following you, but then I got lost in ways. But I'm saying, like, we didn't remember. see this nigga like, man, that's Michael Jackson. We saw this nigga as

Michael Jackson. Okay. It was some extra hype on that shit that we saw as fans that wasn't really there. You know what I'm saying? Uh-huh. That's all I'm saying.

Okay, so then who of this generation is, like, Michael Jackson level? Like, we only seen them as... Beyonce. We seen her when she was Destiny Child, Beyonce. That's Michael Jackson, Jackson 5. Okay. Started out with five members

Okay Maybe six Okay He might be right And she was what Talented as hell Exactly But how long she'd been doing this

Since she was Michael Jackson age You seen the old tapes The clips in the documentaries and shit Okay, you're right Yeah She was definitely born to do this Let me see, she's the only one Yeah

She'd make movies who else I'm just saying she made movies and cartoons can't nobody's talented stupid talented she's extremely talented you ask

I would not say actor or voiceover but can get on that stage I'm saying as a whole now I didn't see Lion King but I did see what was it Austin Powers

killed She killed it. She killed the whole series. She was not in Fosy Brown, was she? Oh, okay. I was talking, wait a minute. You are not? No.

I should be. I'm just saying, I feel like it. Okay. So, yeah, I mean, shit, that's basically the just. I got it, AJ. That shit kicked off, and then I gave her about a year, and things was kind of like slow motion. I felt like we had, she had the momentum from Sundance,

and I didn't feel like she delivered. Right. So then I was like, you know, business move. I love you. You've been great. I got to take my talents elsewhere. Got with my agent that I'm with now, innovative artists, my management company.

Oh, thank you. I think some great agents. It's like you go over there and they listen and they got all these different departments and people, like, know you when you go over there and fond and accounting. Oh, my God, I love Fawn! I just love Fawn!

No, y'all, he for real. Like, Fawn is a real person. I know she is the money person. If it's anything that's not right, I call, I got Fond ass on Speeddial. Like, yeah. You're right, you know. Fond called me before I call.

I know you're going to call. We're working on it. No, listen, because you remember, straight out of Compton? That scene with Ice Cube, when he went in there? Listen, I was going to have one in a moment So now that day has is on speed down Right

But no, I love fun I love innovative And I'm with anonymous content And when I say they fucking work their ass off Right They grind Like people, I know a lot of people That complain about their reps

And they come to me But I'm like, I'm really happy Like they make sure I'm working And they like you said they listen I say hey this is I'm open to audition for everything but I'm not going to take everything but I feel like auditioning

is exposure and exposure leads to expansion so I can get this castor director maybe casting for something else in the future you know they may know

someone else who they could recommend me to but yeah they put me out there man so what's the whole overall experience been like you know going from

the audition hustle waiting on a lot of shit to happen you know being in that grind, and now it's like, shit, you don't have time to do it. And these jobs are calling you, like, I can't, I can't. From looking for the work to turn it down to work. That's what I'm saying.

So it's still not so real to me. Yeah. Like, the show I'm working on now was a straight offer, which is fucking mind-blowing. Don't you love those? Oh, it's so mind-blowing. Look at all that, wrink of my boy. I'm back in for an audition.

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podcasts. Yeah. Like five, I went in five times. Damn. Same role. And it was like, okay, now it's a callback. Now it's the director session. Now it's this.

But that's the industry. That's the grind. That's the, and in the beginning, I mean, when that happened, the cast and love me, creator love me. I almost said the network. The network was like, nah. See, that's the one thing that the pandemic is going to change, though.

Ain't nobody got time for no fire fucking callbacks, man. Oh, yeah. You get what I'm saying. Get to the point. Stop playing with these black actors and actors. They ain't calling people for them for nothing and wasting people time. We got that other guy. He's coming up there.

Come on, man. You want or not? Come on now. So, yeah, that's a beautiful thing. Like, it came back around. And when it came back around, it was like, hey, we want you. So what's your schedule like? I was like, I don't know what snowfall doing, but we'll see.

Man, tell me about snowfall, man. Did you ever think that the shit would get to this level? Listen I'm talking about It's a It's a blockbuster Snowfall been on my radar Since 2015

2015 But see That's the speaking Things to exist You say you're trying to get the bag Duh Like I spoke that shit

It's to existence So you say You're trying to jump off with it Before summer It can happen Oh yeah I already know Like

Snowfall It was on the radar And I sent it to my reps Like hey I'm very proactive and they're cool with that. I'd be like, hey, check on this. I heard about this.

What's going on with this? Is it a role in there for me on this project? Right, right. Because I feel like shit, we all need to be working. So if I hear something, I'm going to tell y'all. If y'all hear something, tell me, I'll tell them all the time. Look, send me scripts. If you got clients that have written a script and they're looking for it, send it to me.

