The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Gary Owen On Scary Black Girl Energy, Disconnecting From His Parents, New Comedy Special + More

Episode Date: October 30, 2024

The Breakfast Club Sits Down With Gary Owen To Discuss Scary Black Girl Energy, Disconnecting From His Parents, And New Comedy Special. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. Jess is on maternity leave, so Lawn LaRosa's filling in. That's right. And we got a special guest in the Lawn LaRosa's filling in. That's right. And we got a special guest in the building. Fresh from the MAGA rally. It was awesome. Ladies and gentlemen, Gary Owen.

It was awesome. The way you sat in that seat, it really looks like you was there. You wasn't there, right? Yeah, I do both. I did the Puerto Rico parade and the MAGA rally. I just try to blend everybody together. It's an opportunity. How are you feeling, Gary?

Good. You know, we had 50 are you feeling, Gary? Good. You know, we had 50 Cent up here. He said he turned down, he turned, he turned it, he was supposed to perform at the MAGA rally and they offered him

$3 million. He said no. He turned it down. Oh, I would have probably performed. I would have just asked for forgiveness. Who was you with on before or after Tony?

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I don't know. What did you think of Tony's joke? You thought it was too much or you just thought it was too much? Or you just thought he was being a comedian? No, I thought for that job, it's like when you do a corporate show or college,

you ask ahead of time what's cool. So they knew what he was going to do. Stop acting like they were shocked. They knew it. That's what he does too. So for his audience, it played, but for people that don't know him and you gotta think about it like it's not gonna hurt him like we like to think it is but it's only probably boosted his ticket sales because the people that are offended we're never gonna pay to see him anyways true so it's almost like when you get internet trolls as a comedian

people that get mad at a joke they i was like, you were never going to come see me live anyway. Gotcha. So for him, it's not going to hurt him. I've seen him be funnier. And it wasn't even the fact that it wasn't him. It was the campaign. The guy's running for president of the United States of America. If you know you need Puerto Ricans, right, or Latino voters,

and you know you need black voters, you don't put somebody up there to insult them. Yeah, and there was no follow-up. It was just like, yeah, Puerto Rico's trash. And I go, where's the punchline? I kept waiting for the rest. I was like, where are they going with this? And they just moved on.

I was like, oh, okay. It's like me telling a joke. Yeah, I had this bitch over my house last night. All right, what do you think about the election? Where's the rest of the story? It's kind of nasty. I wanted to know, you ever think about the election it's like where's the rest of the story it's kind of nasty I wanted to know you ever think about teaching a class of how to avoid the police or getting served

because you did that for a long time and you need a standing ovation the divorce for your divorce they were trying to serve you for how long that didn't instantly click because you talk about it all the time when he said being served you don't know what you're talking about. What? When he said being served, you don't know what he's talking about?

It didn't instantly click? No, I was talking about the police. When he said avoid the police. He meant the processor. Yeah, the processor. Let me see. So I was in Mark Wilden's for March. So April, May, June, July.

It was four months. Four months they were trying to serve you. Four months. And you doused them for four months. They almost got me in Colorado Springs. That was, man. Let me break it down. You were getting a divorce from your wife. Your wife was filing in California, where it's 50-50.

Yeah. You were filing. For life. For life. For life, bro. You were filing in Ohio. Where we paid taxes and we voted. Right.

So I was doing the legal thing. You even know what to say right now. He's still. No, that's that. I mean, that's facts. You just making sure it goes in with the clip.

I, here's the thing. The narrative is I filed in Ohio to avoid paying. No, I filed in Ohio. Cause that's where we voted and paid taxes. And we would have, when we built the house in California,

I literally called my accountant. It was like, yo, I don't want to payifornia taxes what can i build a house in california and live there he was like as long you spend less than 50 of the year and you're a comedian so i'm always on the road and i keep my residency we keep our residency in ohio right that's what we did so it wasn't the money factor it was no legally that's where we lived and that's where we voted so we had a house in oh Ohio and a house in California. So you knew she was coming for you. Well, the processor.

I found out. So how did you avoid it for four months? Because I heard they were popping up at your shows, at the airports. Yo, I was a beast. I was at the, I was a beast. I remember one time I was at the, I was at the Four Seasons in Baltimore, Maryland

for two weeks under Mohammed Shabazz. They never used me, bro. They're used to politicians and celebs, I guess, so they were taking me up through the employee elevator, and my door was right there. So the employee elevator opens up, and my room was right there. I had the same brother that brought me my Uber Eats. I was just trapped.

