The Breakfast Club - The Breakfast Club BEST OF(Ali Saadiq, Nate Jackson, And Gary Owen Interview)
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Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.
What's up, Jess Ory?
Sholomey, God.
It's Tuesday!
That's right.
And it's all about comedy.
That's right.
Some of the best comedians that stop through, like Ali Sadiq, Nate Jackson, and Gary Owen.
Man, salute to my guy.
Soutlew to all of them, because I love all of them as comedians.
But salute to my guy, Gary Owen.
I am happy that the Breakfast Club is finally going to be on Netflix.
This year, what we'll be shown on Netflix this year.
So Gary Owen will finally get on Netflix at some point this year.
I ain't even think about that.
So salute to Gary.
Gary's been trying to get a stand-up special on Netflix for a long time.
They've been fronting on them.
But now that he'll be on Breakfast Club, he'll at least get on Netflix.
That is dope.
That is dope.
You know, we actually got on Netflix before Gary Owen, but that's okay.
Next time Gary Owen comes, we should give him like a 60-second or a two-minute slot just to do kind.
Yeah, let him do a set.
Yeah, absolutely.
Let him do a set.
Yeah, I agree.
But anyway, let's get the show Cracking.
It's all about comedians this morning.
It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
This is your time to get it off your chest.
800585-105-1.
We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
Hello, who's this?
Good morning.
This is James calling from North Carolina.
What's up, James?
Get it off your chest, brother.
Nothing much.
Good morning, everyone.
Jazzy Jess.
What's up?
What's up?
Yeah.
Yo, I saw this advertisement.
on the Instagram the other day about these sneakers that give, they're for men, that gives
you three inches of height.
They like lifts.
And it had me thinking, oh, at first I was like, that's a pretty good idea.
But then I thought, isn't that lying kind of like women with those?
That is so lame.
Why would you want to do that?
That's so corny.
Why can't we just be happy with what God gave us?
Because what if he's like 411 and he's sick of it?
He's still 411, even in them sneakers.
And you're going to look extra dumb when you come out of them sneakers in front of the whatever
a girl you're trying to impress.
She'll be like, what happened?
Yeah, that's what I was getting to.
That's what I was getting to, so on me.
Like, isn't that lying, it's kind of like with women with the weave and the push-up balls
and all that stuff?
Yes.
Yeah, a lot of people use those sneakers, and they say those sneakers actually work and you can't tell.
Like, they look natural.
And they even got something else where they put a heel in the sneaker to make you look
a little tall as well.
Yeah, they look natural until you take them off.
Imagine you meet the girl your dreams talking about you.
I met this dude.
He's five, he bought five, nine, five, ten.
Right.
Until you take them sneakers off.
And then she's like, what the hell?
Hell.
Hair clown, though, because he literally just was like out wigs and push up bras.
That is totally different.
What are you talking about?
It's the same thing.
No, it's the same thing.
You meet this girl, she got big-ass breast, and then she take off her bra in his knees.
No, the breast still big.
They just not purported.
Yeah, they're just not sitting up.
They're on the floor.
But to take off your shoes and be, like, 5, 5, and I thought she was 5.8 is disrespectful.
That is, I agree.
Or the same thing.
You got beautiful hair.
You think her hair is so beautiful, and then she put the wig on the side.
The same thing.
I don't mind a wig.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
That's what I thought.
Same thing.
A wig is different because a wig,
it's not like she's trying to pretend that her hair is actually her hair with a wig.
You know it's a wig.
You're trying to act like you, Will Smith, what you Carlson.
Now I got a freaking Jazzy Jeff here and throw your ass out.
Right.
Jesus.
Thank you, brother.
You don't know all of them.
He ordered them.
He ordered him.
He ordered every color.
Hello, who's this?
What's up?
This D.
D.J. Rock, a.
Mr.
Myrtle Beach. What's happening in the Myrtle Beach?
What's happening in the Myrtle, man?
I love Myrtle Beach.
Grew up in Myrtle Beach, man.
What's that, Salomey?
What's happening, brother?
Like, I heard this lady call up, like, a monosol go, trying to give you flowers.
Talk about how handsome you are and all that.
Look at you, man.
Somebody to call and let Jess know that she a barbershop legend, for real.
Your dad, you're fine.
Let me tell you what happened, Jess.
You remember there was a clip on your Instagram that you did.
I think, like, some, your boyfriend woke you up and was like,
who was this on your...
phone or something like that.
And you were like, who was this?
Who was this?
You had some red panties on laying in the bed.
Look at it, brother.
Everybody in the barbershop were talking about that, that day.
That was so many years ago, wasn't it?
Wasn't it, like six or seven or eight years ago or something?
Everybody came in the barbershop, man, you seen that clip with Jeff.
She was laying in the bed and the boyfriend woke up.
Everybody was like, yeah, dog.
Oh, yeah, that was a kid.
I was in Miami.
That was, yeah, that's doing.
And then Jamie Fox commented on that, too.
Yeah, I remember that.
Girl, love.
You know what?
He's not lying because people would be in my group chat and they
be like, yo, my bad, Charlemagne.
And then it'll be a clip of Jess in some tuby movie,
busting it open or something.
First of all, excuse me, no, this is not an opportunity.
I'm serious.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Everybody in the popper shop saw that clip, man.
It was like, yeah, y'all.
Since we talked, it hit my group chat, too.
I had to block everybody.
Don't talk like my sis like that now.
And they think, they think saying, my bad is going to be,
oh, my bad, Charlemaine.
Exactly. They think saying that is cool.
Whatever.
You can just blush it.
Just, blush it.
Thank you, brother.
Get it off your chest.
It's the breakfast club.
Good morning.
Ray, Ray, Ray.
Yo, Charlemagne.
Envy, what up?
Are we live?
This is your time to get it off your chest.
I got an indoor pool.
I want to hear from you on the breakfast club.
We can get on the phone right now.
We'll tell you what it is.
We lie?
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What's up?
This is Leonard.
This is Leonard?
This is Leonard?
This isn't awful Leonard.
This ain't, this ain't Charlotte, but this is Leonard.
Because I'm not a Lennard.
I'm a Leonard. I'm so glad my mom ain't put on my goddamn name.
Leonard.
No, you're not.
Your name is Leonard.
Okay.
Okay.
I won't get off my chest, man.
My uncle he did 15 years, right?
I'm trying to update it with the new technology.
I invited him to my gender reveal.
I tell him we're going to use AI to do the gender reveal.
He come there all happy, but then he get mad when he realized it's not the actual answer.
He thinks it's Alan Iris in doing the gender reveal.
And I can understand why he filled that.
What you having?
What y'all having?
What was the reveal?
A girl.
Oh, man.
Congratulations.
Congratulations, girl, Dad.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
No problem.
You met your first?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, congratulations.
Congratulations.
You're going to love it.
Yeah, I am.
I appreciate it, dog.
All right, brother.
Have a good day, man.
Get it off your chest.
Who's this?
Hi, it's Angel Henderson.
Hey, Angel Henderson.
How are you?
Oh, my God.
I'm so.
happy y'all i got through i'm from orlando florida and i wanted to tell hey hey sholomey hey jess
hey girl hey la restra listen sholamane this is for you i want to tell you no matter what nobody
say you keep preaching preaching the word the good word i'm talking about letting us black folks know
what's really going on you have really taught me a lot because i be listening just about everything
politics and mental health you got me starting my mental health you got me starting my mental
health journey, and
I really want to shout out
the whole Frito-Lay-Arlando plan.
Y'all, we got it.
Yeah, thank y'all.
Yeah, thank you. Thank you.
He's so cute. I appreciate you.
Let me shout out my boyfriend, Elijah.
Oh, go ahead.
Okay.
Yes, yes.
Hey, Jess, oh, my God.
Your baby is so pretty.
Thank you, baby.
Hey, Lauren, if you're up there.
Hey, good morning.
Congrats.
Thank you.
We appreciate you, appreciate you.
We appreciate you, appreciate you.
We've got a very powerful name.
named after the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.
Thank you so much.
And shout out the whole Frito-Lay plant, Orlando.
Salute to the Frito-Lay-Plan, Orlando.
Salute to everybody who listens to us on 104-5 to beat in Orlando.
Is that where you listening now?
Oh, she hung up?
Absolutely.
And Orlando is one of my favorite cities to go do comedy, and they love it.
They love me there.
Oh, I love Orlando.
My aunt lives in Orlando.
My mom's sister lives in Orlando.
Every summer we would either be in New Jersey or Orlando.
Orlando's lit.
That's where I used to go.
Yeah.
Get it off your chest.
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It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
Morning, everybody.
It's DJ NVV. Just hilarious.
Shalameen the guy.
We are the breakfast club.
We got a special guest in the building.
We have a comedian Ali Sadiq.
Welcome, brother.
Man, thank you for having,
how you feeling?
I'm good, man.
Man, I like the way you distribute your comedy, man.
Like, you drop in specials like Little Wayne
used to drop mixtapes.
And they all funny.
Yeah, man, thank y'all.
It's going to independent route,
keeping the independent.
You know, I'm from Houston.
We're the capital of independent.
You know, ain't nobody coming out there way to look for us.
we just got to do it.
That's right.
Out the trunk.
Rap a lot.
Out the trunk.
That's right.
Everybody always say rap a lot.
I think that's our only label, too.
You know.
We had some other labels, but, you know,
rapa lot, they ain't stick around.
You know, we got, well, we had Swive House.
That's right.
That's right.
You know, and then after that,
you'd have the independent, you know,
switch a house for sure.
But rap a lot is the staple.
Absolutely.