If you hear about a book adaptation, send it to me so I can jump ahead of it. I could already read the book. But I'd been telling them about Snowfall, and then they were like oh we checked it there weren't any roles big enough in it for you and I was like oh fuck they were like uh it was older roles it's already cast then there was a recasting because that was when it was like derated Lauren um a couple of people and then there was a recast of the pilot so I was like hey they're recasting now is there a role now that's big enough for me that you feel um that's not cast yet they were like no but we'll keep an eye out and when I first moved to

LA, I was like, I can't leave because I don't want to miss nothing. Like, if an audition come, I need to be here. Finally, I was like, you know what? It's my birthday. Some friends were shooting a web series, so I went out to Chicago. Soon as I fucking get to Chicago, I get an email

for an audition for Snowfall Season 2. I said, what the fuck? The one time I say, I'm gonna just go. You know what I'm saying? Get your old ass back. I said, okay, I'm out of town for my birthday. Can I, can I, is there any way we can reschedule it?

They was like, no, but they will take a tape. I said, okay. So I'm filming all day. The DP was like, oh, I'll put you on tape for your audition. It was a long-ass day, though. So afterwards, he was like, can we do it tomorrow? I was like, no, I'm ready. I'm ready.

So the director was like, I'll take you. Super cool. My cast member was like, I'll read with you. So it was after a long, when I said long, long day. more than 12 hours. It was like, I think we was doing 16, 18-hour days on that. Shit. Yeah.

And they was like, well, we'll tape you. So we go in one of the rooms in the office. They put me on tape. I send it. And then I got an email back. And my reps were like, casting loves you. They want to know when you'll be back. Oh, now it's when I'm going to be back now.

Yeah, that's the game. So I was like, oh, okay, I'll be back this day. So it's like, okay, cool. They want you to come in person for a chemistry test. Did you study for the chemistry test? Was it hard? Did you know the formulas? I'm just fucking with y'all.

Stupid-ass little dumb? Okay, I'll tell you what happened. So I left Chicago, came home real quick, was kicking him with my brother then. That's when D. Ray, his thing came out, his stand-up on Netflix. Okay. I watched it with my...

And I believe in omens. So I watched it with my brother. I was like, hi-ha, this is funny. Went back to L.A. It was a sofa like this and a sofa. like a single individual chair right there. I get to the chemistry test. He's sitting right there.

I was like, I didn't know him, had never met him. I was like, what the fuck? I texted my brother. I was like, I'm about to boot this shit. Cadi right here. We just watched this nigga stand up. I was like, so then I was like comfortable.

Shut up to D-Rae. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, fuck shit. It's crazy. He was in Memphis, he was there, and he fucking was on this shit. Oh, shit. Crazy. He's good people.

Yeah. So, yeah, Isaiah came. He played Leon. He came. We talked a little bit. I was like, oh, you know, we used to be in the same class, but not in the same. Like, we both took acting here, but at different times. We were at the same school.

So we had never met. And I was like, oh, I heard about you. He was like, I heard about you. And it was just cool. I think that kind of just, like, broke the ice. So then when we got in the room, there was chemistry. instead of it kind of being a little awkward and weird. And that shit hit.

That shit hit. Listen, we walked in there. It was, the room was so small, and it was like 13 people in the room. So I was like, where are we supposed to act at? But I think I had maybe that chair to the end of this table. And I was like, even if we're in their face, we're going to give it to them. Raw. Raw.

Well, I'm glad that shit happened, man, because the shit you bring to the character. Thank you. Thank you. Like, the timing is crazy. Thank you. And Wanda as a character is just so funny. She has came a long way. You feel me?

Like I thought, when I booked that, I was like, oh, I'm gonna be so LA, I'm gonna have the nails. Because the description said, round away girl. So I was like, bad. I was so excited, like, oh, I'm about to kill it. And then she got on drugs, and I was like, wait, what? I was like, this bitch smoking crack. She's on the glass?

I was like, wait a minute. I was like, oh, shit. Okay. It's like, that's it's real. But, yeah, I was like, okay, y'all keeping it real real. Yeah, you're digging deep, man, because that shit is so far from the person you are in this life. Thank you.

Where you get the inspiration from? Family. For real? Yeah. Man. Yeah. I got to pay. I'm going to be honest, I had some really great family members.

that was on crack. No, I'm serious, though. Like, that's just, like, black people, they know. White people would be like, oh, my God, really. Yeah, we didn't even do a documentary about all our crackhead family members. Like, they was really on crack. But they was, I loved them. But I've only, what I do love about Wanda,

I'm young enough to where I've never seen a crack head pre-crack. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. Older people, they've seen folks before they got on. crack. But when I was born, people who was going to do crack was already doing it. So it was good to like

see, I feel like with Wanda, exactly how that happened, exactly how I experienced it, I'm sorry exactly as I experienced as a person, is how motherfuckers who did crack experience it. Like, they didn't know. They was going to be cracked out.

They was like, shit, we partying, we vibing. I'm going to hit this little dope. I'm going to hit this crack. and then we're gonna go fuck and next thing you know they got a crate baby so

yeah that was a lot of fun though I bet it would it's a lot fun man I'm coming I'm coming for the Hollywood hills one day

come on we need you here we need you to come on like all the way in come all the way in because it needs a lot more Hollywood needs more people

who are just like cool and not so fucking full of themselves and in their head and so... Damn, man. I'm just bullshit. Just, like, they're cool.

