The Bonfire with Big Jay Oakerson and Robert Kelly - Verbiage (feat. Richie Redding)

Episode Date: January 19, 2024

Comic Richie Redding went on tour with Katt Williams for 160 shows!

I'm Bobby Kelly and it's Big J. Ocarson. We're actually a full radio show on Series XM, not just a podcast. For full episodes of the Bond Fire you can listen on the Series XM app. Go to seriesexm.com slash Bond Fire for a special offer. And now back to the Bond Fire with Big J. Ocarson and Robert Kelly. I must be somewhere we can eat, maybe find another lover, Should have fly lost sand to Lillard, find my asshole brother, Make me mad, screw down the cow cow Dayd's on, say it down We're kissing, kissing the real you

We're so poor, you're blame Trust you once, my wife Never fail, stand, never fail I don't think so Now we're built in hell, we're built in I don't think so Rain dogs have on the century A million dollars of stake As you search for your demigod And you fake where the saints eat you

There's no sex in your violence There's no sex in your vile else, there's no sex in your vile else, there's no sex in your vile else, trust in your vile, trust in your vile. And I'm a feldsand, I'm a feldsand. I don't think so. Big week of coming up. I gotta go to Chicago and Wisconsin. Chicago. Chicago. One more, right?

Is there three things? Uh, Wisconsin two nights. Chicago, Thursday night, Friday night, Wisconsin, Saturday night, Wisconsin. And then I'm doing this thing at a pizza place. What? My friend has a pizza place and I gotta go this thing at a pizza place What? My friend has a pizza place and I got to go in and make a pizza For what I don't know I agreed to do it you never give it I don't know it's like TV or something now. It's for his

I don't know I'm gonna go make a Bob a Bob a Bob pie a Bob pie I don't know it's part of the weekend. Yeah, I gotta go there. Oh, I'm doing the roast battle to him Bob a Bob pie a Bob pie I Don't know it's part of the weekend. Yeah, I gotta go there. Oh, I'm doing the roast battle to him judging the roast battle Which is pretty fun. Where that I believe Jackson Milwaukee, whatever where was concerned? Yeah, Milwaukee So after the apps because Bobby's not killing it with what he's doing this weekend I gotta tell you this. I've got to tell you where you're going to be. I'll tell you where you're going to be, Robert. Chicago, January 18th, Wisconsin, January 19th, and 20th.

I'm sorry. Wisconsin, January 19th, and on the 20th, he'll be in Germantown and Glendale. There you go. And then I extra show added comedy connection. Extra show added the comedy connection. 630. 630 show? Noice.

For tickets and all tour dates go to robbercallylive.com. Our guest. Yes. Everybody. Our guest, this Saturday is going to be at the churchville Inn in Southampton, PA. Everybody. It's a long time coming to have them on the show. My good buddy, Richie Redding in the House.

Yeah, dude. It's up. Good to see you. Good to see you too. I Got it. I got an email yeah our DM as ever the kids are calling them DMs from Somebody who wants to be in the spokesmodel running we should feel rich. You know what's going on Yeah, we have please we have a bonfire spokesmodel and where we have a We have a bonfire spokesmodel and where we have a Lin is our OG Forever spokesmodel, but we threw it out there. Maybe everybody gets their own spokesmodel So you know you can anybody who's a camper can throw out, you know dicks and whoever you can be a guy a girl

Both he she day it doesn't matter sending your pictures and We're going over them. And what do you judge on? What's the criteria? Mostly Dix. Just whatever Dix looks like. We judge, well, we judge on that. We don't know the personalities yet.

Right now we're just going by pictures. Yeah, we're going by pictures. Pictures, Dix and Puss. Yeah, okay. Yeah. But there's some Puss in here Rich, don't worry. You're probably going to see some Puss in these pictures today. Yeah.

But I hope you're ready for a lot of dicks. Yeah, I feel like the dicks are usually a little more forthcoming. They are more forthcoming. I don't want this to hurt your future with cat Williams, but I understand if you say you hate all of these. I heard you been on the internet judging dicks again. I ain't never known that done nothing. We're looking at no penis

You can look at a dick, but if you put a dress on and do it you're done. It's fun Richie Richie worked with cat for a couple years. Yeah, three years. Yeah, yeah on the doing like the big retours with them. How was that? It was crazy to I mean it was like it was the way that it came about was was so nice because it was like I basically just had to like prove myself for like 15 shows in a row. Where did he see you? How did you get into his atmosphere? I mean it's a long story but I like I had the when I was six months in, Javan Pearson got me on a show at the Robin Hood del East, which became known as the Free Beanie Segal Concert. Yeah, it was to give you know, this is a Philly Black Circuit comedy thing.

Okay. And I got boot off stage by 4,000 black people, all at the same time. They didn't do it one at a time. You know, what did you say? I mean, power? I said the end word one time. No, I mean, dude, before I got to the mic, they started building me and the host brought me up as he was like, uh, oh, I was in between, uh, Memphis bleak and Joe button.

It was like, okay. Ganks to rap concert. Uh, the host brings me up and goes, uh, this next guy just started doing comedy. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania You might as well say here's whitey The crew team which I believe is true. I did is not untrue So the fuck is crew? The rowing you white trash and you're lived in Boston. Yeah, I was the one who rocks at those fucking cities.

