The Joe Rogan Experience - #1278 - Kevin Hart

Episode Date: April 6, 2019

Kevin Hart is a comedian, actor and producer. His new stand up special "Kevin Hart: Irresponsible" is now streaming on Netflix.

here we go in five four three two one yes out of all the fucking people that make me feel lazy in this world there's two okay make me feel you and the rock you fuckers don't look like you ever sleep no no no days off. That's why I love his unattractive ass. He's a he's a he's a person that that motivates me, inspires me. And the fact that we're we're co-workers, we're friends. I think is I think it's like it's a blessing. It's a blessing to be around that. Yeah, because it truly it's uplifting. You know, it makes you it just makes you weed out the circle. When you're around people that truly give you some good, serve a good value to you and your life, you then look at those that don't, and you can then push away. So I'm big on personality. I'm big on energy. I'm big on energy i'm big on will and wants uh i believe that it's contagious so if you

have a a bunch of laziness and a bunch of bullshit around you naturally it's going to feed off you're going to find yourself becoming what's in your environment so i feel the exact same way and when i see that i see that in you i see that in you that's right i feel like i've seen an avatar i see you i see you yeah but a guy like that like i always wonder like how much. I feel like I've seen an avatar. I see you. I see you. Yeah, but a guy like that, I always wonder how much of that is – I've had sleep experts on the podcast that tell you there's real problems if you don't get enough sleep. You have a much higher risk of Alzheimer's, all these other serious issues.

But I see a guy like The Rock. I'm like, how the fuck does he sleep? Where's the room for sleep? You know, that's true. I can't say that I've witnessed the sleep patterns but he's he's a late ass so he does i know he's sleeping at some point because like what are we waiting on what are we waiting on dj god damn it he's he's probably getting his his rest which is well deserved um but you know when you when you say you had these sleep experts and stuff on, it's always a thing that I go back and forth about because what is enough sleep?

Like, I'm a person, I function high off of six to seven hours. Yeah. Six, seven hours, I'm functioning. Yeah. Five hours, I'm great. Do I do the five-hour thing all the time? No. But if I have to, I'm fine. i don't need the eight and the nine i feel like that's too much for me like i'm i'm

i'm an early riser and now that i'm getting older you know if i can get in that bed by 9 30 or 10 on an off work day i'm very happy with that but then i'm up at 5 30 right i'm up at five so what is enough sleep what do they tell you it really depends on the person there are people that have a gene where they can just sleep four hours a night i got that fine you might got it i got that is that a disease what is that does that mean my blood is gold what is that what is it just means you got special genes goddamn right i'm alien i got some shit there are there are people that just don't need as much they can they can go a long time without sleep diagnose me i'm one of those people you might be i bet a lot of high functioning people are because your body tends to you get more

efficient you know like you're always going you're always burning and hard so your body's like when it's time to shut down it's like shut down get that five six hours in all right then you're good let's go i will i will confess this i am an amazing cat napper yeah i'm i'm one of those guys that's a good move if you stop talking to me long enough i'm i'm gonna fall asleep right here it's something about silence really and just not doing anything and i just well that's probably you're probably going on momentum all the time you probably you're probably going on motivation and momentum okay and when your body has this break your body's like we can use a little sleep right here that's just i'm 100 right i'm this is that's i know for sure that that's accurate because i'm i'll catnap in heartbeat do you feel like you've hit a good balance so this is what i always wonder about with guys like you or guys like The Rock.

When I look at your Instagram, your social media, and you're just constantly going like, God damn. Do you ever feel like you do too much? Like maybe I just need to take a little break here. Do you ever feel like that? I think the perception definitely perceives reality. You know, what looks like so much isn't always so much because you have a schedule. And within that schedule, there's the things that mean the most that come and act as downtime. Me and my house is downtime.

Even though it's still active and I got to be dad and I'm with the kids and the wife and this conversation and I'm running around and I'm back and forth that still acts as downtime for me like I'm shutting the work off so the phone is in the office I'm not going back to get it until the morning and it's all conversation it's all tv it's all taco Tuesdays it's couch and cuddling uh you know baby time whatever that's my downtime because i'm i've taken a step outside of the other shit that's wise that's that's what i think i do very well i can step outside the other shit i can separate it so i think when you're able to do that then you're you're managing your mental you know i mean like mean? Like if it's always one thing all the time, that's how you fucking drive yourself crazy because you're never shutting it off.

Yeah. And I think I do a good job of shutting this off and focusing on this. Like when I'm with my family, I'm with my family. Nothing interjects or comes in between. That's fantastic. That's so important. That's 100%. That's beautiful. You figured that out fantastic that's so important it's 100 that's beautiful you figured that out that's gigantic i think i figured it out that's it man i think i

figured it out i mean you've got so much success it's not you have to be with that fucking phone all the time that's that that's the phone is the big one right the phone the phone is is the gift and the curse you know i think that we we shot out the gate and saw the gift. Oh, my God. It's community. It's connecting us. We're able to share. We're able to meet new people.

We're able to stay in communication with old people, find new people. As an entertainer, I can engage with my fans. And this is so dope. And then after that, you get hit with the the curse and the curse is there's a there's a high level of negativity that's out there that's on that shit you know there's there's a lot of people that are you know not happy or or going through things and they interject a certain amount of negativity and hatred through these devices these devices are the easiest way to touch everybody so when you're just consumed on that

shit all day you start to see yourself being a part of the negative shit yeah so what i've learned to do is go i don't i don't need to see that i don't need to see that. I don't need to see that shit. I don't pay that any mind. I don't read that shit. For what? It's not helping me. It's not making me better. It's not pushing me to new limits. If anything, it's taking up just creative space by me literally spending time going and navigating through what I think is a bunch of bullshit yeah so i don't let the

device beat me and at one point i definitely did at one point it was everything it was everything it was you know now i separated i know how'd you break clear of it when you realize what it is when you see when you see the bad you know when you see the bad side of it i thought the other day this is some real shit and it really made me think my phone died my phone died and i'm driving and i was using the fucking maps and i was like oh shit what the fuck how am i get to where i don't know where i'm going and i said i was like yo how did we how did we get from point a to point b before the map shit what what were we doing that i used to print out directions from google maps i remember that but then before that how did you get to the places where you were going that you

didn't know how to get to i don't even remember do you remember thomas guides do you ever have a thomas guide i did have a thomas guide when I first moved to LA, I had to get one of those. I did have a Thomas Guide. Giant ass math book. 100%. Bill Burr had one until like three years ago. Yes, Bill probably still uses it. Shouts out to Bill Burr.

But it really fucked me up because I was like, how do, we don't even know how to do the common, the norm anymore because the device has made everything available and i literally had to to drive to a store where i could buy a charger charge up my phone to get back and use the map to get to where the fuck i was going because i had no idea how to get there i had no i didn't know no numbers by heart i didn't know who i was gonna call like yo this was the moment where i was like what level of success have i reached i just pulled over and i sat there and i was like how the fuck am i gonna get to where i'm going you have a spare phone man i don't know what it was a backup phone it felt like the end of the world it felt like it felt like it was over i was like. Isn't that crazy how dependent you are?

But that's when the light bulb started to click. Yeah. It started to click. Like, how do we function without? I want to go backwards a little bit. Yeah. It's still there. I still need it.

I still think it's dope with all of the things that we can do on it. But I still want to be able to put it down and step away from it. I want my kids to be able to step away from it that's why when i come in the house my phone is up because i can't i can't bitch and complain at y'all about being on your phone if you see me doing the same thing right right so that time those conversations me wanting to know about your day you talking to me about your day your who you like, who don't you like. My daughter, you what boy? Who? What?

Huh? No. All right. God, my son. Yeah. I like somebody who? Oh, Jesus. Here it comes. It's a great thing.

And I want to be able to have those moments. And, you know, I think it's big to make sure that you prioritize that. Are you worried about what comes next? 100%. I'm worried that something's going to be way more intrusive than that. What do you mean? It's already happening. Yeah.

The biggest scare happened already with the FaceTime shit that happened where— What happened? Well, Apple on the iPhones, it was like people could listen in to your— Oh, yeah. If you didn't even pick up, they could FaceTime you. They could just listen in to it. Yeah. And that was the scariest shit ever.

Because if it's that easy to have a bug like that, what's the thing that's not a bug that's there that you just don't know about? Oh, there's definitely government listening to us right now. A hundred percent. Yeah. A hundred percent. They're recording everything everybody says, and then in case One day you do something wrong They'll pull you aside

Mr. Hart We'd like you to sit down for a minute We're gonna play you something 100% Yeah So the fear is The next level Of

Immersion Intrusive You know I think everything has become Intrusive now Like The toughest thing for me Is that there is no

There is no privacy outside my home right you know the the amount of money that you have to now spend just on security on you know people to to be with me security to be on my home you know it's like there there literally is no privacy and it's not that I bitch and complain about it. Because without the fans, without the people that support me, I wouldn't be where I am. But there's no middle ground. Right. You know, there is no handshakes anymore.

It's how you doing. Right, right, right. And it's like, a handshake is so much better to get a moment. Like, we can talk if that's what you want. No, no, no. Yo, say it now. It's kind of weird because you're doing this to me. It's kind of weird to have a conversation. So you're just starting to see yourself become a little older and wiser and just really see the times for what they are and see the direction that we're going in as people.

And just hope and pray that we find a middle ground. Because I think right now there isn't one. Yeah. That's what I'm feeling now. No, I feel it too. Especially, I mean, what you're talking about is you being super famous and losing all your privacy. But everyone's losing their privacy. Slowly but surely. It's happening to you because you're very famous and because you do something that's in the public eye.

And people want to see you and they want to stick that camera in front of you but there's going to come a point in time where what we're dealing with now which is like you have to turn your phone on you have to you know you have to reach out to somebody you have to put something up that's that step's going to be out of the way and it's just going to be people being able to access your life yeah pretty you know you know the bad here's what I'll say that's bad. That really fucks with me. I don't like that negativity is the want. Yeah.

Like the thing that's popular is the failure. The fuck up. You know? The fight that i can catch yeah the hateful moment that i can catch and post like the bad is being highlighted and celebrated that's what fucks with me with the social media shit now what what really bothers me is know, when you see these things online like, you know, a fight and there's a man hitting a woman and it's captured. Right. That's bad. The bad thing is that you watched that the video was more important than the actual help.

Right. Or the moment to step in. Or the moment to step in. And, you know, when you see these things where you're catching people do these things to kids and it's caught. The moment of what you got and what you want to post and get likes or whatever on is the focus instead of the help. Yeah. And that's the part that is just, I just have a hard time processing. I have a hard time processing what the likes mean to certain people. Well, you get an extraordinary amount of attention,

so it doesn't mean anything to you the way it means something to a regular person. But to a regular person, if they can catch some world star video and put it up there like, dude, that's my video. That's my video. Look, my video got five million hits. My video has gone viral. My video is everywhere. For them, it's like it's That's my video. Look, my video got 5 million hits. My video has gone viral. My video's everywhere. For them, it's like it's a point of excitement.

That's why when they see you, they're like, oh, shit. How often are they going to run into Kevin Hart at Costco or wherever the fuck you were? I definitely run into me on a, you know, I'm in a bathroom restaurant and I go to the bathroom. You know, by the way that I went to the bathroom, you could definitely tell I had to shit. I was moving fast. I was, you know, it was one of those abrupt, you know, while you're eating.

Yeah, I'm eating bad. So I didn't eat bad in a while. My stomach immediately said, this is not going to happen today. So I get up and I go. And literally like three seconds, I hear it as I'm walking. Oh, they're going to have heart. And as I'm walking by, a guy gets up, follows me in the bathroom.