They're cool to laugh. They, you know what I'm saying? It's that everything being so serious and so sensitive and so, like... Ain't that the game? In their head. That's the whole... That's the whole, everywhere.

Is it? Yes. Everywhere, like, where? The world. It's like the world is looking for some shit to be sensitive Well, I must not fucking live, I must live under a rock. You better get your ass from under there.

I like it. Because once they find out where you live, they come with that bullshit. So this way you live. Okay, you're a little rock kid or whatever. Nah, I mean, but you, yeah, it need more people like you. I think that's what keeps it going. That's what keeps it genuine and fun.

Oh, yeah. Because if not, this shit, we all gonna be in private school. Oh, once they let me in there, it's a motherfucking rap. I'm coming in with an obscure-ass role also. Okay. Lenny, the truck drivers come through killing it on the white sitcom. I'll tell you nothing. Don't make that chili again.

They always get a black character from obscene-ass-ass in the white sitcom. But I'm gonna fuck them up. I'm telling you. If you could get a, what would be like your role? What would be your introduction? Breakout Roe. My introduction breakout roll. Yeah. Ooh. Call down

at the motherfucking sports authority or some shit like that. Okay. I need to be one of them reoccurring. They get about two, three good shots of show. Okay. Yeah. Carl at the diner. The motherfucking cook at the Waffle House. So you want to, you want to

would you do a serious row, though? Man, a serious one? Yeah, would you be familiar? Oh, I'd be somebody's alcoholic husband? Hell yeah. Narcissistic is talk. Wait until they start casting toxic masculinity. Okay.

So like a... Listen, bitch. What's that damn show on Showtime? It's showtime at Stiles. Damn, I can't think of the name of it. You hate me already. See? That's what I'm saying.

Damn. We'll get it. What network? All of them. I'll start at Lifetime. I would be, I will be three terrible motherfuckers in a row. You started Lifetime

and you're going to have to play something real role. I'm telling you. Like the shit that really happy. Exactly. Like the stuff you see on ATL school. Right. Yeah.

Terrible motherfucker. Yeah. I'm talking about this thing. Like, I hate this, nigga. Siri's regular him, y'all. Hell yeah. That'll be dope. sending my tapes in and shit.

Okay, okay. Sometimes. Sometimes I've been like, man, fuck it, whatever. You gotta see you tape in. I know, but I'll be busy. I'm a comedian. I got a job. You're a comedian first?

Yeah, you don't have to do everything. I'm just over here. When they need some comedians, I'll be over here. Why don't you like, would you do a, um, well, y'all had a live show. Would you do a sketch? Yeah. Like a, uh, what the fuck?

Like an S&L? More like a, what is it? Nah, like. No, I do some, I'll do some sketch kind of. Like a, oh. I was trying to not laugh. I have my degree in sketches. I started there.

No, what's the fucking. It's an old show that was trying to bring it back. Whose line is it anyway? With Jim Carp. Yes. In living color. Yeah, I'd do some shit like that. You do some shit like that. Okay. Okay. Why don't, why don't y'all make a Atlanta one where it's like...

I don't know we did. Okay, bad. We got stuff. We got stuff. Okay. Static, we can't talk about that. Oh, okay. My bad, my bad.

No, we got some things and some stuff. Okay. That we've been, you know, working on it. I don't know about it over here. Okay. Because I feel like it's, I've seen this T-shirt. I think it's like Atlanta influences everything. It did.

It does. It does. Exactly. So I feel like there's so, if the world is going to change, Atlanta has to change it. You know what I'm saying? So if y'all, if there is some things to kind of get people back to laughter and fun and not being so uptight and so sensitive and so, like,

have to belong here or here or there, here, here, here, or dogs are more than people, it's got to come through genuine, feel-good content. That's why we make this show, because we already understand that people got their own problems, and we don't even make this show for anybody. This is a very target market right here. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. For ladies who get their nails done and bite the nails off. That would be me We know exactly who watched this shit This one right here specifically This podcast right here is for people who go to work Clock in, sit down first

Okay so who would be on your podcast It's for like niggas that watch only fans at 12, 6 and 6.30 Them the type of niggins that pee on the flow and get up what they suck. Oh. You did a lot of bad shit when you was a kid, huh? I don't know, I guess. I mean looking back, I wouldn't have kept me.

Like, that's the test. If you could look back at your childhood, it'd be like, would I have kept me for a day? Fuck no. Oh, you wouldn't babysit you? I thought you meant you would have had an abortion if you were pregnant with you. No.

You were so dark. I'm sorry. I meant like a babysit. I'm here already. God damn. Like if I was my own nephew, I would never spend no time with me. You would neglect you? Yes.

I deserved it. Okay. I deserved it. I was terrible. I'm talking about I was a terrible little kid. I used to curse more than I curse now. Do you feel people would keep your child? Hell no.