I didn't know you were put in a rig. So yeah, so they start building me like before I could even like get near the mic. But the fun part was that before I went out, the reason I was on the show was that my unemployment had just run out and I found out like a couple of days before this that like I found out that like you know a couple days before this that like I'm out of money my girlfriend is coming back from Germany and expects me

to be able to pay my end of the rent and I've had Javon staying with me for like a week so really so he hustles this thing up and he's like hey I can get you like 500 bucks for this show which is like my rent in Philly at that time. So right before I go out, the promoter who's clearly a drug dealer pulls me aside, he's like, yo, I don't know how they do it at your white boy shows, but around here, if you don't do all your time, you don't get all your money. So it's like, oh shit.

I know those rules. Which basically means, I know I'm not going to pay you for this. Right. You know the situation, like you are not getting paid for this. So go out and immediately, like they're booing me, I look right into the lights, right? So it's like that aircraft landing light that they have for the biggest. I'm blind and just start like randomly throwing out black insults of people that I can't see

at a different time. Like what, like what kind of like Keith Robinson, black insult or Nick DePolo, black insults of people that I can't see. Like what kind of like Keith Robinson blackins on Niktopolo black insults. No. This is a variation of black insults. Well that was the beauty of starting that black circle. You were ready with like a handful of those like your roaches got names and you guys

was whatever just like the most like blanket statement. Yeah, it looks like a tedious to make sure nobody steals your feet. Like I can't touch it. Yeah. Like, uh. They're all fun. So that shuts them up.

Like I did like a minute of that, that shuts them up. And I got like five minutes off of new guy, you know, six months in comedy. And somebody in the back was like, I was having more fun when I was building. I'm gonna boo again, and somebody else was like,

I'm going to join you. So it just turns into this, it took like a full minute and a half, and this title wave builds up, and it's just boom, like, and by, for the last minute and a half, I just sat there while they were booing me, and like the DJ's cutting and shit like that. But I'm just like, I'm just, I'm staying on for 10 minutes to make sure that I get the money.

Yeah, like I have to get paid. And I go off with the promoters like yeah, that shit won't real style the dog Like we didn't discuss This was a quantity gig So that's the worst thing about black shows they have the DJ just when the DJ turns on you you don't have a shot I don't you don't have a shot. You wouldn't get it. I don't you don't have a shot. Were you then you come with us? Did you come with us to that after I did your show that when the mean soda came down and did your show

and went to the sugar bear. I am somehow connected to the founding of the barfah. Yeah, but do you go with us to sugar bear? Oh, yeah. And that was the idea. The DJ just when he introduced me to come on stage the host, the the sugar bear? Oh, yeah. And that was the idea. The DJ, just when he introduced me to come on stage to the host, the late sugar bear, he went on stage and the DJ just didn't stop playing

the music. And then, you know, the point where I started giving like the, you know, kind of thing. And he's not doing, so I look over and I almost go over and I give him a thing where I'm like, is it, what's wrong? And then he just like finally stops it. But he played it for like 40 seconds of me being

on the stage and I was like, all right, this is a weird thing. And then I just, I started asking a girl in the front dirty questions. And then her stepmother stood up in the back of the room who looked like Peppa from Salt and Peppa. And she was like, I love the way you say Peppa. The old Peppa. Like Peppa Peppa.

Yeah. The old Peppa. Oh, Peppa. Well, her name was in Peppa. It was the old Peppa like Peppa Peppa the old Peppa. Well her name was in pepper. It was salt and Peppa Peppa But she had like the half gold hair and and and outline and gold teeth out arms. She's Steven Singer hair Hey Don't forget this Valentine's day get your hair. I hate Steven Singer gold dip hair coming to you by mama walk in your sister with a mr It's water right in front of you. Oh, I thought this was somebody else's coffee. Okay, so they

What you got when they I started I started lady started going and I was Kind of started like insulting her a little bit like at her and she goes you better watch your mouth. She was so serious You better watch your mouth motherfucker. Are you ain't gonna get paid and I go get paid by who he goes my husband her father who's the promoter of the whole fucking thing everybody's related at a black show too that's my cousin the only saving grace I'll say from that show the saving grace because it was so bad and then sugarbate up and like he started sort of like semi insulting me so then I went back on stage and kind of insulted. It was such a weird and then when I was leaving, I will say the only

saving grace that place was walking out the guy who ran the show whose daughter I was fucking with and that why he was like a polygetic. He kind of got it to some degree. He was like, dude, I hope you'll come back and I'm sorry. That just went kind of haywire, but he was not he was actually pretty nice. Did you go back? No Sugar Bear died of what the sugars Dead sugar bear die of sugar is like little X and X dying from a little X and X It was right there sugar bear died from sugar I believe These is the worst because you know stage bombing and you have zikazik

Yeah, come on Yeah, well, I said that crazy Sam guy the uptown comedy Store show you step and up in Harlem That was that they played the DJ just started playing the music on me after I told the crowd like I don't know Fuck if you laugh. I already got paid, which was a lie I didn't get paid yet and they played the music on me and that got crazy Sam I remember when he shook my hand while the music still playing and he came and shook my hand He was like he goes don't worry about it. Man. It happens dude. Don't worry about it And I was like I was like oh was the money in the handshake. No, no, I never got the money

That's what that night was me Dory no well and Kurt Metzger getting into me in the leaving but They go smiley will not be paying you tonight her name was smiley who was supposed to pay me but because you didn't do very good and uh... it was just uh... what could we do but i remember what i was walking up stage that got crazy sam who's like you know big personality he said don't worry about big man shit happens to the day no big deal

and then i go backstage and he gets on the microphone he goes if that motherfucker gets paid i'm whooping somebody's ass. Crazy Sam and correct me if I'm wrong on this. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, crazy, you know, you may have heard this story, dude, at one point when he was like down and his look apparently, he just robbed the uptown comedy store. Like, he was hosting the show and then gunpoint robbed the audience.