Was they in character, too? Like, hey, Mr. Shabazz. Yeah, yeah. Mr. Shabazz. Yeah. As-salamu alaykum. Funny as shit, man. Now, they also said that doing your comedy show,

you wouldn't stand at the edge of the stage. You would stand at the back of the curtain. I was in the back, bro. At Baltimore, they had like a hockey plexiglass thing going on at the Baltimore County Factory. When they throw stuff, I shoot at you. Shoot at you? No, no.

Yeah, shoot. No comedians ever been shot on stage. Hey, man, times are changing. Don't put that out there. Don't put that out there. That's what it's for. The plexiglass? Yeah. But that's what it's for, though. Huh? That's what it's for. The plexiglass? Yeah.

But it was kind of like the COVID era. I can't believe it's already been three years. But I had a security guy with me. He'd always sit in the front. So if anybody got up and you couldn't come toward the stage, he'd stop you. So he was like undercover. I had it all planned out. One guy tried to serve me in baltimore

and said he had a show and he tried to give my opener a manila envelope and he was like yo we ain't taking it and then and then we almost got started in colorado springs guy chased me down the alley i was like ricky and boys in the hood i was running bro i got two guys got fired on my team because of that night why because they let him get to me he almost got me oh so they were yeah yeah the way was they to block him yeah i said dude i'm not you don't have to beat anybody up you don't have to fight anybody you just have to stop a lot for me he walked right and they went like this and i go bro it was it was boys in the hood processor because i was run like ricky and then when i got a dress room i was swinging like Ricky. And then when I got in the dress room, I was swinging like Chupo. You mother fucker! God damn it!

I remember yelling at him. I go, you know how much money this is going to cost me? Can they serve you by giving it to your opener? Yep. If he's working for me, he's an employee of mine. Wow. Then if he gets served, I'm served. Same with kids.

If the kids are with you, if they get served, then you're served. That's what I was told. You can serve kids? I don't believe that. No. Well, if they're with you. Like under 18? They weren't under 18. I don't know.

How did you serve her? Because you had to serve her as well. So y'all were playing this game. It was a big cat and mouse. I'm not upset about it. I remember I was always going like, I wonder how this is going to play out. How am I going to get caught or is she going to get caught? At one point, I was in West Virginia for two weeks at my boy's house I went to high school with because I knew nobody was going to play out. How am I going to get caught or is she going to get caught? At one point, I was in West Virginia for two weeks

at my boy's house I went to high school with because I knew nobody was going to find me there. I was laying low. I was off the grid. Changed my cell number. Wasn't really using the internet. You can look at my timeline on social media. I was off social media. We finally got her. I hired a process server and I

said I want 24-7 surveillance on the house. I I gotta get this over with and then she hit me with this huge bill and she wasn't served yet I said well I'm not gonna pay you till she served why did I hire this lady out of Ohio me and her got on a plane flew into Sacramento rented a car we go to where we used to live in California. We had her served within an hour. I called the lady. I was like, how did I get her within an hour? And you've got 24-7 on the house.

I said, so I'm not paying you this bill. So, I mean, we just got lucky. I literally saw her pulling out of a grocery store parking lot. We were following the highway about 15 miles. And then she pulled into Panera Bread, went to the drive-thru, and got stuck. So we showed her the window to get the food, you just, here you go. She rolled down her window and placed her order and the lady just popped up. You're served.

Oh, wow. Boy. Y'all good now family-wise, though? Because I know all of this, it was like your kids weren't, they didn't want much to do with you at one point in time. We were talking about it. Yeah. But I saw your son.

Yeah, we just reconciled like a month and a half ago, two months ago. Right. So we're good. How did that happen? It was like everybody says. You got to let them process everything. And in time, they'll realize mom and dad are adults. We're not perfect.

And then he just texted me. He needed my advice on something. So he texted me. And then I called him. And then we've been talking. Then I went to California. Then he came to Houston to see the twins, the new ones. And then, yeah,

we're good now. I thought we were going to have some fun today, man. I want to make some MAGA jokes. Yeah, let's do it. They just took you down a different road. I know. I'd love to catch up on it. I haven't been here in a couple years, bro. Yeah, he was like, the kids don't want to talk to him. The next thing I saw, it was a family reunion with the twins. a couple years, bro. Yeah, he was like, he was like, he was talking about his kid, the kids don't want to talk to him,

the next thing I saw, it was a family reunion with the twins, and I'm like, okay. Give me a napkin. White men cry. White men cry, man. We don't care about white men's tears. White men cry.

