The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi - #94 Throwing Frozen Turkeys with Kareem Green

Episode Date: July 26, 2022

Kareem Green (Showtime’s Flatbush Misdemeanors) joins to talk about white kids throwing frozen turkeys onto the highway, passing out at Pizza Hut, having a “street person” for a mom, the foster care system, his extremely short lived career selling crack, failing to get a truckers license, and why he used to call Gianmarco “corporate.” You can watch full video of this episode HERE! Follow Kareem Green on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter Watch Kareem in Flatbush Misdemeanors on Showtime Follow Gianmarco Soresi on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, & YouTube Subscribe to Gianmarco Soresi's email & texting lists Check out Gianmarco Soresi's monthly show in NYC (first Sunday of every month) Get tickets to see Gianmarco Soresi in a city near you Watch Gianmarco Soresi's special "Shelf Life" on Amazon Follow Russell Daniels on Twitter & Instagram E-mail the show at [e-mail] Produced by Paige Asachika & Gianmarco Soresi Video edited by Spencer Sileo Special Thanks Tovah Silbermann Part of the Authentic Podcast Network Original music by Douglas Goodhart Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I have a really bad sunburn. Great. Probably the worst in my life. Worst in your life? Yeah. Well, we can start. Welcome, welcome everybody to The Downside. This is Joe Marcus-Horazi.

For those of you just tuning in, I'm working on this at the very beginning for new people being like, this is an episode where we explore the downsides of life. If you're feeling negative, if you're tired of all the fake positivity out there, come here because we're going to be honest. I call it false positive. False positive. I agree. We got a lot of it.

A lot of it. Toxic positivity, toxic positivity, false positive. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm here with my burnt co-host, Russell Daniels. Yes. Well, you can't see it. It's not on my face. Great. There we go. There we go there we go um this right

uh it's my back your back you go to the beach so i went away i went to a cabin for the weekend with some friends and i'm not someone who takes off his shirt where's the cabinet uh oh good question um auburn new york it's like uh four hours north of here okay it's one it's near the finger lakes um you don't take your shirt off generally i don't find myself in a position where i am outside and it comes up like oh take your shirt off russell so who did who is that you'll take off your shirt man well yeah exactly and so i'm not super comfortable so i it's like you know but the opportunity presented itself you're boating we went to a swimming hole and uh yeah it was like it was like perfect it was like you know like three to four feet of water you park the boat so you're just like out there you know put

on music on the boat and you're and you're swimming you're having some drinks and i was like ah it's not that sunny out and i never get sun on my back. So what's an hour? What's an hour? What's an hour? So I did my face, my neck, my, my arms,

but I, I didn't do it on my back and it's, it's been like two and a half days, three days now. And it's, it's better, but it's hard to sleep at night. Like it's hard to be,

I can't be on my back. I can't be on my side. I have to be fully face down sleeping. Yeah. I've never felt like this burned. Like I was itchy. Yes. It was the first,

first day and a half. It's not, it's less so now. It just is. It feels stiff and crunchy. Yeah. Worst I ever did when I was in a, when I was in college,

I went to a tanning booth. I'd never done it before. And I, I just stayed there the whole, like they said you could go on and off. I did the whole 15 minutes. Do you put things over on your eyes? I had like the goggles, the little goggles for it. And man, I woke up the next day, I peeled off the bed.

I peeled off the bed. I was so burnt. So I went to a beach this weekend. It was my girlfriend's birthday. And last birthday. Which beach? It was Rockaway, birthday. Last birthday. Which beach? It was Rockaway, but we walked all the way to the nude. To the nude part.

I didn't even know there was a nude part. Jacob Reese is what it's called. You just walk further down. Did you go nude? There were kids there, too. You went nude in front of the children? It was nude kids? It's just tops.

Yeah, there were kids. There were kids. No, it's only tops. Only tops? No kids. They were kids. No, it's only tops. Oh, it's nude tops? Like, no one has their dick out. It's only boobs, basically. Oh, so that's a titty beach, then. Yeah.

I don't call that nude. Did a man, a male pervert, create that bitch? I brought my girlfriend to the titty beach for her birthday. That's the upside, baby. Yeah, yeah. I would have done it. I would have been game um uh how did you know when you got to do what did it say that dude but you're not supposed to do that

over there no i didn't do that i was ready was there a sign that said no dicks like what's what happened like how did you know you take social cues from the lack of dicks around kind of like maybe everyone was just like nervous about it yeah you know sure well that's the thing who's gonna be the first to do it? Yeah. And it wasn't going to be me. Right. But I was walking with my girlfriend

and the problem is we kept running into people I knew, comedy, old, like from improv 101 class. No. So she'd get ready to take off her top and they'd be like, Joe Marco! And it's like, going back on.

It's done. Close the blinds. But I think I did it. Listen, I owe Tova, my girlfriend, a good birthday. Last birthday I did a show in the middle of the day. And I've been hearing, I've heard about it a lot, the show that I did on her birthday. And this birthday I took it off.

Your pants off? Well, later. But during the show? No, no, no. I did no shows. There were no shows. Yeah. What about you

you have a lady right now okay you did that you reacted like she might be watching no you did like it happened 30 minutes ago yo

there's like texting your girl like hey I'm doing this podcast she's like bitch we're over yeah we're done it We're done. It's a rizzle, cuzzo.

When you have a girlfriend, though, do you take off the stand-up? Are you like, baby, stand-up's number one? Stand-up's always number one. As soon as they challenge it, they're in trouble. They're in trouble. They don't even know they're on the way out. So you start challenging comedy.

Because comedy's been here before you. Comedy's got me through a lot of different things. Comedy probably made me meet you. I've met comedy through a lot of women in this arena. If I met you through this and now you're trying to conduct it or control it or what I'm doing with it,

you gotta go. They saw some comedian Oh shit. I'll remember his name in a second but he said something about his wife i said something like do you meet any do you talk to any dumb sluts after the show and he's like baby that's how i met you don't disrespect you you heard it and it was so funny i remember his name in a second i don't have to shout out all the rest of them are dumb. He was the brilliant one. So I nailed the birthday.

Did well. Did a big birthday dinner. Oh, we did an escape room. But why did you get naked? I don't understand. Why did I get naked? Yeah. Well, because you got to push yourself.

You challenge yourself. Wait, wait, wait. At the show, you got naked? No, there's no show. You're conflating the... There was a nude beach, and then there were no shows. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, at some point on the nude beach Uh huh And then there were no shows Oh Yeah yeah yeah Oh at some point

On the nude beach You got fully naked No no no He's saying At the hotel later that night He got romantic later We made love And I took

Yeah Um When you have sex Do you go full nude Usually Yeah I like the skin to skin baby Yeah when you got clothes on It seems like That was Russell by the way He just said skin to skin If you. Yeah, when you got clothes on, it seems like somebody... That was Russell, by the way.

He just said skin to skin if you're just listening. You were just picturing me with a shirt on, shirt and socks. I can see shirts. I like clothes. I like clothes to be on for like a little and then like eventually. But I don't like it just straight off. It feels like it's probably a hooker transaction or what's this other thing? Oh, it feels like they're not committed. You know what I'm saying? If they don't take their clothes. You know what I other thing? Or it feels like they're not committed.

You know what I'm saying? If they don't take their clothes. You know what I'm saying? Or you don't take all your clothes. I take my clothes off because I don't like to feel clothes on my skin if I'm having sex. Sure. I think there's something sexy about a boob out. One boob out.

You couldn't wait. Yeah. You couldn't wait to get it off. Well, welcome our guest. He likes it fully nude. I like sex fully nude. Please welcome stand-up comedian and actor Kareem Green. Welcome to the show.

Now to launch us into the music, can you say something negative, something shitty that's happened to you, something about life you don't like? My broken ankle, baby. This is the downside. This is the downside, baby. This is the downside. This is the downside, baby. You're listening to The Downside. The Downside.

With John Marco Cerezi. Now, what happened to your ankle? I was actually Adderall. Let's talk this. I took some Adderall, right? But I was like done with the adderall you know done with the adderall what's adderall for again uh attention focus yeah i've always wanted to try it uh if you need it you know i need it i need some focus a lot of comics have adhd yeah and uh when i discovered it was like about two years ago. But either way, I was taking Adderall, but it makes it harder for me to pee. Yeah.

So they gave me another thing that helps me pee, right? But they both have this thing on there that says don't operate heavy machinery, blah, blah, blah. You know, so, but as I took the other one and I went to the Domino's and it kind of, I guess it kicked in, you know, because I was walking in New York. I walk fast. So I know my blood was probably pumped through my body. And then by the time I got was handed my debit card as I'm handing my debit card and passing out like, oh, no. I was like, and I swear to God, I was saying, no, Lord, you know, because I thought it was over. You know, I thought that was that was it.

That poor cashier. Have you ever fainted before? This is the first time I've fainted. Wow. That's scary. Yes. And you know, you're in public. Even though you don't want to faint at home.

No. Nobody's here to help you. But it is better. Yeah. Well, it's just the thought of later finding your body at home or finding your body in this little booth. The dominoes. I don't want to faint in dominoes. I don't want to faint in dominoes.

I don't want to die in dominoes. This is how big it is, though. I know. That's why I was like, no, not here, Lord. But this is how big the dominoes is, like where you just give them your card and you know, the waterproof glass and all that. And as I was passing out, I was like, oh, Lord.