They should have did a comedy thing.
We tried.
laugh a lot, but it didn't, it didn't stick.
It didn't stick at all.
Jay Prince's reputation precedes him, but he's a funny guy.
He is. I've done, I've roasted Jay Prince a lot.
No, you did.
How was that? That was dangerous.
I think that we have a healthy respect for each other.
You know, the last time I wrote, I was hosting something.
It's not like I'm roasting him at a roast.
This is me hosting something.
I'm like, yo, man, so you got all these bodyguards?
It was him and Floyd next to each other.
Like somebody bodyguard got to take off
Because can't nobody see
Like who's gonna jump on you next to
Jay Prince?
You see, I'm like, and he's small
He's a smaller, he's a little kid.
You look at, a lot of dudes around him now
Yeah, I know, and I know most of them
How'd you get in the comedy?
Man, just being black, really,
you know, I've been funny since I was a kid.
You know, I know people try to think
I was funny because I was in prison
But now I was jovily sarcastic in prison
They was just, I was the kid on the back of the bus
and then when I was in prison
I was the same way
oh so y'all about the fight
okay who gonna lose this fight twice
what you mean I said
because okay the mix play
one of y'all gonna win this fight
and then the CO's gonna come in
and beat up both of y'all
so who want to lose this fight twice
that was my logic
you know I was just a sarcastic
jovial sarcastic person
and when I got out it was the
it was the goal it was definitely the goal
that became funny
how you got to start doing the goal
because you start comedy
you actually don't know
what to do you've seen it
but where do you go
now you gotta go to an open mic
I knew I needed clothes
that's what I definitely knew
I needed was clothes
because you know
comics always dressed
and I'm coming out of prison
I had a seat
my sister sent me
a little Sears outfit
you know it was a little shirt
from Sears
it was nice to the round tables
I knew that was from Sears
and some khakis
Knights of the round table
man it's a fake polo
but fake polo
My daddy bought him
My daddy bought him
My daddy bought him with polo is really in style
He came in with
Man, I found these polos
On discount
I said man
That is not a polo man
That is a dude with a flag
And it's only
You know the nicest around table
Only have three legs on that horse
Man
That was the horse only had three legs man
That was your first shirt out of prison?
That was your first shirt out of prison?
Yeah, that was my first shot out of prison
Okay
A nice to the round table
How long were you in prison?
Six years, six.
What'd you do?
You don't mind is asking?
I used to be a street pharmaceutical rep, which is very frowned.
Very frowned.
Like, when you sell drugs, they want you to have a jacket,
go to, like, a CVS or Rite or somewhere,
and people come in with prescriptions.
I was, you know, short-cutting it.
What kind of drug was it?
Unfortunately, crack.
Oh, okay.
You said, oh, okay, like, that was the worst ever the day.
You were just ahead of your time.
Marijuana.
You know, I got fighting with the jail for marijuana.
It was like, and they knew it was wrong.
And they're like, man, this don't even make no sense.
It's a leaf.
Now, what I did was definitely wrong.
The fact that you only got six years back then is,
because they were giving people football numbers.
Who got six years?
Oh, I thought you said you did six years.
Oh, you did six.
No, I had six on a, I did six on a, I did six on a 15.
Wow.
Yeah, and I had a 15 and a ten that ran concurrent.
Who did six years?
I said, six years for crap.
No, I said, they didn't get football numbers.
They did get big six.
No, they said, you only got six.
I said, jeez.
Man, no.
You knew somebody.
No, envy.
I didn't know nobody.
I knew Rio Harris, my attorney.
When I first went in, it was a Fed case.
And Fed, they slept, too.
They come in there, oh, we just going to give you 300 months.
And in your mind, they say it like that too, that.
Yeah, 300 months.
And in your mind, you were like, okay, 300 months, that ain't, that ain't, but I know math.
And I'm like, no, no, no, you know, 300 months, you know?
God, dang.
No, we carry.
No, you're crazy.
20 years, right? 20 years or like that?
Yeah.
So they said it months so it sound like you can do it.
And they're 300 months.
All this.
It sounds like days.
But then when you do, go to calculating, so then you got dropped down the state.
In the state, the lady came in.
She was wilding.
The prosecutor, she said, well, I'm recommending 99 years.
This is when.
99 years.
This is the thing, envy.
How much crack you got?
Not only, but it was five keys, right?
So the thing is this.
Jesus.
They're not supposed to let me.
in court, because I'm going to say something.
My attorney, he wasn't talking fast enough.
He's like 99 years, and I said
a very derogatory word toward that lady,
and I asked her who she thinks she caught.
I'm like, man, I am 19.
Who you think you caught, ma'am?
Eskabal?
So we come back to court again.
Got reset off.
She's talking about, I think 60 years would be
appropriate.
Man, once again, ma'am.
Do you want me to have a life after this?
So when you get out of jail, you get out of prison,
you get your fake polo,
remember your first show. Yes. Just Joking Comedy Cafe. Thursday night, Apollo night. I have on a suit because I'm working at most. I got a job at the mall.
Okay. So I'm working at most of men's apparel store. Got a suit on. This is when you learn observation. So it's a lot of college kids in there because it's an Apollo night. And everybody up there doing everything. So I go up and all I said was, hey, and them folks booed the suit jacket off.
I'm not even I didn't even tell
it was bad so
man I'm talking about the booze
it was in stereo too
so I came and sat down and my partner
Drake and told my man what happened I said
bro you saw what happened
you was in the audience I think you was born with him
like you participated
and at the time
Nikki she asked me
said um
Nicky old.
My kid's mom.
We'd be talking like we know all this people.
I was going to explain it.
And I said, she said, what, what your jacket at?
I said, it's on the stage.
They booted off of me.
It was crazy.
Damn.
So you had to go back up there and get your jacket?
Man, yes.
Man, man, it was.
So I waited for two weeks.
Ready for two weeks.
Came back, t-shirt and jeans.
And I didn't write down what I was doing.
because everybody was singing, man
and I never won at this Apollo night
because people hit you with the gospel songs
even though I was good
gospel songs. Can't be Jesus.
Man, I heard, I sang the dude,
he would start rapping and was
about to get booed and changed this song
in the middle of the song, started singing by Jesus.
So
I'm like, wait a minute, I'm like,
well, this more rapping, that's a minute ago.
Now he's about how you spare relief.
J-U-S-U-S-U-S-U-I. I'm like, now,
why you're wild.
Um, so, I'm just, I'm like,
I changed my whole thing, went back up every week for about a month and a half to the people.
As soon as I would get there, after that, people were like, yo, man, you're going up tonight?
Oh, he's funny.
So I end up becoming the host to that same place that I got booed in just jumping comedy cafe.
And I was the host for like a year.
Yeah, that's how I started.
So how did you turn into the storyteller comedian?
Because that's a lot of, that's hard for people to do.
Like, it's, it's hard.
I imagine not for you, but it's hard.
Deal.
deal um i'm i'm on the road with d l he told me he said yo man the funniest you're going to ever be in life
is based on how honest you want to be and this was after some people when i was writing jokes
i don't even blame the people anymore because i think that when you have writers that writers
under the pressure of turning in something to another comic and so they could see your show
and then turn in
I don't have nothing this week
but if you try to get that check
so you turn in somebody else's material
to do the person who you turned it into
has no idea that you
that you just saw it somewhere
and so now
oh you're a thief
so now I just
I switched from doing jokes
to doing everything personally
about me
and people still try to steal it
but it's hard
because now you know there's a lot of comics
that all of a sudden they went to jail
but I went to prison.
It's a different thing.
A lot of people went to jail,
but prison is two different things.
That county in the prison,
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We were in the car, like a Rolling Stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.
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So I would go up and people would be trying to do in jail,
stuff in front of me. I'm like, but you know
that's not what I'm doing.
I'm walking through my life
from 10 years old to now.
So it just happens to be the
first comedy series
of specials. Like all these
specials are tied together. So if you see
three now, which came out Mother's Day,
you can't go see four without
seeing one and two. Yeah.
And one is the
masterpiece, but three is the best
one to me. Really? That's far that
I see. And two has a
different cachet to it because
I was showing a different skill set
in the actual art
of it because it's two faces to comedy
you know it's happening
tragedy so in two
my sister passed
sorry to hear that my brother
and well
it's late now
I didn't know
you know
you know what I'm dead
I was 20 years
I mean I was already
he's over 20 years
my dad
I haven't seen
grief is not linear I don't know how you're feeling this morning about it
man I was 20 years ago
he was trying to say I haven't seen in a while
20 years man this guy is crazy
I'm 50 years old now
sorry sorry they that man well I'm madman we've dealt with
this guy's crazy
you know I my whole intent to come up here with because I was mad at
at you. What I do?
Man, you were saying my name wrong, and you did it twice, too.
You know what I'm saying? Allie. I'm like,
this man, know, how to say my name.
Ali. What is that wrong?
Ali. You know, you were talking about my special with somebody
into my, yeah, I think it's name Ali,
and they said it to me, and it was on the break, because I'm like,
he knows how to say Ali.
He knows. No, because I kept hearing other people say
Ali for me. I don't know why you was listening to other people.
You better than that show, man.
And I say, A-L-L-I.
I say somebody called up there and asked him who his favorite
Boxing, it's probably Muhammad Ali.
He's going to say, Ali,
just take the Muhammad out.
Because when the first
special came out, everybody I knew
was talking about that special.
Especially in the comedy world.
It was like, yo, you got to watch this do
Ali Sadie.
You know?
Ain't nobody say that to him.
Nobody said you got to watch this dude
Ali Sabique.
