The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Tiffany Haddish Speaks On Sobriety, Father Figures, New Book, New Music + More

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Wake that ass up early in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning everybody, it's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Your good sister. Tiffany Haddish is back. Welcome. Hey boo. Hi. How you feeling? I'm feeling fantastic. How are you feeling? Good. Bless black and highly favored. You look good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel good.
Starting point is 00:00:21 There you go. Yeah. New book, I Curse You With Joy. Mm-hmm. Talk to me about that. Well, you know you go. Yeah. New book, I Curse You With Joy. Talk to me about that. Well, you know, it's funny everybody's calling it I Curse You With Joy, but I call it, because at the top of the page, if you look at the front page, it says Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy. Got you. Yeah, yeah, because I think that's important to be.
Starting point is 00:00:39 I need to say that, but you can say I Curse You With Joy. You've been saying that for, since I've known you, you always do that, like curse people with joy. You've been saying that since I've known you, you always do that. Like curse people with joy. Yeah, because there's a lot of unhappy people. And I mean, if you look at the Internet, you can see it's a lot of like, it's a lot of hate and anger and sadness out there. And I could like, you know, combat that with the same thing.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Or I could say, you know what? Look, I curse you with some joy because you obviously are not happy. So I'm sharing some stories in this book. It's a it's a series of essays, if you will. And then I'm sharing some dark things about my existence and how I find the bright side of it. You know, what got you to the point to write the book? Was it a particular comment? Was it something that somebody said or you just was all of the above? No, I'd always wanted to do that because the first book uh tiffany haddish the last black unicorn that
Starting point is 00:01:29 first one um i had edited down i had took a lot of stuff out because it was too long i don't like super long but i don't like them too long personally if i'm not gonna read it why would i expect somebody else to read it right so um i took a lot out so on this next book uh i curse you with joy i you know all the stuff that i had took out the first book i put in this book plus more of the journey of being this you know shot out of a canon star i guess you would say uh and it's been it's been an interesting journey you know you guys have known me since the beginning of the journey. You guys have seen the whole ups and downs and all of that. And I'm like, this is the craziest roller coaster.
Starting point is 00:02:11 And nobody gives you a manual on how to be famous. Nobody gives you a manual on how to handle certain things. And you have to figure it out. You got to figure it out. And it is hard. It is very hard. But I'm having fun doing it. What was the most difficult part? You said figuring it out. The most difficult part was not is very hard but i'm having fun doing it what was the most difficult
Starting point is 00:02:25 part you said you're figuring it out the most difficult part was not uh rolling up on somebody and whooping their ass because i'm from the 1900s and we will show up to your mama house and beat your ass that's what it is like the good old days you know oh you're talking shit okay i'm gonna come over there and beat you up um but you know on one when my period come on and I got some time, I will call people. I will make a phone call. Is it true that there was a rumor that you were actually,
Starting point is 00:02:51 I guess you found an app that you could actually find out where these people live or find their number? Yeah, yeah. You can find people. You know, I used to be married to a private investigator,
Starting point is 00:02:59 so I know how to get in your business if I want to. And so, when the lady in the red dress show up I become a little evil and I'll be having time sometimes sometimes I have time and um so then I decide to take that time to to invest in people that like to talk shit and I and I'll and I'll put your business out there not like docs you or nothing like that, you know, I'll call you or I'll make comments on your page.
Starting point is 00:03:26 And you won't know it's me, but I'll make comments about, you know, police records and shit. So when you call these internet trolls, you call saying this is Tiffany Haddish? Yeah. Yeah, I'll be like, is this blah, blah, blah? And they'll be like, yep. I'll be like, this is Tiffany Haddish. They'll be like, what? Nah. No, no, this is Tiffany Haddish I saw first of all I want to say uh I know you love me because you spent three hours making a video uh the video was three hours so I know you spent at
Starting point is 00:03:58 least six editing it and all of that like searching searching for pictures and find out like, thank you. Yeah, I appreciate you. Or, you know, I see your whole YouTube page is about me. So I just wanted to say thank you. And I want to let you know that I'm about to monetize your videos because, you know, you use some of my content in there. So I'm gonna need to get paid, too. And they'd be like, you crazy.
Starting point is 00:04:21 I know why this is, you know, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. I have endometriosis. no. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. I have endometriosis. And so I'm telling you, I'm using it. Yeah. I'm using it. I'm using it.
Starting point is 00:04:31 I'm using the energy towards something positive. So I just wanted to let you know, hi. Yeah. I know you love me. Was writing your book therapeutic for you, though? Like in any way? I don't know. I've been in therapy so long. I don't know. I don't know I've been therapy so long I don't know
Starting point is 00:04:46 I don't know if it was therapeutic I felt like it was more so uh informative for others like it was my way of sharing for others uh some parts are a little cathartic or whatever but for me it was more so like I I want people to know they're not the only person going through what they going through. Like, and just because somebody's famous doesn't mean they're not a regular human being and that they're not. There's not good days. There's good days, but there's not like bad days. There's sometimes it's more bad days than good. Especially like, I don't know, dealing with the losing my grandma really kind of just threw me for a loop. And I feel like my soul was like, look, we don't have too many losses at this point,
Starting point is 00:05:32 so we're going to have to sit down and deal with it. And if you don't sit down and deal with it, I'm going to make you do things that's going to have to make you sit down and deal with it. Was this one of those things? Was the book one of those things? That was always in the plan. That was always something I had been working on. I think I'm getting arrested was one of those things that may go. Oh, let me sit down. Let me look at this. That'll be all of that. All of those arrest stories will be in the next book. Tiffany Haddish. I'm still here, bitch. Were the daddy issues chapter hard? That was the hardest one. That was the hardest one.