No, he's bad. No, grandma only brother. My son? Yes. Oh, my son ain't nothing like me. I was way worse than him No you say grandma only Like grandma only

As in that's the only person you trust Or grandma only is I thought we were talking about my little bad ass It was like it was only family I didn't have nobody watching me Family only Okay Yeah

Terrible Then after a certain point they were just like You're so bad stay here by yourself And I was like I will Early too early Oh man Damn Badass

I can see it Terrible. But it usually be the bad-ass kids that end up being real successful. Why is that? Shit, shit, if you're still alive. Because you can take that same bad-ass energy and do some good shit with it.

You're right. That's how this is happening. Hey, kids, taking over. That's the case. They need to give a lot of motherfuckers in jail. That's too far. Oh, okay. That's too far.

Don't get them shit. No, okay. I'll just say. That's the beautiful thing. about them, you don't have to get them shit and they'll make some. Refocus and redirect. No.

Yes. No. Maybe the nonviolent offenders. Okay. I don't know. Maybe. Just maybe. So what else you got coming up?

The show that I'm working on now. Are you in production? Or it's coming up? Well, we're rehearsing. Okay. We don't actually start filming until the end of, this month. All right.

But my addition to the cast hasn't been announced yet so that's why I can't like say it. So it's early. We're in there early

this is an exclusive. Mm-hmm. I bet. We're like that. Good. Look, do your baby. Okay. Do your name, though.

Don't feel the big... Thank you. Thank you. I'm not. But when I fucking do... Come on, man. Do your thing like you always do. Yeah, I'm excited.

I really feel like my addition. My addition. is like bringing the whole essence of Atlanta to the show. Yeah. Which is a great show. It's not missing anything. But I do think it will, you know, when you want to join something, people are like, well, what can you bring for?

When I was joining Delta, they were like, well, what? Why are you? Because Delta's already great, so why do we need you? That's what they said. They did. Sure, do the Delta. I didn't know. I didn't know that shit was that hard.

We are already good. The fuck you knew. That's kind of like I feel like the show is already really great and people already fuck with it so it's more like okay well why would we bring you on and it was just like shit

I'm gonna turn that bitch up a notch like that's what you told? Nah but I feel like Did you tell the devil is that at least? Come on now what did I tell the devil is when they asked that What did I? Damn that was so long ago

You have to play that off if somebody like we are really great what you do like let me yo I think I just say you know I'm really oh shit I mean, you know, I mean, y'all, I mean, y'all cool. Oh, my God. What I thought I'm fucking with you, though?

You get money fucking with me. So, yeah, I mean, that's happening. I'm working on, I'm a writer, as you know. So we're going on writing and producing some of my own things and really trying to get some shows I've developed, some films I developed out there, picked up on some big platforms. So working the backhand.

on that. And, you know, I'm trying to legitimize my nonprofit because I've been doing it for a few years, but I don't have none of the paperwork on it. So just trying to legitimize it so I can write some things off with it that I've already done. Um, we know some people. You know some people? Did you know the Citizens Trust got a bank and ran by some black folks? I have a citizen's trust account. Yes. We know them people. We'll plug you in.

Please. Hell yeah. Wait, you high. Are you serious? I'm dead to fuck serious. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I would like that. Um, I'm also trying to get a home, so I've been talking to them. I know the, don't worry about them. Okay.

I've been raised some shit, too, and curses. Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Um, what else? Shit. You got a new boyfriend. We just had our anniversary today.

One year. Who? He here? He's not here. I thought you pointed at somebody. No, I said one. I said one, like one year. Oh, I know that.

I know that, dude, you know that niggian. We got an only fan, so, no, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'll get it. I'll get it. Get it. That'd be funny as hell. You're the only thing to come out is Wanda.

Hey, what y'all doing? Oh, my God. Um, so yeah, our anniversary is today. That's dope. Yeah. Congratulations on that. How long it's been? One year.

Oh, okay. All right, damn. But, no, it's like a great one year. So, like, we was living together after a month. Really? Like, yeah. What the fuck? It's one of those things where, like, when you know, you know, shit was cool.

I'm going to drink it. No, it was cool. It was like... That's the last shit I want to be there. Cool. No, I mean, like, live with you because y'all are cool. No, I mean, cool, like fun, like a good time. Yeah, at your house.

Yeah, we're going to have fun. We're together. We don't need to have overnight fun. No, oh, yes. Oh, yes. Y'all was in that bitch like stepbrothers. We got so much room for activities. Got the bung beds

groceries We can eat fruit until we fucking er. So yeah I mean Oh I got three Three out of five of my brothers Have babies on the way with their wives

Oh shit You're like your brother Is capitalizing on your success My sister They're married You had to say that part, too. I thought these were street babies. No, no, they're wives.

They're wives. They're wives. This is in the family. All right. Yeah. So I'm triple-un. The mother two were like, can you live?

Yo. You're a little footh. I ain't got no motherfucking wife. Well, my brother told me when I meet Rihanna, he said, look, I risk it all. And if he don't answer, call me. Call me. Okay.