But I caught myself at the end right before I fell all the way out. So I didn't pass out. Got it. But I guess all my weight went on that ankle and broke it. You were probably the 30th person that day to pass out in a city dominoes. It's an epidemic. Guys, if you,

if you, if you call me, you're like, Chamarco, I'm at a dominoes. I need you to come pick me up. And did you know in that moment that it was because of the the adderall and the p medication together uh what's the p medication called oh i don't i don't know the name of none of this stuff

because i don't know a whole medication just the p but it meant yeah it just loosens up whatever the adderall tightens up i think it's like uh yeah not your bladder but what is it your prostate or what's that other thing that's down there Urethra Right I don't think it was The urethra though No That were

Horrifying work Because if I take Adderall too It's kind of So it casts constipation too Creates like For me You know Oh my god

So But I'm not doing that shit You're done with Adderall Yeah Was it If I broke my ankle I'm like no I'm not

Yeah You were taking it Just for everyday life Adderall No for it was I broke my ankle I'm like no I'm not yeah well you were taking it just for everyday life Adderall uh no for like focus you know yeah to focus to sit my ass down you know how hard it is to like I write mainly on stage but to try to sit down and write something is hard for me yeah I'm always getting up getting up getting up in there and I gotta go sit back down I gotta talk to my sit back down yeah you know what I'm saying yeah because I literally would be like oh yeah I need to Put this in the garbage

You know what I'm saying Sure Everything that doesn't I don't need to do right now I'ma do right now You know So it's hard for me to To sort of try to just

Stay and focus And get into a zone Yeah You know I'm trying to Work on my flow state Get into some flow states I get what you mean I get what you mean

I mean you know I sit down and write I remember you You remember you used to Call me at LOL? Do you remember what your term was for me? Corporate. But that wasn't because of the writing.

That was because of the writing. It was because of my general demeanor. At LOL, maybe I'm corporate. In the real life, I'm not corporate at all. He was snitching. What are you talking about? I did not snitch about anything. Hey, you brought it up. What did I snitch about? Did I snitching. What are you talking about? In the fucking office. I did not snitch about anything. Hey, you brought it up. What did I snitch about? Did I snitch

about something? I don't know. It wasn't nothing. I was just messing with you. Oh, you snitched about something. I didn't snitch about anything. It was nothing to snitch. It was nothing to snitch about. Hey, are you not getting paid either right now? Hey, every comic here is complaining about this place. The mic ain't working for you dude

That's what it was But no It was just I think it was something he I don't know Something he said or did That was probably Along the lines of

The club You know what I think I'm gonna go out there Is cause I was probably hosting And so I I said Kareem You

It's a 15 minute set You did 55 minutes tonight And you were like Whoa whoa, corporate over here. And I'm like, I just want to go home. That was not it. That was not it. Could have been the car stickers you have on your laptop. You know, very corporate.

I remember one day, though, I gave you the light, Kareem, and you came off and you were like, I did 25 minutes up there. And I was like, yeah, motherfucker, it's 1 in the morning. But the thing is, though, this is what you got to gotta understand i only do extra time is when they they make me do extra time sure you know how they go yeah they'll leave you up there you think you're about to do 15 and you have your 15 kind of in your head and then you you don't even have your foot but you know you 15 you're like hey man you feel it you come off and you're like was that longer because that you feel it yes i feel that they give you the light and they don't yeah because they want to sell more

drinks yeah they keep bringing people in or the credit card machine is broken yes a lot of time all there's an argument for them not giving people back the credit card man i i closed out a show there the other day you've been doing the new one oh no no oh yeah that's that's my uh that's that's my uh every every comment who comes on this show goes what the fuck are you doing there yeah and i you still love it oh no no no oh yeah that's my that's my tab every comment who comes on this show goes what the fuck

are you doing there and I go it's the place I get to do what I do you got the right idea I do it because people used to be like

yo you going to L.A. I like for one if you don't if you don't get it this place has people from all over the world coming here so you're playing for the world

when you're playing these clubs over here, most of the time, you get some tourists, but you're mainly getting city people. But if you're getting the whole world in front of you now, to me, that's a different gauge of your humor. So as long as you don't turn into one of the rogue

comic hackies. For sure. But that's not going to happen if you get lazy. Yeah, that happens if that's who you are. Sure, I agree. That can happen to you get lazy yeah that happens if that's who you are sure i agree that can happen to you anywhere yeah but uh uh yeah i was there the other day oh they were dropping checks i was closing out the show uh-huh but and you know they're not supposed to drop checks they have the check spot for that but they were dropping checks on the clothes the my spot right and i will never forget when uh kenny ortega may rest in peace he i remember he was closing out a show once and they they dropped checks on him, and he walked.

Oh, yeah? He walked right away. As soon as they dropped the checks, he's like, are y'all good night? Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. And he should have. He's been there a long time. He had been there a very long time.

Yeah, he got an opportunity to do that. There comes a level where you got to stand up for yourself. Yeah. But that's why I'm not really there. I've done what I can do here. For sure. And it's going in reverse. Because you do, at a certain point, when things get, like, you could put up with some nonsense.

But after a certain point, it starts, your growth starts to go backwards. For sure. Or you start, you know what I'm saying? Or you start to stunt yourself. Or you go there and you're not even growing because you're so frustrated by what they're doing. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So now it's just like, and they were doing dumb things

like they put the stage up high and the mic is up. The mic never works. The mic doesn't work. And then when I don't use the mic, he was like, no, you have to use it. It's killing me. You went through a phase that you were standing off the stage. Yeah, I was getting off the stage, yes. I wouldn't even get on the stage.

And then I'd have to come up after it. I look like such a nerd. Like, well, I'm going to go back and I'm going to get on stage. And then I'd have to come up after it. I look like such a nerd. Like, well, I'm going to go back on the fucking stage. I'm going to use the stage. Look at corporate. That's corporate. That's corporate. Corporate.

Look at him do it with the man's face. Now, I want to hear all about your life, but I do want to repeat, and I've told the story once in this, and I've talked to you before about the woman, the bit that you had where you act out getting shot that story remember i've told you the story before where uh uh just to recount it oh like not me getting well it's about uh men having to risk their lives well women expecting you to die for them basically yeah yeah and in return what did you say they should they? Not should do. It would be nice if they did. No, no, no. What they offer you in return. What they offer you in return. I'm glad you got me here to tell this properly.

It's clear that you just... But either way, they offer you in return sex. Women's offer in... For whatever you do, they feel like you're equal as long as they gave you sex you know what i'm saying no matter what you like so you could save their lives specific it was a specific kind of sex i think in the bed at least no no that but that's what we do to get bad to get yeah yeah so all i know is kareem was like working the spit and and i say i say it when i bring up the story here you're an incredible comic thank you and uh

When I bring up the story here, you're an incredible comic. Thank you. As you are too, man. Thank you. And I was in the bar area and some comic had just done checks. And they did a bit about living in Astoria. And they said, oh, someone got murdered and so some of the prices went down. And they were like, oh, I thought about buying a gun and shooting it in the air so people would think there's more murders and my rent would continue to go down yeah so uh he he left you went up up on stage uh as he's in the bar hanging out this woman comes out and she says i'm you know so funny so funny so funny my daughter

died in the las vegas shootings and oh my god you know it's just something you might want to think about when you joke about guns so So we should think about your daughter? And then she has a postcard. And I guess she has many of these in her purse. And it's pictures of her now deceased daughter at different ages of her life. The yearbook photo, baby photo. It says, here, I want you to have this. And this comic is not like a super warm friendly.

He's like, no, no, that's okay. I don't want it. So he's on stage. He just started. And I'm hosting the show. And I just know that this week K, Kareem was like working on this bit. And there is a long act out of getting shot in slow motion. And I knew it was going to happen. And she went back inside and I didn't even go inside.

I just wanted to sit. Joe Marco, you could have prevented her from going back in the room. You could have just said, hey, if you didn't't like that maybe we'll hold off for a minute yeah let me talk to you first tell me more about your daughter that's what i'd like and and she went back in and sure enough within four minutes later she comes storming out and her husband's like baby it's okay let's go but she wants to talk to Roy, the manager. And this manager, you couldn't get money back from him if you had a gun. Yeah.

And it was just, it was a really incredible, incredible walkout moment. Well, it's a tall order to go to a comedy show in America now and be like, can't mention guns. Can't mention guns. Do you know what I mean? It's something that we're all kind of and the funny thing is I'm oblivious to all this until he told me I'm oblivious you could have lived your life not knowing about that also I'm glad

because I don't I feel for her and what happened to her that's sad that's messed up but you can't be putting your issues on other people man that's not cool you know what I'm saying especially when it comes to art we're not because honestly what we do is literally your issues on other people, man. That's not cool. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Especially when it comes to art. We're not, because honestly,

what we do is literally, we talk about what's happening in the world to make light of it so you can have another perspective of it. But some people want to stay in that place, right? They want to stay in that hurt place so they refuse to, you know, just absorb something else and release it and help release it.