Starting point is 00:06:11 Even thinking about it is hard. That was the hardest one. Because I realized, man, it's hard not having a dad. And then when I met my dad, I was a little girl all over again and like I remember everything about him and you know even though I was three years old the last time I saw him I remember how he smelled I remember what he sounded like and I could just just hearing his voice my whole soul lit up like nobody sound like my daddy nobody could be my daddy and so um but there was years i was trying to find my dad like you know through other men and through whatever i was doing stupid i was done and there's a lot
Starting point is 00:06:53 of us out here like that um and yeah but you can you can pull past all that and grow and be successful you're about to make me cry is it it the women the women really look for that in men Like do they look like look for somebody that's like their daddy. Um, I Don't I don't know. I don't know what other women looking for. I know what I was looking for I was looking for I was looking for like safety. I wanted to feel safe. I Wanted to feel like no fear For so many years growing up it was like every day was scary you know let's be scared every day so uh then to decide like i'm not gonna be scared no more and i'm gonna find
Starting point is 00:07:36 somebody that's gonna you know do this with me and protect me and love on me and hold me like take care of me and kiss on me and tell me i'm doing good you know uh but i just man find that it's hard to find also i'm a little bit uh i'm a little difficult yeah i'm sweet though how do you mean i'm a little difficult i want to do what i want to do okay because i never that that's part of i think not growing up with the father is like i don't know how to um i know how to take orders right um and i know how to get things done if you ask me to do something i'm gonna get it done for you but i'm gonna do it on my time when i feel like it and if a man's like i need you to call me when you leave out of it i want you to be here at this time whatever uh if you're not if i'm not getting a paycheck i'm gonna show up when i feel like it i'm gonna be at your house when i feel like coming to your house uh you know
Starting point is 00:08:32 that's i think that's been the biggest uh issue is like i don't want to feel like i got an answer to this man because you're not paying my mortgage you're not like if i'm just humping on you then like yeah you're not you're not providing relationship but if we in a relationship i feel like there's some common courtesy right but i don't have to i don't have to do backbends for you especially if the man ain't making that kind of commitment you got to make a real commitment yeah you need to be like my husband yeah then i might be like okay i'm gonna be not even might i'm gonna be i'll i'll mold myself into what i need to be if i need to even mold myself but the fact that i'm saying mold
Starting point is 00:09:10 myself means it's a problem yeah yeah so you need to be okay with me being how i am and who i am and if you don't like something i'm doing inspire me to do different so you've never had that type of relationship yet where you would be like okay i'm gonna let this man lead like no one has ever shown you that they are worth that i let men lead all the time i let them lead but um that don't mean i'm gonna follow all the way you don't like the direction especially if you don't like the direction i'm gonna let you lead it and then start saying like this is not going this don't feel safe. This don't feel safe. I'm not going to be like, you know what I'm saying? Like I need to feel safe.
Starting point is 00:09:48 I need to feel like I need to feel like this is where I'm going to be like spiritually. I need to feel safe emotionally. I need to feel safe physically. I need to feel safe financially. I need to feel safe and I, and I don't need to be feeling like I'm being used. If I feel any type of way I'm being used or manipulated in some kind of way uh what like no and if you're using me tell me you're using me so i could use
Starting point is 00:10:09 you to like oh i can help you use me better you know what i'm saying i don't like being out like i don't i'm here to be used we all are here to be used for some purpose something right so but tell me what you're using me for and I might help you get it done better. Don't, don't sneak it. Don't do it sneakily or whatever. And like, think I'm stupid cause I'm not, I might be, I might be setting you up to get fucked. Use me.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Don't misuse me. Yeah. Use me. Don't abuse me. Now you said something about, you know, not having that father figure that you wanted in your life. So how have you dealt with it? Because, you know, have you used somebody else is it your assistant figure a brother or something else that
Starting point is 00:10:49 you lean on when you have those feelings uh when i have those feelings i call my brothers i call like uh okay getting in a stand-up for me was like i guess building like a bunch of like a force field around me of men that I think will keep me safe. Right. And a lot of them have a lot of them have protected me over the years. And I can get all the hugs I want and like words of encouragement that I need. Like, that's why I love stand up so much. I remember being like 16 years old, going to like do a set on a regular night at the laugh factory and all the comics gave me hugs every single man gave me a hug and i didn't feel like they was gonna do
Starting point is 00:11:30 something to me it didn't feel sexual it felt like it felt like it felt like yeah it felt like family like support like hey i know how you feel like i'm here for you i'm not trying to put my dick in you that's what it felt it felt like care. And that's what I guess kept me really in the comedy club. That's what kept me coming back is I needed that support. I needed men to talk to about like, am I, am I crazy right now? Is this,
Starting point is 00:11:55 does this make sense? Does this make like, and then I could call any of them at any time. Charlamagne, I'll randomly call and talk to for hours on it. Like it's, uh, I feel like I got a gang of big brothers and father figures like Tom Dreeson.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Oh, white man. But he give me some of the best advice and he like just, he'll hold me. I'll be crying and he'll just hold me, you know. Or I like bringing, I'll bring guys that I'm like dating by him. And he'll be like, that one's not going to make it, Tiffany. Don't even. Let that guy go. He's not going to make it, Tiffany. Don't even. Let that guy go. He's not going to make it.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Do you listen to him when he says that? Yeah, I do. At first, I didn't listen to him. And he was right every single time. He was like, this man is not going to be able to handle your growth. You're growing. He's not going to be able to grow with you. He's not going to be able to handle your star power.
Starting point is 00:12:42 Look how he's acting right now. And I'm like, no, he good. He good. He's protecting me. He's like, no, he's not gonna be able to handle your star power look how he's acting right now and i'm like no he good he good he's protecting me he's like no he's insecure it's not gonna work for you you you keep using a word that i think we don't use enough which is safety yeah we gotta feel safe around each other right like that's the whole purpose of community to make each other feel safe we're not making each other feel safe what's the point yeah there's no point in me even spending time with you or talking to you or wasting any energy on you if i don't feel safe with you i'm like i don't want nothing to do with you i'll ghost you i'm gonna ghost you i'll just be like i don't feel safe and then i will not answer no more phone calls and that should be enough you know you got a chapter called how i keep my ass in
Starting point is 00:13:23 check tip you're not the easiest person to keep in check so who's keeping you in check me okay okay me how how you do it how do i do it uh i i reprimand myself from time to time i put myself on punishment i put myself i do put myself on punishment time's out uh and and i look at you know sometimes you gotta look at like certain behavior and be like why okay why did you do that on this day? Well, I know why I did it. The world don't understand why you did it, but you know why you did it. And, you know, what I'm eating, I notice, too, like what I eat causes me to act a certain kind of way. Too much sugar. I get a little bit aggressive and stuff. Too much alcohol.
Starting point is 00:14:05 I get aggressive. If I don't get enough sleep, I will take a nap in a white community and the police will show up. The police will show up, guaranteed. And then I feel safe again. Do not feel safe. But Beverly Hills Police Station is beautiful. I did feel safe. But Beverly Hills Police Station is beautiful. I did feel safe there. But yeah, I mean, I'm not perfect.
Starting point is 00:14:31 I keep myself in check as best I can. I treat everybody the way I want to be treated. When I do wrong, I admit to my mistakes. You know, I accept responsibility for my mistakes and I grow from them. I'm not big on making the same mistake twice, but I'm definitely working on boundaries, like, because I want to help everybody. And if you call, like, if you're somebody I care about and you call like, I need this, I need that,
Starting point is 00:14:54 I need help with this, I will come and help. It's funny, like my immediate family, the people I care about more than anybody, they'll barely call on me, because they know that I'll like, that I'll show up or that I'll talk shit, but I'll still show up. I only talk shit to them.
Starting point is 00:15:08 I don't talk shit to everybody else. Just my immediate family. What's been safe? What makes you feel safer? Or what's been safer, Hollywood or just like before Hollywood? Like just being? Ah, being poor was way safer. Being, like, I feel like I was hood famous anyway.