Are you and your ex cool, though, or no? Yeah, no, we're cordial. You're all big now, and you're all laughing're cordial now it's like every divorce couple i think we'll we'll we'll say some we'll argue but before we hang up we're laughing and you know like every now and then i'll i'm a comedian so i'll say something on stage and something like people always ask and people are so emotionally invested and then i'll say something like she might send me a text like, I appreciate that. And then I'll be like, just call me and we'll talk it out. So it is what it is.

We're cordial. Her and your new boo, are they cool? No. It's a great part now. What color is your new boo, Gary? They're all black. What you think? Hey.

All right, Gary. Making Dr. Umar proud. Yeah. Not of her, but of you. Yeah, that'd be a good debate, me and him. You Making Dr. Umar proud. Not of her, but of you. Yeah, that'd be a good debate, me and him. Everybody I know, every black guy I know that likes to date white women and every white guy I know that likes to date black women wants to debate Dr. Umar.

I don't want to debate him. Oh, okay. It's almost like Republicans and Democrats. You know what? You're not going to change anybody's mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's he going to tell me? I mean, you love black women.

Right, so what's he going to say? What's he going to say? Yeah. How does it feel being a new father? I like it. I didn't think I was going to enjoy it as much, but I like it. I like it.

How old are they? 15 months. Okay, okay, okay. It was after the divorce, so people weren't trying to do the math. What was after the divorce? The twins. So it was after the divorce. So people weren't trying to do the math. Who was after the divorce? The twins? The twins came after the divorce.

No, because you know that the argument was that the relationship with her wasn't after the divorce. After the divorce? Y'all doing the gag? That's up for debate. You took yourself there. You took yourself there. I just wanted to. Okay, all right.

Here we go. When's Jess coming back? when is she coming back oh my god jess i've had babies jeez i miss you i miss you jess you know so happy in your new relationship you know it does go viral a lot when you was on brilliant idiots it was exactly you was drinking water just like that and i somebody asked you about me how long you've been faithful and you know you did oh yeah because andrew was like sean i'm gonna get you back to cheating this year and he was like no no gary how long you been faithful i was like and that was not on purpose that just came out oh my god dude your body wouldn't let you lie it wouldn't let me do it

yeah it's good it's great so the new special broken family yeah it's it's out uh came out last night uh on youtube it's been on mint.comedy for about a month so that uh we're pretty good on there but it's on uh youtube now i feel like you putting it on youtube is a choice and the reason i say that is because even if it's not Netflix Somebody would pick up a guy Even when I text Charlamagne I texted him my new number he goes sorry don't take numbers from No, I feel like somebody would have gave you a special. I know you've done them on Showtime. I just feel like you putting it on YouTube was a choice.

I don't know if it was definitely a choice. It was the one outlet that I had complete control over. There's two streamers that passed, but I don't even know if they watched it. That's the bad part. It's just like they just say no. Really? It's a weird – people think I got all these specials out there on all these networks.

You would think so. I really don't. The only people that have ever given me specials was BET and Showtime. I don't remember the BET one. Oh, I had like five on BET. Because you know, like Comic View, when you used to win, they gave you our specials. I don't remember those.

Yeah, the first – when it used to be a contest. Okay. And everybody came on, you kept moving round to round, and then at the end of the season, four guys would get hour specials. Yeah. And then they'd pick the host out of those specials. When I first got on the scene, I was a new young white guy. There was only like Honest John and Dante was the two white guys

that did Comic View back then. And then, so I kept winning my rounds. And then I got an hour special. And then they made me the host. That was the first one. And I did another one on BET when it was in New Orleans. And I did another one in LA. So I did three on BET.

Maybe I just never thought of those as specials. Maybe I was just like, oh, that's Gary on BET. You're probably watching it and flipping the channels back then. You're not realizing the whole hour is him. I remember the Showtime one. The Showtime one, I remember that. Yeah, I've had five or six on Showtime. Why do you think Netflix don't mess with you, Gary?

Ask them. We do. But they don't give me an answer. That's crazy, though, because I feel like people were really investing in the whole family, all that stuff that you had going on. Gary's funny, though. Yeah, but Gary, I was going to say, you're also funny. It just would make sense to me.

I think for them, and I might be speaking out of term here, I think for them, they're almost like, it's a white guy that has a huge black audience. Now, if you go to my shows, now there's quite a few white people that started going, but the core audience from Jump was black. And a lot of people in charge don't understand it. So they just assume i'm this

certain way and you know so i don't only i can think of is like if they're gonna give a urban quote black comic a special we're gonna give it to a black guy we're not if the white guy we want him to feed a different audience than an urban audience that's the only thing i can come up with and i've been kind of told that through the grapevine but but I can't confirm it. Have you thought about going bro? Meaning like you got your podcast, right? So you keep your stand-up the way it is, but on your podcast you just go straight bro. Straight like Brogan, Theo, Andrew Schultz.