I got a hold. Don't worry. I ain't even talk about it. Okay. I just call you For real I feel like she's looking for me I don't know why

But in my mind I'd be looking at all them pictures of her coming At the club She just be looking like She's looking like what else Is Lothed? Tell me no

I feel like I'm going to have to meet her Two times though Like the first time I ain't gonna really It's gonna take At least two times But if she keeps seeing me She's gonna be like

You just don't give up, do you? You know what I'm gonna be like To me in my mind That's how she sounded like Iranian In my mind. Slovakian? Yeah.

Okay. But she's from over there. Okay. Yeah. So what else? What's been on with you? With me? Shit.

They need to fire Southen. Okay. Okay. Kat, you see I broke the fan shirt out because we're about to get back on the road again. Okay. Okay. Where y'all first show I'm going to be at?

Baloxia. Is it Biloxia? Where? Biloxy. What's that? Mississippi? Yes, Biloxy is. That's the first one we can announce, right?

Okay, yeah, see. It's tentative as fuck. Okay, okay. But I'm excited. Okay. I know we're going to Biloxi. Do you like being on the road more than in studio? Yes.

You do? Yes. Why? Because on the road, we in and out. Okay. I might be in this bitch for four days. Okay. No, I'm just bullshy.

No, I feel like this is so vital to the, to the road, though. Yeah. just keep them informed and up to date and give a shit to talk about when they see us. They were like, Nicky, when you had my, oh, Wanda, no. Well, you should have told her I fought with her. Listen, I shout out to everybody that fought with me

because people be going so hard for Wanda. Like I'm telling you, the dude had one episode clean. Wanda, stay strong. Two episodes clean. We're rooting for you. It was like you had digitize my face on a protest poster Like, is it the crowd was marching for Wanda to stay clean. Yes.

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or wherever you get your podcasts. So now y'all, everybody's like as if I just became beautiful. Yeah, they fucking with you, man. But I appreciate it. I see, yeah, y'all. I saw a whole feed of Woman Crush Wednesday. But as Wonder, though.

With the teeth and all? All left. Oh. She was doing this and one. Oh. Boy, y'all names are something else, boy. I got to unfollow some more. Oh, let's see.

With that makeup on my teeth And the fucked up part People don't understand This is TV They really be like I'm glad she's getting us out together They invested Have you ever ate spinach

And then it's like a film Left on your teeth Oh my God I don't eat spinach Oh well But the spinach eaters I don't know what it's like Okay, no mind I need no matter

Don't ask me My life is fucked up And I don't want to corrupt you Okay I ain't gonna ask I know. I don't. Okay, with that grass. Okay, so on the road.

On the road. I want to say that I seen your show in person. I told you earlier at the Fox. Yeah. Y'all motherfuckers is funny. Thank you. Like, y'all funny, but in person, it's like, it's a different funny because you know that, okay,

there's a show that they might have, like, talked about it, some planned it out. But then you guys also do little shit that is not a part of the show where it's like y'all just going candid off the audience and stuff. Yeah, that's the most. Most of it, man, because a lot of those shows, people don't know. They always watch the intro as like, Craig can tell you, when we were backstage on the live

shows, a lot of them times, we just got there. So, there is no rehearsal. It's like, we're getting together like, five, six, seven, eight, tear that is in the building. They see, that's when you come in. You're the singer. You are the core of this.

If you don't feel like singing it, we can't do it. I mean, Chico is on the baritone right now. You know, I'm just feeling. Let's take it from the top, man. Come on. We'll be here as long as it takes. Five, six, seven, eight.

We got tears in the building. Give me two more of those if we can get out of here. Give me two more, though. That's all I'm at. Two more. Two more. You got to walk this. So that's not happening.

All right. Now, let's do the steps with it. Five, six, seven, eight. Teen age. Yeah, well, then, point to the tini. Point! Fucking point! Is it too hard to point?

All right, I guess we'll just go on the stage and do whatever the fuck we want to do here. Just don't nobody want to rehearse. Mm. All-em-pruders want to be great, but don't nobody want to rehearse. All-impro. Craig.

Come on, man. If you're going to get the shot, get across there. Don't fucking get across there. We need, if we're going to do this, You got to get across this, play. Oh, shit.

Oh, shit. Yeah. It's amazing. For those who haven't seen it, it's a must-see. Like, it's a different experience. It's not, you know, you go to a comedy show. And comedy shows are good.

Sometimes you have motherfuckers who are not funny. You got motherfuckers that's hilarious. And you got people that make you, like, smart. But it's non-stop laughter. Like, knock your socks. I was like hitting the motherfucker you came with. See, that's the difference. It's like, we're not going out there and be like, hey, we're

comedians and we're funny. Like, this is the family reunion. Can you believe this shit? Who in this motherfucker man? That's how all the cousins who'll be wearing big shoes and shit. You feel what I'm saying? Yeah, that's what it's like. It feels like it. Yeah, the whole atmosphere

is just like, you know what I like to call it? It's like when you got your check and you cashed it. Oh. That feeling right. I'm talking about that that first look. And the money is in your hands. Yes. And it's that extra check. Mm. This is that one that hit in the middle of the month. All the bills and shit is paid. You ain't got a bill to pay. Yeah.

