The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - The Nephew Tommy Episode | Ep. 26
Episode Date: June 10, 2016Comedian, actor, producer, writer and co-star of the Steve Harvey Radio Morning Show Nephew Tommy is in the studio with Karlous. He is a legend in the making and tells the 85 South Show how he got his... comedy chops going. This "This podcast is for" segment is epic. *This episode is prerecorded live during the news of Prince's passing.* Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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85.
85.
85.
85,
who, ooh, ooh.
Man, everything I own smell like weed.
It don't smell like weed.
And it's the shirt.
I was like, I can know it ain't got no weed in my pocket,
but it must have just been a back.
Do one call, no the hell you didn't.
Well, they got one.
I'll tell you about the one they got down in Houston.
About the courthouse?
Yeah.
Ah, no, they'd be rolling up by motherfuckers at the courthouse.
They got somebody that, you know, of course, somebody be in the studio,
but they got them out there with the microphone.
Go up to people in the line that's going in the courthouse about what they, what you're in here for?
See, they got a nigga down here on these trumped up motherfucking charge.
I'm gonna see where the world.
See, motherfuckers try to say I had three hours on the shit.
Really, motherfucker had two joints.
They're trying to do.
But see, he wrote it up wrong.
He wrote it up wrong.
Nigger, that shit is so funny.
What you down here for a, bro?
Shit, a misunderstanding.
It's just a slight misunderstanding.
That is it.
I'm just down here because, hell, they said I had to come down here.
You know what I'm saying?
They say ain't got no charges, and then they just told me I need to come to court.
And, you know, they're going to throw that shit out.
You know what I'm saying?
Just like that.
Just like that.
Shit, straight like that, bro.
Shit.
What you mean when I'm ready?
Hell, I ain't even supposed to be here.
You're in the building, baby.
Hey, what's up, man?
It's your man, Carlos Miller, 85 South Show.
You are not going to believe who I got in the studio with me today.
You're not going to believe it.
You're not going to believe it.
This is how much we coming up.
We got real people in the studio today.
I'm in here with my man, nephew, Tommy.
Hello.
Nephew. What's up, man?
I'm in here, man.
Man, they call your nephew.
I should call your uncle Tommy.
Nick, the way you're out here doing your thing.
I'm trying to hustle,
In the street, I've been waiting to run into you.
I'm mad as hell.
We ran in together.
I'm talking about since then.
Since then.
Yeah.
Because you do this comedy, like, competition.
And I heard you was getting away with about $15,000.
I gave $10,000.
See, they wouldn't even let me in.
You didn't know that, did you?
No, you could have got it.
They wouldn't let me in, bro.
50 comics deep.
They said, no, bro, you're to establishes.
I was like, I need that money.
Man, I had 50 comics.
This was in Columbia, South Carolina.
I had 50 comics.
And it was over the course of a whole weekend.
I'm funny than all them niggins.
You should just called me and gave me that check, man.
And I had that 10 grand.
I wrote it, it went through all that.
All that.
Yeah, they cashed it.
You gonna do it again?
I don't know, it's a good competition.
I need some sponsorship.
That was 10 grand out of my damn pocket.
You know, we need stuff like that, man.
But that was 10 grand out of my damn pocket.
You got it?
You don't need to miss it.
I ain't got no problem getting back here at 9-N-
Try to show some love.
Well, you can get back directly to the community.
You can get to me.
I take it over that time.
to the community i take it straight to yeah okay i take it straight back to the community you're gonna make so auntie
and big mama them and everybody got it out baby mama little sister gonna get a hundred right there
once you get the baby mama all love is gone i'm gonna go and give her uhs off top she ain't gonna know it's
10,000 i'm gonna give her 1200 she's gonna think another income tax came to he got two income tax
how many kids you got carlova i got one yeah i ain't making no more that's good i don't think i like
my son i just got him to the age where i like him he's seven i don't like i don't want to have
another son, they didn't have a favorite, you know what I mean?
Like, it's me and my son and we're on the groove now.
My are 19. I don't like him.
See, but you remember when you liked him, though.
I don't like him. I used to love him. Right.
Now, he's just my son.
What happened? You know, when they get 18,
they're different.
What changes? You start trying to, you start feeling that man's kind of.
