The Breakfast Club - Kountry Wayne Talks New Book, Relationships, Fatherhood, Netflix Special + More

Episode Date: April 27, 2023

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Morning, everybody. It's E.J. Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are The Breakfast Club. We got our guest co-host, Gary Owens, joining us today. Yes, indeed. And we got a special guest in the building, Country Wayne. Yeah, yeah, man. Hey, I'm glad to be here. And you here this time. I'm here this time. You'll never be here, man. I feel like y'all give me the other version. Not the full version.

Yeah, every time I come here. You're going to take the version we got, Country Wayne. Hey, whatever y'all got man I appreciate it Help is on the way man Talk to us about this new book Oh man it's my book About my arm

It's about my life man It's about me coming From that small country town You know what I'm talking about Charlemagne And just overcoming Those obstacles Of me having all those kids

And coming from there To here now man Just letting everybody know That they can do it You know help is on the way For everybody You know just gotta listen To that they can do it. You know, help is on the way for everybody. You know, just got to listen to that little voice in you.

And, you know, just a lot of lessons for everybody else's blessings. Just using my life experiences and applying to other people's lives and letting them know if I could come from Mill and Georgia

with that one red light, anybody could do it. How many kids you got? It's a self-help book? Yeah, it's a self-help. It's a self-help, but at the same time it tells my story.

So, you know, how like the 40 Laws of Power to tell a story. And then it hashelp, but at the same time it tells my story. So you know how like the 40 laws of power to tell a story, and then it has a lesson there at the same time. How many kids do you have? You said all them kids. Ten. You got ten kids? Yeah, ten.

Jesus Christ. Oh, you didn't know that? No. Oh, okay, okay. Jesus Christ. So how do you spread the time with all the kids? Because your daughter might have dance, your son might have baseball, your other daughter got cheerleading, your other son swimming.

Oldest to youngest. 17 to 1. Yeah. But I spread the time because, you know, like I say in the book, help is on the way. You need the help. I found a way. Well, God gave me a way to the way my life set up with social media. I'm able to film at home, so I'm able to make my money at home. So like my son, I got him an AU team.

I took off all July. I ain't doing no shows. My daughter, i got to go to her dance in june but the way i make my money is always a way for everybody you know my way was i don't got to be on the road or gone all the time i make my money at my house like i film all my skits at my house so you know i'm able to be home a lot so that that's how i balance it out. Thank God for that. But, yeah. Who pays the most? Facebook, YouTube, all the social media outlets? Oh, for me, it's Facebook. That's what I heard.

I heard Facebook. Yeah, Facebook, you know, they got their audience. They, you know, got their social security checks and all that. It is true. It's like an older audience. Yeah, it's an older audience. You know, it's. Man, they watch.

Yeah. You know, they sitting home and they chilling. So it's like, it's the aunties Right? Man, they watch. Yeah, you know, they sitting home and they chilling. So it's like, it's the aunties. So they got their pay. They going to see New Edition concerts, Fantasial Concerts. So that fan base. So they got the money. But you too got the clout.

But there's money over there too. Yeah. You know, I make money on both, but Facebook always been my go to. What made you want to go from comedian to memoir writer? How did you know you had a story to tell? Because, man, the thing, I used to read books when I was in the streets, you know what I'm saying? I read Becoming a Millionaire, God's Way, you know,

48 Laws of Power, Art of Seduction was reading these books. And that's how you did it. Yeah. Art of Seduction. That's how you get 10 kids, right? I love Robert Greene. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, I feel like, man, I know my story worked because I've used it even in the streets.

But I used it when I used to go to banks with a 500 credit score. I knew how to get that bank loan. You know, these things and lessons I just knew just from instincts. It worked for me even in the comedy game when I first because I was one I was the first social media guy they let go in the clubs and get them deals they wasn't letting us get them weekend deals but I knew how to get in it's just like so everything the OG comedians like Gary blocking y'all oh no they were they was getting the deals but they didn't trust those social media people come first of

all it's like you know we ain't paid our dues and I understand what they were coming from and we learned the game you know a lot of we ain't paid our dues, and I understand where they were coming from, and we ain't learned the game yet. You know, a lot of us ain't even have a set yet. But I knew how to maneuver everything, and I was like, man, and I taught people around me, and it was working for them. So I was like, the world need to feel my game of how this don't work for me since kindergarten. Gary, has the perception of the social media comedian changed?