You know, a lot of real
comic, calm stories.
Ain't nobody said
that anybody said that.
You know, it's like,
Ali Wong.
Like, he said there, all of us,
Ali.
Like, and look, I don't even know.
I'm like, Charlamagne don't like me.
When I get up, when I finally get to the breakfast, I'm leading with,
hey, man, why are you saying my name?
Then I left it alone.
Right, it's like, whatever.
Whatever, at least he mentioned me.
That's all I had.
But that first special took off, though.
Yeah.
Did you understand that it would do that or it was just a risk?
I'm going to throw this on YouTube and see what happened.
Man, I thought it was really good.
And when I do a special, it takes a while for it.
You know, I have recorded probably three or four specials before that one.
And it was like, no, it's not special.
So Domino Effect, the first one, I knew that it was, I knew it.
It's like the first album I put out on talking loud saying something.
That's my reasonable doubt, you know.
So I knew once I put this one out, I knew it.
I had that feeling about it.
I was too excited about it.
And it didn't have any flaws to it.
And that's one thing
When I look at something
I don't want it to have anything
That somebody can grab on to
Like, but what about this?
So when that happened
And then somebody said, well,
what's the rest of the story?
I said, what?
Like, what happened after that?
I said, you want to know?
So they, oh, so you had never even planned
to make it
All of it to keep on going with a series.
When somebody asked me
about what happened after that
And I said, okay, well, I stopped at 16
So let's do from 16 to 19.
and then we did the first we did two and then I say yo let's finish up how I even got incarcerated
people know I was there but let's see how I got there yeah and then we we did three and we
recorded three and four in DC at the same time so we did um two shows on that Friday and two shows
on that Saturday so four comes out Father's Day so we strategically um put one on Mother's Day one on
Day and four is two hours long, you know, versus the
130 that I've been doing.
Your special part four comes out on Father's Day, like you said.
How much of that involves, like, your dad, or does it even involve?
Man, my dad, he, I put him all through the rest of him.
He has a small piece in four because he had, while I was incarcerated,
my pops had, at 50, almost 60 years old, got locked up for an assault.
Right.
And my daddy thought he was on some big boss, mob type thing
because his two brothers was locked up.
I was locked up.
Then he gets locked up.
So he sends $500 on everybody's books while he locked up
and going to write a letter, yeah, just sent you some bread.
Like, we're not in the family.
You didn't send me nothing until you got locked up.
I don't even understand this.
I've been locked up like four years
Now he's going
Yeah, sent you some bread
Since we die on here
Man
I wrote back
Hey man
Try to go home
In the next couple of years
Dang
He had less time to me
He beat me on him anyway
But he sent money to his brother
His brothers
Oh yeah
Appreciate you
Yeah they thirst itself
Like my uncle Mac
He was a G
But my uncle Alfred
He's a sucker
He's a sucker
He's a sucker
Man
My grandmother right
Dementia
Had dementia
I'm putting money
in our books, the money coming up
missing. He's writing checks
and had my grandmother sign him
and she had dementia. She got
dementia, man, you're stealing, boss.
That's right. Yeah, that's
wild. And then putting in a bad
position where her bill's not getting paid.
And I don't know who my grandmother was
when she was younger, but you know,
dementia, they'd be staying stuff that
happened in their life. So I'm
taking care of her one day
because my cousin, we're rotating and I'm over.
I give her a Coke. Her Coke is low.
I come back to grab a Coke to fill it up.
She grabbed my wrist and said, put my glass down.
I said, put my glass down before I drown you.
I said, when was you drowned, full-grown men in your life?
She must have been a mobster, but she was on the cafes.
I don't know when she was doing it.
At some point, she was drowning full-grown.
That ain't no regular threat.
No.
She did that before.
You don't just make that one up.
You put that coat there.
I put it down.
I'm like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just bought the can at 40.
I'm not messing with a lady.
Ali just dropped Domino Effect 3 on May 12th.
Oh, man.
And Domino Effect 4, June 16.
That's right.
Now, I think I'm going to blow up now.
I didn't find that got up here.
And he said your name right.
Ali, he just said your name right.
Do you want to do, like, Netflix or something like that?
Does it even matter?
Man, no.
I'm going to say no, but no.
Well, I'm going to say.
why I can't say
no, show me.
You can say it if you want it, if it comes.
They come with $20 million and say, hey, man.
But if they own it, then it's none of the,
they can't get, if they own it, they can't get it.
You can make up a store.
Oh, God.
You can go there and say anything.
Take the $20 million check and walk away.
See, man, now I got, I'm on Netflix.
I got $20 million.
And now they put out some nonsense.
Now people, yeah, that boy ain't cozy.
Yeah, right.
You know what I'm going to say?
It's cool.
But this is it, but I don't want to do it on the internet.
He's going what you're doing.
He's like, yeah, oh, yeah, Netflix called a change in a little bit.
He went to be there.
You would have always been in telling him about his name, Allie.
Ali.
Now, I just said Ali up there.
I'm, man.
I y'all do it.
I'm Ali's sleep, man.
Netflix and bought me.
He's going.
You're doing so well.
No, you definitely do it well, my brother.
Man, and I appreciate that.
Man, you know something?
I just feel like an Emmy is going to come my way.
since I didn't make it to this break.
But I used to always say,
you know,
something enough people don't know me.
I got to get up there
to see DJ envy.
It wasn't really about you,
Shalaman.
It was in.
Yeah.
Because once he hit it
with that,
this is a DJ.
It's everybody like,
yeah.
That's the part that you wait on.
It ain't even really the show
if you don't hear that.
Yeah.
The show just came on.
Hey, I'm Shalameh and the God.
This is just hilarious.
You're like,
what is it?
They need the proper intro.
We need the proper intro.
And the first started.
We hated it.
I was like, why we got to keep saying our name?
Like, I don't want to keep saying money,
but our program director at the time is like,
you keep saying your name,
and it gets stuck in, it gets stuck in the case.
And him and Dennis Clark, the consultant, yeah.
And then him and Dennis Clark said that.
Keep saying your name.
But introducing yourself.
Even when he beef with people,
they'd be like mocking him, like, D.J.
It's the whole rhythm of it, too.
You got to say it like that.
You can't just say, DJ envy.
No, you got to say, this is D.
But let me tell you,
the thing that makes me laugh,
like uncontrollably comes from the breakfast club.
I'm talking about me, the lady that lived in that house, man, let me tell you something.
If I don't care, I'm mad, if that lady called me and say, yeah, this sweet John Jones,
if y'all do that, what's the boy who couldn't say y'all name.
Oh, Webby.
Oh, my God.
Man, let me tell you something.
It was true.
That wasn't the name.
That was true.
We know, we know.
We know.
We got them on the wall.
He was going on the wall.
He was all of me.
He was serious.
He was serious.
My girl, DJ, him. He was serious.
My girl, man.
Do you understand?
The type of, I'm talking about, man,
if my day is going bad,
when I'm with, bop.
Come on, webbing,
don't get it to me, man.
But somebody made a cartoon.
I'm first of a, black talk.
Charlom, chal him a gay.
Boy, y'all, y'all got a name.
He's got a name.
And then they're going to keep going to making them sad.
He's still.
that man boy
it's like this thing it was like
Al Sharpton versus the teleprompter
damn yep you've seen that no
oh Al Sharpton and the only
reason I don't really say nothing about it much
is because I did a
Jess have you ever done a thing that they had
that telepropped on absolutely just over the weekend
and it was going too fast
yeah and you had to like
I'm sorry that's so damn envy if I tell
you I'm just up there and I'm dyslexic that's the whole
us there I'm trying to tell the people
I don't I don't do cold reads
Let me see it further
Let me take the picture of it
And my brain
I can do it
Man, I'm in there
With a cold
With a cold read
On the telepromptham
And he goes
And I'm talking
They got on speed down
I'm just like
And the man
I'm doing it
And the man
And the man
Looked like
I know damn well
And none of that
I'm like
What was on there
Man
What are you looking at
You're like
Hey man
You just started saying stuff
I'm like
I'm the king of changing my stuff
too
I change everything
Because sometimes
They'd be going too fast.
I'm like, I can't get that fast.
Man, Evie, do you understand?
The man had to look at the teleprone.
He's no damn way.
He's like, say, bro.
Man, what are you looking at?
Are you looking past me outside or something?
I'm like, no, bro, I'm looking dead at you.
But you, man, it's too fast.
Yeah.
Billy Sorrells go in after me for the same position.
I said, Billy,
and that teleprompter will say,
man, I wouldn't look at the teleprone.
I would say, well, I would say what I thought.
on this.
Just like us,
y'all. We'll make up some shit.
You gotta make it up on the fly.
How did it find you, Ali?
Hey man, Ali S-D-S-D-I-Q.
Hey man, Ali-S-I-D-D-I-Q.
It was in A-L-I-F-S-I-E-D-I-Q.
That's dot com or you can go on YouTube,
Ali-S-D-C-C-E-C-L-E-L-E-N-E-N-E-O-M-E-N-E-S-D-E-E-C-E-E-C-E.
On my, my Instagram, everything is the same,
I'm following it right now I think I already follow you though
you already follow me because I know you definitely follow um my man
what's what's the guy you be with all the time Andrew Shokes
Andrew Andrew yeah I just saw I just saw Andrew Shokes at the roast
I was at the roast Tom Brady Road it's funny when you become a comics comic
and you don't know and then you walk in the room and all these comics come over to you
hey man why are you buying I'm a big I'm a big fan and like I
Hey, man, what's the bowing about those?
Respect.