Starting point is 00:15:27 So, like, everybody in my community knew who I was. Everybody in South Central, I feel like, knew who I was. So I felt pretty safe. I could go to any gang community and chill. I go to all the hood days. I can't do that no more. I can't. I mean, I have done it.
Starting point is 00:15:44 And they're like, girl, what you doing up here? You better get from up over here. Get out of here. Like, you can't be over no more I mean I have done it and they're like girl what you doing up here you better get from up over here get out of here like you can't be over here on the hood day like fuck y'all I'm over here for like 15 minutes and then I'm gonna go to the swap room and you know everybody I guess when you're in the community you know who's who yeah I know
Starting point is 00:15:59 in this business you don't know who's who in this business it's like you know it's a bunch of wolves in sheep clothing and you just got to know how to smell out the wolves you got to figure out who's who and and i mean you could you can figure out pretty quick i mean i feel like i have been able to figure it out pretty quick like if they always asking you to do something but when you ask them to do something they're not available for you that's a problem um even oh you know what it was crazy like after i got arrested everybody was calling my phone like if you need me if you need a ride call me call me call me so
Starting point is 00:16:31 everybody that said call me send me those text messages you should have called me whatever i wrote all their names down and then i start calling these motherfuckers at two in the morning they don't answer the phone so So then I just start blocking them. Boundaries. Blocking them. I start blocking them. Blocking them because they always ask. Those are the same people that always ask me for something,
Starting point is 00:16:51 but never are available for me when I need something. So I just start blocking them. So it's a lot of people out here right now probably like, dang, I ain't talked to Tiffany since she got out of jail. Like, yeah, because you don't answer my phone calls. Now it says you haven't been drinking in seven months. Has it been seven months? No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:17:11 I haven't had sex since October. Oh, since October. That's seven months. Oh, that's what it says. So we're in. I haven't drank since November 20. When was the 23rd? When was Thanksgiving?
Starting point is 00:17:20 23rd. Yeah, yeah. How is it affecting your comedy? You know, sometimes when you look at comedians or even rappers, actors, sometimes that's what they use because they're used to it. They drink and they do a show. So the fact that you haven't drank, it doesn't make your show. Is it easier?
Starting point is 00:17:34 Is it more difficult? Are you seeing clearer? I see everything more clear for sure. But I don't really drink before shows. I would probably drink during, like while I'm on stage. I would have a drink while I'm on stage. But like before, no. I didn't really drink before shows. I would probably drink during, like, while I'm on stage. I would have a drink while I'm on stage. But, like, before, no. I didn't smoke no weed before, none of that.
Starting point is 00:17:51 Not before the show. But maybe by the second or third show of the night, I'm probably lit as shit because I started drinking on the first show. But I notice now, like, if there's more than two shows in the night by the end of that second show I'm sleepy
Starting point is 00:18:07 I'm so tired I'm so sleepy I just want to go to bed like I want to go to bed at 10 o'clock 930 and you know but comedy happens
Starting point is 00:18:15 at night and then I've been getting up super early in the morning working out so I make sure I get my afternoon nap
Starting point is 00:18:22 if I don't get no nap in the afternoon I'm pretty much fucked the rest of the evening but I feel like my comedy is I've been like I've been listening to it because I record every set I've been recording every set for the last like five years and
Starting point is 00:18:36 through my phones and my recording devices and I was listening to like before my grandma died how much joy was in my voice and then like after my grandma died like I joy was in my voice and then like after my grandma died like i don't know i'm about to like maybe uh gd with uh yeah you know with it when jesus died it was uh before jesus death bc yeah and then bg bg yeah before grandma i don't know but bg ag yeah bg ag yeah anyways i just noticed there's a big difference in like people like, oh, you look good.
Starting point is 00:19:09 You're feeling good. Your energy's good. And I do feel good and I am happy for the most part, but I feel like there's this huge grief hanging over me. Like I just feel like grief. That's normal. Yeah. Do you write on that?
Starting point is 00:19:20 Yeah, I write on that. Yeah. I talk about it on stage, how I like deal with my grief. Like some days it be so heavy, I'm like oh, I gotta do something for granny today. And I'll put a picture of her up in the backyard. I'll put on some music and I'll do rhythmic dance from gymnastics
Starting point is 00:19:36 with ribbons and stuff and I'll dance around in my backyard. And I hope nobody ever sees that. It's just for my grandmother and God. What do you think got you more focused, no dick or no alcohol? No dick. Because I was drinking and wasn't getting no dick.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Okay. Still, no dick kept me focused. Good. Seem like you're thinking about something now. Yeah, I was looking at something else. Your eyes did wander. I just had a flash of some dicks in my head. A flash of some.
Starting point is 00:20:10 And I'm just like, mm, it's mediums. My faves. Did you stop smoking weed too? No, I'm back smoking weed. I started back smoking weed after my court date. Okay. She said mediums. I'm not going gonna drink no more i've i've decided i'm never
Starting point is 00:20:27 i probably will never drink alcohol again until like i'm engaged to get married just so he could see like my full crazy yeah like there's no wouldn't like no restriction i feel like though i have more restrictions i was like i was way too nice I feel like when I would be drinking I'd be way too nice way too accommodating and probably way too loud because alcohol make you deaf but yeah I think I'm a little meaner now I'm a quick to tell people no now yeah boundaries I feel like boundaries is me know some it can be. You got to protect your peace, too.
Starting point is 00:21:07 I know. I'm protecting it. Yeah. I'm protecting it. And it may have been something that you learned. It's okay to have boundaries and be selfless. I mean, be selfish sometimes because when you're too selfless, that's how people take advantage of you.
Starting point is 00:21:21 Yeah. And you saying you're too nice. No, that's, you actually putting that boundary in place. That's good. It's hard to be mean a little bit. Like I told the dude last night that was
Starting point is 00:21:30 trying to take a picture with me. Hell no. Taking no picture with you. You was talking shit about me. Who? Somebody you know?
Starting point is 00:21:37 Somebody I seen online talking shit. And they like, oh my God, Tiffany, it's you. Let me get a picture. I was like, no. Ain't they the worst?
Starting point is 00:21:43 No, I don't want to take no picture with you. Where was you at? None of your business. Okay. There you go. That's good. Let me get a picture. I was like, no. Ain't they the worst? No, I don't want to take no picture with you. Where was you at? None of your business. There you go. Boundaries. I was in the streets. Boundaries. So this is somebody you remember from seeing on Instagram? I seen him on Instagram talking shit.
Starting point is 00:21:57 I had started doing a report on him. I was going to call, but I decided not to. I got busy. I got folders on, niggas. Talk to us about the You Get What You Give chapter. Oh, yeah. So the You Get What You Give chapter is all about, like, you know, whatever you're giving out, that's what's coming back.
Starting point is 00:22:16 And it's really about, I think, what you're giving to yourself, like how you talk to yourself, how you treat yourself. I know there's, like, things go bad or people attack me in the world when i've been already attacking me for like a week i already been talking mess about myself and like and then i'm like dang why the world going off for me i'm like oh wait wait wait wait i started this i started it i started going off on me first i was upset you know or going you know ham on me talking crazy to myself in the mirror like Like, oh, look at you. Your nose is big. This is that.