And he's like, yo, I got to get a picture, man. And I said, let me go to the bathroom. When I'm done, I'll take a picture with you. I go to the bathroom. This is a true story. Hand on the Bible. Hand on the Bible. I assume the guy is to the bathroom this is a true story hand on the bible hand on the bible i assume the guy is outside the bathroom because i as i'm going i see him and i say what i say i get done i go to

the sink wash my hands he was just sitting behind the wall and he's like got his phone out and i'm like he probably did he just take me while i was shitting, didn't he? Did he put the phone over the thing? Oh, Jesus. Like, I'm about to be on. Oh, my God. It's over. This is it. This is my nightmare. Here we go.

They're about to put something up of me shitting. It's the bottom of my feet. It's whatever. Yeah. But he just waited. And that moment, it was so important that he was in the bathroom. And as soon as I got up, come on, let's take a nap. I said, let's go outside the bathroom.

Yeah. Let's take a picture. That's a bathroom. I said, I'm not going anywhere. I'm a nice guy, man. I'm going to take the picture. He's like, I just didn't want to lose you. And I'm like, there's not even a thought.

There's not even a thought about it's a bathroom. Right. How weird is that? It's a bathroom. This is a pretty fucking weird moment, man. This is weird. Following you, waiting for you to shit. Yeah, you just waited for me to finish shit, and I don't know what you got on your phone.

Right. You're too big for me to ask to go through your phone, so I can't. Whatever you got, you got. But I had to go out and take the picture, and I remember going back to the table just like, what's happening? That's so strange. At this point, what is happening? happening yeah that didn't exist before i think if you were famous before people just wanted to get an autograph or shake your hand we're pat we're past the autograph stage when's the last time you get an autograph it's been a while it's been a while i don't think i

don't know how to write it i don't think i would know what to put down it's been a minute man yeah and i don't and i want to make this very clear you know it's not complaining i don't i don't knock it you know i understand like once again i want people to more importantly understand the fact that i welcome it yeah i welcome the moment that i can talk in and converse with the fan but it should be that like it's normal yeah the moments are better when they're real you know and after a real moment you you get a picture because you're like yo he was actually a nice guy or i had no idea that that you would be this calm and cool you don't even get to see how genuine of a person i am because the first thing you do you you you stick the camera in the face

you and that's when people think that you're an asshole because they they they they have the intrusive moment that then gets met with it can you can you please i'm sorry you don't have to stick it in my face damn you ain't gotta be like that wait wait a minute they look for that too they look to turn on you because now you get your moment yeah you you look for that, too. They look to turn on you. Because now you get your moment. Yeah. You look for the negative moment. When did shit start getting weird for you? Like, how many years in? I don't know. It's been pretty crazy.

It's been pretty crazy for, like, the last four to five. The last four to five years. And the last three, you know, it's gotten insane. Because now, you know, you're on an international level. So it's global. And the following is bigger. because now you're on an international level, so it's global. And the following is bigger, and it's all ages, which is really, really good. But I think for comedians, it's a different thing because you feel like you know comedians. You're laughing, we're in your homes, everything is met with warmth.

So when you see a comedian, especially if you're a fan of a comedian you're associating everything with funny and you're just looking for the funny moment right you're you're looking past the normal moment you know it's like you almost are frowned upon if you're normal if you just chill right right right because everybody wants the funny moment right they thought you were going to be funny all the time it's like i'm i'm supposed to i'm supposed to pop lock right on site you know yeah if it's two in the morning and you run into me and i say hey how you doing man that's not enough when you work out your shit now i've seen you at the comedy store but only once like where do you work out your shit now, I've seen you at the comedy store, but only once.

Where do you work out your shit? I like to go to random comedy clubs. I think I'll go to New York first. New York has always been a home when it comes to building, putting some structure within a set that you're trying to figure out. Once I got a skeleton of what I want to do, I'll just go to West Palm uh i love that comedy club the improv down there and i'll stay for two weeks oh really and just go and run through some jokes i'll go to utah i'll go to denver you do like wise guys yeah yeah yeah i'll go to comedy clubs just random comedy clubs that you wouldn't expect to see me at but i'll do a hell of a run.

And the goal is to get out of there with just a foundation. It's not to have a complete set. I just want to get a foundation. So when I'm done getting the foundation, then I'll do a little comedy club run. I'll do a full comedy club run where I'll just put two or three months in. And it's comedy club, comedy club, comedy club. And I'm doing seven shows a weekend. And people are shocked that i'm there and that i'm doing it but you know that's my that's my gym that's how i work and i end up leaving that period of time with a complete set after the first three or four months that i spent now after that comedy club three or four months

on that run then i take it to like a small theater. I see what my laughter feels like in a small theater, and I do a little run in small theaters. And then when I finally feel like it's at a point where I'm getting the laugh consistently and the punchlines are working and I flipped it back, frontwards, forward, every direction. And my story is a real roller coaster. And it has an ending where I feel like we get off the roller coaster and we're happy. And you don't feel like you were there for an hour. It's then when I go test it out in the arena. And if the arena, if it lasts or sounds the way it's supposed to, then I say, okay, I'm ready.

If it doesn't, then I'll go back to small theaters and then I'll go to an arena again. So not until that arena sounds the way it's supposed to. Do I say I'm going on tour? So sometimes it takes me about a year, a year and three months, a year and four months. You know, people don't understand how hard it is to develop an hour of standup material. You know,

people act like you just turn on a new hour. It's, it's an hour to get to an hour. You're going through four to five hours of bullshit that you thought was funny. Yeah. To come up to that bullshit that you thought was funny. Yeah. To come up to that hour that you finally say, this is going to be the representation of me this year. Yeah. It's a lot for me to do that, especially at this level.

Well, especially while you're always doing movies and you're always busy with a bunch of other stuff too. Stuff. Yeah. I mean, you don't take any breaks. Well, I tour. I actually, when I'm touring, if there's a movie, I make the movie schedule around the tour. So my shooting days will go Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, wrap Thursday, maybe have a show Thursday night, and then I'm going Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Sometimes no show Sunday, sometimes show Sunday, depending on what the work schedule and the workload for the following week would look like. So I'm implementing that in so when I say I'm out

I'm out I'm gone so I knock that movie out in two months and then when I'm not that tour schedule shifts so

the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday dedicated to family dedicated to the office everything then those weekends are touring but that tour lasts for a year and a half I mean this

year we did 157 shows on my irresponsible tour wow 157 shows before you decided to put it on the netflix special yeah we did the netflix the taping i think i did it three weeks before we were done so we probably had 143 shows oh wow then i taped it and finished the tour did you always have this kind of structure like when did you how did you design this i'm a thought out individual yeah you seem like i'm a i'm a well thought out individual everything is not random no everything is planned if you look at all my stand-up specials there's a two-year gap in between them so the two-year gap is because at the end of that second year my new special should be coming out when a new special should be coming out.

I'm now focusing on what the next special is going to be. So that first year is all development. Like right now, I'm off. I'm not touring. But now I'm mentally in the gym and throwing all the old stuff that I talked about away. That's now thrown out. Can't repeat it. Can't repeat it. Can't say it.

Now it's talking about what the new version of myself is going to be. What do I want the conversation to be? What's my thinking? And just taking notes. So eventually now, I'm going to start just popping up in random comedy clubs and trying to figure out what the next thing is. So by mid-20, i'll probably be doing comedy clubs by the end of 20 i should have a full-fledged concept of that new hour and by the beginning of 21 i should be ready to go out with my new hour end of 21 film my new hour mid 22 that hour would

come out that seems like a schedule a lot of people are doing now the two-year schedule it's a perfect get yeah that's how i do i i know louis ck did a year every year and george carlin did every year but i think even he said it really wasn't the right way that's tough a year is tough yeah i mean that's a that's a shout out to those that can't do it i think that's amazing. I think just for everything that I have going on and all of the different things that my hands are in

within the brand, the business, I need to make sure that I'm giving 100% to those things so they have the highest opportunity to be successful. Right.

If I'm trying to cheat it, then it's going to show. Yeah. It's not going to come out to the best of my ability and within stand-up you gotta you gotta fucking magnifying glass on you you know you're always being judged off of what you did at one point just like a musician you're always judged off of the album that everybody thought was whatever so the biggest thing for an entertainer artist whatever your craft is is creation how are

you recreating yourself how are you constantly showing that you're growing for me the only way to do that is to talk about my life and the things that grow along with me the experiences my family my marriage my mistakes my ups my downs those are the things that i can talk about forever because as you get older things change shit gets different but it's all coming from my personal opinion of me my view on me and how i see life. You can't lose material in that state. That's why I stay away from certain things, because those things can become boring after a while. For me, because I don't have the knowledge of everything that I should. Like what? What kind of things?

Well, politics. I don't joke in the politics. I don't joke in anything that has to do with the slander of others or other communities i don't do anything divisive good for you that's my that's my biggest thing and you know uh this past year was was one that got a little weird because i was like yo i've really dedicated myself to bringing people together like i'm i thought that was my my goal that's my priority i damn sure thought that's what i was doing on a global scale everybody all races shapes sizes whoever you are whatever you are you can come to a kevin hart show and have a good time

so when it came off as if i was a person that was divisive that was tough you're talking about the oscar oscar shit yeah like this is a time where people are just looking to be upset about things 100 they're not looking to looking at you kevin hart as just a human being like what what who is he overall super positive they're not even concentrating on that i mean think about how positive you are and yet they tried to concentrate on some jokes that you did what nine, nine years ago? Well, it's a wake-up call of understanding the times. But then more importantly, you know, for me, it was, okay, I went through it. I made sure that the people of the LGBTQ community really understand that, hey, guys, I apologized before, but I'm apologizing again.

I'm sorry. I'm not that guy. I don't want you to think I'm that guy. Then it just became the constant conversation. That never happened. It just became the constant conversation. And now it is, guys, I'm not only sorry, I don't condone anything that has to do with hate to anybody. This is no longer a conversation so guys i'm going to stop

talking about it because now i feel like i'm feeding into yes what i'm not i i know i'm not the world and public should understand and know that i'm not because over this time period, I've shown that I'm not. So the apology, once again, I'm sorry. Genuinely, I'm sorry. But then it just kept, it just, it never stopped. And at that point, I just made a decision. And I'm like, guys, at this point, I just, I'm making a decision to not talk about it anymore. That doesn't mean that I'm being disrespectful to anybody. That doesn't mean that I'm shutting down anything. It means that for me, I'm going to stop talking about it because at this point, I don't know what to do. At this point, I thought the apology is what you wanted me to do. I did it. I made sure that you understand that I'm not a hateful person. I don't condone hate. I did that.

Understand that I'm not a hateful person. I don't hate. I did that. I stepped down so I don't take attention off of that night and those people that are there to be celebrated. I don't want to draw attention to myself and what's around me. I stepped down. Everything I did was for the better of good. I'm stepping away, guys, because I don't want this to be a negative night or a negative thing.

And then it still became a conversation. So I waited for it to die down. I went on my radio show. Gave another public apology. Made sure that he understand that I'm sorry. I hope these words didn't hurt anybody. I once again apologize. I don't condone hate to anyone.

I hope that you guys can forgive me for those jokes of old. So now I say, if you don't understand it, you don't believe it, I don't know what else to give. I don't know what else to do. There's nothing else you can do. Nothing. That's very wise of you. Nothing. It's very wise of you to step away like that because if you didn't, they would probably pursue it forever. Right, I mean.

It becomes a point of attention. That's all it is. They just decide that this is something they're going to focus on. What I had a, I had a good talk and I'm going to talk about this for a minute. A friend of mine, Lee Daniels,

you know, me and Lee Daniels, Lee called me, told me he wanted to talk to me. You know who Lee Daniels is? Director, producer, the show Empires.

Yeah. One of his biggest shows. You know, so he calls me, he's like, Kevin, I want to talk to you. And us talking, he's like, look, this is a time where you could speak up and talk about the community that's been affected by hatred and you know hateful crimes you can step up and be a voice and say that you don't condone or don't uh stand with any type of hate or whatever you can take that stage and do that and i said lee i said that's i understand what you're saying. I said, well, why did you expect me to know what's been happening within this community in regards to hate and crimes?