Or even if you don't release it, you can at least look at it in a different perspective and go, at some point, you know? Yeah. But they don't,

they just, they want to stay in that place and they want you to go in that place with them. You know what I'm saying? And I think that's just not healthy. Yeah. Yeah,

it's a strange, it's a, but it sucks. Yeah. For her. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of TV movies, like comedy shows, it's going to be a tall, you know, it's just tough. And I her. I mean, there's a lot of TV movies,

like comedy shows. It's going to be a tall, you know, it's just tough. And I said, I said, I told a DC sniper joke once in Connecticut. I did.

I don't even remember where I was in Connecticut until after the show, this woman came up with tears in her eyes and said, just so you know, I think the reason that joke didn't do well is because you're in Newtown, Connecticut. Oh. And I was like, oh,

fuck. What happened? Because Newtown, that was the first young kids were killed in Sandy Hook. Sandy Hook fuck because Newtown that's the first young kids were killed in Sandy Hook in Newtown oh Sandy Hook was getting out of here?

yeah yeah and I'm like listen at this point every city in America is going to have a shooting to their name so you know I gotta tell this joke somewhere what am I going to go to overseas where there's less shootings to make the joke you gotta do whistle blowing jokes I've gotten whistled I tell this joke somewhere. Yeah. What am I going to go to overseas where there's less shootings to make the joke? Right.

You got to do whistleblowing jokes. You're like in England. You're like, I've gotten whistled down before. So let's talk about your life. I know you grew up in, what do you say, Brooklyn, Queens? Exactly. Yes. Yeah. I listened to a pre-interview.

Brooklyn, Queens. Oh, did you? Yeah, yeah. I did my research. I read my bio. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Brooklyn, Queens, New York. oh did you yeah i did my research my bio yeah yeah yeah yeah uh yeah brooklyn queens new york because new york uh because i grew up in like from let's just say from four to four to nine i was in brooklyn then from nine no one to four i was in brooklyn and then from four to nine i was

in queensbridge so so brooklyn and Queensbridge and then foster homes. But the foster homes, I was always either in Brooklyn or in Queens. That's why I always say Brooklyn, Queens. I'm not just from one place. What age did you get into the foster homes? Nine. Nine. Yeah.

Because we had Monroe Martin on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was saying how wonderful that whole foster home system is and how lovely it is. But he's Philly, so know, how wonderful that whole foster home system is. Yeah. And how lovely it is. But he's Philly, so his is Philly, I was New York. Okay. So, why did you go into foster homes? My mom was an alcoholic, and she used to run the streets.

And they gave it a choice. They were like, you got to look at these, you got to either take care of these kids, or you got to, you know, what you're going to do. What do you mean run the streets? What do you mean when you say that? You know, a street person, you know,

you know, a street person, like somebody who's just out in the streets all the time. Always like, yeah, go outside right now and you'll see a bunch of people

who's just always in the street. Yeah. You know, they're out there drinking, talking, chomping, you know, just street person.

Yeah. Like we are doing this. They're in the street. You know what I'm saying? And when you're doing something. You think they're talking shit about us on stage there's the podcast people the podcast and there's the street people yeah and when we're on stage or doing something else they're in the streets yeah like they that's their that's their hangout spot kind of like job kind of socialization you know so they always in the streets running around so either way she was a street person. And she basically chose the streets.

Who came? Who told her, like, hey, Kareem's just running around? I wasn't running around. I was a kid. Me and my little brother. My older brothers went to a foster home already. But when it came to us, they said, you want to go live with your brother? I was like, yeah, yeah.

I'm excited. I'm like nine years old. But I'm thinking,'s like well you're gonna live with him but you're gonna live like just 10 minutes away but at nine i'm thinking 10 minutes away is walking they've been driving yeah yeah so you know uh it wasn't really 10 minutes away were you sad to leave your your mom or was like was it just like was she just not in the picture yeah she was in and out you know i was sad to leave my family. This is familiar. But we were poor, right?

So it was familiar. But when you're young, to me, when you're young, I don't think poor is as bad as when you know you're poor. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Because I didn't know how poor. We ate, and we went out, we played, we went to school, we had some clothes.

You know, it was basic to me, and everybody, Dave Chappelle got this great joke where he talks about, he, it's different when you live and everyone else is poor, but when you're the only poor one, it's different in the neighborhood, you're the only poor one. Like, because he lived in a good neighborhood, but his family was the only poor one in the neighborhood.

But my, the neighborhood I lived in, everybody was poor, so it doesn't seem poor. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So. Remember the first time you in Everybody was poor So it doesn't seem poor Yeah Yeah So Remember the first time You realized you were poor I probably wasn't living there

I was just Probably in a foster home And you know Just you know Thinking about my life And I was like I was like man We used to eat beans

All the time And I never really Made the class Like why are we eating beans You know I mean we had other stuff too but i felt like there was more beans yeah you know so so you're you're nine years old and is it is it the the police or does the child protective services like who is the one that says hey come with us

um well my my i think my my uncle and my aunt was like you know because that's who we was living first we lived with with my grandparents uh-huh and then we went and lived and my aunt was like, you know, because that's who we was living. First, we lived with my grandparents. Uh-huh. And then we went and lived with my aunt. Because they lived in the same, they're like a block away or whatever, you know, same neighborhood, Queensbridge. So my grandparents lived on 10th Street. That's where we first, when we first moved to Queens. But my mom's, me and my brother used to be there.

But she's always out, right? So then my cousins lived across the street with my aunt and you know this we're all the same age you play so we have fun over there and then we went i want to live with auntie sandra you know so i want to live we want to live so we ended up living over there it didn't have to while living over there it was just like you got to do something because you're not looking after these children. Yeah. So at some point they told it to me, like, you want to go live with your brothers or whatever it is. I wasn't familiar with what foster care was.

And I thought I was just going to live with my brothers or whatever. But that wasn't the case. We ended up just living. I ended up, I remember the first one. I lived with this lady. And it was just, you know, I'm from the city. I'm from the city. So now I'm up in Long Island, deep in Long Island.

It's like woodsy. It's, you know, it's quiet. It's dark. Yeah. You know? And I'm like, you know, I'm just nervous. I'm just, you know, I mean, that's, that's so young. I don't know this lady.

Who knows this lady? Yeah. Was she like, was she, was she nice? Was she sweet? Do you remember how she introduced herself? She wasn't mean or nothing But she wasn't sweet She wasn't mean

She was just like What was the word? Did you call it? She was kind of just there Yeah, you want something to eat You know Nine If I had a nine-year-old

There'd be toys I'd be bribing that kid right out the gate I'd be like, here's some presents Just a room Here's some presents. Just a room. Here's some French fries. Cold bid. Well, it's a very specific thing to want to go into being a foster parent. I didn't want to be a parent.

Not you. No, the people that... Because you're like, they could be taken away. They could be placed somewhere. It just is like... It seems like it would be, I don't know, like a hard thing to want to do. Because then you're like... Oh, it's money. Yeah. How much money? I don't know, like a hard thing to want to do because then you're like. Oh, it's money.

Yeah. How much money? I don't know how much they really make. And is it really enough to take care of a kid? That's a lot. Well, if you cut corners, then you're probably making it. You know what I mean? 300?

Oh, I'm skimming 300 off the top? But back then, that was passive income. That's what all those passive income ads are. If you ever click on them. Foster kids. For real. And you get a certain amount for kids, but then you get more depending if they got problems. Like mental problems or highly...

Oh, God. High behavioral issues. Yeah. So if a regular kid, you know, me, I'd probably be regular base price, but someone who got like probably got to take medicine or, you know, acts up a lot. Yeah.

I get more money for them. Some, you know, they do get more money for that. Adderall and P medication. I mean, now you'd be worth a lot to take care of. I know I'm,

I'm, I'm top of the market right now. So how long did you stay with that? Like how many, like Monroe told us so many different, I think it was like 14 homes or something. Like what was your run? I lost count.

Oh my God. I lost count. It was, and sometimes I'd be in a foster home and if they go on vacation or go somewhere, go do something, we would have to go to another foster home till they come back. So then I had to go to like a,

I don't know what you call it, like a foster home rest stop until they come back. So they never seem. So you never become family. You're not family. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And is that, that's like their goal?

Like, does anyone foster and then adopt? Is that, does that ever happen? Yeah. Of course. You never, it just sounds. But that just wasn't our situation. That just wasn't my situation or Marone's situation. I think theirs is you know

and I don't think we was up for adoption you gotta be like in a bracket I guess to wanna do that yeah and we wasn't up for adoption plus we moved

different places we moved a lot I moved a lot of different places so there was and the older you get the less it's like women

you lose supposedly you lose value you were saying that earlier about your wife in a sense in a sense it's like you know because the older you get the less you know the harder it is to control you yeah you know you're becoming you're older you're a little more frustrated yeah or you're a kid you know uh so

teenagers and coming up in that area that you know that's why they like kids that are younger they listen they're easier to mold. They don't know shit. How much are they going to miss their parents if they really never knew their parents or family? You know what I'm saying? What is – so you're moving all these foster homes. Do you get to see your brother once a week? Do you ever see him? No, we didn't get to see them hardly ever.