Starting point is 00:22:46 You're like, oh, your eyes this. You know, like just going off. And I noticed when I start talking positive about myself, when I start saying, get up in the morning, look at myself in the mirror and go, I love you, Tiffany. I'm proud of you, Tiffany. You are killing it, girl. I love and approve of you, Tiffany Haddish.
Starting point is 00:23:04 You are doing very well today. Yes, you are. When I go outside, that's what I'm getting back. And that's what I'm seeing online. But I can always tell, like, oh yeah, my cycle coming, because I'm being mean to me. I'm being mean to others. When I figure out the cure to endometriosis,
Starting point is 00:23:19 I'm going to be a much happier person. What is that again? Endometriosis. I thought you explained it last time. I forgot. Inflammation of the uterus. Got you. When you grow extra lining. Yes. Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:30 That's why I like mediums. But don't that make all penises feel big? Yeah, I guess. Well, yeah. I haven't had all penises. Yeah. Right. Not all.
Starting point is 00:23:44 I'm talking about the variousises. Yeah. Not all. Can you not do that with your hand when you talk like that? Let's just ask that question, man. So many times that sex hurts, obviously. It can be painful. There's some little guys out there you done moaned for and they think they got it.
Starting point is 00:24:01 They do got it with me. Yeah, they got it with me. I get it. It's Okay. Okay. Yeah, you got it with me. I get it I get it. Yeah, it's somebody for everybody. You remember you were doing a little dick joke It was when you was on stage saying how much you love this medium Keep bringing the penises. Okay With the person you were dealing with at that time upset. I Don't think so. Hmm. Sheen in check That's part of my problem in relationships
Starting point is 00:24:27 I'm doing my job I don't ask you I don't be sitting there commenting on how you doing your job I'm doing my job I did not ask I do not know I don't know I'm going to ask him You going to ask him
Starting point is 00:24:42 He still try to come around so I don't think it was a problem. Yeah. Really? Yeah, he apartment building manager. I know. That's right. I can't do it. His credit score ain't good enough no more.
Starting point is 00:24:54 His car got repossessed. I had to close my legs. Damn. Did you know? So long now. No. I never spent more than $20 on a man. Damn.
Starting point is 00:25:04 That wasn't going to get his car out. No. That wasn't going to get his car out. No, that ain't going to get his car out. But he got it out on his own. You never spent more than $20 on a man. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Because he a man. Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 00:25:14 And I'm a woman, and I want him to feel like a man. But even when you Tiffany Haddish, who you are, and he's the apartment manager, you got more than him. You still only going to spend $20 on him? You still want him i'm gonna make sure i look good okay i'm gonna make sure i'm pretty so that's expensive he not buying my clothes and getting my nails done and stuff and buying all these wigs and shit i am so where does he have to take you like what do you expect from him as the apartment i expect
Starting point is 00:25:40 fun and adventure so like we went to like arb like, we went to, like, Arboretums. We went to, like, Islands Restaurant, cool little, you know, family restaurants and stuff. Whatever he can afford. That's fun. And then if you're an apartment manager, a building manager, why you can't get your car out? Because he didn't pay his rent. I mean, he didn't pay his car note. Yeah, because he don't own the building. No, he don't own the building.
Starting point is 00:26:04 He living rent free. No, he don't own the building. He live in rent-free. Oh, wow. Nah. Nah. Oh, my God. I see why he still be trying to come around then. So, although you are celibate, you don't talk to nobody right now.
Starting point is 00:26:21 I'm talking to like five dudes. Okay. I go to dinner and all that. Big tiff. So how is that? It's fun. Okay. We have a good time.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Good. And they know, like, no, I'm not getting no ass. Like, I'm not. They know that. Well, there's always a potential. I mean, but I'm not like, I'm not putting myself in positions to do that either. Okay. I mean, I tried one of them.
Starting point is 00:26:41 I've been trying to fuck for a long time. And it was like, you know what? Let me just stop Oh okay and that's because you're like sometimes you get tempted but then you're like no no no I'm keeping my own shit No I don't know if he gay or not I don't know Oh my god so you still gotta I'm confused Okay
Starting point is 00:26:58 Yo He say he not Okay You asked him? Mmhmm So you tried to holler at him, and he be like, are you gay? No.
Starting point is 00:27:08 No. Y'all go out? Yeah. She said they be on trips and all kind of stuff. Is there mania-isms? Is there something that you... No, we be in the same bed. I'm like, why... Oh, why haven't you tried to initiate something?
Starting point is 00:27:21 You know, a little, you know, put my booty on him and all that. A little poke out thing and everything i walk around butt naked and stuff i'm like is he gay you put his head up when you walk around by they look he look he be looking that's if you were straight for a person you ask everybody everything why you asked him i'm sure i asked him and what did he say what was his answer and he said he respect me and that he values our friendship and that you know like he don't want to mess up our friendship
Starting point is 00:27:47 and I'm like mess this friendship up fuck this friendship fuck this friendship hard I can tell you it's medium oh my god I can tell I can look at his hands and tell he is medium
Starting point is 00:28:04 that is so interesting I wonder why he don't want to take things to the next level Oh my God. I can tell. I can look at his hands and tell he is medium. That is so interesting. I wonder why he don't want to take things to the next level. But you got to respect it, though. I respect it. I respect it. And so now I'm like, oh, okay. And then I start doing that with everybody.
Starting point is 00:28:20 What, giving them that same line the guy gave you? Yeah. I respect our friendship. I want to respect our friendship. We have so much fun together, don't we? We do all kind of fun, adventurous stuff. We go cool places. Like, come on, let's not fuck that friendship up.
Starting point is 00:28:36 So you're not celibate? You just... I just haven't had... I mean, I've been making out and stuff. I got fingered. Does that count? You too old to be getting fingered. No, I'm never too old for a good finger bang. Oh my God. I got fingered.
Starting point is 00:28:53 I'm thinking, so you're not too old for that. Why? That's high school. Why? I haven't seen his EIN number yet. I don't know. I need to do a full background check. I can't just his EIN number yet I don't know I need to do a full background check
Starting point is 00:29:08 I can't just let him in So he didn't want to do nothing else No he wanted to do other stuff But I was like no Imagine being grown as hell going crazy You trying to get a heart attack man First of all I don't like the way you did that I didn't let you way you did that.
Starting point is 00:29:28 First of all, that looks painful. And your nails might be a little too long for me. This shit right here. That's not giving. That's not giving at all. That's not going to make me take my panties off. That's for sure. They to the side and I'm pulling them back over. Clothes, mm-mm.
Starting point is 00:29:50 This shit, nah. Nah. Oh, my God. Break down Big Tip Energy, man. Big Tip Energy is about when I was doing stand-up and I was struggling. And I did this one podcast and the guy gave me a prosthetic penis. And and it was like a limp one. And I was like, what the hell am I going to do with this?