I said, I'm not aware. I said, some people can just not be aware. I'm not in the know. I have no idea what's going on. I have no idea. In the gay community. Yes, within that community. I have no idea in the gay community yes within that community i have no idea right when you tell me this i'm now educated and i understand so it's easy to simply inform

right information is key when people get information they process the information when you can process the information you go oh wait a minute that makes sense hey if you guys think that i condone hate wait a minute i don't and anybody that does fuck you man that's bad you shouldn't i can say that but instead when this happened it was become an ally become a voice yeah and that's that's where there was just a miscommunication. That's where a back and forth kind of was established that I think people just started to take things and run with it. And I'm just not one to feed into what I feel isn't going to eventually evolve into a positive thing. In a real conversation.

Yes. Yeah. When I'm trying my best to. It was becoming tabloid bullshit. Pretty much. As opposed to like a real discussion. Clickbait. Yeah, clickbait.

Clickbait. That's the problem. There's so much clickbait out there because it's such an effective way to get people to pay attention to things. That's right. Because as you said, people focus on failure and negative and anger. That's what we want to see. Controversy.

That's what we want to see. People want to see the anger. Yeah. And, you know, we're- Why do you think that is? Because it's just the times. That's what's cool now. Is that what it is?

What's cool is being negative. You know how you always have some people- This is a great example. How you have people. Me and you can talk about a movie. Right? We can talk about Titanic. Wow.

Man, Titanic. One of the biggest movies of all time. Fucking great movie. Yes, it was a great movie. And one guy, for no reason at all, I fucking hated it. Why? You ain't like Titanic? Fucking bullshit.

Why? Man, I ain't got titanic fucking bullshit why man i ain't got i know why now tell me why why'd you hate it i ain't got time to talk to y'all about that the cool thing is just being different i want to i want to be completely opposite than all these positive people you know what, nah. That shit was ass. Why? Why was it ass? You have people that just like to do that. Oh, yeah, for sure. And what happens when one person does it, another person for no reason at all goes,

yeah, me too. Yeah, that shit was ass, man. I ain't like it either. Did you see it? What y'all talking about? You don't even know what they're talking about. but you just want to hop on the negative train right because that's what's cool it's not cool to be positive it's not cool to be happy i don't know if it's a cool thing i think it's usually people that are really frustrated with their lives 100 that's the that's the factual side to it i did a joke before It was like Do you think Michael Jordan

Leaves YouTube comments? I bet he doesn't No No No That's not for winners No Not at all

The type of people That want to get mad And complain constantly About shit like that Do you know what it takes To do this right here? Not much Do you know

Right here I'm going to tell you How I feel Right in your comment section joe rogan you can kiss my you know what that takes you what do you have going on that you have the time to just simply be that negative and and do it in this world and universe just a mismanagement of your time time yeah time is so valuable. And I don't think people understand how valuable they can be if they use their time correctly. Yes.

Now, have you always been like this? Have you always been this ambitious? I'm a positive fucking guy, man. But always? Always. Really? I find a light in every dark tunnel. I will find a goddamn light, man. I hear it all. Listen, when I tell you the weight on my back is so heavy of all the stuff that I deal with,

and I'm fine. The reason why I'm fine is because I'm genuinely happy. I'm happy. And I'm not happy just because of the success. The success acts as a bonus. I'm happy because I truly know the definition and the feeling that comes with happiness. I truly know it. I felt it. I felt it when I said, yo, what really makes me happy? And I look at Heaven and Hendrix and I look at Zoe. I look at my wife.

I go, yo, I didn't have the family shit when I was coming up. Yeah, I got one. I got one. Look what I done did. Look what I built. These people depend on me. I provide for these people. That makes me happy. That makes me happy when my daughter comes up. Dad, you're not only my dad, you're my friend yo i'm happy that's my world so everything else from the outside that comes in you're you're you're throwing shit at a at a at a bubble that can't be popped it's a force field around me yeah it's a force field around me because what matters what really matters loves me wholeheartedly and when you have that and you understand that you're unbreakable so if you don't add to that force field if you don't make my force field

stronger you don't you don't you don't get time from me my team heartbeat productions the people underneath my umbrella you're part of my force field You believe what I believe We all see the same things We want the same things So we march With the same beat You can't

You can't shake that When you're an individual That's seen that and understands that If you've never felt that If you have no idea what that feels like Then it understands that. If you've never felt that, if you have no idea what that feels like, then it's easy to shake you. That's why some people are easily broken.

Being broken is not a hard thing. It's not a hard thing. So those that do get broken, those that do get down, those that do get depressed, I understand. I understand. I don't knock people for it. I don't knock people for it.

I don't knock anybody for it. What I also understand is that the encouragement that can come from so many can add value for those that may need a little push. That may need a little, hey, man, pick your chin up. It's so easy to be that positive reinforcement for somebody and add value it's so easy but some people choose to throw that aside and kick while you're down i try to put out the light of positivity because whoever's out there you i don't know what it could do for somebody else but somebody else may just simply look at me say yo the way that he embraces his kids makes me want to be a better father. Yo, the way that this man doesn't stop

and the way that every day he wakes up and he's just positive regardless of what's going on makes me realize that this shit ain't so bad. The way that he gets up and says, hey, today's another day. It's a morning. Let's all be better than we were yesterday. Somebody probably needed to hear that.

The more that I can give that out and I can take my platform to throw good energy out, I'm doing my part. Because there's so many that throw out the complete opposite. Yeah. I don't want to be a part of that. That's beautiful, man. And that's true. I believe you.

It's not forced. Right. It's not phony. Yeah. It's not fake. I get shit every day. i hear shit every day it's very contagious too i had a lady i had a lady right later on lady rolled down a window she goes when going to make a good movie again? I said, did you see the upside?

I thought the upside was good. What's that? Oh, shit. It's a movie. It's one of my movies that's out. I think it's a good movie. I didn't see that. All right, ma'am.

You have a beautiful day. That's hilarious. All right. That's's it that's it yeah all right what she said that she asked the question with such conviction like literally yeah by the way i could have said a lot of shit like she rolled her window down you could tell she still had the crank so i'm like i, I could have said a lot of shit. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. There's a lot of things that I can say to you, ma'am. When are you going to make a good movie?

It's snapping. I got one out. The Upside. You see the Upside? What's that? It's a movie. It's out now. Amazing that that's how she chooses to come at you.

I see it. I get it. She chooses to come at you. I see it. I get it She chooses to come at you with a negative. I get it every day When you'll be funny again, I'm trying my best Trying my best if it's not working for you. Hopefully I do better soon What do you what do you what am I gonna feed into that? And why why why why for what yeah for what it seems to have been working thus far are you getting this positive attitude towards life from life experience are

you getting it from books did someone teach you how to think like this i'm getting it from the experiences and from the real understanding of perfection doesn't exist. It don't exist, Joe. We're in a time right now where people expect perfection. You expect perfection. I don't know where this came from. I don't know what happened that this is the criteria for living. My true understanding is, all right, you got one life and that one life. The goal for us is to live it to the best of our ability from the beginning to what said the end in the middle, in the beginning middle.

You're going to do things, you're going to make mistakes, you're going to fuck up. You're supposed to learn and then move forward with the understanding of what not to do. And when you move forward, life may get better, it may not,

but somewhere along the lines, it's going to click. And everything that I went through back here was supposed to happen so that now that I'm here back here was supposed to happen so that now that I'm here, I'm able to go ahead with such a high level of knowledge and I can make other people better. I can make myself better. I can do more for my family. Something happens. My dad is the prime example. Crazy drug addict, ending out of jail. Life was very bad, very fucking bad for my dad. Son got successful. Son then took money, gave it to his dad. Here's your house. Here's your truck. Here's your monthly. At this age, I want you to live your life.

At this age I want you to live your life You done made mistakes You can't rebuild And correct the things That you've done I'm your son I love you You can't go back

And redo You can't try To keep going backwards Ain't about me You got grandkids Go be the best grandpa You can be for these grandkids That's your focus now

Where's this energy devoted to? Being a grandpa For the grandkids Don't worry about focus now. Where's this energy devoted to? Being a grandpa for the grandkids. Don't worry about me. But something happened in your life. Something happened that took you in the direction to reap the benefits of your son's happiness and success. My energy is now contagious enough and I hand it to you. So now you're able to give that off to all these other people that you're around Something happens And that's in every single life

In every life I understand that There's a payoff for bad eventually There's a payoff It can't be bad but for so long If you got the strength And the understanding to realize that Shit will change

It will change. It's impossible. It's just like poker. I don't know if you play poker or not. I don't. If you play poker, you can run bad forever, but it will eventually turn around once you grasp the understanding of the game.

Eventually, it's going to turn around. Blackjack, you're never going to beat the casino, but eventually you're going to have a good run. If you catch a run You'll do good Get the fuck out of there You waited long enough for it to happen Here it come

Catch it Leave Anything in life Will eventually Turn good Now but this is coming Just from your own personal experiences You didn't have any role models

That spoke to you this way Nancy Hart Did she speak to you like this about positivity and about? My mom reinforced knowledge. My mom reinforced, you don't start things and not finish them. You don't quit. There's nothing that comes out of quitting besides knowing that you didn't finish. We finish everything. You start it, finish it. If you're going to do it, do it to try and be the best.

Not be better than other people. Be the best for you. If you're in school and you're going to class, I'm not asking you to get straight A's. I'm asking you to get the best grade that you can possibly get. Give me 100% all the time, and I'm a happy mother. When you half-ass me, I'm on your ass. Mom, I want to do this. I want to play baseball. Well, then you're going to play. Mom, I don't like that no more. Then why did you start the season?

Because I thought I wanted to do it. Then you're going to finish the season. You don't quit. There's other people that invest you're going to finish the season You don't quit There's other people that invest the time and energy into you You don't just quit on people But I don't want to do it Finish the season Mom, I want to swim

Then you're going to finish swimming It didn't matter what I did I was never allowed to quit So now in anything I do When I pick it up and say I'm going to start it I got to finish it It all don't work It all ain't work.

It all ain't the best. It all ain't knocked out the park. But I walk away saying I finished it. I did it. I did it. Right now I've been boxing. I saw you working out with Rico Verhoeven. I'm fucking, first of all, very strong kicker.

He's a giant. He's a giant man. Huge man. Huge man. Okay? He's a fucking beast, that guy. He's a good guy, too, man. Good guy. But I started it.

Viking genes. I started it, and I said, why am I doing this? I'm not going to be a professional fighter. I'm not trying to be an amateur fighter. I'm doing it to get in shape. All right, then I started getting in shape, and I said, so much that I don't know about the sport, I at least want to make sure that

I'm paying homage to the people that do this for a living by really understanding and learning it. You know what? I'm going to get a real trainer. I'm going to get some real people to show me everything. So when it's all said and done,

and I look back after my training, I can go, I gave it 100%, and look at how good I got. Look at what I'm a product of. I spar. I go get in the ring. Do you really? Yeah, just to feel it.

So I can say I did it. You know who else spars? Brian Callen. Is this you? Are you serious? No. That's me. Yeah, that's me.

Come on. That's me. Dude. That's me. It's getting there too. Look at this. Who is teaching you? His name is Biggs.

He's in Atlanta. That's me learning how to turtle shell within punches. But, you know, he's a former Golden Glove guy. Really good. Dude, you were in a cup and everything. Well, that was after sparring session when I'm, like, real tired. Damn, dude. Yeah, I done got touched.

I done got my ass whipped in every couple times. Are you worried about that at all? No, because I don't go crazy. We headgear and I'm not in there. Headgear is worse for you. But I'm not in there with guys that. Are trying to hurt you. Yes.

I'm not in there with. Just touching you. Guys that have no concept of reality. Yeah. Or control. Like they're just helping me understand. Right. Here's why you have to keep your hand up.

That is a problem with celebrities trying to spar. Like, if you try to, like, you know, that's why Mickey Rourke started getting all that facial surgery. Are you serious? Yeah, he sparred with James Toney. Jesus Christ. James Toney would beat the fucking shit out of him, man. Well, that's just not a smart move right there. That's just.