Like, you made them all take their money and then he left for like a year. It didn't come back. You just robbed the audience. I think gunpoint robbed the audience of his own show, his weekly show. That's hilarious. And then cut and then stopped doing the show for a while. I think it was so weird. For a while. For a while. I think he paid a pop back up for it. He said it cooled down. So how did so you do this show? Yeah. How does he meet you? So I told Tourette that story 10 years later. And Ed. Tourette Gordon was like the mentor,

the first mentor of everybody in Philly, Black County. Yeah. And I love Tourette, but he's loud as she, he was a key special. Oh yeah. Every time Keith did a joke, that's the Godfather. That's him. Well, he took over.

He took over for Derek Gaines who was doing it on the first taping show. I was. Yup. That's what Toufather, that's him. He took over for Derek Gaines who was doing it on the first taping show. Oh, see? Yup, that's what town keep. That's it, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's like I did, they're filming this. Yeah. Hey, hey, we know you're Baptist.

Yeah. You're actually making some white little nerd editors life miserable. Yeah. I'm trying to make that consistent. Yeah. But, yeah, afraid I try to make that consistent. But yeah, so I told to that story and like a week later he called me, he was like, hey, the Dell is looking for a comic again.

And it was like, it was some like jazz band or something. So it was really easy to other guys' bombs. I knew what I was doing at this point. Do really well in that show. And that guy was like, hey, we'll get you back on something. And it's like, for like three years, every time I was ready to commit comedy suicide and didn't have anything on the books,

I would hit that guy like, hey, I'm still alive. And after three years. He went open for the temptations. It was Thursday at like 11 p.m. and he's like, hey, you want to open for cat Williams tomorrow at the Lea Course Center at seven. And I was like, yes, absolutely, right? So when I go on, he's not there yet.

And I had what at that time was like the best set that I've ever had. And so I'm super pumped. Right, it was the biggest crowd I've ever been in front of. Is it a theater? Is 7,000 person arena? 7,000 people. I heard you did good.

I was having pizza. So, yeah, but he was, so like, I came off with being jazzed about killing that, but like fuck, you didn't see it, you know. And I'm going to the locker room, because you're like, in the temples arena basically and out from the shadows Steps of dude in a fur coat purple suit gold glasses fucking hat the whole nine like young man That was absolutely still pandas Oh like y'all thank you so much, and he gives me a handshake and like I throws you on the back of a motorcycle like Prince

Soft-pist. Oh, you romantic. Richie got purple rain. Get on my motorcycle. Richie's good-looking boyish face has caused him more troubles from men trying to have sex with him. For his day was there for some reason. I'm going to introduce you to my abusive daddy. But so, yo, and I forgot this part of it that like this is what it sounds like when the dumps cry I'm gonna take those daddy whine as long as I don't like them that's a dumb crap Jumping the lake clean yourself for it So yeah, and this is another point in my life where I'm just fucking broke, right?

And he that handshake that he gives me it was like, holy shit, like there's a lot of money in this handshake He gave you a chunk of cash. So yeah, so I was supposed to get paid like a double bag of cash So I was supposed to get 500 bucks for for the opening and I'm like it like I'm playing it cool as I put it away And I say to it cool as I put it away. And I say to him, I was like, it was like dude, I would love to work with you again. He's like, how have you on the road and ask my work?

And walk away. He put eight times more than I was supposed to get paid in that handshake. Can you give me another? What? What was the number? Do you not know what five times eight is? What was it eight? How much did you get paid? What fails? You you got what I didn't know how much you're supposed to get paid?

Yeah, I'm sorry I missed that part and the craziest part being that I don't like you fucking nerded me out on that Hey challenge you to math you can't do a mac you dumb shit. I get it. You went to call it Philly Boston's stress you froze up to Philly Boston's stress you froze up to You can't do eight times five you know Jay through you will bone This fucking cocksucker did a math nerd test on me. He's trying to help propel your story He went to the University of Pennsylvania Bobby. I'm sorry. I went to Buckingill Community College for fine art

Jay you come from the state of colleges. By the way, Bobby gave me one of the greatest insults ever one time that you were just like walking away. We're on the street and you're like, you got a young body and an old head. I thought about it once a week for the last three years. I'm sorry. I deserve that math joke. I'll just be looking in the mirror. I fucking old head. There's nothing I can do about this old Mr. Burns buddy, so he get so it's true what he says about himself It's he's insanely generous. He's insanely generous. Wow, so and then I think those stories I think he takes care like seven kids in his house and it was more at one point. They're all adopted Yeah, he said he just care of like seven kids in his house and it was more at one point. They're all adopted.

Yeah, he's said he just tops like wayward kids and I guess and then he just goes out and freaks out and then like fights a teenager in a project one day. It's gonna luck going on. That kid started that. You know what else? You gotta watch the whole video. He finished it. Yeah, I don't know who started it, that kid did finish it.