Starting point is 00:30:15 And he's like, oh, just take it. Like I took it. And I started noticing like just like the comedy scene is so male dominated. Right. And the men always looking out for the other men. And I'm like, why are they not looking out for me? Like, I'm cool. I show up on time. I know I'm I might not be the funniest, but I'm definitely funny. And it's like, but they look out for their whomever. Right. And so one day I was just like, I'm just I'm just see what's up. And so I don't know why I did it, but I know why I did it. But it's in the book why I did it.
Starting point is 00:30:43 But I put the prosthetic limp penis in my panties and I started walking around with it. And I would go to the comedy club with it in. Now, I didn't tell nobody it was in. It's just like, I don't know, maybe I walk different. I don't know. But the men start treating me different. Everybody started treating me a little different. Booking me for more stuff.
Starting point is 00:31:00 Like, you know, just like, what up, Tiff? Giving me better hugs. I don't know if they was trying to fill my dick. I don't know. If they could feel the energy, maybe I had big better hugs. I don't know if they was trying to feel my dick. I don't know. If they could feel the energy, maybe I had big dick energy. I don't know. So we called it Big Tiff Energy. And maybe I was just walking different.
Starting point is 00:31:11 My confidence was different. My comedy got funnier. And I don't know if it's because I had some dangle in there, but it's just, that's what I'm talking about. You was ahead of your time. You was flame before flame. No, I had already met flame. Flame titties are the only female titties
Starting point is 00:31:26 I ever, like, touched. Really? That wasn't my own or my mama's. Wow. Soft. They was nice. I know that's why. I was jealous.
Starting point is 00:31:34 I know. I was like, is my titties ever gonna grow that big? Never. Never. Flame's titties is nice. Flame's got really nice titties. And I'm jealous.
Starting point is 00:31:43 Shut up, the flame. Shut up, the flame. Now, have you and Monique had a conversation I think my dick bigger than Flames dick yours isn't real so so what have you and Monique had a conversation since she was on Club Station
Starting point is 00:31:58 no we have not had no conversation we barely ever had a conversation ever I've you know tried to talk to her here and there or whatever but no we haven ever had a conversation. Ever. I've tried to talk to her here and there or whatever, but no, we haven't had no conversation. I slid in her DMs and she got my number if she checked. Oh, you just sent her your number?
Starting point is 00:32:14 No, I sent her a statement. A statement? And here's my number too. And here's my number if you want to talk about it. What do you think of the whole state of black comedy since the top of the year? Since Cat Williams did that interview, it feels like everybody's just been kind of at each other.
Starting point is 00:32:30 It's almost like you go to Club Shea Shea just to get at other comedians. Yeah, I don't know about that. Godfrey didn't go at other comedians. No, Godfrey didn't. Rel didn't go at other comedians. Rel did a little bit. Just a little bit. Yeah, Rel did a little bit.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Just a little bit. I don't know I I feel like that's something we do in the club like if you got some beef with somebody you like
Starting point is 00:32:52 tell them to they face I mean I know I have I've definitely gone up to people in they face and said I don't like you you know or what you did was fucked up
Starting point is 00:33:00 I ain't feeling that like I haven't had to do it too often cause there's not too many people that like um i haven't had to do it too often because there's not too many people that like really get on my nerves like that just a few people just a few people but i mean that's comedy like you're supposed to it's a little challenge but i i don't know about doing it in front of the world like that i don't know about all that yeah i see
Starting point is 00:33:19 it seemed like there was a brunch this weekend i think a netflix brunch oh yeah that was fun you were there yeah i was there like everybody, that was fun. You were there? Yeah, I was there. It seemed like everybody that was beefing with each other were all in the same room. Yeah, but you know what was crazy? You know what was crazy? We was outside. Okay, so we wasn't in the same room.
Starting point is 00:33:35 We was outside. And everybody was there. And Cat was there. And he was looking very interesting. He had his mask on, his white mask on. I seen that, yeah. He was looking very interesting, very shiny. And it was super cool. And
Starting point is 00:33:45 he's talking to everybody, moving around, moving around the room and stuff, talking to everybody. And then as soon as Kevin got there, nobody could find Cat. I don't know where Cat went. But then he did perform live. But it was like one.
Starting point is 00:34:02 In the afternoon? Yeah, the brunch started at 12. And then I think Kevin got there like one. In the afternoon? Yeah, the brunch started at 12. And then I think Kevin got there like 1, 1.30, and then Kat was gone. I seen Dave Chappelle, I seen Kat, I seen Kev, I seen like all the comedians that were
Starting point is 00:34:17 quote unquote beefing were all in the same place. I was like, oh, maybe they all... We took a big class picture too. We took a big old picture. Kat was in the picture, too? No, Cat was not there. Cat left. Okay.
Starting point is 00:34:30 Right as Kevin pulled up. If y'all took the picture before Kevin got there, you think he would have been in the picture? Did you speak to Cat? No. No. I smiled and waved. You cursed him with joy?
Starting point is 00:34:47 He looked at me. I don't think he recognized me because I had a wig on, so I don't think he realized it was me. That's what I'm telling myself. Or he just was like, I ain't fucking with her right now. She's going to talk crazy to me. But that's fine, though. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:00 Everybody put their boundaries up. I'd rather y'all not speak than see each other in public and be cursing at each other. First of all, I love me some Cat. Me and Cat ain't got no beef. I mean, he do like saying my name, and I think it's because my name garnishes clicks for some reason. Especially if you say one negative thing around my name, everybody's clicking on it. Like, oh, fuck, what the fuck she do now?
Starting point is 00:35:19 What she do now? What she do now? And I think he knows that. He's a genius. So he's like, okay, what's going to so he's like okay what's gonna give me the clicks what's gonna get the you know he's just randomly will say my name and don't say shit else just timidly haddish and laugh factory and then let me tell you about this nigga kevin he's like I'm the one that put her on she was in school dance with me and i'm like i never said that you that that you didn't put me on or that you did but nick cannon
Starting point is 00:35:49 did put me in school dance for that road not cat williams but we did kill that shit together like we did that together and that was fucking awesome and it's like a viral moment online and and um i love cat i sent him a script and he's like like, we got to work on the writing on this script. Okay, let's work on it. Who do you want to write? Like, whatever. Like, let's make it happen. Let's make a movie.