Start smelling yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, you think you're more man than your daddy
and you think you know everything. Oh, he didn't. He didn't tragedy?
No, he ain't trapped.
Yeah. You know you got to get his back dirty so he can be a grown man.
listen to the camera.
When your motherfucking ass feel like,
run the fuck over here.
And I swear for God and cheese and crockles.
I'm gonna tell your whole ass out.
Hold on, hold on, call on.
You ain't gonna be on track team, no motherfucking mode
because you're gonna be limping.
All that triple jumping long jump,
whatever fuck you're doing,
they're gonna kick your ass out of Howard.
That's what the fuck they're gonna do.
I'm sorry.
I know, that was a real daddy moment.
I didn't want you to come back.
Don't put your glasses back on yet.
All that run over here though,
that shit they ain't happen.
Hold up, because you said a specific,
a specific time frame when you wanted him to do it.
Yeah.
Whenever the fuck, your ass is ready.
See, that's a time in the black household.
Whenever the fuck, you think you can run over here to your daddy
and whoop my ass, and you tried.
And I promise you, everything in the room you're going to get hit with that
motherfucker from this goddamn computer, this goddamn bottle of juice,
this motherfucker microphone, whatever the fuck is in the way.
I'm going to tear your ass up, excuse my phone.
I'm going to hit all kinds of shit.
I'm sorry, man.
You got emotional.
Yeah, I just, you know, because I ain't never ran up on my dad.
Never.
Never, ever.
Can we?
Never talk back to my daddy.
Never cussed at my dad.
I ain't never done nothing disrespectful to my dad.
This would be the perfect time in the show for us to give a shout out to all the real dad is out there.
All the real dad is out there to raise the hell up out your kids and made them good men and good women.
We want to take our hats off to you.
To you trifling, motherfuckers.
Speak to him.
To you trifling, motherfucker.
That's why we got you on here because I know you'd be wanting to say this on the real show, but you can say this shit on him.
But you can say that shit on him.
But you're motherfuckers that don't take care of your kids running for.
from child support, my fuck gotta chase you and shit.
You didn't find a job that don't calculate
how much money you make and you don't wanna show them
no love because you don't like their damn mama.
You are full of shit, motherfucker.
And I can't stand your bitch, I can't stand you.
Take care of your damn kids.
If you lay down to make them, then damn it,
you got to push it for 18 years.
And if you're a real daddy, you're pushing for 20-some years
because you know the child still ain't shit at 18.
Say it.
Just like, man, he ain't shit shit.
Now he's gonna be shit when he's 25.
Let me, I hope my son look,
you're gonna have to be something by 20-fucking five, okay?
You got to.
Something, please.
You got to.
That was a real last moment.
I'm sorry.
And you know what?
Don't apologize.
It's a whole lot of fatherless people who need to hear that.
There's some kids out there, man, want a daddy.
Want a daddy that's going to show them some love and put you through college, take care of you.
But them daddies are just, I got some partners that I don't fool with partners that don't take care of their kids.
You got, I don't want to be around those niggie that don't take care of this.
Man, she cowling me by child.
But what motherfucker how come she ain't got it?
Hey, man.
Now, now, here go one I don't like.
I got one of them baby mommas.
You don't want her calling you.
I just take it over there.
Let me tell you what I don't like.
I don't like when they get to the celebrity level.
Yeah.
When I hear that somebody, let's just lose puff debt.
Okay.
$20,000 per child.
Perchow.
Slow the fuck down.
Your ass don't need $20,000 for this baby.
If all the other babies in the neighborhood is being raised up on $750,000,
how come yours at $20,000?
What's your doing?
What's the baby doing for $20,000?
I don't know.
I don't want them kind of babies.
No.
I don't.
I want them huggest babies.
That pink bottle of baby lotion baby.
That don't cause no $20,000.
I want that diaper bag, baby.
Oh my God.
I just got some news on my phone.
Now this.
You ain't got no baby coming, dude.
Nah, this gonna take this down right here, though.
Uh-oh.
What happened?
Hey, man, pull this up, man.
They say Prince died.
Hold up.
Wait a, wait a, wait a, wait a.
Somebody found him dead in his home.
Ain't nobody found him.
Prince dead nowhere.