Whoa. You know, Kill Tony. Oh, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Nah, I'm good where I'm at. You can try me at the cookout. Black women are like the largest consumers of stuff. And if you notice in my specials,

I don't really call black women bitches and hoes and shit. I know, but come somebody, you know comedians, they'll be like, yeah, I'm a bitch. She's a hoe bitch. I don't know why my hand did that, but it felt like it. I don't really go that route. Kind of uplift black women.

Yes, as you should. Except for one. Yo, you got to stop, Gary. I don't really go that route kind of uplift black women yes as you should except for one yo you got this you start the special off by saying the divorce is officially final yeah yeah yeah

do you really want do you feel like that's a congratulations or do you feel like I feel like this special broken family I can finally put it to bed then I can move on

and even in my new hour that I'm doing on the road now, there's no divorce jokes. It's just all about the twins, where I'm at in my life right now, and everything else. It's not. There's nothing about the divorce. How is that?

Because you're an older dad. You did this already, but now you're doing it at 50. Yeah. How is that? Yeah, I think it's cool. I got a nanny. Helps. You got a nanny? Yeah, I think it's cool. I got a nanny. Helps. You got a nanny?

Dude, nannies are amazing. So do you still do the things that you used to got to take them to? Yeah, we go to swim. You know, they teach me how to swim. I do all the dad stuff. I like being a dad. I like being a dad with older kids. You know?

So I'm cool with it. You know, you are a little older. You go to like, anytime you go to like Jim you go like jimbery you're like uh grandpa you start doing the math in your head how old will i be when they 15 or when they 20 or college it's like if they're athletes i always say like i'll i'll still be around for the draft i ain't gonna make the whole thing speaks bro it's gonna be like, I miss my dad. He's the reason I'm here.

I'm in the BET Awards. We lost this guy this year up in the clouds. Talk to me about black girl energy, man. What is that? You said it's scary. What are you talking about right now? That's what you said. Am I special?

What'd I say after? You said black girl energy and you talked about how scary it is. Somebody wrote the question for me. Give me some context. You said black girl energy and you said how scary it is.

Did I? Not scary in a bad way, but... You talking about with my ex? Yes. And when you step to your new booth. I don't know what you're talking about right now. Yes, you do, Gary. I don't.

I don't. How's your real estate going? How's the houses? Can you explain this? He flipped a scary question. This is my first time in here. You got to explain this. Johnny went to Marlon Wayans' house.

I'm sorry to swear. Where's one of Marlon Wayans' house? Drink some of that water. Where's one to Marlon Wayans' house. I'm sorry to swear. Where's one of Marlon Wayans' towels? Where's one of Marlon Wayans' towels? It's always hot in here. Look over here. Can you explain to me? This is my first time eating. White men cry.

White men sweat. Me fanning you and you saying black girl energy is rough. I did not say it's rough. What'd I say? You said it was scary. Scary. No, when black women get mad at you, it's scary. Especially as a white dude.

You scared now? Dude, as a white dude, that's scary shit. I wish, I really miss Jess. I like that. But you know what though? How did you hire her? Where did you find her? Angryblackwoman.com?

TMZ. She was on TMZ. Oh, you're on TMZ. Ah, there's Harvey Levin and shit. You making it funny, it's all right. But you know what? I like that you don't answer that question because it is something that has to be seen in context. It is in context.

Facts. So he bring it up. I'm on the wall. Let me see. You're not even fanning right. Give me this. When was the last time you've been to a black church? Football season.

I go after football season. You ain't fanning right. What are you looking for? Here. That's not me. That's Mac Miller. I've never had facial hair. I literally look, too.

I go, who put a goatee on me? Gary. You got Ed Sheeran here once. No, he hasn't. He hasn't been here a bunch of times no he hasn't who else is I've had some

why don't you get me with Takashi that was a good interview we should have put you up there with Takashi I know what are we going to put no we still got room for somewhere that is a good one

that was a good one Chris Rock why don't you put him next to Tony since he don't put him in movies dang you think he's out of the interview why don't you put Tony in a movie

Chris let's change this Chris put Tony in a movie, Chris? Let's change this. Chris, put Tony in a movie. But Chris did put him as a recurring character in Everybody Hates Chris. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, he was Uncle Ryan, Uncle Rudy. Tony, why are you bitching? Tell us the difference between a Trump supporter and a Trump thumper.

What's the difference? Oh, my dad. Yeah, my dad's a Trump-a-thumper. Those are the ones that Trump can do no wrong. There's Trump supporters that can be honest, like, look, I'm voting for him because I think financially it'll be better for me. I've met those.