Starting point is 00:36:10 Like, I love him. I think he's super talented. It is strange when people try to. But he do get on my motherfucking nerves sometimes. It is strange when people act like you didn't come up like everybody else. Like, you was in the comedy clubs. You busted your ass. You did all of that.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Yeah. I mean, Cat put me out the club at the hollywood park casino i was under age and he was doing the hollywood park casino every week and um i was too young to be in there he put me out uh but like you ain't got no idea you can't be in here and like you put me out there finally i gotta i you know i was old enough and uh he let me perform and then he commenced to roast me for like probably 20 minutes after I got off stage and I felt so proud I was like, God, Williams is talking
Starting point is 00:36:52 about me. I was so happy. He was roasting you back then? He was roasting me back then. He roasted the shit out of me. I'm like, do you remember this? He's like, no Tiffany Haddish, I do not remember this. I showed him a picture he was like, oh that was your skinny ass? Yeah, that was me bro. I showed him a picture. He was like, oh, that was your skinny ass. Yeah, that was me, bro. Like, so I feel honored.
Starting point is 00:37:09 You know, it's funny because some people don't even like I remember them, but they don't remember me. They like, no, we just met. I'm like, no, we met back in 2001 at this place. And they're like, no. And then I show him a picture and they're like, oh, shit. Like, yeah. And you were kind of mean. But now you're nice. So I'm cool. at this place and they're like no and then I show them a picture and they're like oh shit like yeah and you were kind of mean but now you're nice so I'm cool
Starting point is 00:37:29 oh they're nice because you are who you are now exactly but I've been around a long time since 1996 yeah damn damn I could have been your babysitter I would have braided your hair and I would have been your babysitter I would have braided your hair and I'm gonna like girl
Starting point is 00:37:48 let's we finna go we finna go to the swap meet okay we finna go to swap meet I need you to be like holding my hand and say I'm a good mom what's up with this adult prom are you throwing an adult yeah I'm throwing an adult prom prom May 31st for the She Ready Foundation. And it's now like our gala. It's our thing. Like, we did it last year. It was super dope. Snoop came.
Starting point is 00:38:13 Paris Hilton came. Mario showed up and sang. Like, Snoop performed and Paris DJed and Jimmy Kimmel was there and Bert Kreischer and Joe Coy and like all my favorite, like some of many of my favorite people, Jason, Jason Lee was there. We honored him for like all the work he'd been doing in a community. And we had so much fun. We raised a bunch of money. Rel was there.
Starting point is 00:38:37 He bought a trip to Africa. I don't even know if he took the trip to Africa yet or not, but we auction off these really cool trips and fun things. And it's, it's a good time. really cool trips and fun things and it's it's a good time it's a good time and it's for all the people like i decided to go with the prom thing because uh i've been to three primes i've been a problem a bunch of times but a bunch of people in this industry in the hollywood industry and adults just in general have never been a prom they never got to go maybe they was gay and they couldn't go with their lover no seriously
Starting point is 00:39:05 in 1900s like you know they couldn't like when by the time you went to prom it probably was cool right um it wasn't really many gays it wasn't that many years 2010 i guess people still scared oh okay yeah okay yeah when i was in high school i went to a predominantly white high school how many people were gay that i knew of? That you knew of? Yeah. Okay, well, in California, for sure, it was some gays. Yeah. You was in Baltimore.
Starting point is 00:39:32 Yeah, I grew up Baltimore, born and raised, but then my mom, I got into a lot of trouble when she sent me to school in Pennsylvania. So, yes, I went to a predominantly white high school. You was in a boarding school? Pennsylvania. It was a college preparatory school So you was in a boarding school?
Starting point is 00:39:48 No Where did you sleep at? At my house And then I woke up and went to school Oh, okay Pennsylvania is right there next to Baltimore like that? How far away? York, Pennsylvania
Starting point is 00:40:00 It was like an hour away, straight up So you had to go an hour to school every day? No, my mom, we moved up there. She bought a house there, and she still had a house in Baltimore. She and my dad would commute back and forth from Baltimore to Pennsylvania. I love that. Yeah. Because they's homeowners.
Starting point is 00:40:16 Yes. So you got an inheritance. Yes, I guess. Why are you upset about your inheritance? Yeah, because now I'm thinking about it like, no, I ain't inherit shit. No, I ain't got no. They still on the homes? They still on the homes?
Starting point is 00:40:34 They still alive? Yeah. Both of my parents, yeah. Yeah, and they still on the homes, right? Yeah, they still on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if something happens to them, it's going to come to you. Hopefully, yes. Let's see how they feel, it's going to come to you. Hopefully.
Starting point is 00:40:46 Yes, let's see how they feel about that. That depends on if they give me something. Did they do a living will and trust? I bet they have, yeah. Yeah, as long as they did a living will and they left it to you. You got sisters and brothers? Two. Yeah, it was three of us. You was thinking about that.
Starting point is 00:41:01 I was thinking about it, yeah. It's three of us all together. I just don't know. You know how sometimes when people die, the people who think they're going to get something, they probably don't? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so it may be like that.
Starting point is 00:41:10 But are you the oldest? No, I'm middle. You're the middle child? Big brother, little sister. Okay, so then what happens usually is it's like a split. Yeah, you want to make sure they get a will or like a, not a will, but a trust. Okay.
Starting point is 00:41:25 Cause if it's a will, they can still go to probate. Right. But if it's a trust, now, whatever they say, they control the money from the grave. Okay.
Starting point is 00:41:33 You control it from gave me. And then whatever they say in there, that's who we go to. Okay. Right. And then you and your sister and brother, cause it decided to sell it, but y'all shouldn't,
Starting point is 00:41:40 y'all should turn it into income property. And then y'all have money coming in all the time, no matter what. And when y'all struggling or whatever, y'all can always pull a income property and then y'all have money coming in all the time no matter what and when y'all struggling or whatever y'all can always pull a he lock out or you know a more little mortgage or something out on that house and then y'all always have she's speaking from experience what she said got a whole chapter somebody go to jail boom boom we got a house here that we can put up you know i'm saying and we can keep you up out of here and get you a good lawyer you know i I'm saying and then if you beat the case maybe we might get
Starting point is 00:42:06 some of that money back okay I try not to you know I try to you know like no no
Starting point is 00:42:13 bail bonds you put the money up like if the money's in the family we put the money up and then we can get that back you better teach and then when we get that back
Starting point is 00:42:22 then we put that in your hands and you better not fucking go to jail again bitch or we jumping you straight up I don't we get that back then we put that in your hands and you better not fucking go to jail again bitch or we jumping you straight up I don't know about that part but yeah straight up
Starting point is 00:42:29 back to it we gonna jump you that's why you gotta read the My Hair in a Chapman that's right that's right yeah oh we got the book
Starting point is 00:42:36 hard copy of the book that's right and you gotta get the book I gotta ask you uh huh a lot going on uh huh Drake Kendrick
Starting point is 00:42:43 what's your thing gotta ask you what's your thing she west coast to the car what's your thought? Gotta ask you. What's your thought? She was close to the car. What's y'all doing? But then you Jewish too. I am Jewish. So you got.
Starting point is 00:42:51 Ooh. Look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look. I'm a Jewish businesswoman and I'm about what's entertaining. And if I'm going with the entertainment factor of it all, Kendrick is killing that ass. Like I am very entertained. He got all the good punchlines. Drake got good punchlines and all that, too. And I just want to give, Drake, you're doing a good job.