And, like, Kevin was talking,
because I was walking the road,
Kevin talking to somebody, he turned around,
hey, brother, I didn't know you was going to be here.
Hey, I leave with it.
Man, what is wrong with y'all?
Y'all see me all right.
And then I'm walking to the party.
I'm going to the farm, to the forum,
to the forum club.
And I've been wanting to go,
because, you know, Maddie Johnson,
one of my favorite players of all time.
I just wanted to see what him and Bus was doing
their work at in this forum club.
I'm in there.
And as I'm walking in,
this is the biggest compliment I think I have got
I'm talking to non this
non out of nowhere I'm walking to this party
Chappelle is coming this way
a bunch of people with him and he just stopped
hey hold on
Ali you come into Cincinnati
man this weekend at the
Taft Theater I'm gonna
try to come by there if I'm in town
and I'm okay
how you know my schedule
and he said man take my number
and call me
and I'm trying to play a cool because I'm like yeah
Yeah, whatever, Chappelle.
And walked right in there to Sam J.
Sam.
Chappelle, that's my number.
He gave me his number.
Told me he, I'm at the tab.
The man knows my schedule.
You know, he's all in the files.
He's all in the files.
Like, Salamane.
Oh, man.
Ali Siddique, ladies, sir.
Thank you for joining this, brother.
Thank y'all for having, man.
It's the Breakfast Club.
Good morning.
Yep, it's the World Most Dangerous Morning Show,
The Breakfast Club,
Charlemaine the God,
Jets, Hilarious.
DJ Envi's around here somewhere,
but we got a special guest
the building. He's got a new Netflix special
called Super Funny. Nate Jackson
is here. How are you doing, my brother?
I'm doing good. How about you?
No, don't come. Don't look over here, get
gritting and smiling, looking for material.
Right. Right. You see his mind going.
I swear to God, I'm not even on that right now.
Yeah, right. We see your mind going.
No, this is my first time on Breakfast Club.
I'm like, yo, that's crazy.
He just started, yep,
this is what happened. I'm like,
it's happening.
That's what I'm on.
What's up, man?
How are you doing?
I'm doing good, man.
Things are going crazy.
Congratulations.
Thank you so much.
I love that.
I love to see when we, like us,
when we get specials.
You're proud of me.
Yes, I'm proud of you.
Thank you.
Are you kidding me?
Thank you.
I watched a video with the flickering
and you came down the hallway
and then disappeared in the chair.
I was like,
don't want to do you talk about.
Thank you, Nate.
Thank you.
People who don't know or who may not be familiar.
Who is Nate Jackson?
I guess T.I.
dubbed me the king of crowd work. I'm an entrepreneur
I own the biggest black on comedy
club in the country. Super funny comedy club.
There you go, in Tacoma, Washington.
I'm a guy that got it out the mud from the very
bottom and scraped my way up to
a Netflix special that was in the top
10 and peaked at number three
and did extremely well for
the platform. And
there's a lot coming. There's TV shows.
There's movies. And so I'm excited.
That's who I am. I'm
your excited, hugable
gangster cousin.
People that probably don't, you know, might have thought you came out of nowhere.
Like, you got the Super Funny Comedy Club in 2021, right?
Yeah, well, basically, we were building it, and then the news was saying that COVID was coming.
Okay.
Which is, which is, which is, which is, who, it's hard enough to build a place, let alone watch the news and be like, I don't think it's going to come over.
I don't think it's going to come over. I don't think it's going to first touchdown in the United States.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
As soon as it was like, I think it was Everett Washington or something.
It was like two hours north.
I was like, oh, this is a rap.
So that might have been a blessing then.
If you got you some PPP loans?
No, because you had to be open
for like a year to get
Yeah, we had no help
You could lie like everybody else?
Man, I tried, I tried to create
I was a, I have an auto detail business
I have a dog grooming business
Oh, you sh** me
I clean shoes
I was coming up with everything
All of them were like
Did did did did do nothing was working
So no we just fought on our own
We just fought it
You know what I'm saying
And survived and so
We were at the first location for five years
Now we're at a brand new location
downtown on the Marriott block
from Tacoma, you know, but it's, that's it.
Like, this is, this is it. For my city,
we're in the most peak spot best location
you could be, and now it's like we're thriving like
crazy. But you're a veteran, though. You've been doing comedy
for like 20, 26 years?
Somewhere between 23 and 24.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
I've been, that's what I'm saying, I've been at it for a minute.
You know what? We've met before, and
it's worth me talking about for a second,
Charlotte, Maine. So, I was working
with Jesse Collins Entertainment
as a crowd warm-up
and they did this show
hip-hop of Hollywood Squares
Oh yeah, I remember that?
Yeah, and Jess was the square
and D.C. was the square
and other, like, cast members
from Wiling Out and stuff were squares.
That's when D.R.A. was hosting it?
Yeah. Okay.
And I really wanted to be in a square.
Like, when soundstage
would be empty, I'd be sitting in a square.
And, like, to the point where they, like,
over a headset, like,
was like, Nate Jackson, out of the square.
Like, just total rejection.
Like, yeah, like, this is for stars.
They put me out the chair.
So we were on a break in between two segments, and I was so upset this day, man.
You didn't have one of them days where you're like, man, fuck all this?
Yeah.
That's what I was on.
And Tip was like in the top left square, and we had met before.
And he told me to play, he was like, play, you want me to play juvenile.
You see that 98 Mercedes.
Yeah, 400 degrees.
20 degrees.
He was like, yeah, he played that.
Yeah.
So I played that.
I remember the day now.
You're talking now.
I do.
Okay.
The Seals was there.
Yeah.
And so he was up there, you were either on the bottom one or the left one, but you were right there.
And you were like, yo, you're killing it.
I was like, excuse me?
And you were like, dog, I f***ed with like the, I can't remember exactly what you said,
but you were like, I f***ed with like, you know, the crowdwork guys.
I was the little guy, because I was the little guy, man.
I came up under Wendy and I grinded.
I got it out the mud.
So when I see y'all, I watch it, I was like, you don't even know what that did for me that day.
Wow.
And I'm just telling you, the little things like that, I was like, you know,
Let me just play my role.
Let me do my shit.
And let me just, you know what I'm saying?
But that was, that was heavy that day.
I remember that day, because when 40 degrees came on,
all of us that from the South started rapping it.
Like, everybody.
He got each and talk rap.
Like, that was a great day.
You see that 98 Mercedes on TV about that.
And I looked up in all nine squares is rock.
I was like, okay.
And I remember you doing the crowd work,
but I remember you being a little bit bigger.
Okay.
I mean, I was expecting that.
I remember you.
You're too.
What the
What is that?
Wow.
Just came right forward.
My f***ing it just like,
welcome to the show.
God,
damn.
Welcome to the don't eat breakfast club
because we're trying to lose weight.
Yeah, man, I went
fruit and veggie raw
on May 1st, and I lost
38.5 pounds.
Wow.
So I'm just, like, melting.
And so now I'm like trying to introduce
some white meats back and whatever.
because I was like, man, there's too much chicken
going to buy everybody.
Like, yeah, yeah, we eat, but you're not.
So I basically just eat around the outside
of the grocery store and stay out the middle,
and so I've just been melting away.
Was it a scare?
Was it a scare, or you just wanted to get healthier
or the reason why?
I want to see where my...
Connect connect to my body.
Oh, that makes sense?
You also address that.
I have a joke about it.
I'm like, I can see the first seven inches,
but that first five, I can't see that part.
So that's a joke.
But, no, I just wanted to lose some weight, man.
I mean, we lost Teddy Ray.
I was going to let him go.
I'm laughing at that
now.
I'm laughing.
I'm still having this
a shit joke.
You did the math?
You didn't start
shot out dead people.
Rest of peace, Teddy Ray.
Them shit that's too.
No.
Anyway.
So I only see
verse 7 and that
half that.
But you know what?
I noticed in your special
you talk about it
a lot,
your weight and eating
and you got a lot of food jokes
or whatever.
I did like four minutes
over to just break the ice.
Yeah, yeah.
For sure.
And then they're like,
oh, that's what we're going to take
for the national clip. That's going to be your
trailer. I'm like, oh, okay. So now, okay.
What about all the other stuff I said?
But how does it impact now? Because now you, you know,
you lost a lot of weight. And I'm guessing
you're still coming down, right? So
how does that affect your comedy now? Like, you're still
doing the food jokes? You can.
I mean, it's not, I don't have, I had
food jokes, but it was more about weight, loss jokes,
and temptation. And you can have that at any
weight. You know what I'm saying? Like, it was crafted
where I was like, I think I'm losing weight, but I can still
get these jokes off. You know what?
But at the end of it, I write a lot.
And that's what the crowdwork is.
You're writing on the spot.
So just switch it up.
Is there anything that you stay away from?
Like, you know, because I feel like the world is so sensitive now.
Like you say one thing, you know, we're going to cancel you.
Is anything that you stay away from or you'd be like, I kind of am with everything,
but I will tread lightly around, you know, some politics stuff.
Because they've just been so, it's so magnetized, you know.
At a point, people are like, I don't even care what you're talking about no more.
he's not. He's obviously not. I'm like, man, just chill out.
I want everybody to laugh first.
That's why it's called Super Funny. That's the theme of the show.
Love, love hard, eat good, and laugh, laugh to your fullest.
So that's the thing. That's what it is.
I was talking to people miss the funny in things because they want to cancel you.
They are looking for something to be hurt or affected by.
I remember one time you just laughed. It could be a black joke, a white joke, a gay joke, a straight joke.