But the Trump-a-thumpers is like, they're straight up, no, Tony Hays, because that was funny. But if somebody said something about Trump, they'd be like, oh, that's offensive. I kicked a guy out two weeks ago in San Francisco. Why? It was a Trump dude just started heckling in the middle of my show.

So I went off on him and then he got kicked out. And I was like, dude, I wasn't even talking bad about Trump. I was just making fun of him. You know what I mean? He didn't even let me get through it. I said, hey, election's coming up in a couple weeks. I go, I'm not going to tell you who to vote for. And he was like, Trump! Trump! me he didn't let me get through it i said hey election's coming up in a couple weeks i go i'm not gonna tell you who to vote for and he was like trump trump and he just kept yelling it with

nothing behind it and then finally i was like dude i just i snapped on him a little bit and then they got the cliff notes version on the internet but then he finally got kicked out but i was just like dude we're allowed to make fun of your president or your presidential candidate that's what we all that's what we do and And where was you at? What city was you in? San Francisco. Of all places. Wow. Wow.

Right? You said your dad's a Trumper? Oh, he's a Trump-thumper. So how does your dad meet your new girl? Oh, he ain't. I ain't talking to that motherfucker. Three and a half years? Jesus.

Oh, so you don't talk to your pops? No. Why? Why did you stop talking to him? I didn't take him to a Reds game and he got mad. Straight up. Really? No, don't take this question. You're going to say got mad. Straight up. Really? Don't take this.

White people crazy? Yeah. White people are different. Like what? A Reds baseball game. We know exactly what he's talking about, Lauren. That's not going to make my dad not speak to them for three years. Facts.

Yeah, it will. So you got to realize my dad was very much a, he was, he was, and you don't realize until you're out of the situation He was the user Be careful of your friends, be careful of people around you He was the one that We went out to eat, I'm paying If we go to an event, I'm paying

If he came to a If he came to a special, I gotta fly him out No he did not raise me He wasn't around My dad was not around growing up, bro. He was, I saw him maybe. He's really black sometimes. Oh, yeah, no, no.

I saw him once in a while, and then when I got on TV and stuff, then he came around, right? Then he wanted to be in the mix, right? And then in the middle of the divorce and the process server stuff, I came home to Cincinnati, and called like two people and was like, look, don't go on social media, don't say nothing. And I said, I got to do something because I felt like Stockholm Syndrome. I said, I'm going to go to Red's game, but I got a suite because I can't sit in the stands.

I don't want somebody going up going, you want some peanuts and papers. So I got a suite. We only had like seven, eight people in the suite. Everybody was cool. I didn't invite my dad. I never told him I was going, but I didn't invite him and then uninvite him. I never told him.

How did you find out on Facebook? One of my uncles went. So he got a phone with my uncle. Okay, let me tell you how this happened. Why didn't you invite your dad? No, no, no, no. That's how it all happened. I was already at the game.

I was inviting nobody. My uncle called and was like, what are you doing? I was like, dude, I'm at the Reds game. Where you at? He was downtown. I was like, dude, because when you get to the suite, you get 16 tickets. I said, I'm going to text you a couple seats. Come stop by.

He was there for like 30 minutes. But he told my dad I went to the Reds game with Gary or something like that. And then my dad called and just cussed me out with his voicemail and then I called him to like, hey, are you really mad about a Reds game? And then it just went left. We just started cussing each other out. That's the last time I talked to him.

I'd be mad at you and the uncle. You had two tickets and you didn't invite me either? Yeah, 16. But you gave the uncle twice, two of them. Listen, he never took me to a Reds game. You get one father. Ever. He didn't a Reds game. You get one father. Ever. He didn't take me to nothing. You get one father.

Huh? You get one father. Right. My grandmother has always raised me. I understand where you're coming from, but you get one father. So what would you do? Lauren, cut it out. Let me ask you this, Lauren.

All this, these black grandparents, they know everything. They do. That's what I learned about black people just now. They know everything. They Bible thumpers. they raise you heavy on that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Anyways. You and your dad just got on good terms.

And you know what I did when I went to North Carolina? I called my dad and said, hey dad, you have a minute? I would love to come by and see you. What'd he say? He didn't have a minute. No, you know what? He didn't have a minute. He said no?

He didn't have a minute. He said no? He said he was working. Oh my God. But I reached out. Oh man. Despite it. Oh working. Oh, my God. But I reached out. Oh, man. Despite it. Oh, man.

I was like this. You know what? Jess Hilarious' dad would have showed up. That's right. I guarantee you. He would have showed up. Yeah, he would have showed up. He would have definitely showed up.