See, I don't like the whole paying your dues, because then you're saying, how dare you try to make a living, is how I look at it. Just because the way they can be famous is different, it's better nowadays. Because when I started in the late 90s, we were at the mercy of the quote-unquote machine. We had to help a producer from Comedy Central or a network

put our stuff on there. These guys now, they create their own fan base they're creating their own lanes so how can you be mad at it i'm more like learn from it because at first i was like so what you're the first person i heard say you can make money off facebook i was like this oh so let me bleep out the curse words i'm not a i'm not a sketch guy i'm just not wired like that but i i own all my content so for me to put stand-up on there i was like oh be clean he's right he did basically he did what tyler perry did with the movies because when he type here the movies come out they didn't they didn't um account for those black over 30 church-going women that took the buses to the theater to go see his movie it It's basically what he's doing with social media is what he's saying. Like, he's taking into account that audience.

All right, all right, all right. So I'm not mad at it. You ain't got no choice. Well, there's enough for everybody. He done won. All right, he laying y'all down. I can be mad at it. I can be frustrated.

You can't tell how I'm going to feel. What are you talking about? Now, Gary always shows love. I ain't going to lie, man. Me and Gary, there was a couple of them out there, but I didn't care. I it's going to feel. What are you talking about? Now, Gary always showed love. I ain't going to lie, man. Me and Gary, there was a couple of them out there, but I didn't care. I was one of the ones. I was waiting on somebody to try me. Yeah, yeah.

Because I like Gary to say, bro, come on, man. We come from, most of us, you know what I'm saying, black, no disrespect, Gary, but you want us, you know what I mean? But we try. No disrespect. We come from the bottom. Yeah, we making a living. I'm not.

How old was the population of your town growing up? Man, like 3,000. Mine was 7,000. Yeah, so I a living. I'm not making a living. How old was the population of your town growing up? Man, like 3,000. Mine was 7,000. Yeah, so I'm like, man, somebody, them comedians, Steve Brown called me. He was one of the ones I first started. Everybody I had a problem with, I called on the phone. Really?

Don't play with me like that. Like, I don't play like that, man. We all trying to make a living. So how would they have a problem with you? They box you out where you can't? No, man, like they all online to my social media people. Man, this an art. Man, you messing with people's money.

It's people I don't think good. But I'm never finna get online and say nothing about no artists because I'm missing, you know what I'm saying? That ain't my lane because them people eat and the people got to feed kids. And coming from the streets, you respect that. At least I ain't selling dope. And I was selling dope the whole time. So I went from the stage.

I mean, selling dope to on the stage the next day. I wasn't, I'm like, man, don't play, I don't play. Who's some of the people you had to call that y'all might be cool now that you had to call and be like, hey. Steve Brown, Steve Brown was, Steve Brown was one of them. I called him.

What was that conversation like? I was about to call somebody else. You about to call somebody else now still to this day? Nah, nah, it was like a couple years ago I was about to call somebody else. I was looking for his number, but another comedian, D-Ray, gave me, he said, Wayne, I'm not going to let you do that.

D-Ray Davis? I called every comedian trying to get this certain comedian number. Oh, D-Ray stopped you from doing it? He stopped me from doing it. Okay, okay. You know what I'm saying? What was the problem? How did he try to hate without saying his name, obviously?

Nah, because he was online. He was like, this one I was doing a skit on during the pandemic on Instagram, and he was like somebody said this certain comedian is funny and I blocked him they said my skits

were funny he said man he put not quantity not quality ain't nobody dropping skits with Country Wayne so he was like I hope you ain't

talking about Daisy Banks or Country Wayne then he was like no Daisy Banks cool I'm like hold up so I'm trying to

call bro don't you ever just cause I don't figure it out don't you ever just cause I don't figure it out and don't do that just ask me how to do it you know what I mean that just means

somebody he knows said you was funny funny to him I'm sure if you got an opinion I'm cool with it I respect him more if he would've

said my name cause I don't like all the side stuff cause you got something to say I respect it but like come on man I don't play with nobody people gotta feed

they family and I don't think a lot of people good in comedy you know i think a lot of it comes from just being the og here is when they original gary when they uh when guys are doing it like for a long time and just having broken over that uh threshold of selling a good amount of tickets, I think a lot of it, they get frustrated because now you got the younger guys, the social media guys, and they're selling more tickets to them. That's really what it comes down to, is they're frustrated.