Y'all meet a little boy. It's what happened you met a little boy do this to the celebrity? Who's my baby is this? Who's my baby is this? That's what he actually said. Wait your mama. So, and then, like I said, I had to like prove myself every time, so it turns into this thing where like a month later,

again, it's midnight and they're like, hey, can you be at Washington DC at seven tomorrow and it's like Absolutely, you know and do the I was at the the dark constitution hall and And they're like yeah, you're only that's three shows you're only on the first night and then the first one goes really well And they're like hey if you wanted if he wants to are you available to do tomorrow also? And I was like yeah, absolutely. They're like the problem is we got another guy booked to do these next two shows I'm like I don't fuck about that guy They get this guy on the phone like in front of me like yeah, so I can't found somebody else So yeah, I know we really owe you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry and the guys like give me this look like I'm supposed to be bad like fuck that guy

Okay, yeah, that guy was stuff. Rose. Hellkias Was a Gary Owen So it was basically that kind of scenario for like a month and a half of like getting these and You get like half they'll get that run and then you get the added on yeah Well, just these last minute calls and that yeah, then it's like we're in Mississippi Hey, can you go to Arkansas tomorrow like yeah, yeah, I'm just, I'm along for this ride. Was it giving you, but was it, did he go, like, here's the thing, like he paid you that much money, right?

Did he go back to the original like 500? And, did he just say, and did he keep giving you that? There was a handshake every weekend that was like, holy shit. Did he get bigger and bigger or the same? I mean, it fluctuated. Wow. Yeah. It was crazy up and down. I love? I mean, it fluctuated. Wow. Yeah.

It was crazy up and down. I love that. So, and yeah, and the, everybody, I wasn't on the tour. And there was people that were like on the tour and I'm getting to know all of them. And they're like, he likes you, you just gotta ask him. Like, just find a way to ask him, you know,

if you can be on for real. And I created a situation where I could talk to him. He's like, I owe you some verbiage. I'm gonna call you, like, okay, cool. That's a fucking great deal. What a fucking weird world game. Such a weird world. I owe you a verbiage.

Yeah, he's a character. I'm gonna use that. I'm gonna start using that. You have a verbiage. I'm gonna wake up to dawn. I owe you a verbiage. I'll hit you up a noon inby and she's gonna wake up to dawn. I owe you Virby and she's gonna hit you up and noone in the kitchen.

Fall the Virby and she. Make some eggs and I will give you a Virby. I will pontificate upon a point or two. Joe Logan don't want me on there. So, and then the call that next Thursday doesn't happen. So I'm like, fuck, I'm like, I'm off the tour because there's a show Friday. And I get a call at like five in the morning

and I pick up, it's an unknown number. And he's like, Richie, this is Kat, Williams. I was expecting to leave you a voicemail. Um, can you call it a Texas? I was like, yeah, sure. I was like, okay. So, you know, like I get an email that I've got like another first class flight to Texas

that I've got to catch in like three hours. Three hours, they get you. Always first class. Yeah, always first class. That's awesome, man. So now there's actually a real situation where it's me and him alone and I was like, can't like, can I be on tour with you? Is like, do you want to be on tour? I was like, yeah, obviously, absolutely. He's like,

you're already not, you're on the tour. I was like, no, I don't. I know we were. I was like, you were supposed to call me, but we never talk. He's like, oh, right. Yeah, I was going to leave you a message that you would, you would have for the rest of your life, but we never talk. He's like, oh, right. Yeah, I was going to leave you a message that you would have for the rest of your life, but you fucked it up. Yeah, you're on the tour. I feel like, and that was it. And then I wound up doing like 160 shows with him.

So he really does that many shows a year? Well, it was over three years. Okay, but does he tour, we want every show, or just like a chunk of it, and then take time off, or? Like, I wound up getting picked up on like the back half of Two tours and is it every is it different one of them was like a 90 city tour 90 cities first class Hotel first busses some bus. Yeah, I love the bus. Yeah, the funniest although. I don't know about a bus We'll count the night bus with cat. Well, he was gonna be interesting. I would love that everybody has fur coats

Well, he was not gonna be interesting. I would love that. Everybody has fur coats. Yeah, fucking dobs. So, okay, so this is what he, we're in Milwaukee. And this weird dude, this white guy that I'd seen around before, he's his fur guy is on the bus, right? And we, you know, I'm like, I know it. Do you guys not have a furrier?

No. I'm between furriers right now. Do you guys not have a furrier? I'm between furriers right now. I just picked up a fine Habadassher. It's so absurd that there's an actual person in the world. In 2024, that's a furrier. But, yeah, so this dude, this weirdo and his wife are hanging out on the bus forever. Yeah, I'm sober. So I'm trying to avoid smoke.

Yeah, I'm just like, I'm by the window. And we had to leave. Is that the one? Skanks. Yeah. So we had to leave. We're just hanging out in the parking lot. We had to leave at like six in the morning.