That check that fall on the 15th. Mm. That's it. That's the one. Especially that month you get paid three times. That's the whole experience. That's the vibe we're bringing, man. Just some happiness to the black community. They hate to see black people happy. Man. So we stay happy on their ass. I was riding in a tow truck the other day.

Wait, hold on. Let me just digress before I saw. Your story is thought, oh, too. We digress. Okay. He was getting to massage, right? With a happy ending. Okay.

Happy beginning. And it was this black dude. Jamaica from New York, well, from Jamaica, but by way of New York. He was like, I don't like black people. Black men. He was like, no offense. I'm sorry if I offend you. I'm not trying to offend you.

He was like, they're all just. jealous and envious and evil. I was like, oh. Well, I mean, you're being very nice to me. Where did he get that from? He said he got a fleet of like 15 trucks, but he had bought him a new car like a BMW

or Bims or something. He said, all his drivers quit at once. I'm like, because you bought a new car? Like, that doesn't, something, you know... He didn't pay them and bought a new car. Must be. Because something didn't add up. But he said he had been treating him well, but he said people would be jealous. He said, the only people that have ever helped him are not black

people. I said, well, you're helping me right now because he Charming you too, though. No, no, I'm triple A. But AAA said with COVID and everything, you can't ride in the truck with the driver to the location, and he let me ride. So I was like, I didn't have to take a lift. You let me ride

and he was like, well, how much was your lift to the vehicle? I said $34. He was like, you would have gave me $30, I would came and got you. It's like, well, we're here now, and now we're just going to the ball ball place, so can I ride with you? And he was like, yeah.

But that just, that came out of nowhere, but it just made me think of how some people are like black people are, some black people feel like black folks is not good people. Well, let me tell those people this. To all those people who think black people are envious and lazy and jealous. They never factor in how much black people really and truly don't give a fuck about what you got going on. You really think somebody is out here worried about your little fuck of being done.

Man, fuck you. And everybody who looks like you, 99% of black people don't give a shit about everybody else. That's a fact. Because I don't get for what you got going on. I don't. Fuck these people. Fuck these people.

Fuck them. Yeah. Fuck them. Big. Yeah. That part. Yeah, man. People are funny.

What else? the world slowly opening back up. Are you still on while and out? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, they're going to suffer. Because I'm going to be there forever. And ever!

I'm going to be 79. Wilde! Wilde! Wilde! Wilde! Wilde! Okay. Excuse me,

Y'allet. Let me be out of my leg. Give me up. Ah, I, uh, um, You got insured? I'm gonna be on there forever. She'll never put me on there. Now they stuck with me.

Let me say, what else I wanted to know? What else? I already got the background on how 85 South came together. Yeah. It was raining one night. And we just like, we should take advantage of this. And then thunderstruck real hard. And I was like, Nick, I just discovered electricity.

That was Benjamin Franklin. Okay. No, we needed this platform because, you know, me, Chico and D.C., we're some very creative dudes, and we can't, sometimes we can't get it all out on stage. Yeah. You get what I'm saying? Even after a long weekend of shows, man, we still have a lot of shit to say in a lot of different ways. And then I feel like it's good because, like you said, it's like family.

Like, when people watch the show live or virtual, you just feel good. It's one of the things you don't have, like, Martin and stuff no more. You don't have the Wayans brothers. You don't have, like, some of the shows we used to go home as a family and watch and you come home, you unwind, you eat dinner. So it's something to, like, unwind to, like, chill. People who smoke, smoke, they blunt.

People who are trying. That's exactly what it is. It's the ghetto TV station, man. We needed this platform, though, because it's addictive when you start creating media. How many people be like, nigga, that's my favorite episode. Fuck it.

And they show them, and they be smoking the blunt. And then the blunt be like, been a little bit. That's some real shit. What's your favorite episode? Of this show? Yes. All of them.

Oh, that was a good. Who the fuck? Because we got some episodes of this show that just dimensioned of them will make me start crying laughing. Like, we did this live show in San Antonio. We were doing this song called Them Titties is mine. Oh, you remember. That's memorable. Okay.

And the one where she's confident, yeah, that's right. She tucked her stomach down in them tights. The meth head, the meth head lady from Oklahoma. That is memorable. Wheelchair man in every episode. Motherfucking, DC passing out. It's $2. It's like every week it's something else, man.

I can't pick no favorite episode. Okay, okay. Hell yeah, we had Buster Rhyms in here. Chico wrapped a whole Buster Rhyme first. Hell, yeah. What he's doing? Uh, Shinnega Adams, I won. Oh.

We had some, we didn't have some classic episodes on this motherfucker, man. Okay, okay. Nigger win! So that mean? The blow-up dog. When y'all hit like a five, yeah, ten year.