It's James Toney's a mean man. Yeah, that's just. You can't. Like, I don't go in that space. Have you ever seen James Toney talk shit while he spars? No. That's some of the most entertaining thing you'll ever find on YouTube. He's just. He just won't shut the fuck up.

The whole time. While he's beating your ass, he's talking shit. Come on, bitch. That's hurtful. Come on, bitch. What you got, bitch? Oh, this ain't shit. That's hurtful.

That's hurtful. And he's one of the best defensive fighters ever, so he's really difficult to hit. He's got that shell going. I stand right in front of you, and you can't hit him. It's the most frustrating thing in the world. Yeah.

I had a guy that's got a Mikey I've been sparring with. Mikey hit me with three punches. I thought Mikey literally had like six arms. This is a true story. I said, I don't know what just happened, but I thought I had my hands up. And no matter where I put them, he just tapped me. He lets me feel it, but not to where I might get knocked out. But I understand now movement.

I understand pivots. I understand shoulder protection. And that's my goal. My goal is just to understand because I can't do anything halfway. Okay, are you trying to fight somebody? Nope. Right. Nope.

I just want to say that I did it and I learned and I can move and I looked apart because I put time into it. Well, as you learn it too and as you watch it and you start to get trained, then you start to look at a guy like a Terrence Crawford or a Lomachenko and you go, oh, now I appreciate what you're doing. Because before you'd see like, oh yeah, he beat that guy up. Oh yeah, he knocked that guy out. But then you see like how he ducks under the left and fires back with the right.

You're like, oh Jesus, this is precision. It's insane. The respect that I have for people that do that on a day-to-day is through the roof. People that fight

are in the most amazing shape in the universe. You're in the most amazing shape ever. To move, get hit for three to five minutes, a round, come back, do it, come back, do it, and these fights go on and on and on. I take my hat off to you. Yeah. You get three rounds out of on and on. I take my hat off to you. Yeah. You get three rounds out of me, I'm breathing out my butt.

I don't know where the air is coming from. I'm searching for it. It's a crazy way to make a living, too. Oh, yes. To rely on your body and your brain like that. Thank God I didn't have to go down that route. And to those that do, just make sure you just put your body first. Like you said, it's hurtful when you see the damage that it can cause yeah we were talking about that earlier like seeing guys as they start to deteriorate and it's hard because nobody wants to tell them that either everybody wants to tell

them they got one more good fight in them and let's uh maybe at the end of the year then we'll decide but right now we're going to train hard that's tough it's hard too because there's no options they don't once you've established yourself As a professional fighter And you don't have An exit strategy You don't know what to do You know Now at least thankfully

Because of the internet Guys are getting podcasts And they're starting Doing commentary shows And they're talking About fighting It's the positive Yeah

See what you just did there You just found the positive Yes That's the positive Within the internet There is positive Oh for sure But you just don't You just don't hear it Celebrated as much within the internet. There is positive. Oh, for sure. But you just don't hear it celebrated as much.

Well, the internet is very positive for me. I mean, this is the show we do on the internet. I mean, not just podcasts, but YouTube videos. And also information. I know more because of the internet than I ever would have without it. There's not a doubt in my mind that i'm a more educated more aware person i want to the internet yeah you get the things that you're able to find and search and i mean like you said you're you're able to self-educate yeah at a very high level these are

the goods yeah we're talking about the goods so when you talk about positive kevin how have you been yeah are you always like that it's this it's the things that I look at that are so easy. You're not just positive, though. You're like crazy ambitious. That's the thing that gets me about you and The Rock. For sure. It's like the ambitions off the charts. Like, I know you're rich as fuck.

Like, when do you think you got enough? You don't have enough. There's no enough. I don't have enough because it's not over. It's not over. It's not over. So, you know, when you put a cap on it, you're putting a punctuation to it. And the ambition comes from seeing what's out there that can be obtained.

You know, when you see what's out there. You mean physical things? What do you mean? When you see what's out there. What's out there? Like what? You mean physical things? When you see what's out there, when you see where people are really gaining wealth and knowledge from. OK, the business relationships that you're able to acquire, the people that you're able to partner with and create certain things, different revenue streams. What I found is as a young black guy from North Philadelphia, the biggest problem within

our community is knowledge. We don't know. Debt is welcomed because it's celebrated. That's all we know. Yeah, nah, I'm going to get that credit card. I'm going to fuck that credit card up. And it is what it is. They got to figure that out.

I ain't got it after that. Yeah, well, you know what? I'm going to get the student loans. They gave it to me. Then after that, shit, it is what it is. I'm going to figure it out. I'm going to put a cable bill in your name. You put it in my name.

We can switch it up. Whatever. They do it. Let's just put it in somebody else's name. It's welcome. The hustle is welcome the knowledge of banks and what you can do or can't do is is fucking you don't even get it because you go to check cashing places reason why you go to check cash place because i don't want to go do that shit with the banks i don't trust that go right there to check cash

place let me get mine let me get mine now take whatever. Let me get it. The knowledge isn't given. So it's not until you obtain that knowledge and understanding that you go, oh, shit. Oh, this is why you put money up. Oh, this is how you increase versus decrease. Oh, this is how you earn on your money. Oh, wow. I can gain wealth by investing in what? The stock world is what? How many by investing in what the stock world is.

What? How many people partake in the stock world? And is there a part that isn't necessarily gambling? Is there a low risk part? These this not the information isn't there. So it's not so I got to a certain level and a certain group of people where I got it. And now that I got it, I want to give it. So now I'm going to give it. I'm going to give it to the people that I know need it most. And for me, that younger generation of black people that don't understand the cool thing is in financial longevity, not in the moment for jewelry not in the moment for the car it's in the longevity it's in building so at the end of the day you can say look at what i have look at what i worked for look at what i have that's mine monopoly is real but you have to have the financial understanding and i i teamed up i got chased right now we're doing something called financial fitness where it's just about me educating people on money really how to manage money money. How to be smart with your money.

But it's coming from a person that fucked up money. I didn't always understand it. I owed in taxes before because I didn't understand it in the beginning. I had bad credit. Credit cards wouldn't take me because I maxed out. Whatever. I've been there. I've done it.

Thank God I was able to fix it and get on the right path. And now that I have the knowledge, I want to give it because I simply don't know. So when you say the end game, the end game is getting to a point where I've taken all the knowledge that I've been able to get over these years and really applying it and providing family wealth. When it's all said and done, the last name Hart is going to mean just more, a lot more than just Kevin Hart and comedy. Heartbeat Productions, you got Heartbeat Digital, you got Heartbeat Ventures, you got Heartbeat Real Estate. There's so many things that the last name Hart will be attached to. You sell real estate? Kevin Hart doesn't sell real estate.

I buy real estate. I like how you talk about yourself in the third person too. Yes, I'm sorry about that. I don't sell it. I buy it. But the don't sell it. I like how you talk about yourself in the third person too. Yes, I'm sorry about that. I don't sell it. I buy it. But the reason why is because. Investment. Investment.

But as you get older, you learn this. You learn it. And, you know, it's such a thing when you talk about black versus white. You know, a lot of people do that. And rightfully so. Like, there is racism. Racism exists. I'm not unaware of that.

But there is a high volume of it that's that's non-existent to people that are good people. And when you can merge yourself with good people and follow the paths that you see that these good, successful people have taken, you then become a part of a world and group that nobody expected you to be in so for me i now have the position to do that and take all of these relationships and all this knowledge and take it back to the people that need it most i like to share i don't want it all by myself now are you doing this and the financial stuff you doing this in videos are you like releasing videos no we're starting we're going to start uh we're going to start financial fitness, like I said, with Chase, J.P. Morgan Chase. Jamie Dimon, very good guy. Tashonda as well.

They're help leading in charge and just saying, how can we get to the people that we feel need the financial information the most? So I said, put me out there. Like, let's go directly to the consumer. Let's go directly to the consumer So from colleges From high schools Senior classes Junior classes Going out and talking to people

Before they go into the next stages of their life About the things that you should know So you're going to speak to them? Yeah And just share personal information Are you going to put this stuff online as well though? Yeah You'll be able to track and find content from it

But I'm authentic So I said the best way to really do it Is to put me in a position to be heard Right I want to be heard as well though yeah yeah you'll be able to track and find content from it but i'm authentic so i said the best way to really do it is to put me in a position to be heard right i want to be heard like like it's a different story what i explained to uh the the people of jp morgan chase just when we were talking about this and there's an amazing board of people uh that that are just figuring this out and the best way to go and do it and And I said, you can't have the white guy that's never been to the hood or who's not from the hood or has no idea how the economy works here and what the real troubles are. You can't throw that man in the situation to talk to people because I'm not listening to you from the gate

because you don't relate. i don't relate to you but throwing somebody in a situation that's lived it that's been in it that's been fucked up in it made it out of it and is now coming back to help right it's a different ball game and that's what i want to be and you know we have other voices outside of myself um very powerful voices that are going to do it as well. But the purpose is to align ourselves to really make a change. So you can either be the conversation about making change or you can be actual a part of the action to do it. I want to be a part of the action. And in doing it, you'll also be able to understand my drive.

You'll get why I do so much. You'll get why my hand is in so much because I have access to it. And the question should be, why not? Yeah. The question shouldn't be, yo, why is he doing everything? It should be, why aren't you?

Why aren't you trying to do everything? Why not? Well, that's the thing about a guy like you, that becomes contagious. Like what you were saying about surrounding yourself with positive people and people that are constantly ambitious and that there's fuel to that.

You feel good about that. That's what you're doing. I can say, seeing you here, right? We walked around. You showed me your facility. Loved it. Beautiful facility. You talked to me about how your podcast has grown to where you are now, the success behind it.

I don't leave here and go, yo, that's dope as shit. I go, hey, I need to do more work on my radio station. Laugh Out Loud Radio, I own it. It's mine. I got a show on there. But you know what? Joe fucking motivated me to do more. I want to make sure that we understand really what's out here within this radio world because I just saw my guy in his space and I saw how happy he is with the success that he has.

I don't want to be you or beat you. I want to take this energy and apply it to myself. That's the purpose of seeing. Yeah. That's the purpose of being smart with your eyeballs. You should be a sponge. So I'm a sponge So I come here

And I look at how you maneuver I look at your setup I not only bow down And congratulate you I leave and I say Yo man I'm inspired dude That's dope as hell Joe I can't wait in two years

You're gonna come And you're gonna see my shit And you remember I said I was inspired But you're gonna see What I let it grow into That's the proper way To get encouraged and motivated right as opposed to being a hater a hater and and competitive and i'm gonna beat you it's not a

competition yeah i'm not interested in that either i share the exact same feelings it's not a competition at all yeah so if you don't have people like that that are inspiring around you you might not know how positive it is and how 100 how powerful it is if you see someone that's on television or on social media and you see them it's hard to be inspired you don't know them but you're i can say look at your circle right and in your circle if the conversation is all about what we hate i can't stand that song. You see that new fucking car came out? That shit is ass.

I can't stand that fucking car. Yo, man, I can't stand this city. Why the fuck we even in this city? What we eating? I hate that place. It's so easy. People don't even listen to it. It's so easy.

It could be the smallest shit in the world. The smallest shit. But if it's always hate, don't even listen to it. It's so easy. It could be the smallest shit in the world. The smallest shit. But if it's always hate. Can't stand these fucking headphones. Why we got these headphones? I hate these. Fucking hardwood tape. Why is this here?

Fucking can't stand this hardwood tape. I hate hardwood. Why can't you get a regular tape? I fucking hate this shit. Fucking chairs. You ain't got better chairs? I hate these chairs. It's so easy.

Right. It's so easy. It's so easy to talk about hate. Yeah. And so many people don't realize that in a group you do it you ping pong hate off of one another yeah unless it's funny it can be funny hate sometimes funny funny hate funny hate it's just between yourselves like patrice patrice was was one of the best funny hate one of the best funny haters okay okay you you bring up a good point comedic hate is a different kind of different kind of hate yeah comedic hate right rest in peace one of the not one of the probably the best patrice patrice used to do i remember when i would talk and if I was saying something, you would just hear, ugh.