It gets to like four o'clock and I was finally like, fuck it, I need to sleep. Like, I'm not smoking weed, I'm not, you know, I'm not partying with these guys. I need to sleep. So I go and get two hours of sleep. I come back down for the six o'clock push-off and as soon as the bus door opens,

the bus driver is in a full length fur coat. I did. I see the opening comic, the guy that goes on before the MC comes out is rocking a mink. There's a security guy that's got a big bonsha big fucking, big white stole on his shit. Like one guy had the king of Mufacet, it's a moondah, and I like, it's six in the morning. Like he'd freshly killed Tiger on the shoulders with the head

and ruby eyes. I come on. And it's... King Jeffrey Jaffer, do you know where the bathroom is this venue? And everybody is stoned to the gills, right? It was just like two more hours of everybody smoking that level of weed, and they're all in like super slow motion.

I'm just like, what the fuck happened to you? They're like, we got gifts, bro. You sure to stuck around. Oh. It was a fur explosion. You get a fur, you get a fur, everybody gets a fur. And no one asks questions. Give that man pump on the gas a fur, you get a fur, everybody gets a fur, and no one asks questions. Give that man pump on the gas a fur.

Have you considered fur pants? Is the ultimate luxury? What a great person to get, like, linked to, look, I mean that's one of the biggest things I always say when I tell my story, it's between, you know, Bobby U. Patrice a little bit and then like a tell, take me on the road to find the person to like the Wendy's I think it a Wendy's and you slept at my house on my couch. I did in a chair sitting up in a chair No, I'm sure got your fire Look, do we get first now?

Do we get hot chocolate with marshmallows? get first now. Do we get hot chocolate and marshmallows? Absolutely. I thought so many types of what could you imagine if I come home in a fur coat? I'm surprised I say something I'm proud of you for not because I'll tell you I went on that corn tour. You get away well you know what it is? Here's why. You weren't away from comedy. You were still around comedy and ball busting on the thing. When I was at with those bands, you lose sight of that. And just a day I remember coming into the city for the first time after those tours and being like, my nose is freshly pierced and I'm wearing knuckle gloves. This is probably going to be a thing down at the comedy seller. Oh, it was. It was. I know. What the fuck are you coming back from? I was just on tour of corn

for three months. What what that's like when Patrice got into a suit phase and he walked in we're like from jerseys he will immediately from jerseys to fucking he walked into the salad one night We're like do you have your own barbecue sauce? Why you dressed like that you fucking idiot this deep-harving collection? What are you doing So so funny so you're on tour with this guy and you're performing in front of Black Crouch. Yeah.

And thousands of people, did you have a bad night? It was at all, you just figured out how to do it. I mean, I started out doing that and, you know, it was like 15 to 20 minute sets. So I was just go out and throw fastballs. How many people were on that show before him? Dude. So it was just go out and throw fastballs. How many people are on that show before him? Dude that show was it was red grant Zuman Miller me then Mark Curry Wow, so it would be and he be like everybody interesting group everybody go and do 20 25

Curry went on before him dude. He's such a fucking hammer Mark Curry. Yeah Mark Curry's, was that after his accident? Cause he was like, you know, like a bad like burn accident. I think it was well after that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he, um, I didn't know that actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark Curry was like burned, yeah, like that badly and a thing.

I mean, that's, that's a, says something about a comic. I mean, I have Danny Braff and Joe Russell and Mike Suarez going before me. Well, they have to keep it tight. He's six minutes each. No one's doing 20. And no fat joke Suarez going before me. Well, they have a keep it tight. He's six minutes eating. No one's doing 20. And no fat joke Suarez. He didn't give a shit though. He just fuck it.

No, he was also when you're that big of that point. It doesn't matter. You know what's, I thought that was interesting with Dane Cook when he brought me into the, and it says this isn't even an insult. I was always interesting when I did my first set of opening for my cursed. And he took me into the back and it says it's an even an insult. I just thought it was interesting. When I did my first set opening for my cursed, and he took me into the back room of Caroline's.

Oh, you got the back room? And he just goes, or the green room, whatever. And he goes, he goes, hey man, he goes, you know, I want you to do the weekend, but I need you to be squeaky clean. And tell me after the first show, and I was like, Oh, squeaky. I was like, okay, they didn't tell me that at the club,

so I, okay, I was like, what, why? And he goes, dude, it's just eye curse. So it's like, if like if you're cursing that I'm cursing. It's just like too much And I was like buddy when I when you go on stage They're gonna they would literally step over me to my death to get to you know, I mean I'm like they don't care That's an interesting like thing I always found people who don't like have that kind of like Concern or like the other gonna blow everything personally. I mean I mean you know He bought I got a Brightling a watch my first watch. It's a big Brightling and super Avengers. I got made fun of it.

It was so big in God. He but I loved it and he went and bought the same watch. Same exact watch. And then one night we were going on stage, he said, can you not wear your watch? And I went, what? He's like, well, I don't want to people going gonna see us with the same watch. I mean, it doesn't Nobody know it cares and you had it first. It's my watch It's my watch. Yeah, is that's such a wouldn't great wall I'm wearing jeans you mind take it off It's a mental thing. Rich's mentor.

Talk about a leap jump, though, from where it was, because as he just told you before, he's got Javon Pearson's thing, is how so I think went to jail for pedophilia? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm pretty sure. Or as he said, taxes. I push a tax.