Y'all have to do something like crazy. Shit, it's been six years. Well, ten years, when you hit a ten year. Man, that's the thing about it. Shit, we're just gonna have the fans do it. They post so many. clips and shit, little shit that we might have forgot about. And that's what

really, like, that's the dope point. You were the very first show? The very first one, it's Smith's O'Barr? Yep. That was our very first live show. We had some dope bad shows up in there. Did you know then, like, when y'all was, when 85 South Show was a conversation, did you know it would be what it is now? Man, you can go back and ask these niggas. Like, go back to

the first episode. I've been told them niggins this shit was going to be. Exactly. That's what you said. It's gonna be Michael B. Jordan. No, we were talking about it. Oh. That's from the first episode.

Okay, okay. Man, he had blocked D.C. Wait, what? He blocked D.C. Yeah, he blocked D.C. Why? Um... I think they dated the same girl.

Oh, like years ago? Or like the current... Like, this was really... I'm confused. Help me. He dated Lloyd Harvey? No. What?

DC used to date Lori? No, I mean, I think it was... I don't know. That's a nigga, I can't tell you that. I don't know. Him and these things... It was a woman's fault. Michael B. Jordan got mad,

and then D.C. wasn't ever mad. It was him. So that's what I remember. Okay. But, yeah, I've been telling them since before we've recorded that shit, that this shit can be exactly this. Okay. That's how we started doing.

This is who the podcast for. Because niggas was like, Nick, what is a podcast? I was like, fuck that. This a ghetto podcast. This is for bitches named Tasha who can sing but don't sing in front of people. Okay, the shower singer.

Exactly. Got it. She wanted to do an album, but ain't nobody never heard her sing, but she can sing. Okay. She liked that. Okay.

This is for them. This is for them. And Marvin gave me here the whole time. Okay. We got our... Since episode one. That plaque is old as fuck. We just put it up there

because a lot of people ain't got it. They owe us 10 more of them because we got, like, damn there are 2 million subscribers. They're going to send us a golden goose or something. Hell yeah. Talk to them, man. Tell them where to find you and all that shit because it's a lot of motherfuckers.

And they can be like, hey, that little relationship shit, I'm going to slide them to the deal. You better check them because they're going to be like, hashtag 85% of it. Let's see. Gail, Bean, on everything. I forgot because I had just recently changed my Instagram. Why?

that's a whole so I didn't really give a fuck about the whole verification thing and the blue check thing because I was like I mean I don't that's just I'm not really I mean

Okay So my See they're gonna fuck around And get you And then they're gonna be like DM me for promo Hit this email Send a deposit

You're like Get my fucking shit No No it ain't gonna be you It's a lot of fakes I got a hundred fake pages And I ain't shit Oh shit

Yeah somebody gonna make a Wanda page You look, book me for the party, send deposit, cash out. I'm telling you. Wait to them fake pages stuff. You need to go. Well, I got it now. So that was the thing. My name used to be one thing.

And then my publicist kept saying, no, you need to change your name in order to get verified. And I was like, well, I don't really get a fuck about being verified. I just really, I'm the worker. I just want to work. So I'm like, I just want to fucking, I don't want to have to do publicity. I don't want to have to show up to events of shit. You got to do all that shit. That's part of the game.

So that's what she was like, no, I need you. When it comes to like an Emmy campaign, or this campaign with pushing you, I need you to be verified. So I was like, all right, fine, fuck it. I changed my name. So now my Instagram name is G-A-I-L-U-S-U-S-U-U-S-B-E-A-N. All right, can I ask you a question as a lady?

Yes. It's been a lot of controversy. Wait, as a lady, okay, go ahead. It's been a lot of controversy about women wearing bonnets in public. Okay. Monique said some shit. What's you saying? She said that the shit looked ghetto and some old thing.

A lot of shit, little ghetto, but... I know, but... Okay, keep going. And then... But I do love on it. Keep going. Some people like she right. Okay.

Some people like she wrong. Okay. I mean, as a nigga, I don't got no opinion about it. Niggas will still holler at a girl that got on a bonnet. It's all about that booty. Listen, I would have on a... If she got on a bonnet and a fat-ass booty, you're like, fuck what's under that bun.

Okay. So you're asking me, do I think bonnets are ghetto? No, I'm just asking, do you have an opinion? either way. That's what started it. It was the picture of a group of ladies and who knows where they were going. Well, I mean, to be honest,

like we talked about earlier, I don't really give a fault what another person do. That's a great stance to have. I don't care. I got a fucking bonnet. Do I wear it out? No, but do I care if another bitch wear it out?

No. I mean, I don't care. That's not something that that bothers me. Yeah. Yeah. Like, what bother me is shit that really affect me. Like, going somewhere to get my hair done

and motherfuckers is like, come with it, wash, blow-dried, braid it. Like, that annoys me. You're too big of a start that even be dealing with them. Oh, I don't have that. But I'd be seeing it, and I've experienced it one time. And I was like, oh, I ain't never fucking come back to you. You can die.