It didn't matter. If it was funny, it was funny.
but now I feel like people look for something to be like
I'm going to cancel you up that word right there you know
yeah depend on the word but yeah
or the term or the joke
I think it depends on how you're saying it
right like what I can stand the least
is when a comic takes the time to craft a beautiful joke
and I mean a beautiful joke where it like meanders
and then you get hit with the punchline
and then you still be like
but the topic was da-da-da
hey man chill out that's a good ass joke
yeah also I think we're shifting back some
and I don't want to say it on a platform so big
that people are like, oh, you think we won't cancel you too?
I don't need that smoke.
But I'm just saying, I think there's been a shift
since, I don't know, maybe 2019, 2020.
Definitely.
And so there's been some pushback.
People like Schultz and people like Chappelle
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It's got to be so funny to the point where they don't need one cancel you, man. That is funny.
Right. Yeah. I had a joke about a Vietnamese car dealer.
And I don't sound ridiculous. I'm from Tacoma, Washington, and we kick it with the Vietnamese,
Cambodian, Samoans, black people.
Everyone's all, we all mix.
And so when you go gamble, the dealer
going to be Vietnamese. And they were teaching me
words. And so I started picking up on the dialect
and be like, and stuff like that.
So I had this joke. What does that mean?
That means, fuck you. And so
I picked up on that. They say that a lot.
And I just started hearing it, not knowing what it
was. I'm like, why y'all keep saying
and they're like, oh yeah, I mean, fuck you. I'm like, what the
fuck? So I wrote a joke
about how I had found out, but I put it
after I hit a jackpot. So,
basically she was calling me about which was my interpretation of her saying
it in my face and I didn't know so I slowly reveal that they've been being racist to me
and then I get hers and get back the dealer and I'd say she acts black so she I said
well okay you act black then and she's like I don't know my father I'm like bitch
that's not what the fuck I was listening for an accent
what are you supposed to sound black
Damn.
Stop it, stop it.
He's stopping.
Stop.
There's a lady in there that really don't know a dad like she.
Right now.
Ah!
Man, she's about to come in like,
that's messed up.
That's my own.
Triggered her.
I'm so sorry.
Man, I was watching one of your specials before.
One of your crowd worked specials, man.
There was a fat dude in the crowd.
The fat dude named Big Mac,
that due security.
I don't know if you remember,
but the dude was like.
he said something to you and you was like
don't get mad at me
I'm not the one who fed you
I want to feed you
I don't make you bite on that shit
people in the comments like
calling the kettle black
I'm like nah that's a little pot
calling a big ass kettle black
but the point of the Vietnamese joke
was that same joke
JFL was like
we can't have you up here
because you're saying that joke
I'm like did you listen to it
so I just got back
I came straight from Montreal here
to where I had my own show
I had like I did I'm variety
top 10 yes I got that this year
but it brings it full circle to be like
I almost I was like I should do the joke
you know what I'm not going to be bitter
I can't funny you should have
I'm saying it's funny now if I just came out
like me and the mean sound crazy and I just start cussing
like I'm like that that is you
overstepping yeah you know I'm saying but
and that's my pet peeve like if somebody
if you can hear the intellect
then the joke and the setup and be like who would
That was a good misdirection.
Say, here's that,
like, nah.
It's like how some older black people
like, I didn't even have fun
because he cussed 14 times.
You sitting there counting?
Exactly, man.
That's a fucking show.
Yes.
Listen, give people the story.
So you went from,
you're doing the warm up,
warming up the crowd at the hip hop squares,
but I know you ended up on a while
and now.
Like, how did all of those stuff, things happen?
Oh, my goodness.
That's not my start.
My start, I just got dared to do comedy
while I was in college.
And I went on stage,
and I was like, oh, this was kind of good.
And so I stuck with it.
then I moved immediately to LA
and I was there for like six years
and then I was like I need to go home
and stack some bread so I started like
12 shows and then I combined it into one
show and it was like the biggest show
it was like Thursday night was like 420
people for like eight years it was massive
and um in Seattle
in Tacoma yeah downtown Tacoma and
um if it's really like 80 people every Thursday
in case the IRS is listening so it was like
it was hella um but then I stacked
and came back and so then
different opportunities started to
kind of come together and so I had an
opportunity to work with Jesse Collins Entertainment
and that's how I did the crowd work
and I think it was just a plug from D-Ray
because I do Monday nights at the improv
and D-ray shout out to D-ray
and so
that's how I got into that but
the way Hollywood man you'll have a day where you're like
yo I made it
you'll be standing on a table
fist pumping the air between
Tony Rock and
Chris Rock
You know what I'm saying
Like what it would feel like a million bucks
And then the next day you're like
Damn I gotta perform in this dungeon
Yeah
It's not it's up
But you gotta do it all
And so
You know
That that's essentially
Why I was where I was
I was like man I just can't get a damn break
I got whiling out
I do four episodes
Now says I look old
I'm like Corey Holcomb is here
How's I look old
And no shade
No shade no shade
But I'm just saying
Don't say I look old
I'm not said you look old
Yeah, I'm like, I waited to get on the show for six years.
Yeah, I look old now.
Get the fuck.
Give me a part of my hair.
Let me rock.
And then every game was rapping.
I'm like, we can't just do no old school.
Or you just be funny?
You would have a game.
Like, all right, this is what we're going to do.
You're going to roast this thing.
We're like, bad.
You got a lot of comments.
Like, yeah, oh, yeah.
Nick me in the corner like, you know what it needs?
Bars.
Now we're like, s'it.
And we just get out the way.
Charlie Clips, man.
Go here, man.
God, damn.
Here come Justinina.
Go ahead.
I'm like, that's not my bag.
I'll learn it, but that ain't my bag.
You only did four episodes a while now?
Yeah, but they were big ones, though.
Got you, got you.
They were big ones, though.
Like, I did Erica Badu episode.
We did, because I can sing too.
So we did the revenge of Tyrone,
where she did the follow-up to call Tyrone.
And then I did the Travis Scott episode.
And then I did the one where to do it had hella kids.
But then he said we can't talk about the kids.
Nick?
Nick Kenner?
No, no, it was somebody with more, I think.
Oh, Antonio Cromarty
Oh, Antonio Cromarty
Yeah
That's all we want to talk about
Like you got a million kids
He was like anything but the kids
We're like well then go home
Because we're right
Yeah so I did some good
You know what?
I think the reason I only got the four
And I'd like to say this on this platform
On the Erica Badu episode
She came and she was like
Yo let me meet the people I'm gonna be on the episode
With it me and the 85 shelf guys
All stood around on the soundstage with Nile
and she's like here's what I think we should do
and now ran down the games
here's what we're going to do
freestyle from there
she's like okay I'm going to my dressing room
I want one of the brighter ones
to come with me now I'm standing up there with one
episode under my belt she's like you
what's your name I'm like Nate Jackson she's like
you tell me what's going on here
and now I was like
I was like hey Carlos can you come with me
grab Carlos we go down she's like
there's going to be a part where I go down to my knee
and I'm singing real hard I want you to put my jacket
on me like James Brown
I'm going to throw it all
and come back like a phoenix and i'm gonna kill it i'm like bet that part of the show happens
i walk out i put the thing on her everything happens as planned after it's over execs come up and they're
like who the f*** told you to walk out sorry what wow erika badu did
erika badu told you to walk out yeah she said throw the thing on her why do you what you thought
i just over just came out the i know i'm uh barely welcome here because why would i put
yeah mess up your million million dollar moment you know saying and so that's when it was like i was on
But it only takes...
But the show is in front.
Really?
So even if you did do that and it worked, who cares?
Come on, man.
Put the other hat on.
You're the exact.
You put your bag in the air convene on episode.
Here come one of your little...
Doing anything in frame.
Yeah.
That she asked to do that thing.
Oh, specifically.
And I even remember being like, I was...
Somebody was next to me, I was like, hey, she'd say to throw the thing.
You want to go out and they were like, well, no, man, I don't want to go.
I'm like, okay.
Well, she asked...
Like, I'm not gonna...
I don't want to not do it.
Then after, she's like, where was the...
I was waiting.
Yeah.
Man.
Did you really tell Nick?
When?
Nick is like Batman.
You see Nick there and then
Ninja Smoke.
Hello, Nick?
When the last time you see Nick,
playing cards on that guy?
Playing cards on the internet.
I'm not seeing that in person.
You're kidding me?
He's just in a garage doing upside down sit-ups.
He never seen Nick.
He got too many shows.
He was shooting six shows
and all right now.
time. That's crazy. I could not believe, bro.
He shot like a vlog, a Deas and Merrill thing. He shot Walin Out.
Then he went to AGT. Then he shot a car show.
Yeah. I was like, this is tired.
Yes. No, see, Nick. When?
How did that come about, though? How did Netflix end up the place?
It's simple for me, but like, so my mom getting older, and she has an office downstairs at our house in Lacey, Washington.
And she got to go down these steps to go down to this cold-ass basement and turn on
the area heater to get on Netflix
or to get on any streaming platform
but Netflix came on their
old ass smart TV
which is dumb now but that was the one
I was like it's a smart TV Netflix built in
so she'll watch Netflix
and from the comfort of the couch
fireplace and all that so for me
I was like this is how my mama
gonna see me and be comfortable
yeah oh wow wow so you pray with all the other stuff
you know about Netflix and it kind of makes sense
but if they're not going to get me a deal it's like
I gotta go to wherever
but that's why I was like
I could just stick it on YouTube with the crowdwork joints
where there's now
750,000 people
I think that would land well
but let's see if we can get traction with them
because just literally I was on calls with
agency they're like what platform
I'm like Netflix why my mama can't watch
this shit down sticking
I need her in the living room and be like my baby did it
I need that and we and that's what we did
Gary Owen about to write that down
he'll try to use that to get his Netflix special
finally you know Gary can't get a Netflix special
for nothing we got a podcast to Gary
No, my shton I ain't know that.