No. How are you handling it? Do you remember being sad? What do you remember from that i used to cry every night i mean every no at a new foster home every time i go to new foster home i cry the first night yeah and you're moving schools a lot too right you're moving schools a lot too right so you're oh yeah yeah you're not even getting a base of like these friends like yeah yeah no you're like about that now though too i'm like i don't got no childhood yeah yeah

because i never stayed way long enough to build I do have one From like one of the Closer to the Last two four songs I was in And that one was in That was in Long Island

And I've developed A good friendship with The neighbor Cause he He was just He was We was living in Lindenhurst Like all white town

In Long Island Suffer And we were like The only blacks So He was, he was, um, we was living in Lindenhurst, like all white town in Long Island. Suffer. And we were the, like the only blacks. Uh, so, uh, he was, you know, he, but in my foster parents had, uh, they, they owned his home. They own that home. So they was renting his, that home to them. So we ended up becoming friends or whatever it is.

And, uh, we're still cool now. That's nice. Were most of the foster families white? No, no, none of them. None of them? No, no. Just this? I never lived with no white foster family.

I only lived with white people when I went to Fresh Air Fund. But that's when I was back living, when I lived in Queens, where I was with my family. Like in the summertime, y'all don't know if y'all know what Fresh Air Fund is.

Summertime, you take people from urban environments, take them up to maybe Pennsylvania or somewhere where, where that place you said where the lakes is that yeah yeah and and you know just give them a different uh look at life and it's just like it's kind of like camp but not you know what i'm saying so so they take you know people it's called fresh air fun you they take kids from urban places bring them into places, and you'd be there for like two weeks. Yeah. And just hang out.

Did you, so this program goes on until you're 18? Is that basically like how it works? What, Fresh Air Fun? No, no, no. I mean the whole foster care program. Foster care, it lasts, 18 you can go, but you can probably stay until 21. But it depends on the type of, like the relationship you have with the family. If you want to leave, you leave. If you want to stay, if you want to stay if you want to stay you can stay

and max out to 21 21 is the maximum were there any nightmare families along the way not families but nightmare person I had one dude

with a dead eye that guy was scary oh god and he used to beat me not beat me he used to go like he'll go this is

he'll go yo bring me the paper I'll go get the paper there's two papers there there's a paper there's a newspaper and then there's a circular I didn't know which paper

I just brought the paper bring back the paper he was like did I see did I see this paper he said the paper pow a punch

yeah and even with the one eye he was able to hit he was right on target he was scary yeah and I'm you know I'm not even

I wasn't even in my Teens really yet I think I wasn't really even in my teens Yeah I wasn't really even in my teens If I was I was I doubt it so I was between Nine and Probably nine and eleven

Somewhere around there I would give it around I would say 9 and 10 so and he was like big like you know what I'm saying 6 better ball head let me see who he looked like he looked like

Avengers what's his name Mistakeballed? No the Avenger the guy who puts them together Samuel Jackson he looked like him he looked like him not exactly like him but with the dead eye with the glass yeah he didn't had a patch you had to look at the glass uh and did you ever see your mom during any of this did she ever stop by no no no she didn't know the only time if i would see her is when i'll go back to the to the neighborhood and you would do that on your

own accord you just be like i want to go back no you get visits you know you go get visits yeah you have visits but you the visits normally normally we go to a place and visit like you know is this uh uh and the the foster agency i was with was called little flower and it's downtown brooklyn so we'd all go down there and we'd meet people. I mean, and we'd meet our family. Our family, you know, that saw Visitation. And, you know, I don't remember her showing up too much. Yeah.

Yeah. And sometimes she would, sometimes nobody showed up. That was hard. Yeah. So you'd go, it'd be Visitation Day. Nobody's there. Oh, man. That was hard. Yeah. So you'd go. It'd be visitation day. Nobody's there. Oh, man. Oh, man.

And all the other kids are with their parents. Mm-hmm. That is. That's the real one. That's the tough. That's the tough, toughest. One of the tough ones. One time I went down there and there was some people.

What are they there? I don't even know. But I know. I knew how to get on the train, so I got on the train, and I went to Queensbridge, even though I was on a visit, I was supposed to be there,

they were like, what you doing? I was like, I wanted to come see my family, so I just got on the train. When did your mom pass away? When I was 14. You were 14?

Mm-hmm. Did you go to the funeral? Yeah. Were you, did you, how did you feel? I was hurt, yeah everybody i would i would think anybody would hurt to be their mom's dad yeah yeah like do you remember like when the

last time you talked to her during it just seems like she was so not present in your life she's an alcoholic yeah you know but she did she die related to that or was it something else? Yeah, like pneumonia. She had pneumonia. I think she had one lung because she had years ago she got stabbed. Fuck. So she had one lung. I don't know a lot about my mom because, as I said, I went to foster home at nine. Yeah. I only had really four years with her.

Yeah. Kind of like, and make that two because the first two years of your life or three, you don't really know shit. You're just a kid. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah so maybe about from i would say maybe three to four i knew her and then and then when we moved to queensbridge it's just i she was there but not all the time like you know saying in and out yeah you know i'm saying i mean but she was there she come home spend the night we whatever you know if i act up in school her ass ask her up in school. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to act up, right?

And in school, you normally have these little windows. You know that little window for the door? Yeah, yeah. And I was just running around doing whatever I was doing. You know what I'm saying? Because at some point as a kid, you'd be like, they can't do nothing. You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying? And that's the thing I think makes me me a comic the rebel in me like like yeah i can't do nothing i can't you know so i do the fucking one here so i'm running around doing whatever i'm doing then one day i seen and you know i i was being so bad uh that i had to get a progress report every day Every day And then sometimes I'd be like And one time I'd trick I'd game

I'd be like Come on Just give me a good one this time I promise I'll be good tomorrow You know what I'm saying Uh huh You know what I'm saying

So he just hooked me up With this one You know what I'm saying But then the next day I was fucking bad again So I couldn't even You know Hold on to my problem

So either way Either way I guess The word got back to my problem. Either way, I guess the word got back to us. People need to call your house all that shit. One day, I'm running around the class and I look and she was at the door. Outside though. Looking through the window.

That's all I saw right here. Uh-huh. Open the door, and go outside, talk, you know, well, not talk. She whipped my ass in the hallway. And then I go back inside

and just live a... Wow. Yeah. Get ass whooped by your mom in the hallway. In the hallway. Nobody was out there, but I know they heard the screams.

Yeah. Oh, my. I know this is... I always... When you you say whipped your ass are we talking spanking are we just talking smacking i don't know what a spanking is whip your ass like pull out a belt but no no they never right there they never beat you they never like no one could be that's a that's beating you down like that's different to me a belt is just less normal it's just the back people getting normal no i getting normal no I don't know you did hit you ever the fuck is you yeah nobody like oh they'll go you know turn around and you know you don't want that but they always want your butt yeah but it hurt they try to get the button you try not

to let them get the butt but then everything else is gonna get hit yeah yeah you know you try to grab the belt but you don't turn them so yeah did you ever get beat no do you think it's if you had kids now would you would you yes really yes i would i don't matter of fact i would not i don't not like they did but a special occasion i whipped that ass I don't, not like they did, but a special occasion I whipped that ass. Bell? Yeah. You made it sound good on a special occasion. You made it sound like, well, on July 4th.

Yeah. I'll give him an ass whooping. Well, the ass whooping, is this the same way I am in real life? It's like, there's a level. There's a certain level that I was like, okay, you got to get your ass whipped. You know what I'm saying? That's just where I'm at with it. Like, even if, even, like, see, me and you was going through something, right? You could probably do

a little smarky shit or whatever. Corporate. You was doing something to me and I'd be like, you're going to get a few things sliding. I'm going to let a few things slide. Certain things slide. But if you do, there's a certain line that I'm going to be like,

we got to fight. That's it. We got to fight. That's it you know what i'm saying there's no negotiating there's no whatever because all that other shit is that thing of like taking kindness for weakness and uh i call it activated you don't want me to get activated you know what i'm saying so you don't want like and that's the problem you let people slide a lot and they think you're soft or they think that's not they don't think you can go there far okay so uh if it gets to a certain point i'm gonna you know yeah sure sure i i don't think i ever could but i also understand when kids are out of control and you're like someone do something but that's i think that's why you know the i uh i'm not i'm not talking all white people but a good amount is yeah i don't

have you can say anything about white people you're not gonna get in trouble for it no no i ain't worried about that shit i just don't want to be saying shit i don't know sure i don't like this i don't know i know what you mean in terms of it's like no discipline is not necessarily the solution yeah spear the rod when they say uh uh spear the rods no use the rod. When they say spare the rods, no, use the rod, spare the child. You ever heard that shit? It's like in the Bible or something. It's like basically if you don't discipline your kid, you know, they're school shooters. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. There's some comic that talks about time out where it's like, you know, you just give them time to be with their fucked up thoughts. Like that was what my parents did. We would do timeout, stare at the wall. I remember. What if you, what if you don't do that though? I mean,

what if, what if, what if you, they do timeout and timeout not working? If they do all this other shit and it's not working at some point, you got to whip that ass because they don't, you got to whip that ass. You got to whip that ass because you,

you need to understand, they need to understand that this is, uh, this can happen. Like, you know what I'm saying? And I feel like kids not just white kids

but especially the new kids social media there's a degree of saying shit and it's like you're going to get hit you say that in real life right and that's the problem there's no consequences to that parents don't give them the full gamut of what life

really is you know what I'm saying If you go out on the street and act that way You may die Someone might kill your ass Because you don't have the proper You wasn't raised well You was raised nicely but not well When I say well that means