Yeah. Pretty sure he was fucking an underage girl. Yeah, so you have to go around and knock on every door in the neighborhood for those taxes Hey, my name is your bond Pearson. I've had some tax troubles in the past He lived with you at the time. No, I So he's the reason that I know that if it's bad to fuck underage girls So he's the reason that I know that if it's bad to fuck underage girls He definitely solidifies that no, he's the reason that I know that if uh

If a comic has a suitcase at a club things are going real good or real bad That's either merch or a go back And he told dusty slay with a million dollar of merch and then he would say, you're gonna get a match or a go back? Yeah, and he'd told. And he'd do the dusty sleigh with a million dollar of merch. Right, and he told this story that he was like, he was on tour with Mariah Carey

and he was just in between tours with her so he was staying out of friends and then he found out that my girlfriend was gone for two weeks and was just like, you got spare bedroom? And it was just like, could not get rid of him. He is a Javon Pearson is the guy I had the, my thing was going up, I was already driving up to New York with Keith Robinson and Kevin Hart. We were coming and I didn't come this

one Tuesday or something because it was Javon Pearson that has showed a place called Boots and Bonnets in Chester, PA. It was an interesting crowd because it was black show, but it was like black bikers. Yeah. It was a black biker bar, but I went in there. It looks the part is terrifying as hell. It's on like a dirt flag. It's underneath the bridge.

But here's a thing dirt lot. The crowd was weirdly good. Like they were all right. The crowd was kind of fine. So I went up the first weekend or the first week and I weirdly good. Like they were all right. The crowd was kind of fine. So I went up the first weekend or the first week and I did good. And at the end of it, he did the money's a little short. Here's half the money.

Come back next week. Come back next week. I'll give you the money plus the money I owe you. I'll pay you to do the show again. Okay. Third week. Come back. Dude, you don't even have to perform this one. Just come back and I'll give you your money next week.

Just come out to Chester, Pennsylvania. Yeah, and then he was like, other than he was like, go on and I'll give you the money. So now it's like he's owing me like, I don't know. It wasn't even that much money, yes. It was also to do math. No, I'm not. Okay, I'm not.

It's like eight times five. What? I was one of those of eight times five appearances. Jacob. I gotta, but no, I was members of eight times five appearances. Jacob, I got, uh, but no, I got, uh, whatever he was probably at this point, owing me like 300 bucks total. It wasn't crazy. I could have done that, but

it was huge. It was huge to me. And I kept going back and they get and then so now at this point, Keith and Kevin laughing at me for not coming to New York on Tuesdays to go get fucked over progressive each week. And so I went down there with like a thing I was like, so no, then I'm playing video games with Kev at his house and he gets a call from Javon Pearson who goes, Hey, you want to

come down and boot some bonds tonight and do a set and Kev was like, Nah, man, I, he's on speaker phone with me. When we in Kev are playing mad and he's like, Nah, man, I heard the money down there. It's like ain't right all the time. He goes, Dude, we got budget. It's like, nah man, I heard the money down there. It's like ain't right all the time. He goes, dude, we got budget. It's fine. He goes, I got the money. He was like, Michael Blackson's on.

And I think JP Justice, we've found something for Jamique. And he was like, we started naming people and Kev was like, yeah, and not so much what I'm saying. It's too many people, man. Like the money might not be right. Now, he goes, I'm telling you, he's just trying to say because he knows I'm telling him the money's not right. But he's not saying that. And he, I'm telling you, he goes, he's just trying to say it because he knows I'm telling him the money's not right. But he's not saying that and he goes,

he offers up, he goes, it well, listen, he goes, just come do the show, man, he goes, I'm telling you, if the money, he goes, if I don't have the money in budget, he goes, I'll just take, I just won't pay a big J. But you're, he knows you're on the phone.

No idea, I'm on the phone. Oh. So then I went down there, furious. And I luckily, in my three week stint of being a cigar store Indian at that place Really knuzzled up to the security guy there. Yeah, his security guy named Jerome And that end that that whole might end it up in like a parking lot of me like chasing Javon Pearson around No way and him trying to get he goes Jerome He was like Jerome fuck him up, dude and Jerome just he was looking at me and we were just both like we've just talked for like three weeks in a row

He's a very nice guy, and he was like, Javon, what's going on man? Just like give the boys money, man, like he just kind of turn like and then Javon peers and gave me like 300 bucks And he was like wow I'll make a phone call tomorrow and I'm gonna end your career and I'm like Like what? Who? Who's in Bonnets? Who's in Bonn what? Like you get to who? We're gonna be losing Bonnets. You get Bonnets. You'll never have to be in.

Will you have a back? No, he never arrested for pedophilia. That place had a medal detector. He did, he was promised. He did get the prize. So he's a man of his word. He is. That place had a medal detector that was clearly unplanned.

Like you like tripped over the plug to get through the medal detector. In the black circuit, do Kermetskruce make me laugh all the time talking about like the black circuit when the credits people would give when they got them, especially the Philly guys, like this next guy you saw play a chair in the background of an episode of living single. Some kind of fucking like they were dancing in the background. Yeah, you've seen him on that episode kicking it with Moisha. The last time last time I saw Javon, it had been years because of his tax problems.

I was going upstairs. There was a Sunday mic at some pizza place on South Street and I was popping in there. I had some real show and I wanted to pop in there and I heard somebody singing Otis Redding and that was like his big bit. I was like, is that fucking Javon? Oh, wait. He gets off stage and he comes up to me. He's like, yo man, I got that if you want to. And I was like, man, I've been sober for like three years actually.