I guarantee you whoever was upset with you is not selling as many tickets as you because you're never upset. When you're selling tickets, you ain't worried about nobody. That's the truth. You're getting this game long long enough there's enough for everybody yes you mean the same city as somebody you're both selling tickets exactly why be upset now what did the first comedian say when you reached out to him did he understand and maybe he was just

mad for something he didn't understand or did he keep going with it uh no i went to his um i went to his city and did a show and people came to see me they were like no way funny and then he was like oh uh he was like yeah man i ain't had never seen you so i just was like well don't don't judge me off everybody else because i came in with a story you know i was i had already lived so comedy came pretty fast for me because i had a lot to talk about so they would just put me with the a lot of other people but don't put me with that man come see me for yourself a lot of other people. But don't put me with that, man. Come see me for yourself. A lot of that is just jealousy in the game, man. That's literally all of it. It is, but, man, I just feel like, man, you know,

nobody ain't got time for that. But all the OGs who, like Gary, who was already doing their thing, Kevin Hart, Cedric Entertainer. Don't show love. Everybody was showing love, but it was the ones that quite ain't been in the game a long time. That's your fault. Because like you said, if you're not selling tickets, you feel the way. Because he feel like, yeah, I've been working for 15 years.

Here come Country Wayne. It looks like he just did two skits and he sold out. You can't be playing with this guy. It's going to be a lot of social media people ain't going to be there in the end. But if you've been in there 15 years and you ain't figured out something, it's because you've been playing. You're partying. Anything you do for 15 years, it's going to be what you did behind closed doors.

They can hate on Kevin Hart all they want, but I tell everybody, they be like, Kevin Hart in that front. I'm like, bro, everybody got to be real. That special he dropped with,

all right, all right, all right. The way my bank account set up, everybody know that was one of the best classes in the last 10 years. Everybody try to ignore that special. And I'm like,

bro, like, somebody who get that far is something they doing behind closed doors and it's work. Not even closed doors. It's something that he doing

on that stage that you may not connect with. Clearly, tens of millions of people Everybody connected with that special. I don't know how they forget it, man.

Everybody remember that special. I was in the streets and I remember, All right, all right, all right. Yeah. I remember I was in the streets. My baby mama alright alright yeah I remember I was in the streets my baby mama was

she was my baby mama I was asleep which one the one before last the one before last whoa that's the one my ex-wife

he closed his eyes and had to think no my ex-wife man but I remember that special cause I was asleep and she was busting out laughing I wasn't even on coming in like that

like it was like 2010 when the moment came and asleep and she's busting out laughing. I wasn't even on comedy like that. Like, it was like 2010. Remember Kevin dropped that special? She's busting out laughing to me. Oh, my God. Just going crazy. And I'm like, man, I woke up. I said, man, was that special that funny last night? She was like, yes, because they was all Cat Williams people.

You know what I mean? She was like, no, that was. They weren't even fans of Kevin Hart. But that special changed the game. Wait until you see the next one. And Kev never changed. That's the thing the next one. And Kev never changed. That's the thing I think with Kev. He never changed.

Kev has always been the same Kev from when we first met him. I think Kevin know that, too, when people say he ain't funny. I think he's so smart because me and him, when I talk to him, people don't know how intelligent he is to get that far. It's an intelligence. Absolutely. He's so smart. He let people say that.

But that special was, it was the relatable material of you know the way my bank account set up his daddy going through the spelling bee but that's the kind of stuff that works

no disrespect but good song writers we still saying that now we still saying the way my bank account set up man come on man I'm hating Gary

yo Kevin funny what he's smart I'm listening no I'm just saying I'm just listening bro now granted, Kevin's funny. What? He's smart. I'm listening. No, I'm just saying. I'm just listening, bro. Now, granted, I didn't think it was that good. He's putting a little on it.

I'm just kidding. I'm talking about that special. Oh, I ain't know. I ain't got to say it with my chest. I ain't got to say it with my chest or nothing like that. Now, all of them, to me, all of them were like that. Say it with your chest, Gary. Not all of them, but I'm talking about that. That special right nothing like that. No, all of them. To me, all of them were like that. Say it with your chest, Gary. Not all of them, but that's special.

I'm talking about that. That special right there was, you know what I mean? It was different. You got a chapter in your book called The Play of Life. Yeah. Is country way built for a relationship? Oh, yeah. I'm definitely built for a relationship.

How many at one time? No, I'm really built for a monogamous relationship. You know what I mean? It's just that I don't work on myself enough. I tell the woman you got to be ready. You know what I'm really built for a monogamous relationship. You know what I mean? It's just that, you know, I don't work on myself enough. I tell the woman you got to be ready. You know what I'm saying? Because a lot of men, a lot of women think they're in a position, and I understand where they're coming from.

But men work, certain men that work on themselves too. And certain women, I just, it got to be a certain woman who don't want the world. Because I never, I don't care about the world. So if we care about us, I'm ready to be in a relationship. I've been in relationships all my life. You just confused me. This is my first time. It's my confusion.