I ain't saying just beat your kids But like say if your kid Say if your kid do some shit in school And then come home And then And then you be like I'm gonna take your phone or whatever And you gonna

He be like so what Whatever Oh really Yeah So you gonna just take my phone for a week So what You need to ask with him Yeah

You know what Because you need to know This shit can go bad Yeah And if you don't If you don't have that You have no lines to cross Yeah You know what I'm saying You be like oh this is You don't have that you have no lines to cross yeah you know you be like oh this is you you don't have no barriers yeah you know that's why some kids go to go over

bridges and throw turkeys over the fucking thing frozen turkey you've seen frozen turkey no no i haven't heard this at all yeah yeah why did you need to look up your white history white people do a lot of egregious like in in definitely specifically with the frozen turkeys but the difference between say when and this doesn't make it uh i don't wait tell us what's called the turkey thing first oh no that wasn't a new that wasn't a new what did they do they threw frozen turkeys over the highway onto people's cars they bought them and then did that it just ruined people's cars most likely you know most likely most likely my god yeah i had not heard that cars you would die

somebody throws a window yeah you know if my kid did that i i could see that being like a line i didn't know would be crossed but would you but would you beat him then if you i so. Well, you'd turn him into police, right? No. No, I would never snitch on my kids. Well, the police would probably get caught somehow. Yeah. But the thing is, it ain't even about the police. I'm like, after that, would you say,

okay, you got to get your ass whipped? Or you're going to be like, time out for you, sir. You killed people. I remember my nephew. You killed people? Oh, you got to get your ass whipped. Or you can be like, time out for you, sir. You killed people. I know my nephew. Oh, you almost killed people. My nephew told me one time that the worst thing that they could, like their punishment in their classroom was the thinking chair. And I always thought that's so shitty because you're like,

thinking is a good thing. So to label it as the thinking chair is kind of shitty. Also, it's not, again, it's not really a punishment. They have to look in the corner or no, I think you just sit in this like chair, like probably,

you know, at the front. I don't know if there's a shame thing. It's probably in the back of the room. That's what I was thinking. That's kind of like the area to quiet and, and you know, because you're the bad person and that you deal with your guilt and all your

feelings when you do that, whatever it is. I do think this thing about shame, I like that punishment. Sometimes courts do it too where it's like, if you got caught drinking and driving,

they'll make you walk the street with a sign that's like, I drank and drive like a loser. Don't be like me. Well, something about shame is very effective.

Like the scarlet letter kind of punishment. Basically, yeah, scarlet letter situation. I like that. I would operate, I think I would be a shame based

parent. So if your kid throws turkeys over the thing. You're going to make them wear a billboard that says I throw frozen turkeys over people. That destroy people's property. Alright so you found out your son. Yeah. No no no. What are you going to do to me if you do that? If it's my son

how old is he? That you choose. Old enough to pick up a turkey old enough to lift a turkey over the goddamn over the banister over the overpass you know

you know nevermind I'm taking that phone away for sure you said enough because it's taking you too long you said enough

your kids are going to murder people go ahead he's raising some school shooters my kids would have been aborted because I'm not

having kids so not even going to be a situation. Hold up. Not all these shooters necessarily. Some of these shooters I think were beaten pretty regularly. I don't know if we can take the most extreme example. I think that some of them

Most of them are white. Some of them are I think some of them are abused. Sure. But the one Some of them are I think some of them are abused Right Sure But the one I think a large amount of them aren't And the abuse that they do get Is probably some non-acceptance at school

And that's why they go there But that's what I'm gonna And that's not even an abuse That's just like school You know School is like Kids like You ugly

Whatever You got a big nose Whatever Oh I'm so sorry. I'm going to be, I'm going to be nihilistic and just say that these kids that are fucked up

are going to be fucked up whether I hit them, whether I make them meditate. No, that's not, see, this is, this is the sad part.

This is the sad part right now when, when I talk to white people. It's like, you don't like to own nothing. Well, that's not true. I think that's one of our problems is we like to own. You like to own you don't like to own nothing. Well, that's not true. I think that's one of our problems is we like to own everybody else's shit but your own.

That's boom. That's the perfect. You like to own everybody else's shit but your own. And just for me talking... Just me talking to him about a kid throwing a turkey, a frozen turkey. He was having problems with disciplining his kid. At what level

i've never hit anyone in my life i don't even know what i do i know it was hard i agree with you i it's not a natural thing for me but i i can see what you're saying and i don't know what the answer you know i don't know but it is i took off a belt i don't even know what i probably hurt myself by accident swinging this thing around what would you think would be the proper type of discipline for that? I'll tell you. I would be like, I would take away shit. No going out. No phones. No Wi-Fi. I think that'll make them go nuts. Probably some chores. Some chores.

I mean, they're gonna... Wait, but they killed someone. They didn't kill someone. They didn't kill someone. Hold on. And this is what it on. Hold on. Hold on. And this is what it is. This is what it is. He's giving him a regular punishment for an atrocious.

Yeah. And a fucking atrocious act. You know what I'm saying? He's getting. This is literally what white privilege is. Yeah. Not trying to bring it there. But this is what white privilege is in the world. Like, you know the guy who went in and shot like the 10 people at the grocery store?

Who killed 10 people at the grocery store? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're talking about charging him with one murder. That's you. No, what the fuck? That's you. What the fuck? I would beat him for sure.

But that, you know, that none of them. He'd be like, no more buying frozen turkeys for you, young man. I can respect. I understand you never beat nobody. And that's tough. But at the same time, it's just like, where do you draw the line? Like, this is not acceptable. Like, you know what I'm saying?

They need to know. This is, and this is highly not acceptable. There's certain things, you know, there's a lot of shit you can get away with. But that, you know, you took your privileged turkey. People don't even got turkeys to eat. You won them the fucking turkey you got spare turkeys you don't like a spare turkey i could see i could see getting so enraged i would slap my kid oh i could see a slap i don't know that sound like abuse what the fuck um no because a beating on the butt is You know Butt leg That's what I'm saying

But slapping some That's different Right Yeah What the How did I get on the other end of this So quickly Slapping is insulting

You know what I'm saying Slappers are insulting Slappers are never punishment Whipping your ass On your butt cheeks Just to let you know I'm gonna I'm gonna i want your butt to hurt so you'll remind you that you don't do this but also i don't i want you to know

i do love you but do we do something do we get the authorities involved if they're not oh no you'd know you know we don't if you don't i mean you don't well that's why i wouldn't no no i wouldn't oh no no no no one should i would I wouldn't try to tell my kid no no no I'll beat that ass but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I ain't gonna whip your ass and didn't send you to you know put you into the a system that you know I'm saying now you got to deal with that shit on a whole nother level

yeah now the world got it now you're dealing with the world you know because I don't trust the world yeah yeah you don't because they're unforgiving everyone's very unforgiving when it comes to other people you know, cause I don't trust the world. Yeah. Yeah. You know, because they're unforgiving. Everyone's very unforgiving when it comes to other people. Yeah. Kick off an exciting football season with bet. MGM,

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Really? Left the military. How long were you in the military? Never went. Never went. Yeah. I sold drugs in between. So the sign up, were you selling drugs when you signed up or you

i was signed up then uh i believe i was this is what happened i think i was selling i tried to sell drugs you know i have that in my materials were you good no in the material i'll tell you that that's you know i i I say I try to sell drugs. I say it didn't work out. I said, because you know how you feel when you can't do the wrong thing right. I sucked at it. I couldn't do the wrong thing right. So basically, I was just too nervous.

I was too, that just wasn't, you know, that wasn't me. That wasn't, that's not me. Was it weed or anything else? No, it was crack. Crack. Yeah. I had a crackhead trick me out of my crack. What did they, how did they trick you?

Because I was so nervous. I'm like, he's like, let me get two. I'm like, he's like, you know you ain't supposed to be selling this, right? I was like, I didn't sell you nothing. I didn't sell you nothing. You just gave it to me. That's why I'm running. What do you mean?

He said, let me get two. I gave him two. He's supposed to pay me. And he goes, you know you're not supposed to be selling this, right? I said, I ain't telling you nothing. And I ran. Wow. And then I came back.

I was like, this motherfucker got me. Wow, that guy's got to move. But he's seeing the nervousness on me. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? He's seeing the nervousness. When somebody sees you nervous and you in that kind of atmosphere, yeah, this is an easy victim.

You just said, you're not supposed to be buying this. All right, calm. Neither of us are supposed to be doing any of this right now. Calm down, murdering child slapper. Murdering child slapper dad. How much, when you say two, what are they? Dime bags? 16ths?

I don't know. It was years ago. I don't know what I was. So it was like really brief. He just wanted two. It was a quick career. It was literally like two weeks. Literally like two, maybe three weeks. I don't know what I was. It was like really brief. He just wanted two. It was a quick career. It was literally like two weeks. Literally like two, maybe three weeks.

I sold drugs. Mm-hmm. I didn't know what I was. It was just like. Didn't take off. Didn't. Wasn't your thing. No, no, no, no.