What? What are you talking about? He's like, ugh. What? What are you talking about? You're like, just the way you talk bugs me. I was like, what? Your voice, everything about your voice just makes me want to punch you in the face.

I was like, what are you talking about? He was like, ugh. When he would go after you, too, it kind of made you feel good, too. Like, if you're a comic, especially if you're a comic, like, I called Opie and Anthony once. I was talking to them. And Anthony always has a gun on him. He carries a gun everywhere. Like, he has a concealed carry permit and shit and i said to him

i said do you ever worry that maybe you're putting out this energy and you're manifesting something like some sort of an attack on you because you're constantly dwelling on it you always have this gun and patrice goes joe believe in magic joe believe in conjuring up the world hey man a positive energy just starts laughing see he's magic joe's magic and i'm like when he would go after you man it was like you just want to step back and watch i remember he got bill burr so mad one time oh bill used to get so fucking mad beautiful thing about bill burr but we'd be snapping bill bill was the guy to get mad it's not funny if you went after him it's not none of

it's funny y'all laughing bill like where's the punchline in it there's no punchline he gets so fucking mad we the comedy seller the days that we had there man man, Bill Burr, Patrice O'Neal, Keith Robinson, Jim Norton, Colin Quinn, myself. When I say we would sit at this table, we would sit at this table for four to five hours and it would be nothing but beautiful trashions to one another. When I say they used to give me so much shit that's probably why it's so hard to bother me now the trash ins that i took from the age 20 to 24 in my young comedic career about how awful i was i i had a joke i had a joke way in the beginning of my career because of the times let me preface this this was way in the beginning of my career. Because of the times. Let me preface this. This was way in the beginning of my career. This was a joke that I had about little people.

Midgets at the time. And it was so bad. I got robbed by a cross-eyed midget. And the joke was, I didn't know he was robbing me. Because I was with somebody else. So he was looking at my friend, but he was robbing me because I was with somebody else. So he was looking at my friend, but he was robbing me. It was like a play on being crying. Very, very awful joke.

I remember telling this joke and a phone book comes flying on the stage. Patrice threw a fucking phone book at me. I'm talking. This is the way at the Boston Comedy Club. People in a crowd phone book at me. I'm talking, this is the way at the Boston Comedy Club. It's people in a crowd. Tiny little place. All you heard

was and you sit back and hits the floor. And I said, yo, what the fuck was that? And Patrice said, read it. There's better material in it

than what you're saying now. Crowds starts laughing. He's, ugh. They all, when I say, they used to trash me so bad. So bad, man. Get your legendary Patrice O'Neal story. I caught Patrice jerking off at my house before. This is, I moved to LA.

I'm staying in the two bedroom apartment. I just got there. Patrice coming out. I said, yo, you need to play sad. I'm staying in the two bedroom apartment I just got there Patrice is coming out I said yo You need a place to stay I said I got two bedrooms You can come there This is my ex-wife at the time You know

I come home It's like afternoon I was like Patrice I'm like yo You home? Patrice Patrice

I go in the back Open up the door. I had this big ass computer. All I see is his back hunched over. It's like baby oil right here. And I come in. I'm like, yo, what you doing? He's like, yo, get out.

Get out. Get out. Are you jerking off in my house, man? He's like, yo, get out. Get out. Get out. Are you jerking off at my house, man? He's so sick. He's so fucking sick that he didn't stop. He was like, get out. Get out. Get out.

He was so concerned with finishing that he didn't even break stride. He didn't turn around, acknowledge me, nothing. Get out. Get out. You just saw his back hunched. He came out like seven minutes later. that he didn't even break stride he didn't turn around acknowledge me nothing get out get out you just saw his back hunched he came out he came out like seven minutes later it was like my bad i didn't know he was coming home didn't even acknowledge fucking patrice man i love him to death love him to death yeah he had the most don't give a fuck of any comic i ever met. 100%. The most.

100%. Good and bad, though. Yeah. There was a good to it, and there was also some bad to it. A lot of things that didn't happen for Patrice probably could have happened, but I think the level of not give a fuck prevented some of those things. Well, he was almost too authentic. Yes.

Did you ever see that what was it charlie sheen's roast whose roast was it that he did where he just tortured everybody else that was on the roast with him and then he got up there and afterwards you motherfuckers on on my level why am i here i shouldn't even be here with you guys who who the fuck is this bitch who's this bitch oh my god patrice has so many of those things. So many things. One of the best to do it. If you are listening, you're not educated on Patrice O'Neal.

I ask that you just watch Elephant in the Room, one of his specials. Some of the funniest shit ever, man. And so insightful. He was so wise. Very, very smart. The way people thought and behaved he would say shit like one of the things that he said that i i tell people all the time it's a it's a brilliant thing that he said it was um i forget what controversy it was

but he was on television with some woman who was saying that you should never tell jokes about certain things you know and they were they were getting mad at someone i think it was opie and anthony about a joke and he said you got to understand that all jokes come from the same place the ones you like and the ones you don't like the ones that make you laugh and the ones that make you mad they all come from the same place someone's just trying to be funny yeah like sometimes they just don't work i i had a talk i had a talk with the, I forgot her name. I forgot her name, but it was when I was doing all the promo for Upside, and they kept trying to break down where the jokes come from. You know, Kevin, these insensitive jokes that you told back then, why?

What makes you, why would you even say those things? And the hardest thing for me to explain, I was like, do you think people think of jokes and while thinking of them, think that they're not going to be funny? Everything that you think of in a joke form, you're thinking of it because you think you're going to get a laugh behind it.

Yeah. The gamble is, if I get the laugh versus not get the laugh. you're going to get a laugh behind it yeah the gamble is if i get the laugh versus not get the laugh if i don't get the laugh the joke was not funny if i get a laugh then i guess i'm on to something there isn't a bunch of thought that goes into the funny moments that we think may be great bits yeah i wish that i had a more logical answer to put behind it i said but i don't especially at that time in my career. I just thought it would be funny. The same way that some people think certain jokes are funny, they aren't funny.

It's a thought. Comedians are constantly throwing shit out there. You're constantly rolling the dice and throwing shit out there. Half the shit you roll ain't good. Right. It's not going to be good. The other half may be all right. May be kind of good. But it's all with the intent of entertaining it's not with the intent of being malicious

it's not with the intent of sparking hatred it's all trying to make you laugh yeah that's it like it's it's literally that simple from a thought within a comedian's mind yeah nothing nothing else and they kept trying to look for this like hard definition of why and i was like i don't have it i don't have the reason why i thought it would be funny and it wasn't that's the downfall that's it that's it that's it it's it's and the thing is about That's it. That's it. That's it. And the thing is about this art form is that up until 10, 15 years ago, there was never any discussion like this.

It wasn't, so when we developed and when we were coming up, there was no, it was just like, and there was always guys that would push the envelope way too far. He'd be like,

Jesus Christ, you see his new bit? What the fuck? And you'd be laughing. You'd tell it to each other and be like yeah and it didn't matter what it was a joke about murder or rape or whatever some people just they choose those dark subjects it's like they're trying to make us laugh yeah the comedians the comedians comedian there's always going to be those where you just end up at you oh do you know brian holtzman 100 yeah brian holtzman's that guy 100 one of my funniest

dudes and and and there's no way that i could say no some of the stuff that i heard him say do you remember susan smith that lady who drowned her kids i i know i know who you're talking about and i know the moment but i'm not familiar with all all involves. Holtzman was on stage that week. And he's like, I heard those kids were bad. Oh, my God. I heard they sat that close to the TV. They never put away their blocks. They always spilled their milk.

Those kids will not be missed. Yeah. And you were just like, what in the fuck? It was like 9-11 when 9-11 happened. They wouldn't let him on stage. Wow. Mitzi Shore would not let him on stage for months after 9-11. She's like, no way.

Keep him off the stage. I mean, do you have the people that just are, they go for that. They go for it because they want to hear you howling in the back of the room. They know that if it's comics or they're in the back of the room, they're going to laugh their fucking ass off at that shit. in the back of the room, they're going to laugh their fucking ass off at that shit. And, and you know,

it's weird because right now within the times I'm, I'm the comedian that chooses to be sensitive to the times, you know, I've made the choice to say, I understand. I get why you shouldn't say certain things and why you should avoid this, that, or this.

I, I understand. And I am, but then there's other comedians that go, you know what? I'm on stage and I'm going to be me. And I'm not going to do that because people are telling me that this is what I, I'm going to go harder and do that.

That's that just exists. It just exists. But I think it's easier to just say, I'm not a fan. That comedy isn't for me. You know what? I don't like the taste of this particular comedian, so I'm not going to support or watch that comedian.

I'm going to find another comedian that's more to my liking. I'm going to go and just turn my head. I want us to get back to just understanding find another comedian that's more to my liking i'm going to go and just turn my head like i want us to get back to just understanding that you just don't have to support it yeah that's it well there's a lot of fucking options it's very i mean there's so many today yeah there's never been more never been more comics there's high level comments i think about how many people are doing netflix specials today so many there's never been more it's so many. There's never been more. It's so many. Crazy. So I don't understand why there's a push to destroy, which you just don't have to support or like.

I think it's just a bunch of people that have an ability to influence things now that didn't have an ability before. And it's like they see a window and they want to throw a rock. It's right there. Makes sense. I think there's something there. i also think for us like me for me in particular i really like fucked up comedy it's one of my it's like i like quentin tarantino movies where people get shot and killed i don't want anybody to get shot and killed in real life yeah but i like fucked up comedy yeah do you know who tim dillon is yes i do did he pull up that

fucking video that him being megan mccain have you seen this no i'm laughing he is a savage dude he goes so hard but i saw this video i was tears are rolling down my eyes i was crying and i was like okay this guy's needed we need this right now because during this political correct push he got this big giant gay dude who doesn't give a fuck. He's an animal, man. Watch this shit. My father died. I had a baby with him.

And we're going to, it will be raised in captivity. It'll be raised privately to be the greatest politician that has ever lived. My name is Megan McCain and I'm on a news show called You. You have to see this too, folks.

That fucking riverboat casino captain is talking shit about my father again. My father was tortured for 100 years for this fucking country, and he came back and he started seven wars because he's a gentleman. Fuck you, Trump. I'm going to wear my father's skin mask, and I'm going to primary Trump from the right. Come on The View, bitch.

If you're that tough, come on The View. You want an Alessandro Garacassi on the court of bitch. If you're that tough, come on the view. You want an Alessandra Casio contest? You want this shit? You want to fuck these tits, Trump? You want to fuck these tits? No, you don't. You want to suck cock, but I won't fuck you because the only person I'll fuck is daddy.

I'll fuck his corpse. I'll fuck daddy's corpse. Before my father died, I had a baby. He's an animal, bro. He's cool. Before my father died, I had a baby man. Wait a minute. He's an animal, bro. He's an animal.

Wait a minute. He's wearing, folks, you don't know. He's wearing lipstick and a wig. And he's smoking a cigarette in a dress. And he's all of 300 pounds. He's such a fucking animal. He is such a fucking animal. You want to fuck T-shirt? No, you told me you just want to suck i don't fuck you wow it's only fuck daddy wow oh my goodness oh that's pretty damn that's great that's what i'm saying it's out there they need that guy

we need him it's out there we need guys like that i mean the the beautiful thing of what we're just talking about what we said is like it's just it's very easy to just to just say you know what that's not for me and find what it is like or to say that's for me yes everybody's humor everybody's humor is different i i laughed i laughed there's a there's a there's a viral video of this old guy trying to hoverboard. He's like, fuck, he's got to be like 69, 70. And his grandkids are there. And he's like, let me try it. Let me try it.