Prince had a concert in the letter last weekend.
No.
You need to pull this up, Bigger.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh.
Breaking news.
This is a terrible way to find out.
Right here on 85 South.
Right here on the 85 South show.
Shit is going to be purple rain tonight.
Is this true?
I don't know, man.
We're from the seat on.
Pull that up immediately.
My phone is out of reach.
Roger Nelson, right?
Prince Rogers Nelson.
Turn it on
Turn the TV on
Cut this
Cut cut
Stop
Cut take six
Prince ain't dead
Man
That's false
I know we were talking
Hey shit got real
We need to move that to the back
We need a real father moment
I know what to say
That's your show
I know what the people want to hear
I've been talking to the people
Shit I know what they want to ask
I got all the questions
How you get your credit straight time
All that
I know what they want to talk about
about Twitter would kill your ass.
TMZ.
TMZ did say that.
TMZ has somebody at the house.
TMZ did say that.
TMZ be there.
What the fuck was wrong with? What the fuck?
Welcome back to the 85 South Show.
It's your man, Carlos Miller.
You would not believe who I have in the studio with me
this afternoon, man.
This afternoon.
I don't know when you're listening to it,
but right now it's this afternoon.
Steve Harvey,
Morning Show co-host, comedian extraordinaire, one of the funniest niggas out here.
He's like one of the funniest eight niggas out here.
He got about 12 characters that he do.
Y'all show some love.
My man, nephew Tommy.
We in here, man.
Yes, my man, nephew Tommy, man.
We go back.
We did the Michael Vic All-Stars of Comedy, man.
Yeah, Streetport, Louisville.
You went out there and beat their heads.
We went out there and beat their heads.
You remember they had the dog protesters out there and everything.
And I told Mike I was gonna go to a store
and get a pack of hot dogs and throw that in me.
He's like, don't even worry about it.
Man, they had a dog over there that actually,
but they brought a dog out that only had three legs.
Yeah.
Did you see that one across the street?
And they tried to put it,
they had him in a little vest like he was a veteran.
Why would you bring that dog on that day?
I don't know, but it was, we was all looking out
to win the tripper.
How you been there for you?
I've been good, man.
I'm grinding, I'm hustling.
I'm trying to, you know, I don't quit hustling.
This is in me.
I know, man.
You'll never quit hustling.
You get up every morning to do the radio show
and still find time to hit the comedy ground.
Yeah, you got to hit the comedy grind
and you get to the point where, you know,
let's take it back.
For at least two weekends out of a month,
I got to be on somebody there.
Let's take it back, man.
How did you start?
What made you fall in love with this comedy girl, man?
Because, you know, we love her,
but she's so nasty.
Ooh, she's a beast, ain't she?
She's nasty.
She's a beast.
She's a little freak, too.
You know what?
I go back, let's see.
I was in college on Texan.
Texas A&M.
And in between college and the summertime,
one of my boys told me, said, man,
you need to try to do some stand-up.
I was like, no, no, I'm an actor, you know.
I don't do that.
I don't do chips.
I'm a festby.
Oh, okay.
And they talked me to getting on stage, man,
on an amateur night.
And I actually won the amateur night competition.
And then I got that bug.
I got one little change.
All it takes is a little change, man.
I think it's about $100.
I said, this is nice.
But see, people don't realize.
realize a hundred dollars in comedy money that's like a thousand and like work money yes you're
right tell the truth because my first like first gigs were like 50 yeah 150 but it felt like you was
making 500 because you was just telling jokes and feeling good all i want to do is go tell the joke
get that gas money get back home that's it you know and then you get to the point he's like 500
oh man and then you keep telling yourself man i can't wait that's though i'm making a dollar
what every time i do a show let's talk about that first thousand that's crazy that's crazy
Oh, my God.
Tell her jokes.
Actually, that check right there, I held it for me.
I just kept looking at it.
Looking at it.
I said, never going to run that through for it.
You need to go ahead and do that.
Who it don't go through.
And, um...
Your first $1,000 comedy check don't even have nothing to do with comedy.
You look at it, it'd be like B&B construction.
You don't know where that check came from.
And you don't care where it came from.
All your kids are you made $1,000.
That's it, man.
And now, oh my God.
It's retarded.