That's what the player do. You know what I'm saying? You're confusing me. I'm so wrong. I'm something like this. I think I'm pregnant right now. I was confused. You ain't about the world.

You don't know what the world. But you confused me. Yeah, so basically it's like. He said that's what a player do. Keep you confused. I'm 35 now. So I want a relationship where me and her don't care about nothing outside of this house. What the world got going on, don't care about us.

And we go in the world and have our fun, but it's like, you know, I want that kind of relationship. But that's hard. That's hard nowadays. Conjuraine, I'm telling you right now, there's women listening to this saying, I don't want to hear this from no 35-year-old with 10 kids. Yeah, I feel them. But, them, but I had all this experience. You know what I'm saying? If a doctor working on me, I want a doctor to have experience. Did you hear what Countryway said? He said, yo, I just want to make sure what happens is in this house.

Don't be listening to what's going on in social media or what's going on in this outside world. He was trying to keep them confused. He just wanted to keep them confused. Hey, man, you know how it is, man. Everybody. The answer was no. I love relationships.

Relationships are amazing. We know you love relationships. That's obvious. Yeah, but I love that woman. Because you being a committed one with one woman. Yes, because you get more out of that relationship when that woman feel like you committed and you committed to her. I don't believe you, country man.

Yeah. You got to show, you got to prove it. I've been in relationships, man. We know that. But they didn't work out. I just left. you, Country Wayne. Yeah. You got to show, you got to prove it. I've been in relationships, man. We know that. They didn't work out. I just left. Oh, you, oh, okay. Oh, nobody ever left me.

So what's the reason for you leaving? Jessica Lyra's didn't leave you? No. Oh. I let her say that because, you know, I'm tired. I'm going to let people, you know what I mean? She got a brand, but no, I never got left in my life. So why do you leave then?

Well, like, what's always the problem? Most of the time, I'm ready to elevate. Spirit is like, are you going to go on this journey with me? Because it's the world. You know what I mean? I don't really care about the world. What's going on out there? I walk my own lane.

It's like most people, you can feel it. It's like I want to keep elevating and keep spiritually working on myself. And the person don't want to go with me, I got to keep going. It's like, I want to keep elevating and keep spiritually working on myself. And the person don't want to go with me, I got to keep going, man. That's real. Come on, man.

I just fired my manager. You know what I mean? I've done that with everything because to get to certain, I got kids to get to certain things, man. You can't. The people behind you

in the corner right now. Why would he say that? They're looking like, Jesus Christ. Why'd you fire the manager? Huh? Why'd you fire the manager? Because it was just,

nah, you know, ain't nothing to talk about on here. This thing wasn't working out. Yeah, just, if I'm trying to, and every time I,

hey, either you coming with me, the people who with me still with me, but I got to do this for my kids. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I ain't finna do nothing wrong

or nothing, like, you know, devilish to make that happen. I like to get money the right way. Right. So it's like, man, I know when it's time to leave. That's the hardest thing to do. Yeah. Even in business, it's hard to be like, you know, devilish to make that happen. I like to get money the right way. So it's like, man, I know when it's time to leave. And that's the hardest thing to do, even in business.

It's hard to be like, this ain't working, and I got to elevate. So either you come with me, you know. If I'm doing a podcast, a radio show, and I talk to NBA and Charlamagne, I'm listening 100%. I'm going wherever y'all taking me because y'all are professionals at this. So if I'm proving in my world where I come y'all taking me because y'all are professionals at this so if I've proven in my world where I come from

like in my book you know my story I'm like when I'm in a relationship I'm like man unless you got a better route man I gotta go so basically

the manager didn't have a better route nah nah and every relationship I had you know what I'm saying you know I'ma keep rising

another thing you did that I love is you got a movie out on amazon prime strange love that you funded yourself yeah yeah i i think that's a great route to go but talk to the people why you went that route instead of getting the studio to produce because it ain't make sense i see everybody pitching stuff and i'm like bro everybody got millions of dollars and we got the resources let's shoot yourself yeah so i did it myself just to see and it went up. You know what I'm saying? The money came back

and you know, it's like digital real estate. You know, when I own a house, I still got to fix that roof. I got to get an AC. You know, I don't flip houses.