Thanks. And he goes with no hesitation. He doesn't skip a beat. Throws his arms around and gives me a big hug. He's like, bro, I was fucking worried about you. Thank God! You were so concerned for my sobriety that he was about to... Oh, for you, Coke.

That's good. You passed a test. Do you remember Dave Edwards from MTV? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I do remember Dave Edwards very well. I have a one-on-once, actually two things with him. That guy, he fucking he

bitched me out of my apartment he just did Carmetz girl so we were at the seller one night and he's a gyo yo I need a place to hang for a little bit I got a I got a flight and blah blah blah I'm gonna come back to you I was living with Burr up on 97 Street and he was like I need to come back to you place hang out for a bit is that cool and I was like he wanted to talk to me a couple hours before that so I was like okay So we went back to the apartment and he was just sitting on the couch And I was like well listen, I got a early flight too, so you can leave when I leave he's a guy. Cool. So I went in the room. I woke up. It was like five in the morning of maybe six

I was like all right man. Let's go is it yo my flight, my flight, I canceled. So I'll, I'll, I'll let myself out. So I live here now. I was like, you can't stay. And he was like, no, it's cool, man. And he literally, like, push me out of the door. It's good. I'll let myself out. Do get that on your flight. You're gonna miss your flight. And he just push me out doing shut the door of my apartment in my face. And I was just like, I don't know what to do. And I had to go. So I just left the

dude in my apartment by himself. He was known, he thought that real world was going to be so good for him, it made him a well-known like sexual assalters what was what came of that in the era of even not all the woke shit. He was just pulling that blanket still do that. He was pulling the blanket off that girl Tammy who became Kenny, somebody on the nets. Why am I Kenny Anderson's wife, she ended up becoming. And then really even went back on like double down like what a piece of shit he was for pulling that blanket off her underwear.

But then he came out and that is not the place. To me, brother house, that is not where he wanted to be getting hands. But to me, he was that on that and he was in half baked at this point and house party three So then he came the my first thing with him was he would be at the Boston a bunch Yeah, when I was there and I was like, you know, nuzzling up enough as he was nuzzling up wanting things that I was like this guy fucking the guy from the real world and Hangman little bit I brought up one night the girl I lost my virginity to came up one night to see Like my world and you know performing in New York. I still lived out in Philly. Yeah

And she wanted to go to a club afterwards She went to go to limelight still it was open and I was like, uh, it was like a Monday or something And I was like I'll go through with you. You know, I mean, but I don't know. I wasn't that excited to go and he was like Oh, I loved the line like he offers to go with us, which no one asked for. We get out of a cab. And, um, and I mean this, we walk up like to the door and they go, before you guys go in to see, no, it's like, it's gay night. And I'm telling you, when I turned around, I saw the bottom, the souls of his shoes as he was diving headfirst into a cab to get away from there. I, of course, had to go in for 15, 20 minutes with this girl because I promised the right

day. And you heard your favorite song, you spend me around. But then with Metzger, we don't have to go break it in. Oh, look at it. We don't have to take a break in three minutes. No, we don't. No, we took a break, buddy. We took a break in seven minutes.

I've got to take the break energy from Jacob. Is it a union thing? Yeah, it's a union thing. Well, sometimes we fuck up and we go too long. We took a break in seven minutes. I've finished. We have to take the break energy from Jacob. Is it union thing? Yeah, it's union thing. Well, sometimes we fuck up and we go too long. We do fuck up sometimes. But then the other one was David Edwards came. He was, again, same thing, Kurt lived. I didn't live up here yet, and Kurt lived in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,

in a warehouse, basically, that was converted. You know, I mean, one of those things, and he lived a couple of their RT kids, and him and his girlfriend surrounded by Polish people. Yes. Yeah. David Edwards goes, can I stay there for a little bit? He stayed for well over a month. Yeah.

What? Crashing on the floor and then Kurt was like, every day he would be like, hey, he's like, you know, kind of what's going on. He's like, oh, I'm working it out, man. And then Kurt said he would come home. He would have random guy, random guys or girls at his house making them watch House Party 3 on VHS. No.

Somebody told me that he was gonna be there when I got back. Like, I opened the door like, hello, and thank God he wasn't. Wow. But he just, he pushed me out of my apartment. That's crazy. And shut the, and I heard him lock it. The, the, the squattersh it, the rules for squatters.

He's so nuts. They like, if you just get inside a house, you're just allowed to stay. Yeah, but you're in comic, you can't squat. And you fucked up. I'm in my eighth month of trying to live at Christine. Hey, now it's taking forever. No, Richie also, and we have to add back on another episode because he's got, again,

the people that, I don't know when you became so, but I didn't think I knew you drinking, but I must have a little I must have a little bit at least we were I was already gone from Philly But we come back. Well you drink Or are you drug or we what do you know? Yeah, anything getting out of yeah, yeah, but but then he ended up in these situations dude The two that I just love the stories on Of course you know the one the late great Dom Merrill, which is one of my favorite things We cannot say this guy's name until the story. Oh right right right. Well he's dead

Hey, look can you take that out of a live show? Yeah You'll never find I tried to look him up online. You can't find him hang on market Take that right there. Hello. I will change the next time he tells it But then there was the other and this one we can tell, because I don't think he has modern radio. Kenny Ray Walker, was it? Come on! Did he, he's, was an older black guy in Philly, who just also like, and again,

he didn't, I don't even remember necessarily that he didn't, he didn't, he think like nefarious. So it was just, he came back, he's just an older black dude, like an old black man with a lazy eye, who like, No, to say his, his eye a lazy eye who like now to say his his eye is lazy is such a disservice. This thing it's got independent suspension like whatever whatever Kenny's doing it has no

business doing like this motherfucker is all over the room. He has no control and his thing always really maybe seal. Yeah, I mean, bro, it's either here or there. Like it's just all over the place. And he was his first thing he always says when he goes on stages, ladies and gentlemen, I'm cross-ided. Or no, no, I'm, well, yeah, yeah, cross-ided was this thing. Yeah, Liz and I.