The numbers is blessings.
It's a blessing.
It's blessings.
just blessing. So the comedy game started, man. I started doing comedy. I used to do nothing
but stage plays. Right. And then in the summertime, you know, I would do stand-up.
And then, you know, when the summer be over there, I go back and do stage plays. All the plays
you heard about, you know. Mama, I want to sing. My all that. My mama don't smoke crack
no, my all that. You know, I need a man. I need her man. Confessions of a lonely black girl,
all of them. Yes. Yes. Your arm's too short, debacle with God and anybody else. You know.
I saw one that a lot of people aren't heard about
because I bet you burnt my neck with the crack.
Yeah, you were in there.
I'm in love with the crack head.
Yeah.
My baby dad is an auto mechanic.
Yes.
I did all those plays.
Yeah.
And then I started, I managed to do stand-up in the midst of it, man.
I kept getting better and better and better.
Next thing you know, I was doing Showtime at the Apollo.
That was my first TV show to go do stand-up on.
Tell me about that.
Because, you know, like, when I talked to the OG comedians,
when I say OG,
It ain't got nothing to do with age.
I'm just talking about comedians who came from that era
of that real comedy ground.
Once you go out there on Apollo stage
and you get past, you make it through that three minutes.
Yeah.
Nobody booing you off that stage.
That's the biggest blessing in the world.
It's a game changer.
Because that first, you know, and Steve was telling me,
he was like, hey man, what's your best joke?
I say, that's what I'm a close when he said,
no, your ass ain't.
That's what you're going to open with.
I was like, huh?
He said, you need to open with the best joke.
And I was like, well, what am I close with?
He said, I tell you, I don't know what you're going to close with it.
But I'll tell you what, if you're going to open with this,
your ass ain't going to close at all.
That man going to come out here dancing and run your ass off the stage.
Yeah.
So I came out there with my best bit, hit him in the head for two and a hand, three minutes,
and came off the stage, they gave me a check for $7.50,
and I was like, yes, I made it through Apollo.
Yeah.
But then BETT and then, you know, next thing, I know, man, I was.
I was the opening act for three, three and a half years for Luther Vandross.
Hold on. Big Luther.
Big Lou.
I was with Big Lou and Little Lou.
You was with both Lufus.
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What's some of the crazy stuff you've seen at the Luther concert now?
Because these grown women.
These grown women.
What the grown women be doing?
They have seen draws hit the stage.
The draws?
Yes.
Grown woman draws.
These not like panties.
These draws.
They're not like panties.
I didn't see the slip.
She didn't know about a slip.
I didn't see the slip.
The whole slip.
Yes.
That's when your girl,
that's, tell them what the slip is.
A slip is really.
Your grandma's sleep in.
It's your grandma where she's sleeping.
It goes underneath the whole dress.
So it's like a dress under a dress.
Exactly.
That's their slip.
And they threw the whole slip.
The whole slip hit the stage.
Wow.
They don't wear slips no more.
What was it like the opening for Luther?
Man, you had Luther out there laughing.
Oh my God.
Had Luther laughing, man.
You got to be clean.
I came out, tuxedo every night.
Yeah.
You know, no profanity, no nothing.
You go for like 20, 25 minutes in front of Big Lou,
and then Big Lou come out and just do his dog.
I think the most difficult time was Big Lou took me to Europe.
Oh, word.
We was doing the whole U.K.
And I was like, yeah, we're going to do the U.K.
And the band, I used to hang with the band.
Yeah.
And the band said, yeah, we're going to play our same music.
Your ass going to have to write some jokes.
Then I want them country-ass jokes you'd be telling them in the United States.
Word.
He's saying, you got to slow your speech down.
You talk too damn fair.
I'm like, wait a minute, man.
My jokes ain't going to work for it.
So, dude, I had to get a pen in the pad.
I walked around London for about 8, 10 hours.
Just writing out everything that was funny to me.
And I was scared because they scared me.
Yeah.
I was like, no, because, you know, in the States, I'm getting the house.
You know, I got them laughing.
Man, I got over there.
And my first night, about 50, 60% laughing.
Yeah.
I said, okay, I'm going to go back to work again.
I went back to the pen and the pad.
Went back out walking the streets.
Yeah.