I'm like, digital real estate, it sit on there. I ain't got to worry about no tenants tearing it up. I'm like, man, we own this content

because I seen what I did with the social media little skits so I'm like oh I did this with three minutes get you built an audience so I'm like that's how people been making the money if you own it if you own that movie if you go on tip if you own ten movies if you spend $10 million shoot ten movies you know I'm saying million dollars piece you own ten movies if the movies on Amazon Prime or to be making $3,000 a day apiece, you know what I'm saying? You making $30,000 a day for the rest of your life,

and then sometimes it might spike up, you know? But it's that. It's that. When you built your own brand and you already got to, you got to monetize off yourself first and let the game monetize whatever left. You know what I mean? And I seen it, and I just had to do it

because everybody was like, pitch this, then you pitch something, you wait two years, I'm getting older in real life. That's right, that's right. And I'm like, oh, nah, nah, I got this money right now. They're gonna tax it right in the end of the year anyway. Let me ask a question, because information is important, you don't gotta put the number out there. How much did you spend on the movie?

I spent about a million. Okay, okay. And you got that back already? Pretty much. You know what I'm saying? Pretty much. know it's been out how long I don't have been out three months and making money every day where I was gonna get half of it and they even put it on to be it you know sinker to be you get that you get a ad revenue and then you can license it we got a couple offers on the licensing situation on the movie already that I instantly gonna make a prop I'm gonna I'm being a prophet already but I can't go to Tubit

after a year after that if I take the deal. So it's so many options, and you own it. Man, you own it forever. Go ahead, country wing. I just, you know what I'm saying? Stop hating. I feel like I'm slacking. Stop hating, guy.

When you gonna do your next one? Oh, I'm trying to do it this fall because it's for the real writer's strike in Hollywood. That's right. So everybody shut down, so I'm trying to, you know, I'm trying to take advantage, and I'm gonna shoot another movie called That's right. So everybody shut down. So I'm trying to, you know, I'm trying to take advantage and I'm shooting another movie called Dance Her. And the first movie, Strange Love, it didn't come from my mind.

I just got in and I seen the script change a little bit. But this movie is coming from my mind and I want to direct it because I just see, I see the movie. And so I'm definitely trying to shoot that this fall. You just did a whole, one more thing, you know, Since Gary's so salty, I got to stick this one in. Country Wayne is filming a one-hour comedy special. Yeah. With Netflix.

I knew this was coming. I knew it. I knew it. Netflix, for whatever reason, won't give the great Gary Owens a comedy special. Country Wayne is shooting his on May 12th. You ain't got a Netflix special? One of you guys from Netflix? No.

All right. Just checking. You ain't got a Netflix special? No, they say no every time. He got great ones on Showtime, though. Oh, you got great ones on Showtime. So, how does it feel to have a Netflix special? I got Hulu, Amazon Prime.

You got Hulu, Amazon Prime? Okay. It feels good, man. That's really what I've been waiting on because I've been sneaking on that stage. It feels great, doesn't it? It feels great to be a black man because I'm going to go in and pitch something. Gary said he's about to go. Gary said he's about to claim racism.

He's about to say they don't want to let no white men, no straight white men have a stand-up special. White guys? No, Jewish. Jewish, y'all. Difference. I'm talking about circumcised white guys. Sorry. We'll come up with crazy reasons why we can't get a special.

No, no, no, no, no. Oh, man. He's under six foot. Left-handed, bro. Oh, man. Give him some game, Country Wayne. How did it come about? No, man.

Does Netflix call you? No, man. Does Netflix call you? No, it's some of the stuff I use in the book all my life. I just play the, you know, I just, you know, things happen, man. Things happen and an opportunity came up and, you know, that's what I've been waiting on the whole time.

Just waiting on that, huh? They've been calling him. How long you been waiting? Freaking internet comics. You know my nerves, bro. Hold on. Hey, Steve Brown. Hey, man.

Steve. I'm with him right now. Oh, man. Steve my dog now. Going to get in front of me. Shout out to Man Pitter, though. You know it's a lot of pressure, though, because this is the one people are going to be waiting to see.

This is the one that he ain't going to get buckled. I don't play on that stadium. Where are you going to film it at? Washington, D.C. You heard this one. That's great. Chocolate City. That's the thing.

You can't go wrong in D.C. Charlemagne don't know how good I am on the stadium. Every time somebody up here, he be like, Ryan Davis, I don't know about Country Wayne. I'm like, bro, you're going to see, man. You see that special. I said that? I called Ryan. Oh, Ryan said i don't know about country wayne i'm like bro hey you're gonna see man you see that special i said that i called ryan when he was up ryan said he don't know ryan was up here he was like man he's the leader of the new school i tell you i say well i'm just about being your class then you know what i'm saying i'm one of the new ones but it's all love got you but nah man that's that stand-up special that's what i've been waiting on because

really that's what i was working on that's why I wasn't on social media anymore. Gary and I was on the road every weekend, every weekend for years. You know what I'm saying? Same thing I was doing. On the road, telling jokes, writing new material. Gary was rooting for you until he heard about the Netflix message. I saw the questions. I go, hope we skip over that. Let's get back to you and Jess.