What podcast you and Gary got together?
It's called Gary and Nate.
I did not know that.
I know Gary had a podcast.
Yeah, he got, what, just it called Gary Owen?
Yes.
And I got my own.
Hold on.
That's funny and shit.
So you got a Netflix special?
How did you break the news to Gary?
Right after he told me that they turned him down.
Damn.
But I didn't mean to say it that way, though.
Like, he was like, hey, man, I'm waiting to find out about Netflix.
Now, I had already knew.
Like, I might be riding him third on mine.
And so I just had to sit there
And he told me the whole thing
Like yeah man I'm ready for it to get on there man
I don't know what it's about
And I was like man maybe you know
Just keep talking along brother
You didn't want to give me your good news yet
I had to wait I was like
I had to wait till like the moment of like
And I was like you want to hear something crazy man
But you can't you can't go
You can't act stupid though
You can't tell nobody
You can't say you can't act stupid
He was like what you got what you got?
And I was like yeah
And Netflix gave me mine
He was like
That's what's up
I support that
but not so
he deserves one
yeah
man
does Gary take your style
on the podcast
you said Gary be taking your style
where you see that at
your podcast
we talked about it live
so you saw us come to a resolution
and you want to go back
to one that was f***ed up
and start there
we start from there
there we go to the resolution
I'll precede this
with we're good
what happened with Gary taking your stuff
It's not, this is the thing.
Gary would come up to the club.
He did a weekend, and the weekend went great,
and I asked him to do my podcast,
and we had a great episode.
And then it was just, it was,
we just synergized to where it was like,
yo, we should probably do something.
And then it turned into, like,
the Gary and Nate pod.
And then the crowd work joints that I was putting out
where I'm putting out once a month or whatever,
I, like, somebody sent me and was like,
yo, Gary got these things.
He's doing once a month now.
And I was like, well, wait.
Stop laughing.
They're cool now.
I said, wait, Gary did what?
So I didn't say nothing.
I just sat on it because we were only filming once a month.
I have been seeing Gary do more crowd work, man.
I'm not going to be joking.
I'm not even joking.
I have been doing more crowd work.
Yeah, you'll see it.
And when they explode it, it just pops up, right?
Yeah.
White people always do that to us, though.
Good for Gary, man.
I love that he's getting traction because Gary's he's hella funny.
He is.
We love Gary, man.
But this story is a lot of.
I'm not, I'm not.
I didn't know y'all had a pod.
I just subscribed to it.
Y'all only started in November, though.
It's also done.
We're going to do one more episode,
explaining what is over.
No.
That is over.
Yes.
Cut it to fucking.
We're done.
What?
It's only been 24 episodes.
That's hell of.
It's over now.
I just subscribe.
I literally just subscribe.
Click the same button.
So, finish the story.
Subscribe to opinionated, Charlotte.
That's my podcast.
So subscribe to opinionated and subscribe to Gary.
Let's finish the story.
I'm already subscribed to Gary.
Make sure you subscribe to get some.
And then opinionated is mine.
I'm going to subscribe to it.
There's enough out here for all of us to get it.
Go ahead.
Finish the story.
It's not even a full story.
God damn.
Envy.
Envy just be in the fight.
He's that fucking money.
Envy in the back.
You ain't going to do shit.
He ain't going to do shit.
That's what you do, envy.
He just poke the bear.
He is the Instagram.
Listen, I rock with Gary.
I have no, I have no malice.
You know what I'm saying?
And so he's good.
But, not but.
It's just Ann.
And so I have noticed that as I'm up in the Pacific Northwest,
fighting for ways to be an innovator and stay relevant from way to fuck up there and off
the grid that sometimes people come up and they're like, oh, that's suss.
That's the sauce.
You can't, I can't protect that.
Whether he comes close to me and does it or stays away from me and does it,
if somebody sees an editing style or a wave or, I don't know, a dress or a way,
somebody walks and talks and it's working.
Astros jersey, go ahead.
There's nothing you can do.
He's from there.
Well, he's from Ohio, but he lived,
this,
envy is wild.
He's literally saying
every point of contention
from when we argued.
At the end of the day,
we only were recording
first Mondays.
Oh, you said that to him.
You said, you ain't
wasn't even wearing baseball jersey.
You said to him.
And then Gary was like,
look at me at my wedding party.
He said, me.
He said, look at me.
Now, you know, God damn well.
Oh, wow.
Same damn
You're going to be up here
And like a week
No
Gary don't
Gary always come up here by the way
Gary's solid
Nothing to be saying
And all that
Anybody just wondering
Where I'm mad on it
He's good
He good
Okay
Now
But you're just not
Doing the podcast
No more
But y'all good
No I can't
It's because we do
We do first
We do first monies
And so he'll come up
And do the club
And the door deal
Is what makes it
Worth coming up
Then we record
One or two or three
Or four episodes
In one day
Or two and
and two. And it'd be my only
two days off for maybe a 14th stretch
of road gigs. I'm like, Gary, I can't.
I can't do it. So I'm doing a comedy festival
the 11th through the 17th, because my birthday is the 14th
in August. And so he's going to come up and he's going to do
Monday the 11th and then we're going to do one more episode
just as playing like, and we're just busy. Yeah, where's your comedy festival?
Is it in your hometown? Yeah, yes, in Tacoma.
Okay. Yeah. So we got Tony Rock
anchoring the weekend.
Amazing. So Gary will do the Monday. Then I'm going to do
a Nate Jackson presents Monday.
It's one of my concepts where it's like
I'm hosting for 35, 40 minutes
and then all the acts just come out the door.
You don't know who's on stage.
Don't know who's on the show.
This makes so much sense
because I was listening to Gary's pod
like last week and I was wondering why
he was just going in on people who do crowd work.
He was like people who do crowdwork are lazy
and they don't really know how to write.
You said that?
Gary, on his pod.
That sound made up.
That sounds made up.
Oh yeah, I did make it up.
It's true.
Hey, yo.
You're glad to see you through it.
I'm so glad to see you.
I didn't make that up.
I made it up.
Because here's why it's made up.
Because if you do crowdwork or attempt to do crowdwork and you have good moments and you string them together,
you already know you're using traditional stand-up structure,
but you're plugging the information you got off the people into that.
So we're writing live and on the spot.
And I think that what's overlooked is the phenomena of why people are like,
Why crowdwork?
Because you're in the crowd
and you're hearing the response
your brain is processing
the same information
and you're like,
what would I say?
What was he going to say?
And every time
the person you like that does it
finds an angle.
So if I got to start with
whatever, like I would have been
I would have went on stage
and be like, y'all see Coldplay?
Y'all see the dude get caught?
I can talk about that at the crowdwork joint.
And now it's like,
who in here cheat?
Now we got some segues to get through.
You know what I mean?
But like, it's
almost a gift when you get something you're like
okay let's cook with this
right and I like to find
a few so that I can do callbacks
and have it all come together
and gel together so at the end you're
like that wasn't just that was an experience
that wasn't just a couple of moments
Nate Jackson, tell them what to follow you brother
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I'm ending the super funny world tour here in the next couple of dates,
and the big dog tour starts right after that international.
We got Australia.
It's crazy.
Pam, that is so good.
Get some tickets while there's any seats left.
It's like that.
Congratulations, brus, right?
I did hear you say you was doing shows and movies and stuff.
Casting and stuff?
You want to act as something?
Yeah, for sure.
I got some shit.
All right, cool.
Yeah, I got some shit.
Because, like, I'm really, really good.
I almost forgot the movie.
I'm tripping.
So there's a movie with Seth Rogen, Kiki,
Palmer, Keanu Reeves, and it's
Aziz Ansari's directorial debut that
comes out in October, and it's called Good Fortune,
and I'm in that.
Dope. So, yeah. No, I got
stuff. Okay. I just bought this red
camera. We're about to go up.
Carrie, you bought the red.
You can't tell me nothing.
Period.
Can't tell me nothing.
Check out Super Funny
on Netflix now.
Nate Jackson, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for
joining us, brother. Appreciate you.
That's the breakfast club. Good morning.
A bunch of donkeys out here in the street.
The God will get you.
Because you're a man.
If we live a life where we light our tongues based off who we may offend, we never would say anything.
I'd have made donkey today.
That is why Solomon is that.
He's a donkey.
He, motherfuckin' home.
Oh, man, Solomon, you giving donkey the day to who now?
Buster Rhymes, Donkey of the Day, goes to a 20-year-old Pennsylvania man named Evan Gabrielle Hausman.
Evan is facing a bunch of charges, including assault, scrangulation, terror.
terroristic threats, resisting arrest, and criminal misdiff and harassment.
According to online court records, who did Evan attack and why?
Would you like to know?
Well, police were dispatched to a home because Evan's father called 911 and said his son.
Assaulted his wife, meaning his mother.
What kind of sucker-ass father does Evan have?
If I'm calling the police after my son attack my wife, it's because I don't hurt my son.
You're a 20-year-old grown man, I got to whoop your ass.
For one, putting hands on my wife, too, for you putting hands on your mother.
What type of human are you?
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We were in the car like a Rolling Stone came on
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According to dispatches, they could hear the sounds of a struggle in the background of the call,
and Evan was yelling, shoot me!
Now, Evan's mother said the argument started the previous night,
because Evan said he wanted money transferred to him so he could go buy some weed.