Don't, you know. Yeah, sorry. All right. Oh, so It's ironic because... Hold on, hold it, girl. Can you repeat the question on camera so we can get it? Oh, when I first met Dancin Idris,

who plays Franklin St. on Snowball, he's British. He a Brit. I did not know he wasn't American. When we were in the Vanity trailer, he, like, loves comedy, so he does a lot of, like, impersonation. Yes, like heavy impersonation of comedic stuff.

So I still didn't know. It wasn't until, like, I think I was already filming Snowfall. Maybe we had rapped where I heard him talk one time. I was like, what the fuck? This niggas is not a nigger. Like, where are you from? And I think I asked him, I was like, where are you from? And we didn't really talk much season two.

So it probably had to be either after season two or maybe on season three where I had the conversation with him and I was just like, you know, where you're from? But that shit blew me. Like, because he's so black. Like, that should have thrown you off.

Yeah. Like, I mean, I know people is black as fuck from wherever, but just nothing, if you look at him, nothing reads Brit. You know what I'm saying? Like, not, the way I see him, not the way he dressed, not his hair, not nothing gave any indicator.

You know what I'm saying? When you meet some people, sometimes there's some indicators about them, like, oh, you got a little, you got a little calendar road dust on you. You know what I'm saying? Like something, not from a negative kind of sense, but something that tells you where they're from. Right. Yeah, he didn't happen. He left that shit at airport.

Exactly. I'm over here. Yeah, that was different. So we're really looking forward to seeing you on this new project. And if you need us for anything or promo. Keep doing your thing. We know all the accolades and the wars are coming. Listen, it's different.

I will say I'm a little nervous. It's coming. Because this new role is very, it's challenging to me. People are like, oh, you're going to eat it. But, no, it's challenging because it's different. And it's, I feel like everybody going to be watching. And I feel like the city is riding on this. Because I think I'm the only one on the show from Atlanta.

You got to do it, dear. You got to do it. Yeah, it's, um, but yeah, I'm gonna let you know. It's gonna be crazy. I got one last question. Yes. I told you, he's a big fan. Shout out the cat.

He got them shorts on today, y'all. I just want to ask you about John Singleton if you were able to meet him before he passed, and then you tell us something about him. Okay. Yes, John Singleton is a legend. I was able to meet him. I was able to meet John before he passed. John is one of those people

Well, let me back up I met John I want to say in 2012 Here in Atlanta He came to my acting class Because him and my teacher at the time We're really close He spoke life into us Just gave us some gems

And heads up about the industry About being black In the industry And it was just divine How years later I ended up on the show Now he only directs the finale the episode, so when he died during season three, they

had to step in and have a replacement. I think maybe somewhere a little bit of vision got lost in that episode. That's why some people were confused about what it was when really it was like a parallel universe of what if Damson, sorry,

what if Franklin never sold drugs and how that whole thing would have came around, but I know some people kind of was confused like, are you pregnant? Is this like after? before. I'm like, no, this is if it never would have happened. But he was just

like, if you told me you wanted to go be a, if you told me you wanted to go be an astronaut on the moon, he would say, how can he help? Like, do that. He would speak life into you, like, you can. Let me know some plans, what are some of the steps? Like, he was invested. He listened. So few people in the industry actually

listened and are genuine and authentic when it's like, oh, how can I help you? What do you need? Tell me more. That's very rare. So he was one of those. He definitely, so L.A. So L.A.

Loved L.A. Loved his people. Just a great guy, like, just being in his space. And he's very excited, like, about what's going on, what he's working on. So I used to tell, when Man Boy first came on the show, shout out to Melvin, Great. He came. He'd been putting it down for a minute. He's been putting it in work.

Shout out to Melvin. He been putting it work. He didn't have any of it, man. When he came, I was like giving him the lay. We got the same publicist. I was giving him the lay at a land. I was like, if you want any information on what's going to happen to your character or the storyline, just go sit and talk to John for a few, and he'll get excited.

He'll end up telling you some shit that he's not supposed to tell you about your character and about the storyline because he's that excited where he just gets to talk and he'll be like, don't get to touch him and be like, don't tell nobody, don't tell nobody this, okay? Don't tell nobody. So he was just, he was just great, funny. And he was there every day. Even though he only directed the finale episode, he was on set every single day watching,

seeing what's going on, just happy. Just happy. Even this long in the industry, still just happy, still, like, not tainted. Still excited about it. Well, that's dope, man. Rest and peace to the legend. And salute to the future legend.

Thank you. You know what we at. From one to a day, take one to no one. Don't let this be. be your last time in the trail. Oh, wait on. Listen, after this next Friday, I'm going to come here. Just turn this motherfucker up.

Up, up. Well, there you have it, folks. This has been another rendition of the 85 South show. Yes. Gail B. Thank you. Love you, girl. Thank you.

Oh, oh. Let's get a picture. This was great. This was dope. Yes. You. When did my fucking start throwing up the peace time? start throwing up the peacetime.

Like, because I know, that went freak-meek, you're a freak-meet, niggas was not hitting peace. Shit, when the streets got rough, niggins, that's the first thing we need some peace around this. Niggum was not throwing up the peace sign there are a freakney. Shit, they was holding tithes and shit.

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