Starting point is 00:43:11 I'm proud of you. Because you know he's sensitive. He went off on me before. He went off on you? He was very sensitive. In your DMs? No, not in my DMs. In my face.
Starting point is 00:43:19 He told me. What did he say in your face? He told me. He told me. He told me. I didn't like that. That hurt my feelings.'m sorry i will i will not talk about that no more although i did tell you i was gonna talk about that
Starting point is 00:43:32 and he said it hurt his feelings and i said okay i'm sorry what did you talk about i talked about how his daddy i told him i wasn't gonna talk about it no more but i'm gonna talk about it his daddy his daddy be trying to holler yeah his daddy be trying to holler he don't like that I said I'd much rather be your baby mama than your step mama he ain't like that that hurt his feelings that's kind of like playing on your daddy though a little bit
Starting point is 00:43:58 why you cock blocking your daddy if your daddy trying to holler why you mad at him I like his dad but not like that but why would it hurt his feelings that his daddy tried to holler? Why you mad at him? I don't want to do that. I like his dad, but not like that. But why would it hurt his feelings that his daddy tried to holler at you? Because I talked about it on stage. I talked about it. There was a lot of people that knew that then.
Starting point is 00:44:15 Since you talked about it on stage and it got back to him. Yeah. His daddy's interesting. You going on a date with his daddy? No, I didn't go on a date with his daddy. I said he's interesting. I see, the, the, uh, no, I don't go on a date with his daddy. I say he interesting. No, I see him at different events and stuff and different, like he'd be at Jewish stuff and all that.
Starting point is 00:44:30 His daddy be around. Like, I don't know if he looking for his next Jewish baby mama or what, but he'd be outside. He'd be outside. So, um, and, uh, I don't know. I, but as far as the beef goes, uh, the rap battle, I'm loving it. I'm here for it. I think I'm so proud of Kendrick. I'm so proud of him.
Starting point is 00:44:49 Like he's killing it. And he's like in the lab just bringing it in. The punchlines are there. Like he's killing it. I'm proud of him. And I'm proud of Drake, too. He has an airplane. It's a great battle.
Starting point is 00:45:01 It's an airplane. It's an airplane. Now, I think it's a little. They're getting a little. They're going a little day they getting a little they go on a little below the belt but they wait they going yeah it's deep yeah but it's like a real rap battle you know I'm saying like we get it at a cyphers yeah we had one of these in a long time yeah yeah real good one yeah I feel like I'm back on the school bus yeah and you went to Israel too how was that oh that was a great experience for me um I went there
Starting point is 00:45:30 because I wanted to see all the stuff I read about in the Bible and the Torah and the Quran and so um and I got to see all those things all those places it's it's a very spiritual place everybody and their mama there I you know i thought i was just gonna see like people that look like you know just you know just you know middle easterns but no no everybody in their mama there i saw a dude making tacos on the side of the road he was mexican and tacos was fire um there's a lot of black people the african-american diaspora is huge out there uh a lot of them live in Demona and they're Jewish. And so I was hanging out with them and that was super awesome.
Starting point is 00:46:11 And you went by yourself? Yeah, I met up with some friends out there. I met up with some people out there and I went outside with all the Ethiopian Jews. And that was really good and informative. And what I learned is that um no matter where you are when you black you get shitted on because they they going through the same things it felt the weather and everything and the way things looked it felt kind of like california to me and as they're describing the the lifestyle and what's going on over there for them it sounds like la it sounds
Starting point is 00:46:42 like the same shit except they they gangbangers come from another place and they come over there. But it is what it is. It's it's life. It's in the shit. I'm very disappointed in like what's going on. I don't support all that stuff. I'm about peace. And all these lives is just. it's kind of depressing it's very
Starting point is 00:47:07 depressing not even kind of it's very depressing and it's very sad but it's something that's been going on for thousands of years over there when I went I learned about like how the Romans came in and did stuff and how the Ottoman Empire came in and did what they did and like even King David came over there like when he got Jerusalemusalem what he did and i mean i remember reading about it in the bible but like actually seeing it and how he like went for the canaanites heads and all that like i'm just like yo to see it it makes it resonate different right like and then everything i learned in world history like i went to masada i went to I went to sock man I went to the Dead Sea not the Dead Sea the Red Sea Red Sea no it's the Dead Sea the salt water yeah that's the Dead Sea which it ain't dead that salt is
Starting point is 00:47:56 growing up all kind of stuff but I when I went there it's like all the stuff that I learned in world history I'm seeing it for real life and it made it hit different like i love listening to uh the history teacher tell us stuff but i did not like reading this stuff because i couldn't read that good no ways but i used to love to hear it right and you know and it always stayed in my mind and then when i go there it's like oh this is where the romans were and this is where this is and like um i read an article where they said Israel's paying all this money to build thousands of tunnels and stuff. I don't know about the thousands of tunnels in Israel, but I know about that one tunnel in Israel that they were they excavated.
Starting point is 00:48:35 They excavated the mikveh and the mikveh is like where they do like where they would come and clean themselves. Like that's where baptism started. um it's two olympic size pools and they they the archaeology archaeology archaeologists the archaeologists dug it up and then there's this this walkway that you go up there's kind of like a mall it feels like you're in the mall and it goes it leads up to the temple and that's the same path is where jesus came every year he would come there everybody every jew came there every year. He would come there. Everybody, every Jew came there every year and they would jump in that mikvah and they would share news and all that. And then they would go up, they would go up that trail to the temple. And that's the same path that, that Jesus was, his real name is Yeshua. The Romans named him Jesus like years later, his name is Yeshua.
Starting point is 00:49:23 It's the same path that Yeshua walked to go be assassinated and it was really powerful for me I don't know why I felt like I was like in a mall slash around a bunch of like ancestors and there's something there's a rock that the the Muslim mosque is built around and the wall is up against where the Jews go pray in the Catholic church in the in the protestant church like three different christian churches right there is and the churches are built right where jesus was crucified and then the the mosque and the wall is around this rock where abraham was going to sacrifice his son right and i don't know what's in that rock but it was so powerful like i can
Starting point is 00:50:03 feel it right now and maybe maybe i'm just you know sensitive or whatever but it's something there and they say it's god and i'm not sure but it feel like it is it's with me like it was so powerful and i prayed at the wall and i went by the mosque and i went in all the churches and they said this is where Jesus was laid to rest when they put him down. Like after they took him off the cross. I'm not sure if that's real or not, but there's some energy there. And I don't know if it's the energy of all the ancestors or all the people that went there or if I felt the way I felt because I did all this research and I saw how black Jerusalem was even I found videos in the library of um the 1920s and the 30s and it was all black and they all looked like
Starting point is 00:50:53 Ethiopians right they all Ethiopian it was so beautiful and and it's still beautiful but you can see all the wars you can see the stuff in stuff. I went to the key points where the 3,000 Palestinians came in to take over, take the people and whatnot. And it's sad. It's so sad that, you know, we can't be better. Like, there were thousands of years. It's the same thing. Keep repeating itself. Why?