What happened there? Oh, you broke up with her, but you let her ride with it. Oh, man. Why didn't your book give me pictures? It's just all words. Why don't you take a picture of your Netflix special and put it on there? I think you released the book too early.

It should have been last year's special. Oh, man. Oh, boy. But I'm happy for you. I am. I'm happy for you. Oh, boy. I hope it's top 10.

I appreciate it, man. And you got the Help Is On The Way comedy tour? Yeah, yeah. Help Is On The Way coming to it, man. We on tour right now. It ends in May. But coming to tour, man. We on tour right now. It ends in May, but, you know, yeah. So the tour going great. You know, had to step out by myself in theaters.

You know what I'm saying? That was a challenge. Is it? Let me ask you this, because a lot of people know this behind-the-scenes stuff. You can generate so much money in comedy clubs, and then your reps call you and say, hey, we're going to transition you into theaters. It actually is a financial hit. I don't know if that was the case for you uh when you first go

from clubs to theaters because some markets you know dc baltimore houston dallas i mean you you can walk out there with a ton of money out of the clubs for sure in the theaters you got to work one night but you don't generate necessarily as much money did you find that when you went to theaters no you really uh it kind of just translates just translate to one night if you sell them if you sell enough tickets like you know you know what we're talking about you might go to dallas you go to the club you might have a little might have a 70s you know i mean 70 piece i don't know why i'm whispering here but like say you go say i go own shit. Say I go to Dallas, if I go to the comedy club,

I'm going to pick up 60 grand, if I do, you know what I mean, 60, 70 grand, but I went to Dallas, I picked up 100. So it works. The theater's really more money, but it's a risk

because if you don't sell a certain amount of tickets, now you in the hole because in some markets you might go now, I might go to Greenville. I could have went to the comedy club and picked up 50 and I walked out to Greenville I could have went to Cumber Club and picked up

50 and I walked out of Greenville with 38 you know what I mean so it varies whichever market but the theaters overall

is more money more time because you get that tour over with in May and I could finally go home to my family because when I was in clubs

man I couldn't even do I couldn't do nothing what was your toughest market toughest market to my like selling tickets wise yeah oh like like Denver only sold like 1,500 tickets you know what I'm saying? Gosh. I'm just kidding. This is a different network. Now, Denver is a tough market. I was going to ask you, you know, out of your skits, I got two questions. What was the big skit that made you pop, that made people realize that went viral?

And two, what was the hardest skit to do? Because sometimes you do it with different artists, celebrities. What was the hardest one to do with a celebrity? Let me see. The skit that popped me off when I did had to fake like I like a girlfriend's cooking. I only got like 2,000 off it, but that was the one that made me go viral.

And the hardest one to do probably was on, let me see, was it, it was a T.I., let me see, a T.I. Bootsy. Probably T,

Bootsy was kind of hard because I went, I made it to his house before he made it up. Like, so we was waiting on Bootsy. At his own house? At his own house.

I seen everybody but Bootsy. I seen his cousins and his homeboy. And I don't know where Bootsy at. But T.I., we was in the hood, so that was pretty hard because we need to hurry up. And he was late. And we in the real hood because I did them both with my character, Drip.

So those two were probably the hardest to do with a celebrity. But T.I. probably because the vibe we was in at the time. Listen man, I just love to see where you come from. From social media, to having a book out, to having your own movie on Amazon, Netflix special you taping. I knew it was coming.

Like that's just, I mean that's big. Cause 10 years ago people was like, ah man, those guys on the internet ain't gonna be doing nothing. They not gonna be around. To watch like you and Jess and DC and everything y'all doing, that shit is incredible, man. Absolutely.

You know what I like about the new generation guys is they work together a lot. Absolutely. With the sketches and everything else because you partner with a bunch of people. That's right. Different sketches. You and Jess still do stuff together. Yeah, me and Jess are cool. Me and Jess ain't never, you know what I'm saying?

We ain't never. I think Jess respect that I don't never get on here and talk negative about her. I let her talk negative about me because a woman going to do that. Really? Yeah, a woman going to do that. I never heard her talk negative about you. No, not negative, but she. You ever experienced that, Gary?

A couple times. She stressed the narrative. But, no, man, as a woman, man, I don't respect, you know what I'm saying? So me and Jay's cool. I think she just respected that. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? I'm never going to get on here and say nothing about no woman.

Period. In a negative manner. Would you ever let, like, an older comedian open up for you, something like that? Yeah, they cool with that. If they don't have a Netflix special. No, man. You're so wrong, bro. No, bro.