Kept, came back second night,
75% of people standing on their feet.
And I was like, yeah, there we go.
There is.
Third night, you know, I had everybody.
I got all stage, Big Lucey, so you got them.
I said, I got them now in 25 minutes.
But I swam, if I got to go 30, we're in trouble.
We're in trouble.
We're in trouble.
If you got a wardrobe malfunctioning
and don't get out here in 30, I'm in trouble, man.
So he taught me a whole lot, man
I learned how to be a perfectionist.
Yeah, so what was some of the things that you learned
like having to go outside of the country
and actually have to get back to the foundation of comedy
digging into jokes, pen and pad?
Oh, man, peeing and peck.
Because, you know, when you start building up
your whole repertoire of jokes,
you just start adding to it and adding to it.
Next thing you know, you got 45 minutes.
But when somebody tell you,
you're going to go back down to zero and start all over.
Yeah.
It's like, oh, my God, I got to start from scratch.
So starting from scratch, you just say,
Hey, I got to do it.
Let me ask you this.
You know, comedically, we get selfish with the material, right?
Yes.
And you on every morning.
You ever stop yourself and be like, uh-uh, I'm taking that one to the stage.
I have.
I have.
Ain't that's comedic, that's like some selfish artist.
It's selfish to a certain extent, but you know.
And then there's some jokes that you actually tell on the radio that you say,
okay, I know how to take it and flip it.
Right.
And guess what?
Even though you said it on the radio, everybody ain't heard it.
Yep.
You know, and the way you're going to flip it when you get in front of a crowd at a comedy club.
Come on, man.
You're going to stab it and kill it
And they're going to drink
I thought I heard that on the radio
But that ain't the same thing
No it ain't
So there's a way to take it
But I have been selfish with my jokes
I have got over here
Me and Steve actually wrote something down
I was like
Yeah let's not say that one
Let's say that one
We ain't gonna do that one this morning
How you get linked up with Uncle Steve Harvey
Man from birth
From birth
Yeah
But I'm saying you know
You know how this entertainment
And the family thing here's a trip part
We're talking about Luther right now
Right
Talking about when I was with Luther
So I actually, when we left the UK, came back to the States,
Big Lou said, hey, we're going to take like a break for like about three months.
Yeah.
You know, go on hiatus.
I'm a writer.
He's going to write a new album, and we're going to be right back out on the road in the States again.
I said, okay, cool.
So I went to L.A.
And hooked up with my boys that's got a crash pad.
Of course, the flop house.
You know what I'm talking about it.
We've been doing this for years.
Wow, I've been doing that.
They got the comedians in the flop house and they just going there by spending night and do the show.
That's a good concept.
Because let me tell you something, it's been going on forever.
I stayed where I was staying at, man, my boy Clyde's house.
Clyde had about five, six people in the house.
Yeah.
You know, and you don't want to refrigerate.
It's sticky notes on everything.
You know what's yours.
You know what ain't yours.
You really got nowhere to sleep.
You just got to fall asleep first.
You got a pill in the blanket and a corner of the flow.
You know, you just find out where you get, hey, I'm over here tonight by the TV.
Right.
You know, so that's where I was staying, man.
I went to L.A. and hung out with my buddies.
You know, we were true actors and trained to be actors.
And so I would hang out with this.
that I called Steve's manager.
He said, hey, man, how long are you in town?
I said, well, you know, Big Luce, we're going to be here for a few months.
He said, won't you come on down and hang out with your uncle on the radio?
I said, oh, that's cool.
I say, what time?
He said, by 5, 5.30.
What?
But I ain't even thinking like that.
I'm thinking like, all, cool.
When I get through having dinner, you know, I come on through there.
I see what y'all doing six by six and eight.
He's like, no, no, no.
In the morning, dog.
I say, what?
Before you move, tell them about that comedic time difference.
five in the morning
in the comedy world
We graveyard ship
Exactly
You know
So I got up
I said man
We don't quit shooting dice
Till 3 in the morning
Exactly
So man I get up
Go to the radio
States 5 30 in the morning
And I get on the radio
With Uncle Steve
And it's just
You know basically
What we've been doing
We just talk smack to each other
Right
Man we talked smack for about a week
And it was a home run
Hitter in Los Angeles
And you know
As far as they're concerned
The nephew was born
It was something new
And I told Uncle Steve
I said man
I could do this to Luther car.