It was something. And prior to that, years ago, I just didn't want to. I said in my head, I don't never want to. I said, what did I say? I would never want to sell drugs. That was like in my head, you know, that was a bad thing. Yeah. You know, even though I see like other people idolize it, I was like, it's just a bad thing, you know?

And then, but, and that's the difference between like when I talk about like the white, black people doing things. Like the kids throwing the turkey off of the thing. They have so much, you know, they have so much that they don't realize and they're just looking for fun. They don't mean any harm when they do that but they're young so they don't know how detrimental the thing that

they're doing is. But when young people who are in poverty areas, whatever, they're selling drugs or doing things to earn money to live better or to survive. That's a different thing. Not to say it is right. It's not right.

But the purpose behind the difference makes a difference. The thing makes a difference. Not that it's right. Both of them are wrong. But, you know, the intentions. Yeah. You know, one is just fun. We're so rich, we're throwing turkey, though. We're you know, the intentions. Yeah. You know, one is just fun. We're so rich, we throwing turkey, though.

We're so poor, we selling drugs. I think the turkey should be more higher punishment. They should have introduced a bill in the 90s about the super turkey throws. In a great world, them little racist boys would take them turkeys. Wait, when did they become racist? You know how you raise that shit. They're racist. Come on, you know how you raise that shit They're racist Come on You know how you raise that shit

They're racist They're racist And it's sad Because they don't mean to be that way It's just they're taught that Through their Like Racism

You know it's taught You know it's taught So it's taught through Even just They don't even have to say We hate this We hate that It's just the way you

Separate yourself From other people And When you probably see people on TV the things you say you don't even have to say no he's like see it's those are dangerous that's a dangerous area those are dangerous people

those are a little subliminal things you put in your child's head towards other races to create these behaviors towards them when they either in the street or at a job place, you know,

you planted all these seeds of, uh, I was, remember my, my grandfather's funeral, they were talking about, he grew up in, he lived in Greenwich village a long time.

Someone was telling a eulogy and like, this is my older, older aunt. And she was like, you know, Greenwich village can be a little, uh, CD.

What's another word for seedy? And then someone said sketchy. Sketchy. Sketchy. White people love to sketchy. And then someone said diverse, and she went diverse. That's the word. After using code words.

Just like the opposite of sketchy, dicey, diverse. Yeah. Oh. That's the word. It can be very diverse. code word just like the opposite of sketchy dicey code word yeah oh sketchy it ain't like it can be very diverse it's very diverse it's like it's very diverse

yeah I'll never forget it's in your window another way my sister was coming up to Harlem I lived in Harlem for eight years

and I invited my sister she was at college at NYU and she's also white and I got a call I invited my sister. She was at college at NYU and she's also white. And I got a call. I invited her up for dinner and I got a call from her dad

and he was like, don't ever tell your sister to go to Harlem that late at night. And I was like, we're going to the Whole Foods across from my building. There are little white girls

everywhere in Harlem. I don't know what Harlem is in your mind or like what you think happened. Listen. I don't know what Harlem is in your mind. Right. Or like what you think happened. Listen, I don't know what 1960 Harlem you're talking about. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

But that's that thing. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's that thing that they teach. You know, so it's sad because they keep, like we're trying to rid ourselves of this disconnection that we have amongst each other while other people are instilling that shit. You know what you're safe from in Harlem?

Getting frozen turkeys thrown at your car. Not going to happen once. I'll knock them ex Boulevard. I promise. You ain't gonna get food thrown at you. That's for sure. You ain't gonna get food thrown at you. They get some bullets thrown at you.

You might get some, uh, I don't know anything else thrown at you, but it won't be food. Listen, someone was shot out here once a couple weeks ago. I'm on Lower East Side now. These days, you can get shot anywhere, anywhere. They were shot over here?

Yeah, someone across the street. This is LES right here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alphabet City, they call it. You can get shot on the train. There's no way you can't get shot anywhere. Man, bullets are everywhere, baby. So then just take me to

before you started comedy you were doing different jobs after you left military what are you doing? the thing is the military I had got caught selling drugs you got caught? so I had a court case and I went to Indiana I was just trying to do anything

so I went to Indiana to drive trucks to learn how to drive trucks because I always wanted to travel but I didn't you know it's like you want to do something but you didn't know what you really I didn't know I wanted to be a comedian but I knew I wanted to travel see the world

and stuff so the way I thought about it was trucks that looks like fun you're driving all over the you know the country this is after you've been caught though this is after i've been caught so you have like what a court date coming up and you're like let me go learn trucks uh yeah yeah yeah i was like um it was like uh i said if i don't come to this court they would happen they's like it's gonna be a warrant for my arrest i was like yeah but either way the court thing the truck thing didn't work out anyway because I couldn't drive trucks.

It's that hard. Oh, I had basically learned, I learned how to drive. Regular car, basically. And now I'm going to drive double clutch stick shit. You know what I'm saying? And I didn't even know

how to drive regular stick. Nightmare. Wow. Yeah. The only reason I did any little decent there is because some dude from Alabama, he was funny as shit too uh he was uh he like you can't i said i don't know how to drive no goddamn sticks he was like i got a car i can

i'll show you we could you know so he helped me drive the stick but still it's still stick and it's still new it's brand new i'm learning that and then I get in the truck It's double clutch stick So it's like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Double Double clutch Next 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 So it's like 9 gears and shit

Yeah So Learn how And then you know Drive First you don't You're barely used to driving Yeah

Now Now you got the stick Shift involved Now you got double I'm going too fast You know what I'm saying Sure And I was like And we need They do the test It's like the serpentine Now you got the stick shift involved. Now you got double set. I'm going too fast. You know what I'm saying? Sure.

And I was like, and when they do the test, it's like the serpentine. You got to move the truck behind, in between cones backwards. Right? The truck got to move. To get like a special license. To get the license. CDL. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Boom, boom, boom. You got to do that shit. Right? And then you got to, like, it's called docking. You got to learn how to dock it. You know, pull it up to a dock, to dock the truck that people take shit out. What was the other one? That one?

That one. So those are the ones I really couldn't get done. Because when you turn, like, when you, like, you know, when we drive a car, you go this way, it goes that way. Yeah. This way, it goes that. It's the opposite with a truck. Okay.

So if you, normally, if you want to go this way, you go this, backwards, you go this way, that is the opposite with a truck okay so if you know me if you want to go this way you go this backwards you go this way right boom but if you go this way the trailer goes that way got it so now the brain is not ready yeah so there's this new stage double clutch and the truck doing uh the opposite thing is a bizarro world yeah so and in the serpentine i couldn't even. You're just driving straight through the cars. I was like, he was like,

yeah, I'm going to let you go. I was like, I can do this. He's like, you know what? You have no idea what you're doing. You have no idea. I was like, come on, please. I can't go home he was like i'm sorry if you knew a little something i could probably but you have no idea what you do oh man so that i had to get back on that greyhound selling the drugs didn't take them the driving the trucks didn't take the

drug and in the military i was like i called the military i was like well i'm in court right now so everything was a whirlwind how'd you get out of this court did you just oh I get probation okay I got probation a little bit after that I started comedy sure I was in like

five years probation you started in here in New York you started doing it here and funny thing a few years in I was going to Amsterdam I wasn't supposed to be even leaving the city so I'm on probation cause no in Amsterdam

are you out of your mind what do you mean like you were going to go back and go to jail were you worried were you nervous I'd be scared if you were my friend and you said I'm going to Amsterdam I'd say what the fuck are you doing Kareem I'm doing me baby was there any part of you that forgot you were on probation no

like okay he was not doing what he was supposed to do no fuck that look I can go to Amsterdam I'm going to Amsterdam I am what you call Leonardo DiCaprio catch me if you can catch me if you can, motherfucker.

Catch me if you can. You know what I'm saying? If you didn't catch me, I ain't do it. Yeah. So either way, but probation, it wasn't like you thinking parole. Y'all probably thinking parole. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, let me school you naivete's. Yeah.

Parole, I've never been that far in jail. Probation is like you go and they be like, this is wrong so you know we gonna give you this much time probation probation means like you just gotta check in every month that's all parole is like where you live you got a officer that comes and visits you and you gotta go see them they check your piss

all kind of shit like where I was at they didn't really check your piss they didn't really you know you could kind of be like, I check in with them once a month. They're not going to know if I go to Amsterdam. They know. They didn't know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was a little nervous. I was like, I don't know if my passport is going to like flag. Oh, yeah. I was thinking that shit. But no, no, no. I didn't, you know what I'm saying? I just do what I do.

What did you do for work like when you were like in the early days of comedy? I did a little bit of, what did you do for work? Like when, when you were like in the early days of comedy, comedy, I did a little bit of, uh, what was the first thing? Uh, well, uh, amalgamated press.

I used to print cards. Uh, like I, I worked in the press room of a life insurance company. Okay. So like we printed letterheads and whatever, and then we delivered them. And that was cool.