Let me ask you this. Okay. All right. All right. You got one thing. Now you're going to go ahead and ask me. How do you respond? Let me ask you this.

How do you respond when you get a, first you get a voicemail from your dad cussing you out, like straight cussing me out. Yes. And then you get a text to follow it up, cussing me out. And then when you call him, he starts cussing you out again. All over his game. At what point do you be like, what am I doing?

You got to protect your boundaries. I've gotten all of the three. Okay. But like I told you i was raised you only get one father so even if i just shoot him a text sometimes just be like hey i'm thinking about you want to let you know i love you he might he don't have to respond and if he does respond sometimes he's been blocked in my phone sometimes and can't respond this has got an entire perry movie up here that's what this is oh my god that's the name of the movie. You only get one daddy. You said earlier that your kids had to learn you're not perfect.

Have you seen it? Call your father. He's a foreman. Is that black girl energy? You feel black girls? I felt it big time, bro. I stopped sweating. I got used to it.

No, you stopped sweating because I showed you how to really build a thing. Oh, God. You can't just let it go. She's got to take credit for everything. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm going to start dating white women. I'm telling you, you's got to take credit for everything. Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm going to start dating white women. I'm telling you,

you're going to take me there. You're just kidding. You're going to take me there. If I'm the reason you start dating white women, can I break that story? Driving into white women is crazy. I would be the only white guy, though,

on the planet. If they got a picture of me with a white woman, Blackfeet would be like, sell out. I freaking knew it. I knew it was a sell out, dog. see tyler perry's new movie yet no which one can you show them the scene just to see would you play this character i'm just curious you got a white guy character by the way the movie's uh it's a tv show it's actually really good it's called uh beauty and black just get the scene right here.

Oh no, no, no, no, no. I didn't hear it. He was lower than say, come on, get it. They was arguing and then the guy walked out and then he called the guy's name and he pulled his pants and I said, you're gonna be back for this ass. I don't know, I might. You might? Come back for the ass?

I'd be laughing. I'd be like, you're gonna come back for this ass. And he'll be like this, look. I'm just kidding. Oh my God. Oh my God, who wrote that? Tyler. Like there was literally like.

You know he write all his own stuff. Tyler got a secret sauce, man. I'm telling you, Tyler knows what to put in his movies and TV shows to make you keep coming back, man. Well, I mean, the fact that you had it on your phone. No. That says a lot. No, no. Lil Duvall texted me that.

Why you always got it out? It's always somebody else texting you something. He did. But I will say, it made me watch. I was like, I got to go see the rest of this show. What's it called? Beauty in Black. Is it gay?

No, I mean, it's gay characters. Is it all gay, though? No, no, no, no. It's not all gay. It's gay characters, though. Okay, okay, okay. That's good. That's good.

The black girl energy I was talking about earlier was when your ex-wife, you wanted to sit in front of the plane, but your ex-wife... Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's a true story. One time we were flying and I got upgraded and she didn't.

And, you know, when you get upgraded, you get the notification on your phone. I was like, oh, sweet, I got upgraded. And I was like, oh, she's flying with me. So I was like, do I tell her? phone i was like oh sweet i gotta upgrade it and i was like oh she's flying with me so i was like do i tell her and i was like i'll just wait so i waited till we got to the airport and i was like oh my god i just got upgraded i was like what are we doing and she was like what do you mean i go can i sit in the front because i think the flight was only like an hour and a half i just remember she looked at me she was like take your ass to the front see what the fuck happens i was like this because i'm sitting in the back and then uh about it about i said if i'd have known my divorce is gonna end my marriage gonna end in

devorah's i would have i would have sat in the front that day but that was that was scary black woman energy for real she just had to go to the back. You wasn't going to go back there with her? I asked. I just asked. I sat in the back with her. That is horrible. Y'all would do that? What? Would you guys leave your wives and coach and go to first class? Leave them and coach and go to first class?

Somebody just said left them. I've done that before. It depends how long the flight is. It was an hour and a half. It depends how far the seats are apart It was a short flight. It was an hour and a half. Yeah, and it depends how far the seats are apart. Would your wives have known before you guys got to the airport? You know, something like that recently happened.

Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. I'm sorry I just cut you off because I tell that story wasn't going to be very good. So we always talk about that instance. You got to realize, we were together so long. We flew so many flights together so i'll give you another instance it's obviously you think you're trying to get me on all this shit i can already tell but one time she was pregnant right and i got upgraded and she didn't so i said well

let's have some fun with this one so i'm in first and i when she got on the plane i was like ma'am i said oh my god i would feel awful if you're pregnant like that and i'm in first take my seat and then she just she sat in the front now in the back the big belly and i remember the flight attendant goes anything he wants he gets right she didn't know y'all was a couple huh she didn't know no she didn't know so she of course she's pregnant i put her in the front, and I sat in the back. Another instance, because I fly every week. So another instance was I got upgraded, but I said, okay, it was a long flight, so we're going to sit together.