I said, but I can't be just playing with you on the radio.
And dog, here's the blessing.
Big Luther got sick.
That ain't no blessing.
The pastor.
Well, it ain't a blessing.
That ain't a blessing.
That ain't no blessing.
The blessing is this.
I thought I was going to go back out with Big Lou.
Big Luther passed away.
And it's kind of like God gave me a job
for I even though I need one.
That's, now that I can see.
There I was on the radio.
You know what I'm saying?
I was like, and here it is now.
It's 13 years later.
That's what I was just about to say.
I've got the weirdest relationship, man.
Is that crazy?
Yeah, that is crazy.
So I'm on the radio, slanging jokes, still slanging jokes to the nightclub.
Sometimes I go hit the big venues.
I did a tour that sold out all over country, man.
You say it like it's just so, yeah, the tour sold out all over the country.
It ain't always been that way.
It's been some nights you're like, huh.
Tell me about the grind, man.
Tell me how you got there.
It's been some nights you'd be like, we shouldn't have done this one.
Yeah.
When we said we was going to come over here and do the people that own the funeral home and do a show for them, it wasn't no good job.
And then you figured out they wanted to do the show at the funeral.
Oh, man.
What's the crazy place you've been?
I think the craziest place I've been is at somebody's house.
Dude booked me.
He said, man, you're funny as hell, bro.
You're one of my favorite comedian.
You tell me what you want.
I told him what I wanted.
And then I got, I was like, where you want me to tell jokes that?
He said, bro, they go to the top of the steps.
Yeah.
Wow
That's it
You was on the top of the top of the top of the table
Yeah
He paid me
He paid me exactly what I asked for
And you spit him out
And I spit him out
Hung out at the party
Met about seven chicks
And it was cool
There you go
It was cool
I'd have been at a raggedy
Car dealership
Use car dealership
They still booking over there
I'm gonna get some numbers
You wanna get phone
Man I'd have been booked
In some crazy places man
Yeah
Some crazy places
You know
Use car dealership man
And they got some
There was some cars jacked up
and had just been being worked on.
Wow.
All stains on the flow.
But they party in LA that night.
They do.
You'd be surprised at little nooks and places
that we end up as comedians, man.
Back of a liquor stove, been back there and performed?
Bro, I performed at a baby shower.
You ain't never been paid in Crown, though.
I ain't.
I'd have been paid in Crown, wrong.
I tried to give me $400 worth of weed.
I was like, I got to fly out in the morning.
I'll hold it till you can come up with the rest.
I ain't, you know.
I'm not fin to smoke it.
He did try to come up, shock, though, man.
Tell me about the movies, man.
You think like a man.
Think Like a Man was good.
Baggage Claim.
Cameo in there.
Yeah.
Cameo in Baggage Claim.
That's my boy.
That's David Towers.
So anytime you see Dave doing something, nine times out of ten,
I would be doing it.
Nine times out of it.
I need some partners, man.
My partners don't be doing shit.
Come on, put me on your radio show.
This is a podcast, Nick.
Hey, man.
You know what you could do, man.
Go jump in some of them plays, man.
Yeah, because that's what you do.
That's how you get on.
You just walk in and be like, I'm in this bitch.
You jump in the plays, bro.
Yeah.
It's going, it's going, it's going to sharp.
You need them numbers out your farm.
I got you.
I'm trying to be in, Mama, I need my hair braids.
Ooh, since I got out to Pian.
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's the new play that we're coming out of with.
They got a hundred and one dates.
Mama need my hair braided since I got out of the pen.
That one right there.
Coming to a location nearest yet.
We're starting off in Indianapolis.
Yes.
Yes.
We're going to have that thing.
in a 400 cedar.
That's what's up, man.
What is it like working every morning
on the radio show, though?
It's good.
I mean, the only discipline, man, is getting up.
You know, I used to come in,
I used to come in, man, like pin and pad
and say, okay, I got this joke I'm doing,
this joke I'm doing.
Steve say, hell is your ass right and all that down, fuck.
We ain't fenced to do none of that.
And just take my little jokes and throw them off, man.