Me and Gary ever go into it. I wasn't even talking about Gary. Who said Gary? Damn Netflix special. No, man. You're so wrong, bro. No, bro. Me and Gary ever go into it. I wasn't even talking about Gary. Who said Gary? Damn, Gary. Damn, Gary. When people think no Netflix special, they think you, Gary? That's crazy. Gary, Gary Orn, man.

That's right. That's a legend. Gary Orn is a legend. Let's get Gary, man. You know, Gary, shoot, he the only one that go out there, new material. A lot of people don't do that. Gary, Gary come out there and give you them new jokes. I get bored.

Special after special. And then, you know, Gary's a legend for real. Thanks for noticing that. Century Wayne, I wish somebody at Netflix would notice somebody writing. You really wanted that? What? You really wanted Netflix? What does that do?

Well, I don't know. I just never had one. So I don't know what it would do. Charlamagne? What do you mean, what would it do? I don't know. I just never had one. So I don't know what it would do. Charlamagne? What do you mean, what would it do? I don't know. Because I get told no. All that Gary really needed.

I think us from the internet needed more because nobody don't know whether we're funny or not unless the people came to see us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like, that's our audition to the world. Because we got our fan base, but now you got to see the world get to see. And if you pop on Netflix, man, you finally get that thing. You know, that stand-up.

And you might bring in a whole new audience, because there's people that go on Netflix just to see who's doing new stand-ups. Like, who's this country? For me, I think Netflix would probably help the international market. Right now, I'm pretty much doing really great in the United States. But just, I'm pretty much doing really great in the United States.

I see the guys going overseas, I'm like, that's Netflix. Yeah, they're Netflix. You been overseas yet, Wayne? Nah, I don't think. I've never been out of the country in my life. I went to film the TV show with Lisa Kudrow and Taka Waititi.

Excuse me? What was that last name? You say Taco Watiti? Like we're just going to let that slide, huh? Nobody's going to question who that is. Who the hell is Taco Watiti? Does he have a Netflix special? Or she?

Taco Watiti is like the biggest director in the game right now. Oh, my fault. I just screwed myself. No, I do know him. I met him before. He the man right now. Taka with T.T. My fault.

He Indian, right? He's from New Zealand. I met him before. I misheard that. He the man right now. New Zealand, yeah. I met him before. I misheard that. Yeah, but he the man right now. But he got the game. Oh, yeah, I know who you're talking about. He's cool with the president of Netflix.

No, too late. No, too late. What are you talking about? I got Deion Taylor, baby. No, there you go. I got Deion Taylor. There you go. Deion Taylor, baby.

Scoot to Deion. Deion Taylor, my dog. Yeah. So how do you find time between touring and movies and writing books just to still have a social life, man? Because you got to have material to draw off, yeah i got yeah i like to talk to people on the phone and all that i got a lot of people that i just talked to on the phone and really that's why i didn't relationship i talked to a lot of women and i don't mean i'm even dealing

with them it's just that conversation because they help write my skits but the reason i got a lot of time because i shoot 30 skits in one day you know what i'm saying so i really don't be this touring right now that's why i'm ready to go on tour. That take up most of my time. But when I'm on, when I'm off tour, I shoot two months of videos in three days or four days.

So I be having my time. I be getting that material. Talking to people just on the phone, just, what's up? A girl gave me a whole storyline.

She was talking about her dude trying to open up a vending machine and she was like a vending machine and I used that storyline in my skits and made so much money

I said I see her check really wow I said give me your are you doing off your W9 phone

or you got a whole camera crew that comes with you no I film on my phone yeah I was always shocked when I did a couple sketches with Desi

I was like oh this is just doing off your phone it's just on that phone man it's simplified you put on that phone, man. It's simplified. You put it on that phone, make sure in three minutes. Don't edit, don't cut.

Load it up on Facebook, YouTube. And it just, they throw them ads in there. On it. Yeah. About to see three of that. When you kick it with women, Country Wayne, do women be like, look, nah, I don't want to get pregnant? Oh, no.

They be like, you know, when I kick it with women, you know what I'm saying, be a vibe. Because women always been my thing what i mean that's obvious yeah yeah but you know what's also obvious your pullout game is terrible oh wow that mean my that mean my own sperm is strong that's what it is strong sperm yeah but i had seven kids by the time I was 22. So a lot of these guys think about it. I only had three by the time from 22 to 35. A lot of my time. We're talking about kids, man. Only three.