Yes, marijuana, pot, grass, gunga, he wanted his mama to transfer money to him
so he could go buy some.
and when she said no, the argument escalated.
Evan threatened suicide
said he was going to overdose on pills,
okay, if he didn't get that money.
He acting like he broke up with his mother.
That's how I acted when my lady broke up with me in 2001.
Sometimes you've got to fake kill yourself to get your girl back.
It happens, but this is not his girl.
It's his mother, okay?
Acting like this over some damn weed.
So the next morning, she told police that he grabbed her head,
pushed it toward the floor, and then put her in a headlock.
His mother?
Yes.
Jesus.
She said that her son told her that if she did not hand over his medication,
he was going to apply pressure to her neck before he released her
and took his medication into his room.
Jess, what would happen to your son if he tried you like this?
Excuse me, I wouldn't even, I can't even say it on air.
I can't.
This is how I know parents being happening when they say,
I bought you into this world so I can take you out.
Okay, mothers be in situations like this.
And all they can think about is how they bought this child into the world
because of a stranger, they would have attempted to.
take a stranger out a long time ago but wait it gets worse okay daddy got involved daddy and
the son began arguing so evan big grown-ass 20 year old threw a tv and an x-bots down a flight
of stairs breaking both of them and damage in the wall so when his father went down his steps to
check the damage guess what pushed him down the stairs what i'm sorry they're not that's not yet
we're not there yet okay pushed him to the ground he hit his head on the garage door talking about
the father. His father then went outside
to distance himself from his son, running
basically, okay, while
his wife called 911. What kind
of punk-ass pops did Evan have?
My daddy, my father,
going outside to get distance after I threw
down a TV, after I threw a TV down
a flight of stairs, then pushed him down the flight
of stairs, she.
Don't nobody in that house on no gun? You know what I'm saying?
What's wrong with you? Then
the son followed his daddy
outside, pushed his daddy
to the ground again, and put him in a headlock.
and told his father he was going to kill him and take them both out.
Then he let his father up and started to beat his father's car with a stick.
So started doing damage to his father's car with a stick.
Let me tell you something.
Not to the caddy.
I don't know what kind of car I was, but I don't beat my kids, but I got all girls.
And I come from the era of extreme ass whippings from my parents.
This 20-year-old needed an ass whipping straight from the 1900s, not to mention you 20.
At that point, you're a grown-ass adult.
Okay.
So whatever goes, goes.
Now, when cops came, they ordered the suspect to put his hands behind his back.
He said no.
Then he started to walk toward one of the victims again because he wanted more smoke, okay?
Victims being his parents.
Officers had to use a tase on him before they put him in custody.
And while in custody, he kicked officers several times,
and he was sent to a hospital to be mentally evaluated.
Okay, let's play a game.
I'm ready for this one.
You want to play a game?
Let's play a game of guess what races.
All right.
Evan Hausman of Pennsylvania facing a whole bunch of charges
because he beat up his parents, all right?
Basically beat up his parents, mom and dad.
Then when the cops came, they had to tase him.
He put hands on them too.
But he lived a tell to tell the tale.
DJ Envy, guess what?
Racine!
White, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, white, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
what, whoa, whoa, white.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Just hilarious.
Evan Hausman, facing a whole bunch of, white,
charges because he beat up his parents.
And when the police came, he put hands
on them too, but he lived a tell to tell.
The last, guess what
race he is?
I call Cassidy with the audacity.
Well, DJ Envy,
just hilarious, you both were correct.
Evan Hausman is a blue-eyed devil.
Wait, wait, wait, I knew it. I knew it.
He got the blue eyes and everything.
Straight out the Caucasus Mountains.
Come on, man.
If I did that to my...
I wouldn't be here right now.
Hey, what are we talking about?
I wouldn't be here.
This whole story reeks of whiteness.
Debt, peak whiteness.
Okay, capital riot whiteness.
There's no way.
There's no way.
There's no way I'm going to be here right now.
What's story when you need them?
You need a bull for them feet.
What are you talking about?
Sit your ass down.
Lord, have mercy.
I don't care.
Could you imagine?
No.
No, could you?
No.
Like, what?
What?
Please.
I mean, I ain't saying you had to shoot him to kill him, but nah.
Indrim.
You need to, yeah.
You need to sit your ass down for a long time.
Putting your hands on your mom is one thing, all right.
But, God dang, when the daddy let you get away with it, too.
He beat the daddy up.
He threw a TV down, like he thought he was precious lover.
Like, he threw a TV.
No black parent, no black family.
He's not even in shape.
He's a little fat, portly Caucasian.
What about you, Red?
Ain't like his Logan beating up envy.
Puerto Rican family.
That wouldn't happen.
He'd be limpid.
My mom would have whipped my ass too.
Oh, your mother would have whipped jazz.
Yeah, my mother.
I don't even thought of that.
She got the chalclita.
Yeah.
Yeah.
figure that. See, we black and brown up here.
Ain't no damn way.
All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today.
Morning, everybody. It's DJNV.
Just hilarious. Shalameen the guy. We are the
Breakfast Club. La Rosa is here as well. We got a special
guest in the building. Yes, we do. One of my favorite
comedians, ladies and gentlemen.
It's not one of ours? I don't know.
But what are my favorite comedians, ladies, ladies' gentlemen?
Gary Owens here, ladies.
Yes. Gary Owens.
Let's get it. Ratings are about to skyrocket.
How are you feeling, first and foremost? How is that
Everything's great.
No complaints.
I've been really watching your clips the last couple of...
I like that at her.
The last couple of weeks I've been watching your clips.
And I just want to say salute to you.
I've seen a couple of clips where one guy, which was kind of weird, I thought it was kind of weird.
His wife died.
Yes.
And he still went to see Gary Owen.
Yes.
Two days later.
Two days later.
Because he was supposed to go with his wife and his wife died.
And he still went, which was surprising.
and buddy went, and Gary, you decided
to take care of the funeral course.
The, well, they cremated her.
They cremated her. So I took care of the earn.
Then I gave him more because he had to take off work
for a month. But he didn't, I don't think
he had a go-fund me.
So he got that, and that got over $14,000.
Wow. That's what I got. But
the reason I, it just was kind of
spur of the moment, but it was more
he didn't ask. Because then
you see the good and the bad side of social media
to do something like that? Because I had,
my DMs got overrun
well since you helped him
help me can you do this
all he sent me a message was
he told me that his wife passed
they and then when I saw his page
they go to a lot of comedy shows
that was their thing
so they got pictures of all kinds of comedians
and so he's like I'm gonna go
because she wanted
we were supposed to go
and so that's why I took care of it
because he didn't ask he said
man I don't know if you do meat and grease
but I really like get a picture with you
that's all he wanted
that's all he wanted yeah yeah I can even tell
even when he was asking, he was stuttering, like,
I'm not here for this, but thank you.
And I wanted to know, you know, because you pick on,
I don't want to say pick on, but you will call people out at a show.
Have you ever called out somebody and it was wrong?
Like, I've done it up here all the time,
but like, so what did your mom think?
And they'd be like, my mom's dead.
Like, it's happened a bunch of times.
So has that happened to you?
Yeah, yeah.
You just be like, ah, way to bring the show down.
Yeah.
If you had a comment show, you're there to laugh,
but that's going to happen.
You know, I'm not mean like that.
People think I'm just doing, like, crowd work.
sometimes I get interrupted
and we're taping it now
so I finally
got a full-time camera person
with me which I should have did a long time ago
Oh that's why I'm seeing so many clips now
Yeah well I got the right editor too
I mean I had camera guys
But then I'd be like why did you stop it
There
Now I got it took trial and error
Now I got the right team
So that's why I think you're seeing me more in the algorithms
And the clips are better
Because they're actually capturing it
and they're edited it correctly, you know what I mean?
So you're, so you were always doing that.
You just got a team to actually capture it, edit it, and put it together.
Yeah, thanks to Nate Jackson.
Okay.
I saw him here last week.
We don't get it to Nate Jackson, but also,
Lauren the Rosa, that's sitting to the right of you,
threw a shot at you, just, just, just you being here.
It was another white comedian here,
and I think she was trying to pick two white comedians against him.
I saw that.
Whoa, is the white comedian.
Yes, and she just threw a shot at you.
for no reason. And we didn't understand.
Let's listen to the order for people like, don't know what's going on.
But they brought up the Kendrick Lamar thing.
I listened to it. And all sudden, the girl that fills in for Jess hilarious that was there
when I was there a few months ago, they said, you know, Kendrick has never really said who he's
talking about. Andrew's like, how do we even know Kendrick was talking about me?
Now, Envi, Charlemagne, and Schultz was like, we don't even know who Kendrick was talking about.
He could have been talking about Gary Owen. And literally, the girl goes,
ain't anybody checking for Gary O'am.
I tell you, this girl,
and I can't remember her name.
I don't know what her issue with me is.
But I'll be like,
what?
How did I catch a stray?
Ain't anybody checking for Gary Owen.
And I'm like, well,
just did 12 shows in Baltimore.
Somebody check it for me.
Word.
I love.
Word out Nashville this weekend.
Somebody checking for me.
Yeah.
It reminded me it was like when Tyrese got mad at me
because I said a joke.
Like, in her mind, I'm not a real celebrity.
I'm not a real entertainment.
She doesn't take me serious.
Yeah.
She doesn't feel.
I bet you in her mind if she was booking the show, she wouldn't have me on.
I bet you in her mind she goes, no, no, no, no, no.
Gary, you like that.
So why, no, no, no, hold on.
Why, Laura?
No, first, first, before we ask me questions.