But that's when I early started comedy and before and while I was doing that though I was going to TCI too I was about to be a something with computers and I was doing alright I had a B but once I started comedy nothing survived nothing this was the biggest as soon as I got into comedy I was like oh

it just you know it just takes over you you know it's just like this is this is it you know what I'm saying? You felt it. You feel it. You'd be like, yes! But even though I was doing it, I wasn't even doing it at the level that we're doing it at now when you start. So it was rough, but it was just still a

you still, this is it's just one certain things in life you'd be like, no, I can do this. Other things, I'm good at I know I can do this. Yeah. Like other things, you know, I'm good as I was pretty decent at sports. I was,

you know, I was in no dummy when it came to school. I just didn't really care for it. Um, but I like learning. I just don't like school. You know what I'm saying? So,

um, the, when I, um, I'm sorry, what was I talking about? You're talking about, I need my Adderall. Yeah. Yeah talking about. I need my Adderall.

Yeah, yeah, right? We need that Adderall back. No, you were talking about comedy and leaving behind the computer programming. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just started flunking in that and coming to work late. Sure. But before that, too, I was doing some, what was I doing? I was doing this other thing.

I did, what's this, telemarketing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did messengering. But, you know, the messenger, not messenger, like bike messenger, but on foot. You know, you take a package, you take it somewhere else. Yeah. You know, that's what I used to do a bit. But I quit.

I quit on the job. Like, I was just like, I went. I literally, but they gave me a package. They were like, okay okay I was supposed to take it back to the office and I guess somebody else was gonna take it

but I took it straight to the other place and they was like no you were supposed to bring it back to the office it was raining that day I was like oh fuck

yeah I just left I just I think it was like my third day anyway too so now you're doing stand up full time and you're

now you know he's acting. He's in a flatbush misdemeanor. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. A TV show. Two seasons. Second season. And you're married to Maria Bamford. On the show, yeah. On the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my wife on the show. And you told me that was a lie.

Someone said that you didn't know who Maria Bamford was when you did that originally. Somebody said that. I forgot. Was it you who said that? Someone told me. Maria Bamford was when you did that originally. Somebody said that. I forgot. Was it you who said that? Someone told me. Oh, no. That person is stupid.

And you said you're about to cross the line and I'm going to hit you, Jim. I said, please. Can I just do a timeout instead? I'll just sit in this corner right now. I'm about to drop a turkey on your head. A frozen turkey. Have you done a show with Maria Bamford yet, though? A show?

No. You guys should like. I mean, it would be a totally different vibe. Oh, it's a different vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It would be so much fun. Oh, yeah. I think we're just different.

You know, I don't even know what type of comic I am. I'm just, your book's on the floor. I don't know what type of comic I am. But to me, she does great impressions and just, like, quirky and unique. You know what I'm saying? Sure. I think I'm just like a, I don't know what you call it.

I don't know. I just, I start with the truth and add some embellishment. I do comedy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do comedy. Embellish truth. Embellish truth.

Well, let's go on to our next segment. This has got to stop. This has got to stop. Woo! Do you have a thing that's got to stop in the world? Something that's bothering you? Personal life small lay it on us the other than white people not hitting their kids i don't know what you call it but is this thing called i don't know what you call it but it's a thing now where everybody once there's a new word out that's what you are oh you're you're toxic. Say you're toxic.

Oh, you're mansplaining. Stop gaslighting me. There's new buzzwords that everyone is like. I had something where someone said to me. Sociopath. That was a sociopath. Narcissist for a while. Oh, narcissist. Everyone is a narcissist. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is how you know you're dealing with a narcissist a gaslighter gaslighting people don't even know gaslighting is a period of time uh if i lie to you that's not gaslight it's a lie but a gaslighting is like a long gaslighting is like a long creating a false movie in your head yeah like a whole yeah but people be like you said you're in front of me at Starbucks, you're gaslighting me. You're like, no, no, no.

I'm trying to steal your spot. It's a lie, a quick lie. I think mansplaining is one of the, because someone did that to me recently. I put up something. It was like, if you would like to get an abortion, here's what you would do. And they were like, oh, you're mansplaining people

to get to kill babies. I was like, all these things all at once. It was strange, because normally I feel like mansplaining, it feels like kill babies. I was like, all these things all at once. Yeah. It was strange because normally I feel like mansplaining, it feels like it's more like a liberal. A liberal thing, but it's funny to a pro-lifer. But then once in a while, the sides will borrow each other's techniques and be like, yeah.

Yeah. It's called full-blown idiotacy. It's just fucking idiots. It's just idiots. I mean, because they get new words and they just want to use them on you to seem smart, to seem like in the know. Yep.

To seem, what's his name? Woke. You know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's just pathetic. But then like woke is used by every which side. But it's like you're not even thinking. Like for good, bad.

It's always interesting. You know what I'm thinking about recently? It's not necessarily the same thing, but you know how people refer to the big lie? That's what they call the election lie now? Whenever there's like a politician who still says the election was stolen like the big lie became the term that everyone uses news stations newspapers i remember way back when trump was president there was a big debate real quick the big is gonna be like it was stolen the big you mean the big truth Is that the one you're talking about?

The big lie. I'm just clear with you. The big lie is that it wasn't stolen or it was stolen? The big lie is that it was stolen. That it wasn't a fair election. All right, cool. And that's like the term that everyone uses now. But I remember the beginning of the Trump presidency, all these newspapers were super cautious.

They wouldn't say Trump lied today. They would say like Trump spoke a statement that doesn't necessarily reflect the facts. It took so long for these publications, these slugs,

these sloths to be like, yeah, he's just lying. It's a mistruth. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's a mistruth. It's a false characterization.

It's a lie. It's a lie lie and that's the funny way how people learn to dance around being honest yeah i've said it before by this gotta stop in terms of language has bothered me so much they said something came out today where trump he wanted to go to the capitol on january 6th and the secret service was like absolutely not it's chaos over there. And Trump grabbed the wheel and this is how they testify. And he said, I'm the mother effing president. And I'm like,

it's motherfucking. Just say fucking. That's what the president said. You're testifying the thing that happened. Everyone in this room is adults. They're all going home and go,

fuck, that was crazy. So just fucking say it. What are we doing? It's like we're adults talking to adults like they're children going home and go fuck that was crazy yeah so just fucking say it what are we doing yeah it's like we're adults talking to adults like they're children yeah and that's why you have politicians who come along and they go god damn it and everyone goes like wow also it's weird man of the people also it's weird because you're on oath in theory in the thing so that's not what he said just say what he said this woman in jail. You said effing. He did not say effing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So it's perjury, technically. I hate, I hate. It probably started when Clinton smoked weed but didn't inhale. That's when that shit started. He was like, I didn't inhale, but I was like, mother effer, this is some dank ass shit. Yeah, like I sniffed coke, but I didn't inhale. Yeah. It's crazy.

It's crazy. You know what I'm saying? It's like to tell someone something like that to their face, it's just like how, that's a level of disrespect that you have for a person to think that you can talk to them in that fashion

and think they're supposed to believe it but then again people do believe it yeah they're a bunch of woke sociopaths they've been gaslighting us for so long and our final segment you better count your blessings here we go some some nice blessings. Amen. Something sweet. Something kind. Amen. What do you do? Are you a church guy?

No. I saw your merch. Your merch is very inspirational. You do like that. Inspiration has nothing to do with church. We continue. Yeah. Are you really?

You're anti-church. I'm not inspirational. I go to church. I'm just not religious. That's what I like. Sure. I'm not religious. I'll go to church. I'll go to a mosque. I'll I like. I'm not religious. I'll go to church.

I'll go to a mosque. I'll go places where people are gathering for the good. You know? But I just don't. I'm not a part of the group or nothing like that. But at this rate, I know Crips, but I ain't in no gang. You know what I'm saying? I know Bloods. I ain't in no gang.

We cool. That's the metaphor that cleared it up for me and Russell was Crips and Bloods we didn't understand it until you put what's your blessing russell you got something um yes uh the plant uh the aloe vera plant i've been got like we have a bunch on our roof and i've been using them on my back and then i've also been um my friend when I was away had some gummies. So I've been like microdosing the gummies. And it has helped with the- What, mushroom? Or is that a weed? Microdosing weed.

Gummies. Just like very- I've never heard of microdosing weed. I hope they put mushrooms. Well, maybe I'm using the term wrong. I'm doing a smaller- You were doing edibles, bro. I'm doing a smaller edible than you would normally do.

How many milligrams is that? I don't know. You would chew, but you wouldn't swallow. Instead of like eating half of it, I'm eating like a quarter of it. And it milligrams is that? I don't know. You would chew, but you wouldn't swallow. Instead of eating half of it, I'm eating a quarter of it, and it's been helpful in terms of pain of this last two days.

Good, I want you to do more of it. Why don't you just do Advil? You know, I did it at first, and then I was like, it just felt like I don't want to have 16 Advils a day.

Do you know what I mean? I was like, I'll just do this thing because I only had to do it twice, and I was like, oh, I feel good and relaxed. And it's fun. Yeah, know what I mean? I was like, I'll just do this thing because I only had to do it twice and I was like, oh, I feel good and relaxed. And it's fun.

Yeah, it's a little more fun, a little more relaxing. Good, I like this. I like you becoming a stoner soon. So this portion is what are we thankful for?

Yeah, so specific, like for me, I'll do, my friend Lindsay Elizabeth Hand helped me figure out all the things I did for my girlfriend's birthday. Figured out restaurants, what hotel to stay at.

We did a hotel. What one? The Standard. Could have told you that. Oh, I was just in there. Were you? Just the other day, literally. It looks over that park, too.