And this man gets on this hoverboard and takes if you saw mike tyson fall on the hoverboard his fall was worse than mike tyson's i've never seen somebody hit their head harder in my life and i didn't laugh out of wanting to see this old man hurt himself, I laughed because it was stupid to try to get on this hoverboard in the first place. And when he got up, he tells the kids, why is it moving like that? I played this video for everybody because that shit made me laugh.

Some people were watching it go, oh, no, laugh. Some people were watching it go, oh, no, no. Some people were watching it go, oh, oh, oh, and others would just die fucking laughing because everybody's humor is different. Everybody's fucking humor is different. My humor is different. Falling makes me laugh. I don't care who you are.

Falling makes me laugh. I don't give a shit who you are. If you fall in front of me no shot i'm holding that laugh there's no shot there's no shot you don't stand a chance if you fall in front of me there's no shot that i'm not bust your ass something something's got to come out right falling is funny i still think it's hacky i still think farts are funny when my kids fart i funny i still think i did it's hacky i still think farts are funny when my kids fart i laugh i still until this day it's the funniest shit ever to me

all right come on stop it you stink get out of here stink ass my little son 17 months when he fart i laugh something something within just the ability to just be fucking silly and stupid oh yeah it doesn't always have to have a meaning behind it. Some shit is just stupid. My eight-year-old farts on cue. She thinks it's hilarious. First of all, that's genius. She'll tell you, listen, I got to talk to you about something.

That's it. There you go. And she starts laughing. She thinks it's hilarious. She'll fall down the couch. It's the best thing in the world. She can't stop laughing. It's the best thing in the world.

What are you talking about? As a kid, that's all you got. That's your only bit as a kid. You got nothing else but farts kid that's all you got that's your only bit as a kid you got nothing else but farts that's all you got that's all you got to make people laugh you should enjoy it yeah you should i still think it's funny falling but falling is number one for me falling is number one my wife fell down the steps she got so mad because i didn't rush to help her i laughed about a good she had a wine glass. Wine was all over the walls. Oh my god. One of the worst falls I've ever

seen in my damn life. Got up. Her shoe was on one step. The other shoe was all... Falling is funny. I like it. I don't laugh at falling that much. I just deal with too many injuries. I've seen too many people get hurt. It's not for you. Yeah, it's not for me. Especially old dudes falling down, hitting their head.

I'm like, I start thinking about brain trauma and CTE and long-term repercussions of the impact. That's after the laugh for me. Absolutely. After the laugh, I'm there. I'm right there with you. I think your approach is probably better. I'm right there with you. There's one that's going on today of this dude trying to come up the stairs on this other dude. Did you see that one?

And the guy stomped him and sent him flying. I'm like, all I could think of is we don't see it in the video, but that guy's head has got to be smithereens. Oh my God. Like he had to have hit his head the way he fell back.

You ever seen one of the guy who slipped and fell down a bunch of steps at the museum and he falls in the water? Yes. And he just keeps going until he goes in the water?

That's brilliant. Brilliant. You can't beat that. Yeah, here's this dude. This dude's walking up the stairs and this dude's like, get the fuck off my porch. Stop can't beat that. Yeah, here's this dude. This dude's walking up the stairs and this dude's like, get the fuck off my porch. Stop.

Leave me alone. And he keeps coming. He's like, don't do it. Don't do it. And he got, boom, smack. The way he fell back, there was no hands behind him. That's all head.

That's all head. First of all, to not see that kick coming from a guy that size is sad. But you also have to realize a guy that size is sad. You also have to realize a guy that size is carrying all that weight all day long. That's the equivalent of a donkey kicking you right there. That's a donkey. Yes, 100%.

Your chest is caved in right there. You got stomped. But to not see it once again. I've always thought that about fat people. That if you're really, really fat, imagine how strong your fucking legs must be. It's the strongest shit ever. Yeah. If you really

get some power behind that kick and also if you lost the weight you'd have these incredible legs that's a that's always a theory just what's under there of course but i always wonder if their knees are going to shrink wait what because you see someone from behind they're like 500 pounds like their knees are that wide i'm like okay is that the bone? Like is that fat around the bone? Like has the bone grown Really wide Because your body does Your bones do get denser If you do like heavy weight

Like if you look at like Power lifter dudes They're dense And part of it is not just their frame It's that they're constantly Lifting heavy things So your body thickens up As you go

But you know when You know people that are larger make the the dedication to actually losing the weight and they stay away from like the weights and stuff and just do cardio it sheds off so fast yeah they can't like i know i know a couple of friends of mine had lost like 130 140 pounds and like have now just fallen in love with fitness to the point where it's unbelievable like how their body is transformed and taking a liking to the new process that they're now in. Yeah, they get addicted instead of food. They get addicted to being healthy.

Exactly. It's totally possible. Totally possible. up to me and said they've lost 100 pounds plus because of listening to my show and having fitness experts on and diet experts and just talking about staying the fuck away from sugar. Say, don't eat late at night. Stop eating. Stop eating at a certain time and give yourself more than enough time to digest. Cal your calories.

Start exercising. Well, with me, I think the thing with me that helps me so much is I'm not a foodie. You're not? I'm not a foodie, man. I'm just not. I'm the most boring guy to go eat with. I'm just making a turd. That's it.

I'm literally just. What is that? Yeah, that's fine. Let me get that. This baked chicken, some brown rice. That's fine. I'm good. You don't worry about eating healthy or clean?

I'm a healthy eater because I'm not a foodie. Oh, okay. So it's not like it doesn't matter. Like, I don't have the will or want to eat the bad shit. So if you're passing by In-N-Out Burger, nothing? No. Nothing? No, man. I'm black.

Fried chicken. Fried chicken. Oh, okay. Now, you show me a Popeye's. Popeye's. Roscoe's is good, too, but Popeye's. Really? Popeye's over Roscoe's?

Yes, man. Popeye's. I don't understand. Popeye's is fucking, I don't know what's in that chicken batter man it's pretty damn good the spicy damn it do you like the spicy spicy set my ass on fire but I'm still gonna do it yeah I'm still gonna do it but I'm just not I I can consistently eat the same thing and be fine how is Popeye's the only one who figured out that red beans and rice is a great thing to have on the side like no one else has it. It's the best thing ever.

You know what I mean? Why doesn't Burger King or McDonald's have red beans and rice? Popeye's is so good, so good that when I was younger, I was about 22, I was on a bike. I got hit by a car, right? Not too hard to where I was damaged, but I had Popeye's in my hand, like the bag. I was riding on my bike and holding it, one hand.

Bop, got hit. Never let go of the bag. Wow. That's how good Popeyes is. Bike, the bike, everything else. Boom,

I'm there. Popeyes, held on to it. Nothing was damaged. Still took it home, finished that meal. That's incredible. That's how good Popeyes is, 100%. So that's my cheat is papa's all day other than that i'm a consistent

either i'm a healthy guy so do you take vitamins or supplements or anything i i used to take uh multivitamins which inspired me I'm starting my own supplement line. Vital Hustle is the multivitamin that we're putting out. But let me tell you why, though. I'm going to tell you why I'm even getting into this space. So when I look at physical fitness and I look at this world, I notice that, you know, you have a great want and need to look like everything around you that you see. Everybody that's a part of this world, they look so fucking great and fit when they're talking about these products and the things they can do. And I said, what I'm able to do and what I've done in my past, I'm always bringing people together

of all, like in whole. Like there is, nobody's alienated. You know, when I did my runs with Nike and before I got signed by Nike, it was about bringing a bunch of people that never ran before and getting you guys to get up and just come run with me.

Just try it. And you notice I got people out there that never thought they would fucking do it and we're doing five miles. We're doing 10 miles, whatever. It's just a group run. Something to say we did. I said, how can I create a product

where I'm putting people in a position to understand there's a hustle in all of us? That's what my multivitamin is about. It's the energy, it's the recharge, it's the ability to focus, it's to approach your day with all of the tools that you basically need. It's not just about the physical fitness aspect, it's about the health. So if I can actually motivate people to take the step in the right direction of health with a line of supplements that are driven for the everyday individual that may not know or be aware, but wants to engage.

But you're not in it to look like all these different people. You're in it to be the best version of yourself. How can I do that? Teamed up with a great group of people to create the best possible products that I want to do. And I said, I want to be patient. So it took me four years. Four years to create VitaHustle. And how many different products do you have?

Right now, just VitaHustle. Vita hustle vital hustle is my only one right now so it's just a vitamin just a multivitamin but it's an amazing multivitamin is it a single pill or is it a packet no it's a it's a jar i should have fucking bought one good job a jar jesus christ so you like mix it and stuff stuff no it's a jar full of like a Oh, pills Yes, pills Okay I'm going to tell you the dope stuff that's in it Because I don't want to not say anything And have it to where it's wrong So I always have shit in my phone He's got it up on the screen

Man, look Ingredients How good is he, man? Jesus Christ I get it, man Hey, you I see it Yep

That's why you're here I was doing the same thing on my phone Blueberry extract Blueberry fruit extract Scroll back up there Boron, biotin, beta carotene, vitamin A Mm-hmm That's all good shit It's all good shit

It's more than a multivitamin Okay Vitamin A It's good D, E What is that stuff? Tocotranols Tocotranols

Tocotranols Vitamin E family Mm-hmm You ever heard of that, Jimmy? Vitamin K Look it up All right Look it up Tocotranols. Tocotranols. Tocotranols. Vitamin E family. Mm-hmm. Hmm. You ever heard of that, Jimmy? Vitamin K. Look it up. All right.

Look it up. Gastrointestinal system. The good thing, too, is that everything that's in it, you know, it's not only is it researchable, but you'll see why. Like, my biggest thing, like, as a guy that's not as familiar with the space, I said, who are the people that are that do it at a high level that I can incorporate into helping me build this product? So I feel like you're never going to do it by yourself. You shouldn't try to do it by yourself. And you don't cut corners.

You don't go the cheap route. You don't you don't do it wrong. So then you have to go back to it again. Right. So I went and I looked at the people that were involved with creating the quote unquote best market, the best things on the market. And I put that team together. I put up a team of like four to five. And when I tell you four years, I spent a lot of money developing this shit.

Because it wasn't right in the beginning. Had to go back. Had to do it again. Wasn't right. Had to go back. Found out the other things that made other things better, other things great. Had to go right. Go get it again. made other things better other things great had to go right Go get it again. Go try it. Go do it again. Not right. What else is out there?

What do we compare it to until I felt that now when I launch? There's going to be a place for my product in the market where people will understand That is exactly what I said. It was there's no lying. There is no, you know false presentation behind a product Kevin Hart's multivitamin is much more than multivitamin, but more importantly, it's something for everybody. And more importantly, it's to spark the hustle within all of us. And this is the first. There will be more, but it'll be after I've mastered and I've done this at the highest level, then I move to product number two, then I move to product number three. Before you know it, you're going to see a fucking

whole line that Kevin Hart has slowly developed And that people can actually believe in Because I'm going to be a product of my own product That's the best thing in the world When you're a product of your product It has to work for me Before I say it's going to work for everybody else So you take this stuff

You're goddamn right I take it How long have you been taking it? I spent all this fucking money on it I better take it I've been taking the one that's launching now for about five to six months nice i've been taking this one i'm very happy because i actually feel the difference and the difference is just in the energy that you have within a day it's not an energy fucking pill but i do feel a difference in my in my ability to last throughout my day.

I do a lot, man. I do a fucking lot. So I told you I'm starting at that 5, 530, and I'm not shutting down until that 9, 10. I saw a video once where you were taking a video of your trainer passed out. Yeah. And you were like, this lifestyle is not for everybody. Everybody around me shuts down. Very unattract you were like, this lifestyle's not for everybody. everybody.

Everybody around me shuts down. Very unattractive sleeper, by the way. Shouts out to boss, Ronald Everline. One of the worst sleepers you'll ever see. So you take him with you everywhere?

Yeah. My trainer's with me everywhere. Wow. Everywhere. So you train every day? Every day. Wow. Every day.