This is what people don't understand.
Tell everybody how gangster Steve Harvey really is.
He's gangster.
He a gangster.
People don't know.
But he's a straight trip, man.
But he had a lot of fun.
He taught me how to come into the radio station with an open mind
and just say what come off the top of your head.
And your jokes just start just coming, man.
And to the point where everything you say in the morning,
even when they turn it off, I'm still talking crazy
and it's still rolling.
And then you're sitting back and sometimes you can,
like if I'm in Los Angeles,
I can hear myself when I lead the studio.
The show is recorded.
So I actually get to hear.
I hear myself while I'm driving back to my hotel room.
I'm like, damn, that shit funny.
Yeah.
I didn't even know I said that shit right there.
And it's all just, just stay in the moment
and just say what's on your mind in the moment,
and the jokes just start.
And this is how you know you're getting the results
that you want.
You got some of the craziest fans on the whole show.
Tell us about your fans, man.
Because I've been, you know, I got you on all the social media,
so I've been seeing all the comments.
I got some people that be following me, man,
that they are some ride or die.
I love them, Adele, from Facebook to Instagram,
you name it, Twitter.
I got some people from-
Drop your social media.
Because this is the 85 South show.
We do whatever the hell, we want to do.
85 South, baby, nothing off of South, all right?
So hit your boy at Thomas Miles.com.
It's my website, and you go, hey, matter of fact,
just go to Thomas Miles.com.
You did just launch your website, right?
Yeah, yeah.
The new joint revamped, I see the characters on that.
All that, you can also place some,
if you want me to prank somebody,
you can hit that button on there.
I can prank somebody for you.
Drop it one more.
Thomas miles.com.
If you can't spell that, then you'll only be going in no way.
Thomas Miles.com.
You can hit the icon for Twitter or Facebook, all of your Instagram, any social media.
You can hit it right there.
And holl at your board, join up with me.
I got 1.5 million on Facebook and, you know, keep getting big and bigger.
That's what's up, man.
I love how you steal yourself and the success don't ever change you, man.
Stay real, man.
Stay real.
You don't know when you might have to come back down.
bro you know we got a lot of listeners out here tell them what some of the tricks is staying real
they're real you know what you can't you can't you can't you can't um the quick as you got it
i think god can take it from you just as fast yeah and you'll be you'll be back down rock bottom man
so i'm i just i just thank the lord for where i am how blessed i am being able to to uh take care
my family man i i um me and my baby sister just bought my mom a house you know so shout out the
baby sister's man she's smartest thing i'm
No, she ain't funny.
She's straight smart.
My sister went to Japan and taught English.
Whoa, whoa.
My sister sit back and read the Japanese newspaper.
Oh, she just be sitting there and looking at.
She wanted them.
She wanted them.
She wanted them.
That's the one to get a speech at graduation.
She wanted them.
Yes, up.
That's what's up, man.
But it's been a pleasure, man.
I'm on 85 South, man.
No, I can't believe you actually found time to come kick it.
I got time.
Kick it in the gutter with the low balls, Nick.
This is the gutter, I'm enjoying it.
This the gutter, man.
I likes the gutter.
I gets down in the gutter.
I still go to the hole in the wall and kick it, baby.
Man, we had snuggie dead about 10 episodes before Steve, even though we was in the studio.
In here?
Yeah, boy.
We were 10 episodes deep, dude.
Like, they're doing what?
And I know what he said, fuck is y'all doing this.
He walked there and he said, who is these niggas?
Who the fuck is these niggas?
Exactly.
In my shit.
Hello.
He didn't get a shot, though, man.
So shout out to the big Uncle Steve, man.
Yes, sir.
85 South, baby.
Make sure you tune in all the time
and hang out with my boy
who is straight ignorant on his way up
and I'm going to give him some numbers out of my phone.
You got to.
You'll get him up a little higher, a little higher.
Before you go, you got to do this, man.
What's that?
Like, this has become one of everybody's favorite parts
of the show.
Like, we tell the audience who this show is for, right?
Okay.
Like, the 85 South show.