It looks over that little park on the water. Yeah, beautiful view. Yeah, the view of the park. The park that's over the water. You got a nice tub? Dope. I paid extra for it. And it's a glass. You can see through the bathroom. It's a view of the park. The park that's over the water. You had a nice tub? Dope. I paid extra for it.

And it's a glass. You can see through the bathroom. It's a see-through bathroom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can see each other's shit and everything. It was wild. You could see out when you're at the tub. We had a big tub. I paid extra to have a bottle of champagne.

And by the time we got back for dinner, we were so drunk and blazed. We had a sip of the champagne. And the toes were just going to fall asleep in the tub and we said okay we're in our 30s now that was nice now we go to bed that's nice there's a lot of like romantic nights now where it's like we eat a huge meal and then we're like we're just gonna go to bed yeah there's no yeah there's no love making now you do before go do before that's the thing that's the thing i'm learning more i'm like oh, oh, lovemaking goes first. Then you go.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then you go what? Then you go out. I'm saying it used to be go out, come back. These days, by the time we get back, we come in and we're like, do it first. Do it first. Lovemaking first. Yeah, yeah.

Get that off your chest. Get that monkey off your back. You know what I'm saying? Because you'd be like. Babe, can you help me? I got this monkey On my back right now Monkey on my back

I like to do that Like if I see a girl I immediately wanna I wanna hit Let's hit And then we can go When I see a girl I just immediately wanna hit

Yeah No I mean I mean a girl that I know A girl that I know Sure sure sure That we've been fucking already You know what I'm saying So like Like let's say If it's a girl out of town My we've been fucking already. You know what I'm saying?

Like, let's say it was a girl out of town. My girls be out of town. Go out of town. And so you get there, all right, let's fuck. You know what I'm saying?

You fuck. And now we can enjoy our time together. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Because until then, I'm like, when is we fucking?

You want to go in? Let's dress the elephant in the room. Let's go to the movies. Let's go to the, let's go to the movies let's go to the let's go to the let's go to the house fuck

and then we can do all that shit you know what I'm saying so now I'm not just trying to think about fucking you all the time yeah now I can really

listen to your words baby I'm not hearing what you're saying right now we gotta get this monkey off my back first you got a blessing to see us out oh

who I would say i am grateful i am grateful for what is it oh the biggest really is serious oh people like don't say your health but i'm really grateful for my health because even though my ankle got broke i was still able to do shows i was still able to kind of function you know i'm saying because i i wasn't like just down you know yeah and i'm i'm grateful for that you know i'm saying you have a bit would you address it on stage do you say a little bit but you know the story i told you it's not really that interesting so and i but i've learned but that's the joke is really about if your story ain't good nobody wants it no one cares you know what i'm saying or if good, nobody wants to hear it. No one cares.

You know what I'm saying? Or if they don't want to hear it. Like, even if you find out somebody died. Like, if I tell you somebody died and you'd be like, what happened? How did they die? And then I'd be like, oh, I don't know. You'd be like, oh. You just fade off.

You know, it's not interesting until you find out how they died so you can tell your story. Sure. Because really, knowing someone's story, you want to hear the story so you can connect it to your you can tell your story. Sure. Because really knowing someone's story, you want to hear the story so you can connect it to your story and tell your story. Yes. Because every time I told somebody my foot was broke,

I broke my ankle. Oh, I broke my ankle in 87. Oh, my ankle. I broke this. Everybody broke something when I tell them my ankle broke. Yeah. But they only want to know

so they can tell me. Sure. So it really was about them. Someone died last night that Tova and I both knew. Yeah. So it really was about them. Someone died last night that Tova and I both knew. And as we were going to bed, Tova's like, finds some article about them dying

and goes like, oh yeah, it looks like they just died in their sleep. I know. Good night, baby. And I was like, what the fuck? I knew exactly what you're talking about.

Just leave it. Just leave it. Leave it to yourself. Tell me in the morning. I know. And it was like, you're saddled with that information. You did not have to put it on me.

I know, but weren't you curious? Because that drives me nuts when I don't know how someone died. I know. It drives me nuts. It should be in every... It's like a dark thing because I know the family doesn't want to have to do it. But anytime they're saying so-and-so died, you just at the bottom, it should just said cause of death.

Did they have or just be like we found him dead like even that is like that like I do feel like everyone wants to know why and how yeah there's no good answer it's not going to be like you know sometimes they haven't done the autopsy yet

I know but even being like we just found him dead is like something to offer you know what was he doing what happened you know you him dead is like something. What was he doing? What happened? You know, one of the wildest deaths was the one that karate guy. What was his exercise routine? Which karate guy? You know the karate guy?

I forgot his name. White karate guy. He used to do the karate. That narrowed it down? Yeah. There's only like one white karate guy who did mad long. Yeah, he killed himself. He hung himself like when he was jerking off.

It's an asphyxiation or some shit. Oh, oh. You know what I'm talking about. The guy from Kill Bill? David or something? Kill Bill. David Carradine, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There you go. David Carradine. Yeah, he was jerking off and hung himself like asphyxiation. Yes. Autorotic asphyxiation. Yeah. That's ill. Yeah.

And we found out. That's comforting. You're like, oh, good. But I feel like I don't find myself in that position. So, yes, I checked off a list of like... Do you ever want to try, though? No. What, to choke yourself in death? It must be good. You mean to jerk off?

No, not die. No, but the whatever that rush is. It must be really good. You know what it is? I'm not into pain. You can drink heroin if you wanted to do like, you know. And also, if you know, when you're on top of a girl sometimes, if your nose get covered. Is that me?

Am I the only one? Because I'll be on top of you and you'll be like, you're doing your thing. And then your nose will be like. Wait, where is your nose? You're on top. I'm on top. But you know, you're on top, but your head is on the side. As you know.

Yeah. But the pillow can get on your face. I see. And now you're like because you can't really you need to you need your wind so you can fuck yeah

you know and then but you can't but the pillow holds that's not comfortable so I don't I don't feel like that would be fun yeah basically the choking of the

yeah I think I think they're very different things you know what I mean huh I've only had sex on my back so I have no idea what this is oh my god lazy corporate fuck lazy corporate fuck different things. I've only had sex on my back, so I have no idea what this is. Lazy corporate

fuck. Lazy corporate fuck. Alright, well... Oh, wait a minute. Go ahead. No, no, no. What were we going to say? No, no, no. I'm sorry. So, if we need to see if there's anything we need to plug, this is coming out on July 26th.

It's a couple weeks. What? This episode. So, I was thinking if there's anything you want to plug. Oh, this episode. What the fuck? I thought we were just doing this for shit. We were just talking. It would be funny like a future world where guys don't know how to talk with each other until they have a mic in front of them.

A podcast. So the one thing I will preemptively plug is the downside. We're doing a live live podcast it's the downside we sold four four tickets so far but it's far away so it's okay far away it's live it's the downside at sesh comedy club it's on the lower east side tickets are five dollars or if you write me or russell we'll give them to you for free yes sama sadiki is our guest it's from 6 to 7 30 uh on august 14th anything else you want to plug live in LA September

21st at Dynasty Typewriter perfect and anything you want to plug find me on Facebook at Kareem Green 21 that's my fan page that's where I be at and I talk to people and I'm on Instagram too but Facebook is where and I talk to people and I'm on Instagram too but Facebook is where I

really talk to people also on my YouTube but the main thing is watch Flatbush Mr. Minus season 2 it's streaming on Showtime Hulu Amazon Prime one of the most fun things I've done in my career

and exciting and I don't know, is it? No. And Dan Perlman, Dan Perlman, who we're going to have one day. We're talking to him.

Kevin Iso. Kevin Iso. Hassan Johnson. He's a Christian Dawson, but Hassan Johnson is like one of those underground legends of actors. He was in the wire. Yeah. He was in the wire and a bunch of,

and belly, a bunch of other, you know, urban dope shows. Micro scene was in The Wire. Yeah, he was in The Wire and a bunch of, and Belly, a bunch of other, you know, urban dope shows. Mike Racine is in one scene. Oh yeah, yeah, Mike Racine. A lot of comics are in it. Oh, and I forgot, I quoted a comic up top. That was Ishmael Lufti who was a fantastic comedian. That was a joke

I told earlier. And, well, just know whether you did you have something you want to say before we... I need you to get some better lighting in here for me because I'm dark skinned. I know. I told earlier. And, well, just know whether you, did you have something you want to say before we? I need you to get some better lighting in here for me because I'm dark skinned. I know, I know. I can see it right now. I'm working on it.

It's a blotch. It's a blotch on your camera. We had a blotch in here today. Give it up for blotch green. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Give it a little light because it's the shadows. But no disrespect, this is a nice spot. I like it.

It's dope. Thank you, thank you. Oh, yeah, life becomes great when you become little light because it's the shadows. But no disrespect, this is a nice spot. I like it. It's dope. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Life becomes great when you become grateful. That's the shirt she was talking about. That's my merch. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Now, you can see why I see that feels biblical. Life becomes great when you become grateful. What you feel and what it is is not my responsibility. Yeah. But that's what the world is now. They're making you responsible for their feelings yes well life becomes great when you become grateful

by Kareem Green by Kareem Green that's Kareem Green original and my merch if I ever make merch it will say life is great because it ends this is what you would say if you make merch moisture crunch life is great because it ends.

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