Sundays are light days, light cardio, maintenance is what we call it. Not doing the same thing all the time. We switch it up. Love switching it up. Love finding new things within fitness to make it fun. You never want to get bored within it. So your whole purpose is just to keep your vitality up, keep your energy up? To keep it. If I don't do it, then there's a lag.

I need to train. I need to do it because I'm mentally so invested in it now that when I don't do it, I feel like I've cheated myself in a day or a week that I've taken off. I feel like, yo, man, I'm not myself. Because when I am doing it, I feel like, yo, man, I'm not myself. Because when I am doing it, I feel like I'm always, I'm committed. I'm committed to constantly building and reshaping and molding. I'm working on me. So when I'm not working on me, I don't feel like my day

that's supposed to be about me Is starting off with the biggest bang Right This is my advantage to starting off Like nobody else My day starts off before Fucking worms and birds get up I'm What time do you get up?

Five Five and that's when you start working out? I'm in that gym 5.15, 5.20 Really? 5.15, 5.20 No food? I don't eat I don't eat before I work out

Yeah I'm not an eater before I work out Never have been though What I am now, because I'm getting older I'm more conscious of my body So I'm big with sports massages I'm big with making sure that I'm not putting myself in a position

To get injured and overworked So getting stretched you know trying to to do as much movement um that as i possibly can like when i say i'm a little walking muscle i really am so my flexibility is limited so right now that's my biggest focus so i'm about to start yoga trying to do that things that can just kind of keep me in a a position to not tighten up so I don't pull anything because I do so much. Are you going to do hot yoga? Hot yoga. Yeah.

I do that shit all the time. Do you really? Love it. Amazing. I do it every week. Yeah. Only thing that's kept me from doing it is the smell that's possibly in there. That's the only thing that's kept me out of it.

You got to move past that. Yeah. I hear it get pretty bad. Sometimes it can. Yeah. I heard it. The place I go to is nice. You just got to make sure that the people take care of themselves.

Where you go to. You don't want to be around smelly people. I'll be honest with you. I'm worried about myself. I don't know what I'm going to give up. Especially if you get there early in the morning, you know, eat, you won't worry about farting. Yeah. But the people that eat breakfast.

They go in there. Yeah. They letting off and everything. I had explained that to Killer Mike. He was talking to me about farting in yoga class Oh my god You can't be eating No

You can't be eating before that How early are you going? I like to go either 6am Which is rare Most of the time 8 8, 8.30 Depends on which place I go to too But you love it though

Yeah You love it It's great for your head too It's 90 minutes of suffering You know it's hot as fuck 105 degrees 104 degrees When you get out of there

You feel like you did something Really Yeah And it just changes The way your body feels too In terms of your range of motion Your flexibility All those weird

Connecting knots And everything Just get opened up And You know My question is When you're just starting though Yeah

Like I will be Is it extremely tough In the beginning Because you just You just gotta bring A lot of ice water Just bring a big old Fucking 64 ounce

One of those You know Thermal flasks Of ice water Make sure you have enough water And drink enough water Before it I'm telling

Put me in the back Yeah When I'm starting out I don't need to be Where people can see me Just where Do they got like A section in the back Yeah but you turn left and you turn right everyone's

gonna see you that's what i'm saying can i be in a place where they don't see me in the beginning like i don't want anybody to see you're athletic man you're gonna be fine you're gonna be tight it's gonna be difficult for you to pull off certain poses but you'll be fine i'm definitely gonna do it i'm definitely realize it's a challenge i'm definitely 100 gonna try you ever fuck with jujitsu no that's next yeah that's next i want to hear that that's next just just listen this is where rico was laughing because i say yo man don't laugh when i tell you this i've never thrown a kick i said so whatever you show me right now this will be my first time doing it i don't i don't kick i don't know how to kick right so whatever you show me this is this will be me processing it for the first time and that day

we did it we worked on and i think i threw a couple good kicks a couple good front kicks and i said i said look after i'm done with boxing i said this will be my next task to learn how to properly throw some kicks and to move with my bottom half now that i've worked on my top that's my next hobby that's your next hobby but jiu-jitsu you know jiu-jitsu is like uh that's the that's the tussling and chokes and thorns that's what we're talking about you want to do that too i'm just this stuff as you get older you have to find shit to do right if you don't find shit to do you're gonna lose your mind you would get addicted to that i just want to learn shit you would like it because there's so much to learn that's the thing about it it's a long long never ending never ending never ending journey of shit there's also

there's so many different variations of each different individual move and entries into new moves and defense and then the structure of it is it's it gets so crazy it's it's super complicated my son my son does uh my son is heavy into boxing and karate i got him into those so he he does them both so the reason why i want to do i just like to keep up with him so we can you know do things together i have trainers come to the house and we'll work out together he loves it so i just don't want to get left behind to i can't do to kick your ass i don't want that you know when you get 17 18 would you say dad hold on oh yeah you don't want that boy you better back up yeah when they start getting that much confidence i just want to be able to keep up and maintain so that's why i like to do it with them

well it's good for a kid to have that in your head where you know how to defend yourself confidence yeah you need that for confidence it'll help you avoid things too well i i tell my kids you know your last name puts a a target on your back that you didn't ask for and we don't go and create problems but you should always be prepared for problems if they were to occur. And if they do, I just want you guys to know how to defend yourself. So the things that I have my kids doing is just have the knowledge and understanding. The worst thing is just not knowing. They're growing up completely different than I grew up. Where I grew up, you had no choice but to know. If you ain't know how to fight, that's your ass.

Because you're going to get tested. There's no way around it. You're going to get tried. You're going way around it. You're going to get tried. You're going to get robbed. You're going to get your book bag taken. Somebody going to try to take your sneaks. It's the reality. It's not a false reality.

That's real. So if you're not prepared for it, if you don't have any type of heart, you won't last from where I grew up. Heart was everything. And heart was sometimes saying, I don't care if I get my ass whooped. I'm not going to be a bitch. I'm not going to allow y'all to think that this can happen. So I'm going to lose today. But tomorrow, I'm going to come back and I'm going to find you.

I'm going to talk. Whatever that moment was, it was about establishing any level of respect that you could. And that respect eventually turned into friendship from all. So my kids don't know what that world is like. They're never going to have it. So as a parent, I just have to make sure that you have all the tools that I can possibly equip you with because my parents didn't have the ability to provide me with that. They weren't in the financial space to take me here and have this extracurricular activity

or this extracurricular activity or learn this and learn that didn't exist that is the big conundrum of successful people connection when successful people have kids the what made them successful is dry i grew up poor too we were on welfare and food stamps the whole deal when i was a little kid and that always stuck in my head this thought like we might not have enough food like i remember thinking that when i was little like what if we don't have any food what if we run out of food my kids will never feel that they don't understand what that is and everybody that i've ever met that's interesting came from some crazy struggle when they were young yeah and that's the thing of your you and I and most people that are doing well in life

You're raising your kids in a completely different way than literally what brought you to the dance in the first place the hunger Of not being one of those people that's left behind is what makes you successful in the first place and it's scary It's scary because you know my wife my wife told me she was like, you know I love that. You're not hard on your kids, but you always make sure there's a lesson within your conversation. I don't yell. I don't yell at my kids.

Nothing's going to register when I'm yelling. So I try my best to talk to you. Even when I'm at my angriest, I'm going to talk to you so you can process this because you need to understand what's the problem. You need to understand what's wrong.

And what I had to really realize is they didn't ask to be born into this yeah you know what i mean like it's not their fault right that they're coming up completely different than how we were raised right and we can't have anger or frustration that's dedicated and thrown towards them because they got it so much better than what we had. How do we make sure that we pass down the proper lessons so that they appreciate and understand and not take for granted what they have? Right.

For me, it's tough because I got good kids, good students. They apply themselves in school. They listen. They don't do dumb shit yeah they want to play video games and stay up like any other kid there's no signs of of bad or or crazy yeah and the fear and panic is that you gotta know that bad and crazy exists right this fairy tale that we're in isn't real and at some point when i'm not around when your mother's not around when your friends or other family aren't around you may get tested with the other side that's out here that you've never seen right so i gotta prepare you for the shit that you don't know exists. I got to take you to Philadelphia so you can see.

I try to show my kids where I grew up thinking it's going to be like, oh, my goodness. Backfired. It's so cool. Can we live here? Shut up. Jesus Christ. What the fuck are you talking about? Get in the car.

Everybody, get in the car right now. Everybody, we'll talk about this when we get back. This is not going the way I was supposed to. Oh, my God. It's so cool, Dad. It's cool dad it's so different oh my goodness walked him around a neighborhood and it's like it's it's it's not a reality you didn't have grass goodness dad oh that's crazy would you play wow when you hear yeah when you hear these things, it's so different, man. These were your steps. The steps are broken.

How did you even play? Oh, my God, Dad. So, wait, where was yours? We lived on the top floor. Not the whole thing? No. This is three separate units. So, the top floor was me and grandmoms.

The middle, that was somebody else. That was a neighbor. And downstairs was somebody else. Three different people lived in this one thing. Together? Y'all were strangers? Like they don't. What?

Hey, shut up. Everybody. My own answers. Everybody in the car. Get in the car. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to say at this part. Get right in the car.

Wow. But when you see that, that's the reality that you get hit with of, I got to make sure that I'm talking. I got to make sure that I'm constantly teaching. If I'm not, then I'm not doing my part. I'm failing. Took them to the neighborhood and showed them how stores are in the neighborhood. This is where we got candy from. Here's where we would get little sandwiches from.

Y'all walk. We don't have no stores like this. We can't walk to stuff. It's a completely different world. Wow. It's a completely different world. See people standing on the street corners. What they doing there?

They selling drugs. That's tough right there. Those are people that your dad still knows. They've been there forever. That's what you don. Those are people that your dad still knows. They've been there forever. That's what you don't want to do. But they're forced with these decisions just because of what they have to do. You just need to see this. Dad is taking you here to see this.

Drove them all around. All around North Philadelphia. All around South Philadelphia. Made sure that they could see it. You got to physically see. We go out to country. We go to these resorts and islands. Before we go there, we're going to drive around so you can see what exists.

Before you get to this, this is why we have to be good people. This is why we treat everybody with respect. This is why your dad likes to give. Everybody doesn't have. I'm constantly beating my kids with that information because if you assume that everybody does you come off like such an asshole when you're around people

that don't yeah what how did you you don't also the advantage that they had growing up the way they are now it's such a rare thing and they don't understand it. There's no way they could. A very small percentage. Yeah. A very small percentage. And that's something that I never want to let go of either. So I was in the back of my head. So how you're talking about how, you know, are we going to have enough food when you were coming up?

Chris Rock's joke is so great that he used to tell about how he keeps a bag packed at the front door because he don't believe that this shit is his he said i truly believe that at any point somebody gonna go gotcha you thought you lived here did you this ain't your and i was like it's so real because even though you have it you can't lose the sight of reality of what once was. Yeah. Are you comfortable where you are now, or do you still have those thoughts? Like, is this real? Because you're at this stratosphere of fame and success that's rare amongst the rare.

You know, it's like David Goggin says, you are uncommon amongst uncommon men. You know, it's like David Goggins says, you are uncommon amongst uncommon men. I will be 100% honest and say I'm comfortable with the understanding of hard work brings great rewards. This is a reminder of the hard work and dedication that I put into everything that I've done. I'm not content because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back. That doesn't mean I don't want to go back to the city. That doesn't mean I want to go back to the people.

That means I don't want to go back to living like I once was. I want to go back and I want to help. I want to inspire. I want to help. I want to inspire. I want to motivate. I want to show people that there is a way out, that there is a way to do more, to get more,

to obtain more. But I personally don't want to lose all that I've been able to get. So I need to make sure that I do everything to keep it. So I can't be content. So there is an understanding but i refuse to click on the switch of how so even if you like even if you have more money than you'll ever spend for the rest of your life that's not what it's about no it's about the inspiring people and the influence and constantly giving back and moving forward in a positive way and the only way you can do that is to stay active it's the story

man yeah you know we're we're we're all writing a book what's your book look like what does your fucking book look like like your life is a book You got a bunch of chapters in your book But when they closed that book How good was the book? How good was your book? What was the ending to your book? If the ending to my book Can be so amazing

Because of all that was done Not the money All that was done. Not the money. All that was accomplished. The first to do. The man that did this. He caused the merger between this. Because of his commitment and growth to this. The communities were then given this.