Only three, man. Coming from where I come from, from the country. That was the minimum. Like, kids was not a big. You know, from the country, having a lot of kids, we had big families. And to be honest, I always wanted to have a lot of kids. Now, it would probably be easier if it would have been with one woman. But, you know, it worked out in the end.

And my book talk about that. All the mothers of my kids, they stay right around me. We all a family. They got keys in my house. All the kids stay there. They all got a room at my house. So it became like a village. And it's love. You know what I'm saying? Like, these kids like these kids go to this mother house i don't even know about it the

baby mamas they go like the kids even when they even when they um into it and don't like each other the kids are being panamized into one of the other ones and they all just a family they pop up at each other house it's a it's a beautiful. It turned out to be beautiful, but it didn't. That's why it didn't have to be that way, but that's what the books talked about. How do you get things with your negative world that you created this mess, and then it turns out so beautiful in the end? It's like a painting on the wall, and that's what Help is on the Way is all about. There is no way you know all your kids' first name, middle name, and birthday.

Oh, for sure. Let me go. Go. Ten, go. Tony Jamarion Coley august 2nd 2005 tamar devon coley december 31st 2006 christiana coley her birthday is april 30th she was born the same um she was born 2007 they're right behind each other now a little and um a little march they born two weeks apart.

You know what I'm saying? Jesus. They born two weeks apart in March 2008. And we got Taylor, you know what I'm saying? My extra beautiful and came in a special way. Her birthday August 7th. And she was born 2000 and um she was born 2007 no she you know she was born 2008 my bad right behind tamar yeah i just counted five yeah and then we got uh we got honest january the 6th

she was born uh honest was born 2018 and we got Melissa. She was born 2014, December 30th. And we got Kiyomi. You know what I'm saying? We got January 6th, 2021. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I'm at 22, my bad.

And all of y'all live in the same community? That's good. Yeah. How many big mamas you got? Kiyomi, five. Kiyomi moved she moved back to Kansas City I moved her mom

to Atlanta but it was hard for her because she didn't have no support so she just moved back to Kansas City but everybody all the rest of us

everybody stay right beside each other even one of my daughters her mom I got her mom a place she only be at her mom's house she be at my house

all the time but they all that's a reality show yeah it really is if I got six and I can't I don't know the birthdays he said you got his all the baby mama's living in one community I had that's dope. I love that I had to order to be gone because I realize you got a high baby says when you do the mail and you do taxes Now they all got w-9 forms to that. You know saying 1099

And you paid for all of that. Yeah. Because, you know, tax is going. You got to think about it. The way tax is set up, it ain't no way to really dodge it. The only thing they don't question is giving people money. So you might as well live good within it, the system, because they're going to tax it anyway. That's right. So it's like, so, okay, this make my life easier.

I'm going to have to get a nanny anyway. A nanny going to cost you about $40,000 a year. That's right. So I just made the mom yeah so I just pay everybody out of it and the moms

and everybody and the children they respect you more when the moms are living the same way you're living because I felt that from my kids

I got a child I won't tell you until they get older and I just felt like their moms had to live a certain level too and it made them happier because now their mom got a nice car.

It's just one big family. The moms getting the skits for free though. I don't pay nobody to get in the skits. Oh, the moms being the skits? I monetize everybody. Nice. I got to. Kids, moms, everybody in the family, they get a salary.

So when they get in the skits, they don't get paid. Now the cast, if they get paid, everybody get a check's it turned out to be a beautiful thing and i wouldn't advise nobody to go that route just uh oh country wayne went that route no because you got it my intentions you know like david in the bible he was wrong for dealing with bathsheba but his heart was good so sometimes people good heart you gotta let god deal with them and no bathsheba came solomon and later on down that line came Jesus So in my my intentions were good I didn't mean to separate those women like that just you know having them kids and I had to stand up on their responsibility And uh and it turned out to be beautiful in the end because Tony going to college my first son

He got he going to college play basketball in California. He the first son graduating take my doing good All the kids, they doing good and they living better than I did when I was at age. You know what I'm saying? They got the love. You need to sell some books, brother. Help is on the way. Help is on the way, man. Pick it up right now and we appreciate you for joining us, brother.

I appreciate y'all, man. It's good to meet you, bro. I feel like I already met y'all. I don't watch y'all so much. Congratulations. The name of the special is going to be a woman's prayer. I feel like I already met y'all. I don't watch y'all so much. Congratulations. Oh, no, I appreciate it again, man. Is the name of the special going to be helpful on the way, too? No, the name of the special is going to be a woman's prayer. A woman's prayer. A woman's prayer.

Wow. That's what I was going to name mine. Dang it. Well, there goes that. Ladies and gentlemen, it's Country Wayne. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.