I said, but let's not say anything. Let's board, and we'll ask the person in coach if they want to switch. But we're not going to tell them it's coach to first. Let's just see if they're cool. So I'm not lying. And I hate to bring race into it, but it gives context to the story. White lady in the window, young black kid in the aisle. I asked, went to the white lady first because I like the window.

And I said, kid, you mind switching seats? And she was like, no, and kept looking out the window. Wouldn't say nothing. I asked the young black kid, I said, hey, man, you want to switch the seat? He goes, I don't care. He didn't ask where he was going. I gave him my ticket. He got about three rows up. He hey hey man this is first this is

first i said i know enjoy it the way it looked over i was like i asked you first hello and then that kid was so cool that he came back in the middle of flight he goes hey man they're giving us lunch you want anything to eat i was like no go eat bro then we got off the plane and he um he waited for me to say thank you again because he never flew first class for i bet you the kid was 19 20 years old wow and then we we end up walking the baggage claim bs in the whole time and stuff so it was cool it was a good interaction i do wonder how you learned to love black people the way that you do being that your father was i mean you open you openly say he's right he was racist he's a functional bigot okay i don't think he realizes the stuff he says and and does but i uh i don't think he just out and out hates black people as a

as a cool i just don't think black people at his wedding or coming to his house to hang out you know what i mean he likes black people like over there he likes to root like segregation something like that yeah this is crazy yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i don't think you realize so much if your dad yeah that's what i mean like like yeah how did that happen no probably the military military uh my first bunk mate his name was copera washington from south carolina that's black yeah facts and then you know you gotta rely on each other

and you're all making the same amount of money everybody so it's just when you get to the military I just I gravitate it cause I like playing basketball

and nothing will make a white guy wanna hang around black people more than just hit a shot or dunk a ball and the brothers go ah shit

damn yeah it's like that's like if you can dance too. Oh my God, you'd be raising up. Yeah, you go out with them one night and you hit one move. You can dance. You can dance. You got rhythm.

I mean, yeah, I've been fucking black girls for a long time. Can't be coming like this. Look, Tyrese, black black men cry white men fuck how about how was your mom I don't talk to her either god I know right it's bad I know yeah I don't talk to my mom I ain't talking to my mom in like eight years why Why? When my brother died, when my brother had the heroin overdose, she, we wanted,

I want to try to get custody of his daughter. And then that, it was, it was just ugly, ugly custody battle. And that kind of ended it. You fighting your mom for custody? Yeah.

Yeah. I didn't want to fight her. I just said, I knew it was going to be bad. Cause you gotta realize Mike, I got one got one brother died of a heroin overdose. The other brother, they found him in a parking lot half beaten to death. So he's like the brain of a four-year-old right now. And that was drug-related because he was doing drugs and selling drugs, and then it caught up to him.

Clearly, the people he stole from got him. And we knew it was coming and he was living at home with my mom and stepdad so i when my brother died i was like i knew what he was doing so i was like i didn't want to come back because i wouldn't allow him at my house like they couldn't even i said you can't get my address because i don't want to be in there some family function and now people want to retaliate on them so uh i just thought for my brother's daughter i was like we're a better option and it just got it it was such an ugly custody thing and i'm not going to get into it but it was like different threats made and stuff

so i was just like we got we got to fall back yeah you could have been a rapper facts damn yeah how did you escape like how did you get on the right path? Like, how did you escape? Black. Man, how did I get on the right path? This guy is so stupid. It kept me sane. That is crazy.

No. Gary is stupid. It just got hot again. I don't believe in all of that i don't know i need to bleep that just be just in case but no i i think it's just gonna say black i think i think when you're raised in dysfunction and raised like that you got two ways to go you can either a lot of guys fall into that like they do drugs and everything else and my thing was like i want to be as far away from that as possible so when i joined the military uh i just i i said man i remember when i joined i said how soon can i leave how soon can i leave and so i was 17 when i left like i graduated high school i was out like

shortly after graduation i was in the navy so i was just like it's like it's almost like i didn't know where i wanted to go. I just know where I didn't want to be. I don't want to be stuck in that trailer park and stuff. So I was just like, I'm out. And I know I just never really went back. I just, and then you, you get older and you realize, oh, this is a, you feel out of place when you go home. It doesn't feel like home. You feel like I was raised in this. Cause I think the last thing I said to my stepdad, obviously you try to reconcile when my brother died, but before that I wasn't really talking to him a lot.