Do you know my name now?
Yeah, Lauren La Rosa.
Okay, you didn't know what then.
From Delaware, with the Delaware State.
Oh.
Okay.
I think it's kind of funny when people.
come from me, they act like they don't know my name.
I knew your name.
It's all over my Instagram.
That was a big.
That was a big back in.
I know.
But why I throw this shot in?
Why don't you do that to me?
First of all, it wasn't a shot.
What?
You are, I, okay, so I have a-
It was a shot.
Can you be quiet?
All right.
I have a tendency to say things and I don't think much of it,
but then I'm realizing that people,
it hits people differently because I thought I was saying
that during that time,
it was very clear what Kendrick Lamar was talking about
because Andrew Schultz in the conversation that he had
was all over the,
the news and then the Kendrick Lamar stuff happened so Gary Owen don't be all over the news
Gary Owen don't be all over the news do but I had a show with Kendrick Andrew's never worked
with Kendrick at the same time you all know what I'm talking about like it was very clear at
the time what was happening it wasn't a dig at you it was like a I thought we all saw the same
thing I saw hmm like we said that was the guy wow I think I think you were celebrity
no I just want content I want you to react it's me I know what me Lord I don't
take none of this personal.
And if I'm doing a rant, I'm like, yeah, they'll probably
pick this up. And sure enough,
took that bait. No, I mean, look,
no, I saw you in your car.
It took our views was good. Yeah. It helped
out, it helped both of us out. Now look,
then they're going to clip this up. And we're still
riding that Kendrick train. So you had a
crazy divorce, and it's finally over. You moved
on and everything is good. So you've been,
you spoke about your relationship with your kids.
Has that gotten any better at all?
Son got, right after I left here
last time, son got a hold of me. So now we're good.
He was just in Vegas with me
last, two weeks ago.
How did y'all make that right?
He saw the interview?
He didn't see the interview.
He had an issue at his job
and he needed my help,
needed my advice.
So he just called out of left field.
It was funny because
Adam, my open, we're in Philly
and he matched with this girl
on Tinder.
And he goes, yo,
I got a feeling this girl's trying to catfish me.
Can you go to the bar with me
just to play wingman?
I go, all right.
So we're walking to the bar
and my phone rings.
It's my son.
I looked up and I go,
my son's called me and he looked at me and I go
my son ain't called me like three years
so I picked up I said good luck with your tinder date
I hope she's legit but I'm out
so we talked for like three four hours
at night and then yeah
we're we're as close as ever now
it just took time
daughter is still nothing
but she's gonna be a tough one to crack
have you attempted to reach out to your daughter since
always yeah I always do but you know I don't have
I don't have any
I don't have a way to contact her
She's not on social media
She got a new cell phone
So I have I have no way
Other than an email
Yeah, she's told her brother
Not to give you her number
Well, it's little different than that
I'll keep that between them
I'll keep that between them
I don't want everything
I'll be on the breakfast club
Yeah
But that's good
What was that initial conversation like
Was it like?
With my son?
Yeah, was it natural?
Was it like hey, how's it going
It was like hey dad
We haven't spoke to speak
Like, how was that conversation after three years?
Because it's still your son.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you still got a place for y'all.
Yeah, the first thing he said was, dude, I know we got a lot to work on.
And I know we'll get to it.
But I really need your help with this problem right now.
So I went into immediate, like, dad mode.
Like, all right, this is what we got to do.
And then it just so happened.
I was going to be in the Bay Area like two weeks later.
And that's where he lives.
So the phone call happens two weeks later.
We got to reconnect.
And then he ended up flying.
back to Houston with me.
I said, you want to
fly back Monday when I fly back?
Because yeah, because you know, I got the twins.
So he got to meet the twins.
And then everything's good now.
He's got it, you know, he's got his favorite already.
I love it.
Now, be honest, when you first seen that number,
did you think it was a money call?
Like, you know, like, because you know when your kids call,
it's either they're in prime or they need some money?
Oh, no, he has no problem.
That's for money.
Okay.
That's not an issue with him.
Let me tell you.
That's not a good.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I was like this.
Ooh, you're making up for that three years.
Yeah.
So it wasn't a money call.
I need some advice.
No, that wasn't a money call.
There's been money call since.
That's natural.
Yeah, you're dad.
Yeah, I'm dad.
Did you have a moment where you like, because last time you were here and you talked
about it, it was a bit emotional for you, is.
Did you have a moment where you were like, ooh, okay, like, I finally got to the
point where me and my son are reconnecting.
You were able to, like, take it in and like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, you know, I was like, I was like, I was.
was able to like be honest with them about the divorce it had nothing to do with you that's
between me and your mom because i think he i think and maybe my daughter feels that way too i think
they probably think they had something to do with it and i was like dude it had nothing to do with
you nothing so yeah you got you you kind of replay the the years lost in your brain but then
where we're at now you know we're good yeah i didn't miss a wedding i didn't miss like him having
kids or anything like that so i think that would be that would be tough like if my daughter ever
when she does get married my god i hope we're we're back in touch by then you know what i mean
walker down the aisle yeah all that do you change how you do your jokes now because like i mean
from this point on because your son's watching and you know all the things and you had jokes about
the divorce and all that stuff did y'all talk about that no he's he's got a dark sense of humor like i
do so he was good with it how was your son 24 oh yeah yeah he's an adult now yeah he's an adult now
Yeah, so no, he's good.
He'd be cracking up.
And then, you know, it's funny because now he's kind of hanging out at the comedy club up there in the Bay Area.
Because when I did the show, I brought him up there.
And everybody knew him from back in the day.
We used to come around.
So now he's kind of hanging out there a lot.
So he's kind of hanging out there a lot of the comedians.
So it's been good because I think I've been cool with most comedians, unlike Jess, you know, with Damon.
I mean, at one.
It's already sold out.
It's already sold out.
We added Sunday.
It's sold out.
Oh, you want to talk about Atlanta next week?
Sold out.
We did add a show Sunday in Atlanta.
And then in two weeks, I got 11 shows in D.C.
They're sold out.
I know that's right, girl.
You're going to talk about it.
No, you better talk about this.
That's good.
What did you say?
Oh, wait a minute.
I'm in Virginia Beach in October.
Sold out.
How about that?
October.
You better tell Lord of what it is.
I know what you're not going on them sold out days.
No more divorce jokes because it came up in court on mediation.
Oh, I know, with that, with that thing.
It came about mediation.
I was going to let you rock until you, so that out.
Yeah, that was funny, though.
I can't even lie.
I was a good one.
I never, even like the same thing.
If I'm talking about jazz, we're talking about Lauren, it's all content.
Even in the divorce, I was like, even with the mediation, it was content.
Like, I was acting like I was serious.
I was like, that's kind of funny.
You know what I mean?
It's just.
And it's like, I know the lawyers don't even know when to take you serious.
This is what I learned.
This is the biggest thing I learned.
I hope anybody's getting a divorce.
Listen, and you hear it all the time.
Get to a point where you're cordial with your ex
and you guys decide what you want to do
that's fair to everybody.
Because this is when I knew
these lawyers are playing us.
We were held up for a couple weeks
over life insurance.
She wanted to take out like a,
I think it was like a $5 million dollar life insurance policy on me, right?
On you?
Yeah, on me in case I passed away, so she's good, right?
Yeah, but she's got to play the premium.
I'm not paying it.
So my lawyer went back.
I'm going forward to her lawyer over that's too much for life insurance.
I said, I'm dead.
I don't care what it is.
She's paying for it.
I don't care what my policy is.
They go, well, I don't think the life insurance should be bigger than the divorce settlement.
I go, who cares?
When I realized I'm getting the bill like, okay, why am I getting charged every email over the...
I said, it's done.
Give it to her.
I'm done.
And then when I finally get to a point where you're like that, I go, this is so pointless.
They will literally find one thing to keep it going.
And that kept it going for a couple weeks.
The dang, if I'm dead, how much does she get?
And you're like, I don't care.
I'm not paying the premium.
All I do is get a physical.
That's right.
And they're just getting your money, taking more money just to prolong it.
And I finally told her, I was like, I finally got to a point where I called her.
I said, look, we just got to get this over with.
Trust me on this.
I said, yeah, I wasn't the best with fidelity, but I never did you wrong financially.
You know what I mean?
So she said, all right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Y'all called you?
gorgeous
right
every now and then
it will creep back up
like whoa
you're really still mad
what's up
you're really still upset
yes
I think it's funny
I'm on stage a little bit
like when I had the twins
I randomly saw it
airport
and I say hey you know
I had twins
she goes yeah
and I go
well you want to see them
she just no
I said I know you do
so I showed her the twins
right
so my twin
yes he is y'all
it's fun
That is not fun.
She thought it was fun.
She knows him by now.
So anyways, she goes, there's just white arm and there's this white leg in the side of the picture.
She goes, who's that?
I go, the nanny.
She goes, you have a nanny?
You have a nanny?
We didn't have a nanny.
I go, well, you met me at the wrong time.
Y.
If you was with me now, you would have a nanny.
He's a borg.
Gary, oh, ladies and gentlemen.
Oh, my God, I would have threw my drink at you.
Why?
Because don't.
It's funny.
Lauren, when you get divorced, you'll know.
She got to get divorced.
She got to get divorced.
I'm not getting divorced.
I believe in it.
Really?
I'm glad we're friends again, Lauren Lerosa, from Delaware, Delaware State.
Boom, just know if I ever say anything, I don't mean it.
I don't, at all.
If I ever say anything.
Anybody's checking for me.
I worry about you.
You should have called the Lauren Larooses.
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