Do we have, how much time do we have? Five minutes. So I book this thing with the worst promoter in all of South Jersey. This guy was so bad, he was so unreliable that once I was finally like, is it Dan? Yeah, Dan at Rock Solid, shout out.

Shout out dude. This guy stiffed me so many times that by the time I actually was making some money, he tried to, he was like, dude, I got a thousand bucks for you, you know what I mean? It's solid. Joe DeRosa, this is one of Joe DeRosa's biggest laughs and we're like, you you make him laugh every day

if I just call him and say this? He came up to me at some point after he owed me his $1,000,000. Where he goes, hey man, I just want you know, I got things on track, I'm gonna get that money for you. I went, Dan, get the fuck away from me, asshole. I just go get him, you fucking ass. So, so, so, yeah, he called me one time and he's got a thousand bucks.

He's like, here, this is all we got to do. Deposit $2,000 in my account. And if I show up, I'll give you back half. He's like, oh, it's like that, like, yes, like that motherfucker. But anyway, so, Kenny Ray Walker, me and him both booked this gig. We're living in Philly and it's in Cape May, which is like 60 miles away. And he's like, eight o'clock show.

I'll pick you up at noon. Like, dude, it's an hour and a half. He's like, I'll pick you up at like two. And I'm like, dude, no way. I finally get him up to like 430. He's like the latest, or I can get him a bit to leave. If it's after five, he's gonna fall asleep at home. He shows up. You should've went at noon just to see what you would have done.

There he shows up in a coopedville. At school 85 something like that. And as soon as we go to the road we're going so goddamn slow. It's unbelievable. And at that point I realize I am on a 60 mile car ride with a severely cross-ided driver He had to leave early to make it Yeah, so I mean and every sign and he couldn't read the signs because his eyes were so fucked up every sign They had to pass for him to read them. Yeah, you can pass them read them in the room Like every side is like, is this I exit? I won't miss it. Is this I exit?

Cause I won't miss it. So on the way. I know the last one was 32, but have we passed 33? So on the way back, it's this awful fucking show. Oh, wait, so no, he was a musical guy and his whole first three minutes was dancing. And this is the day this TV won her. This is the days of CDs. He does every black dance, right? And this is the days of CDs.

DJ hits it and the fucking CDs keep skipping. So he's skipping his dance. He's doing the running man, but he's trying to like pause it with it. And they find like, ladies and gentlemen, who likes music? So he just tries to get them to clap. And 60 something. He's 60s yeah and he

starts dancing while white people are clapping amazingly off beat it feels like it was the day the music died right so he's just he wants to kill himself he does eight such a dick and then we're on the way back and I told a story about Javon that Javon got mugged and passed out and he wakes up in the car because he was the only one that passed out he wakes up in the car because he was the only one that passed out. He wakes up in the car and so he doesn't get mugged and he wakes up in the car. He's like, why is my hat hurt?

Why do I smell like pee? And as I hit the punchline of that story, boom! We get hit from behind by a forged whore. And we're doing 30 on the parkway. And like spin out, this insane fucking accident. Luckily we're both fine. And the cops come, and I get to see the cops give this guy the follow the finger test

to see if he's drunk. Just have cops. Yeah, he's just telling the guy, I'm cross-eyed at office, I'm cross-eyed at it. It's true, sir. I never stopped seeing it. It never looks like it's drunk. Just have cops. Yeah, he's just telling the guy, I'm cross-eyed at office. I'm cross-eyed. It's true, sir. I never stop seeing it. It never looks like it's moving.

It's still in front of my panoramic vision. It's true, sir. He's cross-eyed. So, and this happens 10 miles from my parents' house. So we wind up spending the night at my parents' house. We're in twin beds in tidy whiteies. And my dad comes in to make sure that he's like, I think you guys should go to the hospital today,

just get checked out, you know? And Kenny sits up in bed, like, but, but, but, and he's it, and he goes, Mr. Redding, there's a comedian in the house now. And he looks at him and like, looks at me, he's like, yeah, okay, you fucking asshole. That's like, yeah, we like Richie's comedy, our comedian son.

Just so you know, everything gonna be all right. There's a comedian. I know we have to go. Do Kenny Ray Walker, my favorite thing about him, he's an old man. He's one of the guys didn't have any self-awareness of how ridiculous he was. So whenever we'd come in a room,

me and Metzger would go, oh Kenny Ray, fucking walk it y'all. Oh Kenny Ray, fuck, and he would just come in and start like, he'd spin around, start doing like the dance moves and shit. He also filed an insurance claim because of that case and he couldn't go back on stage and dance. So he now does comedy in North Carolina under his assumed name.

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