Made education this. Changed the way the schooling was blah, blah, blah. Gave books. Gave computers. Gave all of the things that can be associated with you and your existence become a part of the chapters in your book so my drive is about my book i was a new york times number one bestseller people will be done they did it i'm writing another book you're writing a book right now? Yeah. What happens if you are two-time New York Times number one bestseller?

If you get to two, what happens if you get to three? Hey, man, how do books become successful? Who publishes them? I want to start a publishing company, Heartbeat Publishing. Why not? That's the thing. All I'm doing is sparking the awareness in others to go why not why can't i create why can't i start why can't i be a business why can't i be a ceo why can't i be a tech guru

why can't i fucking create cooking products lotions scents there's so much that some people just don't understand they can do. Let me be a spark to show how much, how many different, you don't have to do just one thing. When it's all said and done, my book is going to be full of all the shit that Kevin Hart did because I never was content with doing just one, two, or three. Why not? Kevin, why are you creating fucking health and wellness products? Why not? I'm big on health and wellness. Why can't I? Why can't I try to create something that I feel is fucking great and jump into a space that I'm already in? I already give 100% of me in this space. Why not? Why can't I talk about financial wealth? Why can't I go back and educate those that don't know?

Why not? You don't got the time. I make time. Well, you certainly can, but it's just so unusual that someone dedicates that much energy and time to giving back and getting involved with the kind of projects that you're talking about, as well as be super ambitious with your own career. It makes me happy. Yeah, I can tell. I'm genuinely happy. Discovery makes me happy.

Like when you find different things to be excited about, it makes me happy. And it's weird when it clicks. In school, they used to tell you all the time information is key read these books there's so much knowledge man fuck that book got time to read that book i want to go home goddamn sonic the hedgehog i want to play i'm at level three i ain't got time to read this book the information and stuff that was forced down your throat at a certain age you just you just may not be receiving it correctly but then it clicks and you may gain information differently and what you do with that information

is up to you but people people have different roles they can go down the education wasn't my pick of choice it it didn't do it for me. But the knowledge and the common sense that I have naturally allowed me to gain information, apply it differently. It allowed me to grow smart in so many different avenues to where I said, oh, my God, I found my niche. I found my talent. And now there's other things that my talent can take me to i don't have the all the knowledge and awareness but i can allow myself with people to do that can teach me because now guess what learning is cool yeah that's what happens when you don't have to do it anymore right it's it's oh you're a kid they force you into this school you don't want

to learn but then when you get out and you realize like oh this actually benefits me this is making me a better person it's making me wiser it's 100 percent the reality and it's weird how it happens but when you go oh my god learning and knowledge is power fuck they used to tell me this when i was 10 and you're like what yes mountains 10 11 years old i heard that shit all the time now i finally get it damn i'm about to be 40 took me all this time to get the goddamn code but i got it yeah it hits you at a different time and when it does be excited about it man yeah excited I'm excited about what 50 is. I'm just now getting to 40. Do you read books? I don't read a lot of books. Do you listen to books on tape?

I have listened to books. You know who I listen to? What? Tony Robbins. He's great. Tony's a, I like, I like his approach to giving information. I like his attitude in general. I like his approach to giving information. I like his attitude in general. I like podcasts.

I like things that are real and that are presented in front of me. I like information that I can go to the source and touch and talk. So if I'm reading a book, it's a book that was recommended by such and such, and the person who gave it to me. And after reading that book, I learned more about the individual that I thought I already knew. And now I gain more. Michelle Obama's book. Great book.

Great fucking book. I met her. I talked to her. I've been in the same rooms. I've seen her success. What is her book going to be about Who will read her book Wow

I get it I get why it's moving all the units That it's moving I get why women are reading this book and walking away Feeling better Feeling like they can't I get it Oh wow

Certain friends Dwayne Wade wrote a book Feeling like they can't. I get it. Oh, wow. Hmm. Certain friends. Dwayne Wade wrote a book. It's focused on being a father. His road to becoming a better father. What he went through with his kid's mother. How he developed a relationship and a bond with his sons like nobody else. Wow.

Didn't know that, D. That's dope. I love how you put it on page. There's certain things that you just want to know. Certain books help. I understand why people read books. I get what the information does. You know, the book that I'm working on now is all about the mental approach that you have with life and people not understanding that your biggest enemy is you my whole book is about you battling yourself people don't understand is you against you the only person that gets in your way is you nobody else it's you now when you write a book like this and especially about something like this

This is like The way you've managed to navigate through life Do you write it out in essays? Do you have like bullet points that you think about? And then once you have those bullet points in your head Then you write on those I will show you How do you do it?

I will show you now Keep it on your phone It's all All voice notes and transcripts. Okay? So because of your time, you don't have the time to sit and actually write. So you need somebody that you can talk to for hours. Hours.

Hours on end. Hey, I need an hour. Block out an hour for me. I got some stuff I want to talk to you about. Kev, what? What's that? All right. Book title ideas.

Subtitle ideas. My dedications. My introductions. Within my introductions, these are all powerful paragraphs of things that I've just said that are now transcript. I get to go back and read it. Let me see here. There's no conversation at all i'm gonna read one of them um no conversation at all and that's what the internet has allowed people to do the internet has allowed people to skip steps 1 through 30 has allowed people to jump straight to 100 fuck you cut his job off

take him down you should be dead God. Fucking can't stand this. Whatever the hate or the anger is, when I listen and I can change, I'm not that guy. We're doing these weird things now that people aren't taking the time to sit and think through. What I've understood is that what people are doing has nothing to do with me. What I've understood is that what people are doing has nothing to do with me. I should always be a step ahead because I'm thinking differently because I'm thinking about myself. Making myself better puts me in a position to make others better. Be the example, not the problem.

The best way to take away the problem is to alienate yourself from it. These are just thoughts. It's fucking thoughts. I can go through and just read it. So you just have these philosophies. This is the way you live your life and you just speak it. That's it. Just speak it.

Damn. So now this is all transcript. Look how long this is. That's incredible. This is all fucking transcript. This is all. So I just go back throughout the day and I read it and I say, this is great. This makes sense. This didn't. Let me reword this. Let me make sure that it's all flowing together. And at the end of the day, what's my reason for the book? My reason for the book is to make people better. My reason for the book is to make people understand, yo, we all are great. We all should think that we're great. There's no reason for you to not think that you're great. If you don't think you're great, ask yourself why.

Why don't you think the highest of yourself? When you do, people have no choice but to follow suit. You got no choice but to follow suit. A lot of people, they base it on their past. They base it on the life that they've experienced up until this moment makes you better yeah it does make you better makes you better makes you smarter yeah a life like you say it yeah man that's what's interesting about it that's what's interesting about life you can hear a guy like you say that and then it changes your perspective and then you'll go out and take action that you might not have taken before

i got a 585 on my sat conf Confessions. I didn't even take mine. Confessions. They give you 400 for putting your name on a paper. It's a true story. Wow. I guessed A, B, A, C, A, D, A. I did abacadabra all the way down. It's a true story.

Swear to God. Hand on my mother's grave. A, B, A, C, A, D, A. You just didn't give a fuck. All the way down. I didn't care because it was a class trip that same day. I wanted to go Great Adventure. I was told that not taking my SAT seriously would prohibit me from furthering myself in life.

That's what I was told. At the moment, I said, damn, maybe I should have applied myself. Maybe I should have did different. When I saw all my friends get their test scores back and they were ecstatic. 800s, 900s, 960s. Everybody's going to college. I felt like the biggest idiot in the fucking world. The biggest idiot in the fucking world.

Because the same people that I went in a rush to go to Great Adventure with, they had taken an SAT the week before. They already got their work done. They did everything they were supposed to do. So that moment of fun was real fun for them. I was the only dumbass that didn't prioritize and take care of my shit. So I'm the only one going to community college. Everybody else off to Villanova, Temple University, Drexel University. God damn.

I just got left behind. Why didn't y'all tell me that y'all did it the week before? How come y'all ain't tell me that we was serious about the college shit? Y'all ain't tell me y'all was trying to go to Temple or Drexel? Oh, wait. It's because my life isn't their life. They're focused on themselves. Wow, they're doing what they're supposed to do.

Hey, jackass. Go sit by yourself and figure it out because this is where you should be. Lesson learned. Any opportunity given should be taken serious from this point on. Because if not, you can find yourself feeling just like this. So I didn't get down on myself for the fucking moment. I learned from it. I learned from it.

Now, if I got gotta take a goddamn test You best believe I'm studying for that fucking test Because I don't want the feeling like I'm the guy That didn't prepare Now I got a story to tell my kids About what it feels like to be the kid in class That didn't prepare That's got the worst grade

When they give all those grades back But it's because of my experience I don't look down on those moments You take those moments You make the best of them Because they're life lessons. It's that simple You're saying it's positive, but it's really just simplicity. That's real It's real It's real and it's your life experience and it's your life's lessons

100 but the fact that a guy like you comes out and talks about it like that That's where it makes it really powerful because it's not just something that you learn from But now other people can learn from your past too that's what i'm hoping they look at themselves and they they realize like we all start from a different spot you're not saying yeah this is why i'm so candid i'm so candid i'm so open there there there is no There is no, like, guys, I'm fine with being an open book. I'm fine with the good, the bad, the ugly. I'm fine being flawed.

I'm fine with all the things that have happened to me that have been exposed. I'm fine with it all. I don't hide from it. I don't run from it. I don't avoid any of it. I'm fine. It's all right. It's a bed that I made for myself. I happily lay in it and I'll be fine figuring it out moving forward. Sun don't stop for nobody, man. Sun don't fucking stop. Sun going to be up in the morning regardless. That sun is going to be up in the morning regardless. Regardless of how I fucking feel and how depressed I am, the sun is going to fucking shine in the morning

and at nighttime the moon going to be there and you going to look up, these days going to keep going by. So do you let the days go by and look up and you don't waste a year doing what? Or do you just pick it up? All right. Got to figure it out made some

mistakes life goes on let me figure out life from this point i'm a life goes on type of guy you're a bad motherfucker kevin hart very very very inspirational and i'm really glad you came down here and talked about it i'm i'm i'm more than glad i think that it took too long, actually. And this is the first of what will be many, man. For sure. I'm a fan, too. And I just think what you're doing is not just inspirational in terms of what you've been able to achieve and who you are, but also inspirational in how you're so dedicated to helping other people. That means a lot to me.

It's very motivating. It's very powerful. Well, I want all your listeners to know that it's not for talk. No. it's very motivating it's very powerful well i want uh i want all your listeners to know that it's not um it's not for talk no this is there's no way it could be you if you were doing that just for talk i'd be like listen just fake it and then become that guy because you're on to something if you could do that and just say it and talk what fucking forget about whatever it's fake or not Just do it Keep doing it You're on

No I want you guys Trust me You will be seeing more The financial fitness is real This relationship with Chase And us just making sure You put me in a position To give the information

That I have And to the people That really need it That's the priority I will be sending more kids To college this year Shouts out to Tony Robbins Who's matching my donations

So I think I'm going to end up Probably having about a good Million to 1.5 Where we take And we just dedicate that money And we just provide free education UNCF helps me as well That's a priority

Like I said this health and wellness side You'll see more from me, VitaHustle.com. You know, get a part of this hustle. Go get yours. Irresponsible on Netflix,

Jumanji, filming. We're about to come out with that on Christmas. There's so much, so much shit going on, man. Well, listen, if there's ever anything

you want promoted, you want people to know about it, I'm your man. I like this. I like the conversation. Thank you, brother. I really appreciate you Appreciate you

Bye everybody