Starting point is 00:51:27 Why? Why so much hate towards each other? We all bleed the same. We all whatever. We just worship God different. You hate me because of how I worship God. Yeah. Just because I don't get it.
Starting point is 00:51:39 I don't understand it. I'm confused still. But I'm learning all the time and I want to go back and learn more. And I want to help. I want to help rebuild. I want to help in whatever way that I can. And I don't know. The world got on me because I said what I always say when I leave the country. I always say I've been saying that when I went to Iraq to go do comedy for the troops, nobody said shit. And I said the same thing. Maybe I'll meet a man. No. You know, I went to go make the troops laugh and I said the same thing maybe I'm meeting me who knows you know I went to go make
Starting point is 00:52:05 the troops laugh and nobody said nothing and America was over there killing way more we killed a lot of people but um what what happened uh at where was you at outside joke appearance what is that yeah yeah so I was at the uh Netflix is not a joke left Netflix not a joke I was at a show okay outside for Netflix they said you went on a rant I went on a a joke. I was at a show. Okay. Outside for Netflix. They said you went on a rant about college protests. Yeah, I went off because people were saying, you know, they were saying what they were saying. And it was like, you got to support the colleges. And I'm like, I don't want to support people tearing up a school.
Starting point is 00:52:42 I don't think that's the way to go about it. If you really want the, if you want stuff like this to stop happening, if you're protesting the genocide that's going on and you want that to stop happening, I think there's some better ways to go about making it stop happening. Blocking people from going to class is not going to be the thing. I don't think that's going to be the thing. Cause that's what the, I mean, that's what the Nazis did. They blocked the Jews. They blocked the Jehovah witnesses. They, they killed a lot of did. They blocked the Jews. They blocked the Jehovah Witnesses. They killed a lot of people. They didn't just kill Jews. They was killing everybody that was not like them.
Starting point is 00:53:11 So like, and they were blocking them from getting their education, blocking them from being able to have a living. They were hurting them. And so like, to me, if you really want to be changed, you want to make change, you really want to be effective, you really want this to stop, then start learning. Get get yourself educated and get in there and change the laws. Change how we how get become get in NATO or whatever, the international, whatever you got to be on Senate, all that, like change the laws, change how we move.
Starting point is 00:53:46 Yeah, that's that's what I would do that's what if you really wanted to change like be effective and get involved in government I think they're protesting to get those legislators attention so those legislators can become a lobbyist go be a lobbyist and get their attention you get their attention better if you take them to dinner
Starting point is 00:54:02 you know what I'm saying you can be a lot those lobbyists and they make good money too. Like if you want to change things, like corporations hire lobbyists to change law so they can do what they want to do. Right? So if you want to change something, go talk to them,
Starting point is 00:54:19 show up at their office, don't tear up the school and block somebody else from getting an education. And I'm looking, they running around with, you know, trash can shields, running into the police and stuff. And I'm just thinking to myself, this is our future. This is our future. These are our future professors, our lawyers, our doctors, like this is our future. Like, and then they're yelling stuff. They don't even understand why the war is happening. They don't even know the history of it, what's behind it. And they're just in an outrage.
Starting point is 00:54:47 And you're yelling for Gaza, but you ain't saying nothing for the Congo. 12 million people been killed over there. You ain't said shit about all these black people that's been getting killed for 100 years. Let's just go the last 100 years. We've been getting slaughtered over there. And nobody's saying anything. There was a war in my father's the last hundred years. We've been getting slaughtered over there. And nobody's saying anything.
Starting point is 00:55:05 There was a war in my father's country for 30 years. And nobody says shit about it in America. Y'all didn't protest. Y'all didn't nothing because it was black people. Straight up. And Cameroon, they was over there killing, just slaughtering them. Y'all didn't say shit. Y'all didn't do nothing.
Starting point is 00:55:22 Nobody cared. It was on social media for a second. Like I pay attention to what's going on where we at. Like, how are we doing? Like black people, we wasn't doing so good in Gaza. Okay.
Starting point is 00:55:36 We wasn't doing so good over there. There's slavery. There is slavery. Still there's slavery. And it is a lot of us still in slavery. And there's a, and there's a lot of us still in slavery. And there's a lot of us being killed. So for me, I'm like, if you want to protest like that, I want to see you protesting like that for the 12 million that's been killed
Starting point is 00:55:56 just in the Congo. So you don't disagree with the protests. You just disagree with how they protest. How they protesting is not, I don't agree with how they protesting. Yeah, protest, yes. Protest, yes. If if you think that's gonna make a change yeah if you think it's gonna make a difference you're gonna it's gonna make people pay attention yeah but the way y'all going about it i don't think it's right i don't think you spray painting the library is gonna really make anything change i know niggas been spray painting the library for years
Starting point is 00:56:21 and they just shut the library down that's all they did like so no i don't think that's the way to go about it i think the way to go about it is to get into legislation to show up to your congressman's office show up to your senator's office show up sit outside their office and protest put the pressure on them doing it at the schools ain't putting no pressure on them they're just like oh they up there at the school cutting up whatever like and we like i as a 20 something year old like do you invigorated teenager yeah like that's protests it's been happening every decade it's always happening women was out there burning their bras but y'all out here angry about you know what's going on over there in gaza and it's genocide when they about to make
Starting point is 00:57:05 pass laws over our bodies women's bodies we ain't gonna be able to have no choice in what we do and like roby wade already overturned yeah like hello we need to be paying attention the distraction is real like you're not gonna it's gonna be handmaid's tale out here when you start really reading all the legislation read everything like it's about to be handmaid's tale out here when you start really read reading all the legislation read everything like it's about to be handmaid's tale out here you about to be like it's gonna be crazy like you voluntarily want to be pregnant yeah yeah that's a voluntary thing like but there's gonna be situations where it's gonna be involuntary like i mean if you read the legislations and i'm not i might not be articulating this the best but i'm concerned concerned. I'm concerned for our future.
Starting point is 00:57:45 And I'm concerned when our youth are all their knowledge is coming from TikTok and Instagram. And they not really like doing a real research and really reading. They just taking some some bloggers word for it. It's like, no, go look the shit up. Go to the go look up these legislations. And if you want, want like there's no doubt there's a there is a genocide happening there's no doubt about that but like that's not the only one that's happening right now so if we're gonna be protesting genocide if we against
Starting point is 00:58:15 genocide we need to be against all the genocides not just the lighter genocide all the like the black the the brown everybody everybody yeah we're not it don't need to just be from the river to this you need to be like uh recycle these cell phones and stop killing the congolese like yep but don't get me started i'm sorry okay anyways i curse you with joy it's out today get it or audio or a physical book, hard copy at any local bookstore. The audio version is off the chain because I'm definitely bringing it
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