And I said, because he's always putting me down and making fun of me. I think the last thing I said to him was, we just had some family function or something, and I got my cousins, and we're cutting up, we're laughing. He walked in, he goes, people pay to hear you tell jokes like that? You tell jokes like that and people pay? Because he's a real negative dude. And I remember I looked at him, he goes, people pay to hear you tell jokes like that? You tell jokes like that and people pay? Because he's a real negative dude. And I just, I remember I looked at him, I go, millions.

And walked out the door. That was a Tyler Perry. That was a Tyler Perry scene. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, millions walked out the door. That was the last talk to him. And then my brother, I obviously tried to reconcile, but then that didn't work out. You know what they say, tragedy is the mirror image of comedy.

I was just thinking that. You got a lot of because because like i remember when chris tucker hit on um friday or i remember he was saying like in some interview he goes yeah i'm having a hard time doing stand-up because like all my jokes is about being broke living with my mom he goes now i got some money there's nothing funny about that money you know what i mean yeah but yeah so i guess there's a lot to unpack in my past, I guess. Damn. In real life, when you're not being the comedian,

what do you do to kind of center you? Like, just be okay. You got a lot that you- He cries. That you kind of compartmentalize. I don't know about crying, bro. I understand you protecting your peace a lot more now. You've been saying you cry all interview.

Yeah, I do. I cry in my car by myself. I'm not going to cry on Breakfast Club. When was the last time you cried, Gary? You're trying to get me. I don't know. I cry in my car like a song will come on to me. It'll hit.

Like, if they had a hit and carry on my car, they'd be like, God, this guy has a range of emotions. It's been a long time record with Khalifu? That wouldn't get you? No, no, that one doesn't get me a lot. That one doesn't get me a lot. I'll tell you, there's a good one, Chris Stapleton and Pink. They got a couple songs in there.

One is called Just Say I'm Sorry. Oh, that one gets me. Because it really is like what you go back to. It's that easy. Even if you know you're not right, just say you're sorry. You know what I mean? That's what I had to do when I reconciled with my son. I was just like, listen, I know we got a lot to unpack.

I said, I didn't handle everything perfect, but I'm just apologizing. I don't know what you've heard. but we was able to talk about everything. So I was just like, dude, that was my bad. What about your ex-wife? Have you apologized to her? Yeah. Yeah, I apologize for the infidelities and stuff like that. So, yeah, I apologize.

I'm sorry. Look, I'm sorry. Huh? That's what I'm saying. Publicly or just? Just. I just did. But not in private, you know. I told her. Soly? I just did. But not in private.

I told her. So, you didn't get me to cry, bro. I'm not trying to get you to cry. We're not trying to get you to cry. Why do you call them? Is that for all your kids? Yes. How did I know that?

What is that? Is it sperm? What is that? It's angel wings, man. It's sperm. It's angel wings. It looks like sperm. It does not look like sperm. It does look like sperm on your wings. It looks like sperm. It does not look like sperm.

It does look like sperm on your neck. It does look like sperm on your neck. You know it to be sperm on my neck. It does not look like sperm on your chest, bro. It looks like sperm. I was just saying, it looks like little sperm worms. Oh, my goodness. You got sperm worms?

Gary O and the new special Broken Family. It's on YouTube. We have something. It's streaming on YouTube now. Yeah, it's streaming on YouTube. Why should people watch it, Gary? Huh? It's just, it's good. It's on YouTube. It's streaming on YouTube now. Yeah, it's streaming on YouTube. Why should people watch it, Gary? It's just, it's good. It's funny.

Yes. It's just funny. We try to overthink things with stand-up, man. It's just funny. And I got, when I filmed this, I did this special on Friday and then a different one on Saturday. So that one will be out for the years out.

We're just letting this one ride and then we'll do the other one on YouTube. Oh, so you're dropping two specials this year? Mm-hmm. Wow. I want to do New Year's Eve, but they're saying, let's see. Let's see. But I have two out for the years out. Okay.

Two bangers, baby. You got one more thing to say? Yeah, what else? Whoa. Nothing. I'm good. That's it? We unpacked a lot today.

You did. You did. Yeah. Oh, my God. This one. nothing I'm good that's it we unpacked a lot today you did oh my god this one I tried to be inclusive and then she's like no I ain't gonna do this I'm a temp I gave you the fin I'm looking out this is a piece of paper but thanks this is Gary Owen

it's the breakfast club good morning wake that ass up in the morning