This show is for LifeSk.
girls with dark skin and nipples you feel what I'm saying like this that's the type of show that
we have yeah so like the 85 South show is for women with big hips and no ass yes so it's just
big on the side flat cross the back right she turned around you're like where the hands go yes okay
so the 85 South show is for women who got pretty edges and short hair that's that's what we you feel
what I'm saying 85 South show is for women who used to have big tities then you lost weight
and now you miss your big titties.
That's who we do it for.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Saggy titties but still breastfeeding.
You feel me?
Exactly.
Yeah.
Hey, this girl at the comedy show told me her baby
drunk her todies up.
They was big, now they're gone.
You said the baby, they're drunk the titty.
Yeah, and pouter milk's too.
Exactly.
We'll much love to you on.
Exactly, man.
The 85 South Show is for niggas.
Yeah.
Who go to the club and act like they in VIP.
Yeah.
But it's just their home boy.
That's exactly what.
we do this show for this is this 85 south show is for the women who have not got the memo
to shave their crotch yet and walk around with that big ass puff of hair you know we
don't understand this fucking african goo do you have down there you know what that's called what is
that's called a waltz nest right there that black waltz nest that shit all right if we getting tangled
up getting in there it's a fucking problem the 85 south show is for people who have sex and don't
get no towel just lay there with the fan on dry right there that's nasty all right now you've got to
pull yourself away from yourself because you're stuck to yourself exactly that's who this show is
for though man don't ever think we forget about our core audience nephew tommy we're going to be
on you we're going to hit the website we're going to make sure we keep supporting you on on the morning
radio show the facebook fan page is jumping out the gym you are hilarious please keep doing the prank
call because now it's to the point where you damn they got to be a ninja to pull
off a prank phone call I don't know how you get by caller ID oh I don't you pull
that off yeah yeah you got you got every time you call it look like student loan
call you got a different location partner and he and my man cat dog back here on
the board he got he got some little gadget he got some gadgets back there to make it
happen hell yeah man 85 South is for uh-oh uncircumcised guys that can
can't get their rubber on.
It's for y'all.
This is exactly who this is for.
85 South Shores for women with them long pussylift that look like bat wings.
All right.
Yeah, 85 South Shores for all the chubby women with them little B cup breasts.
Your body big, but your whole chest area is small.
Looking like grimace.
You know Grimmis, the big purple thing?
Yeah.
Yeah, it looked like grimace.
Yeah.
85 South is when you, it's for the girls that pass gas when you hit them from.
You look dirty, motherfucker.
It's talking to you.
You poot it.
I smell it.
85 South shorts for women who got real asses,
but they got dimples in it like a golf ball.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
We love our core audience, man.
That's what we do it for.
85 South is for those that got gone to real
and got it last year and still ain't went to the clinic yet.
Exactly.
85 South Shows.
Now you're just blind and a motherfucker.
You know.
85 South show is for niggas who got an STD
and just use their girl medicine.
Now y'all both just kind of got it.
Split the medicine with her.
Oh, shit.
It's for the tall niggas who can't hoop.
Show is for lesbians who don't like eating cushy.
That's who we doing this for, man.
Yeah, yes.
This is for all the lesbians that got them super strap-horns on
that hang below your knees,
and you just whan your gal ass to fuck out.
85 South Show for all them little stud lesbians
that accidentally set on the strap-on.
Kind of liked it a little bit.
Yeah, 85 South is for the hard, lesbian, dude-looking person
that still wants some dick on the side.
Your ass, you know.
Exactly.
85 South Show is a podcast for all the homeless strippers
who live with another stripper
and they beefing because they don't want to pay.
pay no bills yeah 85 south is for all the women that's got a pussy on their hip
time I'm trying to make some money on the side yeah it's for y'all yeah that's
who it's for man 85 south is for all the dogs that got stuck in the middle of the street
and can't nobody ungluing yeah you know that's what he that's exactly what he's all that fucking in
the highway you know who you are the 85 south shore is for that uncle who tried to convince you
that burn pussy is okay.
That's who this is for.
Shit, ain't nothing wrong with it.
Give her a few dollars.
We out here, Niff.
We are out, baby.
We are out of here.
Thank you, my nigga.
85 soft is for praise dancers
that be twerking on the slide.
You know what I'm saying?
You know who you know who your ass is.
You ought to quit that now.
Eighty-five.
Eighty-five.
Eighty-five, hide, hide.
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